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Waspinator (BW)

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:''Waspinator is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Waspinatorbw.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Waspinator: chew-toy of fate.]]
'''Waspinator''' (aka '''Wasp''', '''Thrustinator''', or '''Waspscream''') is the universe's whipping boy. If something goes wrong, it happens to him. If something blows up, he's usually at the epicenter of the explosion. He has been blasted, burned, shot down, torn up, crushed, slashed, smashed, bashed, and otherwise reduced to his component parts times beyond counting. Disturbingly, [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] has taken to collecting his severed components.

Waspinator's not the brightest 'bot in the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]]. [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] has classified the harebrained Predacon as expendable, much to Waspinator's dismay; he doesn't get much more respect from anyone else, either, though Terrorsaur would occasionally remember to drag him back to base for repairs. His speech quirks don't help: he tends to refer to himself in the third person and to most other people by nicknames like [[Cheetor (BW)|"cat-bot"]] and [[Quickstrike (BW)|"two-head."]] He's also a bit too fond of the letter "Z". (Those prone to witticisms might say he has a "liszzzzp.")

Waspinator may be dumb, but he's not stupid. He has caught on to his lot in life and tries to avoid his fate as often as possible... but fate always finds him. Thankfully, he's almost supernaturally durable and has survived the most devastating and humiliating of defeats.

{{quote|[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] blow up, Waszzpinator must salvage. Waszzpinator blow up, ''nobody'' salvage! Why universe hate Waszzpinator?|Waspinator laments his lot in life|"[[Deep Metal]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Toy bios===
[[File:Optimusprimalvsmegatronwaspinator.jpg|left|thumb|"This new aerobics regimen is great! Work, you abs!"]]

The Waspinator was a fearsome warrior of monstrous appearance, striking fear with the eerie sound of his ominous buzzing. He striked down helpless victims using his secret wing missiles, poisoning them with his cyber-sting. {{storylink|#Toys|Waspinator bio}} He also liked to gang up on his victims with his partner, [[Buzz Saw (BW)|Buzz Saw]]. {{storylink|Buzz Saw (BW)#Toys|Buzz Saw bio}}

When the Maximals located the Predacons' genetics lab, Waspinator was present along with Megatron and Tarantulas to fend them off. Waspinator exchanged blasts with Cheetor before Megatron initiated the lab's self-destruct mechanism, at which point the Predacons retreated. {{storylink|Optimus Primal vs Megatron!}}

When the [[quantum surge]] physically upgraded Waspinator into a [[Transmetal]], his personality remained the same. He, however, found a renewed drive to eliminate the Maximals, accompanied by enhanced speed. {{storylink|#Toys|Transmetal Waspinator Bio}}

The [[Transmetal|Metals]] upgrade did little to stem Waspinator's annoying buzzing, and he still suffered many bouts of violence. {{storylink|#Toys|Metals Waspeeter bio}}
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===Cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Scott McNeil]] (English), [[Kensō Katō]] (Japanese)|[[Zhang Mingliang]] (Chinese), [[Mikhail Tihonov]] (Russian, 2nd dub), [[Ivo Roberto]] (Portuguese), [[Fábio Vilalonga]] (Portuguese, some episodes), [[Diego Sabre]] (Italian), [[Pierre Laurent]] (French), [[Roberto Molina]] (Latin American Spanish, season 1), [[Carlos Íñigo]] (Latin American Spanish, last episodes of season 1, season 2 and season 3), [[Gabriel Gama]] (Latin American Spanish, last 2 episodes of season 3), [[José Padilla]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Holger Potzern]] (German)}}

[[File:BeastWars1 Waspinator robotmode.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Remember when Waspinator used to be a threat? Because ''he'' doesn't, the poor guy.]]
Waspinator, part of [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s rogue band of Predacons, landed on an unknown planet with dangerous levels of unstable [[energon]]. To protect themselves from the energon, the Predacons took organic [[beast mode]]s. In Waspinator's case, he now transformed into a large, green wasp. The first conflict between the stranded Predacons and their Maximal pursuers came when the Maximal [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] stumbled across Waspinator. In a stark contrast to his later career, he actually proved to be a serious threat and had the advantage over the inexperienced Cheetor, pinning the young Maximal down in a canyon. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}}

[[File:BeastWars2-Waspywasp.jpg|left|thumb|250px]]

The Predacons pursued the Maximals and interrupted a fight between [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] and [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]. When a stray shot exposed a cache of energon atop a nearby mountain, the Predacons headed for it. Waspinator was teamed with [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] for the first time, in an attempt to slow the Maximals down. They were chased off by a missile from Primal and rejoined the others for a mountaintop battle, wherein Cheetor attempted to have a rematch with Waspinator. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 2)}}

Waspinator helped [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] and Terrorsaur install some perimeter defenses around the Predacon base. {{storylink|The Web}} When Cheetor ended up in the Predacon base through some sort of freak teleportation system, Waspinator and Scorponok tried to kill him, but only succeeded in blowing themselves up with their own missiles. Little did Waspinator know that he would be blown up numerous times in the adventures to come. {{storylink|Equal Measures}}

[[File:ChainOfCommand Waspinator gets shot up.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"...and here we see a wild Waspinator in its natural state."]]
Waspinator was part of an attack on the Maximals at the [[Standing Stones]]. He survived that battle, but when an [[Vok probe|alien probe]] appeared at the circle, he and Megatron attempted to take possession of it, and a pulse of energy zapped them. They turned up, badly damaged, back at the Predacon base. After repairs, Megatron sent Waspinator and Scorponok to guard the circle. The Maximals soon turned up to try and extract Primal from the probe. Waspinator attempted to sneak up on [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]], only for the Maximal to see his reflection on the probe and ventilate him with a chaingun. Waspinator fell backwards against a standing stone, activating a sequence which freed Primal from the probe. {{storylink|Chain of Command (BW)|Chain of Command}}

After Terrorsaur managed to slag Megatron and take leadership of the Predacons, Waspinator and Scorponok promptly fixed Megatron. {{storylink|Power Surge (episode)|Power Surge}} When a [[stasis pod]] crashed, Waspinator and Terrorsaur went directly to the ''Axalon'' and ambushed Optimus Primal when he emerged to look for the pod. Though they succeeded, Dinobot dropped a huge rock on Waspinator, and Terrorsaur had to help his fellow. Waspinator was still healthy enough to report to Megatron, who sent the pair to capture the pod. On the way, they managed to slow down the Maximals by destroying an ice bridge, but by the time they reached the pod, [[Tigatron]] had already been activated. The new Maximal fought them off. {{storylink|Fallen Comrades}}

[[File:Better Mousetrap Waspinator.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Wazzzzpinator not want to know "who'zzzz there?"]]
In one of Waspinator's few victories, he managed to retrieve the stasis pod which gave birth to [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]. When Terrorsaur again deposed of Megatron, Waspinator seemed happy to follow his fellow Predacon. {{storylink|Double Jeopardy}} Perhaps that was why he was subsequently assigned with Blackarachnia and Terrorsaur to deliver a [[sonic emitter]] to a location below the ''Axalon''. Dissatisfied with the task, he went to fly around for a bit and mutter to himself, only to give away their position accidentally. Though he returned to the other two Predacons, they were discovered by Tigatron, who destroyed the sonic emitter. {{storylink|A Better Mousetrap}} After Primal was inadvertently turned into a berserker by Scorponok's [[cyberbee]], Waspinator attempted to track down Optimus in the Predacon base, but found himself pulled through a wall and blasted. {{storylink|Gorilla Warfare}}

Waspinator acted as bait for the first test of [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]'s [[Transformation Lock Lens|transformation lock lens]]. The test was a success, but Waspinator was slagged by Tigatron. {{storylink|The Probe}} He was later one of the trio who mounted a mock revolt against Megatron to fool the Maximals. The Predacons concealed themselves in a crevasse (where Waspinator apparently spent his nights cuddling Tarantulas like a soft toy) while the Maximals repaired the ''Axalon''. They were discovered by Dinobot, who dropped a large rock on Waspinator and Terrorsaur. Though the latter survived to battle on, Waspinator apparently didn't. {{storylink|Victory (episode)|Victory}}

[[File:DarkDesigns Waspinator is nuts.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Dancing Queen Bee]]
When [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] had his personality program converted to that of a Predacon, he started surreptitiously taking out the various Predacons. He swung a cargo crate into Waspinator, giving him a concussion. As a result, Waspy flew around in a daze, claiming to be the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] as well as the great [[Ben Yee|Wonko the Sane]]. This dementia was apparently reversed when Cheetor later got annoyed at his yammering and shot him down. One of Waspinator's stray shots subsequently hit the [[Transmuter (BW)|Transmuter]], causing it to explode. {{storylink|Dark Designs}}

Terrorsaur and Waspinator were hanging around outside the Predacon base during Megatron's experiment to create a [[Clone One|clone of Dinobot]]. {{storylink|Double Dinobot}} The pair attacked Cheetor when the young Maximal was protecting a stasis pod. Cheetor managed to lure Waspinator into flying over an energon geyser, frying his circuits. {{storylink|The Spark}} Perhaps a sign that they hadn't learned their lesson, Waspinator and Terrorsaur attacked Tigatron, only to be blasted by the defense system of a strange [[Brigadoon|flying island]]. Though injured, they were able to return to base to report the find, just in time before Terrorsaur fainted on top of Waspinator. {{storylink|The Trigger, Part 1}} Following another bout of repairs, the duo headed back for the island, only to run into Primal and [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]], who were headed in the same direction. Eventually, they did each the island... only for Blackarachnia to trick them into triggering the island's defenses again, resulting in them both being blasted. Waspinator blamed the "pterodactyl idiot" for this. {{storylink|The Trigger, Part 2}}

Tigatron was ambushed on his way to another stasis pod by Waspinator, who managed to get a drop on the tiger. Waspinator's victory was short-lived, as [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] promptly shot his wings off, and he crashed to the ground. {{storylink|Spider's Game}} Waspinator and Terrorsaur stole the ''Axalon''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[rectifier coil]], forcing the Maximals remain in their beast modes. Once the Maximals had gone feral and wandered off into the jungle, the Predacons mounted a hunting expedition. The Maximals were able to overcome their programming block, and during the subsequent fight, Rhinox swatted Waspinator out of the air with a ''tree,'' as if it were a baseball bat {{storylink|Call of the Wild}}

[[File:Possession Waspinator.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Give him an orange parka and call him Kenny.]]
After an apparently victorious battle, Waspinator and Scorponok returned to base. However, the Maximals they had attacked were not dead, merely blinded, and Waspinator was soon sent out again, teamed with Terrorsaur, to eliminate them. Unfortunately, even four blind Maximals were more than enough match for them, and both Predacons were sent packing. {{storylink|Dark Voyage}} Things continued to go badly for Waspinator, as during a violent storm, he was possessed by the immortal [[spark]] of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. It took a major [[energon]] explosion to dislodge Starscream's immortal [[spark]] from Waspinator's body. It also had the after-effect of giving Waspinator a headache in his ''whole body''. {{storylink|Possession}}

Waspinator was part of a diversionary attack while Tarantulas tried out his new weapon, an [[energon discharge virus]]. Later on, the Predacons attempted to stop the Maximals getting the antidote and were blasted by Rhinox's enormous fart. {{storylink|The Low Road}} Waspinator teamed up with [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] and Terrorsaur for a fight, only to be roundly trounced by Tigatron. The trio were later able to defeat Dinobot, with Waspinator dealing the final blow, but Optimus Primal turned up and blew both him and Terrorsaur away with one shot. {{storylink|Law of the Jungle}}

[[File:OtherVoices1 robonoogie.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"Wazzzzpinator having flashbacks to grammar zzzzzchool!"]]
Waspinator caught Tarantulas stealing a [[transwarp cell]] from the ''Darksyde'', but he was unable to stop the spider from leaving, as Tarantulas tossed him a bomb and locked the door behind him. Trapped inside, Waspinator was soon in a multitude of separate pieces. {{storylink|Before the Storm}} Recovered and ready to take revenge on Tarantulas, he was instead sent by Megatron to secure a new [[Bio-Dome|alien site]]. Unfortunately, once he got there, he encountered Rattrap, who saw him off with a "robonoogie" and a kick to the unmentionables. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 1}} He retired to the ''Darksyde'', where the Predacons monitored the situation with the [[Planet Buster]] weapon which had been revealed from the planet's second moon. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 2}}

[[File:ComingFuzors1 Waspinator cubed.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Rube-ik's Cube]]
After the Planet Buster was destroyed, the strange energies of a [[quantum surge]] saturated both ships. Waspinator lost control of his hoversled and was tipped into one of the restoration pools. Bathed in the regenerative fluids, he was prevented from becoming a [[Transmetal]]. He and his newly upgraded leader mounted an attack on the ''Axalon'', but once Waspinator faced a similarly upgraded Cheetor, he soon retreated. {{storylink|Aftermath}} Waspinator was the first to realize that the seemingly unknown planet on which they'd landed was, in fact, [[Earth]]. Dinobot had made the same realization and stole into the ''Darksyde'' to retrieve both of Megatron's disks. Waspinator proposed the two work together to steal the disks, and much to his surprise, Dinobot agreed... and threw him into the security shield. Waspinator was crushed into a cube by the disks' security contraption, leaving Dinobot free to steal the disks unharmed while Waspinator crawled away to the [[CR chamber]] using two fingers.

[[File:ComingoftheFuzors2-Waspywasp.jpg|right|thumb|250px]]

He got himself repaired in time to join Megatron's forces on the battlefield, {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}} where they outnumbered Dinobot, Cheetor and Rattrap. He was teamed up with new recruit [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] to attack the ''Axalon'' by air. After asserting his authority over the [[Fuzor]], he was promptly knocked out of the air by Cheetor. After piercing Sentinel's defenses (and shooting Dinobot in the crotch), he joined the other Predacons as they prepared to finish off the Maximals for good... but was the first victim of a reborn Transmetal Optimus Primal. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)}}

Waspinator and [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] were tasked with constructing a new jamming tower. They constructed it successfully, but while Waspinator proudly reported their success to Megatron, Inferno playfully knocked the tower over on him. {{storylink|Tangled Web}} Another of Waspinator's rare victories came when he shot Silverbolt from behind, causing the Maximal to crash into Dinobot, effectively taking both out. While Inferno took off with Dinobot's prone form, [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] refused to help Waspy carry Silverbolt. A short time later, Rattrap mimicked Quickstrike's voice, tricking Waspinator into picking up a gas mine, and Waspinator's victory was no more. {{storylink|Maximal, No More}}

Waspinator and the rest of the Predacons installed shield generators around another alien site, but the [[Metal Hunter|alien construct]] which appeared zapped everyone, sending him into stasis lock. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 1)}} Megatron took control of the construct and restored all of the Predacons to working order. Waspinator and Inferno retrieved transwarp cells to give the ship transwarp capability. They were later sent out to defend the construct against the Maximals. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 2)}}

[[File:BadSpark Waspinator defeated.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Not quite what "stick the landing" means.]]
Sent with Blackarachnia to claim another pod, Waspinator didn't last long before he was shot down by Cheetor and landed head first. {{storylink|Bad Spark}} He also took part in the attack on the valley where the [[anthropoid]]s were living, but his contribution ended when Dinobot stuffed him head-first into [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]]'s main cannon and Rampage exploded. {{storylink|Code of Hero}}

As by Megatron's calculations, the [[transwarp wavefront]] from the Planet Buster explosion would soon be reaching [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the Predacons mounted an attack on the ''Axalon''. The Maximals received reinforcements in the form of Predacon covert agent [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], whose [[transwarp cruiser]] saw the Predacons off. Waspinator was subsequently given a new solo mission by Megatron, and he departed when the Maximals next attacked. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}} Just as he arrived at his [[Mount St. Hilary|destination]], Blackarachnia accidentally hit him with her hoversled, knocking him apart. Waspinator once again started gathering himself together. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}

Waspinator pulled himself together in time to aid Megatron's escape, after the Predacon leader badly damaged [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. He, Megatron and Inferno headed for the ''Axalon'', but Cheetor and Primal caught up with them, and Waspinator was downed by one shot from Cheetor. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}} After Inferno was blown to bits while attacking the Maximal base, Megatron sent Waspinator to salvage him. Waspinator was less than happy, complaining that no one ever salvaged ''him.'' {{storylink|Deep Metal}} He was able to get the drop on Silverbolt when the Maximals were attempting to salvage [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]], and he happily flew off with the module. He was so excited, he figured Megatron would give him a vacation for this.

{{Quote|Waspinator having good day! Not get shot once!}}

[[File:Waspinatorigor.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|Igor needs to file his nails.]]
Sadly, he didn't get very far before Silverbolt and Rattrap caught up, blasting him out of the air so they could reclaim Sentinel. {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}} After Megatron developed [[cyber raptor]]s, Waspinator and Tarantulas were sent out with a group of them to attack Cheetor and Blackarachnia. The Maximals soon discovered that destroying the raptors' control components sent them wild, and Waspinator was stomped into the ground by an out-of-control dinosaur. {{storylink|Cutting Edge}} Another of Waspinator's increasingly few victories came when he managed to snatch a stasis pod from under the Maximals' noses. He acted as lab assistant as Megatron utilized the [[blank]] [[protoform]] contained in the pod, plus a [[transmetal driver]], to create a new [[Dinobot II|Dinobot]]. Unfortunately, even this victory was short-lived, as a short time later, the device Megatron was using exploded, and Waspinator was caught in the blast. After getting repaired, he made his way to where Megatron was interrogating [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]]... only to be blasted by his own trigger-happy leader. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 1}}

After Megatron discovered that Cheetor had upgraded himself into a [[Transmetal 2]], he sent Waspinator and Dinobot out to find and capture the kitty. The pair located him in a cave, but as Dinobot began to move in, Waspinator asserted his own leadership...and was shredded by Dinobot. Following another bout of repairs, Waspinator rejoined the hunt, and they eventually found Cheetor again. Waspinator was offhandedly slagged by the Maximal while trying to sneak up. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 2}}

[[File:Go with the Flow Waspinator Una.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|"Oh, Waspinator want to renegotiate contract..."]]
Requiring someone organic to complete the [[disruptor cannon]], Megatron sent Waspinator and Inferno to pick up an anthropoid. Waspinator was able to capture [[Una]], but she did quite a bit of damage to him on the flight back. On reaching the mountain hideout, Waspinator reported success and promptly collapsed into a collection of parts. At some point, he got repaired and was able to join in the pursuit of Rattrap and Una as they escaped. He was hit in the face by mud, sending him out of control, crashing into first Inferno, then Dinobot, and allowing the Maximals to escape. The three Predacons were called back to the mountain, where Megatron attempted to use the disruptor cannon, which promptly exploded. {{storylink|Go with the Flow}} Waspinator's next glorious mission was an attack on the Maximal base. Unfortunately for him, his expected backup wasn't there, and he was swatted by Optimus Primal. It had all been a ploy to draw Primal out so that Tarantulas could deliver a device to take control of the Maximal leader. {{storylink|Master Blaster}}

During Quickstrike's trial for betraying Megatron, Waspinator was his defense attorney. He didn't do a very excellent job of defending his client as he wanted to see him get punished. However, before Quickstrike's sentence was cast, the ''Darksyde'' was destroyed at [[Tigerhawk]]'s hands. In retaliation, Megatron ordered the Predacons to attack, but Tigerhawk summoned a tornado that swooped up Waspinator, Inferno, and Quickstrike. Waspinator looked on the bright side that he had company this time. {{storylink|Other Victories}}

With their base gone, Megatron sent Waspinator, [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]], and [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] on an errand to find a new base, which was really nothing more than pointless busywork while Megatron went to do more important things. As the trio staked out an early [[human]] tribe that had taken up residence in a series of caves, Waspinator decided he'd finally had enough and ripped off his [[insignia|Predacon symbol]], declaring himself out of the Beast Wars.

[[File:Waspinatorhappyatlast.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|Wazzzzpinator happy at last! ...until the [[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|next series]].]]
{{quote|I said '''no!''' [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Dragon-Bot]] command '''you,''' [[Second-in-command|Sub-Commander]] [[Inferno (BW)|Kiss-Butt]]! Dragon-Bot not command Waspinator! Not any more! Waspinator sick of being evil! Sick of being Predacon! And Waspinator especially sick of getting blown to '''scrap''' all the time! Sooo, Waspinator '''quit!''' As of '''now,''' which means [[Inferno (BW)|Ant-Bot]] and [[Quickstrike (BW)|Two-Head]] can just pucker their mandibles and plant [[Kiss|big, wet, juicy one]] right here on Waspinator's big...fat..stripy...}}

At this point, Waspinator was interrupted by getting blown to scrap by Inferno and Quickstrike. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}}

His parts recovered by the anthropoid tribe, Waspinator remained on Earth while all the other surviving Transformers set off for Cybertron, and led the tribe, declaring that he was finally... happy. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}

For a bit, at least.
{{--}}

====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Scott McNeil]] (English), [[Kensō Katō]] (Japanese)|[[Yu Zhenbo]] (Chinese), [[Victor Covarrubias]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Vittorio Stagni]] (Italian), [[Thomas Nero Wolff]] (German), [[Jean-Marc Delhausse]] (French)}}

[[File:Wazzpithrust TheCatalyst.jpg|thumb|''Bug to be wiiii-iii-ild!'']]
Waspinator grew bored of being a god to the anthropoids and started flicking rocks at their heads. The anthropoids he had ruled over grew tired of his presence and evicted him from their settlement by catapulting him from a tree. After this, Waspinator returned to Cybertron, ''on his own'', which "took forever". Once home, his spark was removed during Megatron's conquest and eventually used to power the [[Vehicon General]] [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]. Despite the fact he was not in control of his new body, he was still conscious underneath Thrust's shell program, and he ''loved'' being a cool biker-bot as he now got respect and was finding [[Blackarachnia (BW)|chicks]] dig the new brooding bad boy schtick!

It turned out that Waspinator had a secret infatuation with Blackarachnia: influences from his inner spark caused Thrust to save her life several times. She however thought this was because he carried ''[[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]]'s'' spark. {{storylink|Revelations Part I: Discovery|Discovery}} She later tried to bring his original mind back and discovered, to her disgust, that she'd spent all her effort getting Waspinator back. Poor Waspinator was rather upset to find Blackarachnia no longer wanted to "go steady" with him, and briefly had a punch-up with a revived Silverbolt over her honour. {{storylink|The Catalyst}}

[[File:Wazzpinator.jpg|left|thumb|Why [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] hate Wazzzzpinator?]]

Following Blackarachnia's unambiguous rejection of him (''there's'' gratitude for you!), Waspinator remained in the "background" and let Thrust run the show, and nobody ever expressed interest in reformatting Thrust to free Waspinator. In the final battle, [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] used an [[Spark extractor|extractor]] to remove Waspinator's spark from the body shell. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall|When Legends Fall}} After Cybertron's [[technorganic]] reformatting (thanks to Optimus Primal, through the cost of his and Megatron's lives) Waspinator returned in his [[beast mode]] with Thrust's head, now the size of a standard wasp. He complained to Rattrap about how much he wanted glory and power and never gets what he wants... at which point Rattrap swatted him away. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}
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====Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
[[File:Atari meets optimus primal.jpg|125px|thumb|Even in this series, Waspinator gets shot at.]]

=====Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base=====
Waspinator was witness to [[Predacon computer|NAVI-ko]] being sent through [[unspace|transwarp]] to acquire [[Yokohama Convoy|Nemesis Prime]] for the Predacon forces. {{storylink|Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base}}

=====''Cloud''=====
While the Maximals were trying to help out the wayward [[Hot Rodimus]] and [[SARA]] of the [[Cloud World]], they investigated an energon mine, only to find the Predacons waiting there. The two sides battled, and Hot Rodimus took the opportunity to transform into helicopter mode to pursue his true quarry. Bemused by the presence of this larger [[Transformer]], [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] sent Waspinator and [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] to give chase. Rodimus was able to shoot down Terrorsaur and shred Waspinator to ribbons with his rotors. {{storylink|Wild (Cloud)|Wild}}

In another fight with Shockwave, Hot Rodimus thought back to their confrontation with the Beast Warriors, including Terrorsaur. {{storylink|TFC-A03}}

=====''Beast Wars Diorama Story''=====
Soon after his encounter with Starscream, Waspinator was part of an initially ordinary skirmish between the Maximals and the Predacons. {{Storylink|Optimus Primal Chapter}} He personally attacked Cheetor with his Beebee Shot, but the cheetah countered with a Laser Shot. {{Storylink|Cheetor Chapter}} Waspinator struck with another Beebee Shot. {{Storylink|Waspinator Chapter}} The battle was later joined by Transformers from [[Movie timeline|another universe]]. The Decepticons allied themselves with the Predacons, while the Autobots did the same with the Maximals. {{Storylink|Tigatron Chapter}} After the alternate [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] arrived, {{storylink|Gimlet Chapter}} the two allied forces faced off against one other in one last strike. {{Storylink|Motorarm Chapter}}

=====''15 Go! Go!''=====
The time-traveling [[human]] [[Atari Hitotonari]] and the [[Sparkbot]] [[Star Dust]] witnessed a battle between Waspinator and Optimus Primal. However, the two interlopers could not be seen by either of the warriors. {{storylink|Sparkbots Volume 2}}

=====''Legends'' comic=====
Following the [[Great Transformation]], Waspinator overheard the Maximals talking about the [[Legends World|Legends Universe]], a dimension where they were all fictional characters. Believing he was a popular enough character to become a powerful ruler in this world, he decided to go there with Rattrap, who was searching for Rhinox. Reformatted into his original Earth mode by Cheetor, Waspinator traversed dimensions and located the Legends version of himself, intending to take control of the local Predacons at [[Tera-Kura Co.]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Rattrap)|Bonus Edition Rattrap}} His takeover of the company was successful thanks to these Predacons being tiny and easy to bully, but he hadn't enjoyed his position for long before the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] appeared and possessed him again. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Waspinator)|Bonus Edition Waspinator}} Waspinator's body was made to attack [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] until Rhinox appeared and rammed him so hard that his head flew off and Starscream's ghost was expelled. He then returned home with Rattrap and Rhinox. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Rhinox)|Bonus Edition Rhinox}}
{{charfictionstub|{{Storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}}}

====3H comics====
{{voiceactor|[[Scott McNeil]] (English)}}
[[Antagony (BW)|Antagony]] threatened to blast Waspinator if Megatron did not back down. Waspinator's warranty had expired, but it didn't matter as Antagony accidentally wasted her last shot when she sneezed. Do we even need to guess what happened to Waspinator? {{storylink|Visitations}}

Later, to his credit, Waspinator was the only Predacon aside from Megatron to not be paralyzed in fear at the sight of a [[Unicron]]-possessed [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]]. Of course, Waspinator had just been blown up for the umpteen millionth time. None of the Maximals expressed satisfaction. They always got Waspinator. Always. {{storylink|Paradox}}

{{note|Although [[3H Productions]] folded before the ''[[Primeval Dawn]]'' comic could be concluded, [[Dan Khanna]] revealed that the unproduced ending of ''Primeval Dawn'' would have concluded with Waspinator traveling with a victorious [[Primal Prime]]'s team through the transwarp portal built by the undead [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] to present day Cybertron, thus explaining how Waspinator was able to return to Cybertron to become [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]].}}

After the reformatting of Cybertron, Waspinator came under the command of [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]]. His tiny size and great speed made him an excellent scout and messenger, and he reported to Galvatron that the invading Quintessons had entered a particular canyon that the Predacons had booby-trapped. He seemed very giddy to have a commander who actually found him useful for once. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

Later, Waspinator was part of a team of [[Child of Primus|Children of Primus]] sent to rescue victims of [[Unicron]] who had been transported to an isolated, icy planetoid. He didn't really know what he was doing there and neither did [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] (who wasn't sure why they hadn't just whacked him on principle). When [[Sunstorm (Universe)|Sunstorm]] attacked, the Beast Warriors were luckily warped to the passing Autobot ship ''OTFCC'' before being wiped out. During the later battle, Waspinator was blasted his own side after he happily admitted he liked "[[Buster Witwicky and the Car Wash of Doom]]". {{storylink|Voice Actor Drama}}

====2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity====
Waspinator served under [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] at the tail-end of the Great War. Though the Tripredacus Council sought to let hostilities between the Autobots and the Decepticons die out after [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] both fell in combat, Megatron had more aggressive plans. His squadron attacked [[Tigatron]] when he approached them to broker peace between the two factions. Waspinator wound up getting smushed when an [[Airazor (BW)|enemy soldier]] threw another [[Terrorsaur (BW)|flier]] into him, which sent Waspinator tumbling underneath [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]]'s foot as the gestalt stepped down. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

As [[Magmatron]] surveyed the timestream, he witnessed several key moments during the Beast Wars. Among those moments was Starscream's possession of Waspinator's body. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}}

====Waspscream continuity====
Later, [[Primax 208.06 Zeta|a divergent timeline]]'s Waspinator was possessed by the immortal spark of Starscream of [[Primax 206.15 Gamma]] after the latter's defeat at the hand of the Maximals. When the Quantum Surge hit prehistoric Earth, Starscream was able to influence Waspinator's transmetalization so that the Predacon's third mode would resemble Starscream's own original fighter jet mode. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #4}}

This time around, Starscream permanently took over Waspinator's body, and killed the Maximals before seizing leadership of the Predacons for himself. On returning to Cybertron, 'Waspscream' was [[Reformatting|reformat]]ted into a [[technorganic]] body by the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] which Starscream used to battle against Megatron for control of Cybertron's stolen sparks. {{storylink|Source:Ask Vector Prime/Facebook#August 16, 2015|Ask Vector Prime, 16/08/2015}}

The two of them bickered constantly over control of the shared body, their two distinct voices audible to whoever was in earshot. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #4}}

====''Mini Mayhem!''====
Waspinator and Erector were walking along when they came across Grimlock, Jazz, and Shockwave, discussing the upcoming nomination for the [[2011]] [[Transformers Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]]. The trio mistook Erector for Bumblebee, and so spared him any ridicule, but verbally tore in Waspinator, insisting he stood no chance against them. Waspinator countered that he was once ruler over all "fleshie-bots," but the other 'bots wouldn't hear any of it, and walked off in a huff. {{storylink|Mini Mayhem!}}

====Hall of Fame bio====
Before taking on a wasp form, Waspinator was known as '''Wasp'''. He, along with the other Predacons, stole the Golden Disk from the [[Hall of Records]]. {{storylink|Transformers Hall of Fame}}

====''Timelines''====
While [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], his [[Dinobot (BW)|lieutenant]], and [[Scorponok (BW)|another underling]] stole a Maximal relic, the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]], the Predacon who would later name himself Waspinator stole a ship from [[Predacon Transwarp Research Center D-F]] with the help of [[Terrorsaur (BW)|an accomplice]]. {{storylink|Theft of the Golden Disk}}

[[File:Waspinatordawn.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Waspy is mi kopilot, but hoo on Sibertron is mi spelcheker?]]
The two had a contest to name the ship, but "Waspinator" lost, and thus the stolen ship was dubbed the ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]''. "Waspinator" believed ''Buzzerbot'' would have been a better name. For reasons known only to [[Primus]], Megatron agreed.

After escaping [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the ''Darksyde'' was intercepted by the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' and the ''[[Chromia 10]]'', but after an intense space battle, only the ''Darksyde'' and the ''Axalon'' remained. Megatron ordered "Waspinator" to ''excecute'' their planned [[unspace|transwarp]] jump, opening up a portal which both ships entered. {{storylink|Dawn of Future's Past}}

Two weeks after [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] was reborn on [[Earth]], Waspinator fought to defend an orbital weapon from the Maximals. Waspinator was defeated by Airazor. {{storylink|The Razor's Edge}}

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====''TransTech''====
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In one alternate world, when [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] possessed Waspinator, his spark mutated the Predacon, granting Waspinator the Decepticon's longevity and the ability to travel through time. Much later, after Cybertron became a technorganic world, Thrust and Waspinator were not fused into a small technorganic insect, but into a full-on technorganic Transformer that merged the two both physically and mentally. Shortly after being reformatted, he somehow got separated from his native universe, ending up in [[Axiom Nexus]]. He met up with [[Heinrad (TransTech)|Heinrad]], and Thrustinator's chronal phase from Starscream helped Heinrad master his own time abilities. In return for aid in "fixing" the past, Heinrad promised to Thrustinator that he would be returned to his home universe. {{storylink|Timeless}}

Thrustinator was next sent to a prehistoric post-[[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] Earth to stabilize the damaged timeline by removing the "anomaly": [[Packrat]]. Surprising Packrat by not showing up on [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]]'s scans for Predacon intruders, Thrustinator offered to take Packrat to a Cybertron. When Packrat declined in favor of staying to break into the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', Thrustinator disabled Packrat with a [[circuit stunner]] and opened a multiversal portal to [[Axiom Nexus]]. {{storylink|Collections}}

[[File:TTRhinoxFinalGoodbye.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|right]]
After the descent of the [[Shroud]], Thrustinator and Heinrad watched as [[Rhinox (TransTech)|Rhinox]] solemnly deactivated his monitors; by the time Rhinox turned around, they had warped away without a word. {{storylink|Epilogue Two}} When [[Axiom Nexus News|ANN]] intern [[Miss-Q]] tried to reach out to the two time travellers for insights on the convoluted temporal mechanics of [[Primax 496.22 Alpha]], they were nowhere to be found. {{storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News, 2016/03/24}}

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====''Wings Universe''====
When the Star Seekers broke out of prison following their capture by the [[Cybertronian Knight]]s in 2984, [[Tornado]] managed to grab a significant portion of the prison database. Among the files was surveillance footage of Waspinator in his cell, scrawling what appeared to be random patterns on the wall. However, [[Cannonball (G1)|Captain Cannonball]] recognized that the drawings were star charts to the Star Seekers' next goal: the immortal spark of the infamous Decepticon [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]! {{storylink|Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur}}

===''Beast Wars Metals'' manga===
Waspinator alerted Megatron to the arrival of a new [[stasis pod]]. Megatron, in no shape to go after it, angrily swatted him away. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 2|Beast Wars Metals #2}}

Later, after Megatron was dismembered by the lunatic [[Jaguar]], Waspinator recovered his severed (but still functioning) head. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 3|Beast Wars Metals #3}} Following Megatron's instructions, Waspinator carried his head to the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', where Megatron intended to kill the slumbering [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. Blackarachnia intervened, kicking Megatron's head out of Waspinator's hands and into a lava pool. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 5|Beast Wars Metals #5}}

===''Legends'' anthology===
The Predacons crashed on Earth in [[Mexico]] around 1,000 BC. Acting on Megatron's orders, Tarantulas and Waspinator enslaved the local [[Natiltec]] tribe, who saw Waspinator as some sort of "wasp-god", and forced them to mine energon. Silverbolt mounted a heroic rescue, struggling with Waspinator as the humans escape. The Natiltec later immortalised the event on a cave wall, which was uncovered some three thousand years later by a team of archaeologists. {{storylink|Fire in the Dark}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
:*''First Appearance:'' [[The Hunting Party (IDW)|Spotlight: Thundercracker]]; [[Homecoming (IDW)|''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' #19]] (modern era)
[[File:TheHuntingParty-Waspinator.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|This is how you know it's the real Waspinator.]]
During the early days of the war, Waspinator served under [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] as part of a [[Titan Hunter|team]] sent to find the lost [[Titan (group)|Titan]], [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. On the two-hundred-and-thirty-eighth day of this grueling campaign, Waspinator and his colleagues destroyed a [[Nibarian]] outpost because they believed it was between them and their quarry. A hunch from [[Thundercracker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Thundercracker]] led them further to a planet inhabited by [[Urtuskian]]s. As Waspinator and the other Decepticons started obliterating the primitive outpost, believing Metroplex was underneath (and also because it was fun), their team was caught up to by a team of [[Autobot]]s who had been trailing them. Waspinator was the first casualty of this battle, blasted from behind and left stunned. {{storylink|The Hunting Party (IDW)|The Hunting Party}}

Waspinator carried on as a Titan Hunter, even after Bludgeon and Thundercracker were no longer with the team. When the hunters at last found a Titan, Waspinator managed to be the one to deliver a mortal blow—much to his misfortune. The Titan panicked and opened a [[space bridge]], flinging itself and Waspinator through time and space. Eventually, after the Titan's functions had ceased, Waspinator managed to take control of it and was able to use its space bridge-generating power to return to reality. Long afterwards, when Waspinator was drowning his sorrows at a seedy bar somewhere within the universe, he found himself confronted by his old superior, Bludgeon, and [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]. Upon hearing Waspinator's tale, Jhiaxus convinced the hapless Decepticon to join his party, seeing that his titan-controlling ability could be useful. The group went to [[Gorlam Prime]], where Waspinator pretended to be chased by the [[Pretender Monster|Monstructor Six]] so as to lure [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Orion Pax]] and his friends into coming to his "rescue." The ploy worked, and as Pax and the others struggled to hold off [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]], Waspinator said he had been brought to the planet to do something "terrible" and made the former Autobot leader realize that the ancient ruins beneath Gorlam Prime's surface were a slumbering Titan. When Pax awakened the Titan to battle Monstructor, Waspinator made his move and connected himself to the Titan so as to take control of it like he had in the past. Under Jhiaxus' orders, Waspinator forced the Titan to teleport to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Homecoming (IDW)|Homecoming}}

[[File:DarkDawn-Waspinator.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|"Ooh...Wazzpinator working for important Decepticon. Maybe Wazzpinator not get damaged this time."]]
Guiding the Titan to [[Crystal City]], {{storylink|Soundwaves (issue)|Soundwaves}} Waspinator was quick to pledge allegiance to Jhiaxus's ally, [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]], who used [[Ore-14]] to transform the Titan into the undead [[Quintessa (IDW)|Necrotitan]]. {{storylink|Dark Dawn: Dark Cybertron Chapter 1|Dark Dawn}} When the combined forces of [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]]'s Autobots and [[Soundwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Soundwave]]'s Decepticons attacked Crystal City to put a stop to their plans, Shockwave had Waspinator relinquish his stinger, recognizing that the weapon had forged Waspinator's link to the Necrotitan when he had used it to deliver its killing blow. While Waspinator's limited intelligence had been unable to make much sense of the link to the giant's mind, Shockwave used the weapon to much greater effect, taking direct control of the Necrotitan and using it to scatter their attackers. {{storylink|Finest Hour: Dark Cybertron Chapter 5|Finest Hour}} Shockwave then tasked Waspinator with bringing the useful body of [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] to his chambers, but [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]] took over this duty as he didn't trust "modern" Cybertronians. Waspinator accompanied him, carrying Megatron's legs, only to be knocked out when Megatron revealed himself to still be alive. {{storylink|The Dead Are Not Enough: Dark Cybertron Chapter 7|The Dead Are Not Enough}}

[[File:BlackPlanet-Waspinator.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|"''Sigh''...why doezz Wazzpinator bother?"]]
As Waspinator had already served his purpose by providing the Necrotitan, Shockwave punished him for letting Megatron escape by ordering [[Metalhawk (G1)|Metalhawk]] to execute him, but Metalhawk resisted his control and spared the bug. {{storylink|Finis Temporis: Dark Cybertron Chapter 9|Finis Temporis}} The two spied on Shockwave as he revealed the disastrous end goal of his plan, after which they were approached by [[Skywarp (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Skywarp]] who teleported them out to warn the other Transformers. {{storylink|The Becoming: Dark Cybertron Chapter 10|The Becoming}} As the Autobots and Decepticons formed a group to oppose Shockwave, an unwilling Waspinator was dragged along thanks to his knowledge of Crystal City's layout. As soon as they were teleported into Shockwave's lair, however, he was impaled by Bludgeon and left on the sidelines to lament his lot in life. {{storylink|Black Planet: Dark Cybertron Chapter 11|Black Planet}}

Six months after the battle with Shockwave, a recovered Waspinator was drinking at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] when [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] stopped by. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}} At some point he had located and gotten thrown out of [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]]'s [[Regenesis]] mine within Metroplex, and following an attempt on Windblade's life, he commented that she shouldn't have been snooping around in Metroplex either. When this comment caught the attention of Windblade, he assumed she wanted to hurt him and tried to flee, only to be taken down by [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]]. Windblade herself proved more sympathetic to Waspinator's plight and comforted the paranoid 'bot until he agreed to show her the mine. {{storylink|A Long Way Down}} Their investigation into the mine eventually got them captured by Starscream, but fortunately Chromia, [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], and some other neutrals broke them out of jail. {{storylink|Windblade issue 3|Windblade vol. 1 #3}}

[[File:WorldOfTomorrow-WaspySkyByte.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|EVERY NOW AND THEN I FALL APAAAARRT]]
Waspinator later partied it up at Maccadam's some time after [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]]'s reactivation, sharing a song with [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]]. {{storylink|The World of Tomorrow}} After a disastrous first contact with [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], Waspinator was one of the Decepticons who went to the colony to help the locals. He was confused to find the locals were glad to see him and even asked ''why'' they were being nice to him. {{storylink|The Possible Light}} When [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] and [[Devastator (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Devastator]] attempted to force the Cybertronians off Caminus, Waspinator was the first to see him coming (and to run away). His contribution to the battle was mainly to run around screaming, but he managed to avoid getting stepped on, impaled, or blown up, which is a pretty good outcome for him. {{storylink|Mistakes and Mayhem}} After the battle was over, Waspinator and [[Sparkstalker]] helped repair the damage to Caminus, earning the Decepticons respect from the Camiens. {{storylink|You, Me, and the Universe}} He was then caught up in the [[Combiner Wars (event)|combiner war]] between Devastator, [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]], and [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|Optimus Maximus]] and was urged to get to safety by Chromia. {{storylink|All That Remains}} Once the situation finally cooled down and an alliance between Cybertron and Caminus was brokered, Waspinator attended a "Not the End of the World" party at Maccadam's where he danced with [[Octane|Tall]] and [[Tankor (BM)|Fat Tankor]]. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 4|Windblade vol. 2 #4}}

Waspinator was later minding his own business on the street when he was almost run over by [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]]. {{storylink|An Uneventful Night}} He then got caught up in a bar fight started by the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] at Maccadam's, and commented that he hated weekends. {{storylink|The Transformers: Redemption|Redemption}}

When Starscream announced "[[Chosen One Day]]", Waspinator decided to relax in a pool of energon. {{storylink|Choose Me}}

Following [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]]'s appointment to head of the [[Cybertronian Security Force]], Waspinator joined the organization. {{storylink|Desperate Measures (Transformers vs. Visionaries)|Desperate Measures}} As [[Earth]] prepared to formally join the [[Council of Worlds]]. Waspinator was part of the security detachment during the build-up to the official ceremonies. {{storylink|First Strike issue 1|First Strike #1}} Things quickly went wrong, and in the wake of the [[Iron Ring]]'s attack and [[Merklynn]]'s subsequent betrayal, Cybertron was colonized by a handful of [[Prysmosian]]s based out of the subterranean city of [[New Prysmos]]. {{storylink|First Strike issue 6|First Strike #6}} Waspinator was among the Cybertronians posted to guard the checkpoints in and out of the alien city. {{storylink|Desperate Measures (Transformers vs. Visionaries)|Desperate Measures}}

Waspinator inadvertently joined the cast of [[Starscream: The Movie (film)|''Starscream: The Movie'']], where he portrayed a student at the [[Jhiaxian Academy of Advanced Technology]] that the fabulously wealthy and humble Starscream chose as the mascot for his rallying cry against social injustices. Poor Waspinator had just wanted to sample the craft services. {{storylink|Starscream: The Movie (comic)|Starscream: The Movie}} After Windblade revealed to Cybertron that [[Liege Maximo]] had been freed during the recent [[Titan (group)|Titan]] attack, Waspinator joined Blurr and [[Tankor (BM)|Fat Tankor]] in saving the cityspeaker from an angry Carcerian, and encouraged her to run for office. When she won the subsequent election, Waspinator flew joyously above the victory party. {{storylink|The Chosen One}}

[[File:DesperateMeasures-Thrustinator.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|"Wazzpinator hate FunPub homages!"]]
When the villainous [[Darkling Lord]] [[Virulina]] made her play for leadership and took over New Prysmos, Waspinator was the only Transformer unlucky enough to be present for the coup and was captured by her forces. Magically shackled and paraded before Virulina, Waspinator offered her his services so that she could wage war against the other Cybertronians... but Virulina had other plans, and used her [[magic]] to transform him into a monstrous biomechanical steed instead. {{storylink|Desperate Measures (Transformers vs. Visionaries)|Desperate Measures}} She subsequently called upon Waspinator for her final battle against [[Leoric]]; he obediently grappled with Leoric's lion form, but was forgotten when Virulina opted to finish off her foe up close.

Their battle was cut short when Wheeljack's anti-magical "bomb" detonated in the core of Cybertron; its energies combined with the magic of the [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]] and raised New Prysmos to the surface of Cybertron while returning Waspinator's body to normal. Returning to Iacon, Waspinator was examined by Wheeljack and [[Breakdown (IDW)|Breakdown]], who concluded that while some Prysmosian magic still lingered in his systems, the best cure was to head to Maccadam's for a drink. {{storylink|The Curtain}}

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===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
As the Decepticons set up to make [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] a grilled cheese sandwich, Waspinator helped out by putting a giant bib on their leader. When [[Wheeljack (G1)#Kre-O|Wheeljack]] and [[Cliffjumper (G1)#Kre-O|Cliffjumper]] invaded the work site, Waspinator helped surround the interlopers, only to be pelted with molten cheese and caught in a net by the other Autobots. {{storylink|Quest for Energon, Part 2}}

===''Kre-O'' online comic===
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Thrustinator witnessed Megatron's humiliating temper-tantrum over his lack of "[[Skeletron|See-Through Power]]". {{storylink|Wheeljack's Bizarre Invention! Optimus Power Up!?}}

Thrustinator was part of a massive Decepticon invasion force intended to ruin the Autobots' picnic. However, [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] plowed through them with his truck and left them scattered... and then left. Returning to the scene after.. ''ahem'', taking care of some pressing business, Optimus gathered up the still-wiped-out Kreons, bound them up on a flatbed trailer, and took them to the picnic. {{storylink|Emergency! Hurry to the Base, Optimus!}}

On Megatron's orders, Thrustinator tickled the [[Constructicon (Kre-O)|Constructicons]]' feeties as "special training" to rid them of their weakness to tickling. {{storylink|A New Menace! The Giant Soldier Devastator Appears!}} He was hanging around in the background when [[Starscream (Kre-O)|Starscream]] recruited [[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] into the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]], {{storylink|New Military Unit Combaticon! Bruticus, Combine!}} was present when the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] were unleashed upon the Autobots, {{storylink|Behemoth Combination! But They're Cute? The Predacon Unit}} worked for [[Bludgeon (G1)#Kre-O online manga|Bludgeon]] during the discovery of the [[Red Bucket]]. {{storylink|Treasure Competition! Defeat with Block Power!}} and helped repaint a captured [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] into Metrotitan. {{storylink|Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!}}

As Waspinator, he helped construct Megatron's solar power tower, only to be buried in blocks when it ended up wrecked. {{storylink|Megatron's Ambition!? The Solar Tower Is Built!}} After being blown apart by a crazed [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], a Thrust-looking Kreon was rebuilt into Thrustinator. {{storylink|Enter the New Emperor of Destruction!? Stop Galvatron's Rampage!}}

===Legends World===
A resident of the [[Legends World]], Waspinator attended [[Transformers Celebration 2014]] where he bought some ''Transformers'' toys. {{storylink|Legends Bonus Vol.}} A huge ''Transformers'' fan and employee of [[Tera-Kura Co.]], {{storylink|Legends Vol. 13#Rivals! Tera-Kura Co.!|Rivals! Tera-Kura Co.!}} he claimed to know everything about ''Transformers'' but also refused to talk about ''anything else'', even with clients. After an incident where he hung up on a client who didn't want to talk ''Transformers'', his boss [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] broke him into pieces. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 13#Buzz Buzz Buzz, Wasps Flyyy|Buzz Buzz Buzz, Wasps Flyyy}} At one point, Waspinator was standing behind [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] in line at [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]'s toy shop. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 1|Bonus Edition Vol. 1}}

After being beaten again for playing with toys during work hours, Waspinator was approached by a bashful Megatron who asked to see him after work. Believing his boss was hitting on him, he protested that he didn't swing that way, unaware that Megatron just wanted to learn more about ''Transformers'' and impress [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 14#President Mega's Requests|President Mega's Requests}} Agreeing to be Megatron's personal ''Transformers'' teacher, Waspinator taught him various Transformer names through use of a song and provided him with material to study on the train. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 14#President Mega's Studies|President Mega's Studies}} When [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]] attacked [[Tokyo]] with [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] and [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]], Waspinator recognized the latter two as [[Wreckers]] from a [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|UK ''Transformers'' comic]], interrupting Tankor's own claims that they were from an [[w:Special Armored Battalion Dorvack|'80s mecha anime]]. He was promptly chased off by the annoyed Tankor. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 4|Bonus Edition Vol. 4}}

During a subsequent lesson, Waspinator attempted to teach his boss about Roadbuster and Whirl's origins, but didn't get far since Megatron was distracted by fantasies about what British Transformers must be like. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 15#Whirl and Roadbuster Now on Sale, Buzz|Whirl and Roadbuster Now on Sale, Buzz}} Waspinator celebrated [[Christmas]] with his sons, [[Buzz Saw (BW)|Buzz Saw]] and [[Venom (G1)|Venin]], and suggested the readers reward themselves with some ''Transformers'' purchases in the upcoming year. {{storylink|Merry X'mas!!}} Waspinator and Rattrap were present when [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]] arrived in the Legends World, explaining Transformers were fictional in their world and breaking it to him that he wasn't as popular as he hoped. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 6|Bonus Edition Vol. 6}} When Megatron was acting weird during [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]]'s job interview, Waspinator explained that the president had been watching [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|the third movie]] the day before. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 16#The Results of Mega-chan's Studies|The Results of Mega-chan's Studies}} Unlike Blackarachnia, he went home when the workday was over instead of sticking around to do more work. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 16#Widow-chan at Work|Widow-chan at Work}}

When Rhinox was turned into Tankor one day, Waspinator and Silverbolt similarly woke up in the bodies of Thrust and Jetstorm, respectively. Seeing a kinship between them, Tankor asked the two if they'd join him in turning the world into a paradise of [[The Transformers (franchise)|original ''Transformers'']], but Thrust countered that his kids didn't know anything about characters from 30 years ago and that it's better to have lots of versions of ''Transformers'' for everyone to enjoy. Their refusal angered Tankor, and a battle broke out between the three Vehicons. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 17#I'm Tankor, dana!|I'm Tankor, dana!}}

When [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] appeared in the Legends World, Waspinator initially mistook her for [[Nijika]] from ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (franchise)|Transformers 2010]]'' and, to Megatron's frustration, was the only one to understand her explanation about the Legends World's status as a [[Zamojin (species)|Zamojin]] creation. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 12|Bonus Edition Vol. 12}} His nerdy knowledge came in handy again when Tera-Kura was invaded by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|another Megatron]], as he was able to teach his own Megatron everything there was to know about the newcomer's history. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 13|Bonus Edition Vol. 13}} He was present at [[Tokyo Toy Show]] 2015 where he witnessed [[Scourge (RID)|Black Convoy]] causing trouble. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Scourge)|Bonus Edition Scourge}} A third Megatron known as [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Armada Megatron]] later showed up and started stealing [[Mini-Con]] toys from everyone, including Waspinator. After Rattrap had chased the villain away, Waspinator claimed a stolen [[Dragoyell]] belonged to him, and not Rattrap. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Armada Megatron)|Bonus Edition Armada Megatron}}

Waspinator later bothered the "original Megatron" after he'd assumed the position of chairman of Tera-Kura Co. {{storylink|LG13 Megatron Sequel#Widow-chan's Usual Day|Widow-chan's Usual Day}} President Megatron invited him and all other employees out for a night on the town after work, but no one showed up. {{storylink|LG14 Ultra Magnus Prologue#The Autumn Megatron Festival Chapter|The Autumn Megatron Festival Chapter}} Waspinator was present at the show floor where Tera-Kura unveiled their latest product, [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird Shadow]], to the public. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 15|Bonus Edition Vol. 15}} He was at the office when Chairman Megatron recruited new employee [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]], {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 16|Bonus Edition Vol. 16}} as well as when Blackarachnia was thinking about her life working under her idolized Megatron. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 17|Bonus Edition Vol. 17}}

Waspinator watched with envy when Armada Megatron began stealing all the world's Transformers toys, and was shocked to learn that he and the other toy nerds were empowering the [[Zamojin (species)|Zamojin]] with their desires. He celebrated when Megatron gave up the toys, and was quick to try and claim a [[Unicron of Light]] for himself. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 18|Bonus Edition Vol. 18}} When the [[Drift (G1)#Cloud|Deadlock]] of [[Cloud World]] showed up, Waspinator was the only fan hardcore enough to recognize him from ''[[Transformers Cloud]]'', which he taught the others about. He and the others were then sent to Cloud World themselves when [[SARA]] messed up. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Deadlock)|Bonus Edition Deadlock}} The next interdimensional visitor to run into Waspinator was the ''original'' Waspinator from [[Primax 1097.01 Alpha|another dimension]]! Meeting his counterpart outside of Tera-Kura Co., Waspinator offered to introduce him to President Megatron. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Rattrap)|Bonus Edition Rattrap}} This turned out to be a mistake, as the much larger and stronger Waspinator proceeded to take over the company and force its employees into servitude. Megatron rightfully blamed his own Waspinator. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Waspinator)|Bonus Edition Waspinator}}

When Chairman Megatron was seemingly killed protecting his employees from [[Skids (G1)|Skids]], Waspinator commented that he must have been influenced by his time as a good guy in his G-2 days. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 20|Bonus Edition Vol. 20}} After his company merged with the Decepticon [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]], forming the "Decepticon Tera-Kura Co.", Waspinator was included on a chart showing its employees. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 22|Bonus Edition Vol. 22}} He later attended a meeting during which Chairman Megatron scolded the Headmasters. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 23|Bonus Edition Vol. 23}} When the [[Sweep (G1)|Sweeps]] were introduced, Waspinator compared their voices to those of other Transformers. {{storylink|LG-26 Scourge Prologue}} He helpfully put a Decepticon logo on [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] when the Autobot joined their company. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 31|Bonus Edition Vol. 31}}

Waspinator was part of a crowd that cheered for [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]] after he drove off [[Devil Z]], and was presumably the only person there who knew their savior wasn't Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 35|Bonus Edition Vol. 35}} At work, he was among the unlucky employees that an enraged Devil Z took out his anger on, {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 36|Bonus Edition Vol. 36}} and got thrown around by a telekinetic [[Apeface]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 38|Bonus Edition Vol. 38}} When a [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] attacked Tokyo, Waspinator correctly identified it as the Scorponok from "[[The Rebirth]]" and not ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|The Headmasters]]''. {{storylink|LGEX Headmaster Set Chapter}} He was present when the [[Dimensional Patrol]] searched the Legends World for the [[Commando (RID)|Combatrons]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Scourge 2)|Bonus Edition Scourge 2}}

When [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]]'s body turned into that of [[Magna Convoy]], Waspinator explained who Magna Convoy was. Even he didn't know which universe Convoy came from, however, so he borrowed [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]]'s [[10.2 ultra-drill|ultra-drill]] to summon [[Delta Magnus]] and interview him on the matter. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Magna Convoy)|Bonus Edition Magna Convoy}} Waspinator was among the employees charged with hiding [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]'s [[transformation cog]] during an attack on Tera-Kura, but failed to protect it from [[Full-Tilt (G1)|Full-Tilt]]. {{storylink|LG43 Trypticon Mobilization Chapter: Decepticon Civil War|Decepticon Civil War}} When [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] was revived, he transformed into a monstrous mobile base mode that Waspinator couldn't identify from any previous fiction. He soon got other things to worry about, however, as Trypticon gobbled him up and used him as a power source. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 43|Bonus Edition Vol. 43}} He later cheered for G1 Megatron after he was elected mayor of the rebuilt [[Akihabara|Neo Akihabara City]]. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Prologue}}

When Waspinator identified another visitor as ''[[Kre-O]]'' [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]], the blocky Decepticon was annoyed and yelled at him about wanting to deliver his own introduction, though Waspinator held fast that introducing obscure characters was his job. During the ensuing invasion of evil [[Kreon]]s, Waspinator disappeared and was replaced by [[#Kre-O online manga|Kreon Thrustinator]]. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Special Chapter|Special Chapter}} During [[White Leo]]'s attempt at turning the Legends inhabitants into his new army, Waspinator was given suitably obscure [[Beastformer]] armor and did his duty by informing everyone who [[Doublecross]] was. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 51|Bonus Edition Vol. 51}} He later explained to a confused Rattrap that [[Minerva (G1 robot)|Minerva the robot]] was a separate character from [[Minerva (human)|Minerva the human]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 56|Bonus Edition Vol. 56}} By the time the [[Clone (subgroup)|Autobot Clones]] arrived in the Legends World, people had come to rely on Waspinator's knowledge so much they went straight to him to identify them. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 58|Bonus Edition Vol. 58}}

Waspinator was among those who huddled behind [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]]'s force field when three out-of-control mutant [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmasters]] attacked the city, {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 62|Bonus Edition Vol. 62}} and was around Tera-Kura Co. fell back into the hands of Beast Megatron. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 63|Bonus Edition Vol. 63}} He witnessed [[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] repair the city after it was devastated by Windblade. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 66|Bonus Edition Vol. 66}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
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Wasp was a member of the [[Darksyder]]s serving Megatron in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. He acted as a contact for the independent procurement specialist named [[Bisk (BWU)|Bisk]], picking him up at [[The Way Of All Things]]. Wasp presented Bisk to Megatron to activate his next "quest". {{storylink|Not All Megatrons}}

During the [[Vehicon Apocalypse]], Wasp and his associates were holed up in [[Darksyder Logistics Headquarters]] in Iacon. The siege was proving costly, and Megatron had his pet scientist [[Leatherhide (Universe)|Leatherhide]] draft up a solution. Needing a test subject for the [[Esau]], [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] and [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] held Wasp up to one of the faltering barricades, and a [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] managed to grab and infect him. As Wasp was reformatting under the virus, however, Leatherhide and [[Labrat]] blasted him with the Esau, resulting in a hybridized Waspinator design. Not only was he more powerful, Waspinator was also hooked into the Vehicon hive mind, able to call off their attackers. {{storylink|Derailment}}
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===2021 ''Beast Wars'' comic===
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Waspinator was a Predacon separatist in the employ of Galavar before his leader went rogue, changed his name to "Megatron", and launched a daring raid to steal the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]] and smuggle it off Cybertron. While half of the crew liberated the disk itself from the [[Ministry of Science]], Waspinator, [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]], and [[Skold]] stole the [[Transwarp Drive|transwarp]]-capable ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]'' from the [[Great Shipyard]] in [[Vos (polity)|Vos]], sabotaged the rest of the fleet to prevent any pursuers, and escaped with the intention of following the coordinates on the disk. With Waspinator acting as the ship's helmsman, their ship came under attack from the Maximal science ship ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' before Tarantulas activated the ship's transwarp drive and escaped through time and space to a mysterious planet.

Despite Waspinator's best efforts, the ''Axalon'' rammed the ''Darksyde'' and sent both ships crashing to the planet below, with the impact temporarily smashing Waspinator to bits. The ship's computer sensed an abundance of energon on the planet, and to protect its crew from over-exposure rebuilt them with organic [[alternate mode]]s based on the local fauna. Once repaired and reformatted into his new [[beast mode]], Waspinator joined his crewmates as Megatron laid out his plans. {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 1}}

[[File:SavageLandingPart6-Waspinator.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]

A few days later, Waspinator returned from a scouting mission when an annoyed Terrorsaur sent him back out on a second patrol before he could refuel. {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 2}} When the Predacons captured [[Nyx]] and decided to execute the helpless Maximal after a fruitless interrogation, Waspinator took part in the proceedings before [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], feeling that there could be no honour in cold-blooded torture, had a change of heart, turned on his fellow Predacons, and punched Waspinator in the face before tripping the ''Darksyde''{{'}}s security protocols and deliberately locking the Predacons inside their own starship while he and Nyx escaped. {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 3}} Hours later, Tarantulas finally unscrambled the ship's computers, and Megatron ordered Waspinator and Terrorsaur to search for Dinobot in the sky. {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 4}}

The Predacons tracked Dinobot and Nyx all the way back to the ''Axalon'', and, hoping to take their enemies by surprise, launched a full-scale attack on the crashed starship and its occupants. In the ensuing battle, Waspinator tried and failed to hit [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] with his stinger-blaster before Dinobot entered the battle on the side of the Maximals, {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 5}} and immediately ripped Waspinator's arm off and used it to beat Waspinator over the head and take him out of the fight. [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]'s last-minute activation of the ship's shields and autoguns forced the Predacons into a retreat, and [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] carried the unconscious Waspinator away. {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 6}}

While on another routine energon-gathering mission with Terrorsaur, Waspinator questioned why his fellow flier took a particular delight in tormenting Skold, despite her prodigious strength. Terrorsaur told him that his bullying kept Skold in her place and prevented her from attaining the position of authority she could claim if not for her low self-esteem. {{storylink|Pod Part 1}} Later, Waspinator was taking a nap with a teddy bear when the newly activated [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] broke into the base and scuttled past him. {{storylink|Pod Part 2}} To celebrate the arrival of their new Predacon recruit, Megatron held a celebration that Waspinator attended before he and Terrorsaur set out to search for more downed [[stasis pod]]s. {{storylink|Thicker Skin}}

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While conducting routine training drills outside the ''Darksyde'', Waspinator and Scorponok bore witness to a confrontation between Terrorsaur and Megatron when the upstart flier directly challenged his leader's authority. Moments later, however, Waspinator recognized the sound of falling bombs and ordered the rest of the Predacons to take cover as the Maximals launched a bombing run on their base. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 1}} Amidst the chaos, [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] tricked Waspinator into dodging a boulder so that he could stun him with his wrist blasters. As he came to, Skold, who'd just killed Terrorsaur in retaliation for [[Razorbeast]]'s death, lied to Waspinator that the Maximals had killed his friend, and a furious Waspinator swore vengeance. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 2}} When Waspinator again fetched up against Dinobot, the ex-Predacon easily incapacitated him with his [[Optic weaponry|eye lasers]]. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 3}}

As the Beast Wars continued, Waspinator was used as a test subject for an elaborate labyrinth trap created by Tarantulas and Blackarachnia only to be abandoned. When Rhinox blundered into the trap, the two worked together to reach the exit, though Waspinator flew to freedom while leaving Rhinox stranded. {{storylink|Rhinox's Amaze-ing Adventure}} During a skirmish that ended with Cheetor getting injured, Waspinator was shot down. {{storylink|The Speedway of Central Consciousness}} While on another scouting mission with Scorponok, the pair fetched up against some of the planet's strange wildlife before discovering a cache of unusual red energon that boosted the aggression of any living being. Meanwhile, the newly activated [[Saberback]] disguised himself as Waspinator to lead Megatron into an ambush. {{storylink|Primal Rage}}

When the Maximals and Predacons joined forces to fight off the [[Vok]], Waspinator's two degrees in astro-mechanics got him assigned to the ''Axalon''. After getting a [[restraining bolt]] slapped onto him, Waspinator helped Rattrap on the ''Axalon''{{'}}s engines, managing to restore them to 34% thrust capacity and making the ship capable of planetary flight. {{storylink|The Beginning of the End}}

When a distress call in from the ''Darksyde'', Rattrap and Waspinator were left behind, managing to make the ''Axalon'' flight-worthy again. Having learnt that the Vok had an aversion to transwarp technology, Rattrap rigged the transwarp drive to channel its unspace energies through the weapon systems. Assuming the ''Axalon''{{'}}s helm position, Waspinator piloted the ship to the ''Darksyde'' just in time to destroy the Vok. With their mutual enemies gone, the truce was considered over and Waspinator rejoined the Predacons, though offering a last thanks to the Maximals for letting him sample their fruit. {{storylink|The End (BW)|The End}}
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===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material===
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The Predacons traveled across time to find the [[AllSpark]] and change the fate of Cybertron. While battling the [[Maximal]]s on pre-[[Ice Age]] Earth, both sides were joined by the Autobots and Decepticons, their epic battle changing their combined destinies forever.

Waspinator's function was an explosives expert, and he [[trans-scan]]ned into a wasp. His [[stinger (weapon)|stinger blaster]] and [[flight]] were his powers and weapons, and his core traits were his accident-proneness, childlike mind, and sulking. Waspinator's message from the future was that he should try not to fall into pieces in the face of danger. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' webpage}}<ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/kingdom ''Kingdom'' webpage]</ref>

During the collective battle, Waspinator teamed up with [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] and the Decepticon [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] in pursuit of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and the Autobot [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Battle Across Time Collection marketing material}}<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08TM6TDF7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Battle Across Time Collection on Amazon]</ref>

In a possible destiny recorded on the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|''Voyager'' Golden Disk]], Waspinator was present when [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] became a Maximal. {{storylink|Source:Golden Disk destinies|''Kingdom'' Golden Disk cards}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals'' (N64)===
[[File:N64Waspinators.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|[[Neon]] Camo Waspinator and Transmetal [[Buzz Saw (BW)|Buzz Saw]]! In stores now!]]
[[File:TMWaspinator-Render.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Full Metal Yellowjacket]]
{{voiceactor|[[Scott McNeil]] (English), [[Kensō Katō]] (Japanese)}}

As a result of Megatron's temporal meddling, history was altered such that Waspinator gained a [[Transmetal]] body in the quantum surge. He then joined his fellow Predacons in distributing various one-on-one beat downs to the Maximals. Eventually he got fed up, quit the Predacons, and became god to early humanity...after ''kicking everyone's ass''. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)|Beast Wars Transmetals}}

{{BW fighter ending|Waspinator|N64}}

====Move list====
{{note|This list only includes the character's unique special moves in Beast Mode, as their attacks in Robot Mode and Vehicle Mode are identical to those of every other character.}}
{| class="wikitable"
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|C-Right||Shot Stinger
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|C-Up||Flight Ram
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|C-Left||Wasp Stinger
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===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals'' (PS)===
{{voiceactor|[[Scott McNeil]] (English), [[Kensō Katō]] (Japanese)}}
====Maximal story====
While the Maximals stormed the ''Darkside'' in an attempt to retake the Golden Disk, Waspinator assisted Blackarachnia and Inferno in infiltrating the nearly-abandoned ''Axalon''. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)}}

====Predacon story====
Waspinator arrived on the ''Darkside''{{'}}s bridge to warn that a group of Maximals were approaching, as Megatron had planned. While Megatron led a team to engage them, Waspinator joined Blackarachnia in luring the rest of the Maximals out of the ''Axalon''. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)}}

===''Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars''===
Megatron was capable of summoning Waspinator forth to the battlefield in his attempts to acquire the super-powerful [[Energon Quartz]]. {{storylink|Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle|Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
Waspinator, alongside Blackarachnia and Terrorsaur, happened upon an impact crater containing a large stasis pod marked with a red "X". Also finding Silverbolt at the scene, the Predacons fought with Maximal, until what was within the pod was accidentally let loose... From within emerged the monstrous [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]]! After being separated by the fight from Blackarachnia and Silverbolt for a time, Waspinator contributed to Rampage's defeat, just in time for Megatron to arrive at the scene. {{storylink|When Sparks Fly}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:BattleTacticsWaspinator.jpg|thumb|left|upright=2.2|"Wazzzpinator has <s>plans</s> tacticzzzz."]]
Waspinator participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who first appeared in the "Beast Wars: Episode 1" event, and could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Waspinator-Forged-to-Fight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Waszzpinator is a real threat now! Waszzpinator hazz nuke!]]
Waspinator was one of the Predacons pulled from [[Beast Era|his universe]] by the [[Quintesson]]s and forced to fight. He eventually joins the Commander. There are at least a few of him flying around!

As a Demolitions bot, his stingers reduce opponents' Resistance to attacks. Thanks to his ability to endure otherwise fatal blows, He can Live again on a K.O. blow once per battle.
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Waspinator_Earth_Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.75]]

*'''Class''': Air
*'''Lowest Star Rating:''' 2 star
*'''Ability: '''Call the Swarm: Summon wasps in the area that deal 52.0 damage and slow enemy attacks by 25%, then shoot stingers up to 8 times for 58.9 damage each
[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:waspinator Waspinator at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Waspinator was a bumbling, accident-prone Predacon; despite his poor luck, Waspinator was somehow always able to reconstitute himself after his various mishaps. Eventually, Waspinator’s spark was removed from his body and used to power the Vehicon General [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]].

Following the Battle for the Spark, Wasp and Thrust were recreated as “Thrustinator”, a powerful and more confident fusion of the two diametrically opposed beings. Using his newfound powers, Thrustinator dedicated himself to correcting errors in the timestream and keeping the flow of history intact. {{storylink|Technorganic Secrets}}

==Toys==
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==Merchandise==
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==Notes==
[[File:Waspinator render.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3]]
[[File:Nemesis1 Waspinator's tongue.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Waspinator's special tongue, there is no other like it!]]

* It is unclear just ''how'' Waspinator traveled from prehistoric Earth to future Cybertron in ''Beast Machines'', presumably under his own power. Perhaps if he somehow managed to reach escape velocity and traveled to Cybertron at sub-light speed, it would have taken long enough that he would have "caught up" to the main timeframe. A concrete explanation would have been provided in the "[[Primeval Dawn]]" comic, with Waspinator (among many other Earth-bound characters) traveling back to Cybertron via transwarp portal. However, the bankruptcy of [[3H Productions|3H]] meant these final issues were never fully written, much less published, and all we really know about [[authorial intent|what they were going to say]] came from message board posts from author [[Dan Khanna]].{{fact}} Since the material was never completed or published, fans [[personal canon|may not necessarily accept them as storyline facts]] and could thus leave the mechanics of Waspinator's return an unsolved mystery. [[Bob Skir]] said in 2013 that it's a story he'd like to tell, joking Waspinator's journey must have been "worthy of Homer".<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DaZTNszyGU Moonbase 2 interview with Bob Skir], 1:27:39 to 1:30:09</ref>
* Ever wonder ''why'' Waspinator became the whipping boy of ''Beast Wars''? Early in the series, his buzzing, drawling method of speaking frustrated story editors [[Larry DiTillio]] and [[Bob Forward]], as they found it was taking up too much time out of the episodes. To get around this, but still meet with the requirement that he appear regularly, they took to blasting him to bits so that he wouldn't ''have'' to talk! Of course, this only wound up endearing him to the writers and the fans, and his frequent brushes with destruction became a running gag done for fun, rather than a script requirement.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040529221638/http://www.infinitefrontiers.0catch.com/AutoAssembly/BobForward.htm Auto Assembly interview with Bob Forward]</ref>
* He only surfaces twice in ''Beast Machines'' because his character would clash with the darker tone.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DaZTNszyGU Moonbase 2 interview with Bob Skir], 1:32:41 to 1:33:01</ref>
* Waspinator was originally chosen by [[Hasbro]] to be one of the characters killed off for the second season of the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon to help make way for new characters ([[To sell toys|read: product]]). However, Forward and DiTillio convinced them to spare Waspinator on the grounds of his popularity with the online fan-base, so [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] took the plunge alongside [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] instead.
** His popularity was shown again when he won the [[Transformers Hall of Fame]] 2011 fan vote, beating ''three'' iconic 1984–1985 characters ''and'' a [[Erector (G1)|guy with an entendre for a name]].
* Waspinator was originally slated to appear in the very first [[Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)|''Beast Wars'' video game]], and even had a character model built. However, he was ultimately unused and only appeared in footage taken from the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon.
* Waspinator is the inspiration for [[Buzzer-Bot]] from ''[[Transformers: Go-Bots (franchise)|Go-Bots]]'' and [[Wasp]] from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]''.
* According to Waspinator's profile in ''[[Beast Wars Universe]]'', he likes flying and nectar.
* Waspinator has a yellow [[tongue]] in [[robot mode]].
* While Waspinator ''usually'' refers to other characters by nicknames, he is fairly consistent about calling Megatron and Optimus Primal by their real names. ([[Nemesis Part 1#Quotes|Fairly.]]) He also refers to Inferno by name at least twice, and Tarantulas at least once.
* Waspinator is the only member of the Beast Wars [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] lineup who was there from the beginning and remains alive for the entire course of both shows.
* He also has the honor of having the last line in ''Beast Wars'', and just barely misses the last line in ''Beast Machines''.
* Waspinator never once makes a proper landing while in his beast form.
* Technically, Waspinator's [[beast mode]] is that of a female wasp, given that males do not possess a stinger.
** Waspinator's green, yellow and black color scheme also invokes that of a {{w|Agapostemon|metallic green sweat bee}}. Whether that was the intention or not, that would ''technically'' make Waspinator a ''bee'', rather than a ''wasp''. There ''are'' some species of green wasp in the world, but the metallic green sweat bee resembles Waspinator the closest. "''Bee''inator" just doesn't have the same ring to it, does it?
* In the Japanese dub of ''Beast Wars'', Waspinator retained his verbal tic of making a buzzing noise while speaking, but it was rendered differently. Instead of stressing syllables of certain words to make a buzzing noise, he would end and punctuate sentences with ''bun'', which is the Japanese onomatopoeia equivalent for "buzz".
* In the 2021 ''Beast Wars'' comic, Waspinator's [[:File:SavageLandingPart1-Waspinator.jpg|vehicular Cybertronian body]] is a "virtual retooling" of his [[Waspinator (BW)/toys#Timelines|2006 BotCon toy]] with a helmet poached from his ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' counterpart [[Wasp]].<ref>{{citesocial|quote=-I straight up just borrowed the color palettes he used in the show, they were so perfect. I constantly look back to this single shot from TFA for influence and Waspinator's cyb head design is a shameless homage to the TFA design--|link=https://twitter.com/jcburcham/status/1475584552290734080|name=Josh Burcham|site=Twitter|year=2021|month=12|day=27|(defunct=)}}</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Waspeeter''' (ワスピーター ''Wasupītā''),<ref>This particular [[Japanese language|romanization]] was first used on a Japanese ''Beast Wars'' [http://www18.tok2.com/home/jackhama/transformers/bwtcard_1/img/015.jpg trading card], and later reappeared in the opening sequence for the Japanese version of the PlayStation [[Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)|''Beast Wars Transmetals'']] game.</ref> '''Waspinator''' (ワスピネーター ''Wasupinētā'')
*''Bulgarian:'' '''Osinator''' (Осинатор)
*''French:'' '''Bourdon''' (original toy, "Bumblebee", Canada), '''Bizznator''' (Transmetal toy, Canada)
*''Italian:'' '''Punginator''' ("Stinginator")
*''Korean:'' '''Waspinato''' (와스피나토 ''Waseupinato'', 와스피네이토 ''Waseupineito'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Húfēng''' (Taiwan, 胡蜂, "Wasp"), '''Cāngyíng''' (Taiwan, 蒼蠅, "Fly"), '''Huángfēng''' (China, 黄蜂, "Wasp")
*''Polish:'' '''Osator''' ("Wasptor")
*''Russian:'' '''Ospinator''' (Оспинатор, "Waspinator")
*''Spanish:'' '''Avispanator''' (America, "Waspnator"), '''Avispón''' (original and Transmetal toy, "Hornet")

==References==
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List of female Transformers

2025-01-29T03:07:13Z

RyuHane: /* Generation 1/Beast Era */

{{suite|root=Female Transformer}}

Following is a thorough list of the various [[female Transformer]]s in canon thus far. Many of these characters were Japan-exclusive, featured only in fiction, or exist as limited-run exclusive toys. Female characters who had multiple toys are listed only once.

==[[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]]/[[Beast Era]]==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Autobot]]s/[[Maximal]]s|c1=
*[[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] (1)
*[[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] (2)
*[[Firestar (G1)|Firestar]] (3)
*[[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] (4)
*[[Greenlight]] (5)
*[[Lancer]] (6)
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (7)
*[[Beta (G1)|Beta]] (9)
*An [[Autobot rebel]] (10)
*[[Paradron Medic]]s (12)
*[[Nancy]] (13)
*[[Minerva (human)|Minerva]] (14)
*[[Clipper (G1)|Clipper]] (15)
*[[Karmen]] (19)
*[[Bumblebee_(G1)/Marvel_Comics_continuity#Transformers_Comic-Magazin|Bumblebee]] (20)
*[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (23)
*[[Kitte Shūshū]] (26)
*[[Rage (BW)|Rage]] (27)
*[[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] (28)
*[[Sonar (BW)|Sonar]]<ref name="retcon"/> (34)
*[[Glyph (Universe)|Glyph]] (35)
*[[Road Rage (G1)|Road Rage]] (36)
*[[Discharge (G1)|Discharge]]<ref name="retcon">Initially had no gender declared before being revealed to be female at a later date.</ref> (37)
*[[Windy (G1)|Windy]]<ref name="retcon"/> (38)
*[[Vibes]] (39)
*[[Roulette (Universe)|Roulette]] (40)
*[[Flareup (G1)|Flareup]] (47)
*[[Flip Sides (G1)|Flip Sides]] (49)
*[[Rosanna (KP)|Rosanna]] (50)
*[[Windrazor (G1)|Windrazor]] (53)
*[[Crossblades (BW)|Crossblades]] (59)
*[[Stiletto (BW)|Stiletto]] (60)
*One of Sunstreaker's troops (63)
*[[Cassiopeia]] (66)
*[[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] (71)
*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] (72)
*[[Transmutate (BW)|Transmutate]] (74)
*[[Override (BWU)|Override]] (81)
*[[Binary]] (82)
*[[Cerebros (RID)|Plasma]]<ref name="dual"/> (86)
*[[Lightbright (G1)|Lightbright]] (87)
*[[Victorion]] (91)
*[[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] (92)
*[[Javelin]] (93)
*[[Proxima (G1)|Proxima]] (94)
*[[Roadmaster]] (95)
*[[Acceleron]] (96)
*[[Vertex]] (97)
*[[Rust Dust]] (98)
*[[Pyra Magna]] (99)
*[[Skyburst (G1)|Skyburst]] (100)
*[[Stormclash]] (101)
*[[Jumpstream]] (102)
*[[Dust Up]] (103)
*[[Scorpia (G2)|Scorpia]]<ref name="retcon"/> (104)
*[[Aileron]] (106)
*[[Aura]] (107)
*[[Wedge Shape]] (108)
*[[Eos]] (110)
*[[Legend Convoy]]<ref name="intent"/> (114)
*[[Lifeline (G1)|Lifeline]] (115)
*[[Quickslinger (G1)|Quickslinger]] (116)
*[[Hotwire (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Hotwire]]<ref name="dual"/> <ref name="species"/> (133)
*[[Strongarm (G1)|Strongarm]] (134)
*[[Stockade (Universe 2003)|Stockade]]<ref name="dual"/> (135)
*[[Rav (BWU)|Rav]] (136)
*[[Hammerstrike (BM)|Hammerstrike]]<ref name="dual"/> (139)
*[[Sieg]]<ref name="intent">Not clarified in fiction but intended as such by [[authorial intent]].</ref> (142)
*[[Slide#2005 IDW continuity|Slide]]<ref name="dual"/> (145)
*[[Triceradon (BM)|Triceradon]]<ref name="dual"/> (149)
*[[Crush-Bull#Beast Wars: Uprising|Crush Bull]]<ref name="dual"/> (150)
*[[Oiler#Beast Wars: Uprising|Oiler]]<ref name="dual"/> (151)
*[[Broadside (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Broadside]]<ref name="dual"/> (152)
*[[Sky High (Micromaster)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Sky High]]<ref name="dual"/> (153)
*[[Skimmer (Kre-O)|Skimmer]]<ref name="retcon"/> (162)
*[[Circuit (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Circuit]]<ref name="dual"/> (163)
*[[Pyro (G1)#TransTech|Pyra Ignatia Spark]]<ref name="dual"/> (168)
*[[Scorchfire]] (170)
*[[Slash (POTP)|Slash]] (182)
*[[Smashdown]]<ref name="dual"/> (188)
*[[Orthia]] (190)
*[[Gauge]] (195)
*[[Azimuth (G1)|Azimuth]] (201)
*[[Nyx]] (205)
*[[Burn Out (Diaclone)|Burnout]]<ref name="species"/> (209)
*[[Yamabuki]] (212)
*[[Oversteer]] (215)
*[[Shakedown]] (216)
*[[Breakout]] (217)
*[[Ariel]] (224)
*[[The Enigma of Combination|A Targetmaster]] wielder (227)

|h2=[[Decepticon]]s/[[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s|c2=
*[[Esmeral (G1)|Esmeral]] (16)
*[[Lyzack (G1)|Lyzack]] (17)
*[[Clio]] (87)
*[[Nightracer (G2)|Nightracer]] (21)
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (22)
*[[Antagony (BW)|Antagony]]
*[[Scylla]] (24)
*[[Rage (BW)|Rage]] (27)
*[[Shadow Striker (Universe)|Shadow Striker]] (41)
*[[Howlback (G1)|Howlback]] (46)
*[[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]] (48)
*[[Flip Sides (G1)|Flip Sides]] (49)
*[[Crasher (G1)|Crasher]] (54)
*[[Manta Ray (BW)|Manta Ray]]<ref name="dual"/> (61)
*[[Freezon]]<ref name="retcon"/> (62)
*[[Thunderblast (G1)|Thunderblast]] (65)
*[[Nightracer (G1)|Nightracer]] (69)
*[[Slipstream (G1)|Slipstream]] (75)
*[[Twirl (G1)|Twirl]] (76)
*[[Predacon computer|Navi]]<ref name="species"/> (77)
*[[Ser-Ket (BWU)|Ser-Ket]] (84)
*[[Nickel]] (90)
*[[Swift (G1)|Swift]] (105)
*[[Killjoy]] (109)
*[[Blackout (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Blackout]]<ref name="dual">Male in first appearance but female in another continuity.</ref> (111)
*[[Spaceshot#Beast Wars: Uprising|Spaceshot]]<ref name="dual"/> (112)
*[[Soundbyte]] (113)
*[[Crash Test (G2)|Crash Test]] (122)
*[[Trickdiamond]] (117)
*[[Moonheart]] (118)
*[[Megaempress]] (119)
*[[Flowspade]] (120)
*[[Lunaclub]] (121)
*[[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]]<ref name="species"/> (129)
*[[Dead End (BW)|Dead-End]]<ref name="dual"/> (131)
*[[Megatronia]] (137)
*[[Jai-Alai]] (140)
*[[BB (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Max-B]]<ref name="dual"/> (141)
*[[Buckethead]]<ref name="retcon"/> (144)
*[[Gaidora (BWU)|Gaidora]] (148)
*[[Diveplane]]<ref name="retcon"/> (155)
*[[Seawave]]<ref name="retcon"/> (156)
*[[Mindgame]] (157)
*[[Tracer (Micromaster)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Tracer]]<ref name="dual"/> (158)
*[[Liftoff]]<ref name="retcon"/> (160)
*[[Freefall]]<ref name="retcon"/> (161)
*[[Snarl (Classics)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Snarl-blast]]<ref name="dual"/> (162)
*[[Devastator (G1)#Timelines|Devastator]]<ref name="dual"/> (168)
*[[Cindersaur (G1)#Generations|Cindersaur]]<ref name="dual"/> (184)
*[[Shadow Striker (G1)|Shadow Striker]] (189)
*[[Nova Storm (G1)|Nova Storm]]<ref name="dual"/> (192)
*[[Termagax]] (196)
*[[Kaskade]] (197)
*[[Sharpclaw]] (200)
*[[Vertebreak (BWU)|Vertebreak]] (202)
*[[Heavywait]]<ref name="retcon"/> (203)
*[[Scatterspike (G1)|Scatterspike]] (204)
*[[Skold]] (206)
*[[Cyberwarp (G1)|Cyberwarp]] (211)
*[[Axlegrease]] (214)
*[[Scrap (G1)|Scrap]] (218)
*[[Roughspot]] (219)
*[[Spikestrip]] (220)
*[[Static]]<ref name="retcon"/> (222)
*The ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]''<ref name="species"/> (223)
*[[The Enigma of Combination|A predatory bird]] Decepticon (226)
*[[Chemtrail]] (228)
*[[Compost]] (229)

|h3=Other|c3=
*''[[Target: 2006|Possibly one]] of [[Maccadam's bartenders]]'' (8)
*[[Cheesecake robot]] (11)
*[[Strika (BM)|Strika]] (29)
*[[Libras]] (30)
*[[Virgol]] (31)
*[[Cancix]]<ref name="retcon"/> (32)
*''Possibly [[Sagittarii]]'' (33)
*[[Roulette and Shadow Striker's sister]] (42)
*[[Path Finder]] (43)
*[[Small Foot]] (44)
*[[Devcon's galpal]] (45)
*[[The Art of War issue 4|One of]] Optimus Prime's [[Optimus Prime's rescuees|rescuees]] (51)
*[[Angela]] (52)
*Four members of the [[Kaon upperclass]] (55-58)
*[[Ma-Grrr]] (64)
*[[Red waitress Transformer]] (67)
*[[Windshear]] (73)<ref name="species">Not a transforming individual and/or not of the Cybertronian species in every continuity.</ref>
*[[Solus Prime]] (78)
*[[Female protester]] (79)
*[[Dipole]] (83)
*[[Vamp]] (85)
*[[Lightbright (G1)|Lightbright]] (87)
*[[Strafe (IDW)|Strafe]] (88)
*[[Mistress of Flame]] (89)
*[[Gnash]] (123)
*[[Slice (G1)|Slice]] (124)
*[[Thrashclaw]] (125)
*[[Shred]] (126)
*[[07:00:00|A pair]] of Devisen twins (127-128)
*[[Maxima]] (130)
*''Possibly [[Adronitia]]'' (138)
*[[Medusa]]<ref name="species"/> (132)
*[[Kari]]<ref name="species"/> (143)
*[[Anode]] (146)
*[[Lug (IDW)|Lug]] (147)
*[[Deep Blue (BWU)|Deep Blue]] (165)
*At least two ''[[Terrastar]]'' bridge officers (166-167)
*[[Rum-Maj]]<ref name="species"/> (169)
*[[Praesidia Magna]] (171)
*[[Fastbreak (G1)|Fastbreak]] (172)
*[[Crash Test (G1)|Crash Test]] (173)
*''[[Ghost Stories|Possibly]] a musically colorful couple'' (174-175)
*''Possibly a data stick'' (177)
*''[[The Price of You|Possibly]] a Fateweaver'' (178)
*''[[The Life of Sideswipe|An illusory]] Eukarian or Camien'' (179)
*[[Stardrive]] (181)
*[[Magrada]] (183)
*[[Provoke]] (185)
*[[Highfire]] (186)
*[[Accelerator]] (187)
*[[Leviathan (G1)|Leviathan]] (193)
*[[Codexa]] (194)
*[[Lodestar (Titan)|Lodestar]] (191)
*[[Shutter]] (198)
*[[Yellow Splendid Convoy]] (199)
*[[Cargohold]] (207)
*[[Cryak]] (208)
*[[Spindle]] (210)
*[[Jettison]] (221)
*[[Shard]]<ref name="species"/> (225)
}}

===Half-qualifiers===
*[[Alana]], turned into a Transformer for a [[Sea Change|short time]].
*[[Aunty]], female Cybertronian intelligent computer.
*[[Combination granny and attack-dog-bot]]s, human-sized drones supposedly based on Transformer technology.
*[[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]], has a [[Mega|female side to him]].
*Some of the [[Teletraan (disambiguation)|"Teletraan"]] computers like [[Teletraan 15|15]] and [[Teletraan 10|10]] are female.
*There appears to be a female design among a [[Early war history records Transformers|group of old generics]].
*Bayonet, the fake female Decepticon disguise of [[Britt]].
*In the French dub of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] and [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] are considered female. Shrapnel is also female in the Russian dub, as is Starscream in the Turkish one.
*[[Predacon computer|NAVI-ko]], female Cybertronian intelligent computer
*[[NAVI (Yukikaze)|NAVI]] (''[[Yukikaze (BW)|Yukikaze]]''), female Cybertronian intelligent computer
*[[NAVI (Gung Ho)|NAVI]] (''[[Gung Ho]]''), female Cybertronian intelligent computer
*[[DNAVI]], female Cybertronian intelligent computer

==[[Robots in Disguise continuity family]]==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (Universe)|Optimus Prime]]<ref name="dual"/> (1)
*[[Nightcruz (RID)|Nightcruz]]<ref name="retcon"/> (3)
|c2=
*[[Scourge (RID)#Spy Changer continuity|Scourge]]<ref name="dual"/> (2)
}}

===Half-qualifiers===
*[[T-AI]], female Cybertronian intelligent computer.

==[[Unicron Trilogy continuity family]]==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Airazor (Armada)|Airazor]] (5)
*[[Arcee (Energon)|Arcee]] (9)
*[[Autobot nurse]]s (10)
*Two [[Velocitron band|Velocitronian band members]] (11-12)
*[[Override (Cybertron)|Override]]<ref name="dub">Was male in Japan, but altered to female in the English dub.</ref> (13)
*[[Joyride (Cybertron)|Joyride]]<ref name="dub"/> (15)
*[[Quickslinger (Cybertron)|Quickslinger]] (16)
*[[Crystal Widow]] (24)
*[[Treadbolt]]<ref name="retcon"/> (33)
*[[Chromia (Cybertron)|Chromia]] (34)

|c2=
*[[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]] (14)
*[[Spacewarp]] (30)

|h3=[[Mini-Con]]s|c3=
*[[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]] (1)
*[[Combusta]] (2)
*[[Falcia]] (3)
*[[Twirl (Armada)|Twirl]] (4)
*[[Sunburn]] (6)
*[[Cliffjumper (Armada)|Cliffjumper]]<ref name="retcon"/> (7)
*[[Ironhide (Armada)|Ironhide]]<ref name="retcon"/> (8)
*[[Spiral]]<ref name="retcon"/> (9)
*[[Offshoot (Cybertron)|Offshoot]]<ref name="retcon"/> (17)
*[[Breakage]]<ref name="retcon"/> (18)
*[[Kickflip]]<ref name="retcon"/> (19)
*[[Mudbath]]<ref name="retcon"/> (20)
*[[Heavy Metal (Energon)|Heavy Metal]]<ref name="retcon"/> (21)
*"[[Disco ball]]" (22)
*[[Road Rebel]]<ref name="retcon"/> (23)
*[[Guardian Speed]]<ref name="retcon"/> (25)
*[[Mugen]]<ref name="retcon"/> (26)
*[[Bingo|Bingo/Triac]]<ref name="retcon"/> (27)
*[[Wedge Shape]]<ref name="retcon"/> (28)
*[[Sprite]] (29)
*[[Boom Tube]] (31)
*[[Windrazor (G1)|Windrazor]] (32)
*[[Rán]] (33)
}}

===Half-qualifiers===
*[[Landmine (episode)|A possible scooterformer]]
*[[Dark Nitro Convoy]], evil clone of a character whose gender was switched in translation
*[[Red Alert (Universe)|Red Alert]], minimally-altered release of a toy that was female in Japan
*[[Midnight Express (Universe)|Midnight Express]], unaltered release of a toy that was female in Japan
*[[Hourglass]], a female character who might be a Cybertronian
*[[Bombshell (Cybertron)|Bombshell]], a female character who might be a Cybertronian
*[[Carillon]], a female character who might be a Cybertronian
*[[Vector Prime]], the former multiversal entity who was female in some universes

==[[Movie continuity family]]==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] (1)
*[[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-One]] (2)
*[[Chromia (ROTF)|Chromia]] (4)
*[[Perihelion]] (8)
*''[[HMS Alliance]]'' (10)
*[[Windblade (BB)|Windblade]] (14)
|c2=
*[[Fracture (Movie)|Fracture]] (3)
*[[Alice (ROTF)|Alice]] (5)
*[[Shadow Striker (ROTF)|Shadow Striker]] (6)
*[[Override (TF 2010)|Override]]<ref name="intent"/> (7)
*[[Diabla (BB)|Diabla]] (11)
*[[Howlback (BB)|Howlback]] (12)
*[[Shatter]] (13)
|h3=[[Maximals]]|c3=
*[[Airazor (ROTB)|Airazor]] (15)
|h4=[[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcons]]|c4=
*[[Nightbird (ROTB)|Nightbird]] (16)
|h5=Others|c5=
*[[Quintessa (TLK)|Quintessa]] (9)
}}

===Half-qualifiers===
*[[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]] claims to have a mother who may or may not have been a Transformer.

==[[Animated continuity family]]==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] (2)
*[[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] (3)
*[[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Elita-1]] (4)
*[[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]] (6)
*[[Botanica (Animated)|Botanica]] (8)
*[[Flareup (Animated)|Flareup]] (10)
*[[Rosanna (Animated)|Rosanna]] (11)
*[[Glyph (Animated)|Glyph]] (12)
*[[Lickety-Split (Animated)|Lickety-Split]] (13)
*[[Lightbright (Animated)|Lightbright]] (14)
*[[Chromia (Animated)|Chromia]] (16)
*[[Clipper (Animated)|Clipper]] (17)
*[[Quickslinger (Animated)|Quickslinger]] (18)
*[[Kappa Supreme]] (19)
*[[Override Prime]] (20)
*[[Windy (Animated)|Windy]] (21)
*[[Road Rage (Animated)|Road Rage]] (25)
*[[Flashpoint]] (26)
*[[Minerva (Animated)|Minerva]] (27)
*[[Sureshock (Animated)|Sureshock]] (28)
*[[Nightbeat (Animated)|Nightbeat]] (29)
*[[Sunstreaker (Animated)|Sunstreaker]] (30)
|c2=
*[[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] (1)
*[[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]] (5)
*[[Strika (Animated)|Strika]] (7)
*[[Flip Sides (Animated)|Flip Sides]] (9)
*[[Antagony (Animated)|Antagony]] (15)
*[[Wingthing (Animated)|Wingthing]] (22)
*[[Beta (Animated)|Beta]] (23)
*[[Drag Strip (Animated)|Drag Strip]] (24)
*[[Lyzack (Animated)|Lyzack]] (31)
|h3=Others|c3=
}}

===Half-qualifiers===
*[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Teletran-1]], female Cybertronian intelligent computer

==''[[Transformers: TransTech|TransTech]]''==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Blackarachnia (TransTech)|Blackarachnia]] (5)
|c2=
*[[Strika (TransTech)|Strika]] (3)
|h3=Neutrals|c3=
*[[Withered Hope|Unnamed medic]] (1)
*[[Andromeda (TransTech)|Andromeda]] (2)
*[[Cyclis]] (4)
*[[Sonar (TransTech)|Sonar]] (6)
*[[Hammerstrike (TransTech)|Hammerstrike]] (7)
*[[Scorpia (TransTech)|Scorpia]] (8)
*[[Proxima (TransTech)|Proxima]] (9)
}}

===Half-qualifiers===
*[[Axiom Nexus News]] [[Editor]], a 'bot with one male and one female personality

==''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Decepticon]]s|c1=
*[[Crasher (SG)|Crasher]] (1)
*[[Esmeral (SG)|Esmeral]] (6)
*[[Howlback (SG)|Howlback]] (7)
*[[Flamewar (SG)|Flamewar]] (11)
|h2=[[Autobot]]s|c2=
*[[Arcee (SG)|Arcee]] (2)
*[[Andromeda (SG)|Andromeda]] (3)
*[[Elita-One (SG)|Elita-One]] (4)
*[[Strongarm (SG)|Strongarm]] (8)
*[[Windblade (SG)|Windblade]] (9)
*[[Nautica (SG)|Nautica]] (10)
|h3=Unknown|c3=
*[[Beta (SG)|Beta]] (5)
}}

===Half-qualifiers===
*[[Teletraan-X (SG)|Teletraan-X]], female Cybertronian intelligent computer.

==[[Aligned continuity family]]==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Akiba Prime]]
*[[Apax]]
*[[Arc]]
*[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]]
*[[Arcee Blade]]
*[[Assault Star]]
*[[Brushfire (RB)|Brushfire]]
*[[Cameo]]
*[[Catapult]]
*[[Chevalier]]
*[[Chromia (Prime)|Chromia]]
*[[Deep Blue (Prime)|Deep Blue]]
*[[Ether Walker]]
*[[Firestar (Prime)|Firestar]]
*[[Galaxy Flare]]
*[[Galaxy 'Questrian]]
*[[Glow]]
*[[Matronly Docent]]
*[[Quickshadow]]
*[[Rocket Plume]]
*[[Slash (RBA)|Slash]]
*[[Solus Prime]]
*[[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]]
*[[Tempest Spin]]
*[[Thunderclap (Prime)|Thunderclap]]
*[[Upkeep]]
*[[Whirl (RBA)|Whirl]]
*[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]]

|c2=
*[[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]]
*[[Astraea]]
*[[Aurora Speeder]]
*[[Balewing]]
*[[Coldstar]]
*[[Crimson Phantom]]
*[[Cyberwarp (RID)|Cyberwarp]]
*[[Cyclone Dancer]]
*[[Diabla (Prime)|Diabla]]
*[[Duststorm (Prime)|Duststorm]]
*[[Fallen Angel (Prime)|Fallen Angel]]
*[[Filch]]
*[[Flamewar (Prime)|Flamewar]]
*[[Flash Runner]]
*[[Glowstrike]]
*[[Hoverbolt]]
*[[Helter-Skelter]]
*[[Hurricane Hunter]]
*[[Ida]]
*[[Lensflare]]
*[[Metal Thunder]]
*[[Nebula Ripper]]
*[[Night Dancer]]
*[[Overhead]]
*[[Retrofit]]
*[[Rollcage]]
*[[Scatterspike (RID)|Scatterspike]]
*[[Skyjack (RID)|Skyjack]]
*[[Slink]]
*[[Slipstream (WFC)|Slipstream]]
*[[Spiral Zealot]]
*[[Supernova Flame]]
*[[Variable Star]]
*[[Void Pulse]]
*[[Zizza]]

|h3=[[Predacon (Prime)|Predacons]]|c3=
*[[Ser-Ket (Prime)|Ser-Ket]]
*[[Ripclaw]]

|h4=[[Neutral]]s|c4=
*[[Azimuth (COP)|Azimuth]]
*[[Cogwheel]]
*[[Elita One (COP)|Elita One]]
*[[Mercury (COP)|Mercury]]
*[[Moonracer (COP)|Moonracer]]
*[[Nightra]]
*[[Override (Prime)|Override]]
}}

==[[Bot Shots (franchise)|Bot Shots]]==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Predacon (Prime)|Predacons]]|c1=
*[[Buzzclaw (BS)|Buzzclaw]] (1)
}}

==[[Kre-O]]==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]] (1)
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (3)
*[[Strika (BM)|Strika]] (4)
*[[Minerva (G1 robot)|Minerva]] (5)
*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] (6)
*[[Paradron Medic]] (10)
*[[Strongarm (RID)#Kre-O|Strongarm]] (12)
*[[Skimmer (Kre-O)|Skimmer]]<ref name="retcon"/> (13)
|c2=
*[[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] (2)
*[[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]] (7)
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (8)
*[[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstrike]] (9)
*[[Ida]] (11)
*[[Liftoff]]<ref name="retcon"/> (14)
*[[Freefall (Kre-O)|Freefall]]<ref name="retcon"/> (15)
}}

==[[Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers]]==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Stella (AB)|Stella]] as:
** Arcee (1)
** Airachnid (2)
** Chromia (4)
** Novastar (10)
** Moonracer (11)
** Greenlight (12)

*[[Silver (AB)|Silver]] as:
** Windblade (3)
** Energon Windblade (5)
** Elita-One (8)

*[[Matilda]] as:
**Energon Nautica (6)
**Nautica (7)
**Strongarm (9)

*[[Zeta (AB)|Zeta]] as:
** Nightbird (13)

*[[Rosanna (AB)|Rosanna]] (15)
|c2=
*[[Zeta (AB)|Zeta]] as:
** Slipstream (14)
}}

==''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]]''==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Arcee (Cyberverse)|Arcee]]
*[[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]]
*[[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]]
*[[Jazz (Cyberverse)|Jazz]]<ref name="intent">Not clarified in fiction but intended as such by [[authorial intent]].</ref>
*[[Swoop (Cyberverse)|Swoop]]
*[[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]]
|c2=
*[[Alpha Strike]]
*[[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]]
*[[Shadow Striker (Cyberverse)|Shadow Striker]]
*[[Skywarp (Cyberverse)|Skywarp]]
*[[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]]

|h3=[[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]|c3=
*[[Blackarachnia (Cyberverse)|Blackarachnia]]

|h4=Other|c4=
*[[Cosmos (Cyberverse)|Cosmos]]
*[[Nightbird (Cyberverse)|Nightbird]]
*[[Operatus]]
*[[Solus Prime]]
}}

===Half-qualifiers===
*In the Japanese dub of ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'', [[Thrust (Cyberverse)|Thrust]] was female, and went by the name '''[[Red Wing (disambiguation)|Red Wing]]'''.
*Due to an animation error, [[Acid Storm (Cyberverse)|Acid Storm]] fluctuates between the male and female Seeker animation models in the cartoon. Writer [[Mae Catt]] would later offer an in-universe explanation on Twitter that changing body types is "just something Acid Storm likes to do" and that pronouns are "up to Acid Storm", implying Acid Storm is non-binary gender fluid.

==[[Transformers: BotBots (franchise)|BotBots]]==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=BotBots|c1=
{{{!}}border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:transparent"
{{!}}-
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border-right: 0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Aday]]
*[[Agent Smartlit (BotBots)|Agent Smartlit]]
*[[Angry Cheese]]*
*[[Anty Farmwell]]
*[[Arctic Guzzlerush]]
*[[Bankshot]]
*[[Batsby]]**
*[[Big Cantuna]]
*[[Bok Bok Bok-O]]
*[[Bonz-Eye]]
*[[Bot-T-Builder]]
*[[Bottocorrect]]
*[[Bratworst]]
*[[Brock Head]]
*[[Chef Nada]]
*[[Clawsome]]
*[[Crabby Grabby]]
*[[Cuddletooth]]
*[[Dingledeedoo]]
*[[Disaster Master]]
*[[Disgusto Desserto]]*
*[[DJ Fudgey Fresh]]
*[[Doctor Flicker]]
*[[Dr. Flaskenstein]]**
*[[Drama Sauce]]
*[[Drillit Yaself]]
*[[Face Ace]]
*[[Fail Polish]]
*[[Fit Ness Monster]]
*[[Flare Devil]]
*[[Flood Jug]]
*[[Fomo]]*
*[[Fottle Barts]]**
*[[Frohawk]]
*[[Frostfetti Frostyface]]
*[[Game Over]]**
*[[Glam Glare Fancy Flare]]
*[[Glitch Face]]
*[[Goggly Spy P.I.]]
*[[Gold Dexter]]
*[[Goldface]]
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border-right: 0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Goldiebites]]
*[[Goldie Terrortwirl]]
*[[Goldito Favrito]]
*[[Goldpin Baller]]
*[[Gold Punch]]
*[[Grampiano]]
*[[Grandma Crinkles]]
*[[Grave Rave]]
*[[The Great Mumbo Bumblo]]
*[[Greeny Rex]]
*[[Grrr'illa Grimes]]
*[[Halloween Knight]]
*[[Handy Dandy]]
*[[Hashtagz]]
*[[Hawt Diggity]]
*[[Hawt Mess]]
*[[Highroller]]
*[[Hiptoast]]
*[[Ice Sight]]
*[[Jacqueline]]
*[[Javasaurus Rex]]
*[[Jet Setter]]
*[[Kikmee]]**
*[[Knotzel]]
*[[Laceface]]**
*[[Lady Loofah]]
*[[Lady Macaron]]
*[[Latte Spice Whirl]]
*[[Leafmeat Alone]]
*[[Loadoutsky]]
*[[Lolly Licks]]
*[[Lolly Mints]]
*[[Miss Mixed]]
*[[Movie Munchster]]
*[[Ms. Take]]
*[[Must Turd]]
*[[Nanny McBag]]
*[[Nomaste]]
*[[Nope Soap]]
*[[Ol' Tic Toc]]
*[[Ollie Bite]]
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border-right: 0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Outta Order]]
*[[Overpack]]
*[[Pop N. Lock]]
*[[Pop O' Gold]]
*[[Pressure Punk]]
*[[Professor Scope]]
*[[Rebugnant]]
*[[Ring-A-Ling]]
*[[Roarista]]
*[[Sandy Shades]]
*[[Scribby]]
*[[Sheriff Sugarfeet]]
*[[Shifty Gifty]]
*[[Sippyberry]]
*[[Sippy Slurps]]
*[[Skippy Dippy Disc]]
*[[Slappyhappy]]
*[[Smooth Shaker]]
*[[Smore N' More]]
*[[Sour Wing]]
*[[Starscope]]*
*[[Sticky McGee]]
*[[Sugar Saddle]]
*[[Super Bubs]]
*[[Sweet Cheat]]
*[[Technotic Sonic]]
*[[Terror Tale Torch]]
*[[Tidy Trunksky]]
*[[Tricitrustops]]
*[[Tropic Guzzlerush]]
*[[Tutu Puffz]]
*[[Twerple Burple]]
*[[Unilla Icequeencone]]
*[[Ulf the Orange]]
*[[Venus Frogtrap]]
*[[Vigitente]]
*[[Waddlepop]]
*[[Wasabi Breath]]
*[[Whirlderful]]
*[[Whoopsie Cushion]]
*[[Wristocrat]]
{{!}}}
}}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Presented as female in the toyline and male in the cartoon 
<nowiki>**</nowiki>Presented as male in the toyline and female in the cartoon

==''[[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]]''==
{{featuredcharacters
|c2=
*[[Tyrannocon Rex]]
*[[Dilophocon]]
}}

==''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)|EarthSpark]]''==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Elita-1 (ES)|Elita-1]] (1)
*[[Arcee (ES)|Arcee]] (6)
|c2=
*[[Ravage (ES)|Ravage]] (4)
*[[Frenzy (ES)|Frenzy]] (5)
*[[Skywarp (ES)|Skywarp]] (7)
*[[Nova Storm (ES)|Nova Storm]] (8)
|h3=[[Terran]]s|c3=
*[[Twitch]] (2)
*[[Hashtag (ES)|Hashtag]] (9)
*[[Terratronus]] (10)
|h4=Other|c4=
*[[Solus Prime]] (3)
}}

==''[[Transformers One (franchise)|One]]''==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=Miners/[[Autobots]]
|c1=
*[[Elita-1 (One)|Elita-1]]
*[[Arcee (One)|Arcee]]
*[[Firestar (One)|Firestar]]
*[[Moonracer (One)|Moonracer]]

|h2=[[High Guard]]/[[Decepticons]]
|c2=
*[[Slipstream (One)|Slipstream]]

|h3=[[Thirteen|Primes]]
|c3=
*[[Solus Prime]]

|c4=
*[[Chromia (One)|Chromia]]
*"[[Not Chromia]]"
*[[Airachnid (One)|Airachnid]]
}}

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

[[Category:Female Transformers| ]]
[[Category:Lists]]

Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)

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RyuHane: /* Season 2: 1997–1998 */

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[[File:Beastwarsmaxgroup.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Rattrap and Airazor conspire to ruin school picture day.]]
'''''Beast Wars: Transformers''''' is a Daytime Emmy award-winning [[computer-generated imagery|computer-animated]] television series produced by [[Mainframe Entertainment]] that premiered on [[April 22]], [[1996]] in syndication in the United States.<ref>Though this episode played several days earlier in several US markets, its most widespread screening was on the 22nd.</ref>

Though [[Trukk not munky|reviled]] by many ''Transformers'' fans when it first hit the airwaves in 1996, ''Beast Wars'' is now considered by many to be among the finest examples of ''Transformers'' storytelling, striking a happy balance between character, humor, and story.

{{bigquote|Their ancestors waged war across the galaxy. The conflict continues as two opposing factions renew their struggle for control of the universe. Once again, on a new battleground, "The Beast Wars" have begun...|Opening blurb for ''Beast Wars''|from the official website [https://web.archive.org/web/19981212012813/http://beastwars.com/ BeastWars.com].}}
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==Overview==
''Beast Wars'' opens at an unspecified time and place, where two warring factions of robots have crashed on a strange planet populated by animals like those on [[Earth]]. The planet abounds in mystery, with vast deposits of raw [[energon]] and evidence of [[Vok|alien]] activity. The Energon forces the newly arrived Transformers to take on protective beast forms to shield themselves from the ambient Energon radiation. And so begin the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]]...

Though at first the show seemed to be in an entirely separate continuity, by the end of the first season's 26 episodes, viewers had been treated to a number of classical Transformers references, such as [[Unicron]] and even the reappearance of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], last seen as a [[ghost]] in the third season of [[The Transformers (cartoon)|the original cartoon]]. These ties to the original story increased as the second season progressed and the planet was revealed as prehistoric Earth, the characters having been thrown back in time. The third season was entirely structured around the [[Maximal]]s defending their dormant [[Autobot]] ancestors aboard the ancient crashed [[Ark (G1)|Ark]].

The show won over many viewers through fun, intriguing stories and generally high production values. Strong characterization, top-notch scripting and voice acting, and complex, overarching plot threads are among the reasons cited for the show's enduring popularity. Some of the show's mysteries and machinations still remain topics for fan debate decades after its conclusion.

The show's CGI, though somewhat primitive by today's standards, was revolutionary by television standards of the time (and puts [[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|some]] [[Robotmasters (cartoon)|later]] [[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|shows]] [[Transformers: Cyber Missions|to]] [[Prime Wars Trilogy#Cartoons|shame]]). Mainframe's animators took pains to ensure their characters gestured and emoted in great detail, and the "camera" work often took creative advantage of the format's flexibility.

==Production==
[[File:Beastwarsscalepreliminary.jpg|thumb|left|upright=2.0|Early CGI model work for the initial ''Beast Wars'' cast.]]
''Beast Wars'' was produced by [[Canada|Canadian]] animation company [[Mainframe Entertainment]], and distributed for syndicated television by [[Claster Television]] and [[Alliance Atlantis]]. Prior to working on ''Beast Wars'', Mainframe had pioneered in the use three-dimensional [[computer-generated imagery]] for television animation with their critically-acclaimed ''{{w|ReBoot}}'' series, which was itself the world's first fully 3D CG-animated television series with 22-minute episode lengths (and even predated such films as {{w|Pixar}}'s ''{{w|Toy Story}}''). Character modeling for the series was done using hardware developed by {{w|Silicon Graphics}} and software by {{w|Softimage (company)|Softimage}}, with toys from the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|''Beast Wars'' toyline]] provided by Hasbro to use as a basis for each [[character model]].

Character animation was all done in-house, with Mainframe creating a working environment that allowed as much work to be done within the same company as possible, creating smooth communication and work efficiency between each production department, in contrast to how competitor productions of the time would instead divide their animation labor between multiple companies for budgetary reasons. Lip-syncing and facial expressions for the characters were made using an advanced facial animation program called GRIN, which had been custom-made by Mainframe themselves.

Executive producer [[Christopher Brough]] recruited television writers [[Bob Forward]] and [[Larry DiTillio]] to serve as story editors for ''Beast Wars'', which the two were initially disinterested in due to not being fans of giant robots. Nonetheless, Forward and DiTillio were willing to meet and talk with Brough, who wanted the two for their adept storytelling prowess and was willing to give them total creative control. Since neither Forward nor DiTillio had been familiar with the [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]] beforehand, the pair decided to create something completely new and different from the ground up. They found an appeal in the science fiction aspect of ''Transformers'', with the characters themselves being technological lifeforms who were at war with each other. Thus, the duo sought to create a sci-fi show first and foremost, one that explored the nature of the robotic characters and the greater world they inhabited.

Limitations of the CG animation forced the cast to be kept relatively small in number, which led Forward and DiTillio to write more character-driven plots with enhanced interpersonal drama between the characters. As the series progressed, Forward and DiTillio soon became aware of the ''Transformers'' internet newsgroups like [[alt.toys.transformers]], where they began to interact directly with the [[fandom]] and learn more about the existing ''Transformers'' mythos, which would greatly influence the later story arcs of the cartoon.

The first season of the show was created basically on the fly, with Forward and DiTillio juggling their own desire for serialized storytelling with Hasbro's desire for more standalone episodic stories. The total cost of those first twenty-six episodes was about $18 million USD, but Hasbro cut that budget in half for the second and third seasons, which cut the episode count for each down to thirteen. Initially, Hasbro had wanted to delay the release of the second season to [[1998]], in order to focus more on [[Kenner]]'s ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' toyline in [[1997]], in anticipation of the then-upcoming release of ''{{w|Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace}}''. Since this would have certainly been a death knell for ''Beast Wars'', Hasbro was convinced to let production on the second season proceed sooner than later, with Season 2 premiering in late 1997. In spite of the reduced number of episodes (or, perhaps, in ''light'' of it), the second season had a much more tightly planned, overarching storyline, with seeds for the [[The Agenda (Part 1)|three]]-[[The Agenda (Part 2)|part]] [[The Agenda (Part III)|finale]] planted as early as the [[Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)|second episode]] of the season. Conversely, the story arcs of the third season weren't quite as streamlined, due to that season having the most episodes designed to [[Depth Charge (BW)|introduce]] [[Dinobot II|new]] [[Tigerhawk|characters]] or new [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#OptimalOptimus|upgrades]] [[Cheetor (BW)/toys#TM2|for]] [[Blackarachnia (BW)/toys#TM2|existing]] [[Megatron (BW)/toys#TM2|characters]], meant to [[to sell toys|advertise their new toys]] released that year.

When it came to each season's finale, there was an uncertainty about whether or not there would be another season to follow. A rule of thumb that Forward and DiTillio abided by when crafting each finale basically boiled down to "Kill 'em all, let Hasbro sort 'em out." This led to the first and second seasons each ending on dramatic cliffhangers with the fates of multiple characters left open ended. For the third season, once it was determined that [[Nemesis Part 1|its]] [[Nemesis Part 2|finale]] would be the series ender, the script went through several draft revisions to add in more scenes that would wrap up most of the series' major plot points, tying up as many loose ends as possible. Veteran ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Transformers]]'' comic writer [[Simon Furman]] had even been brought in to write the second part of this finale, which was his first-ever script job for televised animation.

Voice acting for ''Beast Wars'' was done in Vancouver, [[British Columbia]], with several notable actors getting their start on ''Transformers'' with this series, and many that would become fan favorites, including [[Garry Chalk]], [[David Kaye]], [[Scott McNeil]], [[Venus Terzo]], [[Ian James Corlett]], [[Richard Newman]], [[David Sobolov]] and more. Many of them would even return to voice act in later ''Transformers'' cartoons to come, such as the ''Beast Wars'' sequel series ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' and the three shows belonging to the [[Unicron Trilogy]]. [[Susan Blu]] (the original voice of [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]]) lent her talents to the series as voice director, and would go on to do the same for ''Beast Machines'', ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'' and briefly ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]''. Music for the series was composed by [[Robert Buckley]], who has previously worked on ''ReBoot'' and would continue to work on later Mainframe series like ''Beast Machines'', ''{{w|Shadow Raiders}}'', ''{{w|Weird-Ohs}}'', and more.

==Characters==
[[File:BW Maximals.jpg|left|upright=1.5|thumb|Time for Rattrap to lead.]]
[[File:BW Predacons.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|Waspinator is loved by fans.]]
Because developing new CGI character models was, at the time, an expensive and time-consuming process, the number of on-screen characters in ''Beast Wars'' was relatively small compared to most other ''Transformers'' shows. They are listed in order of appearance. (The [[stasis lock]]ed [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] are not on this list.)
{{-}}
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Maximal]]s|c1=
;Main Cast
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] ([[Garry Chalk]])
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] ([[Richard Newman]])
*[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]* ([[Scott McNeil]])
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] ([[Ian James Corlett]])
*[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] (Scott McNeil)
*[[Tigatron]] ([[Blu Mankuma]])
*[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] ([[Pauline Newstone]])
*[[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] (Scott McNeil)
*[[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] ([[David Sobolov]])
*[[Tigerhawk]] (Blu Mankuma)

;Others
*[[Transmutate (BW)|Transmutate]] ([[Susan Blu]])

|h2=[[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]|c2=
;Main Cast
*[[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] ([[David Kaye]])
*[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] ([[Don Brown]])
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] ([[Doug Parker]])
*[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] ([[Alec Willows]])
*[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] (Scott McNeil)
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]† ([[Venus Terzo]])
*[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] ([[Jim Byrnes]])
*[[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] ([[Colin Murdoch]])
*[[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] ([[Campbell Lane]])
*[[Dinobot II]] (Scott McNeil)
;[[Tripredacus Council]]
*[[Ram Horn]] ([[Lee Tockar]])
*[[Sea Clamp]] (Ian James Corlett)
*[[Cicadacon]] (Scott McNeil)
;Others
*[[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] (Lee Tockar)

|c4=
*[[Vok]] (Blu Mankuma, Richard Newman)
;[[Decepticon]]s
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (Doug Parker)
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (Garry Chalk)
;[[Anthropoid]]s
*[[Blix|Leader Neanderthal]] (Garry Chalk)
*[[Una]] (Susan Blu)
*[[Chak]] (?)
;Computers
*[[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]] (Ian James Corlett)
*[[Predacon computer|Predacon Computer]] ([[Carol Savenkoff]])
*[[Teletraan I]] (David Sobolov)
|nonumbering=true
}}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Allied with the Maximals, nominally a Predacon.

† Became a Maximal towards the end of the series, though originally a Maximal protoform.

==Episodes==
{{main|List of Beast Wars episodes}}

===Season 1: 1996–1997===
{{columnlist|4|
# [[Beast Wars (Part 1)]]
# [[Beast Wars (Part 2)]]
# [[The Web]]
# [[Equal Measures]]
# [[Chain of Command (BW)|Chain of Command]]
# [[Power Surge (episode)|Power Surge]]
# [[Fallen Comrades]]
# [[Double Jeopardy]]
# [[A Better Mousetrap]]
# [[Gorilla Warfare]]
# [[The Probe]]
# [[Victory (episode)|Victory]]
# [[Dark Designs]]
# [[Double Dinobot]]
# [[The Spark]]
# [[The Trigger, Part 1]]
# [[The Trigger, Part 2]]
# [[Spider's Game]]
# [[Call of the Wild]]
# [[Dark Voyage]]
# [[Possession]]
# [[The Low Road]]
# [[Law of the Jungle]]
# [[Before the Storm]]
# [[Other Voices, Part 1]]
# [[Other Voices, Part 2]]}}

===Season 2: 1997–1998===
{{columnlist|4|
# [[Aftermath (BW episode)|Aftermath]]
# [[Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)]]
# [[Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)]]
# [[Tangled Web]]
# [[Maximal, No More]]
# [[Other Visits (Part 1)]]
# [[Other Visits (Part 2)]]
# [[Bad Spark]]
# [[Code of Hero]]
# [[Transmutate (episode)|Transmutate]]
# [[The Agenda (Part 1)]]
# [[The Agenda (Part 2)]]
# [[The Agenda (Part III)]]}}

===Season 3: 1998–1999===
{{columnlist|4|
# [[Optimal Situation]]
# [[Deep Metal]]
# [[Changing of the Guard]]
# [[Cutting Edge]]
# [[Feral Scream Part 1]]
# [[Feral Scream Part 2]]
# [[Proving Grounds]]
# [[Go with the Flow]]
# [[Crossing the Rubicon]]
# [[Master Blaster]]
# [[Other Victories]]
# [[Nemesis Part 1]]
# [[Nemesis Part 2]]}}

==Credits==
{{see|Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)/credits (season 1)}}
{{see|Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)/credits (season 2)}}
{{see|Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)/credits (season 3)}}

==Continuations and addenda==
The lasting popularity of the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon went on to ensure its place as a poignant and memorable part of ''Transformers'' history, with multiple parties creating numerous continuations, spinoffs, and other addenda.

===Sequel===
{{main|Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)}}
In late [[1999]], ''Beast Wars'' received a direct sequel in the form of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Machines]]'', a two-season animated series that continued the story back on Cybertron in the same future era the Maximals and Predacons had originally hailed before coming to prehistoric Earth in ''Beast Wars''. While most of the original ''Beast Wars'' cast of Maximals returned, ''Beast Machines'' replaced the Predacons with the all new [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] faction, still led by the same Megatron. ''Beast Machines'' also distinguished itself from ''Beast Wars'' with a much darker and more cerebral story, which left the fandom far more divided in its reception of the series than it had ever felt about ''Beast Wars''. In the years since, ''Beast Machines'' has been looked back on more favorably, but still nowhere near as fondly as its predecessor.

===Expanded universes===
Outside of the cartoons, several additional storylines that tied into ''Beast Wars'' and ''Beast Machines'' were produced both during and after the [[Beast Era]] had run its course. While these "{{w|expanded universe}}s" all contained the same events as the two cartoons—which are understood to have occurred exactly as they were portrayed onscreen—the ''context'' of said events differed with the inclusion of "extra" stories taking place "just offscreen" of the cartoons' episodic events. While each of these expanded ''Beast Wars'' universes are contradictory to each other, they all coexist as separate realities within the greater ''Transformers'' [[multiverse]]. The most notable of these include:
* A series of comics, text stories, script readings, and toy bios/profiles created by [[3H Productions]] from [[1997]] to [[2004]], which include such series as ''[[Reaching the Omega Point]]'', ''[[Transformers: The Wreckers|The Wreckers]]'', ''[[Primeval Dawn]]'', and ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]''. Throughout [[2005]] to [[2016]], [[Fun Publications]] published a number of ''Beast Wars''-related comics and text stories also set in this [[Beast Wars timeline (3H)|3H ''Beast Wars'' continuity]], including "[[Dawn of Future's Past]]", "[[Theft of the Golden Disk]]", and "[[Collections]]" among others.
* The sprawling [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]] that first began in [[1985]], which included the Japanese dubs of ''[[Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers|Beast Wars]]'' and ''[[Beast_Machines: Transformers (cartoon)#Japanese release|Beast Machines]]'', the two Japanese-original spinoff series ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'' and ''[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (cartoon)|Beast Wars Neo]]'', and a whole lot more.
* The [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity]] that launched in [[2002]], in the form of multiple comic series and [[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|profile books]] published by [[Dreamwave Productions]]. Several concepts first introduced in the ''Beast Wars'' and ''Beast Machines'' cartoons were integrated into the Generation 1 setting of these comics, which also featured occasional references to the two cartoons meant to further reinforce their connection. [[2004]]'s ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'' further fleshed out this universe and treated it as the "one true" ''Transformers'' continuity<ref>"The saga has spawned many inconsistencies and divergent storylines, but now, at last, the one true history can be revealed." —''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'', Page 8, Generation 1 introductory description</ref> that also included ''Beast Wars''.<ref>"The Ark and its inhabitants lay deactivated for four million years, buried under a volcano in what would become Northwest United States. Life on the planet evolved around it, disturbed only by a brief alien visitation by a race called the Vok and the commencement of the Beast Wars (''see pages 80–81'')." —''Transformers: The Ultimate Guide'', Page 17, "Awakening" section of "The Ark" two-page spread.</ref> A [[Transformers: Beast Wars — Shell Game|''Beast Wars'' miniseries]] set immediately after the [[Nemesis Part 2|final episode]] was also planned, but only a [[Ain't No Rat|prologue story]] was released before cancelation. A few related prose stories for both ''Beast Wars'' and ''Beast Machines'' (and for the Dreamwave comics) were also published in the ''[[Transformers Legends (book)|Transformers Legends]]'' anthology book—most notably Furman's story "[[A Meeting of Minds]]", which tied directly into his writing for the show.
* In [[2006]]–[[2008]], [[IDW Publishing]] produced two ''Beast Wars'' comic miniseries titled ''[[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering|The Gathering]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending|The Ascending]]'', and a set of profile books called ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook]]''. [[Beast Wars timeline (IDW)|This continuity]] is notable for including characters and events from the two Japanese ''Beast Wars'' series (''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'' and ''[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (cartoon)|Beast Wars Neo]]''), with said events used as backstory content set ''before'' the American cartoon (rather than during or after), while the two miniseries themselves occur during the cartoon's third season. In [[2016]], a one-shot prequel comic titled "[[Dawn of the Predacus]]" was published to (at least, in theory) help bridge the gap between Generation 1 and ''Beast Wars'', while a script reading titled "[[The Hot Rod]]" was produced by Fun Publications as both a tie-in to "Dawn of the Predacus" and as a bridge between ''The Ascending'' and ''Beast Machines''.
* From [[2009]] to [[2014]], Fun Publications also created ''[[Transformers: Wings Universe]]'', a continuity featuring a version of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] with a select few slightly altered character designs (most based on toys released contemporaneous to ''Wings Universe''), and which also incorporated ''Beast Wars'' and ''Beast Machines'' into its universe, along with its own original stories set in and around the three animated series.

Additionally, [[The Art of War issue 1|Issue #1]] of [[Devil's Due Press]]'s ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: The Art of War]]'', featured a [[:File:Historyofcybertron.jpg|glimpse of Optimus Primal]] within the memory banks of the Decepticon [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], suggesting that a version of ''Beast Wars'' may very well have also happened in the [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity|''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers'' continuity]], but that notion has never been explored beyond that single cameo.

==Continuity==
Over the course of its roughly three-year run (and even long after), the continuity of the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon underwent a rather fluctuous evolution, with numerous changes and [[retcon]]s made to it along the way by multiple disparate parties.

===Shifting developments===
====Megatron and the Predacons====
One of the biggest changes that occurred across the cartoon's three seasons was its depiction of the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]. In the first season, it was constantly stated that [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] sought to acquire enough [[energon]] to fuel the Predacons' ultimate goal of conquering the galaxy, and occasional references were given to the notion of him being a "tyrant". In the series' [[production bible]], the Predacons were described as "a race of feral conquerors who believe they alone have the right to rule Cybertron (and any other planet they can train their lasers on.)"<ref name="Backstory">[https://www2.unicron.com/1996-transformers/media/4377-backstory.html ''Beast Wars'' Series Story Bible "Backstory" excerpt at Unicron.com]</ref> Likewise, Megatron himself was described as "the most feared leader of the Predacons",<ref name="Backstory"/> suggesting he was originally meant to be the overall commander of the whole faction (like how his [[Megatron (G1)|Generation 1 namesake]] was the leader of all [[Decepticon]]s). This is further supported throughout the first season in instances where such treacherous Predacons as [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] and [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] would express a desire to overthrow Megatron and "rule the Predacons" as a whole.

By the second season, however, things changed dramatically for the Predacons. Megatron rarely, if ever, mentioned galactic conquest anymore, and his primary agenda switched from obtaining energon to altering history. This was played off as having been his true goal all along, retconning his depiction in the first season. Furthermore, his desire to change history was due to a complete overhaul of the Predacons' status back on Cybertron. Instead of the galactic conquerors they were billed as in the first season, the second and third season reimagined them as disgruntled second-class citizens subordinate to the authority of the Maximal government on Cybertron. The episode "[[Other Visits (Part 2)]]" first made mention of a coalition called the [[Predacon Alliance]], while "[[The Agenda (Part 1)]]" introduced one of the alliance's ruling bodies, the [[Tripredacus Council]]. It was these episodes that fully reinterpreted Megatron as not the Predacon leader he was originally made out to be, but rather a rogue criminal.

No doubt, the first-season depiction is what inspired the portrayal of the Predacons seen in the two Japanese-original spinoff series ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'' and ''[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (cartoon)|Beast Wars Neo]]'', wherein the Predacon leaders [[Galvatron (BW)|Galvatron]] and [[Magmatron]] were each known by all Predacons (and Maximals) as a respected [[Emperor of Destruction]] (the same title Megatron had in the Japanese version) with their own vast resources spread across the universe, and who answered to no higher Predacon authorities. This was due to the second and third seasons of the American ''Beast Wars'' cartoon having not yet reached Japan at the time when ''Beast Wars II'' and ''Neo'' were in production (see [[#Beast_Wars:_Transformers_(cartoon)#Japan|below]] for more). The Japanese simply weren't aware of the changes the second season would make to both Megatron's leadership status and the political structure of the Predacons as a whole, and thus didn't know about the Predacon Alliance, the Tripredacus Council, or Megatron really being just a lowly crook with delusions of grandeur.

====Relationship with Generation 1====
[[File:G1Prime BWMegs.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|The surprise reappearance of the Autobots and Decepticons was the final key that firmly connected the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon to [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]].]]
When the [[Beast Wars (Part 1)|two-part]] [[Beast Wars (Part 2)|pilot]] episodes premiered in [[April]] 1996 (five months ahead of the rest of the season as a preview airing), the two episodes bore only the vaguest resemblance, continuity-wise, to what veteran ''Transformers'' fans had been familiar with at the time. Story editors [[Bob Forward]] and [[Larry DiTillio]] were new to ''Transformers'' at the time and had basically created their own completely new universe from the ground up. At first, very little heed had been paid to what all had come before, fiction-wise, which gave the cartoon pilot the initial impression of seeming like a new continuity unconnected to Generation 1. The only direct references to past ''Transformers'' lore in the pilot were a mention of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] as the Maximals' and Predacons' home planet, and the onscreen presence of [[energon]] (reimagined as naturally-occurring crystals instead of the artificially-created liquid fuel substance that it had been in prior appearances).

One particular nugget of lore from the first episode that caught fans' attention was a mention by Optimus of a past event known as the "Great War". Originally, Bob Forward had thrown this in as a nebulous bit of history to vaguely explain why the Maximals and Predacons were presently in conflict with each other.<ref name="Forward">Bob Forward interview from the [[Rhino Entertainment]] DVD release of ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Complete First Season, [[August 12]], [[2003]]</ref> But as the passionate fanbase was wont to do at the time, that little tidbit was read into more deeply and taken by fans as a more specific reference to the [[Cybertronian Civil Wars|civil wars]] that had been fought between the Autobots and Decepticons in previous ''Transformers'' fiction.<ref name="Forward"/> Forward and DiTillio got wind of this fan-initiated idea and decided to run with it, as every later mention of the "[[Great War (G1)|Great War]]" in the show would unquestionably refer to the Autobot-Decepticon conflict of Generation 1. And even as early as the [[The Web|third episode]], an [[Easter egg]] cameo appearance of the Decepticon [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] was inserted into a dream sequence.

As the first season continued, more references to Generation 1 were added in, such as a mention of the Decepticon [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] in "[[Dark Designs]]", or imagery of [[Unicron]] in both "[[Possession]]" and "[[Other Voices, Part 1]]". But arguably the biggest example came in the aforementioned "Possession", wherein the ghost of Starscream actually guest-starred in person, directly calling back to events from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]]'s [[Starscream's Ghost|third]] [[Ghost in the Machine (G1)|season]] and [[The Transformers: The Movie|movie]]. Said episode even confirmed that the Autobots and Decepticons of Generation 1 were the ancestors of the Maximals and Predacons. And by the [[The Agenda (Part III)|end]] of the second season, those ancestors were finally seen alongside their descendants aboard the crashed Autobot vessel, the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', solidifying the fact that the ''Beast Wars'' cast had indeed traveled back in time from the future to ancient Earth, long before the 1980s setting of Generation 1 fiction.

=====The "cartoon vs. comics" debate=====
[[File:Starscream ghost BW.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|left|[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream's]] [[ghost]] from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Sunbow cartoon]], but with a [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel comics]]-colored blue face.]]
As ''Beast Wars'' continued its original broadcast, a question often debated by the fandom was which version exactly of Generation 1 was ''Beast Wars'' meant to be in-continuity with. At the time, the two major continuities of Generation 1 were the [[Sunbow Productions|Sunbow]] [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon]] and the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|comics]], both of which were strongly defended by their respective fanbases as the "[[true fan|true]]" version of Generation 1. Across its three seasons, ''Beast Wars'' made references to both the Sunbow cartoon and the Marvel comics (though, admittedly, more the former than the latter), resulting in a unique continuity that was a mixture of the two. But, those references had mainly been gleaned by Forward and DiTillio from online interaction with the fandom rather than direct exposure to the source material. The two were actually more interested in creating their own brand new [[canon]] for ''Beast Wars'';<ref name="DiTillio">Larry DiTillio interview from the [[Rhino Entertainment]] DVD release of ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Complete First Season, [[August 12]], [[2003]]</ref> the references were merely sprinkled in to add flavor.<ref name="Forward"/> In a 1997 interview, DiTillio even stated, "In a sense I treat ''Transformers'' like the [[King Arthur]] tales. It's one vast canon, with a lot of variations..."<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20030410135115/http://www.bwtf.com/interviews/ld997.shtml Larry DiTillio Interview (September 1997), on BWTF.com] (archived)</ref> This abstention from picking one continuity over the other was likely to give the ''Beast Wars'' writers more creative freedom, unrestricted to either version of Generation 1 (and likely to avoid upsetting any fans who favored one over the other).

That said, additional media written to tie into the cartoon would attempt to make their own decisions about which G1 continuity the show was a part of. Marvel Comics writer [[Simon Furman]] (who ultimately wrote [[Nemesis Part 2|the final episode]] of ''Beast Wars'') naturally aimed to tie the cartoon into his prior writings for Marvel. In [[BotCon 1999|1999]]–[[BotCon 2000|2000]], [[3H Productions]] published a multi-part story by Furman for the official ''Transformers'' convention, [[BotCon]], titled ''[[Reaching the Omega Point]]''—which made blatant use of the [[Marvel Comics continuity]] for its Generation 1 backstory, together with elements from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', which Furman had previously incorporated into some of his Marvel work. [[BotCon 2001|A year later]], a comic story written by Bob Forward, ''[[Primeval Dawn Part 1|Primeval Dawn]]'', used the Marvel ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (Marvel)| Generation 2]]'' comics' depiction of the [[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]] as the backstory of the ''Beast Wars'' [[Vok]] aliens—an idea that DiTillio had come up with while working on the show, and which Furman continued to utilize in subsequent ''Primeval Dawn'' chapters. As part of this effort to fully and strictly connect ''Beast Wars'' to the Marvel stories, Furman would also write "[[The Last Days of Optimus Prime]]" and "[[Alignment]]", two unofficial stories for the UK convention [[unofficial conventions|Transforce]] in [[2000]]–[[2002]], which directly bridged the gap between Marvel's ''Generation 2'' series and ''Beast Wars''. Furman even once declared ''Beast Wars'' and ''Omega Point'' (but not ''Beast Machines'') to be fully part of the comics universe (in [[personal canon|his mind]], at least).<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.toys.transformers/mMaaTA90sUc/n-q9ZLE0XvEJ|site=alt.toys.transformers|name=Andrew Crane|month=05|day=30|year=2000|quote=Simon Furman regards Beast Wars as taking place in his comic universe (according to an interview in the Transforce 2000 magazine, he ignores Beast Machines entirely). His own post-BW storyline is Reaching the Omega Point (the BotCon stories).}}</ref>

However, aside from Furman, most writers instead took inspiration from the more-widely-known Sunbow cartoon. When the ''Beast Machines'' cartoon started up in 1999, as a sequel to ''Beast Wars'', it occasionally made reference to the Sunbow cartoon, but not the Marvel comics. 3H's 2001–2004 BotCon storyline, ''[[Transformers: The Wreckers|The Wreckers]]'', was written by the convention organizers as both a direct tie-in to ''Beast Machines'' and a direct follow-up to ''Omega Point''—but despite following on from the largely Marvel-influenced ''Omega Point'', the new writers switched to a backstory based more on the Sunbow cartoon, more in line with the approach of ''Beast Machines'', albeit while also making reference to Marvel's [[Primus]]/Unicron myth. When Furman took back over for the next series, ''[[Transformers: Universe (comic)|Universe]]'', he made prominent use of the Marvel character Primus and the Sunbow character [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] together as close associates. All told, the [[Beast Wars timeline (3H)|combined continuity]] of ''Beast Wars'', ''Omega Point'', ''Beast Machines'', ''The Wreckers'', ''Primeval Dawn'', and ''Universe'' ended up as thoroughly a hodgepodge of Sunbow and Marvel lore as the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon on its own had originally been. And when the [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity]], the [[2006]] [[Beast Wars timeline (IDW)|IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics]], and the ''[[Transformers: Wings Universe|Wings Universe]]'' all established their own Generation 1 backstories for ''Beast Wars'', they likewise drew varying influence from both Marvel and Sunbow.

Over in Japan, meanwhile, there was no such contention over which G1 continuity ''Beast Wars'' (specifically, the [[Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers|Japanese-dubbed version]]) was a part of: Since the Marvel ''Transformers'' comics had not been formally released in Japan during their original run in the West, the [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Japanese release|Sunbow cartoon's Japanese dub]] had long since established itself as the [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (franchise)|primary ''Transformers'' continuity in Japan]], with nearly all Japanese ''Transformers'' material released up to that point having had some relation to that cartoon. When the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon was brought to Japan, it too was considered a part of the sprawling [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]], since there was no other major ''Transformers'' continuity in Japan at that point. This perception even extended to the Japanese guidebook ''[[Beast Wars Universe]]'', which covered the original English version rather than the Japanese version, and was thus written from the perspective that ''Beast Wars'' took place solely and specifically in the [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]] instead of the unique Sunbow/Marvel mixture universe that it actually was.

===Prehistoric setting===
[[Image:Possession_BWPlanet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.08|To be Earth, or not to be Earth. That was the question.]]
====The planet's identity====
Initially, the cartoon's setting for the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] was an uncertain one. The first episode noted that Megatron's crew of Predacons had intended to travel from Cybertron to Earth, but also included a line from [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] stating, "It's all wrong. This cannot be Earth." While the planet certainly resembled a primitive version of Earth, it had two moons. This initial ambiguity largely stemmed from what went on behind-the-scenes of the show. At the time, Forward and DiTillio were originally unsure if the series was going to be set on Earth in the past or on just a similar but still completely different planet.<ref name="Forward"/> They assumed it was going to be Earth,<ref name="TFConVok">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oSaFcWEVuI Who are The Vok in Beast Wars? Transformers writer Bob Forward has all the details!], from the [https://www.youtube.com/@TFcon TFCon] YouTube channel; [[May 30]], 2023. Recorded at the Bob Forward panel of [[unofficial conventions|TFCon Los Angeles 2023]] on [[March 9]].</ref> but added the second moon to make it less obvious.<ref name="Forward"/>

Since Hasbro's marketing department was equally unsure of just what to do with the show,<ref name="Forward"/><ref name="TFConVok"/> Forward and DiTillio were given mostly free reign to do whatever they wished with it.<ref name="DiTillio"/> Ultimately, they decided to reveal the planet as Earth after all, with the [[Planet Buster|second moon]] blown up in the first season's [[Other Voices, Part 2|finale]], and the planet's identity confirmed in-show just [[Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)|two episodes later]]. With this revelation also came further developments to help flesh out the prehistoric setting of the series, such the introduction of humanity's unevolved [[anthropoid|ancestors]] in "[[Code of Hero]]", and the second season [[The Agenda (Part III)|finale]] uncovering the ancient Autobot starship, the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', which had crash-landed on Earth four million years ago in the ''Transformers'' fiction of the 1980s.

====Dating the Beast Wars====
Once the planet was established as prehistoric Earth, there still remained the question of just how long ago in the past the events of the cartoon were set. When, exactly, did the Beast Wars happen in the history of this fictional universe? The discovery of the ''Ark'' in "[[The Agenda (Part III)]]" led several characters to make casual comments about there being "four million years",<ref>'''Megatron:''' "Autobots and Decepticons, still frozen in emergency stasis. Awaiting the moment, four million years hence, when they will awaken to start the Great War." —"[[The Agenda (Part III)]]"</ref><ref>'''Optimus Primal:''' "We'd have four million years to clean you off the walls, Megatron. I might risk it." —[[Optimal Situation]]</ref> "the next couple million years",<ref>'''Rattrap:''' "Yeah. And now all we gotta do is keep it that way for the next couple million years." —[[Optimal Situation]]</ref> and "a few million [[units of time|stellar cycles]]"<ref>'''Rhinox:''' "[[Depth Charge (BW)|You've]] traveled back in time." '''Rattrap:''' "Yeah a few million stellar cycles back in time." —"[[Deep Metal]]"</ref> until the awakening of the Autobots and Decepticon aboard the Ark in [[1984]], which suggested the Beast Wars happened not too long after the ''Ark'' had first crash-landed on the planet.

Outside the cartoon, the various ''Beast Wars'' tie-in media attempted to provide more precise dates for when the show's events were set:
* The first was given in [[2003]], in the [[Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!|fifth chapter]] of the Japanese ''[[The Transformers: Micromaster|Micromaster]]'' prose series. In this story, artifacts of the Beast Wars found by Autobot [[Micromaster]]s in the early 1980s were dated to have first arrived on Earth "three million years ago."
* In [[2004]], the [[Primeval Dawn Part 2|second]] and [[Primeval Dawn Part 3|third]] chapters (both written by [[Simon Furman]]) of ''[[Primeval Dawn]]'' (which was set not long after the [[Nemesis Part 2|final episode]] of ''Beast Wars'') provided a most specific date for the time period of the Beast Wars, that being "180,000 Years BC".
*While Dreamwave's plans for a [[Transformers: Beast Wars — Shell Game|''Beast Wars'' comic series]] were [[unreleased Dreamwave issues|canceled]], the script for the unpublished [[Shell Game issue 1|first issue]] (also written by Simon Furman) was to be set immediately after the cartoon's final episode and used the same date for the Beast Wars as ''Primeval Dawn'', "180,000 Years BC".
* From [[2006]] to [[2008]], IDW Publishing's two ''Beast Wars'' comic miniseries, ''[[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering|The Gathering]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending|The Ascending]]'' (both written once again by Simon Furman) each took place during the third season of the cartoon, and dated the Beast Wars to "70,000 Years BC". However, the glossary entry for the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' found in the back of the collected edition of the ''Beast Wars Sourcebook'' claimed the Great War took place "millions of years later" from the Beast Wars,<ref>"Through the valiant efforts of the Maximals, the plan was thwarted and the Nemesis disabled. Millions of years later, the Nemesis was uncovered again. This time the original Megatron mined the ship for its power core, known as '[[Heart of Cybertron|The Heart of Cybertron]].'" —Beast Wars Glossary "Nemesis" entry; ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook]]''</ref> leaning more towards the cartoon's original statements. But the glossary's entries for [[Optimus Prime (G1)]] and [[Megatron (G1)]] both reflected the comics' timeframe by stating they awoke on 1980s Earth "thousands of years later" from the Beast Wars.<ref>"For a time, the Predacon Commander of the same name used Megatron's Spark to bolster his own power. That Megatron was ultimately defeated and the Spark of his Decepticon namesake was returned to its rightful owner. Thousands of years later, Megatron would emerge on Earth to start his war anew." —Beast Wars Glossary "Megatron (G1)" entry; ''Beast Wars Sourcebook''</ref><ref>"Optimus Prime would reawaken thousands of years later on modern day Earth where his conflict with Megatron began anew." —Beast Wars Glossary "Optimus Prime (G1)" entry; ''Beast Wars Sourcebook''</ref>

While these different dates all remain contradictory to each other, they each belong to a different expanded-media continuity for the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon (see "[[#Expanded universes|Expanded universes]]" above); respectively, the [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]], the [[Beast Wars timeline (3H)|3H ''Beast Wars'' continuity]], the [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity]], and the [[Beast Wars timeline (IDW)|IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity]] (the ''[[Transformers: Wings Universe|Wings Universe]]'' gave no timeframe for its version of the Beast Wars, but made references to the works by 3H Productions, suggesting it also used the ''Primeval Dawn'' timeframe).

===Future setting===
====Distance from the Great War====
[[Image:The Probe Cybertropolis.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|left|Apparently, the future is [[neon]]-lit.]]
As the cartoon continued its worldbuilding, it soon became clear that the Maximals and Predacons were not only the distant descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons, but had also originally come from a future time set long after the age of said ancestors. This then led to questions about just how far into the future they originally hailed. While the show never actually addressed when the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] between the Autobots and Decepticons ended, it did provide some hints about how long after the war the future era of ''Beast Wars'' was set. In the first season, the [[Beast Wars (Part 1)|first episode]] stated that the Maximals and Predacons were currently at peace, and had been "for centuries."<ref>'''Optimus Primal:''' "There has been peace between the Maximals and Predacons for centuries." —"[[Beast Wars (Part 1)]]"</ref> In the episode "[[Dark Designs]]", [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] offhandedly stated that the "Great Wars" had occurred "three centuries ago."<ref>'''Blackarachnia:''' "[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]]? That was a Decepticon from the Great Wars three centuries ago." —"[[Dark Designs]]"</ref><ref>Of note, this was the only time the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon ever referred to the "Great Wars" in the plural rather than the singular "Great War"; making this line an oddity from the beginning.</ref> And in "[[Law of the Jungle]]", it was said that only "hundreds of [[units of time|stellar cycles]]" had passed since the Autobots and Decepticons first ''began'' the Great War.<ref>'''Dinobot:''' "It has been this way for hundreds of stellar cycles, ever since Autobot and Decepticon first began the Great War." —"[[Law of the Jungle]]"</ref> Collectively, this presented a relatively short time span (for a race with lifespans of up to ''millions'' of years) between the age of the Autobots and Decepticons and that of the Maximals and Predacons.

However, outside of these first-season references, the rest of the show would instead suggest a much greater span of time since the end of the Great War. In the series' production bible, the backstory written for the show noted that knowledge of the Maximals and Predacons having descended from the Autobots and Decepticons came from "Cybertron Mythology"<ref name="Backstory"/> In "[[Possession]]", the Autobots and Decepticons were described as not just the Maximals' and Predacons' "ancestors", but specifically their "''ancient'' ancestors", and in the same episode, despite the guest-starring Decepticon [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] having garnered quite the infamous reputation in the original ''Transformers'' fiction, [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]], [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], and [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] were the only ones among the main cast who had ever heard of him. And much later, in "[[The Agenda (Part III)]]", upon first laying eyes on the ''Ark'', the Maximal [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] said that he originally thought the ''Ark'' was only a legend.<ref>'''Silverbolt:''' "I've heard only legends." '''Blackarachnia:''' "Oh, it's no legend, JoJo. Eons before Maximals and Predacons even existed, your ancestors, the Autobots, launched this ''Ark'' containing their finest heroes. But it was attacked by Decepticons and crashed here, on Earth." —"[[The Agenda (Part III)]]"</ref>

In the sequel series ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' (which was set in the same future setting of ''Beast Wars''), other Generation 1 elements (namely [[Vector Sigma]], its [[Key to Vector Sigma|Key]], and the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]]) were all likewise regarded by the characters as mere legends before their existences were fully realized. And in "[[A Wolf in the Fold]]", the Maximal [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] called the [[Hate Plague]] an "ancient" virus. The original story treatment for the series even claimed "what little is known" about the Autobots and Decepticons is known mostly from legend, and that the era of the Maximals and Predacons was set a ''whopping'' "millions of years later".<ref>{{citesocial|quote=@walruslaw @DaGrimBo I've acquired the Beast Machines series bible and Marv Wolfman's original treatment. First off, "Beast Hunters"|link=https://twitter.com/20thDan/status/1695541111421583425|name=Check your sources.|site=Twitter|year=2023|month=August|day=26}} "IMAGINE... the planet CYBERTRON, where legend says THE TRANSFORMERS have lived for tens of millions of years. while little is known about the early tribes, wheat is known is that ages ago, Autobots fought like stainless steel knights against the malevolent world- destroying Decepticons. Their great battle ended with the Autobots' victory. IMAGINE... millions of years later, a tension filled cold war has long been brewing between the Autobots' successors, the strong and valiant MAXIMALS and the Decepticons descendants, the dark, feral PREDACONS. Until now the spark of war has not ignited."</ref> And when both Optimus and Nightscream stumbled upon the ruins of the Autobot city of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], in "[[Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search]]", it was stated that the Great War had occurred not "three centuries ago" (as originally given in "Dark Designs"), but rather "''eons'' ago",<ref>'''Nightscream:''' "[[Iacon (polity)|This city]] was lost ''eons'' ago after the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] between the Autobots and the Decepticons." '''Optimus Primal:''' "Not lost, merely replaced, during the [[Great Upgrade|great upgrade from Autobot to Maximal]]." —"[[Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search]]"</ref> which fits ''much'' better with the amount of time needed for the ''vast'' Autobot/Decepticon history to have all faded into myth and legend by the time of the Maximals' and Predacons' future setting.

And yet, despite all of that, the more miniscule time gap of "three centuries" is the one that more people have taken to heart and [https://web.archive.org/web/20000229151413/http://www.bwtf.com:80/bwfiles/defense.html propagated] in the years since, making its way into other licensed works and even creator commentary. [[3H Productions]]' ''[[Apelinq's War Journals]]'' (which was set both right before and during ''Beast Machines'') specified the future date as "316 [[AU]]", as in "316 stellar cycles" into the future. [[Departure|Issues #1]] and [[Betrayal|#2]] of ''[[Transformers: The Wreckers|The Wreckers]]'' (which was also set both during and right after ''Beast Machines'') clarified that this was about "three hundred years" after the destruction of [[Unicron]] in [[2005]],<ref>"Our setting is the planet Cybertron – some three hundred years after the destruction of the Chaos-Bringer, Unicron." —"[[Departure]]"</ref><ref>'''Glyph:''' "We have been awaiting the rescue effort for quite some time. Though I must admit, over three hundred years is a bit longer than we had expected!" —"[[Betrayal]]"</ref> in reference to the events of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. The previous ''[[Reaching the Omega Point]]'' story "[[Covenant (story)|Covenant]]" had also referred to Unicron's defeat in 2005,<ref>"And in 2005... [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] arose to destroy Unicron and lead the Transformer race into the next phase." —"[[Covenant (story)|Covenant]]"</ref> so it matched up. Additionally, ''[[Beast Wars Universe]]'',<ref name="BWU">旧アニメからBWまでの空白期間はおよそ300~500年(スタッフ談)、グレートウォー終結から300年後とされている。よって、“ザ・リバース”のラストから本格的終戦までは、大きく見積って200年を要した事になる。—''[[Beast Wars Universe]]'' Page 3, "Chronicles of Cybertron"</ref> a 1997 interview with Bob Forward,<ref>{{citesocial|quote=BeastBob1: Mmph. Well, he is sans body at the beginning of "Possession" though that could have happened at some point while hurtling thru space for 300 years --maybe more, depending on his space-time position. In any case, I haven't seen the episode myself. A lot of the writing was deliberately vague because we were not sure how much Starscream animation could be done, afforded, etc. -- if any.|link=https://groups.google.com/g/alt.toys.transformers/c/szTUVRTiarQ/m/IwheFulUjrwJ|name=Hooks|site=alt.toys.transformers|title=Age Of Innocence: 1997 Bob Forward Interviews|year=2001|month=01|day=15}}</ref> an interview with Larry DiTillio on the [[Rhino Entertainment]] DVD set of the cartoon's first season,<ref name="DiTillio"/> and ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]''<ref>"Beast Wars introduced fans to the next era of TRANSFORMERS, set some 300 years after the Great War on Cybertron and Earth." —''Transfomers: The Ultimate Guide'', Page 78, Beast Wars introductory description</ref> all likewise mentioned the interim of "300 years", while IDW's ''The Gathering'', ''The Ascending'', and ''Beast Wars Sourcebook'' gave no timeframe for how long after the Great War the future era of ''Beast Wars'' was set. But in promotion of the one-shot prequel story "[[Dawn of the Predacus]]", IDW author [[John-Paul Bove]] had tweeted that the story was set "30 years after [[The Transformers: The Movie|The Battle for Autobot City]], 300 years before The Beast Wars".<ref name="Bove">{{citesocial|quote=Next week find out what happened after G1 and before Beast Wars @BotCon... #transformers #G1 #beastwars|link=https://twitter.com/wordmongerer/status/716433907621736448|name=John-Paul Bove @wordmongerer|site=Twitter|year=2016|month=04|day=02}}</ref>

====Distance from the present day====
With most ''Beast Wars'' media accepting the "three centuries" claim, there still remained the question ''when'' in the future these three centuries were set. As stated before, the cartoon never said when the Great War ended, so the tie-in media opted to provide their own different answers. ''Reaching the Omega Point'' introduced a dark alternate future ruled by a tyrant named [[Shokaract]], which "[[Terminus (issue)|Terminus]]" stated was set in the 32nd Century. A preceding story, "[[Schism (story)|Schism]]", stated that this dark future was set "two hundred years" after the first chapter of ''Omega Point'', "Covenant", which itself was set during the normal future setting of ''Beast Wars'' and ''Beast Machines''. Logically, 200 years before the 32nd Century would place said normal future setting in the 30th Century, which would then place the Great War three centuries earlier in the 27th Century. The related apocryphal story "[[Alignment]]" even seemed to support this notion with its own events set both right before the 300-year time gap and "several hundred years" after the destruction of Unicron.<ref>"It had been several hundred years since the chaosbringer Unicron had been destroyed," –"[[Alignment]]"</ref>

However, as noted above, the ''Omega Point'' sequel series, ''The Wreckers'', explicitly (and repeatedly) placed the future setting of ''Beast Wars'' and ''Beast Machines'' about "three hundred years" after Unicron's demise in 2005, which would place the ''Beast Wars'' future in the 24th Century, essentially [[retcon]]ning away the 30th Century implication. Although, in the [[Escape (Universe)|second issue]] of the next series, ''[[Transformers: Universe (comic)|Universe]]'', the inside-cover recap of the [[Abduction|first issue's]] events instead claimed this future setting was in the 23rd Century, but this was likely an error. The ''[[Transformers: Wings Universe|Wing Universe]]'' story "[[A Common Foe]]" saw the civil wars between the Autobots, Decepticons, and all other related parties finally brought to their formal conclusion in the year [[2013]], so three centuries later from then would again be the 24th Century. Likewise, IDW Publishing's "Dawn of the Predacus" featured its own take on the end of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], which the aforementioned tweet by John-Paul Bove dated to thirty years after 2005 and three hundred years before the future setting of ''Beast Wars'', placing that story in [[2035]] and the future once again in the 24th Century.

Aside from these, there was one thing that initially did ''not'' adhere to the "three centuries" notion. In the Japanese dub of "[[Dark Designs]]", Blackarachnia's "three centuries ago" line from the English version was not retained, instead changed to a pop culture reference joke. And when the first Japanese-original spinoff series ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'' started up, it was originally billed as taking place during the same future setting of the American ''Beast Wars'' cartoon. The main setting of ''Beast Wars II'' was the planet [[Gaia]], which was all but stated outright to be a post-apocalyptic version of Earth. In its [[Emissary of the Fourth Planet|thirty-sixth episode]], it was revealed that Gaia's ancient inhabitants (in other words, humanity) had abandoned the planet "several tens of thousands of years ago", a significantly greater time gap than just "three centuries ago". At first, there was no contradiction, since, as mentioned, the "three centuries" line was left out of the Japanese dub. But when the theatrical feature "[[Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!]]" and the sequel series ''[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (cartoon)|Beast Wars Neo]]'' both came along, a number of new contradictions soon arose between ''them'' and the American ''Beast Wars'' and ''Beast Machines'' cartoons.

To rectify this, when [[TakaraTomy]] began to formally assemble the [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon timeline]] in the mid-2000s, they opted to give acknowledgement of the "three centuries ago" line from the English version and use both it and the "tens of thousands of years ago" statement from ''Beast Wars II'' to relocate both it and ''Beast Wars Neo'' to take place many millennia ''after'' the Japanese dub of ''Beast Machines''. Plus, vintage Generation 1 and Generation 2 media released in Japan had also placed the end of the Autobot/Decepticon wars in the 21st Century, so once again, the future setting of ''Beast Wars'' was placed in the 24th Century. And meanwhile, another particular exception was given in ''Beast Wars Universe'', which treated the end of the American Generation 1 cartoon, "[[The Rebirth]]", as the last known event of the Great War in the book's chronology for ''Beast Wars'', titled "Chronicles of Cybertron". It also claimed that the full amount of time between "The Rebirth" and the future setting of ''Beast Wars'' was estimated (by the ''Beast Wars'' series' staff) to be "about 300–500 years", with the Great War having apparently gone on for another two centuries after "The Rebirth",<ref name="BWU"/><ref>The notion of the Great War having lasted another couple of centuries possibly stemmed from Blackarachnia's statement in "Possession" that the Autobots and Decepticons warred with each other "for centuries", since both she and Megatron also stated in "[[The Agenda (Part III)]]" that the Great first began in [[1984]]. Had it only ended in the 21st Century, the war beginning in 1984 would mean it ''barely'' lasted for only a ''single'' century. However, Blackarachnia's statement from "Possession" also seemingly ignored all of the pre-Earth warring that the Autobots and Decepticons did back on Cybertron millions of years earlier, so it was always a questionable statement.</ref> before reaching its end in the 23rd Century, which would place the future of ''Beast Wars'' in the 26th Century. But, none of ''these'' statements have ever been put into practice in any canonical fiction, so they remain only [[pseudocanon]] at best.

==Awards and nominations==
===1998 Daytime Emmy Awards===
*Outstanding Achievement in Animation - [[Clyde Klotz]] '''(WINNER)'''

==International releases==
===Japan===
In Japan, the ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' cartoon was split into 2 separate 26 episode series.

====''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers''====
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'''''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers''''' ( ビーストウォーズ超生命体トランスフォーマー ''Beast Wars Chō Seimeitai Transformers'') aired in 1997, consisting of the North American season 1 episodes. In charge of localization was [[Yoshikazu Iwanami]], an audiography director whose resume included shows such as the [[TV Tokyo]] dubs of [[Saban Entertainment]]'s ''[[X-Men]]'' and the original ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''. Iwanami's signature style of localization and dubbing relies heavily on satirical comedy and ad libbing, most commonly turning the programs into self-referential parodies of themselves. While the early episodes of ''Beast Wars'' were fairly innocuous in their ad libs, as time went on their inclusion became progressively more intrusive and by the last third of the series there was a severe tonal shift.

The ad libbing in ''Beast Wars'' primarily consisted of "noise"; talking for the sake of talking and reducing atmospheric silence or visual subtlety to a minimum. One particular trait of the dub was that each character had their own unique vocal tic with which they would punctuate their sentences or, more commonly, chant incessantly for no apparent reason. For instance, Waspinator would chant "''bun''", Scorponok would chant "''orya''", Blackarachnia would hiss "''chā''", Rhinox would ramble "''dana''" and so on. This gimmick was especially pronounced during fight scenes, when characters would repeatedly and comically shout their vocal tics every time they pulled the trigger of their weapons, reducing firefights to a cacophony of unending gibberish.

Many characters underwent considerable changes in personality and characterization. Some of these changes were gradual; Megatron began the series as a gravelly voiced and uncharismatic slob who would loudly hock loogies after fits of maniacal laughter. That trait was phased out in exchange for him becoming an effeminate, mood-swinging goofball; his tone of voice transitioning from a ferocious baritone to a silly high pitch at the drop of a hat. He was also made humorously cowardly, shouting out wimpy excuses while retreating (including the claim that he was late for piano practice).

Other characters were fundamentally altered right from the get go. [[Predacon computer|NAVI-ko]], the Predacon computer, gained a girly and fitful personality and characters would talk with her rather than at her. Tigatron was made into a humorous samurai ronin parody. Airazor had her gender changed, becoming a young male and Tigatron's trusty ward (and later, his lover).

All 26 episodes were aired without any edits for time or content (unlike the Japanese broadcasts of ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)#Japanese release|The Transformers]]'' and many future imported Western ''Transformers'' shows). However, the episodes were aired out of their original sequence: "[[A Better Mousetrap]]" and "[[The Probe]]" were switched around in accordance to their production order, while "[[The Spark]]" and [[The Trigger, Part 1|both]] [[The Trigger, Part 2|parts]] of "The Trigger" were all moved up earlier to come before "[[Victory (episode)|Victory]]". As a result, [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]] appeared in "The Probe" before its proper debut in "A Better Mousetrap", while "The Spark" comes before "Victory", making it seem like the Maximals were abandoning Airazor in their attempt to leave Earth.

''Beast Wars'' aired on [[TV Tokyo]] in the Wednesday 6:30 PM timeslot. As the second season of the North American ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' was not ready for localization by the time ''Beast Wars'' ended in Japan, a pair of domestically produced cartoon series, ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'' and ''[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (cartoon)|Beast Wars Neo]]'', were commissioned to fill the gap. The [[Japanese themes|opening theme]] for ''Beast Wars'' was "[[War War! Stop It]]" by [[Banana Ice]] while the ending theme was "[[For the Dream|FOR THE DREAM]]" by [[Mickey-T|Mickey]].

====''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals''====
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'''''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals''''' (超生命体トランスフォーマービーストウォーズメタルス, ''Chō Seimeitai Transformers Beast Wars Metals'') aired in 1999, consisting of the North American season 2 and 3 episodes. While ''Beast Wars'' had been fairly judicious in its self-referential humor, even in its last stretch of episodes, ''Beast Wars Metals'' was an unrestrained self-parody, constantly breaking the fourth wall and demonstrating awareness of its own status as a TV series.

Ad libbing was cranked to the max and many characters received major personality adjustments to reflect the aggressively comedic nature of the series. [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] became a goofy old man who enjoyed singing fishing songs while transforming, for example, and [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] spoke with the rough-and-tumble dialect of a Japanese street punk. The show was unrelentingly self-aware, regularly acknowledging the camera, the TV channel and, in one of the more obnoxious gags, [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] would constantly smell what the audience was eating (making remarks to the effect of, "Oh, that's Sato-san's curry" as he sniffed). For good or ill the show proved a shot in the arm for the franchise, and this success catapulted Iwanami into a brand mainstay. Iwanami's dubbing style has become synonymous with imported Transformers cartoons in Japan, and he continues to voice direct most series to this day, all with the same heavily "punched up" direction.

The distribution of episodes for ''Beast Wars Metals'' was complicated. Japan included selected episodes in two separate theatrical releases:

:*''[[Beast Wars Special Super Lifeform Transformers]]'' (premiering the episode "[[Bad Spark]]")
:*''[[1999 Summer Toei Anime Fair]]'' (premiering the episode "[[Cutting Edge]]").

Since the above episodes were released theatrically, they are not included in the show's proper 26 episode list, with their places being taken by two original [[clip show]]s:

:*Episode 14: "[[Where Is the Banana?]]"
:*Episode 26: "[[Remix: I Forgot the Banana!]]"

As with the other installments in the ''Beast Wars'' franchise, ''Beast Wars Metals'' aired on [[TV Tokyo]] in the Wednesday 6:30 PM timeslot. The series had two opening themes, "[[Tamashii no Evolution]]" and "[[Sennen no Soldier]]" by [[Hironobu Kageyama]], and two ending themes, "[[Ba-Bi-Bu-Be Beast Wars|BA-BI-BU-BE Beast Wars]]" and "[[Halleluyah|HALLELUYAH]]" also by Kageyama.

===United Kingdom===
When originally aired on GMTV in the United Kingdom, ''Beast Wars'' was only screened on school holidays, usually in double bills on Bank Holidays, and one episode per morning on half-term weeks, meaning that only a few episodes were shown a year, with wide gulfs in between (most prominently, ''three months'' passed between the airings of "Other Visits" parts [[Other Visits (Part 1)|1]] and [[Other Visits (Part 2)|2]]). In a sign of things to come, "[[Beast Wars (Part 1)]]" was shown some 25 minutes earlier than billed due to rescheduled news reports, meaning many fans missed the entire opening episode. Things went from bad to worse when "[[Equal Measures]]" was skipped, and only continued when, after "[[Victory (episode)|Victory]]", the series skipped directly to "[[Other Voices, Part 1]]". The entirety of the second season followed the conclusion of the first, but the channel never aired the third season; although it was subsequently released on VHS, the [[cliffhanger]]-resolving "[[Optimal Situation]]" was only available as a free gift with purchase at [[Toys"R"Us]].

Additionally, these GMTV airings were modified in various ways. The first and most foremost alteration was the removal of the word "Transformers" from the series' title, which was only reinstated with "[[Other Voices, Part 1]]". With regard to the actual content, the earliest episodes generally had nothing more extreme than the removal of uses of the word "[[Slag (slang)|slag]]" (as it is effectively a synonym for "slut" in English slang), but with the beginning of the second season, edits were steadily made to episodes for no readily apparent reasons. Additionally, any scenes featuring flashing images were routinely put through a filter that slowed such scenes down to comical levels. This culminated in a butchered version of "[[The Agenda (Part 1)|The Agenda]]", which snipped out many short scenes throughout all three episodes for no reason, from inconsequential moments like Tarantulas cackling and driving out of his lab in Part 1, to key scenes such as Silverbolt and Optimus Primal's "office talk" in Part 2, and in what was the last straw for many fans, the complete second half of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s speech (''the part explaining [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s entire motivation''), also from Part 2.

During the time they had the rights to the series, GMTV also showed the entirety of seasons one and two on the then-obscure digital-only channel ITV2.

Channel 5, a terrestrial channel, showed the entire series in its complete form in 2003. Thankfully. This got rerun too, leading to the ''Beast Wars'' comics getting [[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|used as reprints in Titan's Movie-based comic]].

===France===
In France and (French) Belgium, the show was called "Animutants" and had a good-quality dubbing, rather close to the original voices. But while the first two seasons of the show were aired, the third one never was; the show always ended with "[[The Agenda (Part III)]]", leaving the viewers in the area with the worst case of cliffhanger ever.

However, the French dubbed episodes that can nowadays be found on DVD and VHS stop at "[[Other Visits (Part 2)]]", but we can assume that the TV broadcast reached the end of the season.

===Belgium===
Beast Wars aired under its original name with Dutch subtitles, but like the French broadcast, it stopped abruptly after "[[The Agenda (Part III)]]".

===China===
In China, the show was localized as ''Chāonéng Yǒngshì'' (超能勇士, "Super-Powerful Warriors") and released in a good-quality dubbing by the People's Art Theatre of Liaoning. It was very successful on the TV station and once won a very high audience rating. Like the Japanese dub, Season 2 and Season 3 episodes were also merged into one season called ''Chāonéng Yǒngshì: Jīnshǔ Biàntǐ'' (超能勇士：金属变体, "Super-Powerful Warriors: Transmetals"). Neither title included "Transformers", leaving some of the audience unaware that this was a sequel to [[The Transformers (cartoon)|their childhood]]. Following the Chinese release of ''Beast Machines'', the People's Art Theatre of Liaoning re-dubbed the show with character names changed into the Chinese translation of ''Beast Machines'', I.E. changing the name of [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] from Hēixīngxīng Duìzhǎng (黑猩猩队长, "Captain Chimpanzee") to Xīngxīng Jiāngjūn (猩猩将军, "General Gorilla").

===Vietnam===
In Vietnam, the show was called ''Chiến tranh quái vật vũ trụ'' ("Galaxy Monster Wars"). The show was released on VHS tapes with a very good Vietnamese dub, then it was copied to VCD. Unfortunately, as happened in France, only the first two seasons were aired. It ended with "[[The Agenda (Part III)]]", and left the fans with a cliffhanger.

===Germany===
The German dub used the original title, ''Beast Wars''. The show was initially very successful on the TV Station RTL2 and was released on VHS. However, only the first season was shown and dubbed. Furthermore, the TV broadcast had many fight scenes censored to comply with Germany's strict laws against TV violence; however, the VHS Release was uncut. After many reruns the show was cancelled and the second and third Season were never shown in Germany.

===Italy===
The toyline was already renamed ''Biocombat'', but the cartoon got the long and unusual title of ''Rombi di tuono e cieli di fuoco per i Biocombat'' ("Thunderbolts and Flaming Skies for the Biocombat"). Such long titles were indeed a tradition for cartoons dubbed in Italian in the '90s. The theme song was replaced with the homonymous ''[[Rombi di Tuono e Cieli di Fuoco per i Biocombat]]''.

The dub made many changes—much dialogue was simplified, and in season one silence was filled with either a narrator describing aloud what just happened or characters having inner monologues.

For some reason, ''Gorilla Warfare'' and ''The Probe'' were switched around in the airing order. Because of this, the former begins with the narrator making a quick reference to the Maximals' failure in the latter.

The ''Beast Wars'' dub is the first time the terms "Autobot" and "Decepticon" were kept as such in an Italian dub. While "Decepticon" was kept in subsequent series, to hear "Autobot" again, Italians had to wait until 2007 when the first live action movie was released, since ''Robots in Disguise'' and the Unicron Trilogy went back using "Autorobot".

===Spanish America===
The show aired in many Latin American countries, mainly through [[Cartoon Network]]'s South American feeds, as well various local TV stations. The dub was recorded at Audiomaster 3000 in Mexico. Apart from some name changes (Optimus Primal became Optimus Primitivo, to name an example) the dub was completely uncut.

==Home video releases==
===Canada===
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*''Beast Wars'' — A Feature Length Beasties Adventure (1996)
*''Robots-Bêtes'' — Une Adventure Cybernetique (1996)
*''Beast Wars'' — Beasties Escape (1998)
*''Robots-Bêtes'' — L'Évasion (1998)
*''Beast Wars'' — Warning from Space (1998)
*''Robots-Bêtes'' — Alert Dans L'Espace (1998)
*''Beast Wars'' / ''Robots-Bêtes'' Three pack (1998)
*''Beast Wars'' — Optimus Lives! (1998)
*''Robots-Bêtes'' — L'Empreinte D'Optimus (1998)
;DVD
*''Beast Wars'' — Classic Episodes — Where the Beasties Began! (2005)
*''Beast Wars'' — Classic Episodes: Volume 2 — The Saga Continues! (2005)
*''Beast Wars'' — Classic Episodes: Volume 3 — The Battle Rages On! (2005)
*''Beast Wars'' — Classic Episodes: Volume 4 — The Predacons Advance! (2005)
*''Beast Wars'' — The Complete First Season (2005)
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===Japan===
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[[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer]]'s Japanese DVD sets of the series come with optional English language dialogue with Japanese subtitles, allowing fans in Japan to view the more serious version of the show if desired.
;VHS
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — Enter the Super Lifeform Transformers (1997)
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — Cheetus's Crisis (1997)
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — Convoy Disappeared (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — The Solitary Warrior Tigatron (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — A Terrifying New Weapon! (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — Goodbye, Rattle!? (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — Floating Island Death Match (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — The Destrons' Dramatic Finish (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — Two Dinobots? (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — Revive, Beast Power! (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — The Immortal Starscream (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — Fare Thee Well, Tigatron (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — To Protect the Peace... (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers Special'' — Great Cybertron Army Collection (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers Special'' — Great Destron Army Collection (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — Great Quiz Collection (1999)
*''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals'' — We're Back! (1999)
*''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals'' — Convoy Reborn (1999)
*''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals'' — I Quit! (2000)
*''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals'' — Huh? The Face? (2000)
*''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals'' — I'm a Crab! (2000)
*''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals'' — I Do Love You! (2000)
*''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals'' — Gro~w Bigger (2000)
*''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals'' — Rrray! (2000)
*''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals'' — The Movie (2000)
*''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals'' — I Am Resurrected (2000)
*''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals'' — Love Typhoon (2000)
*''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals'' — Sssshiny! (2000)
*''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals'' — I Hath Returned (2000)
*''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Metals'' — Happy? This Should Do It (2000)
[[File:Pioneer BeastWars Laserdisc Box2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85]]
;{{w|LaserDisc}}
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Maximal Edition (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Predacon Edition (1998)
;DVD
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — DVD BOX (2000)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers: Metals'' — DVD BOX 1 (2000)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers: Metals'' — DVD BOX 2 (2000)
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===United Kingdom===
{{main|Universal}}
The entire run of the show ended up on VHS from 2000 to 2001, though "[[Aftermath]]" was only available as a pack-in with [[Claw Jaw#toys|Claw Jaw]], and "[[Optimal Situation]]" could only be obtained as a free gift with purchase at [[Toys"R"Us]]. Perhaps unintuitively in retrospect, the VHS releases began with the show's third season—picking up from the end of the show's original UK broadcast on GMTV, which stopped after the second season's cliffhanger ending! DVD releases were considerably more spotty, starting from "[[The Agenda (Part 1)|The Agenda]]" and releasing only ten episodes across two volumes. In both cases, however, cuts were gone! Characters could rightfully swear!
[[File:UK Beast Wars Vol3 VHS.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Not featuring [[Razorclaw (BW)|Razorclaw]].]]
;VHS
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Free Video (2000)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Vol. 1 (2000)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Vol. 2 (2000)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Vol. 3 (2000)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Vol. 4 (2000)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Vol. 5 (2001)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Vol. 6 (2001)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Vol. 7 ([[March 5]] 2001)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Vol. 8 (March 5, 2001)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Beginning: Vol. 1 (2001)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Beginning: Vol. 2 (2001)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Beginning: Vol. 3 (2001)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Beginning: Vol. 4 (2001)
;DVD
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Vol. 1 (2004)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Vol. 2 (2005)
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===United States===
[[File:Rhino BeastWars Vol1 DVD.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55]]
;{{main|Rhino Entertainment}}
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Volume 1 (2002)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Volume 2 (2002)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Complete First Season (2003)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Complete Second Season (2004)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Complete Third Season (2004)

;{{main|Shout! Studios}}
*''Transformers - Beast Wars'': Season One (2011)
*''Transformers - Beast Wars'': The Complete Series (2011)
*''Transformers - Beast Wars'': Seasons 2 & 3 (2011)
*''Transformers - Beast Wars'': Chain of Command (2014)
*''Transformers - Beast Machines'': The Complete Series (2014)
{{-}}

===Australia and New Zealand===
{{main|Madman Entertainment}}
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Season 1 (2006)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Season 2 (2006)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Season 3 (2006)
*''The Transformers: Beast Wars'' — Complete Collection (2009)
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===Russia===
Russian DVD sets come with only Russian dialogue and no subtitles.
;DVD
*''Transformery: Beast Wars'' — Season 1 Vol. 1 (first 13 episodes of the first season) (2011)
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===Germany===
;DVD
;[[Pandavision]] (2012)
*''Transformers: Beast Wars'' - Season 1 (April 24, 2012)

===Pack-ins and Giveaways===
{{main|Hasbro|Pack-in material}}
;VHS
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — [[Aftermath]] & [[Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)]] (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — [[Aftermath]] (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — [[Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)]] (1998)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — [[Bad Spark]] & [[Code of Hero]] (1999)

;DVD
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — [[Equal Measures]] (2006)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — [[A Better Mousetrap]] (2006)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — [[The Spark]] (2006)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — [[Spider's Game]] (2006)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — [[Possession]] (2006)
*''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — [[Code of Hero]] (2006)
*"[[Beast Wars (Part 1)|Enter the Super Lifeform Transformers]]" and "[[Victory (episode)|The Destrons' Dramatic Finish]]" (2006)
*"[[Beast Wars (Part 2)|Destroy the Destrons]]" (2006)
*"[[The Web|Cheetus's Crisis]]" (2006)
*"[[Equal Measures|Operation: Time Bomb Transfer!]]" (2006)
*"[[Chain of Command (BW)|Convoy Disappeared]]" (2006)
*"[[Power Surge (episode)|The Aerial Mountain Explodes]]" (2006)
*"[[Fallen Comrades|The Solitary Warrior, Tigatron]]" (2006)
*"[[Double Jeopardy|Kick of the Spider Woman]]" (2006)
*"[[The Probe|A Terrifying New Weapon!]]" (2006)
*"[[Gorilla Warfare|The Deadly Virus]]" (2006)
*"[[A Better Mousetrap|Goodbye, Rattle!?]]" (2006)
*"[[The Spark|The Falcon Warrior, Airazor]]" (2006)
*"[[The Trigger, Part 1|Floating Island Death Match, Part 1]]" and "[[The Trigger, Part 2|Floating Island Death Match, Part 2]]" (2006)
*"[[Dark Voyage|Around and Around the Jungle]]" (2006)
*"[[Possession|The Immortal Starscream]]" (2006)

==Notes==
*The first season of ''Beast Wars'' cost $18 million, according to [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/browse_thread/thread/b334d45514e26ab4/bc8e54e9165e0823?hl=en&lnk=st&q=bob+forward+interview+inferno+megatron&rnum=1#bc8e54e9165e0823 a 1997 interview with Bob Forward].
*The decision to go forward with a second season came in late November of 1996.<ref>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.toys.transformers/KcGZU0EOPf0/_zV_QoKiGe8J</ref>
*There are three known unproduced ''Beast Wars'' episodes: "[[A Greater Ape]]", "[[Bitch Wars]]", and "[[Dark Glass]]".
*{{w|lang=ja|B-CLUB (模型雑誌)|B-Club magazine}} erroneously claims that ''Beast Wars'' is the first fully CGI television show in the world, a title actually held by ''{{w|Insektors}}''. Mainframe's own CGI show ''{{w|ReBoot}}'' also predates ''Beast Wars''.
*The Production Designer for the show, [[Clyde Klotz]], won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation in 1997. How cool is that?
*For reasons unknown, neither the [[Rhino Entertainment|Kid Rhino]] nor the [[Shout! Studios|Shout! Factory]] U.S. DVD releases of ''Beast Wars'' season three included the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UmCEsbUe6E opening that was televised], which included an original shot of the ''Axalon'' and ''Darksyde'' spaceships crashing down to prehistoric Earth. Instead, all season three episodes began with the season two [[title sequence|opening]] for the first part of the beginning credits. Likewise, the ''Beast Wars'' season one releases from both Rhino and Shout! Factory used the shorter version of the [[title sequence]] and [[theme song]] that originated from when ''Beast Wars'' was shown as part of the syndicated ''[[Power Block]]'', instead of the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FKpU0pnne8 full version] that was used for screenings outside of the ''Power Block''. When released on DVD in Canada, however, [[Alliance Atlantis]] did use the correct openings for both seasons.

===Foreign names===
*''English:'' '''''Beasties''''' (Canada; broadcast only<ref>https://imissbionix.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/beast-wars-beasties-dvd-sets-wont-be-released-in-canada/</ref>)
*''Japanese:'' '''''Beast Wars Chō Seimeitai Transformers''''' (ビーストウォーズ超生命体トランスフォーマー, "Beast Wars Super Lifeform Transformers"), '''''Chō Seimeitai Transformers Beast Wars Metals''''' (second and third seasons, 超生命体トランスフォーマービーストウォーズメタルス, "Super Lifeform Transformers Beast Wars Metals")
*''Bulgarian:'' '''''Voinata na zverovete''''' (Войната на зверовете "War of the Beasts")
*''Cantonese:'' '''''Ciunang Jungsi''''' (Hong Kong, 超能勇士, "Super-Ultra Warriors")
*''French:'' '''''Animutants''''' (France), '''''Robots-Bêtes''''' ("Beast-Robots", Canada)
*''Italian:'' '''''Rombi di tuono e cieli di fuoco per i Biocombat''''' ("Thunderbolts and Flaming Skies for the Biocombat")
*''Latvian:'' '''''Briesmoņu kari''''' ("Monster Wars")
*''Mandarin:'' '''''Bǎibiàn Jīngāng''''' (Taiwan, 百變金剛, "Morph Vajra"), '''''Biànxíng Jīngāng: Yěshòu Zhànzhēng''''' (China, 变形金刚：野兽战争, "Transformers: Beast Wars")
*''Polish:'' '''''Kosmiczne Wojny''''' (Lector "Cosmic Wars"), '''''Wojny Potworów''''' (Canal + Dubbing "Monster Wars")
*''Russian:'' '''''Bitvi Zverey''''' (Битвы зверей, "Battles of the Beasts"), '''''Zhestokye voini''''' (Жестокие войны, "Cruel wars")
*''Spanish:'' '''''Guerra de Bestias''''' (America, "War of Beasts")
*''Vietnamese:'' '''''Chiến tranh quái vật vũ trụ''''' ("Galaxy Monster Wars")

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

==External Links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvMHCfwLXJRY9qbKc_vAhzdamCZ3OXLa2 Complete ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' playlist] on YouTube
*[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhWipIfRhqz0stsLo2v9If0qbNDVfoSrY "Beast Wars Super Lifeform Transformers" playlist] on TakaraTomy's YouTube channel (JP only)

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{{disambig2|female Transformers in general|the Autobot resistance group led by Elita One|Female Autobots}}
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[[File:Synergy-FemaleTFs.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]

Despite being robotic lifeforms with generally non-sexual methods of [[reproduction]], the [[Transformer]] species has almost always been shown to include both male and female gender analogues, at least mentally if not physically.

'''Female Transformers''' were originally depicted as an anomaly, specifically called out as either a thought-to-be-extinct subgroup or simply never existing in the first place. (Thanks, 1980s! Always so sensitive!) But over the course of decades, while they are still comparatively rare, they have increased greatly in numbers, prominence and overall fairness of representation, and are considered an official part of the [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]] in pretty much every continuity. Nowadays, female Transformers are basically considered a normal part of the Cybertronian population.

There's still a long way to go, since they ARE still pretty dang rare compared to the "guys" and as [[Mairghread Scott]] pointed out, this can inadvertently make any given female Transformer and their stories seem like a comment on real women.<ref>[http://mscottwrites.tumblr.com/post/71325530812/what-are-your-thoughts-on-the-idw-arcee-origin-that Shotgun Mermaid (Mairghread Scott's tumblr), December 27 2013]: specifically, arguing that IDW Arcee being driven insane by her gender change can imply the women-are-hysterical stereotype "because she is the ONLY women [sic]" in the story, being one of the few female Autobots in G1 at all.</ref> That's part of a ''way'' bigger argument for gender equality in entertainment and society at large that's a bit beyond this wiki's scope to fully explore.

A '''[[list of female Transformers]]''' from all continuities is available.

{{quote|Well, I remember bringing up that question early on with Hasbro, "are any of these female?" And then I think Hasbro's attitude was, "this is a boy toy. We don't wanna have, you know, girl robots." So, I said, "OK, just want to clarify that."|[[Bob Budiansky]]|[http://rustingcarcass.yuku.com/topic/954 Rusting Carcass interview]}}

==Fandom and Terminology==
Almost assuredly as a consequence of their rarity in official fiction and toylines, female Transformers are popular in [[fan fiction]], where the term "'''femme'''" is often used to describe them, with "'''mech'''"<ref>While "femme" obviously is related to the French word for "woman", it's occasionally claimed that the use of "mech" as a name for male Transformers is derived from "mec", the French word for "guy" or "dude". This is probably more coincidence than anything, though.</ref> likewise being applied to "male" Transformers. Both terms have recently appeared in a piece of official fiction: [[Venus (magazine)|Venus]] magazine. This is the first instance "mech" has been used to specifically refer to a male Transformer, whereas the term has been used as a gender-neutral common noun for Transformers in various stories.

Alternative words to denote a female Transformer, all used about twice in canon, include: '''femme-bot''',<ref>"Just imagine all the colony worlds: naive small planetoid femme-bots, unsuspecting targets, Unguarded Energon Reserves..." -[[Buzzsaw (Cybertron)|Buzzsaw]], "[[Force of Habit]]" p4 ([[2008]])</ref> '''fembot''',<ref>[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] refers to [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] as "Ya emasculatin' fembot!" after she cuts the tip from his tail/sword in "[[Nemesis Part 2]]", while ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] wonders in "[[Endgame, Part II]]" what chance he has in flying combat against the [[Lugnut Supreme|Lugnuts Supreme]] if he "couldn't handle [[Slipstream (Animated)|Starscream's fembot clone]]" on [[Endgame, Part I|his test run]].</ref> '''girl-bot'''<ref>"When we take over Cybertron, I'm gonna have a whole harem of girl-bots! Blue ones, red ones..." - [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]], "The Art of War issue 5"</ref> '''robot dame''',<ref>In [[This Is Why I Hate Machines]] Captain Fanzone refers to Arcee as a "robot dame in a room"</ref> and ''perhaps'' '''robotessa'''.<ref>In "[[Enter the Nightbird]]", "Robotessa" is the word missing from the line "Say good night to your [Robotessa], Megatron!"</ref>

==Appearance==
[[File:LegendsBusinessTrip11-heroladies.jpg|right|thumb|Elita didn't expect the Orthia auditions to have this big a turnout.]]
[[File:BMStrika.jpg|left|upright=0.95|thumb|The jury is still out whether Lugnut loves her more than Megatron.]]
The appearance of female Transformers in most continuities would seem to suggest a level of "sexual" dimorphism is present in at least the more humanoid members of the Transformers species (the term sexual is used in a gender-based, rather than physical sense, see the reproduction link above for that whole kettle of robo-fish). In almost all cases female Transformers are portrayed as comparatively more graceful of form, and more rounded and curved in general, than their male counterparts. Often they have a more than passing resemblance to a slender human female made of metal and wearing armor and [[kibble]].

There are exceptions to this rule. Characters with toys could have been bulky and less overtly human-female-like, which was seen in the [[Unicron Trilogy]] series and some latter expansions of the [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] series out of Japan, when the characters are often assigned to pre-existing "masculine" toys. Perhaps the best counter-example of this type is [[Strika (BM)|Strika]], who is female yet neither looks nor acts stereotypically feminine at all. This, however, has dropped away in more recent years as toy technology changes. Numerous female characters from the [[Aligned continuity family|Aligned]] and [[Movie (franchise)|Movie]] lines would turn into motorbikes, giving them thinner, daintier dimensions in robot mode. There are some exceptions, most notably the recently introduced [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] and her distinctly boxy shape.

The main real-world reason for all this can be seen from [[IDW Publishing]]'s plans to introduce more women in 2014. Plans were afoot to make two look less visually 'female' and more like "the default Cybertronian design" so readers wouldn't know they were female until their dialogue. That was dropped to make it more visually clear that ''these'' were the female characters.<ref>[http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2015/02/26/james-roberts-on-idws-transformers-more-that-meets-the-eye/ Women Write About Comics: "James Roberts on IDW’s Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye" 10:00 - 11:21]</ref> Humans are just conditioned to associate certain looks like certain genders. When the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' dubbers wanted to make a male character into a female one, it's probably not a surprise that they went with [[Override (Cybertron)|the (relatively) sleek racing car]].<ref>[http://www.camphortree.net/tf/tidbits/botcon2005.txt Steve-o Stonebraker's BotCon 2005 Notes, Version 2 at his Transformers site]</ref>

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==Fiction==
===Generation 1===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
[[File:G1femmes.jpg|upright=2.5|thumb|"Good morning, Angels".]]
Within this continuity, female Transformers are a rarity, but established to have been around from the species' start. A female named [[Beta (G1)|Beta]] existed back in the slave days under [[Quintesson]] rule, and thus it seems clear females were produced alongside the males as part of the Quintessons' product lines.

No female individuals were explicitly shown to exist among the Decepticon ranks, although the introduction of [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]] and implications of an eventual upgrade didn't raise any questions or remarks, suggesting that female Decepticons exist (or that the Decepticons royally don't care about a soldier's gender).

[[The Search for Alpha Trion|27 episodes after Nightbird's appearance]], female Transformers were introduced formally through the [[Female Autobots]]. [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] at various points expresses surprise they aren't extinct, which would seem to imply females were thought to be no longer part of the Cybertronian race. While at the time a decent (though certainly not perfect) explanation for the scarce appearances of female Transformers, it didn't stop more from showing up in the movie and season 3. Possibly Shockwave's "statement" could be considered as [[retcon]]ned and overwritten, or one of the following explanations applies:
# They were all built/"discovered" after the events of "The Search for Alpha Trion".
# Shockwave constantly calls them Autobots, never Transformers or Cybertronians. It is possible female [[Neutral]]s' (and the aforementioned female [[Decepticon]]s') existence was never thought over... and that none of them changed allegiance any time recently.
# "Female Autobot" is not used as a description, but as the team's name.
# This is the Generation 1 cartoon. You're not watching it for the flawless storytelling.

Females can be seen here and there among the [[Junkion (species)|Junkion tribe]], mostly sharing [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]'s model. [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] has a "[[Nancy|Junkion lady]]" companion according to "[[The Big Broadcast of 2006 (episode)|The Big Broadcast of 2006]]". Just how relationships function in this isolated, media-based Transformers society is unclear, although it's notable that Wreck-Gar and his lady friend "slept" sitting up next to each other on giant thrones between television broadcast cycles. The lady's character model is actually that of a female [[Lithone (species)|Lithone]], another mechanical race, but whether this is meaningful in any way or simple model recycling is uncertain.

In [[Misconceptions and urban legends about Transformers#European Generation 1 fiction|the French dub]] of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' (but not in the TV series), both [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] were referred to as female, with [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] calling Starscream "une imbecile" at one point (French articles are gendered), and Shrapnel referred to as "Mademoiselle". The reason for this gender-switch was never fully explained, though it is possible that Starscream's and Shrapnel's rather high-pitched voices were mistaken for women's voices.
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====''Super-God Masterforce''====
[[File:Esmeral-manga.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Even murderous space chickens have a special one.]]
A female Transformer was created through the introduction of [[Minerva (Masterforce human)|Minerva]] to the ranks of the [[Headmaster Junior]]s. The [[transtector]] she was bonded to [[A Battle... and Then...|eventually]] evolved into a being of ''her'' own.

Meanwhile, the [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]] [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] existed out of two humans before becoming sapient: husband [[Giga]] and wife [[Mega]]. Despite the double gender, Overlord is regarded a "he".

====''Victory''====
In the manga, [[Decepticon]] females make their first (yet still to this day rare) appearance in official fiction as [[Esmeral (Victory)|Esmeral]] ([[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deszaras]]'s wife) and [[Lyzack (Victory)|Lyzack]] ([[Leozack]]'s [[Relatives|sister]]). Both show up to show the Autobots just what it is Deszaras and his crew have been fighting for all this time: their poor families back home. This spares the Decepticons' lives in the final battle between the two forces. This certainly casts an odd light on the matter of Transformer [[reproduction]] (and on [[Masumi Kaneda|the manga author]]).

Meanwhile, in the animated series, the [[Micromaster]] [[Holi]] is shown to have a girlfriend on the planet [[Micro]], [[Clipper (Victory)|Clipper]].

====''Operation Combination''====
''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (franchise)|Operation Combination]]'' introduced a total of 24 Micromasters, none of which got a [[bio]]. Ten years later, ''[[The Transformers: Micromaster|Micromaster]]'' did provide them, and the Micromasters [[Windy (OC)|Windy]] and [[Discharge (OC)|Discharge]] were established as female.

====Marvel Comics continuity====
[[File:Nomates.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|And what will happen is like this.]]
No female ''Transformers'' are ever seen or referred to in the US stories. In "[[Recipe for Disaster!]]", [[Cloudburst]] is pressured into a relationship with the beautiful [[First One]] of [[Femax]], but he explains that Transformers, as a species, have "no gender". Despite this, male robots are clearly demonstrated as the de-facto norm. They are coded as male, using pronouns and designs depicting what is typically considered "masculine".

The letters page for #53, where "Recipe" ran, further stated that Transformers have no gender and that they use gendered terms because they picked it up from us, and "most have characteristics that are commonly associated with males" while a rare number like [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] have traits we'd associate with women.<ref>"Transformers have no gender! Since the Transformers do not reproduce sexually, they have no need to be male or female. Most have characteristics that are commonly associated with males, so they are referred to as “he’s”. On a rare occasion, one might come across as female and is referred to as a “she”. Arcee fits into this latter category, but referring to themselves as “he’s” and “she’s” is a convention the Transformers probably picked up from hanging around Earthlings too long."</ref>

[[File:Arceeprimesrib.jpg|right|upright=1.3|thumb|You can't shoot Squeezeplay just because he's a bloke.]]

Furman didn't have that letters page and came up with an alternative explanation for Arcee, who'd appeared in UK's post-[[The Transformers: The Movie|film]] future stories. As detailed in "[[Prime's Rib!]]", she was intentionally created by the Autobots in 1995 to be the sole female Transformer in an attempt to placate [[human]] [[feminist mob|feminists]]. (See her picture above for a hint of how well that went over.)

In "[[Ladies' Night (issue)|Ladies' Night]]" and "Prime's Rib", the Autobots don't 'get' gender or humanity's gender relations and sterotypes. This lasted two minutes once Arcee was created: Optimus asked Arcee to hang back, she grumped about men, and Hot Rod went "phwoar!". In "Prime's Rib" this is played for laughs but in "[[Space Pirates!]]", Rodimus Prime can be ambushed by wanting to help Arcee first.

Despite the Transformers having 'no gender', the Marvel continuity was actually the first in introducing a female ''Cybertronian'': [[Aunty]], the onboard computer of the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', who was introduced in [[The Transformers (issue)|the very first issue]]. "[[Raiders of the Last Ark]]" gave her a feminine holographic 'face'.

The [[Letters page (Marvel UK)|UK letter pages]] mentioned another two female Transformers: Decepticon Powermaster [[Clio]] and presumed Autobot [[Karmen]], who is Blaster's sister. Provided they are real and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] didn't just make them up, they're unlikely to have been built à la Arcee (unless the 'Cons ''really'' care about gender representation) and could be taken as falling under that 'characteristics' approach. Or the 'Blaster' staffer didn't care.

Two continuations of Marvel would introduce female Transformers. [[BotCon]]'s ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' fiction, while not including the UK material, introduced [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] in "[[Games of Deception]]", in a manner similar to UK Arcee; and in Furman's ''[[The Transformers: Regeneration One|Regeneration One]]'', [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] is the first of the second generation of Transformers.

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====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
According to DK's ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'' (written by Simon Furman), "Transformers are inherently non-gender specific, and only some quirk of their timelost origins can account for [female Transformers'] difference in appearance and attitude." [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] was [[Unreleased Dreamwave issues|in the process]] of introducing more female Transformers and explicating their links to the Quintessons in this continuity when it went out of business.

====2005 IDW continuity====
[[File:Spotlight Arcee cvrB.jpg|left|upright=1.2|thumb|Information: you are ALL going to DIE.]]

{{quote|what do 'he' and 'she' pronouns connote in a TF context? Do they connote *exactly* the same things as they do in a human context? I don't know. It hasn't been properly explored yet. All that said, let's assume that a Transformer who adopts a particular personal pronoun is doing so for the same reasons that a human would.|James Roberts [http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sj9u8i on TwitLonger]}}

IDW comics are aimed at older readers, so this is where it gets complicated.

Originally [[Simon Furman]] stated that he would not use female Transformers in the IDW continuity until he came up with a reason for them to exist that made logical sense to him. He did not rule out doing so, as he said he had found a similar justification for the [[Pretender]]s, which led to the ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]'' miniseries. Certainly, however, Transformers do not necessarily identify with the genders of other species while selecting a suitable [[holomatter|holomatter avatar]], under Furman's pen or otherwise; [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]], for instance, adopted the countenance of a {{w|Lindsay Lohan}} lookalike, while [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]] once replicated his one-time [[human]] traveling partner [[Verity Carlo]]. (The only time anyone treated this as unusual is when Magnus's companions wondered why the legendarily-uptight cop specifically chose the freewheeling ''Verity'' as a template.)

The subject of Cybertronian gender first came to the fore for the first time in in "[[Spotlight: Arcee]]", which presented the [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|eponymous character]] as a product of the mad science of [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]; as presented in the issue itself, he had forcibly experimented on Arcee in a Frankensteinian attempt to introduce gender to the species, a process that involved directly tampering with the [[CNA]] of his subject. The experiment did not leave Arcee with the warmest of feelings towards Jhiaxus, and when the scientist abandoned his creation, she began a vengeful rampage that cut a swathe across the galaxy. This... did not sit well with quite a few people, wondering just what all this was saying about women, transgender or otherwise.

[[File:Windblade2coverplain.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|[[:File:MarvelUS-19.jpg|You Asked For Her - You GOT Her]]!]]

When [[James Roberts]] and [[John Barber]] took the reins of the universe in early [[2012]], they repeatedly considered adding more female Transformers into the universe as early as "[[Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime]]", which would have seen feminine Transformers among the waves of [[NAIL]] refugees. For one reason or another, these plans fell through and were indefinitely shelved until 2014,<ref>John Barber Q&A at TFCon 2017</ref> when Hasbro introduced a new <s>toy</s> female Transformer called [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] and a [[The Transformers: Windblade|tie-in IDW comic advertising the character.]] Writer [[Mairghread Scott]] made it clear that Windblade's femininity would not be accidental, nor would it be the product of a sinister experiment.<ref>[http://mscottwrites.tumblr.com/post/71211861958/hey-congrats-on-the-new-comic-i-voted-for-a-lady-robot Scott's tumblr: "That’s not how it works for biological women on Earth and that’s not how it’s gonna work on Cybertron. Anybody has a problem with that, you know where I am."]</ref> (This led to [[Spotlight: Arcee#Trivia|a brief conflict]] as Furman initially read this as a personal attack on his work.) Windblade's arrival was used as leverage to double the number of girls to a shocking ''four'' as her friends Chromia and new Autobot [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] showed up with her in [[Burning Bright: Dark Cybertron Chapter 8|Chapter 8]] of the ''[[Dark Cybertron (IDW)|Dark Cybertron]]'' crossover.

The IDW comic initially established that Windblade and her female compatriots hailed from the Cybertronian colony of [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], long cut off from their ancestral homeworld; originally, as presented in [[A 'Bot and Her City|the first issue]] of ''[[The Transformers: Windblade]]'', the existence of gender on this distant world was treated as a form of {{w|allopatric speciation}} in this isolated culture. Barber and Scott both worked together on developing Caminus' background to avoid falling into the opposite stereotype of a woman-only planet, emphasizing that on Caminus, Transformers of both genders peacefully coexisted.<ref>John Barber Q&A at TFCon 2017</ref> However, it didn't take long before the various IDW series together revealed the truth: Cybertron ''did'' once possess a population of female Transformers, but had somehow changed over the interim, leaving Caminus and other lost colonies, such as [[Prion (planet)|Prion]] and [[Eukaris]], to carry on this ancient aspect of Transformer society. Shortly afterwards, [[Onyx Interface Part Three: ONoffON|issue #37]] of ''Robots in Disguise'' revealed-slash-retconned that Jhiaxus's experiments were meant to ''restore'' this lost element of Cybertronian civilization. The [[All That Remains|finale]] of the ''[[Combiner Wars (comic)|Combiner Wars]]'' comic confirmed that female Transformers were alive and well on the rest of the colonies, and [[An Uneventful Night|the ''Combiner Wars'' coda comic]] introduced an all-female [[combiner]] [[Victorion]] and her six components, bringing the number of female combiners up to a grand total of [[Heavy Metal (SL)|two]].<ref>Some female characters such as [[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]] serve as combiner components, although the resulting personality identifies itself as a male.</ref>

[[File:DanceAmongTheShadows-butyoudontbelieve.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Pyra, meanwhile, is severly disappointed at those who showed up for the Victorion tryouts.<ref>[[Pyra Magna]], [[Skyburst (G1)|Skyburst]], [[Rust Dust]], [[Stormclash]], [[Jumpstream]] and [[Dust Up]] are new members of the all-female [[Torchbearer]] team,. while [[Aileron]] is an entirely new character. Other continuity-jumping new arrivals alongside mainstay Transformer female [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]] include [[Roulette (Universe)|Roulette]] and [[Slide]]; the latter is an odd case where the character had been previously depicted as male. Even so, that's ten girls to eight boys - a new record!</ref>]]

At this point, post-''Combiner Wars'' and with the colonies giving an easy-out, female Transformers became just 'a thing' and were frequently added as nothing special. Existing G1 characters like [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] and Elita One (including backgrounders [[Greenlight]] and [[Lancer]]), previously non-G1 characters like [[Override (BWU)|Override]] and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]], new ones like [[Nickel]] (the first female Decepticon in IDW) and [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]], and previously male characters like [[Slide]] have all shown up.

What, if indeed anything, separates female Transformers from their male counterparts in this universe is not clear. ''Spotlight: Arcee'' established that "male" Transformers could instinctually sense a "difference" about Arcee, and unconsciously used feminine pronouns when referring to her, though it's not clear if this is the product of Jhiaxus's experimentation or some kind of natural ability. [[Twenty Plus One|Issue #31]] of ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' initially described [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] as having an "estriol-positive" [[spark]]-type, (no doubt based off the {{w|Estriol|female hormone of the same name}}) but author [[James Roberts]] opted to change this to "ferrum-positive" in the trade paperback, after deciding it was unnecessary and "potentially offensive" to imply that female and male bots were fundamentally different.<ref>[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/12/18/no-little-bots-james-roberts-retcons-estriol-female-transformers/ Bleeding Cool: "No Little ‘Bots? James Roberts Retcons ‘Estriol’ In Female Transformers"]</ref>

[[File:AfterMegatron-AnodeAndLug.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|right|DAWW]]

Despite all of these developments, various artists have freely thrown in a variety of female characters in background cameos, even in instances where these female Transformers couldn't have existed on Cybertron. Most notably, ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin]]'' featured a particularly high number of such cameos, including [[Crasher (G1)|Crasher]], [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]], [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]], and various [[generic]]s. James Roberts teased the possibility of transgender Transformers for some years,<ref>[http://positronicwoman.tumblr.com/post/87833950888/you-guysssssssss Roberts on the possibility of transgender Transformers on Twitter]</ref> before finally using the concept to explain these cameos in otherwise incompatible situations. Occasionally, Cybertronians, such as those members of the off-world [[Primal Vanguard]], would encounter gendered aliens, with some choosing to adopt female pronouns (and, occasionally, body-types) after feeling that they fit them better. From this revelation, we got [[Anode]] and her partner [[Lug (IDW)|Lug]]: the first two definitively, canonically, transgender Transformer characters. Around this time, ''Robots in Disguise'' author John Barber would delve deeper into Arcee's original backstory, dropping several hints that Arcee had, at least to some extent, consented to Jhiaxus's gender experiments due to identity issues of her own; the [[Post|final issue]] of the original IDW universe would eventually confirm that she, too, had always been transgender, and that she had deliberately sought the services of Jhiaxus, not seeing the mad scientist for what he was, to help her transition.

====Ask Vector Prime====
[[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|Cy-Kill]] considered female Cybertronians to be little more than "window dressing" considering what a big deal [[You|some people]] made of them as opposed to female [[GoBot]]s who were an equal, and essential, part of Cy-Kill's various evil plans. {{storylink|Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric (2), 12 January 2016}}

====2019 IDW continuity====
[[File:TF2019 22 cvrA clean.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
As a result of changing attitudes in both the ''Transformers'' fandom and the real-world pop culture landscape, the [[Transformers (2019 comic)|2019 comic reboot]] has largely done away with the convoluted [[retcon]]s and leaps of logic necessary to increase inclusion of female Transformers in the later years of its predecessor, choosing to instead depict female Cybertronians of all shapes and sizes as an accepted, normal part of Cybertronian civilization.

Female Cybertronians constitute a large percentage of this continuity's ensemble cast. Both Windblade and Chromia return as major characters; new female characters introduced to the mythos include [[Termagax]], [[Leviathan (G1)|Leviathan]], [[Codexa]], [[Accelerator]], and [[Gauge]]. Meanwhile, [[Slipstream (G1)|Slipstream]], [[Shadow Striker (G1)|Shadow Striker]], and [[Strongarm (BWU)|Strongarm]] make the leap from other continuities to recurring roles in G1-based media. The same can be said for previously-obscure G1 characters [[Vibes]] and [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]].

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===Beast Era===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
[[File:CrossingtheRubicron-newbody.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Original spider joke or perish, Silverbolt.]]

Female Transformers seem to be common here, with no one showing any surprise over their presence. [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] both engage in romances with male [[Maximal]]s, the former blatantly and the latter far more subtly. [[Transmutate (BW)|Transmutate]] is genderless but [[Transmutate (episode)#Notes|deliberately given "a face that vaguely indicates it is female" in script]]. (Airazor was made female by the writer's insistence.) Some male Transformers, such as [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] and [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]], possess [[beast mode]]s based off eusocial insects that would be biologically female, though this does not seem to affect their gender identity.

[[File:BA Silverbolt Agenda3.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|left|"I tried to commit genocide four episodes ago."]]

[[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] has an old-school human-style view of women as a fairer and more vulnerable gender, as he refuses to fight Blackarachnia out of <s>lust</s> chivalry.{{storylink|Tangled Web}} {{storylink|Bad Spark}} Most of the other Transformers seem unconcerned about this but [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] sees it as part of his nobility. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}} Blackarachnia herself used to find it ''bloody annoying'', beating up Silverbolt to try and get him to fight back already. {{storylink|Bad Spark}} She is eventually won over when he keeps following her and telling her what she's really like when she yells at him to go away. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}} {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}} Some Transformers have another old-school human view, considered those strange fillies to be quite inscrutable: [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] and [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] being two. {{storylink|Tangled Web}}

For the purposes of humour, over the course of the show characters will make innuendos that suggest that, at least by that era, there may have been something sex-like between Transformers. [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] dismays Blackarachnia with teenage slobbering, {{storylink|Crossing the Rubicon}} she flirts with him regarding his body for info, {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 2}} [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] is blunt that he knows Tarantulas had "ulterior motives" for making her a spider, {{storylink|Double Jeopardy}} Blackarachnia is involved in a castration joke... {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}

Boy, they sure like doing this with Blackarachnia. Odd that.

Throughout the show [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] makes ''numerous'' innuendos, especially involving Silverbolt and Blackarachnia's relationship, including the rather seedy "find any new ''positions''?" after Silverbolt's been scouting the enemy (cough). {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}} He also makes references to a bar on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] where the wait-staff go "without their torso-plates on"... which frankly sounds like it'd be really messy. He didn't want young Cheetor to overhear this. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}}

====''Beast Wars II'' cartoon====
[[Scylla]] is the impetus for a big ridiculous love triangle of hilarity and embarrassment in both the anime and manga continuities. She is in love with the squid-bot [[Scuba]], who wants nothing to do with her. Meanwhile, the Maximal [[Bighorn]] is in love with Scylla, who wants nothing to do with him.

The non-Transformer female robot [[Artemis]] harbors a crush on both Scuba (poor guy) and [[Starscream (BWII)|Starscream]].

====''Beast Wars Neo'' comic====
The young Maximal [[Stampy (BWN)|Stampy]] has a [[Kitte Shūshū|mother]]. The actual genetics of this was not explained, but we also see a picture of a rabbit with a mustache on the wall behind her, implying a father and sexual reproduction. Just how in the hell an entire planet-wide race of breeding rabbit-robots arose from [[Tasmania Kid]], who was a Tasmanian devil, is ''also'' never explained.

Later, it was explained and it very much was sexual reproduction. {{storylink|Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter}}

====2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity====
In the spin-off comics, [[Manta Ray (BW)|Manta Ray]] and [[Sonar (BW)|Sonar]] are female Transformers, though the latter was previously established in the [[3H Productions]] [[Transformers: Universe (comic)|''The Wreckers'' comic]]. Neither character was specifically given a gender in their toy bios and this was seized upon as a way to get extra women in.

====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] and [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] end up in a romantic relationship towards the end of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' ("So, I'm a tree-hugger!" Rattrap remarks). What this means for his bar-hopping days is never explored. Innuendo makes a big return when [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] and Rattrap argue about whether he'd rather insert his tail into a computer or be "plowing your little field of dreams". {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}} Yeah.

[[File:Sparkofdarkness-strikacloseup.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|Of course I haven't seen 'The Dark Knight Rises', why do you ask?]]

The [[Vehicon general]] [[Strika (BM)|Strika]] is referred to as the "consort" of [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]], and has been serving by his side, seemingly as an equal, for centuries. Some have taken this to mean the two have a romantic interest in each other, but the show itself does not offer any hints to this. This is the first time in Transformers fiction where a female robot has a high rank; where Elita One got to run a small rebel group, we're told Strika is a famous officer who has overseen and won numerous wars. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike}}

Story editor [[Bob Skir]] also wanted main character [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] to be a young female Transformer, patterned after the girl "Newt" from the movie ''{{w|Aliens (film)|Aliens}}''. (When the Powers That Be nixed that, Nightscream ended up becoming{{w|John Connor}} in ''{{w|Terminator 2: Judgment Day}}'' instead.)<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071202095033/http://bigbot.com/beast-machines-transformers-bob-skir/Beast-Machines-FAQ/Fri_03_Dec_1999.html Bob Skir Q&A 3 December 1999] (archive copy)</ref> This would've given us a Transformers cartoon with a shocking ''four'' female main characters out of sixteen speaking bots!

===''Robots in Disguise'' (2001)===
Female Transformers are seemingly rare in the [[Viron]] [[Universal stream|universal cluster]] as none appear on-screen, if one doesn't count the female Cybertronian intelligence computer, [[T-AI]]. We know they have gender and gender relations due to both the aforementioned T-AI and [[Side Burn (RID)|Side Burn's]] obsessive lust for red sports cars. He was even able to plausibly pretend he had old girlfriend cars in "[[Sideburn's Obsession]]", only getting tripped up by lying it was on Earth.

In 2015, [[Ask Vector Prime]] said that the [[Spy Changer]] [[Optimus Prime (RID)#Spy Changer continuity|Optimus Prime]] from [[Viron 1103.12 Gamma]], and thus [[Scourge (RID)#Spy Changer continuity|Scourge]], as well as the [[Nightcruz (RID)|Nightcruz]] from [[Viron 102.0 Beta]], were female.

===Unicron Trilogy===
[[File:Linkage7 Twirl-Baby.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|But she's got your altmode!]]
The existence of female Transformers throughout the [[Unicron Trilogy]] is portrayed as slightly uncommon (it is a fiction aimed at young boys, after all), but hardly remarkable. They just exist, as do "males", and no special attention is called to them. Quite a few appear in various places in "[[Joyride (Cybertron)|civilian]]" roles, as [[Autobot nurse|nurses]], and even on [[Velocitron band|colony worlds]].

There are examples and hints of romantic interest between males and females in both ''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' ([[Redline]] and [[Falcia]] in the [[Linkage (comic)|''Linkage'' comics]], plus [[Nightscream (Armada)|Nightscream]]'s eagerness to appease and defend his [[Bulk]] partner [[Airazor (Armada)|Airazor]]), and ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' stories (most obviously [[Thunderblast (Decepticon)|Thunderblast]]'s intense infatuation with [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]], [[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack's]] secret crush on [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]], plus [[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] reportedly has an unnamed "fembot life partner" lost somewhere on [[Earth]]). This too is treated as a fairly common event.

[[File:Cyb ep6 overrides challenge.jpg|left|thumb|225px|''Why do robots have to have gender?'' thought Override. ''Bloody masculinists.'']]

There are female Transformers in positions of very high power as well: in the [[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|''Energon'' cartoon]], [[Arcee (Energon)|Arcee]] is the leader of the entire [[Omnicon]] race, while in ''Cybertron'', Override is the leader of the planet [[Velocitron]]. The Unicron Trilogy is the first ''Transformers'' continuity to explicitly ''give'' female Transformers that level of responsibility... but the only other one (so far) does so via a ''direct'' analogue of ''Cybertron'' (see [[#Aligned|the "Aligned" continuity]] below for more on that).

However, in the original Japanese, Override (called Nitro Convoy) is a male Transformer. [[Cartoon Network]], the channel with the airing rights to the dub, felt it needed more female presence in the main cast and Override was chosen to change genders.<ref>[http://www.camphortree.net/tf/tidbits/botcon2005.txt Steve-o Stonebraker's BotCon 2005 Notes, Version 2 at his Transformers site]</ref>

In the French version of the ''Energon'' cartoon, Arcee is dubbed by a man. ''Why'' she was is currently unknown.
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===Live-action film series===
[[File:Arceemovie.jpg|thumb|Comic artists ''cry'' when they see this model sheet.]]

[[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] was originally going to be featured as part of the cast of the [[Transformers (film)|''Transformers'' film]], but was cut early on in the movie's development. The script writers felt they would need to explain the presence of a female in an entirely robotic race, and there was not enough time in the film to do so. Arcee was replaced in the movie by [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]. Even so, Arcee was featured in IDW's [[Transformers: Movie Prequel|''Movie Prequel'' comics]] and remains in the movie toyline as both Deluxe and Scout-class toys.

One other female Autobot is featured in the movie continuity family, another Scout-class toy, [[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-One]]. Both Elita and Arcee, however, are featured in [[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|Titan Magazine's]] alternate reality stories as regular characters, with Arcee getting more prominence. Both also appear in IDW's Movie Sequel comic series ''[[Transformers: The Reign of Starscream|The Reign of Starscream]]'', with Arcee playing quite a prominent leadership role. Surprisingly, Elita-One does not fare as well as her sister-in-arms, dying at the claws of [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] himself. Although it is unusual for a female Transformer to die in fiction ([[To sell toys|compared to how often Transformer death happens in general]]), it has [[Manta Ray (BW)|happened]] [[Sonar (BW)|before]].

As for Decepticons, [[Fracture (Movie)|Fracture]], based off of the aforementioned Crasher, was recently added to the end of the movie toyline as a Wal-mart exclusive. She has been featured in Titan Magazine's comics, as of issue 18, and in IDW's ''[[Transformers: Alliance|Alliance]]'' series as of issue 3.

After Titan's first volume, the female characters were seen less and less. When a reader asked why in [[Transformers Comic issue 3.4|#4 of the third volume]], editor [[Rona Simpson]] broke character in the letters page and admitted: "This is something we would love to change, but for the moment, the 'mech' figures are more popular and our hands are tied."

In the Tyran cluster seem possible the romantic relationships between male and female robots; an example are [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and the aforementioned Elita. [[David Reeve]] (in the [[Transformers: Bumblebee Movie Prequel|IDW's prequel comics]]) refers to [[Diabla (BB)|Diabla]] as [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]'s girlfriend. Although Bee seems to deny the relationship, their past together on Cybertron and Bumblebee's impetous rage after realizing Diabla's death, allow to intend the exact opposite.

In all the comics where female Transformers do appear in the Movie continuity, their gender is never considered an issue. This raises questions about just how necessary "explaining" them would be in [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|future]] [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|movies]].

And apparently, two years later gender was no longer an issue at all, as ''Revenge of the Fallen'' featured [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]], who now inexplicably existed in three separate bodies, as well as [[Alice (ROTF)|Alice]], a Decepticon [[Pretender]]. No comment was given on the subject of the characters' femininity. Frankly, not explaining Pretenders is a bigger oversight than not explaining robot gender.

''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'' introduces [[Quintessa (TLK)|Quintessa]], a female robot (and also the first female main antagonist) but none seem to be surprised. However, this could be explained by the (possibly) not-Cybertronian nature of Quintessa.

The prequel film ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' features a cameo appearance by Arcee in the first scenes of the movie, while [[Shatter]] has a bigger role as main antagonist.

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===''Animated''===
[[File:Animated females.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|Did you ever feel like the only original designs in a sea full of homages?]]
Female Transformers were present in ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' from the very beginning of the cartoon, starting with [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]]. What this meant for the state of females in the continuity at large was not immediately apparent; in "[[Along Came a Spider]]", both [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] and [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] expressed confusion as to ''what'' Blackarachnia was. Though they were referring to her [[Technorganic|partially organic]] nature, [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari]] jokes "Duh, she's a girl" as a nod to the rarity of female Transformers.

[[Image:Blackarachnia Venus Mag by BillForster.jpg|200px|thumb|right]]
As the series proceeded, multiple lady-bots were progressively introduced, among which were a [[Slipstream (Animated)|female clone]] of [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], the obligatory [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]] and many more. Although they remain distinctly outnumbered by the male Transformers, this makes it clear that while female Transformers may be relatively uncommon, they aren't considered very remarkable or noteworthy—unless you're a young, male Autobot who's spent ''waaaaayy'' too much time fixing space bridges.

Despite Optimus's confusion over where organic babies come from in "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", implying that there is no Cybertronian equivalent to [[Reproduction|sexual reproduction]] in ''Animated'', Transformer ''relationships'' are implied to be a possibility, as in "[[Along Came a Spider]]" and "[[Black Friday (episode)|Black Friday]]", respectively, Blackarachnia takes advantage of [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]'s and the [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobots]]' obvious interest in her, especially [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]]'s. There's also the fact that [[Strika (Animated)|Strika]] is said to be the "consort" of [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]].

[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]]'s role as the Autobot medical officer was originally supposed to be assigned to a character named [[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]], who was originally designed as a female, but then turned male. When brought in at the start of Season 3, Red Alert was female once again as an homage to the original design.

Because Sari was originally a Cybertronian protoform, she could be considered a female technorganic Transformer, although her origins were not revealed until Season 3.

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===''Shattered Glass''===
While in most universes the number of females on the side of good is significantly larger than the number on the side of evil, this universe has more evil ladies as a result of its status as a mirror universe. The first two introduced were [[Arcee (SG)|Arcee]] and [[Crasher (SG)|Crasher]]—an (evil) Autobot and a (good) Decepticon respectively—but since then the balance has tilted.

It would seem that female Transformers in this universe are as they are in most: few in numbers, but nothing remarkable. Crasher appeared bewildered when [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (who hails from a [[#Generation 1 Marvel Comics continuity|Marvel Comics-derived universe]]) tried to tell her that he thought her feminine shape was unusual, and no one else seems to regard the females as something noteworthy.

===Aligned continuity family===
[[File:Arcee-Prime-stock render-toy packaging.jpg|thumb|right|170px|But ignore all the names we're listing, cos 50% of all female appearances are Arcee.]]

One-thirteenth of Cybertron's population identify as female, and are descended from [[Solus Prime]].<ref>According to [https://twitter.com/DiscFamilyDay/status/87976495074639872 @HubTVNetwork] and comments made at [[BotCon 2011]].</ref>

In ''[[Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus]]'', [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] expounds on the nature of gender among Cybertronians. He mentions that Transformers are technically asexual, but divide themselves into two distinct categories based on how they process information. He speculated that Solus Prime required this unique cognitive structure in order to properly utilize her [[Creation Lathe]]. Before making contact with gendered aliens, Cybertronians used a single pronoun to refer to all individuals. After taking a greater role in the galactic community, they began incorporating gendered pronouns into their culture, to demonstrate that they recognized and celebrated differences among themselves while maintaining their equality (here, Alpha Trion breaks the {{w|fourth wall}} to apologize to any readers who might feel insulted by Cybertron's 1:12 gender ratio).

Before the war, [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] worked with a female [[Arachnicon]] doctor named [[Cogwheel]]. The female Transformers [[Azimuth (COP)|Azimuth]] founded the [[Patterner]] movement. The leader of the [[Mutacon]]s is the female Transformer [[Mercury (COP)|Mercury]]. The ruler of [[Velocitron]], [[Override (Prime)|Override]], and the Decepticon soldier [[Slipstream (WFC)|Slipstream]] are also female. Additionally, [[Chromia (Prime)|Chromia]] and [[Firestar (Prime)|Firestar]] are leaders of underground cities which are destroyed when Cybertron is restored. [[Ser-Ket (Prime)|Ser-Ket]], a female member of the [[Forged]], was one of the main antagonists of the ''[[Transformers Prime: Rage of the Dinobots|Rage of the Dinobots]]'' miniseries. [[Ripclaw]] and [[Flamewar (Prime)|Flamewar]] were both toy-only female characters, their only fiction consisting of character bios or roles in prose stories packaged with toys. [[Elita One (COP)|Elita One]], [[Moonracer (COP)|Moonracer]], and [[Akiba Prime]] also exist in the Aligned continuity family as female Transformers.

====''Prime'' cartoon====
The only female Transformers portrayed as cast members are [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]]. Solus Prime is also mentioned whenever her [[Forge of Solus Prime|hammer]] shows up on screen, and was momentarily seen in a flashback. Showing up in [[Arms Micron Theater]] segments are [[Arc]], [[Arcee Blade]], and [[Ida]].

====''Transformers Online''====
''[[Transformers Online (2012 video game)|Transformers Online]]'' introduced numerous female Transformers for both factions. Yes, the Chinese MMO that lasted about a year, in the continuity family where female Transformers are canonically rare, introduced more female characters than any single other source in ''years''. Other than getting some minor details and anglicised names in ''Ask Vector Prime'', they've yet to be used by anyone else.

====''Transformers Universe''====
The Decepticons have the female warriors [[Astraea]], [[Diabla (Prime)|Diabla]], and [[Duststorm (Prime)|Duststorm]] on their side, while the Autobots have [[Cameo]] and [[Catapult]].

====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
The Autobot cadet [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] is a member of Bumblebee's team, with [[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]] later assisting the team. Among the many rogue Decepticons are [[Filch]], [[Slink]], and [[Zizza]], who sports a notably un-stereotypical body shape. Along with [[Glowstrike]], [[Cyberwarp]], and [[Skyjack (RID)|Skyjack]], this series boasts the highest number of female characters in a Transformers television show. The tie-in comic also introduced [[Retrofit]] and [[Overhead]], with [[Nightra]] showing up on screen.

===''Cyberverse''===
[[File:Slipstream after looking through Windblade's memories.jpg|thumb|200px]]
Much like ''Animated'', Female Transformers, namely [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]] and [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]], were present from the start of the continuity and were treated as nothing special by their male counterparts.

In a rather unique addition to the franchise, the [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seeker]] [[Acid Storm (Cyberverse)|Acid Storm]], traditionally a male character, would be depicted as swapping between a male and female appearance between episodes of the cartoon, with one of the show's writers, [[Mae Catt]], eventually declaring that the character was gender-fluid.
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==Toys==
[[File:Airazorbwtfmtoy1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Windblade stands on the extremely pointy shoulders of giants.]]

Though many female Transformers were featured in the fiction from the early days of ''Generation 1'', for many years they tended to either: a) not have toys made of them at all, or, b) for those very few that did get a release, end up as repaints of other molds clearly not designed with a female aesthetic in mind. Budiansky told you why that was up at the top there. There were [[Arcee (G1)/toys#Generation 1|three separate plans]] to have toys of Arcee during G1 and all three were scrapped.

''[[Transmetal]]'' [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] is the first Transformer toy designed to intentionally represent a female character that actually came out. Ironically, Airazor was written out of the show in the same year!

The big turning point for female characters came when Hasbro held a "Fan-Built Bot" programme in 2013. Gender was one of the things fans could choose and the fans voted "female", giving us [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]. This worked out well enough that Hasbro had another contest for [[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]] in 2015 and fans voted for female Tranformers again: this time ''six'' that made up the gestalt [[Victorion]].

Fans having chats with Hasbro people at conventions have mentioned one bar to more girl toys: they still don't sell as well. Large companies can also be skittish about changing the way they do things unless they're very sure the new way is more lucrative than the old way. Female Transformers selling more toys will beget new toys and, [[to sell toys|of course]], get more major characters in fiction. So go buy [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarms]].

==Notes==
{{quote|Could we/should we have done more, especially in the depiction of female Transformers? Almost certainly, but it was a different age and our audience was ninety-nine percent male.|Simon Furman, talking to Vice in 2016<ref>[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/comic-writer-simon-furman-discusses-three-decades-of-transformers-and-new-game-earth-wars-707 Vice interview on Earth Wars]</ref>}}
[[File:G1RatchetSexchange.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|On the other hand, maybe a medic who enjoyed getting skunked on tainted 40-weight [[oil]] wasn't the best example, either...]]
* We don't know the exact number of girls buying the comics back in the day but it was ''probably'' bigger than one percent.
* It's worth comparing the original G1 to ''[[GoBots]]'', its big competitor. Our very own [[Chromedome (G1)|tumblr]] crunched the numbers and found ''GoBots'' turns out to have more prominent female robots, all with toys, and we had to include [[Nancy]] to have the same ''number'' of talking fembots. That's right: the GoBots were ''better'' than G1 at something.<ref>[http://tfwiki.tumblr.com/post/112170089613/if-someone-asks-why-we-need-more-diverse TF Wiki Tumblr: If Someone Asks Why We Need More Diversity]</ref> More recent franchises lagging behind ''GoBots'' is even more depressing.
* Several modern writers have worked to get more women into the fiction, in particular Scott, Barber, and Roberts at IDW. [[Jim Sorenson]] openly stated he would work to get women into his fiction as often as he possibly could to tip the balance.<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055 Beast Wars Uprising AMA at Allspark]</ref>
* In the [[Shout! Factory]] Matrix of Leadership Special Edition DVD set, an interview with [[Bob Budiansky]] features close-ups of his original handwritten notes for several characters. Intriguingly, these notes refer to [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] as "her" and the Autobots' "go-to gal" for repairs. While this obviously was not the final direction the character took, it does show that female characters were being considered for inclusion in the cast before someone at Hasbro told Budiansky otherwise.
* In 2013, Hasbro ran a "Fan Built Bot" poll as part of the "[[Thrilling 30]]" celebration, in which fans chose between numerous options to "build" a brand new character-toy for the 30th anniversary retail line, and "male / female" was one of the options. "Female" [[Windblade (G1)|won!]]
* In 2015, another "Fan Built Bot" poll was held for the "[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]" toyline. Femmes won again and we got our first ever [[Torchbearer|all female combiner team!]]
* The ''[[Transformers: BotBots|BotBots]]'' toyline has the largest number of female characters by a ''very'' wide margin. As of Series 5, released barely a year and a quarter after the line's debut, 110 out of 332 characters are female, almost exactly one-third of the cast... and there's several characters who don't have published bios yet, or their bios lack gendered pronouns altogether, so who knows? Of course, ''BotBots'' has a few safeguards against the above-mentioned "they don't sell": the Bots mostly have very gender-neutral designs, and the bios are (mostly) published online rather than on the packaging.

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Biology]]
[[Category:Female Transformers| *]]
[[Category:Generation 1]]
[[Category:Transformer culture]]

Applejack

2021-01-16T07:40:14Z

RyuHane:

:''Applejack is a pony from the [[My Little Pony]] [[continuity family]].''
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==External links==
*[[Wikia:mlp:Applejack|Applejack]] at the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Wiki

[[Category:My Little Pony characters]]
[[Category:Ponies]]

Fluttershy

2021-01-16T07:39:58Z

RyuHane:

:''Fluttershy is a pony from the [[My Little Pony]] [[continuity family]].''
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==External links==
*[[Wikia:mlp:Fluttershy|Fluttershy]] at the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Wiki

[[Category:My Little Pony characters]]
[[Category:Ponies]]

Fluttershy

2021-01-16T07:16:45Z

RyuHane: Created page with "{{Stub}} ==External links== *Fluttershy at the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Wiki Category:My Little Pony characters Category:Ponies"

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==External links==
*[[Wikia:mlp:Fluttershy|Fluttershy]] at the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Wiki

[[Category:My Little Pony characters]]
[[Category:Ponies]]

Applejack

2021-01-16T07:15:40Z

RyuHane: Created page with "{{Stub}} ==External links== *Applejack at the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Wiki Category:My Little Pony characters Category:Ponies"

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==External links==
*[[Wikia:mlp:Applejack|Applejack]] at the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Wiki

[[Category:My Little Pony characters]]
[[Category:Ponies]]

Powered Convoy

2020-04-24T01:24:28Z

RyuHane: Fixing my own stupid typo.

{{faction|autobot|eliteguard}}
:''Powered Convoy is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:PoweredConvoyAnimated.jpg|right|thumb|300px|[[Mac|Hi, I'm a P.C.]]]]

Over 30 million [[Units of time|stellar cycles]] ago, '''Powered Convoy''' ascended to the rank of [[Magnus (rank)|Magnus]] and established [[Fortress Maximus (Animated)|Fortress Maximus]], which remains to this day the headquarters of the [[Elite Guard|Cybertron Elite Guard]]. Though '''P.C. Magnus''' led the Autobots for millions of stellar cycles, increased tensions between them and the growing Decepticon menace led to him being replaced by [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Prime]] 12 million stellar cycles ago.

==Notes==
*Powered Convoy was introduced in ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II]]''. His name and his appearance are based on the Japanese name and original colors of the toy that would become [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]].
*His head appears to be based on 2001 ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]].

[[Category:Almanac-only characters]]
[[Category:Animated Autobots]]
[[Category:Autobot leaders]]
[[Category:Elite Guard]]
[[Category:Convoys]]

Powered Convoy

2020-04-24T01:23:20Z

RyuHane: Adding to the Convoy category.

Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)/home video

2019-09-03T17:51:34Z

RyuHane: /* Beyond Home Entertainment */ Changing a dating mistake.

{{factions|dvd|australia}}

{{nav-cyberverse}}

==Australia==
===Beyond Home Entertainment===
*'''''Transformers: Cyberverse'' - "The Journey"''' ([[February 6]], [[2019]])
:Contains episodes 1-6: "[[Fractured]]" to "[[Megatron Is My Hero]]".
*'''''Transformers: Cyberverse'' - "Terminal Velocity"''' ([[April 3]], 2019)
:Contains episodes 7-12: "[[Cube (episode)|Cube]]" to "[[Teletraan-X (episode)|Teletraan-X]]".

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cyberverse}}
[[Category:Cyberverse (2018)| (cartoon)/home video]]
[[Category:Home video]]

Talk:The Misfits

2019-07-31T02:52:46Z

RyuHane:

==Notes==
Actually... considering Sinclair's said that the main SG universe is meant to be a mirror of the Classicsverse (with additions) I'm not sure the note is entirely worded correctly. I'm just not sure what the correct wording ''would'' be. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 16:09, 6 June 2010 (EDT)
:Trouble is, it shares almost nothing with the Classicsverse, and Earth at least is drawing very heavily from Sunbow cartoons. It's pretty referencelicious.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 16:41, 6 June 2010 (EDT)
:I'm not sure if Pete's word overshadows how the universe is ordered within the fiction itself. There's a whole lotta stuff in the SG stories that are not solely Marvel US-based, like its evil Vector Sigma and its evil Alpha Trion and its Demolishor and its Fred and Billy and so forth. It really feels like a mirror of Transformers as a whole. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 16:42, 6 June 2010 (EDT)
::Given my well-known position towards authorial intent, it should come as no surprise that I side with the evidence presented in the story over Mr. Sinclair's statements.--[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 16:43, 6 June 2010 (EDT)
:::Hell, Pete isn't even the author in this case.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 16:44, 6 June 2010 (EDT)
::::<nowiki>*</nowiki>shrug* Just putting it out there.
::::Though I think Walky's got the counterargument I'm more inclined to agree with. It may not be a Classicsverse mirror... but I don't think saying it's a Sunbowverse mirror is really any more accurate. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 16:51, 6 June 2010 (EDT)
:::::Alright, how's the new wording then?--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 16:53, 6 June 2010 (EDT)
::::::Works for me. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:14, 6 June 2010 (EDT)
So, should this be added to the Jem Properties category? [[User:RyuHane|RyuHane]] ([[User talk:RyuHane|talk]]) 22:52, 30 July 2019 (EDT)

Hawt Diggity

2019-01-20T06:04:03Z

RyuHane: Undo revision 1317054 by Riptide (talk)

{{factions|greasergang}}

:''Hawt Diggity is a member of the [[Greaser Gang]] from [[Transformers: BotBots|BotBots]].

[[File:HawtDiggity.jpg|thumb|right|300px|My sensors indicate you are, indeed, a weenie.]]

Some might call '''Hawt Diggity''' a showoff, but the truth of the matter is that she just ''loves'' to strut her stuff and entertain crowds. It's probably a good thing that the other BotBots appreciate her performances; as the superstar of the mall food court, she holds the record for "longest standing ovation" and "most likes." Perhaps its due to her affable nature, as she never misses the opportunity to pose with her fans for pictures.

==Toys==
===BotBots===
*'''Greaser Gang''' (8-pack, 2018)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Level'': '''1 Star'''

: Part of the first Series of ''[[Transformers: BotBots|BotBots]]'', Hawt Diggity is a 1-inch tall robot that converts into a hot dog and back.

: Hawt Diggity is also available in one of the "[[Greaser Gang]]" themed 8-packs, along with [[Arctic Guzzlerush]], [[Dr. Moggly]], [[Duderoni]], [[Frohawk]], [[Cuddletooth]], [[Lolly Licks]], and [[Lost Bots|Lost Bot]] [[Stinkeye Stapleton]].

*'''Jock Squad''' (8-pack, 2018)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Level'': '''1 Star'''

: Hawt Diggity is also available in one of the "[[Jock Squad]]" themed 8-packs, along with Arctic Guzzlerush, [[Batsby]], [[Sprinkleberry D'uhnut]], [[King Toots]], [[Major Lee Screwge]], [[Slappyhappy]], and Lost Bot [[Game Over]].

[[Category: Female Transformers]]
[[Category: Greaser Gang]]

Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity

2019-01-03T00:38:45Z

RyuHane:

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{{suite}}
[[File:EnergonPrime health and safety.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
He's big, he's brave, he's a red and blue truck, and he's the star of three massively overlong Japanese cartoons, so you can bet '''[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]''' needs his own page for his escapades in the [[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]]!
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==''Armada'' cartoon==
{{voiceactor|[[Garry Chalk]] (English), [[Tōru Ōkawa]] (Japanese)|[[Lu Jianyi]] (Chinese), [[Luis Miguel Perez]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Guilherme Briggs]] (Portuguese), [[Pierre-Peters Arnold]] (German), [[Niclas Ekholm]] (Swedish) [[Dariusz Odija]] (Polish), [[Alfredo Martínez]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Sepuh Apikian]] (Armenian), [[Pekka Lehtosaari]] (Finnish), [[Massimo Lodolo]] (Italian)}}

[[File:FirstEncounter Prime.jpg|left|thumb|He's part Optimus Prime, part [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], part [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] and all Optimus Prime.]]

[[MYA|Millions of years ago]], a young Optimus Prime fought with a great Decepticon warrior known as [[Scavenger (Armada)|Scavenger]]. So frequent were their clashes, and so familiar were they to each other, the pair eventually became friends, and Scavenger signed up with the Autobots. Seeing great potential in the young [[Autobot]], Scavenger taught Optimus Prime how to fight in hand-to-hand combat. {{storylink|Trust (Armada)|Trust}} Ascending to the position of Autobot leadership, Optimus led his armies against the [[Decepticon]]s in the war for the [[Mini-Con]]s, until the small robots expressed a desire to leave the planet, hoping they could take the war with them. Optimus and the Autobots helped the Mini-Cons escape Cybertron aboard [[Exodus (Armada)|a spaceship]], but the war on Cybertron raged on even without them. {{storylink|Prehistory}}

[[File:Base optimus brofist.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|Every one of you deserves a medal!]]

A million years later, in the year 2010, a beacon from the planet [[Earth]] alerted the Transformers on Cybertron to the fact that the Mini-Cons had reawakened there. {{storylink|First Encounter}} Optimus Prime led a small Autobot unit consisting of [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (specifically chosen for the mission by Prime due to the recent loss of his friend [[Wheeljack (Armada)|Wheeljack]] {{storylink|Past II}}) and [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] to the planet, leaving his [[second-in-command]] [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] in charge of the Autobot forces on Cybertron. {{storylink|Prehistory}} Prime departed for Earth via [[space bridge]], appearing on the planet only moments behind his arch-foe, Decepticon leader [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Megatron]]. {{storylink|First Encounter}} Optimus immediately engaged Megatron in battle, buying time for the villain's three human targets—[[Rad White]], [[Carlos Lopez]], and [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]]—and the Mini-Con they had befriended, [[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]], to escape. Megatron and Optimus's troops proceeded to warp in to join the battle, but the Decepticons soon retreated, and both sides were left to set up bases and scan [[alternate mode]]s in order to begin their search for Mini-Cons. The three children, now having awakened the entire [[Street Action Mini-Con Team]], were the Decepticons' first targets, but Optimus and the Autobots came to their rescue again. {{storylink|Metamorphosis (Armada)|Metamorphosis}} Optimus used his Super Mode's firepower to see the Decepticons off, and brought the children back to the Autobots' base to explain the history of the Transformers and their mission on Earth. {{storylink|Base}}

[[File:Comrade optimus and sparkplug.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4]|Now I can begin my Poké--... I mean Mini-Con adventure!]]

Soon afterward, a Mini-Con activation signal drew the Autobots and Decepticons to the [[Grand Canyon]], where Prime found himself outmatched by Megatron thanks to the additional power of the Decepticon's Mini-Con partner. Thanks to an intervention from the Street Action Team in their combined form of [[Perceptor (Armada)|Perceptor]], Optimus was able to activate the Mini-Con panel, revealing that its occupant was his old Mini-Con partner and friend, [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]]. Powerlinked together, they activated Optimus's powerful Maximum Blast which sent the Decepticons into retreat. {{storylink|Comrade}} The Autobots' next mission took them to [[Antarctica]], though they suffered a bit of a false start when Prime's drive system failed upon arrival, and he needed Red Alert to repair it. As the Autobots then split up to search for the Mini-Con, Optimus was absent for most of the battle with the Decepticons that erupted, but his late arrival into the fray tipped the scales in the Autobots' favor. {{storylink|Soldier (episode)|Soldier}}

[[File:Comrade optimus supermode.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4]|Super anime pose: Activate!]]

Unable to haul his trailer through the forest that was the hiding place of the next Mini-Con panel, Optimus left it in the care of Sparkplug while he and the other Autobots began their search. Unsurprisingly, the Decepticons soon turned up and set the forest aflame, leaving the Autobots unable to fire back due to Optimus's concern that they would damage the environment. The kids and Mini-Cons were able to extinguish the forest fire by hooking Optimus's trailer up to a nearby lake, and although the Autobots failed to keep the Mini-Con out of Decepticon hands, Optimus assured them all that they had done the right thing. {{storylink|Jungle}} Downtime followed, as Optimus helped Red Alert with repairs while the kids visited a carnival. {{storylink|Carnival}} Unfortunately, when the Autobots' resumed activity with their next mission in the [[Sahara]] desert, they failed yet again to keep a Mini-Con from the Decepticons. {{storylink|Palace}}

A different challenge would face Optimus when Rad and Carlos' schoolyard antagonists [[Billy (Armada)|Billy]] and [[Fred (Armada)|Fred]] were kidnapped by the Decepticons and ransomed for all the Autobots' Mini-Cons. Optimus was forced to agree to the exchange, and although Megatron reneged on the deal, Hot Shot managed to win the day by freeing the kids. With their cover blown, Optimus and the Autobots accepted Billy and Fred into their circle of human friends. {{storylink|Confrontation (episode)|Confrontation}} [[File:Underground optimus truckmode.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4]] It was then back to Mini-Con hunting, this time in the subway tunnels of a large city, whose maze-like construction confused Optimus and nearly led him into a head-on collision with a speeding train. Optimus's team once again lost the Mini-Con to the Decepticons, but they gained a new team member: [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]], who had gotten lost during the space bridge transit to Earth, and who protected the kids from [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]]. {{storylink|Underground (episode)|Underground}} Next, Optimus carried the kids inside his watertight cabin when the Autobots headed into the ocean depths on the quest for a Mini-Con lost in the ruins of an ancient [[Atlantis]]-like civilization. When the Decepticons attacked, a blast from Megatron ruptured Prime's seal, but he was able to get the kids to safety inside the ruins before returning to the fight. Prime and Megatron's battle proceeded to carry inside the ruins, into the chamber containing the Mini-Cons, where once again, the Decepticons emerged victorious and escaped with the panel. {{storylink|Ruin}}

[[File:Prehistory optimus and kids.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4]]

After telling Rad a more detailed account of the history of the Transformers' war, Optimus led the Autobots to a volcanic island in search of their next Mini-Con, using his trailer's firepower to fend off the Decepticons as he headed into a narrow tunnel to recover the panel. A sudden volcanic eruption opened a fissure beneath the Autobot leader's feet, but this allowed him to avoid the lava flow that covered the island's surface and get the drop of the Decepticons, allowing the Autobots to at last claim another Mini-Con for themselves. {{storylink|Prehistory}} As with one of the other panels they had recovered, however, this Mini-Con would not awaken because it was part of a set of three. The Decepticons were in possession of the third panel, and soon invaded the Autobot base to complete their collection. Forced to order a shut down of the internal defense lasers to protect their human allies, Optimus gathered up the panels in his hands and tried to get them to safety, only for Megatron to catch up to him, awakening and combining the Mini-Cons into the [[Star Saber (Armada)|Star Saber]] sword. Optimus was able to blast the blade from Megatron's hands, and Hot Shot used it to beat the Decepticons into retreat. {{storylink|Swoop (episode)|Swoop}}

[[File:Conspiracy-Welcome back.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb]]

Hot Shot quickly became overconfident while wielding the Star Saber, much to Optimus's displeasure; he warned the young Autobot not to let his ego get the better of him several times. Then, Optimus's old tutor Scavenger arrived on Earth. It was hardly a happy reunion: his friend had now taken on a new life as a mercenary, and was now selling his services to the Decepticons. His interference cost the Autobots another Mini-Con. {{storylink|Overmatch}} The Autobots also soon gained a new member in [[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]], who helped Optimus's team recover the Mini-Con [[Spiral]] in a highway battle. {{storylink|Gale}} Unfortunately, appearances were deceiving: while Optimus and Smokescreen were searching for a Mini-Con during the next battle, Hot Shot and Sideways were inadvertently warped away to the Decepticons' moonbase, where Sideways revealed himself to be a traitor and stole the Star Saber for the Decepticons. {{storylink|Credulous}} Fortunately, the next battle proved that Scavenger's alleged Decepticon alliance was also a ruse: Optimus had actually been employing him as a spy within the Decepticon ranks, and as that mission had now come to an end, Optimus welcomed him back into the Autobot fold. {{storylink|Conspiracy}} Prime's trust did not immediately assuage the misgivings of the other Autobots, but Scavenger soon proved himself to them on the battlefield when he saved Prime from plummeting into a chasm during the Autobots' next Mini-Con hunt. {{storylink|Trust (Armada)|Trust}}

[[File:DecisiveBattle optimus skyboom.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|From now on, you are to be known as Sir Optimus Prime!]]

When the Autobots went on vacation to a lake only to be caught up in a flood, Optimus Prime helped saved some human lives by blocking the flow of water with his body. {{storylink|Vacation}} Soon after welcoming the antisocial Blurr to the team and failing to secure the last member of the [[Skyboom (Armada)|Skyboom shield]] trio, {{storylink|Reinforcement}} Optimus was challenged to a pitched battle in the desert by Megatron, now wielding both the Star Saber and the Skyboom Shield. Though helplessly outmatched by the power the Mini-Con weapons conveyed on his eternal enemy, Optimus fought bravely, and was able to use a distraction to disarm Megatron of the Skyboom, but was then nearly run through by the enraged Decepticon leader. At the last moment, Sparkplug threw himself between the combatants and summoned the Skyboom to protect Prime; when shield and sword collided, an incredible reaction resulted, producing a beam of light that shot off into space. With the shield in Autobot hands, the Decepticons retreated. {{storylink|Decisive Battle}}

[[File:Vow optimus vs minicons.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Your puny weapons do not harm me!]]

Prime barred the kids from the Autobot base while he concocted a strategy that would allow the team to use the Skyboom against the Decepticons, but his plans were preempted when the Decepticons lured the Autobots into a trap, splitting them up by warping them individually to different locations of past battles. In the Sahara once more, Optimus was confronted by Megatron and a small legion of Mini-Cons; chastened by Rad's warnings, Optimus was unwilling to fire back at the attacking Mini-Cons, and this act of restraint was enough to convince the Mini-Cons to turn on Megatron. {{storylink|Vow}} It was not long before Prime and Megatron met in battle again, though the outcome of that particular clash went undocumented. {{storylink|Rebellion (Armada)|Rebellion}}

The sudden deactivation of [[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] prompted Optimus to break off a battle to return to base and discover what had happened to the kids. Discovering that they had been sucked into cyberspace by Sideways, the Autobots safely extricated them, but their tale of an encounter with another evil force within the cyber-realm deeply perturbed Optimus. {{storylink|Chase (episode)|Chase}}
[[File:Linkup jet prime.jpg|right|thumb|Why do I have Jetfire's Shield on my chest?]]
After Optimus used the Skyboom to help secure another Autobot victory, the Decepticons' new tactician [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]] put together a plan to lure the Autobots into a valley, separating Prime from the group and wiping him out. The scheme would have succeeded, if not for the sudden arrival of Jetfire on Earth, who foiled Thrust's plans. {{storylink|Tactician}} Jetfire took over leadership of the Autobots while Optimus's injuries were being repaired, but his cocksure attitude soon saw him lured into another of Thrust's traps. In defiance of his wounds, Prime warped into the battlefield, where he and Jetfire [[Powerlinx|powerlinked]] to form "Jet Prime" and sent the Decepticons packing. {{storylink|Linkup}}

A rare moment of downtime was used by the Autobots to begin repairs on their base, though Optimus was no better at the task than Hot Shot was. {{storylink|Detection}} Soon after, during a battle at a shoreline, the Autobots had a new menace to face when the Decepticons were joined by the monolithic [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]], against whose power not even Jet Optimus could stand. {{storylink|Awakening (Armada)|Awakening}} Forcibly separated from Jetfire during the battle, Optimus was sent plummeting to the ground at deadly velocity, was but saved by the timely awakening of the three Mini-Cons who formed the [[Requiem Blaster (Armada)|Requiem Blaster]]. Wrestling the blaster away from Thrust, Prime saved himself by firing its beam into the ocean below, slowing his descent. {{storylink|Desperate}} [[File:Sacrifice.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|You were good, son. Real good. Maybe even the best.]]
The three new Mini-Cons reluctance to fight made Prime hesitant to employ them in any further combat situations, but he soon had the choice taken out of his hands when the kids helped the Mini-Cons run away. Prime hit the road to look for them, and when he found they had become targeted by Thrust, used his Super Mode to scare the Decepticon off. {{storylink|Runaway}}

When the Autobot greenhorn [[Side Swipe (Armada)|Side Swipe]] arrived on Earth, Optimus charged a discontented Hot Shot with supervising him. {{storylink|Past}} The pair of them ran afoul of [[Wheeljack (Armada)|Wheeljack]], who shot Hot Shot at point-blank range. Side Swipe managed to drag Hot Shot back to base, and while he healed in intensive care, Optimus filled Blurr in on Hot Shot's past involvement with Wheeljack. {{storylink|Past II}}

Unfortunately, the Autobots' new manpower did not prevent them from falling into a Decepticon trap: lured into a battle with [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] in a jungle, Optimus and his team were unable to prevent their enemies from attacking their base and stealing the Requiem Blaster. Smokescreen was fatally wounded by the blaster and died with Optimus at his side, {{storylink|Sacrifice}} but fortunately, his Spark survived, and he was rebuilt as "Hoist". Simultaneously, Starscream arrived at the Autobot base, having abandoned the Decepticons, and petitioned Prime for a place among the Autobots. A display of genuine comradeship from the Star Saber Mini-Cons prompted Prime to agree. {{storylink|Regeneration (Armada)|Regeneration}}

[[File:Crisis prime matrix.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4]|Little did they know that Optimus' chest was an Easy-Bake Oven.]]

Using Starscream's information, Prime led the Autobots in invading the Decepticon moonbase and rescuing all the captive Mini-Cons, but he and Starscream clashed briefly when the ex-Decepticon temporarily refused to obey his order to withdraw. {{storylink|Rescue}} Prime agreed with Jetfire's decision to detain Starscream when his insubordination continued on a mission to [[Mars (planet)|Mars]], {{storylink|Mars (episode)|Mars}} but continued to look upon their alliance as a means of better understanding the differences between Autobot and Decepticon, encouraging Hot Shot to do the same. Alas, the manipulations of Thrust shattered the burgeoning trust; while Jet Optimus was engaged in combat with Tidal Wave, Starscream stole the Skyboom Shield and returned to the Deceptions with both it and the Star Saber in hand.{{storylink|Crack (episode)|Crack}}

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With all three Mini-Con weapons now in Decepticon hands, Optimus had his hands full trying to keep his emotionally-charged soldiers in-line. In spite of his betrayal, Optimus still hoped that Starscream would come around and return to the Autobots. Then, the Decepticons used their newly-finished [[Hydra Cannon]] to destroy a comet passing near the Earth. Optimus and his troops could do little but stare as the super-weapon unleashed its awesome might... and then turned its sights towards the Earth! {{storylink|Threaten}} The Autobots scrambled to prepare a preemptive strike to destroy the Decepticons' warship before the cannon could be fully turned upon the planet. Optimus, fearing he would not survive what was to come, attempted to pass the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to Hot Shot. However, the young Autobot refused. Accepting his decision, Optimus departed on the mission with Jetfire. The two Autobots were unable to overpower the Decepticons, and Optimus's only option was to hurl himself in the path of the cannon's planet-destroying beam. Using the power of the Matrix, Optimus halted the beam and saved the Earth, but at the cost of his own life: as the beam died out, his bleached body crumbled away to space dust. {{storylink|Crisis (Armada)|Crisis}}

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After Optimus possibly contacted him from beyond, Hot Shot accepted the role Optimus had tried to pass on to him. {{storylink|Remorse}} Hot Shot led the Autobot in into space in pursuit of the Decepticons aboard the [[Axalon (Armada)|Axalon]], now joined by all the Mini-Cons of Earth, their powers fully awakened. During a confrontation with their enemies, the Mini-Cons united their powers to resurrect Optimus from within the Matrix, and the reborn Autobot leader used all the power of his Super Mode to end the battle. {{storylink|Miracle}} No sooner had the Autobots welcomed their leader back than their ship was pulled through a worm hole to a dead planet, where they were menaced by a twisted clone of Optimus named [[Nemesis Prime (Armada)|Nemesis Prime]]. Prime ended his dark doppelgänger's threat with the added firepower of his new weapons system, [[Overload (Armada)|Overload]]. {{storylink|Puppet}}

The Decepticons proceeded to beat the Autobots back to Cybertron, but this was the least of Optimus Prime's worries: learning from the Mini-Cons of the existence of an ancient evil named [[Unicron]], Prime attempted to convince Megatron—now upgraded to Galvatron through the power of the Mini-Cons—of the necessity of an alliance, to no avail. {{storylink|Uprising (Armada)|Uprising}} Prime was left to co-ordinate the Autobot resistance as best he could. He managed to make planetfall with the ''Axalon'' and ordered a full Autobot retreat from Cybertron. {{storylink|Dash (episode)|Dash}} As the Autobots were being pulled off-planet, Optimus received word from Hot Shot and Wheeljack. They informed Optimus that Thrust and Sideways had stolen the Requiem Blaster and Skyboom Shield. {{storylink|Drift (episode)|Drift}} Optimus then learned that Rad, Alexis, and Carlos had snuck off to help track down Thrust. He reluctantly allowed the children to continue on their mission, though he sent Jetfire to back them up. Unicron's servants then used the Mini-Con weapons in their possession to begin the reawakening of their master, who was revealed to be concealed within Cybertron's moon. {{storylink|Portent}}

[[File:Alliance handshake.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Boy, I have something I want to tell you about Red Alert. Call me later, pal.]]

Having experienced Prime's leadership first-hand, Starscream realized that an alliance was the only way forward, and so threw himself into the middle of a battle between Prime and Galvatron and sacrificed himself to convince Galvatron of the reality of Unicron's threat. Swayed by his lieutenant's death, Galvatron moved to hand the Star Saber over to Prime, only for Sideways to snatch it away at the last second, using it to complete Unicron's reactivation. {{storylink|Cramp}} In a formal ceremony before all their troops, Prime and Galvatron shook hands, uniting the Autobots and Decepticons into an armada that struck at Unicron together. Their attacks were ineffective. A secon plan was put into motion, where a small scouting team was sent to Unicron's surface. This mission also ended in failure, and the scouting party had to be rescued by Jet Prime and Galvatron. {{storylink|Alliance}}

While their troops defended Cybertron, Optimus Prime and Galvatron decided to infiltrate Unicron's body, where they immediately came under attack by his internal defenses. {{storylink|Union}} Working their way to the chamber containing Unicron's "heart", they were captured by the chaos-bringer, and offered the chance to merge with him willingly. Optimus's refusal prompted Unicron to accuse him of lying to himself, telling him that he had always loved the thrill of war as much as Galvatron, and that the only thing that distinguished them was the Matrix in Prime's chest. [[File:MortalCombat powerlinx colors prime.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb]] Before Unicron could forcibly merge Prime with him, the kids intervened, freeing the Mini-Con weapons from Unicron's hold and de-powering him, creating a wave of energy that [[spontaneous recoloration|spontaneously changed the color]] of Prime's armor. As they all tried to escape Unicron's dormant body, however, Galvatron challenged Optimus Prime to one final duel. {{storylink|Origin}} Prime agreed, discarding the Matrix so that he could prove Unicron's analysis of him wrong, but as the fight raged, both combatants succumbed to their base natures, fighting the most ferocious clash of their history. The negative energy of their battle reawoke Unicron, and he began to draw everything nearby into his maw. Prime held tight to Galvatron, trying to save his life, but Galvatron was unwilling to live in a world where peace was the only option, and forced himself free of Prime's grip. Galvatron disappeared into Unicron, and with their battle concluded, the flow of negative energy ceased, causing Unicron to vanish in a flash of light.

In the battle's aftermath, the Matrix of Leadership floated by Prime in space, but, feeling that he had only proven Unicron correct, Prime considered himself unworthy of carrying it. While the other Autobots and Decepticons, still united, set about rebuilding, Prime, his armor returned to its normal hue, embarked on a soul-searching voyage through space. {{storylink|Mortal Combat}}

===Alternate timeline===
In a timeline where the Cybertronians' conflict never left their home planet, the Mini-Cons' influence on the Autobots and Decepticons subjugated the larger robots. Optimus Prime and the rest of his kind were left entangled in a semi-organic growth spawned from Unicron's cells, and were shut down by Unicron's power. Carlos, Alexis, and Rad appeared before him, visitors from another time, and beheld Optimus's inert form before shooting off into time once more, eventually leading to Optimus's fate being prevented. {{storylink|Drift (episode)|Drift}}

==Japanese cartoon continuity==
===''Linkage''===
The battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron raged on as newly awakened Mini-Cons emerged in a West Coast city in the [[United States of America|United States]]. {{storylink|Linkage Part 1}}

===''Cloud''===
When the [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] of [[Aurex 103.10 Alpha|MD World]] encountered the [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Cloud|Optimus Prime]] of [[Cloud World]], he briefly confused the extradimensional visitor with his world's Optimus. {{storylink|Encounter}}

===''Robotmasters'' 3D diorama manga===
When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|G1 Optimus Prime]], [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]], and [[Star Saber (Victory)|Victory Saber]] were drained of energy by a team of gloating [[Decepticon]]s, Optimus Prime (in his body from the era of the black hole crisis) emerged from the sky to rescue the Autobot leaders. He granted them use of his Galaxy Cannon, infusing them with new energy in the process. The three, along with [[Lio Convoy]], merged their energies with the Galaxy Cannon to create the Big Bang Cannon attack that blew away the Decepticons. Afterwards, Optimus Prime promised to protect the peace of [[Earth]], a passion that G1 Optimus encouraged. {{storylink|Robotmasters Vol. 11}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Aurex 105.08 Alpha]], [[Blue Max]] was killed in a battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron. This caused [[Seawave]] and [[Cradon]] to fall out with each other as they blamed opposite factions for Blue Max's demise. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/18}}

==''Transformers Legends'' anthology==
Following his destruction by the Hydra Cannon, Optimus Prime found himself in [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], where he encountered an [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] from [[Generation 1 continuity family|another universe]], and two versions of [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] from that same universe. After establishing the possibility that alternate universes existed, the other three were able to help Optimus Prime overcome some of his doubts over his leadership abilities. That done, Optimus returned to life in time to save [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] from [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]. {{storylink|Prime Spark (story)|Prime Spark}}

==''Energon'' cartoon==
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{{voiceactor|[[Garry Chalk]] (English), [[Katsuyuki Konishi]] (Japanese)|[[Luis Miguel Perez]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Niclas Ekholm]] (Swedish) [[Dariusz Odija]] (Polish), [[Alfredo Martínez]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Sepuh Apikian]] (Armenian), [[Pekka Lehtosaari]] (Finnish), [[Massimo Lodolo]] (Italian)}}

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A few years after the defeat of Unicron, Optimus Prime returned from his self-imposed exile to a newly unified Cybertron where Autobots and Decepticons lived side-by-side in peace. Reassuming leadership of the Autobots, Prime took on a new body and established a dialogue with Earth's governments with the help of his human friends. [[Brian Jones|Doctor Brian Jones]] came to Cybertron to meet with Prime and discuss potential new energy endeavours the two races could work together on, but his son [[Kicker Jones|Kicker]] was frightened by the robots and ran away. Prime followed the boy to an abandoned part of Cybertron, and discovered him in the chamber of the reawakened [[Primus]], the creator-god of the Transformers, who endowed Kicker with the ability to sense [[Energon]]. Using Kicker's powers to detect Energon deposits, the united Autobot-Decepticon-human federation set up numerous [[Cybertron City (city)|Cybertron Cities]] in the [[Solar System]] over the next few years to mine the mineral. Sometime after this, Primus bestowed upon Optimus the [[Spark of Combination]], giving him the ability to combine with his new drone vehicles, the [[Prime Force]]. Prime began personally training new Autobot recruits, including the hotheaded young [[Ironhide (Energon)|Ironhide]].

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In 2020, Optimus Prime personally led a team to investigate attacks on the Cybertron Cities in the [[asteroid belt]] and on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. Finding no life remaining on Mars, his unit then moved to Earth, where Prime saved Kicker and [[Ocean City]] from an attack by the culprits, the bestial [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons]], who had been sent to steal the cities' Energon by their master [[Alpha Quintesson|Alpha Q]] so that he could revive Unicron. {{storylink|Cybertron City (episode)|Cybertron City}} Fearing future attacks, Prime agreed to the evacuation of Ocean City, then led a counterattack against the Terrorcons when they assaulted [[Lunar City]] on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]]. Before the battle, he assigned the headstrong Kicker to be partners with Ironhide, suspecting that the experience would be difficult but beneficial for both of them. Though Optimus and his soldiers repelled the Terrorcons on the Moon-base, the enemy escaped with a substantial amount of Energon. {{storylink|Energon Stars}}

As attacks on Earth continued, Prime led the Autobots in battling the Terrorcons at [[Desert City]], but he was dismayed to find that the Decepticon troops under his command had begun to abandon the cause of unity, having been promised the resurrection of Megatron in return for their service. {{storylink|Scorpinok (episode)|Scorpinok}} A second attack on Mars City forced Prime to make a difficult call, leaving the Autobots there to fight alone out of fear that the Earth would be attacked if his team left to help. His suspicion was proven correct when the Terrorcons besieged [[Plains City]]; during the battle, Prime discovered that the Terrorcon leader [[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]] was wielding a [[Energon Sword|sword]] that was pulsing with the evil essence of Megatron, leading him to fear that his old enemy was indeed still alive. {{storylink|Megatron's Sword}}

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With Terrorcon attacks continuing, Optimus had his Prime Force drones upgraded by Doctor Jones. This allowed for a smoother combination with his drones, which he soon put to good use in another clash against Terrorcon drones taking place in some snowy mountains. {{storylink|The New Cybertron City}} This upgrade proved timely, as it was not long before Optimus again found himself face-to-face with Megatron, reborn through the power of Energon. {{storylink|Megatron Resurrected}} Optimus retreated with the severely wounded Hot Shot in tow, leaving the Energon supply in Plains City to be pilfered by Megatron. In a subsequent battle at Ocean City, Optimus was attacked by the newly-resurrected Starscream, now endowed with ghostly powers. Starscream's assassination attempt was interrupted when Megatron warped in to attack Ocean City. Optimus and Megatron threw down with all their power, but Optimus was able to emerge triumphant when the [[Omnicon]]s provided him with a copy of Megatron's sword. {{storylink|Megatron Raid}} But Starscream, sent by Alpha Q to assassinate Optimus, still stalked about. To prevent interference or collateral damage, Prime lured Starscream to the moon, and in the battle that followed, he learned of Starscream's master's plan to revive Unicron. [[File:MysteriousMercenary optimus energonblaster.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4]] Badly wounded by Starscream, Prime was knocked unconscious, but an infusion of Energon from [[Skyblast (Energon)|Skyblast]] revived him ''and interacted with the Matrix of Leadership, generating a [[Energon Blaster|powerful blaster]]'' that Prime used to drive off his opponent. {{storylink|Starscream the Mysterious Mercenary}}

On edge and battle-ready after the assassination attempt, Prime was quick to lead his team into the asteroid belt when he suspected the Decepticons were operating from a mobile base there. Though the Autobots destroyed the base, its similarity to Unicron only worried Prime more. {{storylink|Battle of the Asteroid Belt}} The need for Prime and the Autobots to leave the Earth and investigate the potential return of Unicron fortunately coincided with Doctor Jones's development of [[Energon Tower]]s, which could project a grid of Energon that would protect Earth in the Autobots' absence. The first Tower was successfully activated while Optimus held Megatron at a stalemate atop of Ocean City. The structure's "Energon shockwave assault" drove the Terrorcons back, and Optimus mused over the amazing power of Energon. {{storylink|Energon Tower}} Constructing the towers was not the easiest task: during the endeavour, Optimus Prime was forced to order a detonation that wiped out Jungle City and some ancient archaeological ruins to fend off the attacking Decepticons, {{storylink|Crisis in Jungle City}} battled Megatron once again at Lunar City, {{storylink|Kicker Beware!}} and led a space-based defense against several giant "comets" that Megatron had created to destroy Earth, which was ultimately saved by the completion of the Energon grid. {{storylink|Energon Grid}}
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With Earth secure, Optimus held a conference, where he made known his plan to move onto the offensive against their enemies; the Autobots would go into outer space to pursue and destroy Unicron before Megatron could revive the planet-eater. {{storylink|Rodimus Friend or Foe?}} A Decepticon attack failed to stop them from leaving the Solar System aboard the ''[[Miranda II]]'', though Prime only narrowly avoided getting caught by the ship's Energon grid during the fight against the Decepticon their maiden voyage took them into. {{storylink|Go for Unicron!}} Prime's team was next led into a misadventure on a frozen planet, where their ship wound up temporarily trapped between two glaciers. Megatron somehow tracked them down, and Optimus was forced to defend the ship with Hot Shot and Inferno, for fear that activating their Energon Grid would interact with the local energon, and potentially destroy the universe. (Yes, really.) Once the grid could safely be activated, the ''Miranda II'''s crew was nonetheless forced to flee the planet, leaving the energon behind for their enemies to gather. {{storylink|The Return of Demolishor}} Optimus's team then crossed paths with [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]], an Autobot leader who had left Cybertron 8,000 eons ago, shortly before Optimus had ascended to the position of supreme Autobot commander. Rodimus shocked Optimus with his declaration that Unicron must not be destroyed, instead claiming that if the planet-eater was allowed to be restored using Energon, Alpha Q could in turn re-create all the worlds he had destroyed. Unconvinced, Optimus turned down the offer of an alliance, and Rodimus went his own way. {{storylink|A Tale of Two Heros}} Unfortunately, this meant Prime's Autobots arrived to late to stop Megatron from reactivating Unicron, and Optimus was forced to carry out his plan to lure Unicron into the space bridge, teleporting him to Cybertron, where the planet's Energon grid massively damaged him. {{storylink|Battle Stations}}

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Unicron's appearance caused the Decepticons on Cybertron to rampage, so Prime led a team to the planet's surface {{storylink|Alpha Q: Identity}} where they failed to stop the escape of the Decepticon criminal [[Shockblast]]. Greater concerns soon emerged when Rodimus returned, and his and Optimus's dispute escalated into a battle between the two until Kicker talked them down and convinced Prime to hear Alpha Q out. {{storylink|Shockblast: Rampage}} Moved by Alpha Q's tale of his lost home planet, Prime agreed to his plan, though his concerns at the danger Unicron still posed were quickly proven to not be without merit as the chaos-bringer began reflexively attacking everything within his body in what Optimus recognized as blind survival instinct. {{storylink|Survival Instincts}}

Prime returned to Cybertron's surface to lead the planet's defense as Megatron attacked again, and was present to witness prison guard Wing Dagger's death at the hands of Shockblast. {{storylink|Each One Fights...}} Making matters worse, the Decepticons had brought down enough towers to allow a swarm of Terrorcons to breach Primus's chamber. From there, they gathered enough Energon to allow Unicron to transforms, and endanger Cybertron with imminent destruction. Prime led his team in a direct counter-attack against Unicron, seeking to infiltrate it and defeat Megatron inside. {{storylink|Unicron Unleashed}} Prime was fully prepared to face down his enemy in a one-on-one showdown, but instead was ambushed by a vengeful Shockblast and left damaged. He ordered his troops to push forward without him. But once he was left behind, Optimus found himself facing two Decepticons, and was unable to fight back. Optimus was rescued by Scorponok, who drove Snowcat and Demolisher away, and then revived to full working order by the arrival of an Energon infusion from Earth. {{storylink|Open Fire!}} [[File:Optimusprimewingsaber.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|left]] Soon after, Wing Dagger arrived, now rebuilt as [[Wing Saber (Energon)|Wing Saber]] by Primus and infused with the Spark of Combination, allowing him to combine with Prime and give him the power needed to end the battle. Rather than face defeat, Megatron triggered a catastrophic Energon reaction, ripping [[Rift|a hole in the fabric of space]] and fleeing into it. Optimus gamely led a team in pursuit of him. {{storylink|Ripped Up Space}}

On the other side of the rift, Optimus and the Autobots found [[Alpha Q's Realm|Alpha Q's solar system]] being reborn as recreations of his original homeworlds slowly grew through the power of Energon, radiating from the sun which Unicron's disembodied head had become. The battle to protect these Energon-rich worlds from Decepticon attacks started immediately; when Kicker and Ironhide went to investigate [[Iron Planet]] after sensing Energon there, Optimus's team went to search after them, only to run into Shockblast. Optimus let Wing Saber loose to avenge the death of [[Padlock (Energon)|Padlock]], resulting in Shockblast's recapture. Scorponok, found and brainwashed by Megatron, then led a Terrorcon assault which Optimus' team repulsed. {{storylink|Protection}} Soon after, when Inferno was captured by the Decepticons, Optimus was kept busy by Mirage and arrived too late to stop Megatron from infusing Inferno with Decepticon programming. {{storylink|Imprisoned Inferno}}
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Optimus and his team were investigating the rift when the Decepticons attacked [[Jungle Planet (Energon)|Jungle Planet]], and forced them into a space battle that kept them from stopping the Terrorcons' pillaging. The fortunate arrival of [[Bulkhead (Energon)|Bulkhead]], [[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]], and [[Cliffjumper (Energon)|Cliffjumper]] allowed Optimus, combined with Wing Saber, to break away and make it into the planet's atmosphere; although they were met with a relentless bombardment from Megatron, Optimus was able to blow him out of the sky and teach him a lesson about how the Autobots' teamwork granted them greater power. {{storylink|Jungle Planet (episode)|Jungle Planet}} Realizing that if Bulkhead's team could make it through the rift, other object could too, Optimus sent Hot Shot and Downshift to obtain Energon Towers from Doctor Jones that they could use to protect Alpha Q's planets. The towers arrived to late to save Iron Planet, but Optimus led a successful holding action on Jungle Planet, giving the Autobots enough time to establish a new tower there. {{storylink|Bulkhead (episode)|Bulkhead}} More towers were steadily established on the various planets; while setting up a tower on [[Ocean Planet]], Optimus wielded the [[Energon Saber]] in battle against Megatron, but it took Inferno sacrificing his own life to successfully complete the mission. {{storylink|Farewell Inferno}} ''After ordering Jetfire to take Inferno's still-living [[spark]] back to Primus on Cybertron, Prime aided in the defense of the newly-recreated [[Planet Q]].'' {{storylink|Return! Our Scorponok}}
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Prime was initially surprised to find his troops had halted their duties for a little R&R on [[Circuit Planet]], but when he learned that Rodimus had signed off on it, he decided to join the "[[Autobot Grand Prix]]" himself. Combined with Wing Saber, Optimus threw himself into the race as the final obstacle on the track, and proved enough of challenge to front-runners Hot Shot and Ironhide that [[Misha Miramond]], riding [[Arcee (Energon)|Arcee]], snuck past to steal the win. {{storylink|Crash Course}}
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Contacted by Doctor Jones with news of the awakening of the legendary warrior [[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme]], Optimus Prime requested requested more Energon Towers be sent in preparation for Megatron's inevitable reawakening of Unicron. Omega Supreme and [[Roadblock (Energon)|Roadblock]], the reborn Inferno, arrived with Energon Towers just as this occurred and hurled them at Unicron, but only caused minor damage. {{storylink|Omega Supreme (episode)|Omega Supreme}} With the Energon grid no match for Unicron's power, Prime, Rodimus and Wind Saber attempted to enter the chaos-bringer's body in order to stop him from recovering his head, but Prime was badly damaged in the attempt. As Unicron successfully extinguished the Energon sun and reclaimed his head, Omega Supreme revealed that he had the power to combine with Optimus as "Optimus Supreme". {{storylink|A Heroic Battle}} In this new form, Optimus headed up a renewed offensive against the restored Unicron, but found himself faced with a new opponent in the form of the maddened Shockblast, who had attempted to usurp Unicron's power from Megatron and had been driven insane by his newfound strength. Optimus Supreme battled Shockblast on [[Blizzard Planet]] and managed to bring him back to sanity, but Shockblast was then promptly destroyed by the Megatron-controlled Unicron. {{storylink|The Power of Unicron}} Unicron proceeded to destroy Blizzard Planet and Circuit Planet, with Optimus powerless to stop him. Battle raged until Optimus was the only Autobot left standing, at which point a beam of Energon sent through space by Primus restored and upgraded his wounded troops and enlarged Optimus to planetary proportions, as large as Unicron himself. {{storylink|Optimus Supreme}} Facing off against Unicron on a vast disk of Energon in space created by the beam, Optimus drew on the power of Primus and the strength in his spark stemming from the courage of his friends and unleashed his "Final Impact" attack, a massive laser barrage that blew Unicron to pieces, finally destroying the god's corporeal form. {{storylink|Unicron Perishes}}
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With the remaining Decepticons arrested and Cybertron back in Autobot control, Optimus was placed in an Energon tank to heal. While slumbering, Prime had a vision of a [[Super Energon Temple]] beneath Cybertron's surface, and awoke to find the planet besieged by Megatron and the Terrorcons. {{storylink|Ambition}} While Optimus and his team battled on the surface, Megatron was guided by Unicron, whose intelligence still lived within him, to the subterranean temple and upgraded into Galvatron once more by the power of the [[Super Energon]]. He and a similarly upgraded Starscream began destroying Energon towers, unleashing green Energon gas, toxic to Autobots. While trying to save Kicker from the gas, Optimus collapsed, though he was saved by Jetfire and repaired by the unlucky guardian of the Super Energon pool, [[Superion Maximus]], who asked to join the team. {{storylink|Wishes}} The Autobots withdrew to the ''Miranda II'' in orbit, but the ship was soon shot down by the Decepticons' newest recruit, Shockblast's brother [[Six Shot]], who believed Optimus Prime was responsible for killing his sibling and sought revenge. Optimus and Cliffjumper tried to steer the ship into a controlled crash, but when that failed the two were rescued by Omega Supreme and Superion Maximus. {{storylink|Galvatron!}} Soon after, Optimus's crew were able to return to Cybertron's surface when a team of Energon-immune Omnicons shut down the Energon gas. Another battle between Prime and Galvatron was soon to erupt, prematurely ending when Six Shot released more Energon gas on them all. The Autobots fled, meeting up with the underground resistance. {{storylink|Break Through}}

At some indeterminate point, the Autobots played a training simulation game which pit them against each other and Decepticons in a fighting tournament. Though Optimus and Wing Saber lost to Rodimus and Hot Shot, Optimus and Omega Supreme easily defeated the Decepticon combiners. In the final round, Optimus again faced off against Rodimus and Hot Shot-but following a flashy combination sequence with Omega Supreme that ended in the two landing outside the ring, they were immediately disqualified. {{storylink|Distribution}}

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Optimus and Superion Maximus kept [[Bruticus Maximus (Energon)|Bruticus Maximus]] and [[Constructicon Maximus]] busy in battle while two separate Autobot teams rescued their allies around the planet. Six Shot tried to take another shot at Optimus with the Energon grid but was beaten by Galvatron for insubordination, allowing Prime and Superion to escape. {{storylink|The Omega Train}} In a later battle, Six Shot finally succeeded in taking Prime down with the Energon Grid, but Superion came to his rescue before the Decepticons could finish him off. With a little help from Wing Saber and his Prime Force, Optimus then beat Galvatron and his forces back with his "Meteor Attack". {{storylink|Decepticon Army}} Continuing to evade the Maximus combiners, Terrorcons and Energon gas all the way, Optimus's team made it back to the surface and faced off with Galvatron's Decepticons once again just as Ironhide's team succeeded in re-energizing Primus, in turn restoring Prime's ability to combine with Omega Supreme. Linking up, the pair used a whirlwind attack to clear the battlefield of Decepticons. {{storylink|Ironhide Team}}

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Transported via space bridge into Alpha Q's realm by the Decepticons, the gas-enshrouded Cybertron began moving through the system, destroying the planets there by bringing its atmosphere into contact with theirs. Calling on Primus to help him, Optimus Prime was enveloped in light that once again transformed him into a planetary-scale giant, allowing him to stop Cybertron's forward motion with his bare hands. This task accomplished, however, it became apparent that Prime was powered not just by Primus, but by the dark power of Unicron that existed within all Transformers, as he began to strike at the planet. Rodimus was able to snap Optimus out his frenzy, and he returned to normal size. {{storylink|Formidable}}

After an Energon recharge on Ocean Planet, {{storylink|Galvatron Terror}} Optimus returned to Cybertron just in time to witness Galvatron growing to gargantuan proportions following a second exposure to Super Energon. With Primus asleep once more after Prime's most recent growth spurt, Omega Supreme believed they would be unable to combine, but Optimus now knew he had another power source to draw upon: The power of Unicron. Drawing on the dark god's strength, Optimus and Omega Supreme combined and began attacking the gigantic Galvatron to little effect. {{storylink|Destructive Power}} [[File:Spark optimus possessed by unicron.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4]] Galvatron departed for space and Optimus gave chase, drawing on Unicron's power even more to transform himself into a giant so he could battle Galvatron on equal footing. The two titans brawled on the surface of Jungle Planet, but as the fight raged on, Optimus began to fall prey to the violent impulses the power of Unicron caused. Luckily, he was able to shake off the effects long enough to taunt Galvatron into such a fury that he too became enraged enough to break free of Unicron's influence. Themselves once again, the two leaders unveiled new heights of their powers, growing even larger, with Optimus gaining the appearance of Optimus Supreme combined with the Prime Force drones. The two titanic leaders battled until Prime opened his Spark of Combination and absorbed from Unicron's essence out of Galvatron, returning them to their normal sizes. {{storylink|Spark (episode)|Spark}}

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Nearly dead, Optimus's spark called out to the other Autobots, drawing them to Jungle Planet where they all combined their Sparks of Combination with his, restoring his power and giant stature. Following Omega Supreme across space, the re-powered Optimus arrived to find that Galvatron had become possessed by Unicron's spark and grown gigantic yet again. Optimus and Omega combined to form "Ultimate Optimus Supreme" and battled the Unicron-possessed Galvatron while Primus fashioned a new energon sun for Alpha Q's planets from the remaining Super Energon. Too proud to admit defeat, Galvatron broke out of Unicron's control and plunged himself into the energon sun, igniting it and seemingly destroying himself and Unicron. With Galvatron and Unicron's death, the Autobots delinked from Optimus, and Rodimus stated that things were finally over; Optimus replied that it was a new beginning of a new universe. {{storylink|The Sun}}

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==''Cybertron'' cartoon==
{{voiceactor|[[Garry Chalk]] (English), [[Taitem Kusunoki]] (Japanese)|[[Liu Qin]] (Chinese), [[Jung Goo Lee]] (Korean), [[Luis Miguel Perez]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Eberhardt Haar]] (German), [[Niclas Ekholm]] (Swedish), [[Dariusz Odija]] (Polish), [[Alfredo Martínez]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Sepuh Apikian]] (Armenian), [[Sami Kuronen]] (Finnish)}}

[[File:Inferno optimus.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|Finally, it took two seasons but I now have a retractable faceplate.]]

During the war against the Decepticons, the Autobot soldier [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] came to Optimus's attention. Though Overhaul was a reliable soldier, his approach to battle had left him isolated in the ranks, and so Optimus took it upon himself to watch his back. During one battle that Overhaul initially believed was to be a solo mission, he was rescue by Optimus and henceforth came to see him as a close friend. {{storylink|Honor}}

At some point over the next ten years following the battle for Alpha Q's planets, Optimus Prime and Wing Saber were involved in an attempt to save the life of a stranded space-farer in the [[Chaar asteroid belt]]. The pair were able to safely navigate the asteroids by combining into "Sonic Wing Mode", but Wing Saber, tired of Optimus's command, left the Autobot ranks some time later. {{storylink|United}}

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In the year 2030, the energon sun that Unicron's spark had been trapped in collapsed, freeing the still-living Megatron, and turned into [[Unicron Singularity|massive black hole]] that threatened to consume first Cybertron, and then the rest of creation. When attempts to close the black hole failed, Optimus Prime realised there was no choice but to evacuate the population of Cybertron to Earth, and had Jetfire scout ahead to gather alternate mode data, including a new fire truck form for Prime himself. As preparations for departure were being made, a mysterious time-travelling Transformer named [[Vector Prime]] appeared, advising Optimus to search for the long-lost [[Cyber Planet Key]]s, which could restore Primus's power and allow him to close the black hole. Unconvinced of even the existence of the keys, Prime put the safety of his people first, and was one of the last through the space bridge to Earth. Upon arrival, Optimus immediately set out with [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] to search for the missing Landmine, another of his old teachers who had educated him in the art of [[Metallikato]]. Prime was forced to break his own strict orders to hide from the human population in order to save the injured Landmine and three human children he had befriended from [[Thundercracker (Armada)|Thundercracker]]. {{storylink|Fallen (episode)|Fallen}} {{storylink|Inferno (episode)|Inferno}}

With help from the children—[[Coby Hansen|Coby]], [[Bud Hansen|Bud]] and [[Lori Jiménez|Lori]]—Optimus and the Autobots set about constructing a base in the [[Rocky Mountains]]. The Decepticons nearly discovered its location, but Optimus, Vector Prime, Hot Shot, and Jetfire held them off while the kids and the rest of the Autobots finished the stealth coating that kept it hidden. At the battle's end, Optimus Prime was granted the power to summon a [[Cyber Key]] by Vector Prime, {{storylink|Haven}} [[File:Hidden optimus cyberkeypower.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4]] which he later used for the first time to fell Starscream in a mid-air battle. Further attempts to seal the black hole proved fruitless, and Optimus agreed that Vector Prime's plan to search for the Cyber Planet Keys was the only hope they had left. {{storylink|Hidden}} The Autobots set about scouring the globe for the Omega Lock, eventually finding a lead in a Mexican museum. Arriving at the building in the dead of night, Optimus held off Starscream while Vector Prime analyzed the artifact. Though what they had found turned out not to be the real Omega Lock, simply an imitation, Vector Prime was able to extract some useful information from it: the coordinates of the first Cyber Planet Key, on [[Velocitron]], the Speed Planet. Prime used his Matrix of Leadership in concert with Vector Prime's [[Rhisling|sword]] to open a [[dimension gate]] to the planet, and sent Hot Shot and Red Alert through as an advance team. {{storylink|Landmine (episode)|Landmine}} Prime then continued to lead the other members of his team on their search around Earth for the [[Omega Lock]], the focusing device for the Keys, though an ancient druid site proved to be another dead end. {{storylink|Space (episode)|Space}} Seeking to put an end to the Decepticons' continued attempts at discovering the Autobot base's location, Optimus set in motion a plan to trick his enemies. The Autobots first built a decoy base, then after their next outing, allowed Thundercracker to follow Jetfire back to it. Thundercracker blew the false base to smithereens while Optimus and his team watched the whole debacle unfold from their real base. {{storylink|Rush (episode)|Rush}}

After the kids returned from a day out at the movies, Lori and Bud shared how Coby had been frightened by the flick, and the Autobots all had a hearty laugh at his expense. That evening, Lori alerted the Autobots to a strange beacon emanating from a nearby forest, depicting the Omega Lock's "[[Atlantis Pattern]]." The Autobots investigated, discovering it to be a Decepticon trap upon approach. Optimus used his weapons platform to blast Thundercracker, then combined with it to take on the more powerful Starscream. Optimus and Starscream fought to a standstill until Jolt warned them that humans were inbound to their location. Not wanting to be discovered any more than the Autobots, Starscream broke away from the clash and rocketed away. {{storylink|Speed}}

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When [[Mount McDermott]] outside of the children's hometown of [[Rockville]] threatened to collapse and displace an underground reservoir that would flood the area, Coby had the idea of using Optimus Prime's pumping equipment to drain the reservoir, allowing the mountain to be safely brought down. This plan went off without a hitch, allowing the Autobots to prevent any harm from coming to the children's homes and families. {{storylink|Collapse}} When a mission to the Sahara to recover what the Autobots believed to be the Omega Lock turned out to be another wild goose chase, {{storylink|Time (episode)|Time}} Prime permitted the civilian Autobots to join in the search, which quickly turned up the co-ordinates of the second Cyber Planet Key world, the [[Animatron|Jungle Planet]]. Prime dispatched [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Overhaul]] to this new world, after which word came in of a new clue to the Omega Lock's location at the bottom of the [[Bermuda Triangle]]. {{storylink|Search (episode)|Search}} Prime and his team battled the Decepticons in the ocean depths while Vector Prime and the kids investigated, discovering the Cybertronian starship ''[[Atlantis]]'', resting place of the Omega Lock, buried in the seabed. When the ship activated, Prime raced Scattorshot back to the surface ahead of it, so he could hide it from human detection with jamming signals. The ship promptly disappeared, {{storylink|Deep}} but Optimus quickly deduced that it had warped to the far side of the moon and tracked it down. Within the ship, Prime battle Megatron for possession of the [[Omega Lock]], and emerged victorious. {{storylink|Ship}}
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With the Omega Lock in Autobot hands, Optimus Prime travelled to [[Velocitron]], discovering that Hot Shot and Red Alert had broken his rule of non-interference, and that Hot Shot was preparing to enter a race that would net them the [[Planet Cup]]—the disguised form of Velocitron's Cyber Planet Key—if he won. Initially angry at Hot Shot, Prime attempted to make planet leader [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]] see reason, but when she dismissed his pleas, he agreed to let Hot Shot race. {{storylink|Hero (episode)|Hero}} Though he harbored no illusions of winning himself, Prime even took part in the first round of the race, helping to stymie the Decepticon competitors [[Ransack (Cybertron)|Ransack]] and [[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Crumplezone]] where he could, and making sure Hot Shot qualified by using his own body as a ramp to give the young Autobot the extra room he needed to make the final jump of the race. {{storylink|Race}} Out of the race as a consequence of not finishing the first round, Optimus instead put his skills to good use in the second leg of the tournament by putting out a fire caused by Ransack and Crumplezone. {{storylink|Detour (episode)|Detour}}

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Leaving Hot Shot to train for the third leg of the race, Primes Optimus and Vector were tricked into heading to Jungle Planet to check in on Overhaul by the sneaky Sideways. Upon arrival, they were immediately assaulted by a giant, monstrous plant, but were saved by Overhaul, who had been reformatted into Leobreaker by the Jungle Planet's Cyber Planet Key. Prime petitioned Jungle Planet's dictatorial leader [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]] to hand the Cyber Planet Key over peacefully, but Scourge had already fallen in with Megatron, and proposed a battle to determine his decision. Leobreaker's anger tapped into the Planet Key once again, and through its power, and he and Optimus combined into "Savage Claw Mode", Leobreaker forming a massive arm for the Autobot leader that allowed him to easily defeat Megatron. {{storylink|Savage}} Optimus and Leobreaker then used this new power to best Scourge in combat when they were tricked into fighting by Sideways. Learning that Coby had smuggled himself to Velocitron, Prime allowed the boy to stay and watch the final race, {{storylink|Sand}} then returned to the planet himself in time to use Savage Claw Mode to lay Megatron low when he tried to steal the Planet Cup after Hot Shot's victory. With the virtue of the Autobots' mission and the evil of the Decepticons proven to her, Override requested permission to join the Autobots, which Optimus granted. {{storylink|Champion}}
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Afterwards, Optimus, Leobreaker, and Vector Prime returned to Jungle Planet, where they quickly dispatched Ransack and Crumplezone and made their way to Scourge's temple. {{storylink|Ice}} Scourge insisted that they obey the customs of his planet and engage him in combat rather than debate. Though Leobreaker was ready to engage Scourge, Optimus once more refused this request. Annoyed by Optimus's more passive stance, Leobreaker stormed off, leaving Optimus to meet with Backstop and inquire on Scourge's past. Learning how Jungle Planet's leader had become corrupt by his rise to power, Optimus reconciled with Leobreaker and finally acquiesced to fight Scourge on his own terms. {{storylink|Honor}} In preparation for fight, Prime returned to Earth to get tuned up by Red Alert, then headed back to Jungle Planet for the brawl. Scourge seemed to gain the upper hand when he damaged Prime and Leobreaker's combination joint and forced them to separate, but Leobreaker simply recombined on the opposite site, as Prime's left arm, and together they triumphed over Scourge. Scourge handed over the Cyber Planet Key, as well as leadership of Jungle Planet; while Optimus took the former, he turned down the latter. {{storylink|Primal (Cybertron)|Primal}} Megatron's forces then attacked, hoping to snatch the Key, but Optimus duped the Decepticons with a shell game, hiding the Key in one of several boxes which he distributed among the Autobots. Prime entrusted the box containing the Key to Leobreaker, and when Megatron deduced this, Prime went to his comrade's aid so they could merge, only for them to be blindsided by Starscream. Before Megatron could deliver the killing blow, Prime's Matrix interacted with the Cyber Planet Key and opened up a space bridge that brought all the other Autobots through from Earth, forcing the Decepticons to retreat. {{storylink|Trust (Cybertron)|Trust}}

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Returning to Earth, the Autobots placed the Jungle Planet Key in the Omega Lock, causing the activation of a mysterious signal somewhere in the [[Arctic]]. Optimus, Jetfire, Leobreaker, and Landmine headed there to investigate and discovered the containment site of [[Ancient Decepticon|ancient Decepticon colonists]] lost on Earth. Unfortunately, the Autobots were unable to stop Starscream, who had rebelled against Megatron, from freeing the ancient Decepticons and collapsing the cavern on top of them. {{storylink|Trap}} Starscream proceeded to begin an invasion of Earth to search for its Cyber Planet Key, while the other Autobots dug Prime and the others out. {{storylink|Invasion (episode)|Invasion}} Refusing to reveal the existence of the Autobots to humanity at large, Prime tried to fight Starscream's forces covertly, but that failed when he took a blast meant for the ancient Earth Autobots [[Crosswise (Cybertron)|Crosswise]] and [[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] and the Autobots had to withdraw. {{storylink|Invasion (episode)|Invasion}} Seeing no other recourse, Optimus instructed the Autobots to abandon Earth for Velocitron, taking the Earth's Key with them, but Starscream caught wind of their plan and assaulted them on the space bridge. Only Optimus, combined with Leobreaker in Savage Claw Mode, could stand in the determined Decepticon's way, but when Starscream instead opened fire on the watching humans, Prime was forced to abandon the Lock and Keys to his evil clutches in order to save them. {{storylink|Retreat}}

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When Optimus and his troops engaged Megatron's forces at [[Niagara Falls]], Hot Shot, Red Alert and Scattorshot were fatally wounded, {{storylink|Revelation (episode)|Revelation}} but were restored to life in new, more powerful forms by the power of Primus. They returned to the battle to hold Megatron off so Optimus, Vector Prime, Evac and Override could take a dimension gate to Starscream's island base. {{storylink|Critical}} Fighting his way through ancient Decepticons and with Megatron hot on his heels, Prime soon found himself with some unexpected back-up in the form of Wing Saber, who had just arrived on Earth. {{storylink|Assault}} Delayed by Scourge and Sideways, Prime was unable to stop Starscream from tapping the Omega Lock's power, and could only watch as the treacherous Decepticon grew to towering proportions. {{storylink|Starscream (episode)|Starscream}} When Starscream used his new powers to levitate a barricade of rocks to block Prime and Wing Saber's attacks, the pair were reminded of the Chaar asteroid belt incicent, and Wing Saber proposed combining. Despite a faulty start and Optimus' doubts that it would work, the two successfully merged into Sonic Wing Mode, darting through the rock barrier and bringing Starscream to his knees. {{storylink|United}}
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With the threats on Earth disposed of, the Autobots returned to Cybertron, where Megatron attacked them and stole the Omega Lock. Megatron fled into his [[fire dimension]], but Optimus Prime followed, and they engaged in a battle so fierce that the wall between dimensions was ruptured, and Optimus was able to escape back to Cybertron with the Lock, ordering Vector Prime to open a dimension gate across the portal, thereby collapsing the dimension in on itself. Megatron attempted to tear his way free, but Prime blasted him with the combined power of the Omega Lock and Vector Prime's sword, apparently destroying him. Following this, Optimus and the Autobots placed the Omega Lock in an altar, and Optimus supplemented the energy of his Matrix for the missing fourth key, which triggered the transformation of the planet into the body of Primus himself. {{storylink|Cybertron (episode)|Cybertron}} The transformed Primus immediately became a target for Starscream, but Prime and Wing Saber combined to fend the giant Decepticon off. {{storylink|Balance}}

Preserved by his [[Armor of Unicron]], Megatron returned from beyond death and created his own dark clone of Leobreaker, [[Nemesis Breaker]], with whom he could combine to form "Dark Claw Mode". Combining with Leobreaker, Prime challenged Megatron; the clash of the two Claws produced such a huge explosion that it could be seen from space. {{storylink|Darkness (episode)|Darkness}}. Optimus fought Megatron to prevent him from claiming it, resulting in another gigantic collision between the two Claws. {{storylink|Memory (Cybertron)|Memory}} Eventually, Prime and Leobreaker determined that Megatron, combined with Nemesis Breaker, was on too equal a footing with them and fled. While all of this was going on, Sideways had kidnapped the kids and Mini-Cons in order to pry the location of [[Gigantion]], home to the final Cyber Planet Key, from their minds; Vector Prime rescued most of them, but Bud, Jolt and [[Reverb (Cybertron)|Reverb]] were warped away aboard the ''Atlantis'' by the devious side-switcher. {{storylink|Escape (episode)|Escape}} [[File:Cybertron optimus matrix.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4]] To follow the ''Atlantis'' through the wormhole in the [[Skeleton Nebula]] that led to Gigantion, Optimus's Matrix and Vector Prime's sword were used to create a vaccination program that would protect Optimus and the Autobots from the deleterious effects of the interdimensional transit. Prime finally broke his secrecy protocol when he returned to Earth with Vector Prime to back Coby and Lori up when they revealed the truth of the Transformers and Bud's kidnapping to their parents. Prime extolled the virtues of his human comrades and requested that Coby and Lori be allowed to travel to Gigantion with him. Stunned, their parents agreed. {{storylink|Family}}

In order to prevent the further expansion of the black hole while they were away, Optimus again added the power of the Matrix to the Omega Lock, which re-energized Primus enough to fire a beam into the singularity's heart and halt its growth. {{storylink|Titans}} The Autobots then departed through the wormhole aboard the Velocitronian starship ''[[Ogygia (Cybertron)|Ogygia]]'', where, following a battle with the ''Atlantis'', Prime and his team combined their Cyber Key Powers to clear a safe path for the ship by blast clean through a huge asteroid. {{storylink|Warp}}

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Arriving on Gigantion, Optimus and the Autobots quickly befriended friendly natives [[Metroplex (Cybertron)|Metroplex]] and [[Quickmix (Cybertron)|Quickmix]], but were soon attacked by Megatron and his new allies, [[Menasor (Cybertron)|Menasor]] and [[Soundwave (Cybertron)|Soundwave]]. Optimus merged with Wing Saber to battle Soundwave in the skies, while Metroplex bested Megatron soundly with [[Sparkdrinker]] axe. {{storylink|Giant}} His raw fury over the defeat allowed Megatron to tap the power of the Gigantion Cyber Planet Key remotely, once again powering himself up into Galvatron, but Optimus Prime was (just barely) able to force him into retreat when Metroplex gave him Sparkdrinker to fight with. {{storylink|Fury (Cybertron)|Fury}} After rescuing Bud and the Mini-Cons from the ''Atlantis'', Optimus gave his approval to Coby and his [[Cobybot|secretly-modified Scrapmetal]], and allowing it to be used on the Autobots' mission down into the bowels of Gigantion in search of the Cyber Planet Key. The Autobots divided into four teams for the search, with Optimus Prime's consisting of Vector Prime, Bud, the Mini-Cons, and Metroplex, who again granted Optimus the use of Sparkdrinker to pummel Ransack and Crumplezone when the two Decepticons tried to grab Jolt. {{storylink|City}} Ransack and Crumplezone tried multiple times to impede Optimus's team, only to have the Autobot leader run them over, blast them with his Super Mode weapons, {{storylink|Ambush (episode)|Ambush}} and combine with Wing Saber to blow them sky high. {{storylink|Challenge}}

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Separated from Optimus's team when he fell through a secret passage, Bud crossed paths with Scourge and gave him a lecture on how to be a good leader without having to resort to violence. Actually learning from the boy, Scourge challenged the Autobots to a duel one after the other; Optimus was his final opponent and, combined with Wing Saber, he took down Scourge, though was a bit wounded himself. Collapsing but happy, Scourge admitted defeat. {{storylink|Scourge (episode)|Scourge}} Following this, Prime's group finally made it to the lowest layer of Gigantion, but when they were confronted by Galvatron, Optimus was summarily crushed after refusing to allow Wing Saber to combine with him out of concern for his safety in the face of Galvatron's fearsome power. The other Autobots all teamed up against Galvatron to stop him reaching the Cyber Planet Key, to no avail; fearing his leadership had brought doom to his comrades, Optimus was on the verge of mental collapse until Vector Prime brought him back to reality with a punch to the jaw and the assurance that his concern meant he was a ''good'' leader. With his confidence restored and the Matrix glowing in his chest, Optimus took Sparkdrinker and blasted Galvatron into the sky. {{storylink|Optimus (episode)|Optimus}}

[[File:Cyb ep47 primes handshake.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|[[Garry Chalk|Don Corleone, I am honoured and grateful that you have invited me to your home...]]]]

Recovering the Gigantion Key, the Autobots placed it in the Omega Lock, which caused a spacebridge back to their universe to open in the sky above the planet. Before they could depart, however, Galvatron returned, stole the lock, and fled through the portal, which disintegrated behind him, trapping the Autobots on Gigantion. {{storylink|Showdown (Cybertron)|Showdown}} Optimus suggesting building a new space bridge generator, but when that only succeeded in summoning a horde of [[Laserbeak drone]]s from [[Planet X (Cybertron)|Planet X]] from somewhere beyond space and time, Vector Prime proposed to use his ability to turn back time to reopen the Skeleton Nebula wormhole. Realizing this would kill Vector Prime, Optimus immediately vetoed the idea, but Vector Prime explained the true magnitude of the black hole's threat, which made his sacrifice a necessity. While the Autobots boarded their ships, Primes Optimus and Vector shared a somber moment on a mountainside at sunset, saying goodbye and thanking each other for their partnership. As the ships took off, Vector Prime turned back time and opened the warp gate; the entirety of his strength used up by the act, his body disintegrated, and Optimus led the Autobots in salute for their great comrade. {{storylink|Guardian (episode)|Guardian}}
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Back in their home universe, Optimus Prime led the ''Ogygia'' back to Cybertron/Primus, where Galvatron was using the Omega Lock to control the black hole, pulling the Jungle Planet from its place in space. Optimus combined again with Wing Saber but was no match for the powered-up Galvatron, only surviving the clash when the Transformers from all the four colony worlds arrived to support him, prompting a Decepticon retreat. {{storylink|Homecoming (episode)|Homecoming}} With all four colony world leaders at his side, Optimus Prime pursued Galvatron into the black hole, where together, they triumphed over the Decepticon leader. In the struggle, however, the Cyber Planet Keys were separated from the Lock, and each planet leader went to grab one while Optimus—with Coby acting as another set of eyes—chased down the Omega Lock before it could reach the singularity's core. When all seemed lost, Vector Prime's spirit emerged, guiding Optimus Prime's hand towards the Lock and helping him grasp it. The Lock and the Keys then combined with Primus, fully restoring his spark, and allowing him to close the black hole once and for all. His work done, Primustransformed into Cybertron, fully restored into a technorganic paradise. {{storylink|End}}

[[File:Unfinished matrix glow prime.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb]]

Although peace had descended on Cybertron, Optimus Prime was unable to rest easy knowing Galvatron still lived, and his fear were soon made manifest when the Decepticon leader returned to challenge him to one final battle. While the other Autobots—and even the Decepticons, tired of losing—helped safely return Jungle Planet to its system, Optimus and Galvatron battled on Cybertron's moon, which seemed poised to end with Optimus's defeat as all his troops watched. At the last moment, Vector Prime's planet map emerged from Bud's pocket and flew into the path of Galvatron's sword, flooding the battlefield with light. A vision of Vector Prime appeared before Optimus, and granted him a gift: from the glowing sphere of the map, Optimus drew Vector Prime's sword. Glowing golden with the light of the Matrix, he used the blade to finally end Galvatron's threat once and for all, impaling his body and dissolving it into cosmic particles. {{storylink|Unfinished}}

[[File:CobyLoriWedding.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Mind if I watch?]]

Some time later, Optimus called for an intergalactic peace conference among the Transformers' colony worlds, where he proposed that rather than seal away the Omega Lock and Cyber Planet Keys, they fulfill their ancestors' dream of building the universal space bridge. Optimus announced that he would lead the mission himself, initially aggravating Jetfire, who believed this would leave Cybertron without a commander—until Prime appointed Jetfire himself to the position. The colony starships were assembled for launch, and Bud gave Optimus the planet map, asking him to return it to Vector Prime if they ever met again. Boarding the ''Atlantis'', Prime ordered the ships to lift off, and they launched into space. While Optimus held the planet map, it glowed once more, and Prime saw out in the sea of stars the face of Vector Prime, who smiled upon them. Optimus called for the engines to be put at full throttle, and the Transformers blasted off into deep space, on course for new adventures.

Years later, Optimus Prime returned to Earth to attend the wedding of Coby and Lori. {{storylink|Beginning}}

==''Cybertron'' comic==
[[File:Revelationspt6 prime gives thanks.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|"Now, let's go to my base for a selection of soups and pastas!"]]
Several months after [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s transformation into [[Primus]], Optimus Prime and his crew met with a team of Autobots who were stationed on Cybertron, including the [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] of [[Viron|another universe]]. The native Optimus Prime brought the sad news of [[Vector Prime]]'s demise to the Cybertron-based Autobots, as they had worked with him. Nevertheless, he thanked the alternate Optimus Prime for his efforts in battling [[Unicron]] and his forces. Optimus also expressed to [[Anti-Blaze]] his hopes that the Cybertronians and the [[Mini-Con]]s would live together in peace, like on [[Gigantion]].

With the other Autobots, Optimus Prime joined [[Alpha Trion (Energon)|Alpha Trion]] in forging a new future for the Transformers. {{storylink|Revelations Part 6}}
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Insecticon clone

2018-04-19T20:04:06Z

RyuHane:

{{factions|decepticon}}
{{disambig3|Insecticon}}
:''Insecticon clones are a type of mass-produced [[drone]] from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:QuestForSurvival Insecticon swarm.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Because ''Incest''icon clones would be too creepy.]]
The [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s have the ability to make '''clones''' of themselves (sometimes called '''Insecticlones'''<ref name="Hobby">[http://www.e-hobby.co.jp/cgi-bin/omc?port=33301&req=PRODUCT&ett=20071012060930400309000000 Japanese & English Insecticon "Clone Army" bios at e-hobby]</ref>) out of scrap metal.<ref>[[A Plague of Insecticons]]</ref> They have [[ability|abilities]] similar to those of the Insecticons themselves, but lack the intelligence and individual initiative needed to be effective without the guidance of the Insecticons. If the beams controlling them are interrupted, they will disintegrate.<ref name="Hobby" />

The Insecticon clones as known are:
*[[Salvo (G1)|Salvo]]
*[[Shothole]]
*[[Zaptrap]]

{{TOCclear}}
==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
On the island of [[Bali]], the Insecticons were feeding off of human farmland when confronted by [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]], [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]], [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]], and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]. Being outnumbered, the Insecticons created clones to defend themselves. [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] destroyed a [[Wikipedia:Combine harvester|combine]] with an "insectishell". [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] and [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]]<ref>The dialog suggests Shrapnel is alone creating the clones with "his" clone beams, but the animation shows clone beams coming from Kickback's antennae as well.</ref> then created clones from the resulting scrap metal using "electronic clone beams". With the clones, the Insecticons were now more than a match for the four Autobots who then fled into the cover of the crops.

Later, after the Insecticons teamed up with [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]], the Insecticons left their clones in the control of Megatron to help take over an oil refinery. The Insecticons themselves went to prevent the Autobots from following them. The Autobots arrived at the refinery anyway and there was a battle. The clones had Bumblebee and Spike surrounded when [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] used his force field to interrupt Shrapnel's control beam. The clones crumbled. {{storylink|A Plague of Insecticons}}

The Insecticons teamed up with Megatron once again and created a vast number of new clones to serve as the Insecticon Army. The Insecticons and their clones feasted on farmland as a way to harvest energy which was then extracted from them using an [[Energon Transfer Device]]. The Insecticon Army was too powerful for the Autobots so [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] sent [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]], Bumblebee, and Spike to [[Floron III]] to pick up some [[robotic insecticide]]. On the way back, Cosmos was contaminated with [[Morphobot]] spores. When Cosmos returned to [[Earth]], he crashed and the spores rapidly spread an infestation of Morphobots to a valley. Megatron warned the Insecticons not to come near the valley because they were vulnerable to the robotic insecticide. The Insecticons reasoned that Megatron was lying to them to keep them away from some source of energy and went to the valley anyway.

Megatron had destroyed the robotic insecticide, but when the Insecticons saw the Morphobots they thought they would make a good source of energy and the entire Insecticon Army descended for what they thought would be a feast. The Morphobots feasted on the clones instead. Only the Insecticons themselves made it out alive. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}}

Under the command of Megatron, the Insecticons and some clones were eating a city. The [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] evacuated the city, allowing the Autobots to destroy all the clones. {{storylink|The Revenge of Bruticus}}

The [[Sweep (G1)|Sweep]]s, being rebuilt from dead Insecticons, possess a limited form of the cloning ability, accounting for the limitless supply of them. {{storylink|The Transformers Menagerie}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
For unknown reasons, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] sent Bombshell, Kickback and Shrapnel to Earth, where they set up a hidden base of operations in and around [[San Desto]], California. The long period of isolation and unique insectile alt modes didn't help their sanity much, and Bombshell began concocting even weirder experiments than normal. Using artificial growth pods, he managed to synthesize techno-organic clones of each of the "Insecticons" in their insect modes, and took over San Desto. A group of Autobots and [[Earth Defense Command]] operatives came to investigate, but rapidly found themselves outnumbered. {{storylink|Infestation (Dreamwave)|Infestation}}

It was bug-squashing time for the Autobots, as they wadded through dozens of Insecticlones looking for the real Bombshell. [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] uncovered the "nest" and torched the remaining techno-organic larvae before any more could be hatched, but there were still plenty of bugs to go around. Ultimately, it was the rookie named [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] who came up with the idea to send a disruptive pulse back through one of Bombshell's cerebro-shells, disrupting his control over ALL the drones at once. {{storylink|Extermination}}

===Descent into Evil===
In [[Beast Era|a future era]], [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]] sought to resurrect the latent Insecticon cloning capabilities in what was left of the former Insecticon clan. For this, he recruited [[Buzzclaw (G1)|Buzzclaw]] and [[Dirge (Timelines)|Dirge]] and extracted from them the genetic codes to make the [[Virulent Clone]]s. {{storylink|Virulent Clone|Virulent Clones' bio}}

==Toys==
===Collector's Edition===
*'''Insectron Clone Army''' (multi-pack, 2004)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''73, 74, 75''' (individuals), '''76''' (clones set)

:[[Salvo]], [[Shothole]], and [[Zaptrap (G1)|Zaptrap]] are included in this [[e-HOBBY]] [[exclusive]] [[Collector's Edition]] set. They are [[redeco]]s of the Insecticons Bombshell, Kickback, and Shrapnel.

==Notes==
* The ability to create clones in their own image is a trait given to the Insecticons by the cartoon. It therefore did not appear in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel comics]], but has come to be a standard for the depiction of the Insecticons in later fiction. The [[IDW Publishing|IDW comics]] deviated the most with [[Insecticon swarm|their interpretation]] of the "Insecticon clones" as being failed attempts to create proper Insecticons.
* Both the [[e-HOBBY]] and the ''[[Descent into Evil]]'' bios state that cloning is an ability possessed by "Insecticons". Therefore, it is possible that the Deluxe Insecticons ([[Barrage (Insecticon)|Barrage]], [[Chop Shop (G1)|Chop Shop]], [[Ransack (G1)|Ransack]], and [[Venom (G1)|Venom]]) are also capable of self-replicating. In case of the e-HOBBY bios, the Deluxe Insecticons might not have been meant to be included by virtue of them not existing in the Japanese version of Generation 1. On the other hand, e-Hobby occasionally referenced Western ''Transformers'' material, so...[[Personal canon|just take your pick]].

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Clones]]
[[Category:E-Hobby]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generation 1 drones]]
[[Category:Insecticons]]
[[Category:Mass-produced Transformers]]

Insecticon clone

2018-04-19T20:03:38Z

RyuHane: Link correcting.

{{factions|decepticon}}
{{disambig3|Insecticon}}
:''Insecticon clones are a type of mass-produced [[drone]] from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:QuestForSurvival Insecticon swarm.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Because ''Incest''icon clones would be too creepy.]]
The [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s have the ability to make '''clones''' of themselves (sometimes called '''Insecticlones'''<ref name="Hobby">[http://www.e-hobby.co.jp/cgi-bin/omc?port=33301&req=PRODUCT&ett=20071012060930400309000000 Japanese & English Insecticon "Clone Army" bios at e-hobby]</ref>) out of scrap metal.<ref>[[A Plague of Insecticons]]</ref> They have [[ability|abilities]] similar to those of the Insecticons themselves, but lack the intelligence and individual initiative needed to be effective without the guidance of the Insecticons. If the beams controlling them are interrupted, they will disintegrate.<ref name="Hobby" />

The Insecticon clones as known are:
*[[Salvo (G1)|Salvo]]
*[[Shothole]]
*[[Zaptrap (G1)|Zaptrap]]

{{TOCclear}}
==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
On the island of [[Bali]], the Insecticons were feeding off of human farmland when confronted by [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]], [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]], [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]], and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]. Being outnumbered, the Insecticons created clones to defend themselves. [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] destroyed a [[Wikipedia:Combine harvester|combine]] with an "insectishell". [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] and [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]]<ref>The dialog suggests Shrapnel is alone creating the clones with "his" clone beams, but the animation shows clone beams coming from Kickback's antennae as well.</ref> then created clones from the resulting scrap metal using "electronic clone beams". With the clones, the Insecticons were now more than a match for the four Autobots who then fled into the cover of the crops.

Later, after the Insecticons teamed up with [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]], the Insecticons left their clones in the control of Megatron to help take over an oil refinery. The Insecticons themselves went to prevent the Autobots from following them. The Autobots arrived at the refinery anyway and there was a battle. The clones had Bumblebee and Spike surrounded when [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] used his force field to interrupt Shrapnel's control beam. The clones crumbled. {{storylink|A Plague of Insecticons}}

The Insecticons teamed up with Megatron once again and created a vast number of new clones to serve as the Insecticon Army. The Insecticons and their clones feasted on farmland as a way to harvest energy which was then extracted from them using an [[Energon Transfer Device]]. The Insecticon Army was too powerful for the Autobots so [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] sent [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]], Bumblebee, and Spike to [[Floron III]] to pick up some [[robotic insecticide]]. On the way back, Cosmos was contaminated with [[Morphobot]] spores. When Cosmos returned to [[Earth]], he crashed and the spores rapidly spread an infestation of Morphobots to a valley. Megatron warned the Insecticons not to come near the valley because they were vulnerable to the robotic insecticide. The Insecticons reasoned that Megatron was lying to them to keep them away from some source of energy and went to the valley anyway.

Megatron had destroyed the robotic insecticide, but when the Insecticons saw the Morphobots they thought they would make a good source of energy and the entire Insecticon Army descended for what they thought would be a feast. The Morphobots feasted on the clones instead. Only the Insecticons themselves made it out alive. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}}

Under the command of Megatron, the Insecticons and some clones were eating a city. The [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]] evacuated the city, allowing the Autobots to destroy all the clones. {{storylink|The Revenge of Bruticus}}

The [[Sweep (G1)|Sweep]]s, being rebuilt from dead Insecticons, possess a limited form of the cloning ability, accounting for the limitless supply of them. {{storylink|The Transformers Menagerie}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
For unknown reasons, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] sent Bombshell, Kickback and Shrapnel to Earth, where they set up a hidden base of operations in and around [[San Desto]], California. The long period of isolation and unique insectile alt modes didn't help their sanity much, and Bombshell began concocting even weirder experiments than normal. Using artificial growth pods, he managed to synthesize techno-organic clones of each of the "Insecticons" in their insect modes, and took over San Desto. A group of Autobots and [[Earth Defense Command]] operatives came to investigate, but rapidly found themselves outnumbered. {{storylink|Infestation (Dreamwave)|Infestation}}

It was bug-squashing time for the Autobots, as they wadded through dozens of Insecticlones looking for the real Bombshell. [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] uncovered the "nest" and torched the remaining techno-organic larvae before any more could be hatched, but there were still plenty of bugs to go around. Ultimately, it was the rookie named [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] who came up with the idea to send a disruptive pulse back through one of Bombshell's cerebro-shells, disrupting his control over ALL the drones at once. {{storylink|Extermination}}

===Descent into Evil===
In [[Beast Era|a future era]], [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]] sought to resurrect the latent Insecticon cloning capabilities in what was left of the former Insecticon clan. For this, he recruited [[Buzzclaw (G1)|Buzzclaw]] and [[Dirge (Timelines)|Dirge]] and extracted from them the genetic codes to make the [[Virulent Clone]]s. {{storylink|Virulent Clone|Virulent Clones' bio}}

==Toys==
===Collector's Edition===
*'''Insectron Clone Army''' (multi-pack, 2004)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''73, 74, 75''' (individuals), '''76''' (clones set)

:[[Salvo]], [[Shothole]], and [[Zaptrap (G1)|Zaptrap]] are included in this [[e-HOBBY]] [[exclusive]] [[Collector's Edition]] set. They are [[redeco]]s of the Insecticons Bombshell, Kickback, and Shrapnel.

==Notes==
* The ability to create clones in their own image is a trait given to the Insecticons by the cartoon. It therefore did not appear in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel comics]], but has come to be a standard for the depiction of the Insecticons in later fiction. The [[IDW Publishing|IDW comics]] deviated the most with [[Insecticon swarm|their interpretation]] of the "Insecticon clones" as being failed attempts to create proper Insecticons.
* Both the [[e-HOBBY]] and the ''[[Descent into Evil]]'' bios state that cloning is an ability possessed by "Insecticons". Therefore, it is possible that the Deluxe Insecticons ([[Barrage (Insecticon)|Barrage]], [[Chop Shop (G1)|Chop Shop]], [[Ransack (G1)|Ransack]], and [[Venom (G1)|Venom]]) are also capable of self-replicating. In case of the e-HOBBY bios, the Deluxe Insecticons might not have been meant to be included by virtue of them not existing in the Japanese version of Generation 1. On the other hand, e-Hobby occasionally referenced Western ''Transformers'' material, so...[[Personal canon|just take your pick]].

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Clones]]
[[Category:E-Hobby]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generation 1 drones]]
[[Category:Insecticons]]
[[Category:Mass-produced Transformers]]

Jem

2017-12-23T04:24:26Z

RyuHane: Adding a link

{{disambig2|the truly outrageous musician|the premium currency from Angry Birds Transformers|Gem}}
[[Image:LightfootDramaticEncounter CNM lobby.jpg|thumb|300px|Hydra prefers [[Misfits|The Misfits]]. Their songs are better.]]

'''''Jem''''' is a television program. Any connection to [[Jerrica Benton]], [[Synergy]], or Dr. [[Emmett Benton]] would be speculative at best.

==Fiction==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
{{note|In ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II]]'', [[Ask Vector Prime|Vector Prime states]] that the events of ''Jem and the Holograms'' are [[canon]] for [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Primax 984.17 Alpha]].}}

===''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon===
A poster advertised ''Jem'' in the lobby at [[CNM TV]] where [[Sam (producer)|Sam]] met with [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]]. {{storylink|Lightfoot: A Dramatic Encounter}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
Before joining [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], [[Rock 'n Roll]] worked as roadie for Jem and the Holograms band. {{storylink|Revolution Humble Bundle trading cards}} {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 3|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook #3}}

===When Worlds Collide===
{{Charstubfiction|{{storylink|When Worlds Collide}}}}

==Notes==
[[File:BOT-ModelReuse.jpg|thumb|right|200px|]]

*Character models for main characters from ''Jem'' were recycled to make [[:Image:BOT-ModelReuse.jpg|crowd fillers]] in the ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Transformers]]'' episode "[[B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.]]".
*The same scripts that were used for the ''Transformers'' [[public service announcement]]s were recycled for several ''Jem'' PSAs (the scripts were originally used for ''G.I. Joe'' PSAs, in fact).
*''Jem'' and ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]'' share the character of [[Hector Ramirez (G1)|Hector Ramirez]].
*''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]'' [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] starred in [[Commercial/Prime#2011|a commercial]] that featured clips of various shows airing on [[Hub Network|The Hub]], including the original ''Jem'' cartoon.
*Speaking of ''Prime'', an aborted plan was to do a [[Unit:E]] crossover off the back of it that would include (and relaunch) Jem.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-robots-disguise-prime-discussion/1053596-aligned-continuity-panel-tf-con-charlotte-4.html#post13037062 TF2005.com] "More tidbits from a friend of mine who took notes at the panel: ... ''TFP'' was going to lead into a massive Avengers style Unit: E crossover to jumpstart the other brands participating. Ratchet and Fowler from ''TFP''; Duke from ''GI Joe''; Synergy from ''Jem and the Holograms''; Princess Lollipop from ''Candyland''; also characters from ''[[M.A.S.K. (franchise)|M.A.S.K.]]'', ''Stretch Armstrong'', ''[[Micronauts]]'', ''Sectaurs'', ''Primordia'' (the renamed ''Inhumanoids''), and more."</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:Jem (TV series)|''Jem'']] at Wikipedia
*[http://www.rockjem.com/ Rock Jem]
*{{i|Jem and the Holograms (franchise)}} at the IDW Hasbro Wiki
*{{i|Jem and the Holograms (band)}} at the IDW Hasbro Wiki

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The Reformatting

2016-11-18T01:30:34Z

RyuHane: /* Transformers references */ Spelling edit

{{episode
|series=BMtoon
|ep=1
|prev=Nemesis Part 2
|image=Thereformattingmaximalsmaximize.jpg
|caption=A long tradition of Running Away begins here.
|title="The Reformatting"
|production company=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|airdate=[[September 18]], [[1999]]
|written by=[[Marty Isenberg]] [[Bob Skir]]
|directed by=[[William Lau]]
|animation studio=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|continuity=[[Beast Wars continuity]]
}}
'''Escaping from strange new foes and unable to transform, the four surviving Maximals encounter a mysterious supercomputer which remakes them into a new kind of Transformer.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:Primal ModeLocked.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Stukk as munky.]]
On the metal-and-steel planet of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], a single flower grows out of a tear in the street. Suddenly, a [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|gorilla]] races past, pursued by a horde of Tank Drones. Strangely, Optimus Primal has lost his Transmetal properties, on the run in his organic [[beast mode]]. After a couple minutes of cat-and-mouse, Optimus decides to face them down and prepares to Maximize. But his [[beast mode]] [[Transformation paralysis|parts refuse to move]] and he screams in pain as he is tortured by electrical shocks.

Suddenly, his eyes glow and he receives a strange signal from an [[oracle (BM)|alien source]]. He sees a [[Monorail transport|monorail vehicle]] nearby and swings away from the drones, and finds another one of his missing comrades—[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]. Rattrap explains that he has had a lot of trouble transforming as well and has no memory of returning to Cybertron after the end of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] and the capture of Megatron. They escape from the transport after the drones blow it to pieces and Rattrap tries to use his command code repeatedly, resulting in nothing but shocks and pain.

Fortunately, [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] leaps out of nowhere, covering the eyes of one of the drones and tricking it into destroying one of its counterparts. Cheetor is hoping to find a [[CR chamber]] and use it to eliminate the [[transformation virus|transformation lock virus]] that plagues them all. Rattrap points out that Cybertron seems to have changed a lot in their absence. There's no time to argue, as new tank drones are readying a renewed assault. Plunging into a hole, the Maximals bounce on a web that belongs to [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], who's stuck in a similar predicament.

[[Image:Oracle (The Reformatting).jpg|right|200px|thumb|Nor-mal view! Nor-mal view! Nor-mal view! NOR-MAL VIIIIIEEEEEEWWWW!!!]]
Optimus Primal decides that the best course of action is to head deeper underground, away from the attention of the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon drones]]. As they descend on Blackarachnia's web, they head deeper into the bowels of Cybertron, passing abandoned cities. Metal and steel give way to ancient stone construction. Eventually, Blackarachania's webs run dry, and all four of them plunge into complete darkness. Determined not to die, Primal throws a piece of scrap metal, shattering some kind of covering and revealing a wall of flames springs up. Undaunted by this seeming threat, Optimus walks straight through them, revealing the [[Oracle]], an ancient, legendary supercomputer. At the Oracle's urging, Primal enters the computer.

[[Image:Reformatting Optimus Primal spotlight.jpg|left|200px|thumb|At the Oracle's urging, Primal attempted a Care Bear Stare.]]
Assaulted by strange visions, Primal is instructed to "restore the balance". The Oracle urges him to remember that "the seeds of the future lie buried in the past", before declaring that it is time for him to begin his "[[reformatting]]." Optimus Primal emerges as a [[technorganic]] Transformer, a perfect blend of the organic and the mechanical. The other Maximals are impressed by the upgrade, and before long Cheetor, Rattrap and Blackarachnia exit the Oracle, also in new, technorganic bodies.

As the Oracle winks out of existence, a squadron of [[Motorcycle Drone]] charge into the Oracle chamber. The Maximals try to transform, but nothing happens. Optimus realizes, much to Rattrap's dismay, that the Maximals will have to relearn the lost art of transformation. Blackarachnia suggests that they'll have to fight with what they've got, and so the Maximals take the fight to the Vehicons in their beast modes. Rattrap punctures tires with his teeth, Cheetor pounces on one of the drones, and Blackarachnia uses her webs to snare another. As he clobbers a pair of Vehicons, Primal is shot, loses balance, and plunges into a pit. Panicking, a voice from the Oracle reminds him that "he must tame the beast without to release the warrior within".

[[Image:Reformatting Optimus Primal robot.jpg|right|200px|thumb|I change bodies faster than a nerd changes socks.]]
Finding his inner balance, Optimus manages to transform. A blue light engulfs his body as it morphs into a powerful new robot mode, equipped with jets. Grabbing the nearest Drone, he demands answers... but gets none. His anger has made him lose his center, and he converts back to beast mode. Awed, Cheetor expresses his interest in this new transformation style. Optimus declares that they must re-learn the art of transformation if they want to fight the Vehicons on an even footing.

Meanwhile, a mysterious figure watches the battle in the citadel and vows to destroy the "impure" organic Maximals. It's [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]], now the supreme ruler of Cybertron!
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Maximal]]s
|c1=
*[[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] (1)
*[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] (3)
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (4)
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (5)

|h2=[[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]]s|c2=
*[[Tank Drone]] (2)
*[[Motorcycle Drone]] (7)
*[[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (8)

|c4=
*[[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] (6)
}}

==Quotes==
"Hey! You just slagged your own guy! That's deep-freeze cold!"
:—'''Cheetor''' does not approve of team kills

"Everyone underground!" 
"What makes you think it's any better down there?" [''a tank nearby explodes''] "I withdraw the question."
:—'''Optimus''' and '''Rattrap''' debate where to retreat.

"The Great Transformation awaits, Optimus Primal. Prepare to be... reformatted. Remember this; the seeds of the future lie buried in the past. To unleash the warrior within, you must tame the beast without. Seek the balance, Optimus Primal. Transform your destiny. Transform and transcend..."
:—'''The Oracle''', being all mystical

"Uh, boss, do these upgrades come with a warranty?"
:—'''Rattrap''' after discovering they still can't transform.

"The first robots who came to Cybertron had to learn how to transform. It took discipline, purity of spark, and years of practice." 
"News flash for ya, monkey boy: WE AIN'T GOT YEARS!"
:—'''Optimus''' and '''Rattrap'''.

'''Cheetor:''' "Awesome transformation, big bot!" 
'''Rattrap:''' "So, what's your secret?" 
'''Optimus:''' "I... understand." 
'''Blackarachnia:''' "Great. That makes one of us."
:—The postmortem on Optimus' transformation.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
* When Optimus tackles the Tank Drone, he partially clips through it.
* After the ground has gotten a hole blown into it, the shot of the second Tank Drone group advancing on the Maximals is a mirrored version of the first, so their canons are on the wrong side.
* Before he jumps into the hole, Rattrap's shoulders get pretty distorted due to the crouching pose he's in.
* When the trio lands in Blackarachnia's web, all the debris that was falling with them in the previous shots is gone.
* As they depart from the webbing, the Maximals are mostly walking on air, with their feet only occasionally stepping on the strings.
* When the newly reformatted heroes ready themselves to face the Cycle Drones, Primal's left forearm-guard clips into Rattrap's front leg.
* As it chases after Cheetor, the lens-flare effect of the Cycle Drone's headlight is still visible when Cheetor's head blots out its source.

===Continuity errors===
* After transforming, Optimus is shown hovering over the middle of a pit, but on reverting to beast mode he's hovering on the edge of said pit.

===Continuity notes===
* Unusually for a Transformers television show, ''Beast Machines'' began ''[[w:in medias res|in medieas res]]'', with Optimus and company stranded on Cybertron and on the run from Vehicons. Where are [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] and [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]], how did Megatron manage to escape the shuttle, and why is everyone back in their original beast modes? Nothing's made clear here, but later episodes will flesh out the events that took place between the finale of ''Beast Wars'' and the beginning of ''Beast Machines''.
* Rattrap mentions that his last memory is the Maximals taking a shuttle home to Cybertron, recapping the end of "[[Nemesis Part 2]]".
* Gadgets and powers:
** Rattrap can crawl up walls, [[Spider-Man]] style.
** Cheetor's beast mode can bounce from wall to wall at super-speed.

===Transformers references===
* As they descend through Cybertron's layers, the Maximals pass buried cities. Primal theorizes that they're the ruins of [[Autobot|earlier]] [[Decepticon|civilizations]].
* Optimus says that the first Transformers had to ''learn'' to transform before it became second nature to the robotic races. This might be a reference to the original cartoon, most notably "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4]]", which depicted transformation as a wartime innovation rather than an innate ability.
* Optimus also mentions that the first Transformers ''came'' to Cybertron, and that the Oracle foretold their arrival. While this statement certainly gels with [[Organic core|later revelations]] in the series, the significance of this origin story has never really been explored in other Transformers media.

===Real-world references===
* Rattrap mockingly refers to one of the Tank Drones as a "[[w:Tin Woodman|Tin Man]]".
* As the Maximals struggle in the darkness, Rattrap implores Optimus to come to his senses with "Ground Control to Major Optimus," referencing the 1969 David Bowie song "[[wikipedia:Space Oddity|Space Oddity]]."
* During Optimus Primal's visions, a group of black [[wikipedia:The Monolith|monoliths]] are briefly seen, a nod to the film ''[[wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. Additionally, the close-ups of Optimus while interfacing with the Oracle, intercut with his POV zooming through abstract visuals, are very similar to the movie's infamous "trip" scene.

===Trivia===
* Although the Maximals' original beast modes from ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' are shown in this episode, the models have been reskinned completely. Alterations include [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]'s fur being brown instead of grey, [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]'s feet being dark orange instead of pink, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]'s stripes are removed, and [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] now has black circles around his eyes and his spots are more angular and stlylized.
* It was from this episode that the term "[[reformatting]]" passed into general use amongst Transformerdom.
* A special advance screening of this episode was held at [[BotCon 1999]], where it received an overwhelmingly positive reaction.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Remise à Zéro'''" ("Reset to Zero")

:*''Title:'' "'''Le Reformage'''" (Canada, "The Reforming")

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Das Orakel'''" ("The Oracle")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 2]], [[2000]]

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Densetsu no Fukkatsu'''" (伝説の復活, "Resurrection of the Legend")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 6]], [[2004]]

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''A Reformatação'''" ("The Reformatting")

'''Spanish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''La Reforma'''" ("The Reformation")

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2004 — ''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Returns'' — Volume 1 ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Geneon Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2006 — ''Beast Machines: Transformers'' — The Complete Series ([[Rhino Entertainment|Rhinomation]]) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''Transformers: Beast Machines'' — The Complete Series ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''Transformers: Beast Machines'' — Season One: Volume One ([[Sony]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers: Beast Machines'' — Season One: Volume One — Reformatting (Sony) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers: Beast Machines'' — Complete Season One (Sony) 
[[Image:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2009 — ''Transformers: Beast Machines'' — Intégrale Saison 1 (Sony) — French audio only.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reformatting}}
[[Category:Beast Machines episodes]]

Talk:Shout! Studios

2014-08-14T02:45:46Z

RyuHane: /* Update needed */ new section

-Languages and subtitles-

Are the DVD's English only or do they include Spanish audio and subtitles (the subtitles are less likely, I know).---[[User:ACIDSTORM92|ACIDSTORM92]] 19:19, 23 August 2010 (EDT)

--Upcoming Releases--

According to the company's page here: http://www.shoutfactorystore.com/prod.aspx?pfid=5257414#axzz1LVmrlJtm
They're releasing a box set for the complete series, as well as an upcoming Japanese collection and Beast Wars Collection. Also, for people who bought the single seasons they're adding the slipcover. If the first of these is available May 24th, should I wait to update this page then? [[User:Skyshock Thunderblast|Skyshock Thunderblast]] 19:39, 5 May 2011 (EDT)

== Update needed ==

Could someone please update this page and others to reflect the fact that Shout! Factory has released DVDs for the the Unicron Trilogy and Transformers Animated?

Thundercracker (SG)

2014-08-08T21:01:46Z

RyuHane:

{{factions|sgDecepticon}}
{{disambig3.5|the heroic [[Decepticon]] who is not a Seeker|his evil Seeker counterpart|Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker}}
:''Thundercracker is a heroic [[Decepticon]] from the "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]" [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:SGThundercrackerProfileArt.jpg|right|thumb|200px|"By Primus! I'm faaaabulooouus!!!"]]
'''Thundercracker''' is a founding member of the [[Mayhem Suppression Squad]] and its friendly, moral center. If his paintjob doesn't blind his enemies into submission, he's got a 50-meter sonic-dampening effect to shut them up. He feels so sorry for beings that, unlike himself, are incapable of flight, that he sometimes drags them through the sky unsolicited using his, er, "[[Magno-clamp|mango-clamps]]."
==Fiction==
[[Image:ShatteredGlassThundercracker.jpg|left|thumb|241px|Hey, in the mirrorverse, this color scheme is CLASSY.]]
===Shattered Expectations===
After [[Razorclaw (SG)|Razorclaw]] signaled the Mayhem Suppression Squad for help, Thundercracker came bursting out of the sky, guns blazing and bombs dropping. {{storylink|Shattered Expectations (SG)|Shattered Expectations}}

===Shattered Glass===
During a battle to defend the [[Arch-Ayr]] fuel dump from the evil [[Autobot]]s, the Mayhem Suppression Squad was called in to assist. Thundercracker's blast of anti-sound managed to temporarily silence ''all'' of the voices in [[Arcee (SG)|Arcee]]'s head, leaving her vulnerable to attack. {{storylink|Dungeons & Dinobots}}

===Recordicons===
Thundercracker joined [[Ravage (SG)|Ravage]] in the Transformers' greatest battle on Earth, "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (SG)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]."
{{storylink|Recordicons#Recordicons #3|Recordicons #3}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===Timelines===
[[Image:SGtoy-Thundercracker.jpg|thumb|right|300px|They don't make F-15s like that any more. Or ever.]]
*'''Galvatron''' / '''Thundercracker''' ([[BotCon 2011]] souvenir set)
**''Accessories'': Left & right launchers, 2 missiles

: Thundercracker and [[Megatron (SG)|Galvatron]] were an add-on souvenir set available exclusively at [[BotCon 2011]]. Like previous versions of the ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Thundercracker toy, ''Shattered Glass'' Thundercracker is a faithful reproduction of his original 1984 toy, but with modern standards of toy engineering, transformation, sculpting detail and articulation. He transforms into an F-15 Eagle, but has the nose of an F-14 Tomcat fighter jet. Unlike previous versions of the ''Classics'' Thundercracker toy, ''Shattered Glass'' Thundercracker is a [[neon|buffet of colors]], a visual homage to the [[Action Master]] [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#ActionMaster|Thundercracker]] action figure.

: There were only 1800 ''Shattered Glass'' Thundercracker figures produced. This mold was also used for a buttload of other [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2011/Decepticon/BCThundercracker/thundercracker.htm More information on Thundercracker at TFU.info]''
{{--}}

==Notes==
* Thundercracker is in a ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] body, but with his incredibly [[Neon|eye-searing]] [[Action Master]] color scheme.
* A redeco of the ''Classics'' Seeker mold as Action Master Thundercracker was originally going to be the attendee freebie figure for [[BotCon 2010]], but the mold was being used for ''Generations'' Thrust by Hasbro at the time and thus unavailable. Had it been produced, this figure could probably have doubled as ''Shattered Glass'' Thundercracker, much like the [[Slicer|Slice]]/Shattered Glass [[Wheeljack (SG)|Wheeljack]] toy that was made in its stead. The toy was eventually released as Shattered Glass Thundercracker at [[BotCon 2011]]. The bio and tech specs for [[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|G2]] [[Action Master]] Thundercracker was published in the [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club (magazine)|Official Collectors' Club magazine]] in late 2011 effectively making this figure both Shattered Glass Thundercracker and G2 Thundercracker.
* Thundercracker marks the second instance of the same mold being used to make exclusive toys for two different BotCons. (The first example spanned two continents: [[Double Punch]] at [[BotCon Japan 1998]] and [[Sandstorm (BW)|Sandstorm]] at [[BotCon 1999]].) It would be used again a record-breaking third time for [[BotCon 2013]]'s [[Rainmaker]]s souvenir package.

[[Category: BotCon exclusives]]
[[Category:Convention-original characters]]
[[Category:Mayhem Suppression Squad]]
[[Category:Timelines characters]]
[[Category:Shattered Glass Decepticons]]

Autobot Spike

2014-03-21T14:44:36Z

RyuHane: Updating links

{{episode
|series=G1toon
|ep=17
|series2=SRLFtoon
|ep2=11
|prev2=Heavy Metal War
|next2=Changing Gears
|series3=''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (cartoon)|Transformers: Generation 2]]''
|ep3=37
|prev3=The Search for Alpha Trion
|next3=The Girl Who Loved Powerglide
|image=AutobotSpike Autobotx concealed weapon.jpg
|caption=That kid's gonna need a lot of therapy.
|title="Autobot Spike"
|production code=#700-16
|airdate=[[September 23]], 1985
|written by=[[Donald F. Glut]]
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''A wounded Spike is turned into an Autobot Frankenstein's monster to save his life.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:AutobotSpike-AutobotXTabled.jpg|left|200px|thumb|In the future, Autobot X will be revived to systematically battle groups of eight [[Predacon (G1)|animal-themed robots]].]]

The Autobots gather around [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]]'s worktable in [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]] for a demonstration. Using spare parts and human ingenuity, Sparkplug has cobbled together a large robot he has dubbed [[Autobot X (G1)|Autobot X]], and with a flip of a switch sets him loose. He immediately runs amok—groaning, growling and smashing everything in sight. It takes [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] to bring him down. Sparkplug apologizes to [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] for the mess and recommends Autobot X be put in storage.

Before this can be done, the party is interrupted by an alarm. Decepticons are attacking the new Air Force rocket base. The Autobots roll out to the base and engage the Decepticons. During the battle, the rockets and their fuel are inadvertently destroyed, and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] orders a retreat.

To cover their escape, Megatron creates a diversion for the Autobots; he blasts [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] while [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] is riding in him. The attack leaves Bumblebee damaged and Spike comatose. Spike is taken to Metro Hospital, where the doctors suggest that if Spike's mind could be transferred somewhere else, they would be able to operate on his fragile body.

[[Image:BotX.JPG|right|200px|thumb|This happens whenever you see [[Transformers: Kiss Players (franchise)|certain things]].]]

[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and Sparkplug transfer Spike's mind into Autobot X's body. However, as a side effect of the transferral process, Spike's mind is in an extremely unstable state. Angry and confused about his new body, Autobot Spike rampages, destroying several computers and machines in Wheeljack's shop.

Optimus Prime is able to subdue Autobot Spike without damaging his mind. To keep Spike calm, Wheeljack tunes [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]] to a television station, where cruel Fate just happens to have scheduled an airing of a movie featuring [[Frankenstein|Doctor Frankenstein]]'s unholy attempt to create life. Spike is roused to anger, convinced that he, like [[Frankenstein's monster|the Doctor's creation]], is a "monster." He again rampages throughout the Ark, then escapes.

[[Image:AutobotSpike-Moping.jpg|left|200px|thumb|At least he's not a Headmaster.]]

Alone in the wilderness, Spike suffers from the conflict between his own mind and what there is of Autobot X. Will he use his new body and powers to help the world like Optimus Prime, or conquer all Humanity?

[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] informs Megatron of Spike's new Autobot body and unstable mind, and Megatron forms a plan to trick Autobot Spike into destroying the Autobots. Megatron soon finds Spike with [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]]'s help. Autobot Spike attacks, but Megatron has other plans. Spike's unstable mind makes it hard for him to think, and he is easily twisted by Megatron to side with him against the Autobots.

Bumblebee brings the Autobots to Spike's location, but they are unable to fight against the vengeful being for fear of destroying Spike's mind. Only after Autobot Spike shoots his father off the edge of a cliff does he realize what he has done. At once, he saves his father and turns on the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]].

Finally, Spike's mind is returned to his [[human]] body after the surgical operation is successfully completed.

Spike will never be placed in a robot's body again. [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Never?]]

==Featured Characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (1)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (3)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (5)
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (6)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (7)
*[[Autobot X (G1)|Autobot X]] (8)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (9)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (10)
*[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] (11)
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (12)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (20)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (21)
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] (25)
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (26)
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (27)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] (28)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (14)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (15)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (16)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (17)
*[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (18)
*[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (22)
*[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (23)
*[[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] (24)

|c3=
*[[Sparkplug Witwicky]] (2)
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (4)
*Air Force General (13)
*Spike's doctor (19)

|c4=
'''On TV'''
*[[Frankenstein]]
*[[Frankenstein's assistant]]
*[[Frankenstein's monster]]
}}

==Quotes==
"Another Autobot? Even if it works, who needs it?"
:—'''Ratchet''' is a [[GEEWUN|1984 purist]].

"It's not supposed to do that!"
:—'''Sparkplug''' referring to Autobot X destroying Autobot headquarters

"So you Decepticreeps like to fly, eh? Well, take off!"
:—'''Brawn''' after kicking Soundwave

"Hmmm...if only there were a way of separating Spike's mind from his body while we work..."
:—'''Spike's doctor''' clumsily moves the narrative along within earshot of Autobot X's creator.

"He wants a battle—let's give him one!"
:—'''Starscream''', referring to the now-mechanized Spike

"I must say, you've improved your appearance since our last encounter, Spike!"
:—'''Megatron''', upon meeting Spike in Autobot form

[[Image:Autobotspike spike and bee.jpg|thumb|right|200px| ]]
'''General''': Aren't they a gorgeous sight? 
'''Optimus Prime''': Impressive. ''[To Ironhide]'' For primitive rocket technology.
:—Only Optimus Prime could both praise and diss humanity at the same time.

[''Crazed laughter'']"Man, I've got powers I haven't even discovered yet!"
:—A mentally-deteriorated '''Spike''' as he fires on the Autobots.

"Hmmm, I wonder—I wonder what it would be like for a robot mind to be transferred to a human?"
:—'''Bumblebee''', being [[Only Human|eerily prophetic]]

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
All in all, remarkably few errors:
* The beginning of Sparkplug's line "It's not working" is cut off, as if the sound dropped out for a split second.
* ''Technically'' it's not an error, but Ratchet maintains his "who needs it?" arm gesture for a ''very'' long time after he finishes speaking.
* Coloring errors:
** After Autobot X fires on Ironhide, Trailbreaker and Prowl, Ironhide's face is colored red.
** Skywarp has an all-yellow chest as the Decepticons prepare to retreat from the rocket base. Only his cockpit canopy should be yellow.
** When Autobot X says, "The way I see it, I've become a monster... like you!", the white portion of his upper body changes to black as he turns to his side.
** As he flies out of Spike's hand, [[Throwback Blaster|Megatron's gun-mode]] handle is colored gray instead of black.
** Just before Megatron orders a retreat, Soundwave has Skywarp's colors, and Skywarp is firing a laser beam that somehow passes in front of Starscream's air intake, even though Starscream is in the foreground.
* Spike's hospital room is hilarious. Not only is it completely devoid of any medical equipment whatsoever (not even so much as an IV drip), but Spike's ancient-looking dormitory-style bed is placed ''directly in the middle of the room''. Despite this, the ticking of a heart monitor can be heard.
* Sideswipe's voice is off as he and Sunstreaker rush to contain Autobot X. The delivery's a bit off, too: he sounds like he's discussing the weather, not rushing into battle.
* The docking tower for [[Decepticon Headquarters (G1 Earth)|Decepticon Headquarters]] is right off of a rocky coast. Usually it's in open water.
* Spike's second round of fire on the Decepticons hits ''[[generic|three]]'' Thundercrackers.
* Okay, it's a cartoon and all, but... when Spike blasts him off the cliff, Sparkplug falls for an ''incredibly'' long time.

===Continuity errors===
* Throughout the episode, Spike struggles with unpredictable destructive urges and freaks out at the slightest provocation. Sparkplug and the rest repeatedly assume that this is a side-effect of the mental transfer process, rather than the fault of the body they put it in. Did they forget that the body itself goes on similar rampages even ''without'' Spike's mind in it? Spike even says himself that it feels like "something" is telling him to do "bad things."

===Continuity notes===
[[Image:AutobotSpike Prime firing from shoulder height.jpg|right|200px|thumb|I'm shooting him gently!]]
* The three Reflector components, while speaking in unison, refer to themselves as "I".
* It's also the last time Reflector has a speaking part in an episode. The rest of his appearances are silent cameos.
* Autobot X/Spike demonstrates a few abilities that his component parts have never shown. None of the 1984 Autobots shoot lasers from their fingertips; Trailbreaker's gun arm has never been shown to be an extendable grappling hook; Bluestreak has never fired lasers from the headlights on his chest.
* When Optimus Prime tries to subdue Autobot X/Spike, he fires his ion blaster from his shoulder, like an RPG launcher.
* [[Furmanism|Furmanism]] alert: The phrase "What's that?" is said not once ... not twice ... but ''three times'' in this episode alone - First by the rocket general, then by Bumblebee hanging from cliff, and then by Ironhide at the rocket base.
* It's not the [[The Human Factor|last time]] a human mind is placed in a robot's body.
[[Image:AutobotSpike Brawn's almighty foot.jpg|thumb|right|200px| ]]
* [[Fire on the Mountain|<<]] '''Brawn vs. Soundwave''', Round 2: Brawn gives Soundwave a good proper kick to the tail! Brawn 2, Soundwave 0 [[Attack of the Autobots|>>]]

===Real-world references===
[[Image:Autobot spike - dr frankenstein.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Abby Someone. Abby who?" "Abby Normal."]]
* So obviously, this episode has the whole Frankenstein thing goin' on. That this script came from the pen of Don Glut is no coincidence, as he has written many novels, articles, short stories and non-fiction books about Frankenstein.
**Given Glut's knowledge, it's no surprise then that when talking about Autobot-X, Spike correctly makes the reference to "Frankenstein's monster", instead of making the common mistake that usually sees the monster referred to simply as "Frankenstein".
**Glut refrains from directly copying the dialogue of any existing film version of the Frankenstein story, scripting his own scene from whole cloth.
* The 1967 Hammer Film ''Frankenstein Created Woman'' has a plot element that asserts the human soul can be transferred from one body to another. Baron Frankenstein even states that the transfer of souls from one body to another would be of great use to "medical science". Could be just a coincidence, but if Don Glut is a Frankenstein fan, he was probably familiar with Hammer series while scripting this episode.

===Trivia===
* The episode begins with a narrative voice-over from [[Victor Caroli]]. Most such narratives recap events from previous episodes; however, this one is solely to introduce the episode's opening events. After a couple more tries ("[[Day of the Machines]]", "[[Atlantis, Arise!]]"), this convention would be dropped entirely.
* Ratchet is standing behind Wheeljack when Wheeljack "volunteers" him to help improve Autobot X. Ratchet has a comical surprised reaction to the news. Wheeljack later looks visibly depressed that his mind transfer device has burned itself out.
* This episode features a curiously large amount of extreme close ups with the camera constantly going straight into characters' faces for no reason.
* The episode finally addresses that it's incredibly unsafe to bring a teenager to a battle between two factions of giant robot killing machines. Except that Spike continues to tag along in the future...

===Foreign localization===
'''Italian'''
:*''Title (dub 1):'' "'''Il mostro Frankenstein'''" ("The Frankenstein Monster")
:*''Title (dub 2):'' "'''L'Autobot Spike'''" ("The Autobot Spike")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
:*In the first dub, Prowl is misnamed as Ratchet at the beginning.

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Frankenstein Spike'''" (フランケンシュタイン・スパイク)
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 14]], [[1985]]
:* While this episode originally aired in the United States on September 23, 1985, it aired in Japan on ''September 14'', 1985, making it the only episode of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original series]] to be aired in Japan ''before'' the United States.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;Laserdisc
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1994 — ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' — Convoy Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''The Transformers'' — Autobot Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers'' — DVD Box 1 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1 ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1: Vol. 1 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2003 — ''Transformers'' — Season 2 Part 1 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Bumper Collection Special (Metrodome) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 2: Series 2.1 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[Image:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2008 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 03: Stagione Due Parte Prima ([[Medianetwork Communication]]) — English and Italian audio. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season Two: Part One (Metrodome) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Season Two, Volume One: 25th Anniversary Edition ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory)

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

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

Johnny 5

2012-02-15T04:56:45Z

RyuHane:

:''Johnny 5 is a robot from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Animated Johnny 5.jpg|thumb|200px|]]

'''Johnny 5''' is a robot of unknown alignment.

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
Johnny 5 must have been very popular at [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]], as he was on their menu. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
*Johnny 5 is the main character of ''[[Wikipedia:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]]''.

[[Category:Almanac-only characters]]
[[Category:Robots]]
[[Category:External properties]]

Ellipsus

2012-02-15T04:48:28Z

RyuHane:

'''Ellipsus''' is a planet in the [[Milky Way]].

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
Ellipsus was an unclaimed or neutral organic world. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
*Ellipsus is from ''[[Wikipedia:Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors|Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors]]''.

[[Category:Almanac-only planets]]
[[Category:External properties]]

Thundera

2012-02-15T04:45:29Z

RyuHane:

'''Thundera''' is a planet in the [[Milky Way]].

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
Thundera was a neutral planet. It was destroyed in some form. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
*Thundera is the original homeworld of the ''[[Wikipedia:ThunderCats|ThunderCats]]'' characters.

[[Category:Almanac-only planets]]
[[Category:External properties]]

SR388

2012-02-15T04:45:17Z

RyuHane:

'''SR388''' is a planet in the [[Milky Way]].

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
SR388 was an unclaimed or neutral planet. It was destroyed. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
*[http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/SR388 SR388] is the home planet of the Metroids from the ''[[Wikipedia:Metroid|Metroid]]'' series. It is destroyed in ''[[Wikipedia:Metroid Fusion|Metroid Fusion]]'' by a satellite collision.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sr388}}
[[Category:Almanac-only planets]]
[[Category:External properties]]

Nintenduu LXIV

2012-02-15T04:44:42Z

RyuHane:

'''Nintenduu LXIV''' is a planet in the [[Milky Way]].

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
Nintenduu LXIV was an unclaimed or neutral robotic planet in the Milky Way. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
*[http://theinfosphere.org/Nintendu_64 Nintendu 64] is a planet from ''[[Wikipedia:Futurama|Futurama]]'', which in turn owes its name to the [[Nintendo 64]] console.

[[Category:Almanac-only planets]]
[[Category:External properties]]

H'lven

2012-02-15T04:44:13Z

RyuHane:

'''H'lven''' is a planet in the [[Milky Way]].

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
H'lven was an unclaimed or neutral organic planet in the Milky Way. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
*[[Wikipedia:H'lven|H'lven]] is a planet from the DC Comics universe.

[[Category:Almanac-only planets]]
[[Category:External properties]]

Druidia

2012-02-15T04:43:28Z

RyuHane:

'''Druidia''' is a planet in the [[Milky Way]].

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
Druidia was an unclaimed or neutral organic planet. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
*Druidia is the planet threatened by a giant vacuum cleaner in [[Wikipedia:Spaceballs|''Spaceballs'']].

[[Category:Almanac-only planets]]
[[Category:External properties]]

Doom

2012-02-15T04:43:15Z

RyuHane:

'''Doom''' is a planet in the [[Milky Way]].

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
Doom was the capital world of the [[Galran Khanganete]]. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
*Doom is a planet from ''[[Wikipedia:Voltron|Voltron: Defender of the Universe]]''.

[[Category:Almanac-only planets]]
[[Category:External properties]]

D'Hoonib

2012-02-15T04:42:25Z

RyuHane:

'''D'Hoonib''' is a planet in the [[Milky Way]].

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
D'Hoonib was an unclaimed or neutral organic planet. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
*D'Hoonib is from ''[[Wikipedia:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''.

[[Category:Almanac-only planets]]
[[Category:External properties]]

Oran

2012-02-15T04:42:15Z

RyuHane:

'''Oran''' is a planet in the [[Milky Way]].

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
Oran was a protectorate of the [[Galran Khanganete]]. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
*Oran is a planet from ''[[Wikipedia:Voltron|Voltron: Defender of the Universe]]''.

[[Category:Almanac-only planets]]
[[Category:External properties]]

Skaro

2012-01-01T20:09:29Z

RyuHane:

'''Skaro''' is a planet in the [[Milky Way]]. It is likely the origin of the [[Dalek]]s.

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
Skaro was an unclaimed or neutral planet in the Milky Way that was destroyed. [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] noted the destruction as a shame, since he needed a Mark III Travel Machine. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
*[[Wikipedia:Skaro|Skaro]] is the home world of the Daleks from ''[[Wikipedia:Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]''. It was destroyed through an artificially-induced supernova of its star.

[[Category:Almanac-only planets]]
[[Category:External properties]]

The Return of the Headmaster

2008-06-13T23:48:40Z

RyuHane: /* Miscellaneous trivia */ Link clean-up

[[Image:Sentinelprimeanimatedhumiliated.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Schadenfreude.]]

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'''Optimus Prime is forced to team up with his rival Sentinel Prime after Sentinel has a humiliating encounter with the Headmaster.'''

==Summary==
[[Image:Returnofheadmaster sarisroom.jpg|left|thumb|200px|im in ur room, shackin in ur cribs]]

In Sari's room at [[Sumdac Tower]], Sari bitterly packs her things while grumbling about Porter C. Powell taking over her home and throwing her to the curb. She doesn't notice Powell enter as she badmouths him, but rather than get upset, the man smugly proves many of her points right and adds insult to injury by introducing her bedroom's new tenant, the freshly re-hired Henry Masterson. As the Headmaster makes himself at home, Sari protests, pointing out the man's lack of sanity, but Powell merely rushes her out the door. Then, just as Sari's day can't get any worse, Powell claims [[Sparkplug (Animated)|Sparkplug]] and [[Tutor Bot]] as company property. Harsh.

[[Image:Returnofheadmaster sentinelspeaks.jpg|right|thumb|200px|I am destined to be a superhero. To right wrongs and to pound two-fisted justice into the hearts of evildoers everywhere.]]

Meanwhile, the Primes [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus]] and [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel]] stand at a press conference along with the mayor and Captain Fanzone. Sentinel is his usual charming self, boasting the significance of the [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guard's]] presence, condescending to the [[Humans|icky organics]], showing complete ignorance of the planet's customs, and insulting his comrade's lowly position at every opportunity. Optimus tries his best to ignore all this and put the humans' minds at ease about the current situation, but finds it difficult to get a word in edgewise as Sentinel cuts him off, determined to do all the talking, refusing to let Optimus speak for him.

Powell and Masterson watch the press conference with intent. Powell says he expects great things from Masterson, intending to tap the lucrative military hardware market that Sumdac so foolishly ignored. Masterson is itching to get to work, but wants new robots on which to test his Headmaster units. The old Autobot crew won't cut it, however; he wants the new models, and he eagerly eyes Sentinel Prime's image on the screen.

Masterson calls up Fanzone with a false Decepticon sighting in Old Detroit. Fanzone relays the information to the Primes, and the heroes transform and roll out. Sentinel still hasn't gotten the hang of the city's traffic customs, however, and spends more time driving over other cars than on the road.

[[Image:AnimatedBumbleeBulkheadProfessor.jpg|left|thumb|150px|We tackle any topic, immense or microscopic!]]

Meanwhile, Sari is moving in with the Autobots at the old factory. Bulkhead and Bumblebee are eager to cheer up the sullen girl with loud TV, music, and a misguided tutoring session in which they end up throwing around theories about her mysterious origins. Predictably, everything they try only seems to make her more miserable.

Sentinel soon arrives at the scene of the supposed Decepticon sighting, prying a stop sign from his shoulder, and is quickly joined by Optimus and the police. Optimus starts making suggestions, but Sentinel shuts him up, opting to split up and search on his own, as he doesn't need help from a scrub.

The search drags on into the night, and Sentinel is jumping at shadows, turning the advanced weaponry of the Cybertron Elite Guard on such dire threats as stray cats. This distracts him, and Masterson gets the jump on him with the Headmaster unit. Shortly afterwards, Sentinel contacts Optimus, telling him it was a false alarm and to send the police away. He then demands Optimus come to his position alone and promise not to laugh. Soon after, Optimus finds Sentinel's decapitated head and breaks out in laughter. Bitter and humiliated, Sentinel pleads with Optimus to help him get his body back without Ultra Magnus finding out. Optimus guesses that the reason Sentinel is trusting him with the task is that he's just not important enough for his opinion to matter, but Sentinel is careful not to say something so insulting in his position. How about that.

[[Image:Returnofheadmaster optimuslaughs.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<nelson>''Haw''-haw!</nelson>]]

Optimus learns of Masterson's re-hiring thanks to a conveniently timed message from Bumblebee, reporting what he's heard from Sari. The next day, Optimus pays a visit to Sumdac Tower, hiding Sentinel's head under a tree trunk while he chats with Powell. The new manager makes it clear that the Autobots aren't free to waltz into his building as they please any more, but assures their leader that Masterson isn't there. However as soon as Optimus leaves, he phones the Headmaster with information on the new development, warning his employee not to jeopardize the company's image. Lucky for the Primes, Optimus thought ahead enough to intercept the phone call with his ear transceiver as soon as he was out of sight. He traces the call to a cargo ship at the docks.

It's night again when the 1.5 Primes arrive at the docks and start searching for Sentinel's body. They don't get far before a nearby crate bursts open, revealing a sinister Sparkplug and Tutor Bot outfitted with miniature Headmaster Units. Sentinel isn't too worried by the puny automatons until they reveal some powerful laser-shooting upgrades. They send Optimus scrambling for cover while Sentinel's head bounces around impotently on the ground. When the ship Masterson is supposedly on starts casting off, they can't play around any longer, and Optimus rushes through the laser fire, ramps off the deck, transforms in mid-air and rides a powerful burst from his rocket axe to hook into the side of the ship's hull. Awesome. His grappling hooks probably would have worked equally well, but dude, flying rocket axe!

[[Image:Returnofheadmaster headmastersvictim.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Oh, beware the other head of science, Arthur. It bites.]]

On the ship, Optimus and Sentinel try to find Sentinel's body...until it finds them. The Headmaster pushes Optimus down with Sentinel's shield. Sentinel is surprised that it's so powerful, to which Masterson gloats he upgraded his equipment. Pulling out Sentinel's beam lance and expanding the shield into a spikier version, the Headmaster clashes with Optimus while Sentinel bounces around impotently on the ground some more.

Masterson manages to knock Optimus's axe off the ship, leaving him unarmed. After being pinned to the ground with shield spikes inches from his face, Optimus returns the favor by ripping off Sentinel's arm, shield and all. Sentinel is mortified by the dismemberment, but Optimus feels it was justified. He then uses Sentinel's arm as a makeshift axe and fights back the body, eventually severing the Headmaster unit. The head quickly converts to robot mode and starts to run off, but this time Optimus stops him by kicking Sentinel's head into the fleeing villain like a soccer ball. Again, Sentinel is appalled. Optimus has less of an excuse this time.

[[Image:Headm_anim.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Salut!]]

Back on land, Fanzone has Masterson in cuffs, and it looks like a happy ending until Powell shows up, pointing out that the ship was Sumdac Systems property, the assaulted robots don't have rights protected by the law, and the whole incident occurred over international waters between the [[United States of America|US]] and [[Canada]]. Masterson is free to go, much to the chagrin of everybody else.

Meanwhile, at the factory, Bumblebee and Bulkhead are about to try another zany scheme to cheer up Sari, but Prowl stops them and tells them just to listen to her instead. When they try this last resort, Sari opens up about all her worries regarding her [[Isaac Sumdac|missing father]], her lost home and company, and her questioned existence. Bumblebee and Bulkhead aren't sure what to do, but they assure her they are there for her.

Finally, aboard the Elite Guard's ship the next day, Sentinel and Optimus report to Ultra Magnus, who has heard something about Sentinel "losing his head". Sentinel trembles uncomfortably in silence, but Optimus reports that they worked together to solve the crisis, effectively covering for his comrade, who really doesn't deserve it. Ultra Magnus congratulates both of them and takes his leave to contact [[Cybertron Command]] on an issue of great importance. As the Primes walk down the hallway, Sentinel struggles out a "thank you" to his compatriot. Optimus notes that it must have hurt to say that, and Sentinel acknowledges the fact and reaches out his hand.

==Stats==

*'''Written by:''' [[Michael Ryan]]
*'''Directed by:''' [[Ben Jones]] & [[Shunji Oga]]
*'''Original airdate:''' April 19, 2008

===Featured characters===
(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)''
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"

! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobot]]s

! style="background:antiquewhite" | [[Human]]s
! style="background:#FFEEB8" | Others
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (6)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (7)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (12)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (13)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (14)
*[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] (15)

| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" |
*[[Sari Sumdac]] (1)
*[[Porter C. Powell]] (4)
*[[Headmaster (Animated)|Headmaster]] (5)
*[[Captain Fanzone]] (8)
*[[Mayor Edsel]] (9)
*[[Mayor Edsel's aide]] (10)

| style="background:#FFEEB8" valign="top" |
* [[Tutor Bot]] (2)
* [[Sparkplug (robot dog)|Sparkplug]] (3)
* [[News Bot]] (11)
|}

==Quotes==
'''Sari''' ''(while packing her belongings)'': Chairman of the Board...what does that even mean? They should just call him "big jerk who thinks he's in charge of everything"! 
''[comes face to face with Powell]'' 
'''Porter C. Powell''': Oh, I don't ''think'' I'm in charge, young lady, I ''know'' it. So hurry along. I need this space for more research and development in order to make enough new money to cover what you lost the company while you were ''playing'' at being in charge, ''Miss Sumdac''—or...can I even call you that? 
'''Sari''': Just because there's no record that I'm Isaac Sumdac's daughter doesn't mean I'm not! He's my dad, and I don't care ''what'' you say! Ugh! Why am I even talking to you!? 
:{{m-}} Sari gets evicted from the [[Sumdac Tower|Big Brother House]].

"Whoa, hey! Check it! Major cribbage! And it's mine. It's all mine! ''laughs dementedly''" 
:{{m-}} '''Masterson''', who is surprisingly okay with the fact that his new "R&D facilities" are frilly, lacy, and painted pink.

'''News Bot''': Prime! Prime! 
'''Sentinel''' and '''Optimus''': Yes? 
'''News Bot''': ''Optimus'' Prime. Is it true that all Cybertronians have no regard for human life and view Earth as little more than a battleground for the never-ending robot wars? 
'''Sentinel''': Why, you little...! 
:{{m-}} News Bot's shot at the Pulitzer Prize nearly gets him crushed.

"How could they hire that nutjob body-snatcher to work for your father's company anyway?" 
:{{m-}}'''Bulkhead''', saying what we're all thinking.

'''Masterson''': Hello, Captain Fanzone? I'd like to report a Decepticon sighting. Yes, it's down at Old Detroit. I was so scared. ((high pitched voice)) Please do something, please! 
'''Fanzone''': Don't worry, ma'am. We're on it.
:{{m-}} Fanzone, unwittingly burning Masterson.

'''Fanzone''': Attention, all units! We have a Decepticon sighting in Old Detroit! 
'''Sentinel''': A "Decepticon sighting"? These organics wouldn't know a Decepticon from a garbage bot! ''[turns to a garbage bot]'' Tell your organic captain we're going to investigate. 
'''Optimus''': Uh, Sentinel, that's a trash bot. 
'''Sentinel''': Well, ''obviously'' it's a trash bot. I didn't just arrive on this planet yesterday! 
'''Optimus''': Actually, y{{m-}} 
'''Sentinel''': Ah, never mind, let's go.
:{{m-}}Sentinel Prime reaches out to the natives.

"This is why I hate machines...especially arrogant, full-of-themselves machines!"
:—'''Captain Fanzone''', also saying what we're all thinking.

"Sentinel, we should scramble our comlink frequencies in case the Decepticons are listening in!" 
"What you ''should'' do is stick within the scope of your programming. If I need a trash can emptied or a floor mopped, I'll call on my buddy Optimus Prime. Or should I say...''Maintenance'' Prime? Hahahaha!" 
''[Sentinel turns and walks away; Optimus does the same]'' 
"'Maintenance Prime'...then I'll just call you 'Pompous Gas-Bag Prime'. Yeah...that's what I should have said." 
:{{m-}}<s>Maintenance</s> '''Optimus Prime''' and '''Sentinel Prime''' match wits. Somehow, Optimus loses.

"'Maintenance Prime'...hee hee, I gotta save that one in the hard drive."
:—'''Sentinel Prime''' revels in his own sense of humor.

"Total ownage never gets old."
:—'''Headmaster''', saying what nobody is thinking.

'''Sentinel''': Uhhh, Optimus. Tell the organic Fanzone that he can send his police force home. It's a false alarm. 
'''Optimus''': How do you know? 
'''Sentinel''': I just know, okay?! Now I need you to come to my position. ''ALONE''. And promise me one more thing... 
'''Optimus''': What? 
'''Sentinel''': That you won't laugh! 
''[Optimus looks around the rubble for Sentinel]'' 
'''Optimus''': Sentinel? Where are you? 
'''Sentinel''': ''[quietly]'' Look down... 
''[Optimus looks down to see Sentinel's head severed from his body]'' 
'''Optimus''': ''[lets out a hearty laugh]'' 
'''Sentinel''': You promised you wouldn't laugh!! 
:—'''Optimus Prime''' gets a kick out of '''Sentinel Prime's''' misfortune

''[Optimus launches off the dock with the ship already well away]'' 
"We're not gonna make it...!" 
''[Optimus transforms and uses his rocket axe to reach the ship]'' 
"Told ya we'd make it!"
:—'''Sentinel Prime''' at his best

'''Bumblebee''': Just because you don't have a tutor bot anymore doesn't mean you have to stop learning. 
'''Bulkhead''': Right. We can teach you. 
'''Bumblebee''': So, class, today's lesson is regarding...um...well, stuff, and how it works. Any questions? 
'''Sari''': Yeah. Why is there no record of my existence? 
'''Bumblebee''': Okay...a little bit outside the lesson plan. Professor Bulkhead, your thoughts? 
'''Bulkhead''': Maybe she came here from another planet in some kinda egg and crashed on Sumdac's doorstep. 
'''Bumblebee''': Or a portal could have opened and she fell through from another dimension. 
'''Bulkhead''': Or maybe she's really a robot. 
'''Bumblebee''': Or maybe Sumdac found her in a cabbage patch. 
'''Bulkhead''': Or that stork thing. 
:{{m-}}Professors Bumblebee and Bulkhead have obviously been visiting the fan forums...

"Whoa, I don't remember my shield ever being that powerful." 
"Hee, you know me. I can't resist the upgrades." 
:{{m-}}'''Sentinel Prime''' marvels at the '''Headmaster'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s tinkering. [[Lockdown]] would love this guy...

"Yes! I am so l33t!" 
"Yeah? Well, I have no idea what that means!" 
:{{m-}}'''Headmaster''' boasts as '''Optimus Prime''' scores a blow against [[Floro Dery|over-sized egos everywhere]].

"You... You ripped my arm off!" 
"It was trying to jam shield spikes into my FACE!" 
:{{m-}} '''Sentinel''' and '''Optimus'''

'''Headmaster''': Yo, two things, law-dog. First: I do not sound like a "ma'am". Second: If you think you're laying down the rules, maybe you better conversate with my boss—him. 
''[Powell's limousine drives up]'' 
'''Porter C. Powell''': Captain Fanzone. I suggest you release my employee. 
'''Fanzone''': I don't think so, Mr Powell. 
'''Porter C. Powell''': And you're holding him on what charge? Destruction of property? ''[waves a hand at the ship]'' The ship belongs to Sumdac Systems. Assault? ''[gestures towards Optimus and Sentinel]'' Since when does an alien robot have rights? Plus, didn't the alleged incident occur in international waters between the U.S. and Canada? ''[points at Canada's shoreline on the horizon]'' A little out of your jurisdiction, wouldn't you agree, Captain? Why don't you work it out with the Mounties and let me know? 
:{{m-}} Porter C Powell out-wrestles the [[Captain Fanzone|arm of the law]] while the Headmaster invents a new word.

'''Sari''': What do you guys want? 
'''Bumblebee''': Nothing. 
'''Bulkhead''': We just wanted to know if you were okay. 
'''Sari''': Okay? If I'm okay? My dad is missing, I lost control of his company, that Powell guy is going to destroy everything good he worked for, I've been kicked out of the only home I've ever known, and I don't even know if I exist, and you think I'm okay!? 
''[she breaks down into tears]'' 
'''Bulkhead''': Oh...her eyes are leaking. 
'''Bumblebee''': You let 'em leak as much as you need to. We're here, and you're safe. So whatever it is, you can...always talk to us. We'll listen... 
''[Sari sniffles]'' 
'''Sari''': Thank you...
:{{m-}}[[Tara Strong]] gets even the most hard-hearted of fans sympathizing with Sari. ''Voice-acting goddess!''

==Other notes==
* This episode was first broadcast in Canada on April 19, one week before its United States premiere.

===Continuity errors===
* When Optimus stops Masterson's escape, he asserts the villain is going "back to prison", although the Headmaster has yet to serve time at all.
* Since when did Henry Materson knew about the Decepticons?


===Real-world references===
* Bumblebee mentions Sari could have come from a cabbage patch, a reference to the popular explanation of where babies come from - or to the [[Wikipedia:Cabbage Patch Kids|Cabbage Patch Kids]] said explanation inspired.
* Powell makes a passing reference to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, also known as "the Mounties".
* Bulkhead's "came here from another planet in some kind of egg" comment could be a reference to 1970s sitcom ''[[Wikipedia:Mork and Mindy|Mork and Mindy]]''
* The appearance of [[Detroit]]'s real-life Wayne County Building and the Renaissance Center in this episode gives a firm location for [[Sumdac Tower]] -- it's on one of two blocks of Randolph Street, currently occupied by a parking garage and a surface parking lot.

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* Powell claims Optimus and Sentinel's clash with Masterson took place in "international waters". There are no ''international'' waters in Lake St. Clair or Lake Erie, just American and Canadian waters. (But then, this is the future.) The "Mounties" remark is still relevant.
* Apparently, calling the police to report fabricated events (about Decepticons) doesn't constitute a crime in [[Detroit]]. Either that, or Fanzone didn't put two and two together as to Masterson being the caller of the faux incident.
* [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] and [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] do not appear in this episode.
* The Mayor's aide has gotten in more dialog than her boss...despite only having a single line.
* When Sentinel asks for Optimus to cover for him, Optimus mentions how Sentinel "covered for him" all those years ago, presumably after the Elita-1 incident. Maybe this is the reason that Optimus washed out of the [[Autobot Academy]]?
* Either the events of this episode span at least two days and two nights, or the sun goes down roughly [[Transformers (2007)|every couple of hours]].
* Given they presumably had very little time to prepare, the Autobots have whipped up a surprisingly comfortable room for Sari in their factory, doubly surprising given the lack of proper materials to hand. Who wouldn't want to sleep in a bed made from a giant radial tire!?
* On the other hand, their idea of proper human cuisine needs some work, since the meal they provide for Sari consists of a bunch of acorns, a fish skeleton (with flies buzzing around it), a live rabbit, and some miniature barrels of [[oil]].
* Professors Bumblebee and Bulkhead seriously need their own show. Imagine [[Dinobot (Animated)|the teaching aids they'd bring to a paleontology class]].
* Porter C. Powell is shaping up to be a bigger villain than all the previous human bad guys in the series combined.
* To go with his Captain America-inspired shield, Sentinel turns out to have an energy lance and a very knight-like battle mask.
* Prowl is in this episode for less then thirty seconds, yet is still the one who ends up solving one of the episode's conflicts. He's that good.

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The Return of the Headmaster

2008-06-13T23:35:56Z

RyuHane: /* Featured characters */ Link clean-up

[[Image:Sentinelprimeanimatedhumiliated.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Schadenfreude.]]

{{episodenav|animated|18|season=2|prev=The Elite Guard|next=Mission Accomplished}}

'''Optimus Prime is forced to team up with his rival Sentinel Prime after Sentinel has a humiliating encounter with the Headmaster.'''

==Summary==
[[Image:Returnofheadmaster sarisroom.jpg|left|thumb|200px|im in ur room, shackin in ur cribs]]

In Sari's room at [[Sumdac Tower]], Sari bitterly packs her things while grumbling about Porter C. Powell taking over her home and throwing her to the curb. She doesn't notice Powell enter as she badmouths him, but rather than get upset, the man smugly proves many of her points right and adds insult to injury by introducing her bedroom's new tenant, the freshly re-hired Henry Masterson. As the Headmaster makes himself at home, Sari protests, pointing out the man's lack of sanity, but Powell merely rushes her out the door. Then, just as Sari's day can't get any worse, Powell claims [[Sparkplug (Animated)|Sparkplug]] and [[Tutor Bot]] as company property. Harsh.

[[Image:Returnofheadmaster sentinelspeaks.jpg|right|thumb|200px|I am destined to be a superhero. To right wrongs and to pound two-fisted justice into the hearts of evildoers everywhere.]]

Meanwhile, the Primes [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus]] and [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel]] stand at a press conference along with the mayor and Captain Fanzone. Sentinel is his usual charming self, boasting the significance of the [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guard's]] presence, condescending to the [[Humans|icky organics]], showing complete ignorance of the planet's customs, and insulting his comrade's lowly position at every opportunity. Optimus tries his best to ignore all this and put the humans' minds at ease about the current situation, but finds it difficult to get a word in edgewise as Sentinel cuts him off, determined to do all the talking, refusing to let Optimus speak for him.

Powell and Masterson watch the press conference with intent. Powell says he expects great things from Masterson, intending to tap the lucrative military hardware market that Sumdac so foolishly ignored. Masterson is itching to get to work, but wants new robots on which to test his Headmaster units. The old Autobot crew won't cut it, however; he wants the new models, and he eagerly eyes Sentinel Prime's image on the screen.

Masterson calls up Fanzone with a false Decepticon sighting in Old Detroit. Fanzone relays the information to the Primes, and the heroes transform and roll out. Sentinel still hasn't gotten the hang of the city's traffic customs, however, and spends more time driving over other cars than on the road.

[[Image:AnimatedBumbleeBulkheadProfessor.jpg|left|thumb|150px|We tackle any topic, immense or microscopic!]]

Meanwhile, Sari is moving in with the Autobots at the old factory. Bulkhead and Bumblebee are eager to cheer up the sullen girl with loud TV, music, and a misguided tutoring session in which they end up throwing around theories about her mysterious origins. Predictably, everything they try only seems to make her more miserable.

Sentinel soon arrives at the scene of the supposed Decepticon sighting, prying a stop sign from his shoulder, and is quickly joined by Optimus and the police. Optimus starts making suggestions, but Sentinel shuts him up, opting to split up and search on his own, as he doesn't need help from a scrub.

The search drags on into the night, and Sentinel is jumping at shadows, turning the advanced weaponry of the Cybertron Elite Guard on such dire threats as stray cats. This distracts him, and Masterson gets the jump on him with the Headmaster unit. Shortly afterwards, Sentinel contacts Optimus, telling him it was a false alarm and to send the police away. He then demands Optimus come to his position alone and promise not to laugh. Soon after, Optimus finds Sentinel's decapitated head and breaks out in laughter. Bitter and humiliated, Sentinel pleads with Optimus to help him get his body back without Ultra Magnus finding out. Optimus guesses that the reason Sentinel is trusting him with the task is that he's just not important enough for his opinion to matter, but Sentinel is careful not to say something so insulting in his position. How about that.

[[Image:Returnofheadmaster optimuslaughs.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<nelson>''Haw''-haw!</nelson>]]

Optimus learns of Masterson's re-hiring thanks to a conveniently timed message from Bumblebee, reporting what he's heard from Sari. The next day, Optimus pays a visit to Sumdac Tower, hiding Sentinel's head under a tree trunk while he chats with Powell. The new manager makes it clear that the Autobots aren't free to waltz into his building as they please any more, but assures their leader that Masterson isn't there. However as soon as Optimus leaves, he phones the Headmaster with information on the new development, warning his employee not to jeopardize the company's image. Lucky for the Primes, Optimus thought ahead enough to intercept the phone call with his ear transceiver as soon as he was out of sight. He traces the call to a cargo ship at the docks.

It's night again when the 1.5 Primes arrive at the docks and start searching for Sentinel's body. They don't get far before a nearby crate bursts open, revealing a sinister Sparkplug and Tutor Bot outfitted with miniature Headmaster Units. Sentinel isn't too worried by the puny automatons until they reveal some powerful laser-shooting upgrades. They send Optimus scrambling for cover while Sentinel's head bounces around impotently on the ground. When the ship Masterson is supposedly on starts casting off, they can't play around any longer, and Optimus rushes through the laser fire, ramps off the deck, transforms in mid-air and rides a powerful burst from his rocket axe to hook into the side of the ship's hull. Awesome. His grappling hooks probably would have worked equally well, but dude, flying rocket axe!

[[Image:Returnofheadmaster headmastersvictim.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Oh, beware the other head of science, Arthur. It bites.]]

On the ship, Optimus and Sentinel try to find Sentinel's body...until it finds them. The Headmaster pushes Optimus down with Sentinel's shield. Sentinel is surprised that it's so powerful, to which Masterson gloats he upgraded his equipment. Pulling out Sentinel's beam lance and expanding the shield into a spikier version, the Headmaster clashes with Optimus while Sentinel bounces around impotently on the ground some more.

Masterson manages to knock Optimus's axe off the ship, leaving him unarmed. After being pinned to the ground with shield spikes inches from his face, Optimus returns the favor by ripping off Sentinel's arm, shield and all. Sentinel is mortified by the dismemberment, but Optimus feels it was justified. He then uses Sentinel's arm as a makeshift axe and fights back the body, eventually severing the Headmaster unit. The head quickly converts to robot mode and starts to run off, but this time Optimus stops him by kicking Sentinel's head into the fleeing villain like a soccer ball. Again, Sentinel is appalled. Optimus has less of an excuse this time.

[[Image:Headm_anim.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Salut!]]

Back on land, Fanzone has Masterson in cuffs, and it looks like a happy ending until Powell shows up, pointing out that the ship was Sumdac Systems property, the assaulted robots don't have rights protected by the law, and the whole incident occurred over international waters between the [[United States of America|US]] and [[Canada]]. Masterson is free to go, much to the chagrin of everybody else.

Meanwhile, at the factory, Bumblebee and Bulkhead are about to try another zany scheme to cheer up Sari, but Prowl stops them and tells them just to listen to her instead. When they try this last resort, Sari opens up about all her worries regarding her [[Isaac Sumdac|missing father]], her lost home and company, and her questioned existence. Bumblebee and Bulkhead aren't sure what to do, but they assure her they are there for her.

Finally, aboard the Elite Guard's ship the next day, Sentinel and Optimus report to Ultra Magnus, who has heard something about Sentinel "losing his head". Sentinel trembles uncomfortably in silence, but Optimus reports that they worked together to solve the crisis, effectively covering for his comrade, who really doesn't deserve it. Ultra Magnus congratulates both of them and takes his leave to contact [[Cybertron Command]] on an issue of great importance. As the Primes walk down the hallway, Sentinel struggles out a "thank you" to his compatriot. Optimus notes that it must have hurt to say that, and Sentinel acknowledges the fact and reaches out his hand.

==Stats==

*'''Written by:''' [[Michael Ryan]]
*'''Directed by:''' [[Ben Jones]] & [[Shunji Oga]]
*'''Original airdate:''' April 19, 2008

===Featured characters===
(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)''
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"

! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobot]]s

! style="background:antiquewhite" | [[Human]]s
! style="background:#FFEEB8" | Others
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (6)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (7)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (12)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (13)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (14)
*[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] (15)

| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" |
*[[Sari Sumdac]] (1)
*[[Porter C. Powell]] (4)
*[[Headmaster (Animated)|Headmaster]] (5)
*[[Captain Fanzone]] (8)
*[[Mayor Edsel]] (9)
*[[Mayor Edsel's aide]] (10)

| style="background:#FFEEB8" valign="top" |
* [[Tutor Bot]] (2)
* [[Sparkplug (robot dog)|Sparkplug]] (3)
* [[News Bot]] (11)
|}

==Quotes==
'''Sari''' ''(while packing her belongings)'': Chairman of the Board...what does that even mean? They should just call him "big jerk who thinks he's in charge of everything"! 
''[comes face to face with Powell]'' 
'''Porter C. Powell''': Oh, I don't ''think'' I'm in charge, young lady, I ''know'' it. So hurry along. I need this space for more research and development in order to make enough new money to cover what you lost the company while you were ''playing'' at being in charge, ''Miss Sumdac''—or...can I even call you that? 
'''Sari''': Just because there's no record that I'm Isaac Sumdac's daughter doesn't mean I'm not! He's my dad, and I don't care ''what'' you say! Ugh! Why am I even talking to you!? 
:{{m-}} Sari gets evicted from the [[Sumdac Tower|Big Brother House]].

"Whoa, hey! Check it! Major cribbage! And it's mine. It's all mine! ''laughs dementedly''" 
:{{m-}} '''Masterson''', who is surprisingly okay with the fact that his new "R&D facilities" are frilly, lacy, and painted pink.

'''News Bot''': Prime! Prime! 
'''Sentinel''' and '''Optimus''': Yes? 
'''News Bot''': ''Optimus'' Prime. Is it true that all Cybertronians have no regard for human life and view Earth as little more than a battleground for the never-ending robot wars? 
'''Sentinel''': Why, you little...! 
:{{m-}} News Bot's shot at the Pulitzer Prize nearly gets him crushed.

"How could they hire that nutjob body-snatcher to work for your father's company anyway?" 
:{{m-}}'''Bulkhead''', saying what we're all thinking.

'''Masterson''': Hello, Captain Fanzone? I'd like to report a Decepticon sighting. Yes, it's down at Old Detroit. I was so scared. ((high pitched voice)) Please do something, please! 
'''Fanzone''': Don't worry, ma'am. We're on it.
:{{m-}} Fanzone, unwittingly burning Masterson.

'''Fanzone''': Attention, all units! We have a Decepticon sighting in Old Detroit! 
'''Sentinel''': A "Decepticon sighting"? These organics wouldn't know a Decepticon from a garbage bot! ''[turns to a garbage bot]'' Tell your organic captain we're going to investigate. 
'''Optimus''': Uh, Sentinel, that's a trash bot. 
'''Sentinel''': Well, ''obviously'' it's a trash bot. I didn't just arrive on this planet yesterday! 
'''Optimus''': Actually, y{{m-}} 
'''Sentinel''': Ah, never mind, let's go.
:{{m-}}Sentinel Prime reaches out to the natives.

"This is why I hate machines...especially arrogant, full-of-themselves machines!"
:—'''Captain Fanzone''', also saying what we're all thinking.

"Sentinel, we should scramble our comlink frequencies in case the Decepticons are listening in!" 
"What you ''should'' do is stick within the scope of your programming. If I need a trash can emptied or a floor mopped, I'll call on my buddy Optimus Prime. Or should I say...''Maintenance'' Prime? Hahahaha!" 
''[Sentinel turns and walks away; Optimus does the same]'' 
"'Maintenance Prime'...then I'll just call you 'Pompous Gas-Bag Prime'. Yeah...that's what I should have said." 
:{{m-}}<s>Maintenance</s> '''Optimus Prime''' and '''Sentinel Prime''' match wits. Somehow, Optimus loses.

"'Maintenance Prime'...hee hee, I gotta save that one in the hard drive."
:—'''Sentinel Prime''' revels in his own sense of humor.

"Total ownage never gets old."
:—'''Headmaster''', saying what nobody is thinking.

'''Sentinel''': Uhhh, Optimus. Tell the organic Fanzone that he can send his police force home. It's a false alarm. 
'''Optimus''': How do you know? 
'''Sentinel''': I just know, okay?! Now I need you to come to my position. ''ALONE''. And promise me one more thing... 
'''Optimus''': What? 
'''Sentinel''': That you won't laugh! 
''[Optimus looks around the rubble for Sentinel]'' 
'''Optimus''': Sentinel? Where are you? 
'''Sentinel''': ''[quietly]'' Look down... 
''[Optimus looks down to see Sentinel's head severed from his body]'' 
'''Optimus''': ''[lets out a hearty laugh]'' 
'''Sentinel''': You promised you wouldn't laugh!! 
:—'''Optimus Prime''' gets a kick out of '''Sentinel Prime's''' misfortune

''[Optimus launches off the dock with the ship already well away]'' 
"We're not gonna make it...!" 
''[Optimus transforms and uses his rocket axe to reach the ship]'' 
"Told ya we'd make it!"
:—'''Sentinel Prime''' at his best

'''Bumblebee''': Just because you don't have a tutor bot anymore doesn't mean you have to stop learning. 
'''Bulkhead''': Right. We can teach you. 
'''Bumblebee''': So, class, today's lesson is regarding...um...well, stuff, and how it works. Any questions? 
'''Sari''': Yeah. Why is there no record of my existence? 
'''Bumblebee''': Okay...a little bit outside the lesson plan. Professor Bulkhead, your thoughts? 
'''Bulkhead''': Maybe she came here from another planet in some kinda egg and crashed on Sumdac's doorstep. 
'''Bumblebee''': Or a portal could have opened and she fell through from another dimension. 
'''Bulkhead''': Or maybe she's really a robot. 
'''Bumblebee''': Or maybe Sumdac found her in a cabbage patch. 
'''Bulkhead''': Or that stork thing. 
:{{m-}}Professors Bumblebee and Bulkhead have obviously been visiting the fan forums...

"Whoa, I don't remember my shield ever being that powerful." 
"Hee, you know me. I can't resist the upgrades." 
:{{m-}}'''Sentinel Prime''' marvels at the '''Headmaster'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s tinkering. [[Lockdown]] would love this guy...

"Yes! I am so l33t!" 
"Yeah? Well, I have no idea what that means!" 
:{{m-}}'''Headmaster''' boasts as '''Optimus Prime''' scores a blow against [[Floro Dery|over-sized egos everywhere]].

"You... You ripped my arm off!" 
"It was trying to jam shield spikes into my FACE!" 
:{{m-}} '''Sentinel''' and '''Optimus'''

'''Headmaster''': Yo, two things, law-dog. First: I do not sound like a "ma'am". Second: If you think you're laying down the rules, maybe you better conversate with my boss—him. 
''[Powell's limousine drives up]'' 
'''Porter C. Powell''': Captain Fanzone. I suggest you release my employee. 
'''Fanzone''': I don't think so, Mr Powell. 
'''Porter C. Powell''': And you're holding him on what charge? Destruction of property? ''[waves a hand at the ship]'' The ship belongs to Sumdac Systems. Assault? ''[gestures towards Optimus and Sentinel]'' Since when does an alien robot have rights? Plus, didn't the alleged incident occur in international waters between the U.S. and Canada? ''[points at Canada's shoreline on the horizon]'' A little out of your jurisdiction, wouldn't you agree, Captain? Why don't you work it out with the Mounties and let me know? 
:{{m-}} Porter C Powell out-wrestles the [[Captain Fanzone|arm of the law]] while the Headmaster invents a new word.

'''Sari''': What do you guys want? 
'''Bumblebee''': Nothing. 
'''Bulkhead''': We just wanted to know if you were okay. 
'''Sari''': Okay? If I'm okay? My dad is missing, I lost control of his company, that Powell guy is going to destroy everything good he worked for, I've been kicked out of the only home I've ever known, and I don't even know if I exist, and you think I'm okay!? 
''[she breaks down into tears]'' 
'''Bulkhead''': Oh...her eyes are leaking. 
'''Bumblebee''': You let 'em leak as much as you need to. We're here, and you're safe. So whatever it is, you can...always talk to us. We'll listen... 
''[Sari sniffles]'' 
'''Sari''': Thank you...
:{{m-}}[[Tara Strong]] gets even the most hard-hearted of fans sympathizing with Sari. ''Voice-acting goddess!''

==Other notes==
* This episode was first broadcast in Canada on April 19, one week before its United States premiere.

===Continuity errors===
* When Optimus stops Masterson's escape, he asserts the villain is going "back to prison", although the Headmaster has yet to serve time at all.
* Since when did Henry Materson knew about the Decepticons?


===Real-world references===
* Bumblebee mentions Sari could have come from a cabbage patch, a reference to the popular explanation of where babies come from - or to the [[Wikipedia:Cabbage Patch Kids|Cabbage Patch Kids]] said explanation inspired.
* Powell makes a passing reference to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, also known as "the Mounties".
* Bulkhead's "came here from another planet in some kind of egg" comment could be a reference to 1970s sitcom ''[[Wikipedia:Mork and Mindy|Mork and Mindy]]''
* The appearance of [[Detroit]]'s real-life Wayne County Building and the Renaissance Center in this episode gives a firm location for [[Sumdac Tower]] -- it's on one of two blocks of Randolph Street, currently occupied by a parking garage and a surface parking lot.

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* Powell claims Optimus and Sentinel's clash with Masterson took place in "international waters". There are no ''international'' waters in Lake St. Clair or Lake Erie, just American and Canadian waters. (But then, this is the future.) The "Mounties" remark is still relevant.
* Apparently, calling the police to report fabricated events (about Decepticons) doesn't constitute a crime in [[Detroit]]. Either that, or Fanzone didn't put two and two together as to Masterson being the caller of the faux incident.
* [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] and [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] do not appear in this episode.
* The Mayor's aide has gotten in more dialog than her boss...despite only having a single line.
* When Sentinel asks for Optimus to cover for him, Optimus mentions how Sentinel "covered for him" all those years ago, presumably after the Elita-1 incident. Maybe this is the reason that Optimus washed out of the [[Autobot Academy]]?
* Either the events of this episode span at least two days and two nights, or the sun goes down roughly [[Transformers (2007)|every couple of hours]].
* Given they presumably had very little time to prepare, the Autobots have whipped up a surprisingly comfortable room for Sari in their factory, doubly surprising given the lack of proper materials to hand. Who wouldn't want to sleep in a bed made from a giant radial tire!?
* On the other hand, their idea of proper human cuisine needs some work, since the meal they provide for Sari consists of a bunch of acorns, a fish skeleton (with flies buzzing around it), a live rabbit, and some miniature barrels of [[oil]].
* Professors Bumblebee and Bulkhead seriously need their own show. Imagine [[Dinobots (Animated)|the teaching aids they'd bring to a paleontology class]].
* Porter C. Powell is shaping up to be a bigger villain than all the previous human bad guys in the series combined.
* To go with his Captain America-inspired shield, Sentinel turns out to have an energy lance and a very knight-like battle mask.
* Prowl is in this episode for less then thirty seconds, yet is still the one who ends up solving one of the episode's conflicts. He's that good.

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Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)

2008-06-12T04:18:39Z

RyuHane: /* Vehicons */ Link clean-up

[[Image:Beastmachineslogo.gif|center]]

{{Nav-BM}}

'''''Beast Machines''''' is a 26-episode cartoon that aired in the US from 1999 to 2000, in support of the [[Beast Machines (toyline)|toyline]] of the same name. It is a direct follow-up to ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'', set in the same G1 continuity and featuring many of the same characters. Like ''Beast Wars'', its [[CGI|computer animation]] was created by [[Mainframe Entertainment]].

==Overview==
[[Image:Thereformattingmaximalsmaximize.jpg|thumb|left|300px|The Maximals, in a rare moment of Not Running Away.]]

The show follows the adventures of the core ''Beast Wars'' cast upon their return home to Cybertron; there, Optimus Primal and his crew find that the whole planet is abandoned, and the streets are patrolled by mindless [[Vehicon]] drones serving [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], who somehow escaped his captivity.

Worse still, they learn that they are infected with a deadly [[Transformation virus|virus]] that will kill them in a matter of hours. Salvation comes from the mysterious supercomputer known as the Oracle, who sees them fit to complete its mission of a planetwide "reformatting", and turns them into [[technorganic]] warriors, a perfect blend of organic and technological matter.

As the show progresses, Primal and his fellow Maximals learn to balance their technological side with their newly introduced organic aspects, mastery coming in slow stages. Unlike the previous [[Beast Wars (cartoon)|conflict]], where sides had been roughly equal, the four original Maximals were quite outnumbered by their [[Vehicon]] enemies, and the battles took on a "guerilla warfare" feel, with the Maximals using sewers and underground levels to their advantage and avoiding surface levels unless for combat purposes. As the show progresses, two brand-new Maximals and a returning face boost their number and together, the Maximals eventually turn Cybertron into an [[technorganic]] paradise, though at the cost of their [[Optimus Primal|leader]]'s life.

Controversial even by the standards of other Transformers [[Unicron Trilogy|reinventions]] (!), ''Beast Machines'' is remembered by some as a series which tried to tackle heavy philosophical concepts with mixed results, discussing such issues like what it meant to live in an increasingly technological society and the dichotomy between the desires of the individual and the needs of society and the paradox of a living technological world. Story editor [[Bob Skir]] describes the series as a "religious epic novel for television." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAkRF4QBKew&eurl=/]

The series' detractors complained about the show's alleged "hippie" agenda, claiming it would [[Ruined FOREVER|ruin Transformers]]; a few went so far as to send Skir death threats, causing him to cancel a convention appearance in 2000. Even more sympathetic fans have commented that the show lacks ''Beast Wars''' overall sense of fun, that it features seemingly endless scenes of the good guys running away, and that the requirements of the overall plot structure leave it treading water story-wise at times. The show was and remains the darkest Transformers animation to date, and the final animated entry into the Generation 1 story canon, bringing that story to a rather conclusive ending.

Despite all the criticisms, the show continued the high production values of ''Beast Wars'', with solid scripting, excellent voice acting, and CGI that was a considerable step up in quality even from ''Beast Wars''. Mainframe's animators showed their considerable talents in giving highly emotive expression to such alien characters as the [[Vehicon]] Generals and even the [[Diagnostic Drone]], which ''didn't have a face at all''. As with ''Beast Wars'', [[Robert Buckley]] provided the series background music, this time creating a stylized electronic music in keeping with the mechanical environment of Cybertron.

With ''Beast Machines'' perhaps not quite living up to Hasbro's hopes, Hasbro's next foray into animation would be to bring over a [[Robots in Disguise (cartoon)|year-old Japanese show]] for consumption in the US, until a [[Unicron Trilogy|new story]] could be concocted. In [[Armada (cartoon)|light]] [[Energon (cartoon)|of the]] [[Cybertron (cartoon)|results]], some fans have found themselves re-evaluating ''Beast Machines'' more favorably, though the newfound positive reception is still not universal by any means.

==Episodes==
{{note|For a detailed list including airdates and production stats, see [[List of Beast Machines episodes]].}}
===Season 1===
[[Image:Tankor flames.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Tankor, YOU'RE FIRED!]]

Season 1 largely centers on the Maximals' efforts to find out what has happened to them, as they arrive on Cybertron with no memories. In addition to Megatron and the core Maximal cast, three new Vehicon generals are introduced, as well as the new Maximal Nightscream. By the end of the season, Optimus Primal has been driven down a road of extremism, and an apocalyptic confrontation marks the season finale...

1. [[The Reformatting]] 
2. [[Master of the House]] 
3. [[Fires of the Past]] 
4. [[Mercenary Pursuits]] 
5. [[Forbidden Fruit]] 
6. [[The Weak Component]] 
7. [[Revelations Part I: Discovery]] 
8. [[Revelations Part II: Descent]] 
9. [[Revelations Part III: Apocalypse]] 
10. [[Survivor]] 
11. [[The Key]] 
12. [[The Catalyst]] 
13. [[End of the Line]]

===Season 2: Battle for the Spark===
[[Image:Botanica5.jpg|thumb|right|200px|This freakish, tentacled, multi-limbed creature is one of the kid-friendly good guys!]]

The ultimate face-off at the end of Season 1 is resolved in a most unusual and cerebral manner, setting the tone for Season 2 as Primal realizes his mission is one of balance, not extremism. Silverbolt rejoins the Maximal ranks, a new Maximal arrives from off-world, and two dangerous new generals join Megatron's side as the Maximals search for the lost Sparks of their brethren and battle to regain control of Cybertron.

1. [[Fallout]] 
2. [[Savage Noble]] 
3. [[Prometheus Unbound]] 
4. [[In Darkest Knight]] 
5. [[A Wolf in the Fold]] 
6. [[Home Soil]] 
7. [[Sparkwar Part 1: The Strike]] 
8. [[Sparkwar Part 2: The Search]] 
9. [[Sparkwar Part 3: The Siege]] 
10. [[Spark of Darkness]] 
11. [[Endgame Part 1: The Downward Spiral]] 
12. [[Endgame Part 2: When Legends Fall]] 
13. [[Endgame Part 3: The Seeds of the Future]]

==Characters==
[[Image:Rattrap bm robotmode.jpg|right|thumb|200px|There's a caption under me?!]]

Because developing new CGI character models was, at the time, an expensive and time-consuming process, the number of named on-screen characters in ''Beast Machines'' was relatively small compared to most other ''Transformers'' shows. It is thus practical to list all the Transformers who appeared in the cartoon. They are listed in order of appearance. (Most drones are not listed, and neither are incidental flashback characters.) Note that many characters besides these are also full-fledged Beast Machines characters, having appeared in other media.

===[[Maximal|Maximals]]===
*[[Optimus Primal]]
*[[Rattrap]]
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]
*[[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]]
*[[Savage/Noble]]
*[[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]]
*[[Botanica]]

===[[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]]===
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]
*[[Diagnostic Drone]] ([[spark]]less, hence not a Transformer, but had a speaking role and a personality)
*[[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]]
*[[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]]
*[[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (nominally the same character as Tankor)
*[[Waspinator|Waspinator]] (nominally the same character as Thrust)
*[[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]]
*[[Strika]]

===Other===
*[[Vector Sigma|The Oracle]] (not much of a personality, but definitely a major speaking role)

==Trivia==
* [[Mainframe Entertainment]] executive [[Dan DiDio]] explicitly told Bob Skir and [[Marty Isenberg]] to ignore all previous Transformers cartoons when writing ''Beast Machines'', because "''Beast Wars'' was too continuity-heavy". It clearly did not work out that way.

* In the May 2008 "DC Nation" editorial appearing in [[Wikipedia:DC Comics|DC Comics]] publications, Dan DiDio recounted that writer [[Steve Gerber]] had once pitched a "wildly original take on ''Transformers''" as part of the development of ''Beast Machines''.

* The theme tune for the show was Leftfield's "Phat Planet". This was also used for a famous Guinness advert. The latter proved a more popular TV slot.

* Apart from flashbacks, visions and such, ''Beast Machines'' takes place entirely on (or in orbit of) Cybertron and has no human characters. This is unique among the TV shows.

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Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)

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'''''Beast Machines''''' is a 26-episode cartoon that aired in the US from 1999 to 2000, in support of the [[Beast Machines (toyline)|toyline]] of the same name. It is a direct follow-up to ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'', set in the same G1 continuity and featuring many of the same characters. Like ''Beast Wars'', its [[CGI|computer animation]] was created by [[Mainframe Entertainment]].

==Overview==
[[Image:Thereformattingmaximalsmaximize.jpg|thumb|left|300px|The Maximals, in a rare moment of Not Running Away.]]

The show follows the adventures of the core ''Beast Wars'' cast upon their return home to Cybertron; there, Optimus Primal and his crew find that the whole planet is abandoned, and the streets are patrolled by mindless [[Vehicon]] drones serving [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], who somehow escaped his captivity.

Worse still, they learn that they are infected with a deadly [[Transformation virus|virus]] that will kill them in a matter of hours. Salvation comes from the mysterious supercomputer known as the Oracle, who sees them fit to complete its mission of a planetwide "reformatting", and turns them into [[technorganic]] warriors, a perfect blend of organic and technological matter.

As the show progresses, Primal and his fellow Maximals learn to balance their technological side with their newly introduced organic aspects, mastery coming in slow stages. Unlike the previous [[Beast Wars (cartoon)|conflict]], where sides had been roughly equal, the four original Maximals were quite outnumbered by their [[Vehicon]] enemies, and the battles took on a "guerilla warfare" feel, with the Maximals using sewers and underground levels to their advantage and avoiding surface levels unless for combat purposes. As the show progresses, two brand-new Maximals and a returning face boost their number and together, the Maximals eventually turn Cybertron into an [[technorganic]] paradise, though at the cost of their [[Optimus Primal|leader]]'s life.

Controversial even by the standards of other Transformers [[Unicron Trilogy|reinventions]] (!), ''Beast Machines'' is remembered by some as a series which tried to tackle heavy philosophical concepts with mixed results, discussing such issues like what it meant to live in an increasingly technological society and the dichotomy between the desires of the individual and the needs of society and the paradox of a living technological world. Story editor [[Bob Skir]] describes the series as a "religious epic novel for television." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAkRF4QBKew&eurl=/]

The series' detractors complained about the show's alleged "hippie" agenda, claiming it would [[Ruined FOREVER|ruin Transformers]]; a few went so far as to send Skir death threats, causing him to cancel a convention appearance in 2000. Even more sympathetic fans have commented that the show lacks ''Beast Wars''' overall sense of fun, that it features seemingly endless scenes of the good guys running away, and that the requirements of the overall plot structure leave it treading water story-wise at times. The show was and remains the darkest Transformers animation to date, and the final animated entry into the Generation 1 story canon, bringing that story to a rather conclusive ending.

Despite all the criticisms, the show continued the high production values of ''Beast Wars'', with solid scripting, excellent voice acting, and CGI that was a considerable step up in quality even from ''Beast Wars''. Mainframe's animators showed their considerable talents in giving highly emotive expression to such alien characters as the [[Vehicon]] Generals and even the [[Diagnostic Drone]], which ''didn't have a face at all''. As with ''Beast Wars'', [[Robert Buckley]] provided the series background music, this time creating a stylized electronic music in keeping with the mechanical environment of Cybertron.

With ''Beast Machines'' perhaps not quite living up to Hasbro's hopes, Hasbro's next foray into animation would be to bring over a [[Robots in Disguise (cartoon)|year-old Japanese show]] for consumption in the US, until a [[Unicron Trilogy|new story]] could be concocted. In [[Armada (cartoon)|light]] [[Energon (cartoon)|of the]] [[Cybertron (cartoon)|results]], some fans have found themselves re-evaluating ''Beast Machines'' more favorably, though the newfound positive reception is still not universal by any means.

==Episodes==
{{note|For a detailed list including airdates and production stats, see [[List of Beast Machines episodes]].}}
===Season 1===
[[Image:Tankor flames.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Tankor, YOU'RE FIRED!]]

Season 1 largely centers on the Maximals' efforts to find out what has happened to them, as they arrive on Cybertron with no memories. In addition to Megatron and the core Maximal cast, three new Vehicon generals are introduced, as well as the new Maximal Nightscream. By the end of the season, Optimus Primal has been driven down a road of extremism, and an apocalyptic confrontation marks the season finale...

1. [[The Reformatting]] 
2. [[Master of the House]] 
3. [[Fires of the Past]] 
4. [[Mercenary Pursuits]] 
5. [[Forbidden Fruit]] 
6. [[The Weak Component]] 
7. [[Revelations Part I: Discovery]] 
8. [[Revelations Part II: Descent]] 
9. [[Revelations Part III: Apocalypse]] 
10. [[Survivor]] 
11. [[The Key]] 
12. [[The Catalyst]] 
13. [[End of the Line]]

===Season 2: Battle for the Spark===
[[Image:Botanica5.jpg|thumb|right|200px|This freakish, tentacled, multi-limbed creature is one of the kid-friendly good guys!]]

The ultimate face-off at the end of Season 1 is resolved in a most unusual and cerebral manner, setting the tone for Season 2 as Primal realizes his mission is one of balance, not extremism. Silverbolt rejoins the Maximal ranks, a new Maximal arrives from off-world, and two dangerous new generals join Megatron's side as the Maximals search for the lost Sparks of their brethren and battle to regain control of Cybertron.

1. [[Fallout]] 
2. [[Savage Noble]] 
3. [[Prometheus Unbound]] 
4. [[In Darkest Knight]] 
5. [[A Wolf in the Fold]] 
6. [[Home Soil]] 
7. [[Sparkwar Part 1: The Strike]] 
8. [[Sparkwar Part 2: The Search]] 
9. [[Sparkwar Part 3: The Siege]] 
10. [[Spark of Darkness]] 
11. [[Endgame Part 1: The Downward Spiral]] 
12. [[Endgame Part 2: When Legends Fall]] 
13. [[Endgame Part 3: The Seeds of the Future]]

==Characters==
[[Image:Rattrap bm robotmode.jpg|right|thumb|200px|There's a caption under me?!]]

Because developing new CGI character models was, at the time, an expensive and time-consuming process, the number of named on-screen characters in ''Beast Machines'' was relatively small compared to most other ''Transformers'' shows. It is thus practical to list all the Transformers who appeared in the cartoon. They are listed in order of appearance. (Most drones are not listed, and neither are incidental flashback characters.) Note that many characters besides these are also full-fledged Beast Machines characters, having appeared in other media.

===[[Maximal|Maximals]]===
*[[Optimus Primal]]
*[[Rattrap]]
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]
*[[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]]
*[[Savage/Noble]]
*[[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]]
*[[Botanica]]

===[[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]]===
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]
*[[Diagnostic Drone]] ([[spark]]less, hence not a Transformer, but had a speaking role and a personality)
*[[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]]
*[[Tankor|Tankor]]
*[[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (nominally the same character as Tankor)
*[[Waspinator|Waspinator]] (nominally the same character as Thrust)
*[[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]]
*[[Strika]]

===Other===
*[[Vector Sigma|The Oracle]] (not much of a personality, but definitely a major speaking role)

==Trivia==
* [[Mainframe Entertainment]] executive [[Dan DiDio]] explicitly told Bob Skir and [[Marty Isenberg]] to ignore all previous Transformers cartoons when writing ''Beast Machines'', because "''Beast Wars'' was too continuity-heavy". It clearly did not work out that way.

* In the May 2008 "DC Nation" editorial appearing in [[Wikipedia:DC Comics|DC Comics]] publications, Dan DiDio recounted that writer [[Steve Gerber]] had once pitched a "wildly original take on ''Transformers''" as part of the development of ''Beast Machines''.

* The theme tune for the show was Leftfield's "Phat Planet". This was also used for a famous Guinness advert. The latter proved a more popular TV slot.

* Apart from flashbacks, visions and such, ''Beast Machines'' takes place entirely on (or in orbit of) Cybertron and has no human characters. This is unique among the TV shows.

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Spark

2008-06-12T04:13:49Z

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[[Image:sparks.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] is a [http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Space_Mutiny Bellarian].]]

A '''spark''' is the lifeforce, or soul, of a [[Transformer]]. Each spark is part of the essence of [[Primus]] himself.

The spark is a physical entity which is safeguarded inside a Transformer body. If something harms the spark beyond repair, it is "extinguished" and returns to the [[Allspark (dimension)|Allspark]] (or sometimes the [[Well of All Sparks]]). The Transformer is then considered dead. A Transformer is able to survive an enormous amount of physical damage. As long as the spark is intact, it is possible to repair or rebuild the body and restore the spark to it.
{{quote|When a Spark goes online, there is great joy. When one is extinguished, the universe weeps.|[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] being all mystical|"[[The Spark]]"}}

==Establishment in fiction==
[[Image:Spark.gif|thumb|left|Animation of a typical spark. Shiny!]]

The concept of the spark as currently understood was introduced to the Transformers mythos in the ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode "[[The Spark]]". In this episode, little is explained except that each spark is unique and that every "Cybertron" (here meaning, essentially, "Cybertronian") has one.

The later episode "[[Possession]]" dealt with the idea of sparks, but the spark in question{{m-}}that of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]{{m-}}is established as being aberrant, and thus the properties it displays are not necessarily characteristic of sparks in general. However, "Possession" was the first time it was claimed that characters from the Generation 1 series also had sparks, rather than sparks existing in ''Beast Wars'' only. Sparks remained prominent throughout ''Beast Wars'', and events in seasons two and three further established the [[retcon]] that Generation 1 Transformers all possessed sparks.

In ''[[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'', sparks became central to the story, as [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] had abducted the sparks from every Transformer on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Megatron's own spark displayed unusual behaviors in this series, and again, it is probable these behaviors do not apply to all sparks. Still, ''Beast Machines'' contributed more information about sparks to the [[canon]] than any other series.

The [[Generation 1 (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] occasionally referenced a device called a [[laser core]], which seemingly has a similar function to a spark. The tech spec bio for the [[Beast Rider]] [[Mechatron]] says that he is "outfitted with an upgraded spark-capture claw that can tear out the entire laser core of any Transformer defender." This implies, as some fans had speculated prior to Mechatron's release, that the laser core may be some sort of housing for the spark.

Since the introduction of the spark concept in ''Beast Wars'', sparks have become an integral part of many Transformers fictions. They have been featured in new [[Generation 1]]-based series and in later alternate-dimension tales such as the [[Unicron Trilogy]]'s ''[[Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' and ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]''.

Although the word "spark" does appear offhandedly in some [[Generation 1 (Marvel Comics)|''Generation 1'' comic]] stories (a "spark of life", a "life spark", and the phrase [[Pretender to the Throne!|"For as long as a spark exists within a single Mechabot..."]]), these were clearly simply metaphorical statements. They may be retroactively seen as referring to the contemporary concept of a Transformer's spark, but did not establish anything of the sort on their own.

==Properties of sparks==
[[Image:spark colors.jpg|thumb|right|The sparks of the reformatted Maximals took on unusual colors. Before their final battle with Megatron, the sparks became visible within their bodies. They also lift and separate.]]

As seen in the image at the top of this article, sparks normally appear as semitransparent blue balls of energy with a pulsating center composed of smaller, blue spheres. The center spheres are engulfed in a reddish glow. An ever-changing pattern of "electricity"-like lines travels around the surface and through the interior. However, in ''Beast Machines'', the sparks of the Maximal heroes who had been [[reformatting|reformatted]] took on different colors (for example, [[Blackarachnia]]'s was green). This was first visible in "[[Revelations Part I: Discovery]]". At the end of that series, after being infused with extra power from the Matrix (cf. [[Allspark (dimension)|Allspark]]), their sparks became visible, as if parts of their torsos were translucent.

[[Beast Era]] Transformers seem to have permanent "spark chambers" within their chassis where the spark can be seen simply by opening the chamber. Older Transformers within the same G1/Beast [[continuity family]], such as those who lived before the [[Great Upgrade]], do not seem to have this feature in most continuities. The G1 ''[[More Than Meets The Eye]]'' guidebook from [[Dreamwave]] specifically states that a spark is normally "suffused" throughout a Transformer's body rather than residing in any particular place. It may be that this is also true after the Great Upgrade, and that the spark chamber is merely a protected location for the spark to coalesce when needed. Meanwhile, making things more confusing, the cutaway diagrams of G1 Optimus Prime and Megatron in ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'' include spark chambers.

In the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon, there were two cases of Beast-era Transformers temporarily housing the sparks of G1-era Transformers in their own bodies while still housing their own sparks. In both cases, this resulted in the Beastie undergoing a mutation of sorts into a more powerful body: [[Optimus Primal]], upon taking the spark of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], grew into his Optimal Optimus body; and Megatron, upon taking the spark of the [[Megatron (G1)|original Megatron]] obtained his dragon form. However, based on the information from the series, there is no basis for determining whether this phenomenon is a result of a single body housing two sparks, a Beast-era body housing a G1-era spark, a body being implanted with an especially "powerful" spark (like those of Optimus Prime and Megatron could conceivably be), or some combination of these. When the disembodied spark of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] had earlier possessed [[Waspinator]], the only physical change was the body's allegiance emblems shifting from Predacon to Decepticon. (The later ''Beast Wars'' comic miniseries ''[[The Gathering]]'' implies that G1 sparks may be intrinsically more powerful than Beast-era sparks.)

Although Transformer memories and personalities are generally treated as if they are stored within the Transformers' computer brains, repeated canonical instances have established that a spark will (or can) hold all of an individual's memories, along with their "essence" or personality. Further, there is some evidence that sparks may even retain records of the Transformer's previous bodies (such as when Optimal Optimus, whose body originated with a blank [[protoform]], regressed into a copy of the gorilla body Primal wore at the beginning of the Beast Wars). A Transformer's behavior can be modified through programming of their mechanical body (referred to as a [[shell program]]), but this is always a struggle between the programming and the "true" nature of the spark within. It may be that over long periods of time, a spark may begin to internalize some aspects of a programmed personality.

Many Transformers, such as [[Sky Lynx]], [[Omega Supreme (G1)|G1 Omega Supreme]], and the [[Duocon]]s, simultaneously inhabit multiple mechanical bodies or components. The character bio for [[Magmatron]] mentions this ability of his, and categorizes his spark as a "mitotic spark" which is able of splitting and sharing itself between his three beast modes. It is unknown whether other multiple-bodied Transformers also possess mitotic sparks or if they are examples of something more mundane such as simple remote control.

Some Transformers are able to sense and communicate with the sparks of other Transformers through a process that appears analogous to telepathy. According to dialog from "[[Revelations Part III: Apocalypse]]", this ability is related to the sparks' mutual connection to the Allspark. Disembodied sparks are sometimes able to communicate through this same method. (See [[#Disembodied sparks|below]].)

The radiation emitted by [[energon]] crystals is harmful to sparks, even when protected within a Transformer's body. Certain body types are better able to shield the spark from energon radiation. For example, the flesh-like beast modes adopted by the crews of the [[Axalon (BW)|''Axalon'']] and ''[[Darksyde]]'' provided essentially 100% protection, allowing activity in environments that were practically forests of energon crystal, so long as those involved remained in beast mode. Direct contact between crystalline energon and a spark is highly dangerous.

In the ''Beast Machines'' episode "[[Spark of Darkness]]", [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] describes Megatron's disembodied spark as a ball of [[electron]]s. He goes on to say that normal sparks contain a large number of [[positron]]s. Based on his dialogue, it is possible, but not certain, that sparks are composed ''entirely'' of positrons. Rattrap also indicates, in "Revelations Part I", that when a spark is extinguished, carbon scoring is typically left on or within the Transformer's chassis.

[[Image:Pushing on a spark.jpg|left|thumb|Nightscream's hands don't seem to touch the spark itself while pushing on it.]]

Regardless of their composition, sparks are not insubstantial energy, but have some sort of physical aspect. This is clearly demonstrated in, again, "Revelations Part III", when [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] is seen attempting to push Blackarachnia's spark back into her body. His hands press against some sort of surface (or perhaps merely a force field, in which case the spark could be entirely energy) which is above the visible surface of her spark. Later in the series, in "Spark of Darkness", Megatron's spark is also shown to have physicality. Further back, in ''Beast Wars'', the spark of Rampage/Protoform X would respond to being "crushed" by Megatron by flattening slightly inside its energon-lined carrying case. And even the spark of G1 Megatron was "grabbed" physically by a tentacle-like appendage of BW Megatron's. While some of these examples may be special cases, as they deal with sparks that have unusual properties, those properties are unique to each spark. The weight of evidence, then, is in favor of sparks being at least partially substantial.

In the [[Energon (cartoon)|''Energon'' cartoon]], sparks were shown to have the ability to be somehow augmented by Primus to become a [[Combination Spark]]. This allowed two Autobots to [[powerlinx]] together into a new form, allowing one Autobot to take command of the fused body while the "pants" remained dormant. Without the Combination Spark, a powerlinx between two normal Transformers could not be completed. It is not stated whether the combiner teams [[Constructicon Maximus]] and [[Bruticus Maximus]] also possessed Combination Sparks or if their ability to combine has some other origin.

==Disembodied sparks==
Sparks are able to exist outside of a Transformer body, but the parameters of this phenomenon are largely unclear. In is unknown for how long a spark can survive under such conditions, although they are vulnerable to damage in this state. It is also unknown whether a disembodied spark is "conscious" and aware of its surroundings, or whether it is capable of moving under its own power. (There are unusual cases, as described under [[#Aberrant sparks|Aberrant sparks]].)

It is hard to imagine how a spark could be aware of its surroundings when stripped of all sensory mechanisms. Indeed, in "Revelations Part III: Apocalypse", while Blackarachnia's spark was outside of her body, her consciousness did not remain in the "real world". Instead, she experienced a conversation with [[Optimus Primal]]—not a hallucination—which took place on an abstract "higher plane of existence," perhaps within the Allspark itself.

Most of the disembodied sparks in ''Beast Machines'' drift slowly and largely directionlessly. In many other cases, sparks seem to move with some sort of intent. However, aside from attempts of sparks to re-enter their "home" bodies, these are conceivably all "special cases" and may not be generalizable. In one example, the sparks of [[Tigatron]] and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] are seen following [[Tigerhawk]] to Earth in "[[Other Victories]]". While their sparks appear normal when this occurs, they later merge into a single white spark and then inhabit the (then-empty) Tigerhawk body. This is not normal spark behavior and may be related to the time they spent seemingly in stasis with the [[Vok]]. Also, in "Revalations Part III", when Blackarachnia becomes panicked during her telepathic conversation with Primal, her spark begins moving erratically and has to be chased down by Nightscream. However, it is unclear whether the spark was moving ''with intent''—especially since Blackarachnia's consciousness was portrayed as still being on a higher plane—or simply zigzagging randomly. And, again, a reformatted spark may be different from a normal spark anyway.

==Aberrant sparks==
Some sparks have exhibited properties or behaviors that do not seem to be generalizable to other sparks.

===Starscream===
As established in the ''Beast Wars'' episodes "[[Possession]]" and "[[Bad Spark]]", Starscream possesses a "mutant" immortal spark. Even when his body is destroyed, his spark is not extinguished. This explanation retcons the appearance of Starscream's ghost in some season three episodes from the G1 cartoon; the "ghost" was in fact Starscream's disembodied spark.

Starscream's spark was able to move under its own power and seemingly travelled not just across space from Cybertron to [[Earth]], but backwards through time from 2006 to human prehistory. It may be that the time travel was accomplished by "falling" through the [[transwarp]] hole left by the ''Axalon'' and ''Darksyde'' when they arrived on prehistoric Earth—[[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]]'s ship arrived there by that method later in the series—but this is uncertain.

Additionally, Starscream's spark was able to take possession of other Transformers simply by entering their bodies. While in another body, Starscream's will completely dominates that of his host. When Starscream possessed [[Waspinator]], Waspinator's voice even changed to sound like Starscream's, and the [[Insignia|Predacon insignias]] on his body changed to Decepticon insignias. Starscream either did not have, or did not seem to know that he had, this possession ability until he died during the events of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.

===Rampage/Protoform X===
The creation of Protoform X was an experiment conducted by the [[Maximal Elder|Maximal Elders]] to attempt to replicate Starscream's indestructible spark. Although they succeeded in creating such a spark, dubbed [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]] (and later taking on the name [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]]), it was, unfortunately, psychotic.

Like Starscream's spark, Rampage's could not be extinguished through simple destruction of his body. In fact, Rampage's body—at least, the body he wore during the Beast Wars—had uncannily rapid self-repair functions. In one instance, Depth Charge pierced Rampage's body from front to back with a spear, and the damage disappeared in a matter of seconds once the spear was removed.

Megatron devised a way to split Rampage's spark by carving it with a blade of [[energon crystal]]. Amazingly, this did not destroy the spark, nor did it seem to weaken Rampage appreciably. Megatron kept part of the spark in a case lined with energon crystals. By squeezing the case, the crystals would pinch the spark fragment, and Megatron used this to torture Rampage into obedience.

Megatron later placed this piece of Rampage's spark inside his [[Transmetal|Transmetal II]] clone of [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], who is usually referred to as [[Dinobot II]]. Dinobot II appeared to have a personality wholly independent of Rampage's, although he was similarly brutal. Dinobot II's personality, however, may have been imposed upon him through programming. Dinobot II could torture Rampage by compressing the spark fragment that he held, much as Megatron had previously done. This did not seem to affect Dinobot himself.

Rampage's spark turned out to not be completely indestructible. Seemingly as an extension of Megatron's splitting of the spark with an energon blade, Depth Charge eventually destroyed Rampage by piercing his spark with "pure" crystalline energon. Normally sparks "extinguish" somewhat peacefully, but when Rampage's was pierced, a powerful explosion destroyed the bodies of both Rampage and Depth Charge. It may be that Starscream's spark would be similarly vulnerable to being cut/destroyed by energon, but this is mere extrapolation.

When Rampage's spark was destroyed, the fragment within Dinobot II did not explode. It may have simply disappeared, or it may have remained there. However, through a process which is not clearly established, Dinobot II at that instant "reverted" to the personality of the original Dinobot, and even had a vision of Dinobot's last moments. It may be that this reversion was related to events scripted for an episode which was never produced, titled "[[Dark Glass]]".

Rampage's spark never displayed the ability to move under its own power.

===Megatron===
In season two of ''Beast Machines'', Megatron's spark does a number of unusual things.

As part of the battle between him and [[Optimus Primal]] at the end of season one, during which the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] and the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]] were pitted against each other, Megatron somehow was able to "split" his Beast body into two separate bodies, one entirely robotic and the other entirely "biological". (Whether the Beast bodies of the ''Beast Wars'' characters had any true biological components or whether they were faux-flesh composed of nanites is not consistently established in either series.) Contrary to his intentions, Megatron's spark ended up trapped within the biological body, which came to be known as [[Noble/Savage]].

It is unclear how a biological body was able to sustain a Transformers' spark. Indeed, even the Maximals were surprised when they realized what had happened. It could be argued, based on statements made by [[Vector Sigma|the Oracle]] in the first episode ("[[The Reformatting]]") that all lifeforms in the universe have sparks, not just Transformers. However, this is never alluded to by any other canonical source, so most fans have seemingly dismissed it.

As shown in "[[Prometheus Unbound]]", using the biological Noble/Savage body, Megatron was unable to exercise mental control over devices in his citadel or interface with his [[control harness]]. Upon using a [[spark extractor]] on himself, however, his spark was freed and immediately flew to the harness, which it activated before "flowing" up to the ceiling through the harness's cables. His spark then took over the [[Grand Mal]], an enormous, floating replica of his own head, as its new body and stayed there for most of season two. The Noble/Savage body appeared to be dead, but recovered. After Megatron's spark had left it, it seemed to be a perfectly "normal" animal which had the ability to change between a wolf-like form and a dragon form, possessing little if any sentience.

As soon as his spark had been removed from Noble, it took on an unusual appearance, having turned entirely red or orange in color (perhaps a change similar to that of the reformatted Maximals). Megatron's disembodied spark also seemed to be able to speak even though it had no physical body. It may be that this speech was telepathic, but the spark itself pulsated in perfect rhythm with the words.

While inhabiting the Grand Mal, Megatron's spark was sometimes seen floating freely and under its own power through the construct's interior, particularly in a large space that appeared to serve as his control room. (It was here that he addressed his [[Vehicon general]]s, usually manifesting as a holographic projection of one kind or another.)

[[Image:Spark consumption.jpg|thumb|Megatron's spark ensnares and consumes other sparks from his collection.]]
[[Image:Giant megatron spark.jpg|thumb|Now enormous, Megatron's spark looms over Cybertron in the vicinity of his [[Big Floating Head]].]]

Eventually, in the three-part "[[Sparkwar]]" story, Megatron's spark began consuming/fusing with the captured sparks of Cybertron's inhabitants. He claimed to have learned how to accomplish this after communicating with the Oracle.

To consume other sparks, Megatron's spark extended tendrils which ensnared victim sparks. These tendrils also had the ability extract sparks from occupied shells, much like a [[spark extractor]]. As each spark was absorbed, Megatron's spark grew larger in size.

Megatron was temporarily beaten when [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] attacked him with a sonic scream. The scream, according to Primal, depolarized Megatron's spark. This caused him to lose control temporarily and allowed the Maximals to escape. In the following episode, "[[Spark of Darkness]]", Megatron's spark exhibited additional strange behaviors which may or may not have been dependent on its depolarized state:

*It travelled very quickly and with great agility.
*It was able to "crash" physically into things to push them around. In particular, it repeatedly knocked the Maximals out of its way.
*It seemed to be able to cause large explosions simply by flying through other objects.
*It could inhabit and leave any sparkless body at will. This ability evidently differs from Starscream's, in that Starscream never animated a vacant body, and Megatron never dominated an occupied one. These re-animated bodies were able to remain functional even after suffering extreme physical damage.
*His spark was not detectable by his Vehicon generals' sensors, and Primal was unable to "sense" his spark through the Oracle.
*The spark did not speak at all while depolarized, neither when in a body nor when floating freely.

Rattrap was able to capture Megatron using a hand-held [[spark extractor]], and using a control panel on the extractor, repolarized and thus stabilized his spark. Afterwards, Megatron's spark remained red and just as fast and agile as before, but became detectable by his generals' scanners again and became "trapped" in the next body it inhabited (that of a [[Diagnostic Drone]]). Upon entering this body, Megatron declared, "I live!" This was the first time he had spoken since being hit by the sonic scream. This implies that something about his prior "destabilized" state may have prevented him from fully utilizing the bodies he had visited. The only other clue we have is that when Optimus tried to contact Megatron's spark inside the Grand Mal, he discovered that it "was not a sentient mind." Whether this is a result of trying to find a spark that was not in the expected location or because of its depolarized state is ambiguous.

===Embers===
One particular [[Shattered Glass|alternate universe]] seems to be much more of a departure from the "regular" realities in the [[multiverse]]. In it, the semi-mystical ball of energy that gives the resident Transformers their lifeforce is an electron-charged "Ember". Aside from the polarity, there's no other difference noted from the [[positron]]-charged Spark that [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] brings into that universe.

==Trivia==
*It is possible there is some quantitative difference between the sparks of Geneneration 1 Transformers and [[Protoform]] ''Beast Wars''-era Transformers' sparks. G1 Transformers' sparks are generally glossed as small fragments of [[Primus]]'s lifeforce. ''Beast Wars''-era Transformers' sparks are generally considered to be the same, but writer [[Larry Ditillio]] has stated that he envisioned ''Beast Wars'' Transformers' sparks as small fragments split from the [[Vok Nebula]]. When a spark is split from Vok Nebula, a "good" one travels to the [[Matrix (facility)|Matrix]] and an "evil" one to the [[Pit]].<ref>[[Beast Wars Universe]]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Allspark (dimension)|Allspark]]
*[[Laser core]]
*[[Personality component]]
*[[Shell program]]

==References==
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[[Category:Beast Wars]]

[[Category:Beast Machines]]

[[Category:Transformer anatomy]]

[[Category:Religion]]

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Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)

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'''''Beast Machines''''' is a 26-episode cartoon that aired in the US from 1999 to 2000, in support of the [[Beast Machines (toyline)|toyline]] of the same name. It is a direct follow-up to ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'', set in the same G1 continuity and featuring many of the same characters. Like ''Beast Wars'', its [[CGI|computer animation]] was created by [[Mainframe Entertainment]].

==Overview==
[[Image:Thereformattingmaximalsmaximize.jpg|thumb|left|300px|The Maximals, in a rare moment of Not Running Away.]]

The show follows the adventures of the core ''Beast Wars'' cast upon their return home to Cybertron; there, Optimus Primal and his crew find that the whole planet is abandoned, and the streets are patrolled by mindless [[Vehicon]] drones serving [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], who somehow escaped his captivity.

Worse still, they learn that they are infected with a deadly [[Transformation virus|virus]] that will kill them in a matter of hours. Salvation comes from the mysterious supercomputer known as the Oracle, who sees them fit to complete its mission of a planetwide "reformatting", and turns them into [[technorganic]] warriors, a perfect blend of organic and technological matter.

As the show progresses, Primal and his fellow Maximals learn to balance their technological side with their newly introduced organic aspects, mastery coming in slow stages. Unlike the previous [[Beast Wars (cartoon)|conflict]], where sides had been roughly equal, the four original Maximals were quite outnumbered by their [[Vehicon]] enemies, and the battles took on a "guerilla warfare" feel, with the Maximals using sewers and underground levels to their advantage and avoiding surface levels unless for combat purposes. As the show progresses, two brand-new Maximals and a returning face boost their number and together, the Maximals eventually turn Cybertron into an [[technorganic]] paradise, though at the cost of their [[Optimus Primal|leader]]'s life.

Controversial even by the standards of other Transformers [[Unicron Trilogy|reinventions]] (!), ''Beast Machines'' is remembered by some as a series which tried to tackle heavy philosophical concepts with mixed results, discussing such issues like what it meant to live in an increasingly technological society and the dichotomy between the desires of the individual and the needs of society and the paradox of a living technological world. Story editor [[Bob Skir]] describes the series as a "religious epic novel for television." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAkRF4QBKew&eurl=/]

The series' detractors complained about the show's alleged "hippie" agenda, claiming it would [[Ruined FOREVER|ruin Transformers]]; a few went so far as to send Skir death threats, causing him to cancel a convention appearance in 2000. Even more sympathetic fans have commented that the show lacks ''Beast Wars''' overall sense of fun, that it features seemingly endless scenes of the good guys running away, and that the requirements of the overall plot structure leave it treading water story-wise at times. The show was and remains the darkest Transformers animation to date, and the final animated entry into the Generation 1 story canon, bringing that story to a rather conclusive ending.

Despite all the criticisms, the show continued the high production values of ''Beast Wars'', with solid scripting, excellent voice acting, and CGI that was a considerable step up in quality even from ''Beast Wars''. Mainframe's animators showed their considerable talents in giving highly emotive expression to such alien characters as the [[Vehicon]] Generals and even the [[Diagnostic Drone]], which ''didn't have a face at all''. As with ''Beast Wars'', [[Robert Buckley]] provided the series background music, this time creating a stylized electronic music in keeping with the mechanical environment of Cybertron.

With ''Beast Machines'' perhaps not quite living up to Hasbro's hopes, Hasbro's next foray into animation would be to bring over a [[Robots in Disguise (cartoon)|year-old Japanese show]] for consumption in the US, until a [[Unicron Trilogy|new story]] could be concocted. In [[Armada (cartoon)|light]] [[Energon (cartoon)|of the]] [[Cybertron (cartoon)|results]], some fans have found themselves re-evaluating ''Beast Machines'' more favorably, though the newfound positive reception is still not universal by any means.

==Episodes==
{{note|For a detailed list including airdates and production stats, see [[List of Beast Machines episodes]].}}
===Season 1===
[[Image:Tankor flames.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Tankor, YOU'RE FIRED!]]

Season 1 largely centers on the Maximals' efforts to find out what has happened to them, as they arrive on Cybertron with no memories. In addition to Megatron and the core Maximal cast, three new Vehicon generals are introduced, as well as the new Maximal Nightscream. By the end of the season, Optimus Primal has been driven down a road of extremism, and an apocalyptic confrontation marks the season finale...

1. [[The Reformatting]] 
2. [[Master of the House]] 
3. [[Fires of the Past]] 
4. [[Mercenary Pursuits]] 
5. [[Forbidden Fruit]] 
6. [[The Weak Component]] 
7. [[Revelations Part I: Discovery]] 
8. [[Revelations Part II: Descent]] 
9. [[Revelations Part III: Apocalypse]] 
10. [[Survivor]] 
11. [[The Key]] 
12. [[The Catalyst]] 
13. [[End of the Line]]

===Season 2: Battle for the Spark===
[[Image:Botanica5.jpg|thumb|right|200px|This freakish, tentacled, multi-limbed creature is one of the kid-friendly good guys!]]

The ultimate face-off at the end of Season 1 is resolved in a most unusual and cerebral manner, setting the tone for Season 2 as Primal realizes his mission is one of balance, not extremism. Silverbolt rejoins the Maximal ranks, a new Maximal arrives from off-world, and two dangerous new generals join Megatron's side as the Maximals search for the lost Sparks of their brethren and battle to regain control of Cybertron.

1. [[Fallout]] 
2. [[Savage Noble]] 
3. [[Prometheus Unbound]] 
4. [[In Darkest Knight]] 
5. [[A Wolf in the Fold]] 
6. [[Home Soil]] 
7. [[Sparkwar Part 1: The Strike]] 
8. [[Sparkwar Part 2: The Search]] 
9. [[Sparkwar Part 3: The Siege]] 
10. [[Spark of Darkness]] 
11. [[Endgame Part 1: The Downward Spiral]] 
12. [[Endgame Part 2: When Legends Fall]] 
13. [[Endgame Part 3: The Seeds of the Future]]

==Characters==
[[Image:Rattrap bm robotmode.jpg|right|thumb|200px|There's a caption under me?!]]

Because developing new CGI character models was, at the time, an expensive and time-consuming process, the number of named on-screen characters in ''Beast Machines'' was relatively small compared to most other ''Transformers'' shows. It is thus practical to list all the Transformers who appeared in the cartoon. They are listed in order of appearance. (Most drones are not listed, and neither are incidental flashback characters.) Note that many characters besides these are also full-fledged Beast Machines characters, having appeared in other media.

===[[Maximal|Maximals]]===
*[[Optimus Primal]]
*[[Rattrap]]
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]
*[[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]]
*[[Savage/Noble]]
*[[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]]
*[[Botanica]]

===[[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]]===
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]
*[[Diagnostic Drone]] ([[spark]]less, hence not a Transformer, but had a speaking role and a personality)
*[[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]]
*[[Tankor|Tankor]]
*[[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (nominally the same character as Tankor)
*[[Waspinator|Waspinator]] (nominally the same character as Thrust)
*[[Obsidian]]
*[[Strika]]

===Other===
*[[Vector Sigma|The Oracle]] (not much of a personality, but definitely a major speaking role)

==Trivia==
* [[Mainframe Entertainment]] executive [[Dan DiDio]] explicitly told Bob Skir and [[Marty Isenberg]] to ignore all previous Transformers cartoons when writing ''Beast Machines'', because "''Beast Wars'' was too continuity-heavy". It clearly did not work out that way.

* In the May 2008 "DC Nation" editorial appearing in [[Wikipedia:DC Comics|DC Comics]] publications, Dan DiDio recounted that writer [[Steve Gerber]] had once pitched a "wildly original take on ''Transformers''" as part of the development of ''Beast Machines''.

* The theme tune for the show was Leftfield's "Phat Planet". This was also used for a famous Guinness advert. The latter proved a more popular TV slot.

* Apart from flashbacks, visions and such, ''Beast Machines'' takes place entirely on (or in orbit of) Cybertron and has no human characters. This is unique among the TV shows.

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Transformers (2007 franchise)

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In 2007 a [[Transformers (2007)|live-action film]] based on ''Transformers'' was released, and was accompanied by a marketing and merchandise blitz. The [[franchise]] surrounding this film has no specific, official name, and as such is referred to on this Wiki as the "''Movie''" franchise. Further, this franchise is considered the start of a new [[continuity family]], partly because of several points of major differentiation from [[Generation 1]], and partly as a practical bookkeeping matter: the movie franchise itself encompasses at least a dozen [[micro-continuity|micro-continuities]].

The ''Movie'' franchise covers the film and all related media including:

*[[Movie (toyline)|Toyline]]
*[[Transformers (2007)|Film]]
*[[Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen|Sequel]]
*[[Movie (books)|Books]]
*[[Movie (comics)|Comics]]
*[[Transformers: The Game|Video games]]
*[[Online games#Transformers (2007)|Online games]]
*[[Movie board/card games|Board/card games]]

As well as an enormous swath of additional licensed material.

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To sell toys

2008-06-08T03:25:38Z

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[[Image:MarvelUS-19.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Hasbro]] wasn't quite sure whether to advertise [[Omega Supreme (G1)#Toys|this expensive toy]] until the fans forced their hand.]]To understand Transformers fiction, it is important to understand that it exists '''to sell toys.''' [[Hasbro]] and [[TakaraTomy]] are toy companies, and they are primarily interested in continuing to sell [[toy]]s to children and adults. The cartoons, comic books, etc., mostly exist to make this happen. To be sure, they normally make a profit in their own right, but this is regarded as mere gravy.

The "to sell toys" effect often distorts the fiction in interesting ways. Primarily, since you can't usually sell someone the same toy twice<ref>Except for repaints of [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]].</ref>, [[HasTak]] constantly introduces new toys, and often requires the creators of the fiction to introduce the new characters into ongoing storylines. Older characters (whose toys are no longer being sold) are shoved aside to make room.

Another effect of "to sell toys" is when the toys have gimmicks which must be explained in the fiction. Sometimes ([[Mini-Cons]]) this is relatively easy, while other times it requires a lot of imagination on the part of the writers (the in-comic explanations for the [[Headmasters]] and [[Targetmasters]] are kinda wonky).

The UK [[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|movie-based Transformers comic]] takes this to more blatant heights. Not only do the movie toys like [[Clocker (Movie)|Clocker]] and [[Skyblast (Movie)|Skyblast]] appear in strips, not only has the editor told readers in Mech Mail that all the toys are great and should be bought... but there is a specific 4-page feature every week called ''Top Gear'', which exists solely to promote the newest Transformers merchandise. This has led to readers being told how great [[Optimash Prime]] was.

==Casting==
===Huge casts===
Hasbro makes a lot of toys at once, and they generally want all of them to appear in their fiction. This can force writers to bring in vast numbers of characters all at once, sometimes with awkward results. Examples include:
* The first issue of the [[Generation 1 (Marvel comic)|Generation 1 comics]], "[[The Transformers (comic issue)|The Transformers]]", in which 28 different robots appear and introduced themselves, even though only a handful are important to the plot.
* The 1987 ''[[Headmasters (comic)|Headmasters]]'' Limited Series, which introduced over 60 characters in the course of four issues, including all the first waves of [[Headmaster]]s and [[Targetmaster]]s, all their [[Nebulos|Nebulan]] partners, the [[Technobot]]s, [[Terrorcon]]s, and [[Monsterbot]]s.
* The cartoon episode "[[The Rebirth]]" likewise abruptly introduced a deluge of 1987 characters, mostly the same ones seen in ''Headmasters''.
* In the first four episodes of ''[[Robots in Disguise (cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'', eighteen characters are introduced in quick succession.

===Random casting===
The Hasbro-induced need to show all the toys can also cause stories to suddenly focus on a new character, sometimes dropping ongoing plot threads about older ones. Examples include:
* Season 2 of the cartoon introduced many new characters/buyable toys with no explanation; despite never having been seen before, the story treats them as though they have [[Beachcomber (G1)|been there]] [[Perceptor (G1)|the whole]] [[Tracks|time]].

[[Image:Decepticonpretenders-behold.jpg|200px|thumb|After seven issues, it's finally time for these six dudes to do something!]]
[[Image:Optimusprimeg1preearthmarvel2.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Apparently, the [[Triggerbot]]s didn't make much of an impression on Prime.]]

* The comic issue "[[Pretender to the Throne!]]" suddenly introduces a dozen Autobots and Decepticons that we've never met before, and follows their adventures. The story adds nothing to the long-range plot that couldn't have been accomplished by using existing characters; these teams were added to the mix to promote their new toys.
* Many issues of the [[Generation 1 (Marvel Comics)|Marvel comic]] had cover blurbs in the form "Introducing the _______!", where the blank was whatever the latest line of toys was. The following issues specifically introduce new toys on the cover: [[Repeat Performance!|#8]], [[The Next Best Thing to Being There!|#10]], [[Brainstorm!|#11]], [[Command Performances!|#19]], [[Aerialbots over America!|#21]], [[Crater Critters|#29]], [[The Cure!|#30]], [[Pretender to the Throne!|#40]], [[People Power!|#41]], [[Ca$h and Car-nage!|#46]], [[Club Con!|#47]], and [[Yesterday's Heroes!|#60]]. Throw in a few covers where new characters were pictured but not named, and that's 1/5th of the series.
* In [[Spacehikers!|issue #36]] of the Marvel comics, when [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] decides that he needs help in dealing with [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]'s inept leadership, he doesn't turn to any of the ''dozens'' of Autobots aboard the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', which include two combiner teams and Omega Supreme. No, he has to call in his "old buddy"/new toy, [[Sky Lynx]].
* In the prelude to the [[Underbase Saga]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] were the lead characters in a story set before the Transformers came to [[Earth]]. But rather than palling around with the likes of Jazz or Prowl, they are instead shown alongside the newest "gimmick" characters, the [[Triggercon|Triggercons]] and the [[Triggerbot|Triggerbots]].
* [[Mainframe]] planned to use [[Wolfang]] in ''Beast Wars'', but [[Tigatron]] appeared instead because he had an upcoming toy, and to save money as his cgi model was only a slight tweak of [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]'s.

===Limited casting===
On the opposite side of things, Hasbro doesn't want to pay to depict characters that aren't selling toys. This can force a story, particularly an animated cartoon, to have a smaller cast than it otherwise might.
* The early episodes of [[Armada (cartoon)|''Armada'']] featured only the toys available on the shelves. This resulted in two ridiculously small teams going to Earth for the all-important mission of gathering Mini-Cons, rather inexplicable in story terms. [[Armada (Dreamwave comic)|The comic book]] suffered exactly the same problem.

==Plot==
===Forced explication===
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Rather than simply showing up in the background, new toy/characters often overtly introduce themselves, often with a ridiculous description of their special abilities. The Marvel comic is rife with examples, but it shows up across numerous fictions.
* Again, [[The Transformers (comic issue)|''Transformers'' #1]] has two huge splash pages in which 28 characters do nothing but stand around and tell each other who they are and what they can do.
* The two-part Generation 1 cartoon episode "[[Dinobot Island, Part 1|Dinobot Island]]" features many new 1985 characters getting their own short little introductory scene, often with a characteristic bit of self-description ([[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]: "I'd rather stay in my stunning auto mode!" [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]]: "I'm ''always'' ready for action!" [[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]]: "Wow, like, I hope we don't destroy this place before we can study it!")

===Gimmicks===
When the toys can do something special, fiction writers must often go out of their way to show the gimmick in action.
* The Headmaster gimmick got [[Headmasters (comic)|an entire Limited Series comic book]] devoted to it.
* The comic issue "[[Pretender to the Throne!]]" features [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] proudly creating the [[Pretender]]s, gloating that they will hide the Decepticons' identities from the Autobots "until it is too late". Not only does the plan not actually work, it's also a plot point with absolutely zero lead-in or build-up -- at no point has Scorponok ever expressed concern about his troops being detected by the Autobots, and we've never even met the Pretender characters before. It was brought about solely because the new toys had to be jammed into the story.
The [[Unicron Trilogy]], noted for its gimmicks in all three toylines, was particularly notorious in this regard:
* The quest for power-enhancing [[Mini-Cons]] practically defined the plot of the ''[[Armada (cartoon)|Armada]]'' cartoon, with both factions out to recruit or capture all the Mini-Cons.
* [[Powerlinx]]ing is shown again and again and again in ''[[Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'', despite having comparatively little relevance to most episode plotlines.
* Cyber key powerups are likewise shown repeatedly in ''[[Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]].''
* All three series were also marked by lengthy transformation sequences which highlighted the gimmicks in very toy-accurate animation (and also made production cheaper, thanks to [[stock footage|recycled footage]]).

===Strange developments===
Shoehorning loads of new characters with new powers can compel the writers to do things with the plot that, in all probability, they otherwise wouldn't.
* Marvel UK had to promote the [[Special Teams]] toys ''before'' they knew how they'd be appearing in the US reprints. To get around this, [[Simon Furman]] wrote a story arc titled ''[[Second Generation!]]'', where [[Buster Witwicky]], Optimus and Shockwave <strike>watched an advert</strike> saw a Matrix-induced vision of the Special Teams.
* In the US Marvel comics, the simultaneous introduction of the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]s and [[Stunticon]]s and the introduction of the Pretenders both saw a lot of rigamarole involved in explaining why both the Autobots and the Decepticons had new members with identical numbers/gimmicks at the same time.
* Season 3 of the [[Generation 1 (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] almost completely ignored the characters of the previous two seasons that were no longer on toy shelves. The 1985 Autobot cars, for example, are not seen at all. [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and the 1985 Mini-Vehicles, by contrast, show up now and again, as their toys were still shipping. Even Starscream, who was ''dead'', managed to get a couple of Season 3 episodes all to himself; again, his toy sold through 1986.
* The first thirteen issues of the ''[[Armada (Dreamwave comic)|Armada]]'' comic were focused around the Mini-Cons, with plots often revolving around their desire to be seen as equals and not be enslaved. Then without ''any'' prior set-up, the last five issues turn into a dimension-spanning battle against [[Unicron]] - who had just had a new and expensive toy.

===Power levels===
In order to make new characters seem more ''totally awesome'', they're often depicted as ultra-powerful in their initial appearances. Once they become old news, they frequently seem to lose their super-charged abilities.
* The Generation 1 cartoon introduced Devastator as the ultimate threat. Once newer combiner teams came along, however, he was less of a threat, easily defeated at various times by Menasor, Broadside and even Perceptor.
[[Image:Buzzsawyikes4.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Buzzsaw reminds Omega Supreme he's not a new toy any more.]]
* The Marvel comics feature [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] as nigh-invulnerable and ultimately powerful in [[Command Performances!|his début issue]]. Just [[Dark Star!|two years later]], he's getting his butt handed to him by the likes of [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]].
* In her first appearance on the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon, [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] effortlessly blasts [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] to pieces. She never displays such a level of power again.
* Similarly, [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] was presented as a huge threat when he first appeared, but just a few episodes later, he seems just slightly tougher than the average Predacon (save for a few notable occasions).
* [[Sky-Byte]] was actually a credible threat for his first couple of episodes.
* ''Any'' new toy character in the Unicron Trilogy cartoons is almost guaranteed to win the day's battle.
* [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]] was a staggering behemoth as big as the sky in his introduction. By the time of the ''Energon'' cartoon, he's just this slightly tall guy.

===New bodies===
There's rarely a compelling reason for a Transformer to get an a brand-new body in fiction; it's simply to promote a new toy. It has become a default way to keep a popular character on shelves, rather than having to kill them off and introduce a new character to keep moving toys. Sometimes fiction writes are able to work these alterations in elegantly... sometimes not.
* Season 2 of ''Beast Wars'' introduced the new Transmetal toys in short order, requiring some strange sci-fi waffling to explain why members of both teams suddenly got special new bodies.
* The [[Unicron Trilogy]] cartoons feature [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] getting recolored and renamed "Galvatron" three times; at the start of each subsequent series, he's turned back into Megatron but with a different body. This is due to Hasbro's wanting to keep the [[trademark]]s "Megatron" and "Galvatron" as well as to sell more toys.
* Several times during the Unicron Trilogy, characters get new paint jobs as part of some magical power-up enhancement. These new color schemes exist solely to promote redecorated toys like "[[Ironhide (Energon)|Energon Ironhide]]" or "[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Powerlinx Hot Shot]]". Even the comics got in on the action, introducing the redecorated versions of [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] and [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus]] during the Unicron arc.
* The three future members of the [[Cybertron Defense Team]] get shot up by Megatron, then transmogrify through the power of BLAZING HEART OF JUSTICE into new forms. These new forms, of course, were just hitting shelves at a toy store near you.
* In the course of the [[Transformers (2007)|live-action movie]], [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] gets irritated at a slight against his alternate mode, and scans a new form. Voila, suddenly he's got ''two'' toys on the shelf!
That is, till Allspark Power came along. Now he's got '''''seven''''' toys.

===Abrupt conclusions===
Just as Transformers fiction lives at Hasbro's pleasure, so too does it die. Falling sales, a change of plans, and standard [[rebranding]] can all cause a storyline to come to a sudden end when Hasbro decides to pull the plug.

[[Image:MarvelUSG2-12.jpg|thumb|150px|right|It's the end of the road for Transformers Generation 2! That can't bode well for the toyline.]]

* The American Generation 1 cartoon got a somewhat rushed conclusion in the form of "[[The Rebirth]]", rather than a full fourth season.
* The Generation 1 comics were nearly canceled at [[On the Edge of Extinction!|issue #75]], but granted a reprieve. The stay of execution was only temporary, however; with the Generation 1 toyline ending, the comic was terminated a mere five issues later, resulting in a rather hasty concluding plotline.
* Hasbro was only willing to support the ''[[Generation 2 (comic)|Generation 2]]'' comic for twelve issues, unless it proved an unqualified (perhaps phenomenal) success. Aware of this from the start, writer Simon Furman was able to plot a story arc that reached its finale as the series ended (and poked fun at it with a character whose name is a pun on "[[Jhiaxus|Gee, ax us]]".)
* The writers of the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon reportedly never had any idea if they'd be back for another season. When the ax fell with Season 3, they had only three episodes left to wrap up the whole series.
* Hasbro nearly killed off the just-begun comic series ''The Wreckers'' in 2001, wishing instead for [[3H]] to focus on a ''[[Universe (comic)|Universe]]'' comic advertising its current toyline.

==Death==
===Killing off old product===
[[Image:Tftm1986a.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Brawn|Guess who's]] no longer in the [[Mini Vehicles]] case assortment?]]

[[Image:Newyorkunderbase.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Marvel|Publisher]]'s clearing house.]]

[[Image:BW_Scorponok_Terrorsaur_deaths.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]], [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]], we're condemning you to a fiery death 'cause [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] has a bigger fan club.]]

The most obvious To Sell Toys effect comes from the temporary nature of retail sales. Even in the 1980s, toys rarely stayed on the shelves past two years; today that timespan is much smaller. Once a toy is no longer selling, Hasbro has no interest in supporting fiction about that character -- especially when there's newer toys to promote. Therefore, writers are often compelled to remove characters from the story by killing them off. Sometimes this happens through carefully developed story arcs, but it's easier to do it with huge, apocalyptic battles with massive numbers of casualties.

This has become less common in recent year, as Hasbro has come to realize that their target audiences can actually get attached to certain characters, and might not enjoy seeing them die random, brutal, meaningless deaths.

* In ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', numerous main characters are killed or changed in the movie's first 30 minutes, including [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], and [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]. They are replaced by a slew of new characters; in fact, the poster for the movie shows ''only'' new characters.

* Numerous characters are killed in the Marvel UK comics saga "[[Time Wars]]". The Grim Reaper seemed to spare either popular characters (Megatron and [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]) or newer characters ([[Carnivac]], [[Catilla]], [[Springer]] and [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], for example.)

* The [[Underbase Saga]] features a super-powerful [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] killing literally ''dozens'' of characters; some place the count over fifty. The survivors were mostly from the [[Pretender]], [[Headmaster]], and [[Targetmaster]] ranks, those being the then-current toy lines.

* The climactic [[On the Edge of Extinction!|battle with Unicron]] 25 issues later killed off many of the Underbase survivors, whose shelf run had ended.

* With its enormously expensive CGI animation, ''Beast Wars'' was particularly vulnerable to toy-based interference. The expense of creating and animating a CGI body model meant that the character roster had to remain fairly constant; the introduction of all-new characters usually required the removal of an equal number of pre-existing characters. And so, [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] and [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] die just in time for the arrival of [[Quickstrike]] and [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]]. (Frustrated with the situation, the writers carefully planned out [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]'s demise, anticipating that someone would have to be removed to make way for [[Rampage (BW)|newer characters]].) [[Tigerhawk]] was introduced and then killed off within three episodes, due to corporate uncertainty about whether the toy would actually be produced.

===Hi-and-die===
[[Image:Chuffer cof.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Likely dialog: "[[Furmanism|SHEEEAAGH!!]]"]]

Kids don't want to buy a toy of a character who's dead. So if the plot calls for someone to die, smart money bets on the character who has a toy as the survivor. The guy without a toy, who you've never heard of before? Toast. This is the Transformers version of ''Star Trek's'' infamous [[wikipedia:redshirt syndrome|redshirt syndrome]].
* This approach was particularly common in the [[Generation 1 (Marvel comic)|UK comics]]. Characters created specifically so they could be killed off include Wrecker leader [[Impactor]], Autobot/zombie food [[Chuffer]], Tailgate's Autobot trainee buddies/mutant fodder [[Subsea]] and [[Flattop (Autobot)|Flattop]], and the 6th member of the "Magnificent Six", [[Stampede]].
* The US comics also used this approach on occasion, as with [[Blaster]]'s poignantly adorable buddy [[Scrounge]].
* The ''Energon'' cartoon introduced [[Padlock]], whose purpose was to die at [[Shockblast]]'s hands, proving motivation for toy-character [[Wing Saber]].

===Resurrection===
Killing off a character isn't always toy-motivated; sometimes it's a dramatic plot development. But it can also be a problem if Hasbro decides to make a new toy of that character.
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] has been resurrected so many times that it's practically a defining character trait. His original revival in the cartoon didn't correspond to any actual toy release, but the Marvel comic brought him back specifically to advertise his Powermaster form. A second death-and-revival introduced his [[Action Master]] body. And a ''third'' death-and-revival brought him into his Combat Hero toy form.
* Numerous "dead" characters were brought back into the Marvel comic series when their Classics and/or Action Master versions were released. Many were "deactivated" rather than outright dead; however, very few ''non'' Action Master characters showed up alongside them.
* The series writers for ''Beast Wars'' considered [[Optimus Primal]] dead and gone at the end of Season 1. Hasbro, however, had a [[Transmetal]] Optimus Primal toy to promote, and so he was returned to life in Season 2.
* At the end of Season 2 of ''Beast Wars'', [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] was pretty clearly shown being killed--being ''disintegrated''--but in the next season appeared to have just been bruised and cracked, because Hasbro was not ready to have a Mega-scaled toy removed from the series.

==Notable exceptions==

===Toys not released in the relevant market===

Occasionally the ''Transformers'' fiction released in a particular country features characters whose toys were not released in that country. The Marvel UK comic featured two variants of this phenomenon:

* Characters inherited from the US strips. Some, such as [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], were given fairly prominent roles in the US stories reprinted in the UK comic and so it was hard to ignore them completely in the UK originated material despite their toys not being around to need advertising. However the decision to develop the Predacons and also to keep Shockwave in continuity even after he'd been (supposedly) killed off in the US comic goes beyond this.
* Characters not featured in the US strips. Bizarrely the UK comic also made use of some characters such as [[Roadbuster]], [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]], [[Chop Shop]] and [[Venom (G1)|Venom]], despite their toys not being available on UK toy shelves. None of these characters were inherited from the US material.

===Post-Marvel comics===
[[Image:Infiltration_1c.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Hey, [[Runamuck]], it's our first appearance on a comic book cover in twenty years!" "Heh heh, now if only [[Battlecharger|we]] could appear on toy store shelves..."]]

There's a notable exception to the To Sell Toys effect: the [[Dreamwave]] and [[IDW]] comics. The two recent holders of the license to publish Transformers comic books sometimes produce comics using whichever toy line is current (e.g., Dreamwave's ''[[Armada (Dreamwave comic)|Armada]]'' comic or IDW's [[Transformers (2007)|2007 movie]] tie-ins), and sometimes publish comics using whatever characters they please (e.g., ''[[The War Within]]'' and ''[[Escalation]]''). The characters in their "discretionary" comics are often not currently available in toy form ([[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]], a current character in IDW's G1 continuity, has not had a toy in 20 years), sometimes are drawn with bodies that have ''never'' been toys (most of the ''War Within'' characters), and sometimes are toys that were never available outside of specific countries ([[Lio Convoy]] in IDW's ''Beast Wars'').

[[Chris Ryall]], IDW Editor-in-Chief and writer of the miniseries adapting the 2007 movie to comics [http://idwpublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=69377#69377 has confirmed on IDW's forums] that Hasbro do not dictate what comics IDW must make ("Nope, no dictates at all from Hasbro. We put the plan together, send to them for approval.").

Presumably, Hasbro do not now view the collector-based US comics market as a viable promotional exercise, and licences comic rights purely on the basis of how much money the licence itself will bring in.

==Footnotes==
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Headmaster (disambiguation)

2008-06-06T17:38:52Z

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{{disambig}}
The name '''Headmaster''' has been applied to several different Transformers concepts

* [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster (G1)]], the type of Transformer where a binary-bonded partner or smaller Transformer serves as a head for the larger robot.
* [[Headmasters (comic)]], a comic published by Marvel.
* ''[[The Headmasters]]'', the Japanese franchise.
* [[Headmaster (Animated)]], a human supervillain from the ''[[Animated]]'' series.
* [[Headmaster (episode)]], the episode from the Animated series where the aforementioned supervillain is introduced.<div id="wikia-credits"> From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</div>

Autoboot Camp

2008-06-03T21:50:56Z

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[[Image:Autobot_Cadets.jpg|thumb|300px|Class of 2008.]]
'''On the trail of an escaped Autobot traitor, Bumblebee flashes back to a previous encounter with the traitor when he first met Bulkhead in Autobot Boot Camp.'''

==Summary==

Somewhere in space, an Autobot shuttle streaks through the solar night and crash-lands on an asteroid, where its lone occupant races off across the barren ground in vehicle mode. Hot on his trail is [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]], who chases him to a [[space bridge]] node on the asteroid. The green-armoured escapee triggers the space bridge with a blast from a familiar pair of stingers, and Sentinel loses his quarry as the portal explodes with light.

On Earth, [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] reports the news of the escapee to the [[Autobot]]s. [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] immediately recognizes the criminal in question as [[Wasp]], a 'bot who shares his bodyform that he met when during his [[Elite Guard]] training days.

In the [[Decepticon]]s' underground lair, [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] contacts his double-agent on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], and congratulates him on orchestrating Wasp's breakout. The double-agent is concerned that they are speaking so freely on the subject, but Megatron assures him that nobody will be able to listen in on the broadcast. [[Isaac Sumdac|Professor Sumdac]] has other plans, though, as he secretly taps into the communication frequency and bounces it to the Autobots base. Bumblebee and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] are on monitor duty at the time, and the message comes through exceedingly scrambled, but they are able at least able to comprehend the existence of a double-agent. Naturally, Bumblebee immediately assumes it to be Wasp, and he decides to settle his old score, with Bulkhead tagging along. Bumblebee remembers how it all went down...

''Many solar cycles ago, on Cybertron, Bumblebee meets Bulkhead for the first time when they both attend boot camp to train under Sentinel Minor, alongside Wasp, super-durable [[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] and telescopic-limbed [[Shockwave (Animated)|Longarm]]. The two B's immediately earn Sentinel's ire{{m-}}Bumblebee for his impetuous bungling, and Bulkhead for his desire to be nothing more than a space bridge technician{{m-}}and the pair gets saddled with oil cleanup. Of course, Bumblebee begins goofing off, which results in a stack of oil drums collapsing on Sentinel, which results in Bumblebee being made to stand in the middle of the courtyard in the dead of night, holding up oil drums and repeatedly declaring himself a “worthless oil stain.” After a while, though, Bumblebee calls it quits, but as he is walking by a warehouse, he spots a shadowy figure speaking into a communicator, with the voice of Megatron responding! After a moment's hesitation, Bumblebee pops his stingers and commands the spy-bot to show himself… but the figure has vanished. When Bumblebee turns to leave, however, he spots Wasp walking out of the warehouse.''

''Unsure of how to proceed, Bumblebee confides in Longarm, who encourages him to gather some evidence and present it to Sentinel. Bumblebee tries setting up a trap, planting a box with the Elite Guard symbol on it in the open, hoping Wasp will grab it… except Sentinel is the first to come upon it, and it explodes, covering him in paint. Next, Bumblebee tries a listening device, but accidentally winds up broadcasting Sentinel over the camp's loudspeakers as he jokes about Ultra Magnus being too old to hack the commander role. In traditional boot camp manner, Sentinel makes the whole team suffer for Bumblebee's mistakes, and Wasp and Ironhide take it out on the little 'bot by disconnecting his legs and stuffing him in a locker. Longarm comes to Bumblebee's rescue, but the bullying doesn't stop, as Wasp hits Bumblebee with a burst of “friendly fire” in a simulated combat training exercise. Of course, it's just a paint grenade, but when Bulkhead offers to help Bumblebee up, Bumblebee snaps and insults Bulkhead's lack of ambition before storming off. Turning a corner, Bumblebee yelps as he finds several auto-cannons pointed in his face, but then laughs as he remembers that they're only loaded with paint rounds for the simulated combat. Or rather, they ''were'', as the shadowy figure from the warehouse slinks by the cannons and switches them to active ammunition. As the cannons open figure on Bumblebee, Bulkhead speeds to his rescue and takes out the cannons by dropping a building on them with his wrecking ball… only for Sentinel to get squashed under it as well. Bumblebee encourages Bulkhead to scarper, rather than risk his career by owning up.''

Tracking the message Sumdac broadcast to them, Bumblebee and Bulkhead wander through the wilderness, reminiscing about the old days. When Bumblebee stumbles into a patch of quicksand, Bulkhead plucks him out, but the conflict between the pair from their boot camp days starts bubbling back to the surface, and Bulkhead leaves Bumblebee to the mission himself. Angrily stomping up a mountain, Bumblebee looses his footing and falls off a cliff, becoming buried in an avalanche.

''Longarm informs Bumblebee that Sentinel is about to conduct a surprise locker examination, meaning that it's his last chance to find evidence on Wasp before Sentinel can take credit for it himself. Using his extensible limbs to trip Wasp up, Longarm allows Bumblebee to “help him up” and finger his locker key in the process. As Bumblebee quickly opens Wasp's locker, Sentinel appears behind him, demanding to know what he's doing, only to be quickly silenced when Bumblebee presents him with a Decepticon communicator. Impressed with Bumblebee's work, Sentinel plans to recommend him for an Elite Guard position. After Wasp is carted off, screaming his innocence all the way, Sentinel brings up the matter of the building being dropped on him. Since nobody has owned up, he decides to kick out whoever he feels like – and he feels like Bulkhead. Before he can give Bulkster the boot, however, Bumblebee steps forward and claims responsibility, sheepishly asking if it will affect his Elite Guard position.''

''Some time later, Bumblebee and Bulkhead are on an asteroid, working on a space bridge node, as Bulkhead cheerfully announces “I have arrived!”''

Buried under rockslide, Bumblebee reflects on his friendship with Bulkhead outloud, and about how he saved his career, even ''if'' he never dreamed big. But Bulkhead ''did'' dream big – as the bulky bot appears above Bumblebee and hauls him out from beneath the boulders, he announces that he dreamed of being Bumblebee's friend. Bumblebee thanks his big buddy, and the pair drive off... having only been mere feet from the secret entrance to the Decepticon base.

Out in space, it turns out that Wasp didn't escape to Earth at all, and that he is still on the asteroid, huddled up in a ball. His mind clearly broken, the insectoid 'bot buzzes and twitters to himself about how he will find Bumblebee, and make him pay for ruining his life.

Back the Autobot base, our heroes contact Cybertron to alert the Autobots there about Megatron's double-agent. As it turns out, Bumblebee's old boot camp buddy Longarm is now Longarm ''Prime'', head of Cybertronian Intelligence, and he promises to root out the traitor no matter what.

In the Decepticon base, Megatron communicates once again with his double-agent... Longarm Prime! But the deception is a dual-layered one, for Longarm Prime is, in fact, the shape-shifting [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]]!

==Stats==

*'''Written by:''' Michael Ryan.
*'''Art Direction:''' Derrick J. Wyatt.
*'''Directed by:''' Ben Jones, Christopher Berkeley, Shunji Oga.
*'''Original airdate:''' 3rd June 2008 (UK)

===Featured characters===

(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)''
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"

! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobot]]s

! style="background:#EEEEFE" | [[Decepticon]]s

! style="background:antiquewhite" | [[Human]]s

|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
*[[Wasp]] (1)
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] (2)
*[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] (3)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]]
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]
*[[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]]
*"Cliffjumper"

| style="background:#EEEEFE" valign="top" |
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]
*[[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]]

| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" |
*[[Isaac Sumdac]]

|}

==Quotes==
You are nothing but a BUMBLER! From now on, your name is-BUMBLEBEE!"
:{{m-}}And lo, a legend was born, thanks to '''Sentinel Minor'''

''[stands in the middle of an empty yard, holding up oil drums, reciting...]'' "I am a worthless oil stain. I am a worthless oil stain. I am a worthless oil stain... why am I even doing this?"
:{{m-}}Sentinel Minor's punishment of '''Bumblebee''' could be considered "cruel and unusual".

"You would not '''believe''' the glitches the Commander's saddled me with this time. I'm starting to think Ultra Magnus is a few circuits shy of a full processor, know what I mean? Oh sure, he was The Bot back in the day, but now? Ultra Magnus is just a rusted-out, obsolete model sorely in need of an upgrade."
:{{m-}}'''Sentinel Minor''' is a suck-up only to the boss' face. ''Quel surprise''.

"Oh slag."
:{{m-}}'''Sentinel Minor''' forgoes his usual "eloquence" on seeing a ton of building heading for his head.

"But I'm innocent, I tell you! You're making a big mistake, all of you!" 
"Mute it traitor" ''[strips Autobot insignia from Wasp]'' 
"I'll get you Bumblebee, '''if it's the last thing I do'''!
:{{m-}}'''Wasp''' proclaims his innocence, as he's wheeled away in restraints, while '''Sentinel Minor''' acts much as ever.

"Bumblebot not hide from Wasp. Wasp swears he finds Bumblebot. Wasp make Bumblebot pay for RUINING WASP'S LIFE!"
:{{m-}}There lies a broken '''Wasp'''...

==Other notes==
*

===Continuity errors===

===Transformers references===

*Clearly, when Bumblebee and Bulkhead noted that Sentinel Prime didn't remember them back in "[[The Elite Guard]]", it was their boot camp days he was referring to.
*After it was explained back in "The Elite Guard" that "Prime" was a rank, this episode reveals that before attaining the rank, Sentinel was known as "Sentinel Minor." [[Optimus Minor|Sounds a little familiar]].
*In two scenes this episode, an unnamed robot who is essentially a red Bumblebee appears, a clear reference to [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and his physical similarity to [[Bumblebee (G1)|his era's Bumblebee]].
*In the final moments of the episode, the addled Wasp (who has spoken perfectly normally throughout the flashbacks) begins speaking in the buzzing, third-person style of ''[[Beast Wars]]'' [[Waspinator]].

===Real-world references===
*

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* Since departing Earth, the Elite Guard (or Sentinel Prime, at least) have switched back to their Cybertronian vehicle modes.
* Sentinel Prime, the biggest jerk in Transformer history, and Longarm Prime, a double agent, are both high ranking members of the Elite Guard, while Optimus Prime, a true hero, is a washout and space bridge repairer. Either Optimus Prime did one major screw-up, or Ultra Magnus is the single worst judge of character ''ever''.
*On the other hand, if names get assigned by drill sergeants, you have to wonder exactly what levels Optimus and [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Elita-1]] stooped to in order to get those names...

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Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)

2008-06-03T12:53:36Z

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Though reviled by many Transfans when it first hit the airwaves in 1996, the wholly-[[CGI]] '''''Beast Wars''''' is now considered by many to be the among the finest examples of Transformers storytelling.

==Overview==
The series opens at an unspecified time and place, where two warring factions of robots have crashed on a strange planet populated by animals like those on [[Earth]]. The planet abounds in mystery, with vast deposits of raw [[Energon]] and evidence of [[Vok|alien]] activity. The Energon forces the newly arrived Transformers to take on protective beast forms to shield themselves from the ambient Energon radiation. And so begin the Beast Wars...

[[Image:Beastwarsmaxgroup.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Rattrap and Airazor conspire to ruin school picture day.]]
Though at first the show seemed to be in an entirely separate continuity, by the end of the first season's 26 episodes, viewers had been treated to a number of classical Transformers references, such as [[Unicron]] and even the reappearance of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], last seen as a ghost in the third season of [[Generation 1 (cartoon)|the original cartoon]]. These ties to the original story increased as the second season progressed and the planet was revealed as prehistoric Earth. The third season was entirely structured around the [[Maximal]]s defending their [[Autobot]] ancestors aboard the ancient crashed ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]''.

The show won over many viewers through fun, intriguing stories and generally high production values. Strong characterization, top-notch scripting and voice acting, and complex, overarching plot threads are among the reasons cited for the show's enduring popularity. Some of the show's mysteries and machinations remain topics for fan debate over a decade after it aired.

The show's CGI, though somewhat primitive by today's standards, was revolutionary by television standards of the time (and puts [[Energon (cartoon)|some later shows]] to [[Cybertron (cartoon)|shame]]). Mainframe's animators took pains to ensure their characters gestured and emoted in great detail, and the "camera" work often took creative advantage of the format's flexibility.

The show was immediately followed by a sequel series, ''[[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]''.
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==Episodes==
{{main|List of Beast Wars episodes}}

''Beast Wars'' has had 52 episodes over 3 seasons.

In Japan it was split into 2 separate 26 episode series, ''Beast Wars'' which aired in 1997 and ''Beast Wars Metals'' which aired in 1999.

==Characters==
Because developing new CGI character models was, at the time, an expensive and time-consuming process, the number of on-screen characters in ''Beast Wars'' was relatively small compared to most other ''Transformers'' shows. It is thus practical to list all the Transformers who appeared in the cartoon. They are listed in order of appearance. (The [[stasis lock]]ed [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s aboard the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' are not on this list, nor is [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]].) Note that many characters besides these are also full-fledged ''Beast Wars'' characters, having appeared in other media.

===[[Maximals]]===
[[Image:BW Maximals.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Time for Rattrap to [[Chain of Command|lead]].]]
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]]
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]
*[[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]]
*[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] (allied with the Maximals, nominally a Predacon)
*[[Tigatron]]
*[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]]
*[[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]]
*[[Depth Charge]]
*[[Tigerhawk]]

===[[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]===
[[Image:BW Predacons.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Waspinator is [[Aftermath#Miscellaneous notes|loved by fan]].]]
*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]
*[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]]
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]]
*[[Waspinator]]
*[[Tarantulas]]
*[[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (became a Maximal towards the end of the series)
*[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]]
*[[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]]
*[[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]]
*[[Tripredacus Council]] (very briefly)
*[[Ravage]]
*[[Dinobot II]]

===Other===
*[[Snowstalker]]
*[[Transmutate]]
*[[Protohumans]]
*Assorted [[Vok]]
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]

==Japanese version==

For whatever reason the Japanese version of ''Beast Wars'' chose to turn the series into a goofy comedy show with lots of fourth-wall humor and a relentless string of over-the-top and in-your-face jokes, even at the most ''inappropriate'' of moments.

Some examples include:

*The beginning of every episode would start with one of the characters asking a ridiculous question and receiving equally ridiculous answers (Optimus Primal asking "Where is my banana", for instance) before segueing into the opening rap theme by [[Banana Ice]].

*Rattrap would constantly break the fourth wall by "smelling" what the audience was eating and make gluttonous comments.

*Many characters received completely new personalities that were polar opposites to their Western interpretation (Depth Charge enjoyed singing folk songs while Megatron became a flamboyant madman that shrieked like a little girl at the sight of danger). Other characters had their ''genders'' altered (poor, poor Airazor).

*Clipshows would feature the characters interacting in silly situations such as gameshows and contests (in one instance, Megatron acted as judge in a celebrity impersonation contest).

While many long-time ''Transformers'' fans in Japan reviled this dub (including [[Hirofumi Ichikawa]]) it remained a hit with its target audience: young children. This version of ''Beast Wars'' was popular enough to spawn two equally goofy-natured spin-offs and two Japanese-exclusive theatrical releases, anyway.

It should be noted, however, that the Japanese DVD sets of the series come with optional English language dialogue with Japanese subtitles, allowing fans in Japan to view the more serious version of the show if desired.

==Trivia==
* The first season of ''Beast Wars'' cost $18 million dollars, according to [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/browse_thread/thread/b334d45514e26ab4/bc8e54e9165e0823?hl=en&lnk=st&q=bob+forward+interview+inferno+megatron&rnum=1#bc8e54e9165e0823 a 1997 interview with Bob Forward.]
* According to [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-CLUB_%28%E6%A8%A1%E5%9E%8B%E9%9B%91%E8%AA%8C%29 B-Club magazine], Beast Wars is the first fully CGI TV-show in the world. Too bad they don't know [[W:ReBoot|ReBoot]] is much earlier.
* In France and (Frensh)Belgium, the show was called "Animutants" and had a good quality dubbing, rather close to the original voices. But while the first two seasons of the show were aired, the third one never was; the show always ended with "[[The Agenda (Part III)]]", leaving the fans of the area with the worst case of cliffhanger ever.
* The Production Designer for the show, [[Clyde Klotz]], won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation in 1997. How cool is that?

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Talk:SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy

2008-06-01T00:58:49Z

RyuHane:

Anyone interested in using this screen for anything? I nearly bust a nut laughing at it. http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8824/picture71tb7.png

Whoah whoah whoah. Someone wanna actually protect this page from anons like it's supposed to be? --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 16:11, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
:I don't think he's actually doing anything wrong. Looks like this is today's moose episode.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 16:20, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
::It is. Aired this morning. - [[User:RolonBolon|RolonBolon]] 16:20, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
:::The moose be praised--[[User:Carrion|Carrion]] 16:26, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
::::Keen. I'll have to check my usual source for the moose, and then I'll be more than happy to start writing summaries.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 16:30, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
The legitimacy of this specific edit doesn't matter. The page is supposed to be protected from anons, because I defy you to tell me with a straight face that it WON'T need it, and soon. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 16:30, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
:Got it. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 16:32, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
::It won't need it. Last week, it was an anon who wrote the summary for [[A Fistful of Energon]]. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 17:03, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
:::And? --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 17:09, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
::::And anons can do good as well as evil. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 17:34, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::Again, and? Does this magically negate all the shit that's gone down in the recent past that's the reason the warning templates and protections were put up in the first place? No, it doesn't. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 17:42, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
::::::At this point, you should push for anon editing to be disabled completely (as Toughpigs suggested during the whole Monacoisation thing) if you feel so strongly. If any articles are to be open to anon editing, this one should be opened now. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 22:49, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

:::That was me that wrote last weeks summary. I was going to do something now too, but I guess I can't. In the meantime someone else can add the trivia that the last three numbers of Archer's, Princess', and Nanosec's mugshot IDs represent the number of the episode they first appeared in.--[[User:Raijin K|Raijin K]] 19:15, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
::If you're a registered user, you should be able to write a summary for it. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 19:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
:::Still not seeing any edit button on the page. I think I'm still too "new".--[[User:Raijin K|Raijin K]] 19:19, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
::::Write it in a new section here, or on a sandbox page or somesuch, and ask for it to be moved over... - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 22:49, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

:Okay, now someone should unlock it. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 19:50, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
It means that for the other ones, they still need to be semi-protected. As for this one, the episode has aired in Canada. I don't think it needs to be semi-protected. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 17:45, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

==Most guest voices?==
Hey... has any other episode so far had three "guest" voices (or more)? Fred, Brian and Kath... --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 00:05, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

==Error?==
Didn't Slow-Mo say she used her clock to restore Nanosec's youth, so is it alright if we remove the "Continuity Error"? [[User:RyuHane|RyuHane]] 00:58, 1 June 2008 (UTC)<div id="wikia-credits"> From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</div>

Shaoshao Li

2008-05-27T22:31:46Z

RyuHane: /* Kiss Players */ Link clean-up

:''Shaoshao Li is a [[human]] character in the [[Kiss Players]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.

[[Image:Shaoshao-main.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Dear Japan, Please Stop. Love, America.]]

'''Shaoshao Li''' (李蛸燒'', Lǐ Shāo-Shāo'') is an athletic Chinese kung-fu girl who hates bugs and ghosts and enjoys hot steamed buns. She is completely obsessed with [[Marissa Faireborn]].

As a Kiss Player, she is partnered with [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rodimus]], but doesn't like to kiss him after he's been fishing because of the smell. She also wishes he'd take her fishing with him once in a while. She speaks with a Chinese accent, which makes sense since her parents are from [[China]]. Her ethnic background is also the reason she has worn a collar secured with a padlock that reads "Fortune" since childhood and cannot remove it. This makes less sense.

Apparently, she's a decent singer as well.

:''('''Note''': "Shāoshāo" is written as "''蛸焼''", meaning "octopus dumplings". On the toy packaging, her name is rendered in English as "Syaosyao".)''

==Fiction==
===Kiss Players===
:''Voice actress:'' [[Yui Kano]]

Shaoshao's parents ran a Chinese restaurant in New York. It was there that she met [[Marissa Faireborn]] and the two became good friends. Later, apparently deeply jealous and resentful of Marissa's romantic attachment to [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], she joined the anti-Transformers [[Earth Defense Command]] in Japan. Seen as a rising star in the organization, she was not pleased when she was assigned to the Kiss Player team and partnered with the [[Autrooper]] designated "Ne-04" (the 4th unit of [[Ne squad]]) under the command of [[Hitoshizuku Amaō|Amaou]].

Shao quickly became known as one of the E.D.C.'s most skilled Kiss Players, able to power up her Autrooper partner to levels far beyond those of her teammates. The other squad members respected her abilities greatly, and at least one, [[Ringo Chikuma|Ringo]], may have developed a crush on her.

On one mission, Shao was sent to investigate a Transformers-related subway explosion. Following the incident, while still merged with her Autrooper partner, she happened upon a [[Legion]] member menacing a frightened young woman. She was able to briefly repel the attack before her Kiss Player time limit was reached and she was ejected from the Autrooper, unconscious and naked apart from her signature padlocked collar.

Badly damaged by the Legion's tube-shaped projectile tongue, the Autrooper turned to the young woman, [[Atari Hitotonari]], and demanded that she kiss it or die, guilt-tripping her with the possibility of what would happen if she failed to act. Atari did indeed kiss the Autrooper, merging with it and swiftly beheading the Legion. The E.D.C. determined that Atari was an even more powerful Kiss Player than Shaoshao and promptly recruited her.

[[Image:LiShaoShao2.jpg|left|250px|thumb|I thought I told you to STOP!]]

Shao apparently remained with the E.D.C. long enough to meet the new recruit and make a lasting impression on her. At some point soon thereafter, however, she suddenly awoke to find herself suspended in a tube in the basement of E.D.C. headquarters. She was bound with straps, naked apart from her collar and squad armband, and her stomach had been scrawled with "Ne-04" and the number "2045", which had also been written on the severed Legion head that hung over her head. Noticing that nearby tubes held similar heads and the partially-eaten bodies of Kiss Players from other squads, she panicked as the Legion head above her woke up and began to drool with hunger.

Suddenly, [[Hot Rod]] came crashing through the roof like a comet, just in the time to rescue her! In their escape, all that Shao was able to find to wear was a China dress. Fortunately, Hot Rod later stole Marissa's underwear for her during a battle with Optimus Prime.

Hot Rod and Shaoshao roamed Japan as fugitives. Together, they battled Legion, the E.D.C. and Optimus Prime, while taking time out for fishing and martial arts practice. Although she despaired of Hot Rod's lack of discipline and his obsession with [[kiss|kissing]] her, Shao privately admitted to greatly enjoying the sensation induced by kissing her robot partner. However, she maintained that she was only using his power until she could get Marissa back from Prime.

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===Kiss Players Position===

[[Image:XiaoMaid.jpg|right|thumb|SOMEBODY'S under arrest, meow.]]In the wake of the final battle, Shao-Shao, Atari and Marissa formed a singing idol group called "Kiss Players" with the cassette Transformers [[Glit]], [[Sundor]] and [[Rosanna]]. As they performed at the [[Fortress Maximus|Brave Maximus]] Fortress stop of their world tour, the [[Sparkbot]]s [[Stardust]], [[Angela]] and [[Zangetsu]] appeared and instructed the three humans to kiss them. Complying, they were teleported to [[Sherman Dam]] in the year 1985, just in time to witness a historic battle.

The Kiss Players continued to bounce through time and space, extracting fragments of the [[Allspark]] from famous Autobot leaders along the way. They briefly adventured on the planet [[Quintessa]], where the power of [[wikipedia:Moe (slang)|Moe]] transformed Shao into a kitty-eared maid. She was not entirely thrilled.

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==Toys==
===Kiss Players===
* '''Hot Rodimus X Syaosyao''' (Kiss Players, 2006)

: The only "toy" of Shaoshao is a small 1:24-scale PVC figurine of her in her Chinese red dress. She is permanently in a seated position, munching on a meat-filled steamed bun. She also comes with a bamboo steamer "accessory". She came with her Autobot partner "Hot Rodimus", and ''can'' actually sit inside his driver's compartment or perch on his shoulder, but not much else.

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Side Burn (RID)

2008-05-17T22:05:12Z

RyuHane: /* Trivia */ Spelling

{{disambig2|the Dodge Viper Autobot brother|the Mini-Con partner to Predacon|Side Burn (Armada)}}

:''Side Burn is an [[Autobot]] from [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]] continuity.''

[[Image:SideBurnAnime.jpg|right|thumb|300px|I'll take "The Rapists" for $500.]]

'''Side Burn''' is an adolescent speedster and turbo-revving young punk. His brain development has yet to catch up with his ego and robo-hormones, and if he gets bored or preoccupied he'll wander away from his assignment or get in the way of someone else's without a second thought. This is particularly annoying to his law-abiding brother [[Prowl (RID)|Prowl]] and the fussbudget Autobot computer known as [[T-AI]]. Even the more easygoing [[X-Brawn]] can grow tired of his antics. They're no fun anyway, and he can always outrun them. He can outrun just about everybody and everything except his own foolishness.

His greatest folly is his fixation on red cars. Transformer or not, sentient or not, he can't resist chasing after a pretty little thing of the red persuasion, proclaiming loudly and often his libidinous designs. This is usually a bad idea, and occasionally a ''very'' bad idea, like that one time the red car turned out to be [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]] in drag. Yikes. His "super" redeco was red. It's best not to think about it.

Side Burn is a good talker as well as a good racer. He can tell a real tearjerker of a story if he's in the mood. Ask [[Slapper (RID)|Slapper]] about it some time.

:''Japanese Name:'' '''Speedbreaker'''

==Fiction==

===Animated continuity===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Wally Wingert]] (English), [[Punch UFO]] (Japanese)

[[Image:Sideburn1.jpg|left|thumb|Cruisin' on the fast track to <strike>Fox Kids</strike> <strike>The Fox Box</strike> 4Kids TV.]]

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===Cybertron Fan Club Comics continuity===

==Toys==
===Robots In Disguise===
* '''Speedbreaker'''/'''Side Burn''' (Deluxe, 2000/2001)
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-004'''

: Side Burn transforms into a blue hot rodded Dodge Viper with flame decos on the hood. Side Burn is essentially a [[shellformer]], with very little of his car mode pieces being incorporated into his robot limbs.
: This mold was [[retool]]ed to make [[Roulette]] and [[Shadow Striker]]. The only truly notable difference between Speedbreaker and Side Burn is the large tampographed (and distracting) Autobot emblem on Side Burn's hood. (Hasbro just doesn't seem to get the whole 'Robots In Diguise' thing, do they?)

* '''Super Speedbreaker'''/'''Side Burn''' (Deluxe, 2000/2001)
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-026'''
: Fire-red repaint vaguely resembling [[Generation 1]] [[Hot Rod]], only difference between Super Speedbreaker and Side Burn is still the Autobot emblem.

* '''Super Speedbreaker''' (Multi-pack, 2000)
: Clear version of Super Speedbreaker, released with clear Super Wildride and Super Mach Alert

* '''Daytonus & Side Burn''' (Basic, 2001)
: Side Burn's Spychanger mold was initially planned for the [[Generation 2]] [[Go-Bots (G2)|Go-Bots]] sub-line before it ended. His gun can fit in his underside in car mode. Side Burn was packaged with [[Daytonus]].

: This mold was also used to make ''[[Universe]]'' [[Jazz|Autobot Jazz]].

===Universe===
* '''Side Burn''' (Deluxe, 2004)

: A Wal-Mart exclusive, Universe Side Burn is the exact same toy as Super Side Burn, however black paint was added over the red on the car mode parts, and a fiberglass pattern was added to the hood, along with a giant Autobot insignia on the car roof. The gun/knife was also dechromed and was casted in silver plastic. The differences between both figures stopped there.

==Trivia==
*Side Burn's original Japanese name, "Speedbreaker," is a synonym for [http://www.delhitrafficpolice.nic.in/speed-breaker.htm "speed bump"]. It's unknown if the irony was intentional.
*The alternate mode of Side Burn seems to be downgraded in horsepower, since there are eight exhaust pipes connecting to his engine block (which are clearly seen whenever he is in robot mode), indicating that his power comes from an eight cylinder engine, rather than the V-10 engine all regular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Viper Dodge Vipers]have. Which is probably why he can never catch Kelly's little red sportscars.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/2001/Autobot/Sideburn/sideburn.htm Side Burn at TFU.info]

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Velocity (episode)

2008-05-15T00:55:47Z

RyuHane: /* Continuity errors */ Link clean-up

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{{episodenav|animated|21|season=2|prev=Garbage In, Garbage Out|next=Rise of the Constructicons}}

'''Investigating a mysterious race car, Bumblebee gets involved with an illegal underground street racing circuit, which also captures the attention of the Decepticons.'''

==Summary==
[[Image:Master_disaster_rig.jpg ||thumb | 200px | right| Optimus Prime's [[Nemesis Prime (disambiguation)|evil twin brother]], come back for revenge!! ]]

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==Stats==

*'''Written by:''' [[Len Uhley]]
*'''Directed by:''' [[Irineo Maramba]], [[Christopher Berkeley]], & [[Kenji Itoso]]
*'''Original airdate:''' May 10, 2008

===Featured characters===

(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)''
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"

! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobot]]s
! style="background:#EEEEFE" | [[Decepticon]]s
! style="background:antiquewhite" | [[Human]]s
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (1)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (2)
*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (3)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (4)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (5)

| style="background:#EEEEFE" valign="top" |
*[[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] (9)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (10)

| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" |
*[[Captain Fanzone]] (6)
*[[Sari Sumdac]] (7)
*[[Master Disaster]] (8)
|}

==Quotes==
'''Prowl''': Think ''calm'' thoughts. 
'''Ratchet''': And DON'T MOVE! 
''[Metallic "ka-shink" as Prowl extends one of his blades]''
:{{m-}}Prowl and Ratchet scare the heck out of a female racer. Note how Ratchet ''yells'' at her after Prowl tells her to be calm. Guess he still has to work on his interpersonal skills.

'''Fanzone''': I've been after these guys for weeks. They're part of an underground racing circuit. 
'''Bulkhead''': You mean they race in tunnels? 
'''Fanzone''': Underground as in illegal. As in they race in the streets and don't care who gets hurt. 
'''Bulkhead''': That's not what Sari told me. 
'''Optimus''': What purpose does this street race serve? 
'''Fanzone''': Eh, what else? They get a couple a' million pay-per-view customers for their pirate broadcasts, then it's "cha-ching cha-ching", big bucks. 
:{{m-}}Captain Fanzone introduces the Autobots to the seedy world of underground racing.

'''Bumblebee''': Lighten up, Bulkhead. We're supposed to be the ''fun'' bots. 
'''Bulkhead''': Yeah, but we still gotta set a good example. She looks up to us. 
'''Bumblebee''': Hello, she looks up to everybody. 
'''Sari''': HEY! 
:{{m-}}Bumblebee should be more sensitive about [[scale|size issues]].

"HA! I will crush all that stands in my way!" 
:{{m-}}'''Hothead Blitzwing''', right before he is buried under the rubble of a bridge.

'''Random Blitzwing''': Oh, isn't zat cute? [[Bumblebee (Animated)|They're]] [[Captain Fanzone's car|twins]]! 
'''Icy Blitzwing''': Readings indicate that one of them is carrying the AllSpark fragment. 
'''Hothead Blitzwing''': I will destroy them both! 
:{{m-}}Whenever in doubt, Blitzwing's personalities can agree on one thing{{m-}}destroy everything.

"Hey...you know that's comin' out of my paycheck."
:—'''Captain Fanzone''' manages to see the down side of being saved before Blitzwing destroyed his car.

''[referring to Bumblebee's vehicle mode]'' 
"How come your interior's so much cleaner than mine?" 
"Hmm, maybe because it's not on fire?"
:—'''Sari''' zings '''Captain Fanzone'''.

'''Hothead Blitzwing''': What is happening?! Why can't I control myself?! 
'''Random Blitzwing''': Not zat I ever could! AHAHAHA! 
'''Sari''': See? This is how Master Disaster fixed his races. By making the blue racer do whatever he wanted. 
'''Random Blitzwing''': Oh, dizzy. Not liking the dizzy.
:{{m-}}As Sari takes control, Hothead Blitzwing wants it back, while Random Blitzwing has accepted his insanity.

"Well, that's the trouble with bending the rules—''cough''—they usually snap right back in your face."
:—Lessons in life from '''Captain Fanzone'''

'''Hothead Blitzwing''': Never give up! 
'''Icy Blitzwing''': Never surrender! 
'''Random Blitzwing''': NEVER MIND!! 
''[Blitzwing swerves off into a nearby building]'' 
:{{m-}}Blitzwing and the mysterious racer play a game of Chicken.

==Other notes==

===Continuity errors===
* Hothead [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] demonstrates the ability to function in jet mode, instead of automatically switching to tank mode as he did in "[[Megatron Rising - Part 2]]". His ice missiles are replaced with conventional explosive ones. Maybe he learned his lesson?

===Transformers references===
* Bumblebee's turbo boosters were first seen in "[[Nanosec (episode)|Nanosec]]".

===Real-world references===
* Wondering where Bumblebee came from, Master Disaster invokes the name of [[Detroit]] auto mogul Henry Ford (and also calls Bumblebee a "clown car").

*This episode borrows several plot and thematic elements from the popular street racing film ''[[Wikipedia:The Fast and the Furious|The Fast and the Furious]]''.

*Blitzwing's "Never give up! Never surrender! NEVER MIND!" quote refers to the catchphrase from the [[Dreamworks]] film, ''[[Wikipedia:Galaxy Quest|Galaxy Quest]]''.

*Blitzwing haphazardly fires off multiple missiles in all directions in a style reminiscent of the Veritech Fighters from ''[[wikipedia:Macross|Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]''.

*In this episode, Blitzwing's cannons make the familiar "high tension cable twang" normally associated with laser cannons in the '[[Wikipedia:Star Wars|Star Wars]]'' films.

*The first car that passes Bumblebee at the beginning of the episode resembles the 1999 Nissan Skyline From 2003's ''2 Fast 2 Furious''.

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* Fanzone's car explodes. Again. At least we know where he gets the replacements.
* The mysterious blue race car under Master Disaster's control matches the vehicle mode of ''Animated'' [[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]], as shown in an "upcoming products" presentation at [[BotCon 2008]]. ''Presumably'' it ''is'' Blurr . . . but as of this episode, its exact nature is unknown. It could be merely an AllSpark-enhanced unliving machine (like those in "[[The Elite Guard]]"), from which Blurr will someday take his [[Earth]]-mode (as Bumblebee did with Fanzone's car). (If it is Blurr, then he either is or will be a member of the Elite Guard, according to the presentation mentioned above.)

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Teletraan 15

2008-05-12T23:11:28Z

RyuHane: /* Teletraan Go! Go! Comics */ Link clean-up

{{disambig3|Teletraan}}

:''Teletreaan 15 is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Teletraan15-jul.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A rare moment of downskirtedness.]]

'''Teletraan 15''' ("Ichigo," a.k.a. Mobile Teletraan 15) is one of several humanoid computers developed by the Autobots to be "living" extensions of the [[Teletraan I]] computer and based on the artificial Earth satellite [[Nana]].

This particular unit is shy, bumbling, and incredibly luckless. She frequently gets into trouble and often needs saving by (and occasionally ''from'') her fellow Autobots. Her fellow Teletraan unit [[Teletraan 10]] is frustrated by her antics, but still steps up to help her in a scrape... after a perfunctory round of sarcasm. The two are very close friends, despite their differences.

==Fiction==
===Teletraan Go! Go! Comics===
[[Image:Wheelie15.jpg|thumb|150px|left|What, you thought [[Atari Hitotonari|Atari]] was the only one getting humiliated around here?]]

In the year 2005, with Teletraan I's databanks destroyed by an unknown saboteur, the enigmatic "[[Ravage|Black Panther Man]]" commanded Teletraan 15 to gather information to restore the precious data. Traveling through time and space, Teletraan 15 encountered various Cybertronians and recorded their personal information (while Teletraan 10 commented on their more unusual character traits). During her adventures, she was creeped out by [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], molested by [[Wheelie]], bewildered by [[Kup]], rescued from a [[Novaroid]] by [[Micromaster]] [[Hot Rod]], dismembered by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], restored with a robot arm with a saw-blade, given [[Steeljaw]] as a gift by [[Blaster]], taken on a tour of the ''[[Generation 2]]'' timeline by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], possessed by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], and finally accused of being Teletraan I's saboteur and imprisoned.

[[Image:15arm.jpg|thumb|right|Oh, that Galvatron. What a crazy guy.]]

Escaping with the aid of the [[Kiss Players]] cassettes ([[Rosanna]], [[Sundor]] and [[Glit]]) and learning of "Black Panther Man's" secret agenda to use the gathered data to alter the future to remove "unnecessary conflict," Teletraan 15 used the commander's [[Transwarp]] spaceship to travel back in time. To accomplish this, she was forced to cut off her own foot with her new saw-blade arm in order to escape her commander's clamped jaws. She destroyed Teletraan I's records in the past, breaking the disc on which she had recorded the new data for good measure.

Expressing mixed disappointment (in the failure of his scheme) and pride (in his "foolish" subordinates), the commander dumped Teletraan 15, Teletraan 10 and the cassettes out of his ship and flew away.

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==Trivia==
* The Teletraan units were originally designed to represent specific emotions. Teletraan 15 is "sadness."

* Teletraan 15 speaks with a [[Wikipedia:Kyūshū region|Kyūshū region]] accent.

* Teletraan 15's name, pronounced "Ichigo," means both "one-five" and "strawberry" in Japanese.

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Megatron (disambiguation)

2008-05-10T04:06:16Z

RyuHane: Link clean-up

{{quote|I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the end. I am that which is, which was, and is yet to come...and you will know my name is Megatron when I lay my vengeance upon you!|The [[Covenant of Primus]]|"[[Nemesis Part 2]]"}}

The name '''Megatron''' can refer to several different characters:

*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], leader and sometimes founder of the [[Decepticon]]s from ''[[Generation 1]]''.

*[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] criminal and architect of the theft of the [[Golden Disk|Golden Disk]] turned ruler of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] from ''[[Beast Wars]]''. Later became the leader of the [[Vehicon]]s and was split into [[Savage/Noble]] and the [[Grand Mal]] in [[Beast Machines]]. Yeesss.

*[[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]], a [[Predacon (RiD)|Predacon]] six-changing galactic conqueror from ''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''.

*[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], yet another Decepticon commander, this one a pivotal figure in the [[Unicron Trilogy]].

*[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], the former [[Lord High Protector]] of Cybertron who gets a jonesing for the [[All Spark]] and sparks a [[Transformers (2007)|motion picture]].

*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]], behind-the-scenes evil Decepticon leader from ''[[Transformers Animated]]''.

*[[Megatron (Shattered Glass)|Megatron]], the heroic leader of the Decepticon resistance in [[Shattered Glass]].

'''Megatron''' is not to be confused with:

*[[Straxus]], a Decepticon commander who temporarily inhabited Megatron's body (or a version of it, it's complicated) from the Generation 1 comics.

*[[Megatron Military|The Megatron Military]], [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]'s legion of Megatron clones from [[The Transformer (manga)|The Transformer]] manga series.

*[[Megatron statue (Armada)|The Megatron statue]], a massive stone statue of the Unicron Trilogy character.

*[[Megaplex]], a duplicate of Megatron designed to fool his enemies from the Generation 1 continuity.

*[[Mechatron]], a [[Beast Rider]] from ''[[Beast Machines]]''.

*[[Megabolt]], Decepticon emissary, whose alternate form mimics the [[Grand Mal|Big Floating Head]] headquarters of ''Beast Wars'' Megatron in the [[Beast Machines (cartoon)|''Beast Machines'' cartoon]], from ''Robots in Disguise/Universe''.

*[[Megastorm]], younger brother of [[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]] from ''[[Beast Wars II]]''.

*[[Megastar]], ''Robots in Disguise'' Megatron's starship/base.

*[[Megazarak]], an alternate dimension's version of Megatron from [[Universe (comic)|''Transformers Universe'']].

*[[Mega-Dinobot]], the combined form of Unicron Trilogy [[Grimlock (Energon)|Grimlock]] and [[Swoop (Energon)|Swoop]] from ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]''.

*[[Mega-Octane]], leader of the Decepticon [[Commandos (RiD)|Commandos]] from ''Robots in Disguise''.

Many versions of '''Megatron''' eventually upgrade their bodies and change their name to '''[[Galvatron (disambiguation)|Galvatron]]'''.

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