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The Rebirth, Part 1

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{{episode
|image=Rebirth 1 Autobot heads.JPG
|caption=Dum-dum give us gum-gum.
|series=G1toon
|ep=96
|title="The Rebirth, Part 1"
|written by=[[David Wise]]
|animation studio=[[AKOM]]
|season=4
|season ep=1
|production code=6701-01
|airdate=[[November 9]], 1987
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oNbcGdO6Og
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''Galvatron invades Autobot City and then Cybertron with a plan to destroy the Autobots forever! This is something new?'''

==Synopsis==
[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Goldbug]] is talking with the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]] at [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]]. Things have been quiet for the [[Autobot]]s in the months since the return of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Hate Plague]] crisis. Not a word has been heard of the [[Decepticon]]s in months. Who knows where they are. The answer? Right at their doorstep. Meanwhile, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] walks into a room to find Optimus on his knees. Optimus claims that he has been having visions since he opened the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], and it's something big. Goldbug informs Optimus of the approaching Decepticon force, and Optimus realizes that what ever he's been sensing, it's starting right now.

[[File:Rebirth 1 Autobots Decepticons fight.JPG|left|upright=1.1|thumb|A truly epic battle.]]

Leading the Autobots out, the Decepticons attack. The Technobots and the [[Throttlebot]]s take point, but the Decepticons have gotten some new raw power in [[Apeface]] and [[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]], while [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] has some fun with [[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]]. However, [[Punch (G1)|Punch]] sees [[Wingspan]] and [[Pounce]] enter into Autobot City. [[Transformation|Transforming]] into Counterpunch, he follows to check up on their progress, where he sees them steal something from the vaults. The Clones quickly dispatch Punch, and take their prize to [[Scourge (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Scourge]]. Having claimed what they wanted, [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] orders a retreat. Optimus, realizing this was a diversion, runs into Autobot City, finding Punch and the vault. Horrified, Optimus orders everyone to board the ships and head for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]].

On Cybertron, [[Blurr (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blurr]] is racing with [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]], with [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]] riding in Hot Rod. Blurr, however, loses control, while Daniel shoots several Decepticon targets and wins the race. [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] claims that this is evidence of his theory that human partners would be able to assist the Autobots in the war with the Decepticons. [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] and [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] are unsure of the idea. However, Optimus contacts the Autobots, telling them Galvatron stole the [[Key to the Plasma Energy Chamber|Key]] to the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]]. This was the forge which was used to create the bodies of the original Autobots. Since the [[Quintesson]] rebellion, the key has been in the safekeeping of the Autobot leaders, who have been tasked with guarding the key with their [[Spark|lives]]. However, Galvatron intends to open the chamber and destroy Cybertron. The Decepticons arrive, and chaos ensues. The [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] are quickly taken down by [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]], who shows off [[to sell toys|all six forms]]!

[[File:Rebirth 1 Plasma energy Scourge.JPG|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Scourge never gets a break.]]

During the onslaught, Kup and Hot Rod's team notice Scourge heading for the Plasma Energy Chamber. They pursue in an attempt to stop him. When Scourge opens the chamber, he is nearly killed, but Spike and Cerebros manage to grab the key. The Autobots' ship is hit by a wave of energy from the Plasma Energy Chamber and is hurled off Cybertron itself. Discovering Scourge, the Decepticons reactivate him. Scourge explains what happened, and a team under [[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]] heads out to find the Autobots with the key.

[[File:Rebirth 1 Hive machines.JPG|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Oh, this is not going to end well...]]

Meanwhile, the Autobot ship crashes on Nebulos. With the engines fried, the Autobots and the Witwickys decide to look for civilization. They're soon spotted by [[Duros]] and [[Pinpointer (G1)|Pinpointer]], who assume the Autobots are machines controlled by the [[Hive (G1)|Hive]] and alert the rest of their resistance group. The group soon captures the Autobots, and plans to destroy the Autobots with magnetic bombs, even though Spike tries to talk them down. However, the Decepticons show up. Spike finally convinces the Nebulans to release the Autobots. In the subsequent battle, Daniel is injured by Snapdragon, and Hot Rod, Kup, Blurr, [[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]], [[Pointblank]] and [[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] are taken captive. Some of the Autobots pursue them into the forest, but are quickly driven off by machines.

Back at the cave, [[Arcana]] and [[Firebolt (G1)|Firebolt]] manage to stabilize Daniel's condition, but the boy will have to be connected to life-support machinery. The [[Nebulan]] leader [[Gort]] explains that the Hive is a tyrannical group of telekinetics who have used machines to enslave Nebulos. The resistance members know the weak points of the machines, but they just don't have the firepower. Spike thinks that Brainstorm's idea of organic partners just might be the ticket. The Autobots agree to allow the Nebulans to use their heads as suits, except for Cerebros, who walks out, tired of fighting. [[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Arcee]] asks to be Daniel's partner, and Spike agrees. As they remove their heads, Spike declares that they are about to become [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]].

[[The Rebirth, Part 2|To be continued...]]

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]] (1)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Goldbug]] (2)
*[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]] (3)
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]] (4)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (5)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (6)
*[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]] (7)
*[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] (8)
*[[Freeway (G1)|Freeway]] (9)
*[[Wideload (G1)|Wideload]] (10)
*[[Searchlight (G1)|Searchlight]] (11)
*[[Chase (G1)|Chase]] (12)
*[[Rollbar (G1)|Rollbar]] (13)
*[[Punch (G1)|Punch]] (27)
*[[Blurr (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blurr]] (33)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] (34)
*[[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] (37)
*[[Pointblank]] (38)
*[[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] (39)
*[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]] (40)
*[[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Arcee]] (41)
*[[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] (42)
*[[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] (43)
*[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] (44)
*[[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] (45)
*[[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] (46)
*[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] (53)
*[[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (54)
*[[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] (55)
*[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] (56)
*[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] (57)
*[[Fastlane]] (61)
*[[Cloudraker (G1)|Cloudraker]] (62)

|c2=
*[[Apeface]] (14)
*[[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] (15)
*[[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]] (16)
*[[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]] (17)
*[[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]] (18)
*[[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Gurrr]] (19)
*[[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]] (20)
*[[Scourge (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Scourge]] (21)
*[[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] (22)
*[[Misfire (G1)|Misfire]] (23)
*[[Triggerhappy (G1)|Triggerhappy]] (24)
*[[Wingspan]] (25)
*[[Pounce]] (26)
*[[Punch (G1)|Counterpunch]] (28)
*[[Sinnertwin (G1)|Sinnertwin]] (29)
*[[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]] (30)
*[[Cutthroat (G1)|Cutthroat]] (31)
*[[Blot (G1)|Blot]] (32)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (47)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (48)
*"[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]" (49, see notes)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (50)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (51)
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (52)
*[[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] (58)
*[[Slugslinger (G1)|Slugslinger]] (59)
*[[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] (60)

|c3=
*[[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] (35)
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike Witwicky]] (36)

|h4=[[Nebulan|Nebulons]]|c4=
*[[Gort]] (63)
*[[Duros]] (64)
*[[Stylor]] (65)
*[[Arcana]] (66)
*[[Pinpointer (G1)|Pinpointer]] (67)
*[[Firebolt (G1)|Firebolt]] (68)
*[[Recoil (G1)|Recoil]] (69)
*[[Haywire]] (70)
*[[Peacemaker]] (71)
*[[Spoilsport]] (72)
}}

==Quotes==
[[File:Rebirth punch and counterpunch.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
'''Wingspan:''' "Beat it, Counterpunch! We don't need your help!" 
'''Counterpunch:''' "Fine. ''You'' deal with my Autobot counterpart. I've heard he's nearby." 
''[ducks around the corner, transforms to Punch]'' 
'''Punch:''' "...''Real'' nearby."
:—Punch, master of subtle hints, utters a classic line.

'''Kup''': It might give us the edge if the Decepticons ''did'' return. 
'''Crosshairs''': That's not gonna happen! 
'''Optimus''': Kup! Highbrow! The Decepticons are heading your way! 
'''Kup''': How many of 'em, Prime? 
'''Optimus''': ''All'' of them! 
'''Crosshairs''': 'Course, I ''have'' been wrong on one or two occasions.
:—Crosshairs ''really'' needs to think before he speaks.

"Sixshot, show them what a one-robot army is!" 
:—'''Galvatron''' prompts Sixshot to do the old sell-my-toy routine.

"Five up! Five down! It's like shooting Cyberducks in a barrel!" 
:—'''Sixshot''' mows down the Aerialbots with each of his alt modes.

'''Kup''': Prepare for crash landing! 
'''Pointblank''': How?? By thinking good thoughts?! 
'''Kup''': That would help!! 
:—Pointblank and Kup discuss Autobot emergency procedures.

'''Kup''': Ya know, this reminds me of the time my platoon was stranded on Regulon IV. There we were, only 700 of us against three whole [[Regulon metalmonger|Regulon metalmongers.]] 
'''Hot Rod''': Seven hundred of you? Against three of them?? Ah c'mon, Kup. 
'''Kup''': You've ever seen a Regulon metalmonger, lad? 
'''Hot Rod''': Uhhh...No. 
'''Kup''': Trust me. We were outnumbered. 
:—Kup's platoon isn't always outnumbered. But when it is, it's by three guys.

"My one wish... is to ''never'' fight again."
:—'''Cerebros''', so pacifistic he won't even fight to help his friends.

"I suppose it's the only meritorious way out of our meretricious situation." 
"Yeah, me too. Like he said."
:—'''Highbrow''' and '''Hardhead''' on becoming Headmasters.

==Season 5==
{{note|When this episode was rebroadcast in [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 5|the fifth season]] of ''The Transformers'', it contained new bookending segments with original story material.}}

[[File:TommyWhining.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right]]

[[Tommy Kennedy|Tommy]] meets with [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] with "the greatest idea ever". Tommy says he wants to be turned into a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]! Optimus tries to tell him that becoming a Headmaster isn't so easy, but Tommy doesn't understand. Prime figures that if he knew the origin of the Headmasters, he might get it...

Tommy starts pouting, claiming that [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]] is "one lucky kid" for getting mauled half to death and thus becoming a Headmaster. Prime informs him that being a Headmaster isn't an answer to all of life's problems. He tries to tell him about the Decepticon Headmasters and how much trouble they're going to make for the Autobot Headmasters, but Tommy just brushes his warnings off and insists on going through the Headmaster process. Prime laments, "You're not gonna let me talk you out of this, are you?" but delays Tommy's gratification. Apparently, [[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]] is going into the shop for some minor retooling and he promised he'd be there. Blasting off, he promises to be back soon to transform Tommy's day into an adventure.

{{--}}

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
[[File:Rebirth1 CyclonusSixshot.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|"Where did you come from again?" "Whaddaya mean? I was always here."]]
[[File:Targetmasters.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Typical commercial animation.]]
[[File:Rebirth1 Fastlane Cloudraker Punch.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Typical AKOM crap.]]
*This episode takes place several months after "[[The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2]]".
*Almost two dozen Transformers make their debuts in this episode. As usual, there's no fuss over where they came from; they're just there. Similarly, quite a few familiar faces are gone with no explanation: Springer, Perceptor, Grimlock, the Sweeps, Sky Lynx, Blaster, Soundwave, Metroplex, and Trypticon, just to name a few. In real-life terms, they were removed from the show to make room for new character toys, despite many of them making no further appearances in the two remaining episodes.
*Following their abrupt debut in "The Return of Optimus Prime", the Throttlebots get a ''wee'' bit more attention in this episode, though only Rollbar (making his first appearance) actually gets referred to by name. Chase is not shown speaking at any point, but it's fun to imagine that the voice emanating from the Autobot City loudspeaker (credited only as "P.A. voice" on the episode's casting sheet) that warns of a Decepticon attack is him, as it's delivered by [[Rob Paulsen]], the actor cast for Chase.
*While discussing the Headmaster creation procedure with Chromedome, Brainstorm mentions that it's possible for a Transformer to "download (their memories and personalities) into the auxiliary memory circuits in their chests". Assuming that the aforementioned hardware is a standard feature in all Transformers, it might explain why [[Death|death is just a wee bit inconsistent in fiction]]. Not bad for a throwaway line!
*We're introduced to the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], a "foundry in which the original Autobots' bodies were forged." In practice, the chamber acts less like a foundry and more like a generator gone wild.
*Daniel getting injured and requiring a robotic body (or in this case, Exo-suit) to survive is reminiscent of [[Autobot X (G1)|a somewhat similar incident involving his father]]. This works out a lot better.

===Animation and technical errors===
*In the establishing shot of this episode, Autobot City is drawn even more off-model than usual.
*AKOM continues their proud tradition of using the wrong color models. Thus, throughout the episode:
**Goldbug's mouthplate is gold instead of white.
**Optimus Prime's backpack, fog lights and forehead crest are white instead of red / red / blue, respectively.
**Scourge's head can be seen sticking out of the top of his hovercraft mode.
**The inside of Ultra Magnus' head is red instead of gray.
*The side of Goldbug's head is yellow instead of black as he wonders if the Decepticons will remain scattered.
*Scattershot's a bad counter. His "about a hundred blips" is actually 28 blips.
*Then it's 39 blips in the closeup.
*The panels on either side of Ultra Magnus's forehead crest are white instead of blue as he walks in on Optimus Prime.
*Goldbug inexplicably has a starry night behind him as he reports the attack to Optimus Prime.
*The side of Wideload's load bed is entirely blue as he passes Rollbar. Only the cover should be blue; the rest should be orange.
*As he leaves the city, Wideload's bed sides are the correct orange, but the bed overhang over his cab is blue instead of orange.
*Strafe and Scattershot don't fly out of the door in Autobot City, but rather right out of the walls above the door.
*Wideload is shown transforming when Magnus orders the Technobots to charge, a bit odd since he's a ''Throttlebot''.
*Punch's mouth briefly disappears as Pounce tackles him.
*Scourge gets a radio muffle as he reports the theft of the key to Galvatron, even though he's right there on-screen.
*One of the Decepticons retreating from the Autobot City battle has Sureshot's color scheme.
*The Decepticons are shown entering the ''[[Revenge (G1)|Revenge]]'' ''through the engine port''... which then immediately lights up to propel the ship into space, presumably melting the entire Decepticon army to slag.
*Wingspan's gun sounds like Prime's rifle.
*Punch's mouth is missing as he points to where the key was stolen.
*As Daniel blasts the Cyclonus pop-up target, both the stick holding the target and the hole that it came from are missing.
*When Hot Rod first transforms to robot mode, the sides of his head are white and his spoiler is entirely yellow (it should be orange in the middle).
*Hardhead is consistently shown with the side of his visor yellow, rather than the blue that one might expect.
*When Crosshairs walks up to Brainstorm's group, he's drawn as a giant Pinpointer.
*The back of Prime's head is white as he and Magnus stand on the bridge of their shuttle.
*The group shot as Prime warns the Autobots not to let Galvatron open the chamber contains some odd members, including the giant Pinpointer, and Optimus Prime himself in Peacemaker's color scheme, but flipped.
*The ''Revenge'' somehow lands on Cybertron's surface without crushing the antenna on its bottom-most point.
*Six Constructicons are seen emerging from the ''Revenge''... but at the head of the group, instead of Scrapper, is Scattershot ''colored'' like Scrapper.
*Scourge crawls down a Transformers-sized hatch. A dozen Autobots pursue him by ''getting aboard a shuttle'' and flying after him, though it's not clear if it's supposed to be the same hatch.
*Scourge is missing the pink on his fingernails as he approaches the Plasma Energy Chamber.
*Brainstorm's arm is clipped behind a panel during a shot inside the shuttle, making him look like he's standing outside of it.
*The orange shuttle suddenly has a lot of white as it flies past camera, following the 1st commercial break.
*Cyclonus's cockpit windows aren't colored in as Galvatron orders his troops to go with Scourge.
*Kup's helmet is light gray as he flees from the shuttle.
*The first two Nebulans' dialog is flanged as if they were Transformers.
*As we cut back to the battle on Cybertron, various Constructicons, along with the Terrorcons Hun-grrr and Cutthroat, are show firing on... the Terrorcons Blot and Sinnertwin. Blot and Sinnertwin are fighting alongside Hot Spot and First Aid, the latter of whom is colored entirely white, missing his blue eyeband and red details.
*Hot Rod's missing his spoiler as he gets a magnetic bomb placed alongside him.
*As Hot Rod says, "You've got the wrong guys," he has several lines across his head crest instead of just one.
*If they're ''magnetic'' bombs, why do the Nebulans place them on the rocks of the cave walls?
*After the Decepticons arrive, various shots of the Autobots show no trace of the bombs.
*A giant Blowpipe is among the advancing Decepticons.
*Daniel is gnawed and thrown around by Snapdragon, and yet, his uniform remains squeaky clean and show no signs of damage despite Daniel's injuries being described as 'severe'. That must be some tough fabric they use in the future.
*As the Autobots approach the forest, Chromedome and Hardhead both have Nebulans transforming to form their heads, even though they haven't yet undergone the Headmaster process!

===Continuity errors===
*Scattershot claims there's "about a hundred" Decepticons heading towards Autobot City, but the attacking force shown on-screen is only a fraction of that number (Galvatron, the future Targetmasters, the future Headmasters, the clones, and the Terrorcons = 18 total). If we're generous and include additional Decepticons shown on Cybertron, it only goes up to 30 (the Constructicons, Sixshot, and the Combaticons = 30 total). Nope, still not a hundred!
*Additionally, for a group that's supposed to include "every Decepticon in the known universe", there are some conspicuous absences - Soundwave, the Decepticon Mini-Cassettes, the Coneheads, Astrotrain, the Stunticons, the Predacons, the Sweeps, the Battlechargers, and Trypticon are all nowhere to be seen. (Quite a few were phased out of the show because [[to sell toys|their toys were no longer on the shelves]].)
*Furthermore, if we're extra charitable and assume the aforementioned absent Decepticons simply took part in the attack offscreen, that still leaves us with only 63 Decepticons accounted for, a ways away from the 100 mentioned.
*Where did Galvatron get all those troops from anyway? Did the Decepticons somehow build a ton of sentient new robots on their own, or were they scattered around the galaxy?
*For that matter, where did all the new Autobots come from?
*The outside of the city is already smoking (burning?) before the Decepticons start their attack or fire a single shot.
*Soooo.... why do the Autobots rush headlong to meet their attackers instead of [[The Transformers: The Movie|transforming the city to battle station mode]]?

[[File:TheRebirth pt1 Punch FAILS.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
*Pounce and Wingspan probably aren't the smartest guys around but even they can't be stupid enough to fall for Punch's "My Autobot counterpart is nearby" crap.
*Why isn't Cerebros affected by the Plasma Energy when he gets out with Spike to grab the key? It takes Scourge down almost instantly but he doesn't even flinch from it.
*Since when is Scourge big enough to carry a full-sized Transformer as a passenger? When the plot needs him to, that's when.
*Lost in the vastness of space, the Autobot ship somehow manages to hit a planet? Cosmically improbable.
*For a ship supposedly moving a million miles per ''second'' (five times the speed of light), with no retro-rockets, the Autobot shuttle makes an incredibly soft landing on Nebulos, splashing down as though it were dropped from about 10 feet up. At that speed, the ship would have incinerated in orbit or, if it made it down intact, slammed into the planet with enough force to do incredible damage. (On the flip side, the million-miles-per-second thing does explain how they got to a completely different planet.)
*As is the norm for just about any children's cartoon, aliens on far-off planets speak perfect English. (And what ever happened to the [[universal greeting]]?)
*Considering they "hate all machines", the resistance sure do have a lot of machines set up in their caves.
*Crosshairs seriously just ''stands there'' and lets Mindwipe carry him off. He's shown unharmed and awake, even though he was among the first to get blasted in the Decepticon assault and was probably intended to be unconscious like the rest of the Autobots taken prisoner.
*Hasn't Arcee ever heard that you're not supposed to move the victim?! She picks up the unconscious Daniel for no other reason than to display affection.
*Gort's description of the Hive ("ten rulers", great mental powers) doesn't really accord with the Tech Spec descriptions of some of Zarak's allies. This wouldn't be a discrepancy within the cartoon, but guys like Nightstick and Fracas act less like super-mental-power rulers and more like the bullies and brutes described in their bios.
*Brainstorm is shown drawing on paper with a manual triangle. Twenty more years into the future, and the super advanced space robots ''still'' [[The Master Builders (episode)|haven't switched to a computer drafting system]].
*There's a line about where to put human-sized controllers into Autobots in robot mode, even though [[Only Human|it was done before]] without any modification.
*Arcana mentions that releasing the Autobots to fight the Decepticons would leave them with twenty machines to deal with instead of just ten. However, there are more than 20 as there are ''12'' Autobots and ''10'' Decepticons. Arcana is, of course, being conversational, not strictly mathematical.

===Trivia===
*"The Rebirth, Part 1", was to be the fourth season premiere, but due to declining interest, it simply was the first of the three final episodes (originally conceived as a ''five''-part story), in which a slew of new characters and concepts were introduced, most notably the US animated version of the Headmasters.
*Like "[[Five Faces of Darkness]]" before it, the "Rebirth" mini-series also got its own introductory [[title sequence]], consisting of some parts of the Season 3 titles spliced together with animation segments from the 1987 toy [[commercial]]s. Unfortunately, the contrast in art and animation quality between the Season 3 credits (animated on the usual low [[AKOM]] budget) and the much higher-quality commercial snippets is jarring, to say the least.
[[File:Rebirth1 Hardhead and Blurr.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Guess Hardhead figured it was now or never.]]
*One of the commercial animation segments used in the new title sequence is from the [[Duocon]]s commercial featuring [[Flywheels]], who otherwise makes no appearance in an actual episode.
*Your wiki editors will leave it up to the reader to interpret the image at the bottom right.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title (European French broadcast):'' "'''Une nouvelle naissance, partie 1'''" ("A New Birth, Part 1")
:*''Title (Canadian French broadcast & European French DVD release):'' "'''La Renaissance, partie 1'''" ("The Rebirth, Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Spanish'''
:*''Title:'' '''"El Renacimiento"''' ("The Rebirth")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' '''Die Wiedergeburt, Teil 1''' ("The Rebirth, Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Hebrew'''
:*''Title:'' '''המטאורים''' ("The Meteors")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' '''La Rinascita (Prima Parte)''' ("The Rebirth (First Part)")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 21]], [[2014]] (on YouTube)
::*"The Rebirth" was not dubbed for Italian release, airing ''The Headmasters'' as a continuation of the series. The episodes were dubbed between 2012 and 2014 along with the redub of Season 3, and feature the same cast. A DVD release couldn't be made at the time (even the redubbed Season 3 DVDs were made in a very small quantity), so the episodes were released for free on YouTube in November 2014 on the Contactoons channel (Contactoons is a cartoon block that airs on a few Italian regional channels, airing older programs that regular channels no longer carry). The videos were made private 24 hours after they were made available, but they can still be accessed by checking the channel's "film animazione e serie tv special" ("Animated movies and TV show specials") playlist.
::*The dub itself is basically an amateur production, with voices not well matched to characters. Many character names are also mispronounced.

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' '''Headmaster Tanjō''' (ヘッドマスター誕生, "The Headmasters Are Born")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[1996]] (home video); [[July 21]], [[2007]] (broadcast)
::*"The Rebirth" was not initially dubbed for Japanese release, instead being replaced by the domestic series ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]''. The episodes were eventually dubbed in 1996 as special features on [[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer]]'s {{w|LaserDisc}} and DVD collections. "The Rebirth" received its first Japanese television broadcast in [[2007]], airing on [[Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network Japan]].
::*To further distinguish "The Rebirth" from the continuity of the Japanese series, it was released with the American ''The Transformers'' branding and [[title sequence]]. With a few exceptions (such as "Convoy"), most of the characters are referred to by their Western names. For instance, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] is not called "Hot Rodimus", [[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] is not called "Cher" and so on.
::*With the exception of [[Tesshō Genda]] (Convoy), [[Seizō Katō]] (Galvatron), and [[Issei Masamune]] ([[narrator]]), all characters were recast with new actors.
::*Voice direction for the 1996 dubbing of "The Rebirth" was conducted by [[Shōzō Tajima]].
::*Due to having been released straight-to-video, this is one of the few episodes of ''The Transformers'' not to have been edited for time in Japan. As such, Japanese DVD and laserdisc releases include an optional English audio track for the episode.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 1987 — ''Transformers'' — Die Wiedergeburt (Erster Teil) ([[Polyband]]) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1988 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters: The Rebirth (Parts, 1, 2 & 3) ([[Tempo Video]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1989 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters / The Return of Optimus Prime (Tempo Video) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1991 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters / The Return of Optimus Prime / Cosmic Rust (Tempo Video) 
[[File:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1998 — ''The Transformers: Generation 2'' — Rebirth: The Movie ([[Malofilm|Behaviour Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2001 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Heroes: The Rebirth ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])
;{{w|LaserDisc}}
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1996 — ''Transformers: The Headmasters'' Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — English and Japanese audio.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2001 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Heroes: The Rebirth ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — Complete Original Series: Deluxe Edition ([[Maverick Entertainment|Sony Wonder]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — The Rebirth: Parts 1-3 (Sony Wonder) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2004 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 2 & Season 4 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 3 and Season 4 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2005 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 6: Series 4 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2005 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 24 ([[Déclic Images]]) — European French audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — Box-Set (3DVDs) ([[Flex Media]]) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2008 — ''Transformers'' — Box-Set (2DVDs) (Flex Media) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season's Three & Four {{sic}} (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2010 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-4/synopses/6701-01.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

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[[Category:The Transformers episodes]]

The Rebirth, Part 2

2023-02-14T06:04:29Z

Skybots10: /* Foreign localization */

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|image=Rebirth 2 Decepticon offerings.JPG
|caption=Decepticon drug deal in progress.
|series=G1toon
|ep=97
|title="The Rebirth, Part 2"
|written by=[[David Wise]]
|animation studio=[[AKOM]]
|season=4
|season ep=2
|production code=6701-02
|airdate=[[November 10]], 1987
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGsJZtfMtrg
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''The Autobot Headmasters prove to be a smashing success, but the Decepticons soon find Nebulan partners of their own.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Rebirth 2 Hardhead Hive machine.JPG|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Hardhead was the first Cannon head master, and the last.]]

On [[Nebulos]], the modifications to the [[Autobot]]s' heads are nearly complete. All that is left is to select their partners. [[Duros]], the combat veteran, takes [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]]; [[Arcana]], the oldest and wisest among them, takes [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]; [[Stylor]] takes [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]; [[Gort]] takes [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]]; and [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]] is placed in [[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Arcee]]. Upon activating, the Autobots feel different and decide to make a test run. The [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] process is thus proven as good an idea as Brainstorm believed, as with the rebels' guidance, the Autobots trash the [[Hive (G1)|Hive]]'s machines. Satisfied with their trial run, the Autobots and rebels decide that it's time to get the [[Key to the Plasma Energy Chamber|Key]] to the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]]. But the Hive is watching and recognizes Gort and Arcana within the robots. Some of them decide it's time to bring the pain, but their leader decides to watch...

Meanwhile, on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the battle between the Autobots and the [[Decepticon]]s appears evenly matched. However, there is no sign of [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] and [[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]]'s team, or the Key. [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] decides that it's time to find some answers, and leaves the battle, with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] following.

Back on Nebulos, [[Scourge (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Scourge]] is torturing the captive Autobots for the key, to the amusement of [[Apeface]]. However, [[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]] realizes that these Autobots don't have the Key, or the others would be all over them. Bad choice of words, as the Autobot Headmasters appear. They quickly overwhelm the Decepticons and free the captives, taking [[Revenge (G1)|the Decepticon ship]] in the process. Some of the Hive members believe that the Decepticons should be destroyed as well, but their leader has other plans. Capturing the Decepticons, Lord [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]] offers them a deal: Submit to the Headmaster process and allow the Hive to be their partners, giving them the strength to destroy the Autobots. Scourge tells them to get bent, but Zarak reveals that the offer was only a formality. Grabbing the Decepticons, Cyclonus and Scourge agree to deal, but only with the heads of the animals. Apeface objects, but Cyclonus shows him who is boss. The "vehicle" Decepticons offer their weapons. Zarak agrees, and the modifications begin.

[[File:Rebirth 2 Optimus Alpha.JPG|upright=0.85|thumb|Can't hear you, Alpha Trion, what's that? "Why didn't you use the Matrix to revive Vector Sigma?" Oops.]]

Back on Cybertron, Optimus and Magnus have reached the source of the Autobot leader's quest: the chamber of [[Vector Sigma]]. Using the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] as an interface, Prime activates the supercomputer to communicate with the spirit of [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]]. Alpha explains that the Key is on Nebulos, and that Vector Sigma arranged for [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] to learn of it. All of this is being done to bring about a second [[Golden Age]], which depends on the merging of a [[human]] with an Autobot. Before the discussion is ended, Alpha Trion tells Prime to preserve the key at all costs. Prime is confused, but it's kinda hard to argue with God's will, after all. Optimus departs for Nebulos, leaving Ultra Magnus in command of the Autobots until his return.

On Nebulos, the modifications are complete, and the Hive members bond with the Decepticons. Zarak, however, remains behind, having plans for the Hive's city. Meanwhile, the Autobots are dragging the ship to the rebel base, when [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] arrives, badly damaged and mumbling that he found a city. The Autobots are able to stabilize him, but the Decepticons show up. Brainstorm is pissed that the Decepticons have their own Headmasters. He's even more pissed when [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] takes the Key from him. However, Brainstorm manages to run a scan on [[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]] before the Decepticons run off. Using the scans gives Spike an idea. Sometime later, Optimus Prime lands and is introduced to the Headmasters and the [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]s. With this force, the Autobots prepare to retake the Key.

[[File:Rebirth 2 Scorponok rising.JPG|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Upon seeing Scorponok, the other Decepticons had to reassure Trypticon that Galvatron still loved him more.]]

Elsewhere, the Decepticons are getting grumpy, having to wait for Zarak and with nothing to shoot. Their boredom is relieved when Prime leads the Autobots in an attack. Arcee and Daniel manage to take the Key and get it to Prime. The Autobots circle Prime and Arcee, vowing to let nothing get through. However, from beneath them, Zarak raises the Hive's city. Suddenly, it begins to [[Transformation|transform]] into something else. The city lands on the ground, and from the dust rises... [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]!

[[The Rebirth, Part 3|To be concluded...]]

{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] (1)
*[[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Arcee]] (2)
*[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] (3)
*[[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] (4)
*[[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] (5)
*[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] (16)
*[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] (17)
*[[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] (18)
*[[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (19)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (21)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (22)
*[[Punch (G1)|Punch]] (23)
*[[Fastlane]] (24)
*[[Cloudraker (G1)|Cloudraker]] (25)
*[[Blurr (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blurr]] (36)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] (37)
*[[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] (38)
*[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]] (39)
*[[Vector Sigma]] (40)
*[[Pointblank]] (41)
*[[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] (42)
*[[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] (43)
*[[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] (54)
|c2=
*[[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] (20)
*[[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]] (26)
*[[Apeface]] (27)
*[[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]] (28)
*[[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]] (29)
*[[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] (30)
*[[Triggerhappy (G1)|Triggerhappy]] (31)
*[[Misfire (G1)|Misfire]] (32)
*[[Slugslinger (G1)|Slugslinger]] (33)
*[[Scourge (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Scourge]] (34)
*[[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]] (35)
*[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] (58)
|c3=
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike Witwicky]] (6)
*[[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] (14)
|h4=[[Nebulan|Nebulons]]|c4=
*[[Gort]] (7)
*[[Stylor]] (8)
*[[Duros]] (9)
*[[Spoilsport]] (10)
*[[Pinpointer (G1)|Pinpointer]] (11)
*[[Arcana]] (12)
*[[Peacemaker]] (13)
*[[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]] (15)
*[[Nightstick (G1)|Nightstick]] (44)
*[[Aimless]] (45)
*[[Caliburst (G1)|Caliburst]] (46)
*[[Blowpipe (G1)|Blowpipe]] (47)
*[[Fracas]] (48)
*[[Spasma]] (49)
*[[Krunk]] (50)
*[[Vorath]] (51)
*[[Monzo]] (52)
*[[Grax]] (53)
*[[Recoil (G1)|Recoil]] (55)
*[[Haywire]] (56)
*[[Firebolt (G1)|Firebolt]] (57)
}}

==Quotes==
"Open the hatch! Anything you put in there will totally scramble the machine's circuits!" 
"Like what?" 
"Like your fist!" 
:—'''Gort''' and '''Highbrow''', discussing combat tactics.

"I am Zarak. I have a little deal to offer you, one which will enable you to defeat your adversaries. And all it will cost you is...your heads."
:—'''Zarak''', addressing the Decepticons.

"Did you get your questions answered?" 
"Yes. And every answer led to a bigger question."
:—'''Ultra Magnus''' and '''Optimus Prime''' after the Autobot leader's communion with Vector Sigma.

"The boys all call me Nightstick. I hope ya like bustin' heads! AHAHAHAHAHA!" 
"I like busting Autobot Head''masters'' better."
:—'''Nightstick''' and '''Cyclonus''' see eye-to-eye.

"You can call me Caliburst! Because I've never missed a shot in my life!" 
"But you've never taken a shot in your life."
:—'''Caliburst''' tells '''Slugslinger''' about his life.

"It's me, I'm Fracas! And if you think Blowpipe was bad, I'm ''worse''!" 
"And you're ''louder''."
:—'''Fracas''' fails to impress '''Scourge'''.

"Those creeps, swiping ''my'' idea, I'll sue!"
:—'''Brainstorm''' considers the legal approach when meeting the Decepticon Headmasters and Targetmasters.

"Autobots! Prepare to feel the sting of...'''SCORPONOK!'''"
:—'''Zarak''' attacks the Autobots.

==Season 5==
{{note|When this episode was rebroadcast in [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 5|the fifth season]] of ''The Transformers'', it contained new bookending segments with original story material.}}

[[File:TommyWreckageOfTheApocalypse.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|"We just gotta [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Titans Return|rework Ultra Magnus' new look and change my name to Apex]]. We'll be the hottest thing in 2016!"]]

[[Tommy Kennedy|Tommy]] meets with [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] in the barren wasteland and Prime asks what Tommy wants to be ''this'' week. A computer engineer? A galaxy patrolman? Tommy reminds him that all he wants to be is a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]! He insists that the Headmasters were the Autobots' coolest idea ever and wants to know more of their origin...

Despite hearing of all the hardships the Headmasters went through and being teased with all the hardships yet to come, Tommy '''still''' cannot be dissuaded. Prime reluctantly offers him a deal: If by the end of the story Tommy still wants to be a Headmaster, he will make him one. Tommy enthusiastically accepts the terms and watches as Optimus blasts off, promising to return and transform his day into an adventure.

{{--}}

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Both Vector Sigma and Alpha Trion make a reappearance here, after long absences.
*Vector Sigma suddenly gains a whole lot of new powers, having complex plans and motives of its own, and arranging for certain events to happen in the outside world. Outside the realm of the cartoon, this would eventually be retconned as [[Primus]] working his god shtick.

===Real-world references===
*The Hive line "exterminate, exterminate" is the catch-phrase of ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s [[Dalek]]s, deliberately included by writer [[David Wise]], who is a huge ''Doctor Who'' fan. It's appropriate, too, since the [[wikia:tardis:Dalek|Daleks]] were also alien beings who lived in mechanical bodies to compensate for the severe atrophy of their real bodies.
===Animation and technical errors===
[[File:Rebirth 2 Optimus Alpha.JPG|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
[[File:Weirdwolfrebirthb.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
*AKOM episode. Watch for Prime's white backpack, which should be red.
*Coloring errors:
**Arcee's chest is entirely pink in several shots (like when Daniel first merges with her).
**Magnus is missing some of the blue at the top of his chest as Punch drives up to report.
**In the first shot across the Decepticon camp, someone - Slugslinger, presumably, though he's pretty off-model - is colored like Sinnertwin.
**Apeface's ape head is all white during his "Yuck!" lines.
**Triggerhappy is colored entirely in shades of gray as the claws grab Scourge and Cyclonus.
**At 00:08:40 into the episode, Zarak is shown with brown eye brows, instead of his normal white ones.
**Nightstick has gone from black to purple as Cyclonus holds him in weapon mode.
*The Autobot's heads are depicted as huge next to the Nebulans, and positively cavernous inside. Later, the heads are shown to transform into human-scaled exo-suits.
*When Hardhead rips off the tentacle from the machine, the electricity effects are not backlit to glow.
*As Blurr and Kup are interrogated, Blurr has sprouted a pair of lips (which lap over his "goatee" as he talks), and Kup is using his alternate character model (previously used in "[[Chaos (episode)|Chaos]]" as Kup's younger self).
[[File:Rebirth targetmaster torture.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
*When Kup is being stretched on the wrack, the channels that are supposed to be pulling at his wrists are missing.
*As Cyclonus argues with Scourge after torturing Kup, Cyclonus is ''also'' depicted with his alternate character model, which is subsequently used for most of the remaining shots that feature him.
*When Hardhead & Highbrow transform, Highbrow's animation layer is in front of Hardhead instead of behind as it should be, according to the scale of the characters.
*In addition, he's shown converting entirely into tank mode prior to the cut to Cyclonus' "what the devil?!" line. However, after Duros transforms into his robot mode, Hardhead is shown back in (headless) robot mode, firing his two guns before transforming into tank mode... again.
*When the newly created Autobot Headmasters attack the Decepticons to reclaim their Targetmaster-to-be comrades, [[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] is missing.
*Scourge's gun (as well as most of the Headmaster's guns) uses the same sound effect as Optimus Prime's rifle.
*Nobody can make up their mind how to pronounce Scourge's name; in barely 30 seconds, we get "Skerge" two times with a "Skoorge" in-between.
[[File:Brainstormrebirthvehicle.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
*Arcana transforms and lands on top of Brainstorm's cockpit, rather than riding inside it.
*How in the world does Arcee's head turn into an exosuit identical to Daniel and Spike's standard suits?
*Cyclonus and Scourge leap off the Decepticon ship and run away from it... then are immediately shown running up to it as it starts to explode from the Autobot assault.
*Vector Sigma is transparent as it rises into place.
*The Matrix shell glows in this episode; it was burned out ("empty") [[The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2|the last time we saw it]].
*Optimus' mouthplate isn't moving in several shots as he talks with Alpha Trion.
*After speaking with Alpha Trion, the vertical line in missing on Optimus' abs/grille.
*The first claws to lunge toward Scourge and Cyclonus are showing coming out of the <s>clear blue</s> cloudy pink sky.
*Snapdragon and Skullcruncher are missing as the Decepticons get to their feet inside the Hive's base.
*After the first commercial break, Zarak and company are depicted as ''larger'' than the Decepticons.
*Lord Zarak and Grax are the only Hive members who get character models depicting them in their pre-exosuit forms. The rest of the Hive are represented by recycled models of [[Kranix (G1)|Kranix]] and other [[Lithone (planet)|Lithone]] inhabitants - who are ''robots''.
[[File:Rebirth 2 Decepticon offerings.JPG|right|upright=1.95|thumb|Isn't that Brainstorm's old head? It's got that weird Count Dracula-looking giant brow.]]
*Throughout the episode, Mindwipe's face changes back and forth between two large square eyes and a conjoined eyeband. When he removes his head, he has a new face altogether - maybe one of the otherwise-unused pre-Headmaster head designs.
*As he says, "We don't make deals with organic creatures," Scourge's head crest is overly huge and red, and his face has a black line through the middle of it.
*In the group shot after the to-be Decepticon Headmasters remove their heads, one of the Decepticons with a missing head is Triggerhappy, who's destined to become a Targetmaster. Conversely, future Headmaster Skullcruncher still has his noggin attached (and is the only one of the beast Decepticons who does).
*When Grax reports that the modifications to the Decepticons' heads and weapons are complete, his eyebrows and mustache are the same dark green color as the rest of his hair, when they were white in the previous scene.
*Among the line of waiting Hive exo-suits are Triggerhappy, Slugslinger and Misfire. In the same scene, ''all'' the Hive members are shown as beige Lithone robots, even though some have already been shown to be green-skinned organic humanoids.
*Odd shot blocking makes Nightstick look almost as tall as Cyclonus as he walks up to him.
*Aimless and Caliburst don't seem to have any gun handles. This is reinforced in the third act, when Misfire is shown holding Aimless with two hands.
*Caliburst's blue disappears during his "See, would I lie to ya?" line.
*Vorath is drawn as Monzo when Mindwipe hypnotises him, and is colored entirely gray (not the right color for either character.)
*Monzo is drawn as Vorath and has Grax's voice. And he's looking at Skullcruncher (who already bonded with Grax) colored as Weirdwolf. In the following shot, Monzo and Weirdwolf bond.
*The Decepticon ship being towed by the Autobots is suddenly completely intact. It's also ridiculously small - barely large enough for one robot to fit inside of, if the whole bridge opened like a cockpit. In the same shot, an unidentifiable truck that's not Kup is colored like him.
*In the shot where Hot Rod says, "We've got company!," the top part of Arcee's head is missing.
*Everyone suddenly has Optimus Prime's rifle sound effect as the Decepticons attack the Autobots at the caves.
*When Weirdwolf transforms, his head (Monzo) detaches and transforms... and a ''second'' copy of his head (ie, another Monzo) flies out from behind Mindwipe and also transforms.
*Brainstorm's face is completely gray (instead of gold) when he says "Go hang upside down from a tree, Mindwipe!"
*In the big group shot as Prime walks up, Sureshot has been replaced by some red guy with white lower legs. Hot Rod and Blurr appear to have all-gray heads. Arcee's head is squished into a cylinder shape.
[[File:Rebirth2 Blurr with gun.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
*In the only shot in the whole story of Blurr holding Haywire, Haywire is drawn as Blurr's regular gun. The very next shot shows gun mode Recoil instead.
*"Zarak's modifications are nearly finished!" Once again, the Head/Targetmaster partners are nearly as large as the Transformers themselves.
*As Optimus stands on the hill above the Hive facility, the sides of his chest which should be grey are red instead.
*As he taunts Optimus, Scourge's face is black on the bottom
*Cyclonus gives the order to "'''E'''nnihilate them!" ''Riiiight.''

===Continuity errors===
*Superhuman Spike has become super-genius Spike, magically rebuilding Autobot heads into transformable exo-suits with virtually no tools or facilities.
*If the rebels are so pathologically afraid of machines, why do they have the claws that re-attach the Autobots' heads to their bodies?
*Daniel is supposed to be critically injured and on life support machines, yet there's no sign of them aside from a funky helmet. And then even ''that'' goes away when he's placed into Arcee's head.
*Where do Chromedome and Arcee go during the fight with the Hive machines?
*Brainstorm addresses his first line to Scourge... but it's in response to something that Cyclonus said.
*When the Decepticons are abducted by the Hive, they land next to a machine based on Scorponok's city mode... right down to the Decepticon symbol already in place on it.
*Last episode, Gort claimed that "the Hive's bodies are withered and useless" due to their extreme hibernation and dependency of technology as a means of survival. Yet Lord Zarak is freaking jacked and ripped like {{w|Franco Columbu}} when we finally see him. Intel must not be too good on Nebulos.
*Optimus correctly guesses that the Matrix could activate Vector Sigma. That idea didn't strike him when Alpha Trion sacrificed his life to activate it in "[[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2]]". The real-world answer, of course, is that the concept [[A Prime Problem|didn't exist]] [[Retcon|back then]].
*Alpha Trion's description of plasma energy's effects is gibberish. "Any entity that transforms matter into energy" includes pretty much any form of life, including the organic life which he then says is immune.
[[File:Rebirth2-Aimlesssuitsyoubetter.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
*What seems to be a cut script line results in one of the most awesome errors in the whole series. Aimless walks up to Misfire and says, "I live only to destroy our mutual enemies!" Misfire responds "I think the name Aimless suits you better!" As many fans have wondered, did Misfire think his partner was introducing himself as "I, Live-Only-To-Destroy-Our-Mutual-Enemies"?
*A character model incongruity becomes apparent when Apeface and Snapdragon join with their new partners. On both their toys, the Headmaster figure becomes the head of both the robot and the creature mode. However, the model designers (or the animators, or both) didn't get the memo. Both robots are shown in their [[beast mode]]s while separated from their smaller partners... who clearly have the beast mode faces on their backs!
*Right after the Decepticons steal the key from the Autobots, Spike says that "they can fly and you guys can't"... to Brainstorm and Highbrow, who both transform into flying vehicles.
*When [[Krunk]] is removing the key to the Plasma Energy Chamber from Brainstorm's body and declares, "The key, I have it!", Brainstorm's Headmaster partner Arcana replies, "Ah ha, but I have ''you'', Nightstick!" before Krunk leaves with the Key. Why not just, you know, grab Krunk?
*After the Decepticons escape with the key, Highbrow declares. "They can't get off this planet any more than we can!" As demonstrated countless times in season 3, Cyclonus and Scourge both transform into spacecraft. (Admittedly, Scourge's alt-form looks more like a hovercraft, but he has definitely broken the gravitational pull of various planets in that mode.)
*What kind of great strategy is it to throw away your gun as soon as the battle starts? Instead of a robot with a big gun, you wind up with a weaponless robot and a little guy firing a much smaller gun.
*In the Autobots' counterattack after Prime's arrival, how does Arcee know Scourge has the key? Cyclonus is the highest-ranking Decepticon in the bunch.

===Trivia===
*Optimus seems rather dazed and confused throughout this entire episode. It's as if coming back from the dead left him as more of an old man than the hero from earlier episodes.
*Brainstorm announces his plan to sue for the theft of his Headmaster idea. Aside from the peculiar idea of a Cybertronian engaging in legal warfare, exactly ''who'' he would sue in the first place is a mystery.
*Cyclonus seems frighteningly willing to murder Apeface over a minor disagreement. Why not just let Apeface be a Targetmaster instead? Considering how few soldiers are on hand right now it seems like quite a risk to start shooting them right and left and still expect to be able to take on the Autobots.
*After Spasma and Krunk tell the Horrorcons to stay in line, Spasma spits on the floor. This causes a small trail of smoke to fume from the ground suggesting that Spasma's spit was some kind of corrosive acid. That's hardcore.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title (European French broadcast):'' "'''Une nouvelle naissance, partie 2'''" ("A New Birth, Part 2")
:*''Title (Canadian French broadcast & European French DVD release):'' "'''La Renaissance, partie 2'''" ("The Rebirth, Part 2")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Spanish'''
:*''Title:'' '''"El Renacimiento, segunda parte"''' ("The Rebirth, second part")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Die Wiedergeburt, Teil 2'''" ("The Rebirth, Part 2")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' '''La Rinascita (Seconda Parte)''' ("The Rebirth (Second Part)")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 21]], [[2014]] (on YouTube)
::*"The Rebirth" was not dubbed for Italian release, with ''The Headmasters'' being aired as a continuation of the series instead. The episodes were dubbed between 2012 and 2014 along with the redub of Season 3, and feature the same cast. A DVD release could not be made at the time (even the redubbed Season 3 DVDs were made in a very small quantity), so the episodes were released for free on YouTube in November 2014 on the Contactoons channel (Contactoons is a cartoon block that airs on a few Italian regional channels, airing older programs that regular channels no long carry). The videos were made private 24 hours after they were made available, but they can still be accessed by checking the channel's "film animazione e serie tv special" ("Animated movies and TV show specials") playlist.
::*The dub itself is basically an amateur production, with very unfitting voices. Many character names are also mispronounced.

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' '''Destron no Hangeki''' (デストロンの反撃, "The Decepticons' Counter-Attack")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[1996]] (home video); [[July 21]], [[2007]] (broadcast)
::*"The Rebirth" was not initially dubbed for Japanese release, instead being replaced by the domestic series ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]''. The episodes were eventually dubbed in 1996 as special features on [[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer]]'s {{w|LaserDisc}} and DVD collections. "The Rebirth" received its first Japanese television broadcast in [[2007]], airing on [[Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network Japan]].
::*To further distinguish "The Rebirth" from the continuity of the Japanese series, it was released with the American ''The Transformers'' branding and [[title sequence]]. With a few exceptions (such as "Convoy"), most of the characters are referred to by their Western names. For instance, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] is not called "Hot Rodimus", [[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] is not called "Cher" and so on.
::*With the exception of [[Tesshō Genda]] (Convoy), [[Seizō Katō]] (Galvatron) and [[Issei Masamune]] ([[narrator]]), all characters were recast with new actors.
::*Voice direction for the 1996 dubbing of "The Rebirth" was conducted by [[Shōzō Tajima]].
::*Due to having been released straight-to-video, this is one of the few episodes of ''The Transformers'' not to have been edited for time in Japan. As such, Japanese DVD and laserdisc releases include an optional English audio track for the episode.

'''Russian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Vozrozhdenye, Chast 2'''" (''Возрождение, часть 2'', "The Rebirth, Part 2")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

===Toys inspired by this episode===
[[File:TR-toy Arcee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|right|So why isn't she named "Eecra"?]]
*'''''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)#HasCon|Leinad]] & [[Arcee (G1)/toys#Titans Return|Arcee]] with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Titans Return|Ultra Magnus]]''' ([[Hasbro]], 2017)

:A [[HasCon]]/[[New York Comic Con]]/[[Hasbro Toy Shop]]/[[Toys"R"Us]] "shared [[exclusive]]" redeco and retool of ''Titans Return'' Deluxe Class [[Blurr (G1)/toys#Titans Return|Blurr]] as Arcee, specifically representing her Headmaster incarnation that debuts this episode. Her [[Titan Master]] is named "Leinad", which is "Daniel" backwards, and is based on an [[exosuit]] like the one Daniel wears when transforming into Arcee's head in "The Rebirth". Also included is a Titan Master version of Ultra Magnus, which is unrelated to this episode.
{{-}}

[[File:TF-MP40-Targetmaster-Hot-Rodimus.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Targetmaster Hot Rodimus''' ([[2018]]-[[February 24|02-24]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''MP-40'''
**''Accessories:'' [[Firebolt (G1)#mp40|Firebolt]], gun
:This [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#MP-40|redeco]] of [[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]] [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#MasterpieceHotRodimus|Hot Rodimus]] uses the incorrect AKOM color palette that he used during the majority of Season 3, but he is also directly based on the degraded colors of the broadcast masters used for the episodes' DVD release, he also comes with a figure of his Target Master partner [[Firebolt (G1)#mp40|Firebolt]] that he used in the episode, who can held in Hot Rod's hands or mounted on his engine block.
{{--}}

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 1987 — ''Transformers'' — Die Wiedergeburt (Zweiter Teil) ([[Polyband]]) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1988 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters: The Rebirth (Parts, 1, 2 & 3) ([[Tempo Video]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1989 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters / The Return of Optimus Prime (Tempo Video) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1991 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters / The Return of Optimus Prime / Cosmic Rust (Tempo Video) 
[[File:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1998 — ''The Transformers: Generation 2'' — Rebirth: The Movie ([[Malofilm|Behaviour Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2001 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Heroes: The Rebirth ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])
;{{w|LaserDisc}}
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1996 — ''Transformers: The Headmasters'' Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — English and Japanese audio.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2001 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Heroes: The Rebirth ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — The Rebirth: Parts 1-3 ([[Maverick Entertainment|Sony Wonder]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2004 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 2 & Season 4 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 3 and Season 4 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2005 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 6: Series 4 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2005 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 24 ([[Déclic Images]]) — European French audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — Box-Set (3DVDs) ([[Flex Media]]) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2008 — ''Transformers'' — Box-Set (2DVDs) (Flex Media) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season's Three & Four {{sic}} (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2010 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-4/synopses/6701-02.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rebirth, Part 2}}
[[Category:The Transformers episodes]]

The Rebirth, Part 1

2023-02-14T06:01:31Z

Skybots10: /* Foreign localization */

{{episode
|image=Rebirth 1 Autobot heads.JPG
|caption=Dum-dum give us gum-gum.
|series=G1toon
|ep=96
|title="The Rebirth, Part 1"
|written by=[[David Wise]]
|animation studio=[[AKOM]]
|season=4
|season ep=1
|production code=6701-01
|airdate=[[November 9]], 1987
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oNbcGdO6Og
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''Galvatron invades Autobot City and then Cybertron with a plan to destroy the Autobots forever! This is something new?'''

==Synopsis==
[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Goldbug]] is talking with the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]] at [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]]. Things have been quiet for the [[Autobot]]s in the months since the return of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Hate Plague]] crisis. Not a word has been heard of the [[Decepticon]]s in months. Who knows where they are. The answer? Right at their doorstep. Meanwhile, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] walks into a room to find Optimus on his knees. Optimus claims that he has been having visions since he opened the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], and it's something big. Goldbug informs Optimus of the approaching Decepticon force, and Optimus realizes that what ever he's been sensing, it's starting right now.

[[File:Rebirth 1 Autobots Decepticons fight.JPG|left|upright=1.1|thumb|A truly epic battle.]]

Leading the Autobots out, the Decepticons attack. The Technobots and the [[Throttlebot]]s take point, but the Decepticons have gotten some new raw power in [[Apeface]] and [[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]], while [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] has some fun with [[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]]. However, [[Punch (G1)|Punch]] sees [[Wingspan]] and [[Pounce]] enter into Autobot City. [[Transformation|Transforming]] into Counterpunch, he follows to check up on their progress, where he sees them steal something from the vaults. The Clones quickly dispatch Punch, and take their prize to [[Scourge (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Scourge]]. Having claimed what they wanted, [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] orders a retreat. Optimus, realizing this was a diversion, runs into Autobot City, finding Punch and the vault. Horrified, Optimus orders everyone to board the ships and head for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]].

On Cybertron, [[Blurr (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blurr]] is racing with [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]], with [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]] riding in Hot Rod. Blurr, however, loses control, while Daniel shoots several Decepticon targets and wins the race. [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] claims that this is evidence of his theory that human partners would be able to assist the Autobots in the war with the Decepticons. [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] and [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] are unsure of the idea. However, Optimus contacts the Autobots, telling them Galvatron stole the [[Key to the Plasma Energy Chamber|Key]] to the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]]. This was the forge which was used to create the bodies of the original Autobots. Since the [[Quintesson]] rebellion, the key has been in the safekeeping of the Autobot leaders, who have been tasked with guarding the key with their [[Spark|lives]]. However, Galvatron intends to open the chamber and destroy Cybertron. The Decepticons arrive, and chaos ensues. The [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] are quickly taken down by [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]], who shows off [[to sell toys|all six forms]]!

[[File:Rebirth 1 Plasma energy Scourge.JPG|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Scourge never gets a break.]]

During the onslaught, Kup and Hot Rod's team notice Scourge heading for the Plasma Energy Chamber. They pursue in an attempt to stop him. When Scourge opens the chamber, he is nearly killed, but Spike and Cerebros manage to grab the key. The Autobots' ship is hit by a wave of energy from the Plasma Energy Chamber and is hurled off Cybertron itself. Discovering Scourge, the Decepticons reactivate him. Scourge explains what happened, and a team under [[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]] heads out to find the Autobots with the key.

[[File:Rebirth 1 Hive machines.JPG|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Oh, this is not going to end well...]]

Meanwhile, the Autobot ship crashes on Nebulos. With the engines fried, the Autobots and the Witwickys decide to look for civilization. They're soon spotted by [[Duros]] and [[Pinpointer (G1)|Pinpointer]], who assume the Autobots are machines controlled by the [[Hive (G1)|Hive]] and alert the rest of their resistance group. The group soon captures the Autobots, and plans to destroy the Autobots with magnetic bombs, even though Spike tries to talk them down. However, the Decepticons show up. Spike finally convinces the Nebulans to release the Autobots. In the subsequent battle, Daniel is injured by Snapdragon, and Hot Rod, Kup, Blurr, [[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]], [[Pointblank]] and [[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] are taken captive. Some of the Autobots pursue them into the forest, but are quickly driven off by machines.

Back at the cave, [[Arcana]] and [[Firebolt (G1)|Firebolt]] manage to stabilize Daniel's condition, but the boy will have to be connected to life-support machinery. The [[Nebulan]] leader [[Gort]] explains that the Hive is a tyrannical group of telekinetics who have used machines to enslave Nebulos. The resistance members know the weak points of the machines, but they just don't have the firepower. Spike thinks that Brainstorm's idea of organic partners just might be the ticket. The Autobots agree to allow the Nebulans to use their heads as suits, except for Cerebros, who walks out, tired of fighting. [[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Arcee]] asks to be Daniel's partner, and Spike agrees. As they remove their heads, Spike declares that they are about to become [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]].

[[The Rebirth, Part 2|To be continued...]]

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]] (1)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Goldbug]] (2)
*[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]] (3)
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]] (4)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (5)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (6)
*[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]] (7)
*[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] (8)
*[[Freeway (G1)|Freeway]] (9)
*[[Wideload (G1)|Wideload]] (10)
*[[Searchlight (G1)|Searchlight]] (11)
*[[Chase (G1)|Chase]] (12)
*[[Rollbar (G1)|Rollbar]] (13)
*[[Punch (G1)|Punch]] (27)
*[[Blurr (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blurr]] (33)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] (34)
*[[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] (37)
*[[Pointblank]] (38)
*[[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] (39)
*[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]] (40)
*[[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Arcee]] (41)
*[[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] (42)
*[[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] (43)
*[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] (44)
*[[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] (45)
*[[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] (46)
*[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] (53)
*[[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (54)
*[[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] (55)
*[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] (56)
*[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] (57)
*[[Fastlane]] (61)
*[[Cloudraker (G1)|Cloudraker]] (62)

|c2=
*[[Apeface]] (14)
*[[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] (15)
*[[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]] (16)
*[[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]] (17)
*[[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]] (18)
*[[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Gurrr]] (19)
*[[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]] (20)
*[[Scourge (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Scourge]] (21)
*[[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] (22)
*[[Misfire (G1)|Misfire]] (23)
*[[Triggerhappy (G1)|Triggerhappy]] (24)
*[[Wingspan]] (25)
*[[Pounce]] (26)
*[[Punch (G1)|Counterpunch]] (28)
*[[Sinnertwin (G1)|Sinnertwin]] (29)
*[[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]] (30)
*[[Cutthroat (G1)|Cutthroat]] (31)
*[[Blot (G1)|Blot]] (32)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (47)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (48)
*"[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]" (49, see notes)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (50)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (51)
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (52)
*[[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] (58)
*[[Slugslinger (G1)|Slugslinger]] (59)
*[[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] (60)

|c3=
*[[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] (35)
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike Witwicky]] (36)

|h4=[[Nebulan|Nebulons]]|c4=
*[[Gort]] (63)
*[[Duros]] (64)
*[[Stylor]] (65)
*[[Arcana]] (66)
*[[Pinpointer (G1)|Pinpointer]] (67)
*[[Firebolt (G1)|Firebolt]] (68)
*[[Recoil (G1)|Recoil]] (69)
*[[Haywire]] (70)
*[[Peacemaker]] (71)
*[[Spoilsport]] (72)
}}

==Quotes==
[[File:Rebirth punch and counterpunch.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
'''Wingspan:''' "Beat it, Counterpunch! We don't need your help!" 
'''Counterpunch:''' "Fine. ''You'' deal with my Autobot counterpart. I've heard he's nearby." 
''[ducks around the corner, transforms to Punch]'' 
'''Punch:''' "...''Real'' nearby."
:—Punch, master of subtle hints, utters a classic line.

'''Kup''': It might give us the edge if the Decepticons ''did'' return. 
'''Crosshairs''': That's not gonna happen! 
'''Optimus''': Kup! Highbrow! The Decepticons are heading your way! 
'''Kup''': How many of 'em, Prime? 
'''Optimus''': ''All'' of them! 
'''Crosshairs''': 'Course, I ''have'' been wrong on one or two occasions.
:—Crosshairs ''really'' needs to think before he speaks.

"Sixshot, show them what a one-robot army is!" 
:—'''Galvatron''' prompts Sixshot to do the old sell-my-toy routine.

"Five up! Five down! It's like shooting Cyberducks in a barrel!" 
:—'''Sixshot''' mows down the Aerialbots with each of his alt modes.

'''Kup''': Prepare for crash landing! 
'''Pointblank''': How?? By thinking good thoughts?! 
'''Kup''': That would help!! 
:—Pointblank and Kup discuss Autobot emergency procedures.

'''Kup''': Ya know, this reminds me of the time my platoon was stranded on Regulon IV. There we were, only 700 of us against three whole [[Regulon metalmonger|Regulon metalmongers.]] 
'''Hot Rod''': Seven hundred of you? Against three of them?? Ah c'mon, Kup. 
'''Kup''': You've ever seen a Regulon metalmonger, lad? 
'''Hot Rod''': Uhhh...No. 
'''Kup''': Trust me. We were outnumbered. 
:—Kup's platoon isn't always outnumbered. But when it is, it's by three guys.

"My one wish... is to ''never'' fight again."
:—'''Cerebros''', so pacifistic he won't even fight to help his friends.

"I suppose it's the only meritorious way out of our meretricious situation." 
"Yeah, me too. Like he said."
:—'''Highbrow''' and '''Hardhead''' on becoming Headmasters.

==Season 5==
{{note|When this episode was rebroadcast in [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 5|the fifth season]] of ''The Transformers'', it contained new bookending segments with original story material.}}

[[File:TommyWhining.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right]]

[[Tommy Kennedy|Tommy]] meets with [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] with "the greatest idea ever". Tommy says he wants to be turned into a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]! Optimus tries to tell him that becoming a Headmaster isn't so easy, but Tommy doesn't understand. Prime figures that if he knew the origin of the Headmasters, he might get it...

Tommy starts pouting, claiming that [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]] is "one lucky kid" for getting mauled half to death and thus becoming a Headmaster. Prime informs him that being a Headmaster isn't an answer to all of life's problems. He tries to tell him about the Decepticon Headmasters and how much trouble they're going to make for the Autobot Headmasters, but Tommy just brushes his warnings off and insists on going through the Headmaster process. Prime laments, "You're not gonna let me talk you out of this, are you?" but delays Tommy's gratification. Apparently, [[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]] is going into the shop for some minor retooling and he promised he'd be there. Blasting off, he promises to be back soon to transform Tommy's day into an adventure.

{{--}}

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
[[File:Rebirth1 CyclonusSixshot.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|"Where did you come from again?" "Whaddaya mean? I was always here."]]
[[File:Targetmasters.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Typical commercial animation.]]
[[File:Rebirth1 Fastlane Cloudraker Punch.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Typical AKOM crap.]]
*This episode takes place several months after "[[The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2]]".
*Almost two dozen Transformers make their debuts in this episode. As usual, there's no fuss over where they came from; they're just there. Similarly, quite a few familiar faces are gone with no explanation: Springer, Perceptor, Grimlock, the Sweeps, Sky Lynx, Blaster, Soundwave, Metroplex, and Trypticon, just to name a few. In real-life terms, they were removed from the show to make room for new character toys, despite many of them making no further appearances in the two remaining episodes.
*Following their abrupt debut in "The Return of Optimus Prime", the Throttlebots get a ''wee'' bit more attention in this episode, though only Rollbar (making his first appearance) actually gets referred to by name. Chase is not shown speaking at any point, but it's fun to imagine that the voice emanating from the Autobot City loudspeaker (credited only as "P.A. voice" on the episode's casting sheet) that warns of a Decepticon attack is him, as it's delivered by [[Rob Paulsen]], the actor cast for Chase.
*While discussing the Headmaster creation procedure with Chromedome, Brainstorm mentions that it's possible for a Transformer to "download (their memories and personalities) into the auxiliary memory circuits in their chests". Assuming that the aforementioned hardware is a standard feature in all Transformers, it might explain why [[Death|death is just a wee bit inconsistent in fiction]]. Not bad for a throwaway line!
*We're introduced to the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], a "foundry in which the original Autobots' bodies were forged." In practice, the chamber acts less like a foundry and more like a generator gone wild.
*Daniel getting injured and requiring a robotic body (or in this case, Exo-suit) to survive is reminiscent of [[Autobot X (G1)|a somewhat similar incident involving his father]]. This works out a lot better.

===Animation and technical errors===
*In the establishing shot of this episode, Autobot City is drawn even more off-model than usual.
*AKOM continues their proud tradition of using the wrong color models. Thus, throughout the episode:
**Goldbug's mouthplate is gold instead of white.
**Optimus Prime's backpack, fog lights and forehead crest are white instead of red / red / blue, respectively.
**Scourge's head can be seen sticking out of the top of his hovercraft mode.
**The inside of Ultra Magnus' head is red instead of gray.
*The side of Goldbug's head is yellow instead of black as he wonders if the Decepticons will remain scattered.
*Scattershot's a bad counter. His "about a hundred blips" is actually 28 blips.
*Then it's 39 blips in the closeup.
*The panels on either side of Ultra Magnus's forehead crest are white instead of blue as he walks in on Optimus Prime.
*Goldbug inexplicably has a starry night behind him as he reports the attack to Optimus Prime.
*The side of Wideload's load bed is entirely blue as he passes Rollbar. Only the cover should be blue; the rest should be orange.
*As he leaves the city, Wideload's bed sides are the correct orange, but the bed overhang over his cab is blue instead of orange.
*Strafe and Scattershot don't fly out of the door in Autobot City, but rather right out of the walls above the door.
*Wideload is shown transforming when Magnus orders the Technobots to charge, a bit odd since he's a ''Throttlebot''.
*Punch's mouth briefly disappears as Pounce tackles him.
*Scourge gets a radio muffle as he reports the theft of the key to Galvatron, even though he's right there on-screen.
*One of the Decepticons retreating from the Autobot City battle has Sureshot's color scheme.
*The Decepticons are shown entering the ''[[Revenge (G1)|Revenge]]'' ''through the engine port''... which then immediately lights up to propel the ship into space, presumably melting the entire Decepticon army to slag.
*Wingspan's gun sounds like Prime's rifle.
*Punch's mouth is missing as he points to where the key was stolen.
*As Daniel blasts the Cyclonus pop-up target, both the stick holding the target and the hole that it came from are missing.
*When Hot Rod first transforms to robot mode, the sides of his head are white and his spoiler is entirely yellow (it should be orange in the middle).
*Hardhead is consistently shown with the side of his visor yellow, rather than the blue that one might expect.
*When Crosshairs walks up to Brainstorm's group, he's drawn as a giant Pinpointer.
*The back of Prime's head is white as he and Magnus stand on the bridge of their shuttle.
*The group shot as Prime warns the Autobots not to let Galvatron open the chamber contains some odd members, including the giant Pinpointer, and Optimus Prime himself in Peacemaker's color scheme, but flipped.
*The ''Revenge'' somehow lands on Cybertron's surface without crushing the antenna on its bottom-most point.
*Six Constructicons are seen emerging from the ''Revenge''... but at the head of the group, instead of Scrapper, is Scattershot ''colored'' like Scrapper.
*Scourge crawls down a Transformers-sized hatch. A dozen Autobots pursue him by ''getting aboard a shuttle'' and flying after him, though it's not clear if it's supposed to be the same hatch.
*Scourge is missing the pink on his fingernails as he approaches the Plasma Energy Chamber.
*Brainstorm's arm is clipped behind a panel during a shot inside the shuttle, making him look like he's standing outside of it.
*The orange shuttle suddenly has a lot of white as it flies past camera, following the 1st commercial break.
*Cyclonus's cockpit windows aren't colored in as Galvatron orders his troops to go with Scourge.
*Kup's helmet is light gray as he flees from the shuttle.
*The first two Nebulans' dialog is flanged as if they were Transformers.
*As we cut back to the battle on Cybertron, various Constructicons, along with the Terrorcons Hun-grrr and Cutthroat, are show firing on... the Terrorcons Blot and Sinnertwin. Blot and Sinnertwin are fighting alongside Hot Spot and First Aid, the latter of whom is colored entirely white, missing his blue eyeband and red details.
*Hot Rod's missing his spoiler as he gets a magnetic bomb placed alongside him.
*As Hot Rod says, "You've got the wrong guys," he has several lines across his head crest instead of just one.
*If they're ''magnetic'' bombs, why do the Nebulans place them on the rocks of the cave walls?
*After the Decepticons arrive, various shots of the Autobots show no trace of the bombs.
*A giant Blowpipe is among the advancing Decepticons.
*Daniel is gnawed and thrown around by Snapdragon, and yet, his uniform remains squeaky clean and show no signs of damage despite Daniel's injuries being described as 'severe'. That must be some tough fabric they use in the future.
*As the Autobots approach the forest, Chromedome and Hardhead both have Nebulans transforming to form their heads, even though they haven't yet undergone the Headmaster process!

===Continuity errors===
*Scattershot claims there's "about a hundred" Decepticons heading towards Autobot City, but the attacking force shown on-screen is only a fraction of that number (Galvatron, the future Targetmasters, the future Headmasters, the clones, and the Terrorcons = 18 total). If we're generous and include additional Decepticons shown on Cybertron, it only goes up to 30 (the Constructicons, Sixshot, and the Combaticons = 30 total). Nope, still not a hundred!
*Additionally, for a group that's supposed to include "every Decepticon in the known universe", there are some conspicuous absences - Soundwave, the Decepticon Mini-Cassettes, the Coneheads, Astrotrain, the Stunticons, the Predacons, the Sweeps, the Battlechargers, and Trypticon are all nowhere to be seen. (Quite a few were phased out of the show because [[to sell toys|their toys were no longer on the shelves]].)
*Furthermore, if we're extra charitable and assume the aforementioned absent Decepticons simply took part in the attack offscreen, that still leaves us with only 63 Decepticons accounted for, a ways away from the 100 mentioned.
*Where did Galvatron get all those troops from anyway? Did the Decepticons somehow build a ton of sentient new robots on their own, or were they scattered around the galaxy?
*For that matter, where did all the new Autobots come from?
*The outside of the city is already smoking (burning?) before the Decepticons start their attack or fire a single shot.
*Soooo.... why do the Autobots rush headlong to meet their attackers instead of [[The Transformers: The Movie|transforming the city to battle station mode]]?

[[File:TheRebirth pt1 Punch FAILS.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
*Pounce and Wingspan probably aren't the smartest guys around but even they can't be stupid enough to fall for Punch's "My Autobot counterpart is nearby" crap.
*Why isn't Cerebros affected by the Plasma Energy when he gets out with Spike to grab the key? It takes Scourge down almost instantly but he doesn't even flinch from it.
*Since when is Scourge big enough to carry a full-sized Transformer as a passenger? When the plot needs him to, that's when.
*Lost in the vastness of space, the Autobot ship somehow manages to hit a planet? Cosmically improbable.
*For a ship supposedly moving a million miles per ''second'' (five times the speed of light), with no retro-rockets, the Autobot shuttle makes an incredibly soft landing on Nebulos, splashing down as though it were dropped from about 10 feet up. At that speed, the ship would have incinerated in orbit or, if it made it down intact, slammed into the planet with enough force to do incredible damage. (On the flip side, the million-miles-per-second thing does explain how they got to a completely different planet.)
*As is the norm for just about any children's cartoon, aliens on far-off planets speak perfect English. (And what ever happened to the [[universal greeting]]?)
*Considering they "hate all machines", the resistance sure do have a lot of machines set up in their caves.
*Crosshairs seriously just ''stands there'' and lets Mindwipe carry him off. He's shown unharmed and awake, even though he was among the first to get blasted in the Decepticon assault and was probably intended to be unconscious like the rest of the Autobots taken prisoner.
*Hasn't Arcee ever heard that you're not supposed to move the victim?! She picks up the unconscious Daniel for no other reason than to display affection.
*Gort's description of the Hive ("ten rulers", great mental powers) doesn't really accord with the Tech Spec descriptions of some of Zarak's allies. This wouldn't be a discrepancy within the cartoon, but guys like Nightstick and Fracas act less like super-mental-power rulers and more like the bullies and brutes described in their bios.
*Brainstorm is shown drawing on paper with a manual triangle. Twenty more years into the future, and the super advanced space robots ''still'' [[The Master Builders (episode)|haven't switched to a computer drafting system]].
*There's a line about where to put human-sized controllers into Autobots in robot mode, even though [[Only Human|it was done before]] without any modification.
*Arcana mentions that releasing the Autobots to fight the Decepticons would leave them with twenty machines to deal with instead of just ten. However, there are more than 20 as there are ''12'' Autobots and ''10'' Decepticons. Arcana is, of course, being conversational, not strictly mathematical.

===Trivia===
*"The Rebirth, Part 1", was to be the fourth season premiere, but due to declining interest, it simply was the first of the three final episodes (originally conceived as a ''five''-part story), in which a slew of new characters and concepts were introduced, most notably the US animated version of the Headmasters.
*Like "[[Five Faces of Darkness]]" before it, the "Rebirth" mini-series also got its own introductory [[title sequence]], consisting of some parts of the Season 3 titles spliced together with animation segments from the 1987 toy [[commercial]]s. Unfortunately, the contrast in art and animation quality between the Season 3 credits (animated on the usual low [[AKOM]] budget) and the much higher-quality commercial snippets is jarring, to say the least.
[[File:Rebirth1 Hardhead and Blurr.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Guess Hardhead figured it was now or never.]]
*One of the commercial animation segments used in the new title sequence is from the [[Duocon]]s commercial featuring [[Flywheels]], who otherwise makes no appearance in an actual episode.
*Your wiki editors will leave it up to the reader to interpret the image at the bottom right.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title (European French broadcast):'' "'''Une nouvelle naissance, partie 1'''" ("A New Birth, Part 1")
:*''Title (Canadian French broadcast & European French DVD release):'' "'''La Renaissance, partie 1'''" ("The Rebirth, Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Spanish'''
:*''Title:'' '''El Renacimiento''' ("The Rebirth")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' '''Die Wiedergeburt, Teil 1''' ("The Rebirth, Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Hebrew'''
:*''Title:'' '''המטאורים''' ("The Meteors")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' '''La Rinascita (Prima Parte)''' ("The Rebirth (First Part)")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 21]], [[2014]] (on YouTube)
::*"The Rebirth" was not dubbed for Italian release, airing ''The Headmasters'' as a continuation of the series. The episodes were dubbed between 2012 and 2014 along with the redub of Season 3, and feature the same cast. A DVD release couldn't be made at the time (even the redubbed Season 3 DVDs were made in a very small quantity), so the episodes were released for free on YouTube in November 2014 on the Contactoons channel (Contactoons is a cartoon block that airs on a few Italian regional channels, airing older programs that regular channels no longer carry). The videos were made private 24 hours after they were made available, but they can still be accessed by checking the channel's "film animazione e serie tv special" ("Animated movies and TV show specials") playlist.
::*The dub itself is basically an amateur production, with voices not well matched to characters. Many character names are also mispronounced.

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' '''Headmaster Tanjō''' (ヘッドマスター誕生, "The Headmasters Are Born")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[1996]] (home video); [[July 21]], [[2007]] (broadcast)
::*"The Rebirth" was not initially dubbed for Japanese release, instead being replaced by the domestic series ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]''. The episodes were eventually dubbed in 1996 as special features on [[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer]]'s {{w|LaserDisc}} and DVD collections. "The Rebirth" received its first Japanese television broadcast in [[2007]], airing on [[Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network Japan]].
::*To further distinguish "The Rebirth" from the continuity of the Japanese series, it was released with the American ''The Transformers'' branding and [[title sequence]]. With a few exceptions (such as "Convoy"), most of the characters are referred to by their Western names. For instance, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] is not called "Hot Rodimus", [[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] is not called "Cher" and so on.
::*With the exception of [[Tesshō Genda]] (Convoy), [[Seizō Katō]] (Galvatron), and [[Issei Masamune]] ([[narrator]]), all characters were recast with new actors.
::*Voice direction for the 1996 dubbing of "The Rebirth" was conducted by [[Shōzō Tajima]].
::*Due to having been released straight-to-video, this is one of the few episodes of ''The Transformers'' not to have been edited for time in Japan. As such, Japanese DVD and laserdisc releases include an optional English audio track for the episode.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 1987 — ''Transformers'' — Die Wiedergeburt (Erster Teil) ([[Polyband]]) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1988 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters: The Rebirth (Parts, 1, 2 & 3) ([[Tempo Video]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1989 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters / The Return of Optimus Prime (Tempo Video) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1991 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters / The Return of Optimus Prime / Cosmic Rust (Tempo Video) 
[[File:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1998 — ''The Transformers: Generation 2'' — Rebirth: The Movie ([[Malofilm|Behaviour Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2001 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Heroes: The Rebirth ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])
;{{w|LaserDisc}}
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1996 — ''Transformers: The Headmasters'' Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — English and Japanese audio.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2001 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Heroes: The Rebirth ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — Complete Original Series: Deluxe Edition ([[Maverick Entertainment|Sony Wonder]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — The Rebirth: Parts 1-3 (Sony Wonder) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2004 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 2 & Season 4 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 3 and Season 4 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2005 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 6: Series 4 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2005 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 24 ([[Déclic Images]]) — European French audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — Box-Set (3DVDs) ([[Flex Media]]) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2008 — ''Transformers'' — Box-Set (2DVDs) (Flex Media) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season's Three & Four {{sic}} (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2010 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-4/synopses/6701-01.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

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[[Category:The Transformers episodes]]

The Rebirth, Part 1

2023-02-14T06:01:07Z

Skybots10: /* Foreign localization */

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|image=Rebirth 1 Autobot heads.JPG
|caption=Dum-dum give us gum-gum.
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|ep=96
|title="The Rebirth, Part 1"
|written by=[[David Wise]]
|animation studio=[[AKOM]]
|season=4
|season ep=1
|production code=6701-01
|airdate=[[November 9]], 1987
|production company=[[Sunbow Productions]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oNbcGdO6Og
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''Galvatron invades Autobot City and then Cybertron with a plan to destroy the Autobots forever! This is something new?'''

==Synopsis==
[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Goldbug]] is talking with the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]] at [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]]. Things have been quiet for the [[Autobot]]s in the months since the return of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Hate Plague]] crisis. Not a word has been heard of the [[Decepticon]]s in months. Who knows where they are. The answer? Right at their doorstep. Meanwhile, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] walks into a room to find Optimus on his knees. Optimus claims that he has been having visions since he opened the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], and it's something big. Goldbug informs Optimus of the approaching Decepticon force, and Optimus realizes that what ever he's been sensing, it's starting right now.

[[File:Rebirth 1 Autobots Decepticons fight.JPG|left|upright=1.1|thumb|A truly epic battle.]]

Leading the Autobots out, the Decepticons attack. The Technobots and the [[Throttlebot]]s take point, but the Decepticons have gotten some new raw power in [[Apeface]] and [[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]], while [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] has some fun with [[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]]. However, [[Punch (G1)|Punch]] sees [[Wingspan]] and [[Pounce]] enter into Autobot City. [[Transformation|Transforming]] into Counterpunch, he follows to check up on their progress, where he sees them steal something from the vaults. The Clones quickly dispatch Punch, and take their prize to [[Scourge (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Scourge]]. Having claimed what they wanted, [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] orders a retreat. Optimus, realizing this was a diversion, runs into Autobot City, finding Punch and the vault. Horrified, Optimus orders everyone to board the ships and head for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]].

On Cybertron, [[Blurr (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blurr]] is racing with [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]], with [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]] riding in Hot Rod. Blurr, however, loses control, while Daniel shoots several Decepticon targets and wins the race. [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] claims that this is evidence of his theory that human partners would be able to assist the Autobots in the war with the Decepticons. [[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] and [[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] are unsure of the idea. However, Optimus contacts the Autobots, telling them Galvatron stole the [[Key to the Plasma Energy Chamber|Key]] to the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]]. This was the forge which was used to create the bodies of the original Autobots. Since the [[Quintesson]] rebellion, the key has been in the safekeeping of the Autobot leaders, who have been tasked with guarding the key with their [[Spark|lives]]. However, Galvatron intends to open the chamber and destroy Cybertron. The Decepticons arrive, and chaos ensues. The [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] are quickly taken down by [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]], who shows off [[to sell toys|all six forms]]!

[[File:Rebirth 1 Plasma energy Scourge.JPG|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Scourge never gets a break.]]

During the onslaught, Kup and Hot Rod's team notice Scourge heading for the Plasma Energy Chamber. They pursue in an attempt to stop him. When Scourge opens the chamber, he is nearly killed, but Spike and Cerebros manage to grab the key. The Autobots' ship is hit by a wave of energy from the Plasma Energy Chamber and is hurled off Cybertron itself. Discovering Scourge, the Decepticons reactivate him. Scourge explains what happened, and a team under [[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]] heads out to find the Autobots with the key.

[[File:Rebirth 1 Hive machines.JPG|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Oh, this is not going to end well...]]

Meanwhile, the Autobot ship crashes on Nebulos. With the engines fried, the Autobots and the Witwickys decide to look for civilization. They're soon spotted by [[Duros]] and [[Pinpointer (G1)|Pinpointer]], who assume the Autobots are machines controlled by the [[Hive (G1)|Hive]] and alert the rest of their resistance group. The group soon captures the Autobots, and plans to destroy the Autobots with magnetic bombs, even though Spike tries to talk them down. However, the Decepticons show up. Spike finally convinces the Nebulans to release the Autobots. In the subsequent battle, Daniel is injured by Snapdragon, and Hot Rod, Kup, Blurr, [[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]], [[Pointblank]] and [[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] are taken captive. Some of the Autobots pursue them into the forest, but are quickly driven off by machines.

Back at the cave, [[Arcana]] and [[Firebolt (G1)|Firebolt]] manage to stabilize Daniel's condition, but the boy will have to be connected to life-support machinery. The [[Nebulan]] leader [[Gort]] explains that the Hive is a tyrannical group of telekinetics who have used machines to enslave Nebulos. The resistance members know the weak points of the machines, but they just don't have the firepower. Spike thinks that Brainstorm's idea of organic partners just might be the ticket. The Autobots agree to allow the Nebulans to use their heads as suits, except for Cerebros, who walks out, tired of fighting. [[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Arcee]] asks to be Daniel's partner, and Spike agrees. As they remove their heads, Spike declares that they are about to become [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]].

[[The Rebirth, Part 2|To be continued...]]

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]] (1)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Goldbug]] (2)
*[[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)|Lightspeed]] (3)
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]] (4)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (5)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (6)
*[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]] (7)
*[[Nosecone (G1)|Nosecone]] (8)
*[[Freeway (G1)|Freeway]] (9)
*[[Wideload (G1)|Wideload]] (10)
*[[Searchlight (G1)|Searchlight]] (11)
*[[Chase (G1)|Chase]] (12)
*[[Rollbar (G1)|Rollbar]] (13)
*[[Punch (G1)|Punch]] (27)
*[[Blurr (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blurr]] (33)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] (34)
*[[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]] (37)
*[[Pointblank]] (38)
*[[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] (39)
*[[Crosshairs (G1)|Crosshairs]] (40)
*[[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Arcee]] (41)
*[[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]] (42)
*[[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] (43)
*[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] (44)
*[[Cerebros (G1)|Cerebros]] (45)
*[[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] (46)
*[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] (53)
*[[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]] (54)
*[[Fireflight (G1)|Fireflight]] (55)
*[[Slingshot (G1)|Slingshot]] (56)
*[[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] (57)
*[[Fastlane]] (61)
*[[Cloudraker (G1)|Cloudraker]] (62)

|c2=
*[[Apeface]] (14)
*[[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] (15)
*[[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]] (16)
*[[Snapdragon (G1)|Snapdragon]] (17)
*[[Weirdwolf (G1)|Weirdwolf]] (18)
*[[Hun-Gurrr (G1)|Hun-Gurrr]] (19)
*[[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]] (20)
*[[Scourge (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Scourge]] (21)
*[[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] (22)
*[[Misfire (G1)|Misfire]] (23)
*[[Triggerhappy (G1)|Triggerhappy]] (24)
*[[Wingspan]] (25)
*[[Pounce]] (26)
*[[Punch (G1)|Counterpunch]] (28)
*[[Sinnertwin (G1)|Sinnertwin]] (29)
*[[Rippersnapper (G1)|Rippersnapper]] (30)
*[[Cutthroat (G1)|Cutthroat]] (31)
*[[Blot (G1)|Blot]] (32)
*[[Hook (G1)|Hook]] (47)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (48)
*"[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]]" (49, see notes)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (50)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (51)
*[[Scavenger (G1)|Scavenger]] (52)
*[[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] (58)
*[[Slugslinger (G1)|Slugslinger]] (59)
*[[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] (60)

|c3=
*[[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] (35)
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Spike Witwicky]] (36)

|h4=[[Nebulan|Nebulons]]|c4=
*[[Gort]] (63)
*[[Duros]] (64)
*[[Stylor]] (65)
*[[Arcana]] (66)
*[[Pinpointer (G1)|Pinpointer]] (67)
*[[Firebolt (G1)|Firebolt]] (68)
*[[Recoil (G1)|Recoil]] (69)
*[[Haywire]] (70)
*[[Peacemaker]] (71)
*[[Spoilsport]] (72)
}}

==Quotes==
[[File:Rebirth punch and counterpunch.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
'''Wingspan:''' "Beat it, Counterpunch! We don't need your help!" 
'''Counterpunch:''' "Fine. ''You'' deal with my Autobot counterpart. I've heard he's nearby." 
''[ducks around the corner, transforms to Punch]'' 
'''Punch:''' "...''Real'' nearby."
:—Punch, master of subtle hints, utters a classic line.

'''Kup''': It might give us the edge if the Decepticons ''did'' return. 
'''Crosshairs''': That's not gonna happen! 
'''Optimus''': Kup! Highbrow! The Decepticons are heading your way! 
'''Kup''': How many of 'em, Prime? 
'''Optimus''': ''All'' of them! 
'''Crosshairs''': 'Course, I ''have'' been wrong on one or two occasions.
:—Crosshairs ''really'' needs to think before he speaks.

"Sixshot, show them what a one-robot army is!" 
:—'''Galvatron''' prompts Sixshot to do the old sell-my-toy routine.

"Five up! Five down! It's like shooting Cyberducks in a barrel!" 
:—'''Sixshot''' mows down the Aerialbots with each of his alt modes.

'''Kup''': Prepare for crash landing! 
'''Pointblank''': How?? By thinking good thoughts?! 
'''Kup''': That would help!! 
:—Pointblank and Kup discuss Autobot emergency procedures.

'''Kup''': Ya know, this reminds me of the time my platoon was stranded on Regulon IV. There we were, only 700 of us against three whole [[Regulon metalmonger|Regulon metalmongers.]] 
'''Hot Rod''': Seven hundred of you? Against three of them?? Ah c'mon, Kup. 
'''Kup''': You've ever seen a Regulon metalmonger, lad? 
'''Hot Rod''': Uhhh...No. 
'''Kup''': Trust me. We were outnumbered. 
:—Kup's platoon isn't always outnumbered. But when it is, it's by three guys.

"My one wish... is to ''never'' fight again."
:—'''Cerebros''', so pacifistic he won't even fight to help his friends.

"I suppose it's the only meritorious way out of our meretricious situation." 
"Yeah, me too. Like he said."
:—'''Highbrow''' and '''Hardhead''' on becoming Headmasters.

==Season 5==
{{note|When this episode was rebroadcast in [[The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 5|the fifth season]] of ''The Transformers'', it contained new bookending segments with original story material.}}

[[File:TommyWhining.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right]]

[[Tommy Kennedy|Tommy]] meets with [[Powermaster]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] with "the greatest idea ever". Tommy says he wants to be turned into a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]! Optimus tries to tell him that becoming a Headmaster isn't so easy, but Tommy doesn't understand. Prime figures that if he knew the origin of the Headmasters, he might get it...

Tommy starts pouting, claiming that [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]] is "one lucky kid" for getting mauled half to death and thus becoming a Headmaster. Prime informs him that being a Headmaster isn't an answer to all of life's problems. He tries to tell him about the Decepticon Headmasters and how much trouble they're going to make for the Autobot Headmasters, but Tommy just brushes his warnings off and insists on going through the Headmaster process. Prime laments, "You're not gonna let me talk you out of this, are you?" but delays Tommy's gratification. Apparently, [[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]] is going into the shop for some minor retooling and he promised he'd be there. Blasting off, he promises to be back soon to transform Tommy's day into an adventure.

{{--}}

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
[[File:Rebirth1 CyclonusSixshot.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|"Where did you come from again?" "Whaddaya mean? I was always here."]]
[[File:Targetmasters.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Typical commercial animation.]]
[[File:Rebirth1 Fastlane Cloudraker Punch.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|Typical AKOM crap.]]
*This episode takes place several months after "[[The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2]]".
*Almost two dozen Transformers make their debuts in this episode. As usual, there's no fuss over where they came from; they're just there. Similarly, quite a few familiar faces are gone with no explanation: Springer, Perceptor, Grimlock, the Sweeps, Sky Lynx, Blaster, Soundwave, Metroplex, and Trypticon, just to name a few. In real-life terms, they were removed from the show to make room for new character toys, despite many of them making no further appearances in the two remaining episodes.
*Following their abrupt debut in "The Return of Optimus Prime", the Throttlebots get a ''wee'' bit more attention in this episode, though only Rollbar (making his first appearance) actually gets referred to by name. Chase is not shown speaking at any point, but it's fun to imagine that the voice emanating from the Autobot City loudspeaker (credited only as "P.A. voice" on the episode's casting sheet) that warns of a Decepticon attack is him, as it's delivered by [[Rob Paulsen]], the actor cast for Chase.
*While discussing the Headmaster creation procedure with Chromedome, Brainstorm mentions that it's possible for a Transformer to "download (their memories and personalities) into the auxiliary memory circuits in their chests". Assuming that the aforementioned hardware is a standard feature in all Transformers, it might explain why [[Death|death is just a wee bit inconsistent in fiction]]. Not bad for a throwaway line!
*We're introduced to the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], a "foundry in which the original Autobots' bodies were forged." In practice, the chamber acts less like a foundry and more like a generator gone wild.
*Daniel getting injured and requiring a robotic body (or in this case, Exo-suit) to survive is reminiscent of [[Autobot X (G1)|a somewhat similar incident involving his father]]. This works out a lot better.

===Animation and technical errors===
*In the establishing shot of this episode, Autobot City is drawn even more off-model than usual.
*AKOM continues their proud tradition of using the wrong color models. Thus, throughout the episode:
**Goldbug's mouthplate is gold instead of white.
**Optimus Prime's backpack, fog lights and forehead crest are white instead of red / red / blue, respectively.
**Scourge's head can be seen sticking out of the top of his hovercraft mode.
**The inside of Ultra Magnus' head is red instead of gray.
*The side of Goldbug's head is yellow instead of black as he wonders if the Decepticons will remain scattered.
*Scattershot's a bad counter. His "about a hundred blips" is actually 28 blips.
*Then it's 39 blips in the closeup.
*The panels on either side of Ultra Magnus's forehead crest are white instead of blue as he walks in on Optimus Prime.
*Goldbug inexplicably has a starry night behind him as he reports the attack to Optimus Prime.
*The side of Wideload's load bed is entirely blue as he passes Rollbar. Only the cover should be blue; the rest should be orange.
*As he leaves the city, Wideload's bed sides are the correct orange, but the bed overhang over his cab is blue instead of orange.
*Strafe and Scattershot don't fly out of the door in Autobot City, but rather right out of the walls above the door.
*Wideload is shown transforming when Magnus orders the Technobots to charge, a bit odd since he's a ''Throttlebot''.
*Punch's mouth briefly disappears as Pounce tackles him.
*Scourge gets a radio muffle as he reports the theft of the key to Galvatron, even though he's right there on-screen.
*One of the Decepticons retreating from the Autobot City battle has Sureshot's color scheme.
*The Decepticons are shown entering the ''[[Revenge (G1)|Revenge]]'' ''through the engine port''... which then immediately lights up to propel the ship into space, presumably melting the entire Decepticon army to slag.
*Wingspan's gun sounds like Prime's rifle.
*Punch's mouth is missing as he points to where the key was stolen.
*As Daniel blasts the Cyclonus pop-up target, both the stick holding the target and the hole that it came from are missing.
*When Hot Rod first transforms to robot mode, the sides of his head are white and his spoiler is entirely yellow (it should be orange in the middle).
*Hardhead is consistently shown with the side of his visor yellow, rather than the blue that one might expect.
*When Crosshairs walks up to Brainstorm's group, he's drawn as a giant Pinpointer.
*The back of Prime's head is white as he and Magnus stand on the bridge of their shuttle.
*The group shot as Prime warns the Autobots not to let Galvatron open the chamber contains some odd members, including the giant Pinpointer, and Optimus Prime himself in Peacemaker's color scheme, but flipped.
*The ''Revenge'' somehow lands on Cybertron's surface without crushing the antenna on its bottom-most point.
*Six Constructicons are seen emerging from the ''Revenge''... but at the head of the group, instead of Scrapper, is Scattershot ''colored'' like Scrapper.
*Scourge crawls down a Transformers-sized hatch. A dozen Autobots pursue him by ''getting aboard a shuttle'' and flying after him, though it's not clear if it's supposed to be the same hatch.
*Scourge is missing the pink on his fingernails as he approaches the Plasma Energy Chamber.
*Brainstorm's arm is clipped behind a panel during a shot inside the shuttle, making him look like he's standing outside of it.
*The orange shuttle suddenly has a lot of white as it flies past camera, following the 1st commercial break.
*Cyclonus's cockpit windows aren't colored in as Galvatron orders his troops to go with Scourge.
*Kup's helmet is light gray as he flees from the shuttle.
*The first two Nebulans' dialog is flanged as if they were Transformers.
*As we cut back to the battle on Cybertron, various Constructicons, along with the Terrorcons Hun-grrr and Cutthroat, are show firing on... the Terrorcons Blot and Sinnertwin. Blot and Sinnertwin are fighting alongside Hot Spot and First Aid, the latter of whom is colored entirely white, missing his blue eyeband and red details.
*Hot Rod's missing his spoiler as he gets a magnetic bomb placed alongside him.
*As Hot Rod says, "You've got the wrong guys," he has several lines across his head crest instead of just one.
*If they're ''magnetic'' bombs, why do the Nebulans place them on the rocks of the cave walls?
*After the Decepticons arrive, various shots of the Autobots show no trace of the bombs.
*A giant Blowpipe is among the advancing Decepticons.
*Daniel is gnawed and thrown around by Snapdragon, and yet, his uniform remains squeaky clean and show no signs of damage despite Daniel's injuries being described as 'severe'. That must be some tough fabric they use in the future.
*As the Autobots approach the forest, Chromedome and Hardhead both have Nebulans transforming to form their heads, even though they haven't yet undergone the Headmaster process!

===Continuity errors===
*Scattershot claims there's "about a hundred" Decepticons heading towards Autobot City, but the attacking force shown on-screen is only a fraction of that number (Galvatron, the future Targetmasters, the future Headmasters, the clones, and the Terrorcons = 18 total). If we're generous and include additional Decepticons shown on Cybertron, it only goes up to 30 (the Constructicons, Sixshot, and the Combaticons = 30 total). Nope, still not a hundred!
*Additionally, for a group that's supposed to include "every Decepticon in the known universe", there are some conspicuous absences - Soundwave, the Decepticon Mini-Cassettes, the Coneheads, Astrotrain, the Stunticons, the Predacons, the Sweeps, the Battlechargers, and Trypticon are all nowhere to be seen. (Quite a few were phased out of the show because [[to sell toys|their toys were no longer on the shelves]].)
*Furthermore, if we're extra charitable and assume the aforementioned absent Decepticons simply took part in the attack offscreen, that still leaves us with only 63 Decepticons accounted for, a ways away from the 100 mentioned.
*Where did Galvatron get all those troops from anyway? Did the Decepticons somehow build a ton of sentient new robots on their own, or were they scattered around the galaxy?
*For that matter, where did all the new Autobots come from?
*The outside of the city is already smoking (burning?) before the Decepticons start their attack or fire a single shot.
*Soooo.... why do the Autobots rush headlong to meet their attackers instead of [[The Transformers: The Movie|transforming the city to battle station mode]]?

[[File:TheRebirth pt1 Punch FAILS.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1]]
*Pounce and Wingspan probably aren't the smartest guys around but even they can't be stupid enough to fall for Punch's "My Autobot counterpart is nearby" crap.
*Why isn't Cerebros affected by the Plasma Energy when he gets out with Spike to grab the key? It takes Scourge down almost instantly but he doesn't even flinch from it.
*Since when is Scourge big enough to carry a full-sized Transformer as a passenger? When the plot needs him to, that's when.
*Lost in the vastness of space, the Autobot ship somehow manages to hit a planet? Cosmically improbable.
*For a ship supposedly moving a million miles per ''second'' (five times the speed of light), with no retro-rockets, the Autobot shuttle makes an incredibly soft landing on Nebulos, splashing down as though it were dropped from about 10 feet up. At that speed, the ship would have incinerated in orbit or, if it made it down intact, slammed into the planet with enough force to do incredible damage. (On the flip side, the million-miles-per-second thing does explain how they got to a completely different planet.)
*As is the norm for just about any children's cartoon, aliens on far-off planets speak perfect English. (And what ever happened to the [[universal greeting]]?)
*Considering they "hate all machines", the resistance sure do have a lot of machines set up in their caves.
*Crosshairs seriously just ''stands there'' and lets Mindwipe carry him off. He's shown unharmed and awake, even though he was among the first to get blasted in the Decepticon assault and was probably intended to be unconscious like the rest of the Autobots taken prisoner.
*Hasn't Arcee ever heard that you're not supposed to move the victim?! She picks up the unconscious Daniel for no other reason than to display affection.
*Gort's description of the Hive ("ten rulers", great mental powers) doesn't really accord with the Tech Spec descriptions of some of Zarak's allies. This wouldn't be a discrepancy within the cartoon, but guys like Nightstick and Fracas act less like super-mental-power rulers and more like the bullies and brutes described in their bios.
*Brainstorm is shown drawing on paper with a manual triangle. Twenty more years into the future, and the super advanced space robots ''still'' [[The Master Builders (episode)|haven't switched to a computer drafting system]].
*There's a line about where to put human-sized controllers into Autobots in robot mode, even though [[Only Human|it was done before]] without any modification.
*Arcana mentions that releasing the Autobots to fight the Decepticons would leave them with twenty machines to deal with instead of just ten. However, there are more than 20 as there are ''12'' Autobots and ''10'' Decepticons. Arcana is, of course, being conversational, not strictly mathematical.

===Trivia===
*"The Rebirth, Part 1", was to be the fourth season premiere, but due to declining interest, it simply was the first of the three final episodes (originally conceived as a ''five''-part story), in which a slew of new characters and concepts were introduced, most notably the US animated version of the Headmasters.
*Like "[[Five Faces of Darkness]]" before it, the "Rebirth" mini-series also got its own introductory [[title sequence]], consisting of some parts of the Season 3 titles spliced together with animation segments from the 1987 toy [[commercial]]s. Unfortunately, the contrast in art and animation quality between the Season 3 credits (animated on the usual low [[AKOM]] budget) and the much higher-quality commercial snippets is jarring, to say the least.
[[File:Rebirth1 Hardhead and Blurr.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Guess Hardhead figured it was now or never.]]
*One of the commercial animation segments used in the new title sequence is from the [[Duocon]]s commercial featuring [[Flywheels]], who otherwise makes no appearance in an actual episode.
*Your wiki editors will leave it up to the reader to interpret the image at the bottom right.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title (European French broadcast):'' "'''Une nouvelle naissance, partie 1'''" ("A New Birth, Part 1")
:*''Title (Canadian French broadcast & European French DVD release):'' "'''La Renaissance, partie 1'''" ("The Rebirth, Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Spanish'''
:*''Title:'' '''El Renacimiento''' ("The Rebirth, Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' '''Die Wiedergeburt, Teil 1''' ("The Rebirth, Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Hebrew'''
:*''Title:'' '''המטאורים''' ("The Meteors")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' '''La Rinascita (Prima Parte)''' ("The Rebirth (First Part)")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 21]], [[2014]] (on YouTube)
::*"The Rebirth" was not dubbed for Italian release, airing ''The Headmasters'' as a continuation of the series. The episodes were dubbed between 2012 and 2014 along with the redub of Season 3, and feature the same cast. A DVD release couldn't be made at the time (even the redubbed Season 3 DVDs were made in a very small quantity), so the episodes were released for free on YouTube in November 2014 on the Contactoons channel (Contactoons is a cartoon block that airs on a few Italian regional channels, airing older programs that regular channels no longer carry). The videos were made private 24 hours after they were made available, but they can still be accessed by checking the channel's "film animazione e serie tv special" ("Animated movies and TV show specials") playlist.
::*The dub itself is basically an amateur production, with voices not well matched to characters. Many character names are also mispronounced.

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' '''Headmaster Tanjō''' (ヘッドマスター誕生, "The Headmasters Are Born")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[1996]] (home video); [[July 21]], [[2007]] (broadcast)
::*"The Rebirth" was not initially dubbed for Japanese release, instead being replaced by the domestic series ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]''. The episodes were eventually dubbed in 1996 as special features on [[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer]]'s {{w|LaserDisc}} and DVD collections. "The Rebirth" received its first Japanese television broadcast in [[2007]], airing on [[Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network Japan]].
::*To further distinguish "The Rebirth" from the continuity of the Japanese series, it was released with the American ''The Transformers'' branding and [[title sequence]]. With a few exceptions (such as "Convoy"), most of the characters are referred to by their Western names. For instance, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] is not called "Hot Rodimus", [[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] is not called "Cher" and so on.
::*With the exception of [[Tesshō Genda]] (Convoy), [[Seizō Katō]] (Galvatron), and [[Issei Masamune]] ([[narrator]]), all characters were recast with new actors.
::*Voice direction for the 1996 dubbing of "The Rebirth" was conducted by [[Shōzō Tajima]].
::*Due to having been released straight-to-video, this is one of the few episodes of ''The Transformers'' not to have been edited for time in Japan. As such, Japanese DVD and laserdisc releases include an optional English audio track for the episode.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 1987 — ''Transformers'' — Die Wiedergeburt (Erster Teil) ([[Polyband]]) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1988 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters: The Rebirth (Parts, 1, 2 & 3) ([[Tempo Video]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1989 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters / The Return of Optimus Prime (Tempo Video) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 1991 — ''Transformers'' — Headmasters / The Return of Optimus Prime / Cosmic Rust (Tempo Video) 
[[File:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1998 — ''The Transformers: Generation 2'' — Rebirth: The Movie ([[Malofilm|Behaviour Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2001 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Heroes: The Rebirth ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]])
;{{w|LaserDisc}}
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1996 — ''Transformers: The Headmasters'' Set ([[TakaraTomy|Takara]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1999 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — English and Japanese audio.
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2001 — ''The Transformers: 2010'' — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio. 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2001 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Heroes: The Rebirth ([[The Original Transformers|Rhino Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — Complete Original Series: Deluxe Edition ([[Maverick Entertainment|Sony Wonder]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2002 — ''Transformers'' — The Rebirth: Parts 1-3 (Sony Wonder) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2004 — ''The Original Transformers'' — Season 3 Part 2 & Season 4 (Rhino Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2004 — ''Transformers'' — Season 3 and Season 4 ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2005 — ''Transformers'' — Collection 6: Series 4 ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2005 — ''Transformers'' — Volume 24 ([[Déclic Images]]) — European French audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — Box-Set (3DVDs) ([[Flex Media]]) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2008 — ''Transformers'' — Box-Set (2DVDs) (Flex Media) — German audio only. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers'' — Season's Three & Four {{sic}} (Metrodome) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2009 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2010 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2011 — ''The Transformers'' — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''The Transformers'' — Seasons Three & Four: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2014 — ''Transformers'' — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

==External links==
*[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/cartoon-dossier/season-4/synopses/6701-01.html Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle]

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'''Seapray''' is an Autobot that presumably participated in the Cybertronian conflict on [[Earth|Earth]]. The nature of his speech patterns remain unknown

[[Image:EarthSparkSeasprayComicBook.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Let's be real, this is the closest I will get to existing inside this continuity]]

==Fiction==
===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===

Seaspray appears in the cover of a comic book owned by the Malto children. {{storylink|Secret Legacy, Part 1}}

==Notes==

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'''Seapray''' is an Autobot that presumably participated in the Cybertronian conflict on [[Earth|Earth]]. The nature of his speech patterns remain unknown

[[Image:EarthSparkSeasprayComicBook.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Let's be real, this is the closest I will get to existing inside this continuity]]

==Fiction==
===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===

Seaspray appears in the cover of a comic book owned by the Malto children. {{storylink|Secret Legacy, Part 1}}

==Notes==

* Seaspray's appearence is based on his [[Seaspray (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]

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Screen capture from the ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' episode "[[Secret Legacy, Part 1]] "

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'''Seapray''' is an Autobot that presumably participated in the Cybertronian conflict on [[Earth|Earth]]. The nature of his speech patterns remain unknown

[[Image:EarthSparkSeasprayComicbook.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Let's be real, this is the closest I will get to existing inside this continuity]]

==Fiction==
===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===

Seaspray appears in the cover of a comic book owned by the Malto children. {{storylink|Secret Legacy, Part 1}}

==Notes==

* Seaspray's appearence is based on his [[Seaspray (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]

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'''Seaspray''' / '''Sea Spray''' is the [[Autobot]]s' resident aquatic specialist.

{{bigquote|Be unyielding as the ocean waves and your enemies shall fall.|Generation 1 Seaspray bio quote}}

{{TOCclear}}

==Major Seasprays==
<center><gallery widths="150px" heights="200px">
File:G1SeasprayColorModel.jpg|[[Seaspray (G1)|"Generation 1" Seaspray]]
</gallery></center>

==Full list of Seasprays==
{{disamb|y=[[1985]]|[[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]], the Autobot [[Mini Vehicle]] hovercraft from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2009]]|[[Seaspray (Animated)|Seaspray]], the Autobot from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' who looks like he might also be a hovercraft.}}
{{disamb|y=2009|[[Seaspray (SG)|Seaspray]], the evil Autobot hovercraft from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2010]]|[[Sea Spray (TF 2010)|Sea Spray]], the Autobot hovercraft from the [[live-action film series]] via the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|2010 ''Transformers'' toyline]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2012]]|[[Seaspray (Prime)|Seaspray]], the Autobot [[Wrecker]] from ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2016]]|[[Sea Spray (BWU)|Sea Spray]], the Autobot [[Builder of Cybertron|Builder]] from ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2022]]|[[Seaspray (ES)|Seaspray]], the Autobot hovercraft from ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)]]''.}}

Seaspray (disambiguation)

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Skybots10: /* Full list of Seasprays */

{{disambig}}

'''Seaspray''' / '''Sea Spray''' is the [[Autobot]]s' resident aquatic specialist.

{{bigquote|Be unyielding as the ocean waves and your enemies shall fall.|Generation 1 Seaspray bio quote}}

{{TOCclear}}

==Major Seasprays==
<center><gallery widths="150px" heights="200px">
File:G1SeasprayColorModel.jpg|[[Seaspray (G1)|"Generation 1" Seaspray]]
</gallery></center>

==Full list of Seasprays==
{{disamb|y=[[1985]]|[[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]], the Autobot [[Mini Vehicle]] hovercraft from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2009]]|[[Seaspray (Animated)|Seaspray]], the Autobot from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' who looks like he might also be a hovercraft.}}
{{disamb|y=2009|[[Seaspray (SG)|Seaspray]], the evil Autobot hovercraft from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2010]]|[[Sea Spray (TF 2010)|Sea Spray]], the Autobot hovercraft from the [[live-action film series]] via the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|2010 ''Transformers'' toyline]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2012]]|[[Seaspray (Prime)|Seaspray]], the Autobot [[Wrecker]] from ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2016]]|[[Sea Spray (BWU)|Sea Spray]], the Autobot [[Builder of Cybertron|Builder]] from ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2022]]|[[Seaspray (ES)|SeaSpray]], the Autobot hovercraft from ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)]]''.}}

Seaspray (disambiguation)

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Skybots10: /* Full list of Seasprays */

{{disambig}}

'''Seaspray''' / '''Sea Spray''' is the [[Autobot]]s' resident aquatic specialist.

{{bigquote|Be unyielding as the ocean waves and your enemies shall fall.|Generation 1 Seaspray bio quote}}

{{TOCclear}}

==Major Seasprays==
<center><gallery widths="150px" heights="200px">
File:G1SeasprayColorModel.jpg|[[Seaspray (G1)|"Generation 1" Seaspray]]
</gallery></center>

==Full list of Seasprays==
{{disamb|y=[[1985]]|[[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]], the Autobot [[Mini Vehicle]] hovercraft from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2009]]|[[Seaspray (Animated)|Seaspray]], the Autobot from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' who looks like he might also be a hovercraft.}}
{{disamb|y=2009|[[Seaspray (SG)|Seaspray]], the evil Autobot hovercraft from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2010]]|[[Sea Spray (TF 2010)|Sea Spray]], the Autobot hovercraft from the [[live-action film series]] via the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|2010 ''Transformers'' toyline]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2012]]|[[Seaspray (Prime)|Seaspray]], the Autobot [[Wrecker]] from ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2016]]|[[Sea Spray (BWU)|Sea Spray]], the Autobot [[Builder of Cybertron|Builder]] from ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2022]]|[[Seaspray (ES)|Sea Spray]], the Autobot hovercraft from ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)]]''.}}

Seaspray (disambiguation)

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'''Seaspray''' / '''Sea Spray''' is the [[Autobot]]s' resident aquatic specialist.

{{bigquote|Be unyielding as the ocean waves and your enemies shall fall.|Generation 1 Seaspray bio quote}}

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==Major Seasprays==
<center><gallery widths="150px" heights="200px">
File:G1SeasprayColorModel.jpg|[[Seaspray (G1)|"Generation 1" Seaspray]]
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==Full list of Seasprays==
{{disamb|y=[[1985]]|[[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]], the Autobot [[Mini Vehicle]] hovercraft from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2009]]|[[Seaspray (Animated)|Seaspray]], the Autobot from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' who looks like he might also be a hovercraft.}}
{{disamb|y=2009|[[Seaspray (SG)|Seaspray]], the evil Autobot hovercraft from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2010]]|[[Sea Spray (TF 2010)|Sea Spray]], the Autobot hovercraft from the [[live-action film series]] via the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|2010 ''Transformers'' toyline]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2012]]|[[Seaspray (Prime)|Seaspray]], the Autobot [[Wrecker]] from ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2016]]|[[Sea Spray (BWU)|Sea Spray]], the Autobot [[Builder of Cybertron|Builder]] from ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2022]]|[[Sea Spray (ES)|Sea Spray]], the Autobot hovercraft from ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)]]''.}}