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Like many brands of its size, ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' has had its fair share of licensed '''video games''' released over the years, spanning multiple publishers and platforms.

==A Brief History of ''Transformers'' Video Games==
[[File:C64.jpg|thumb|right|300px|'''''[[The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers]]:''''' The one that started it all...which only an incredibly small segment of the fandom has played.]]
Despite the popularity of ''Transformers'' over the many decades, it's a bit surprising how few video games based on the franchise there were early on. During the heyday of [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]], only four games were released: two for the [[Commodore 64]] home computer system, and two for [[Nintendo]]'s [[Family Computer|Famicom]] console, neither of which came to its western counterpart the NES. After that, no new ''Transformers'' games would be released for another decade, skipping the 16-bit era entirely, until the rise of the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' franchise in the late 1990s. A few ''Beast Wars'' games were released for early 3D systems before the turn of the century, only for the brand to slow down again during the early-to-mid 2000s, save for a few one-off [[PlayStation]] 2 releases. During this early era, [[Takara]] themselves published most of these games in Japan, a practice that eventually stopped around the time they merged with Tomy in 2005.

With the [[Transformers (film)|first live-action movie]] on the horizon, game publisher [[Activision]] struck up a licensing deal with [[Hasbro]] in early [[2006]], granting them exclusive rights to publish ''Transformers'' games on all portable and home consoles. Thus, when the film was released the following year, it was accompanied by tie-in game adaptations for every system under the sun. The success of the film and subsequent resurgence of the brand caused the floodgates to finally open, and new software began to be released en masse, with Activision putting out new ''Transformers'' games almost every year. This included adaptations of the [[Transformers The Game|first]] [[Revenge of the Fallen (video games)|three]] [[Dark of the Moon (video games)|entries]] in the [[live-action film series]], tie-ins for new shows like ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]'', and the G1-influenced ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|War for Cybertron]]'' and its sequels, which would act as the starting point for Hasbro's new [[Aligned continuity family|"Aligned" continuity]]. Japanese fans were less lucky during this period, with specific ports of ''Transformers The Game'' and ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark]]'' being the only Activision games to make it to their shores. However, around the same time, [[Sega]] also acquired the license to develop ''Transformers'' arcade games, and would go on to release two arcade shooters based on the films and two Japanese ''Animated'' games utilizing [[Transformers Cards]]. Activision's final ''Transformers'' game was [[2015]]'s ''[[Transformers: Devastation|Devastation]]'', and all the games they had published were delisted from digital storefronts in late [[2017]] after the expiration of their licensing deal.

No new ''Transformers'' titles would be released for a dedicated game system until the launch of ''[[Transformers: Battlegrounds|Battlegrounds]]'' in 2020, published by [[Outright Games]] and [[Bandai Namco Entertainment]]. However, while both publishers have continued to push out new ''Transformers'' games primarily aimed at the all-ages market like ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition|Expedition]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Galactic Trials|Galactic Trials]]'', they do not seem to hold the exclusive rights to the license this time, allowing other interested publishers to produce their own games. The late 2010s and early 2020s also saw the launch of the franchise's first official virtual reality games, with arcade installations like ''[[Transformers: VR Battle Arena]]'' and home releases like ''[[Transformers Beyond Reality]]''.

That said, most of the brand's game output these days isn't even on consoles at all. Thanks to mobile gaming's rise in popularity and comparative ease of development, there have been countless free-to-play games, augmented reality apps, and activity centers released for phones, tablets and other mobile devices since the early 2010s. Since many of these apps are primarily designed to be promotional tools for a given film, cartoon or toyline, their active life cycle tends to end once their respective franchise has run its course. As a result, outside of a few outliers that have had around a ''decade'' of continued support, most ''Transformers'' mobile games can no longer be downloaded, and anyone who did is unable to actually play them due to the shutdown of their gameplay servers. Similarly, several online and mobile games have held limited collaboration events with ''Transformers'', adding Autobots, Decepticons and other elements to their games, but these are equally fleeting in nature, with all traces of the franchise typically wiped after the event concludes.
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==List of ''Transformers'' games==
===Console/PC games===
[[File:TransformersTheGame 2007 consolecovers.jpg|thumb|right|300px|'''''[[Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers: The Game]]:''''' Also coming soon to CD-i, N-Gage and Gizmondo!]]
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release year
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | System
! scope="col" | Franchise
! scope="col" | Strategy guides
|-
|''[[The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers]]''
|1985
|[[Commodore 64]], [[ZX Spectrum]]
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth]]''
|1986
|Commodore 64
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy]]''
|1986
|[[Family Computer|Famicom]]
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|''[[Transformers (Mystery of Convoy)]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (video game)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]''
|1987
|Famicom Disk System
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)|Beast Wars: Transformers]]''
|1997
|PC, [[PlayStation|PS1]]
|''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals]]''
|1999
|[[Nintendo 64|N64]]
|''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals]]''
|1999
|PS1
|''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''
|
|-
|''[[The Transformers (G1 PS2)|The Transformers]]''
|2003
|PS2
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers (Armada PS2)|Transformers]]''
|2004
|PS2
|''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]''
|''[[Transformers: Prima's Official Strategy Guide]]'' ''[[Transformers Digital Video Guide]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers: The Game]]''
|2007
|PS2, PS3, [[Xbox|X360]], [[Wii]], PC
|[[Live-action film series]]
|''[[Transformers The Game Official Strategy Guide]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''
|2009
|X360, PS3, PC
|[[Live-action film series]]
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Strategy Guide]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Wii/PS2)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''
|2009
|Wii, PS2
|[[Live-action film series]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''
|2010
|X360, PS3, PC
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Official Strategy Guide]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Cybertron Adventures]]''
|2010
|Wii
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360/PS3)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]''
|2011
|X360, PS3
|[[Live-action film series]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition]]''
|2011
|Wii
|[[Live-action film series]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron]]''
|2012
|X360, XB1, PS3, PS4, PC
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Official Strategy Guide]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Prime - The Game]]''
|2012
|Wii, [[Wii U]]
|''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark]]''
|2014
|X360, XB1, PS3, PS4, Wii U, PC
|[[Live-action film series]] ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Devastation]]''
|2015
|PC, PS3, PS4, XB1, X360
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Battlegrounds]]''
|2020
|[[Nintendo Switch|NS]], PC, PS4, XB1
|''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers Beyond Reality]]''
|2022
|PS4, PS5
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition]]''
|2023
|NS, PC, PS4, PS5, XB1, XSX/S
|''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)|EarthSpark]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Galactic Trials]]''
|2024
|NS, PC, PS4, PS5, XB1, XSX/S
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|}

===Handheld games===
[[File:BeastWarsGameBoyColor.jpg|thumb|right|'''''[[Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle]]:''''' Now you're playing with power; PORTABLE POWER!]]
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release year
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | System
! scope="col" | Franchise
|-
|''[[Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle]]''
|1999
|[[Game Boy|GBC]]
|''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers The Game (PSP)|Transformers: The Game]]''
|2007
|PSP
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Autobots/Decepticons]]''
|2007
|[[Nintendo DS|NDS]]
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers Animated: The Game]]''
|2008
|NDS
|''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PSP)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''
|2009
|PSP
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Autobots/Decepticons]]''
|2009
|NDS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|Transformers: War for Cybertron: Autobots/Decepticons]]''
|2010
|NDS
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Autobots/Decepticons]]''
|2011
|NDS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition]]''
|2011
|[[Nintendo 3DS|3DS]]
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: Prime - The Game]]''
|2012
|NDS, 3DS
|''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''
|-
|''[[Race to the Rescue (video game)|Race to the Rescue]]''
|2013
|LeapPad/Leapster GS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark]]''
|2014
|3DS
|[[Live-action film series]] ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|}

===Arcade games===
[[File:Transformers Cabinet TEMP 0.jpg|thumb|right|'''''[[Transformers: Human Alliance]]:''''' Insert credit to continue reading this article.]]
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release year
! scope="col" | Franchise
|-
|''[[Greatest Showdown in History: Lio Convoy VS Galvatron]]''
|1998
|''[[Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers#Beast Wars II|Beast Wars II]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers Animated: The Chase]]''
|2010
|''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers Animated: The Shooting]]''
|2010
|''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Human Alliance]]''
|2013
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: Shadows Rising]]''
|2018
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: VR Battle Arena]]''
|2020
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: Decepticon Invasion]]''
|2022
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|}

===Mobile games===
[[File:TransformersEarthWars header.jpg|thumb|right|'''''[[Transformers: Earth Wars]]:''''' Now all we need is a little energon...and a '''lot''' of microtransactions.]]
[[File:Angry birds transformers.jpg|right|thumb|'''''[[Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers]]:''''' Inexplicably still online and still updating ''right now''.]]
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release year
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | System
! scope="col" | Franchise
! scope="col" | Available?
|-
|''[[Transformers (Glu)|Transformers]]''
|2007
|mobile phone
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers G1: Awakening]]''
|2008
|mobile phone, Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Glu)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''
|2009
|mobile phone
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Glu)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]''
|2011
|mobile phone
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (mobile game)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]''
|2011
|iOS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Defend the Earth]]''
|2011
|iOS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Battle Zone]]''
|2011
|Android
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]''
|2012
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Prime: Story Cube]]''
|2013
|Android
|''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Construct-Bots (mobile game)|Transformers: Construct-Bots]]''
|2013
|Android, iOS
|[[Construct-Bots]]
|No
|-
|''[[Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|Cross-franchise
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rising]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|No
|-
|''[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (mobile game)|Transformers: Age of Extinction]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Hasbro Arcade]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|[[Live-action film series]] ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''
|No
|-
|''[[TransformersCards]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Sky Forest Rescue]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Nestlé Arcade]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Battle Masters (mobile game)|Transformers: Battle Masters]]
|2014
|Android, iOS
|[[Battle Masters]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Battle Tactics]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|Cross-franchise
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Ultimate Allstars]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|Cross-franchise
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Frontiers]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Operation Omega]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Dino Island]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[McPlay]]''
|2015
|Android
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Earth Wars]]''
|2016
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Hero Adventures]]''
|2016
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Save Griffin Rock]]''
|2016
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers AR Guide]]
|2016
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Cade's Junkyard]]''
|2017
|Android, iOS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Forged to Fight]]''
|2017
|Android, iOS
|Cross-franchise
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Need for Speed]]''
|2017
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Disaster Dash]]''
|2017
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Shuffle|Transformers RID by Shuffle]]
|2017
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers TCG Companion App]]''
|2018
|Android, iOS
|[[Transformers Trading Card Game]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive]]
|2018
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|No
|-
|''[[Bee Vision]]''
|2018
|Android, iOS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Tactical Arena]]''
|2021
|iOS Apple TV, Mac
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Alliance]]''
|2022
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rage Battle]]''
|2023
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Hidden Pictures]]''
|2024
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers: Multi Shock]]''
|2025
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers: Eternal War]]''
|TBA
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|TBA
|}

===Other games===
[[File:Transformers battle universe bundle.jpg|thumb|right|'''''[[Transformers Battle Universe]]:''''' Everybody rumored... Nobody believed...]]
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release year
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | System
! scope="col" | Franchise
|-
|''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (handheld game)|Transformers: Generation 2]]''
|1993
|Stand-alone LCD Handheld
|''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers Electronic Handheld Game]]''
|2007
|Stand-alone LCD Handheld
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers Battle Universe]]''
|2007
|Net Jet
|Cross-franchise
|-
|''[[Beam Box|Transformers: Rescue Bots Beam Box]]''
|2013
|Self-Contained Plug-And-Play System
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|-
|''[[Robots in Disguise: Autobots Unite]]''
|2016
|Apple TV
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|}

===Online games===
:''For further information, see: [[Online game]]s''
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===Crossover appearances===
[[Image:DreamMix-All.jpg|thumb|'''''[[DreamMix TV World Fighters]]:''''' Everyone is here!]]
The 2003 GCN/PS2 crossover fighting game ''[[DreamMix TV World Fighters]]'' features [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] as playable characters and [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] as a stage.

The 2005 PC social game ''[[Roblox]]'' has had a few different ''Transformers''-themed promotional events over the years, including some based on ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]'', [[Kre-O]], and ''[[Transformers One (film)|One]]''.

The 2013 sandbox game ''[[Blocksworld]]'' featured two ''Transformers'' themed character packs, which were temporarily available during 2014.

The 2014 [[Nintendo 3DS]] platform game ''[[Bike Rider DX3: Time Rider]]'' released ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''-themed downloadable content in June 2015, adding 10 levels that featured [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] as a playable character.

The 2015 [[Wii U]] shooting game ''[[Splatoon]]'' briefly featured a promotional tie-in with ''Robots in Disguise''. The event was exclusive to North America and took place in August 2015.

The 2013 MMORPG ''[[Elsword]]'' featured a ''Robots in Disguise'' crossover event for non-English markets in November–December 2015.

The 2017 electronic rhythm game ''[[DropMix]]'' received a special promotional card that would play a variation of the classic [[theme song]].

The 2018 mobile sandbox game ''[[Creative Destruction]]'' had a tie-in event for ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' during March–April 2019.

The 2015 mobile game ''[[Battle of Balls]]'' featured a limited-time ''Transformers'' event in 2020.

The 2015 MMO ''[[World of Warships: Transformers|World of Warships]]'' had two limited-time ''Transformers''-themed events in September 2020 and September 2021.

The 2020 card-based arcade game ''[[Toy Clash! Roboca Battle]]'' features a handful of ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]]'' character cards.

The 2019 mobile game ''[[Top War: Battle Game]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' crossover event that took place in August 2021.

The 2021 mobile rhythm game ''[[Beatstar]]'' includes "[[The Touch]]" as a selectable song, accompanied by ''Transformers'' themed visuals.

The 2016 mobile MOBA ''[[Mobile Legends: Bang Bang]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' crossover event during September–November 2021.

The 2014 MOBA ''[[Smite]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' crossover in November 2021.

The 2017 battle royale game ''[[Fortnite]]'' featured ''Transformers''-themed content as part of its fourth chapter in June and October 2023.

The 2015 vehicular soccer game ''[[Rocket League]]'' added a ''Transformers'' content bundle, including [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] as a playable car, in June 2023.

The 2020 mobile game ''[[Medarot S: Unlimited Nova]]'' added ''Transformers''-themed content during a crossover event in August 2023.

The 2021 mobile game ''[[Mob Control]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' event in March 2024.

The 2022 shooter game ''[[Overwatch 2]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' collaboration event in July 2024.

The 2017 mobile shooter game ''[[Sausage Man]]'' hosted a ''Transformers'' event in July 2024.

The 2020 party game ''[[Stumble Guys]]'' held a crossover event beginning in August 2024 that added ''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]'' character skins to the game.

The 2011 sandbox game ''[[Minecraft]]'' received a ''Transformers'' DLC pack and skins in September 2024.

The 2024 action game ''[[Squad Busters]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' event in September 2024.

The 2020 mobile puzzle game ''[[Puzzles & Survival]]'' held a two part ''Transformers'' event between December 2024 and January 2025.

The 2021 mobile shoot 'em up game ''[[Wing Fighters]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' event in January/February 2025.

The 2018 mobile battle royale game ''[[PUBG Mobile]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' crossover event in July 2025.
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===Canceled games===
[[File:Transformers Reactivate screenshot20220812 04.jpeg|thumb|right|'''''[[Transformers: Reactivate]]:''''' Unlikely to be reactivated any time soon.]]
A game based on ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'' was being developed for the Super Nintendo console by {{w|Argonaut Games|Argonaut Software}}, featuring polygonal characters created using the {{w|Super FX}} chip Argonaut had designed for Nintendo's ''{{w|Star Fox (1993 video game)|Star Fox}}''. The game was planned for release in 1994 and was to be published by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]], but was ultimately scrapped during development. It was rumored for several years that the project evolved into Argonaut's 1994 game ''{{w|Vortex (video game)|Vortex}}'', as both games shared a developer, console and planned release period, with ''Vortex'' even being based around a polygonal transforming robot. However, Michael Wong-Powell, programmer of ''Vortex'', told British magazine ''{{w|Retro Gamer}}'' in 2015 that ''Vortex'' and ''Transformers: Generation 2'' were developed as separate games by Argonaut, with the ''Transformers'' game ultimately being canceled.<ref>"The Making of: Vortex". Retro Gamer (147): p. 39. October 2015.</ref> Takara at one point claimed that the game would instead be released in 1995 for the then-nascent Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, and PlayStation, but that ended up not happening either.<ref>"At the Deadline". GamePro (60): p. 172. July 1994.</ref>

A ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' game was allegedly in development for the PlayStation 2, to be published by [[BAM! Entertainment]] like the previous two ''Beast Wars'' games, but no details were ever made public, and the only evidence it ever existed are placeholder pages on websites like IGN and GameFAQs.

After the completion of the [[Transformers (Armada PS2)|2004 PS2 game]], a sequel based on ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' entered production, but was scrapped after a few months of development when [[Atari, Inc.|Atari]] moved [[Melbourne House]] onto a different project. A PlayStation Portable strategy game partly based on the PS2 game was also pitched, titled ''Transformers: 2nd Strike'', but didn't make it far due to Atari's loss of the ''Transformers'' license.<ref>https://www.allspark.com/a-look-at-transformers-2nd-strike-the-psp-armada-game-port-that-never-was/</ref>

A second ''Cybertron'' game, this time an educational title called ''[[Transformers Cybertron: Quest for Cybertron|Quest for Cybertron]]'', was in development for the {{w|Hasbro iON}} game console. The game was canceled in 2006 following the system's poor sales.

A second ''Transformers'' game developed by [[Luxoflux]] was in development, unrelated to the ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (franchise)|Dark of the Moon]]'' franchise. However, the game was cancelled as a result of Luxoflux's closure. Over the years, artists [[Ken Christiansen]] and [[Frankell Baramdyka]] revealed character and environment concept arts intended for the game<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/vy7fyv/concept_art_for_an_unreleased_postrotf_game/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/wfb4mm/possible_concept_art_for_cancelled_luxoflux_tf3/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/y2nl1h/more_concept_art_for_cancelled_luxoflux_tf3_game/</ref>. No more details would be known until a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef0U67twBm0 prototype build] of the game leaked in 2024. In 2026, [https://hiddenpalace.org/Transformers:_Dark_of_the_Moon_(Aug_3,_2010_prototype) an Xbox 360 test build of ''{{w|Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure}}'' would get leaked online. This test build was dated August 3rd, 2010, an entire year before the game's release]. In the test build, as well as in the game files, there would be references to the ''Transformers 3'' game, such as a menu screen and some video files. Weirdly enough however, despite this build reusing a lot of assets from the ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Revenge of the Fallen game]]'', it wasn't made by Luxoflux, but rather by {{w|XPEC Entertainment}}.

A G1-themed augmented reality mobile game, ''[[Transformers: Heavy Metal]]'', was developed by [[Niantic]] and was soft-launched in 2021, with a handful of regions able to access a playable beta version. However, these betas were shut down and the game was canceled in 2022, alongside three other upcoming Niantic projects, due to the company's financial troubles.<ref>https://www.gamespot.com/articles/pokemon-go-dev-cancels-transformers-game-and-three-others-lays-off-as-many-as-90-report/1100-6504991/</ref>

The online multiplayer game ''[[Transformers: Reactivate]]'' began development in 2017 at {{w|Certain Affinity}}, and was intended to launch on PC, with ports for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S all in development at different points. However, after a change in developer to [[Splash Damage]], a combined seven year development cycle, and virtually ''nothing'' shown of the game that entire time (''officially'', at least), it was finally confirmed to be cancelled in January 2025.

On the crossovers side, a ''Transformers'' collab for ''{{w|Fall Guys}}'' was planned to tie in with the release of ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'', but was cancelled before ever being announced, though a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0fsxUzDIDo planned trailer for the event] leaked a year after the movie's release.

Visual targets and concept art for a ''Transformers'' game, tentatively titled "Project Goliath", was revealed by art director [[Adam Hartel]] on his Artstation account in 2025.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/1kdcdcy/so_i_was_met_with_i_article_for_a_canceled/ Concepts retrieved on Reddit], original posts have been removed by Adam Hartel himself from his Artstation account.</ref>

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
[[File:MarvelUS-24.jpg|thumb|right|Thankfully, Prime had plenty of extra lives from hopping on the turtle in 3–1.]]
[[Ethan Zachary]] enjoyed playing ''[[Multi-World]]'' on his [[Energy Futures Industries|employer's]] computer after hours. When [[Decepticon]]s and [[Autobot]]s showed up to fight over the [[hydrothermocline]], Zachary proposed settling their differences by playing a game of ''Multi-World''. [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] won by cheating, but [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] agreed to be destroyed, per the initial agreement. {{storylink|Afterdeath!}}

Later, Zachary allowed Optimus Prime's personality (which was backed-up on a [[floppy disk]]) to exist as a character in the game world of [[Hyper-Fax]]. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!}}

====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] met [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] in [[Robots Video Arcade]] while Bumblebee was playing ''[[Robot Resource]]''. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}

====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
While [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] was slacking off and playing a fighting game starring [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] and [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] turned the game off so he could use the scanners to find the missing [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]. Later, Rattrap had switched to a first-person shooter where all the enemies were [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], only to hastily turn it off when Optimus arrived. {{storylink|Proving Grounds (BW)|Proving Grounds}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
[[Sgt. Savage]] enjoyed playing ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' in his 20s. {{storylink|When Eagles Scream}}

===Unicron Trilogy continuity family===
====''Armada'' cartoon====
[[Billy (Armada)|Billy]], [[Fred (Armada)|Fred]] and [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] all played a multiplayer video game that involved the [[Fighter Machine]]s. The game proved to be a little too addictive for Alexis, who became oblivious to the world around her. {{storylink|Past}} {{storylink|Past II}}

====''Cybertron'' cartoon====
[[Bud Hansen]] compared the Autobots' [[synchro-control]] system to the ''[[Canyon Racer XL]]'' machine at [[Rockville]]'s local arcade. {{storylink|Starscream (episode)|Starscream}}

===Live-action film series===
====''Transformers'' film====
An Xbox 360 game console was turned into a [[Xbox 360 robot|robot]] by the [[AllSpark]]. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

====''Bumblebee'' film====
Bumblebee briefly observed a game of ''{{w|Pong}}'' being played on the Watson family's [[Atari, Inc.|Atari 2600]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}

===''Animated'' continuity family===
====''Animated'' cartoon====
[[File:WhereIsThySting-Bumblebeesvideogame.jpg|thumb|250px|'''ULTRAAAAAAA COMBOOOOOOO!''']]
[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]], [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]], and [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] enjoyed playing video games, sometimes to the chagrin of the more nature-minded [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]. When he and Sari were trapped in a mine shaft, Bumblebee attempted to use his skills from playing ''[[Medieval Maze Monsters]]'' to lead them out, only to find themselves right back where they started. {{storylink|Nature Calls}} When [[Wasp]] was disguised as Bumblebee, Bulkhead proposed pitting the two against each other at a game of ''[[Ninja Gladiator]]'', believing it impossible for the true Bumblebee to lose after how much time he had spent playing it. Wasp, not liking his odds, refused the challenge and revealed himself. {{storylink|Where Is Thy Sting?}}

====''Animated'' video game====
Sari tempted an exhausted Bumblebee into playing games with her using a pre-release copy of ''[[Mage Master Maze Knight]]'' she had obtained. [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] grumbled that if the [[AllSpark]] had meant them to play video games, it would have programmed them into one. Bumblebee retaliated by asking how they could be sure they weren't in one already? ''Meta.'' {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The Game}}

===Aligned continuity family===
====''Prime'' cartoon====
[[Image:Racing game Scrapheap.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Watch out for the blue shell!]]
[[Jack Darby]], [[Miko Nakadai]], [[Raf Esquivel]], and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] enjoyed playing a [[generic racing game]]. Miko also sent Jack a social media message inviting him to play ''[[Super Guitar Band]]'' with her. {{storylink|Crisscross (episode)|Crisscross}}

====Titan Magazines ''Prime'' comics====
Raf picked up a copy of ''[[Invasionauts II]]'' from the [[Plug and Play]] game store, playing it extensively with Bulkhead. However, it turned out to be part of a Decepticon scheme, and Raf was nearly hypnotized into opening a [[GroundBridge]] for the Decepticons to enter [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]]. Fortunately, Miko and Jack caught on and unplugged the console, breaking Raf's trance and averting the crisis. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.4|Tinker, Tailor, Gamer, Spy!}} Jack and Raf once stayed up extremely late to play video games, only stopping due a power outage, which cost Jack his unsaved progress. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.18|Power Outage}}

====''Fall of Cybertron'' video game====
[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] took a break from sabotaging [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]'s security to play ''[[Super Grimlock Quest 64]]''. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (video game)|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron}}

====''Rescue Bots'' cartoon====
[[File:BackToVirtualReality players in Element Quest.jpg|thumb|250px|Only trust your fists! Police will never help you!]]
[[Cody Burns]] and [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] attempted to play the ''[[Griffin Rock Element Quest]]'' virtual reality game at the [[Hall of Inspiration]], but a freak storm caused the game to glitch, trapping them inside and turning the in-game hazards deadly. Thanks to the efforts of their teammates, the two beat the game and escaped before the power could shut off with them still plugged in. {{storylink|A Virtual Disaster}} ''Element Quest'' was later moved to [[Griffin Rock Fun Zone]], where Cody, [[Frankie Greene]], [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] and [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] went to try the game's 2.0 upgrade, only for it to fall under the control of the [[Morocco virus]]. Cody and Chief ultimately defeated the virus and won the game, but the virus escaped into the real world via a 3D printer. {{storylink|Back to Virtual Reality}}

====''Robots in Disguise'' comic====
[[Sideswipe (RID 2015)|Sideswipe]] spent his time after a mission playing ''Transformers: Mystery of Convoy''. He, unsurprisingly, died a lot, much to [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]]'s amusement.{{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 1|Robots in Disguise #1}}

====''Rescue Bots Academy'' cartoon====
[[Wedge (RBA)|Wedge]] and [[Whirl (RBA)|Whirl]] got hooked on the puzzle game installed on their new smartphones, with the two exchanging tips on how to beat each level. {{storylink|Screen Time}} [[Hot Shot (Prime)|Hot Shot]] later tried installing his new game, ''[[Invasion of the Giant Hedgehogs]]'', into the [[Hero Hall]] simulation system in place of a training simulation [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] had developed, causing the two to combine, but struggled to deal with the titular creatures due to not reading the instruction manual. The team ultimately managed to immobilize the hedgehogs while [[Hoist (RB)|Hoist]] disabled the simulation. {{storylink|Hack Attack}}

===''Q-Transformers'' cartoon===
[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] frequently played (and lost repeatedly at) ''[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns|Mystery of Convoy Returns]]'', prompting several discussions with [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] about the nature of crappy, unfair games, particularly the original ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|Mystery of Convoy]]''. {{storylink|Q-Transformers (cartoon)|Q-Transformers}}

===''Kre-O Transformers'' cartoon===
[[Grimlock (Kre-O)|Grimlock]] and [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus]] got frustrated playing a particularly difficult game at the arcade. When [[Fracture (RID)|Fracture]] managed to easily beat the level on his first try, Grimlock went on a rampage, knocking over arcade cabinets until being distracted by a foosball table. {{storylink|Arcade}}

===''SD SG'' comic===
[[Strongarm (SG)|Strongarm]] was a fan of ''[[Transformers: The Super Obvious Truth of Optimus Prime]]'', though [[Windblade (SG)|Windblade]] believed it strongly resembled a [[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|certain game]] from another dimension. {{storylink|SD SG issue 2|SD SG #2}}

===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
While searching a [[Decepticon scout ship]]'s computer for intel, all [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]] could find was a {{w|Pong|familiar-looking}} training program. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} [[Arcee (Cyberverse)|Arcee]] was later enjoying her time playing that same training program when [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] came by to ask if she knew anything about a [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|moon cheetah]]. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

===''BotBots'' cartoon===
[[File:BotBots ep3b Claw - 24K OhYeah.jpg|250px|thumb|50,000? You got 50,000 on ''Double Dragon''?!]]
After the [[Lost Bots]] stole [[Dave (BotBots)|Dave's]] [[Ring-A-Ling|phone]] to delete photographic evidence of the BotBots' existence, [[Dimlit]] found himself getting addicted to a cookie-matching puzzle game Dave had installed. [[Kikmee]] attempted to dissuade him, but instead he managed to get her hooked on an 8-bit [[American football|football]] game that was also on the phone. The two of them fought for control of the phone, as did the other Lost Bots who had gotten hooked on apps of their own, and it was only after the phone ran out of power and shut off that they all finally came to their senses. {{storylink |Phoning It In}} [[24K-Bit]] used his alternate mode to allow the Lost Bots to play as many games in the [[Game Palace|arcade]] as they wanted for free. Kikmee proved to be an expert, quickly conquering every cabinet she got her hands on. {{storylink|The Lost Bots and the Claw Crusade}}

===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
[[Robby Malto]] skipped out on a traditional [[Wakwak]] hunt with [[Alex Malto|his father]] to compete in an online gaming tournament. Despite a brief interruption from [[Twitch]], Robby's team emerged victorious, but by the time he finished, there was no one else around the house to celebrate with him. {{storylink|Traditions}}

===''One'' film===
The miners' quarters on Cybertron had an arcade machine for the miners to play on their off time. When [[Darkwing (One)|Darkwing]] was trying to intimidate the miners into working another straight shift, he was punched by the arriving [[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax]] straight into the machine, which fell on top of him and started spilling out all the change inside. {{storylink|Transformers One (film)|Transformers One}}

==References==
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Video games

2026-05-07T20:25:14Z

Somerandomguy:

Like many brands of its size, ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' has had its fair share of licensed '''video games''' released over the years, spanning multiple publishers and platforms.

==A Brief History of ''Transformers'' Video Games==
[[File:C64.jpg|thumb|right|300px|'''''[[The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers]]:''''' The one that started it all...which only an incredibly small segment of the fandom has played.]]
Despite the popularity of ''Transformers'' over the many decades, it's a bit surprising how few video games based on the franchise there were early on. During the heyday of [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]], only four games were released: two for the [[Commodore 64]] home computer system, and two for [[Nintendo]]'s [[Family Computer|Famicom]] console, neither of which came to its western counterpart the NES. After that, no new ''Transformers'' games would be released for another decade, skipping the 16-bit era entirely, until the rise of the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' franchise in the late 1990s. A few ''Beast Wars'' games were released for early 3D systems before the turn of the century, only for the brand to slow down again during the early-to-mid 2000s, save for a few one-off [[PlayStation]] 2 releases. During this early era, [[Takara]] themselves published most of these games in Japan, a practice that eventually stopped around the time they merged with Tomy in 2005.

With the [[Transformers (film)|first live-action movie]] on the horizon, game publisher [[Activision]] struck up a licensing deal with [[Hasbro]] in early [[2006]], granting them exclusive rights to publish ''Transformers'' games on all portable and home consoles. Thus, when the film was released the following year, it was accompanied by tie-in game adaptations for every system under the sun. The success of the film and subsequent resurgence of the brand caused the floodgates to finally open, and new software began to be released en masse, with Activision putting out new ''Transformers'' games almost every year. This included adaptations of the [[Transformers The Game|first]] [[Revenge of the Fallen (video games)|three]] [[Dark of the Moon (video games)|entries]] in the [[live-action film series]], tie-ins for new shows like ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]'', and the G1-influenced ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|War for Cybertron]]'' and its sequels, which would act as the starting point for Hasbro's new [[Aligned continuity family|"Aligned" continuity]]. Japanese fans were less lucky during this period, with specific ports of ''Transformers The Game'' and ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark]]'' being the only Activision games to make it to their shores. However, around the same time, [[Sega]] also acquired the license to develop ''Transformers'' arcade games, and would go on to release two arcade shooters based on the films and two Japanese ''Animated'' games utilizing [[Transformers Cards]]. Activision's final ''Transformers'' game was [[2015]]'s ''[[Transformers: Devastation|Devastation]]'', and all the games they had published were delisted from digital storefronts in late [[2017]] after the expiration of their licensing deal.

No new ''Transformers'' titles would be released for a dedicated game system until the launch of ''[[Transformers: Battlegrounds|Battlegrounds]]'' in 2020, published by [[Outright Games]] and [[Bandai Namco Entertainment]]. However, while both publishers have continued to push out new ''Transformers'' games primarily aimed at the all-ages market like ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition|Expedition]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Galactic Trials|Galactic Trials]]'', they do not seem to hold the exclusive rights to the license this time, allowing other interested publishers to produce their own games. The late 2010s and early 2020s also saw the launch of the franchise's first official virtual reality games, with arcade installations like ''[[Transformers: VR Battle Arena]]'' and home releases like ''[[Transformers Beyond Reality]]''.

That said, most of the brand's game output these days isn't even on consoles at all. Thanks to mobile gaming's rise in popularity and comparative ease of development, there have been countless free-to-play games, augmented reality apps, and activity centers released for phones, tablets and other mobile devices since the early 2010s. Since many of these apps are primarily designed to be promotional tools for a given film, cartoon or toyline, their active life cycle tends to end once their respective franchise has run its course. As a result, outside of a few outliers that have had around a ''decade'' of continued support, most ''Transformers'' mobile games can no longer be downloaded, and anyone who did is unable to actually play them due to the shutdown of their gameplay servers. Similarly, several online and mobile games have held limited collaboration events with ''Transformers'', adding Autobots, Decepticons and other elements to their games, but these are equally fleeting in nature, with all traces of the franchise typically wiped after the event concludes.
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==List of ''Transformers'' games==
===Console/PC games===
[[File:TransformersTheGame 2007 consolecovers.jpg|thumb|right|300px|'''''[[Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers: The Game]]:''''' Also coming soon to CD-i, N-Gage and Gizmondo!]]
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release year
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | System
! scope="col" | Franchise
! scope="col" | Strategy guides
|-
|''[[The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers]]''
|1985
|[[Commodore 64]], [[ZX Spectrum]]
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth]]''
|1986
|Commodore 64
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy]]''
|1986
|[[Family Computer|Famicom]]
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|''[[Transformers (Mystery of Convoy)]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (video game)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]''
|1987
|Famicom Disk System
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)|Beast Wars: Transformers]]''
|1997
|PC, [[PlayStation|PS1]]
|''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals]]''
|1999
|[[Nintendo 64|N64]]
|''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals]]''
|1999
|PS1
|''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''
|
|-
|''[[The Transformers (G1 PS2)|The Transformers]]''
|2003
|PS2
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers (Armada PS2)|Transformers]]''
|2004
|PS2
|''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]''
|''[[Transformers: Prima's Official Strategy Guide]]'' ''[[Transformers Digital Video Guide]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers: The Game]]''
|2007
|PS2, PS3, [[Xbox|X360]], [[Wii]], PC
|[[Live-action film series]]
|''[[Transformers The Game Official Strategy Guide]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''
|2009
|X360, PS3, PC
|[[Live-action film series]]
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Strategy Guide]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Wii/PS2)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''
|2009
|Wii, PS2
|[[Live-action film series]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''
|2010
|X360, PS3, PC
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Official Strategy Guide]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Cybertron Adventures]]''
|2010
|Wii
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360/PS3)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]''
|2011
|X360, PS3
|[[Live-action film series]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition]]''
|2011
|Wii
|[[Live-action film series]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron]]''
|2012
|X360, XB1, PS3, PS4, PC
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Official Strategy Guide]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Prime - The Game]]''
|2012
|Wii, [[Wii U]]
|''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark]]''
|2014
|X360, XB1, PS3, PS4, Wii U, PC
|[[Live-action film series]] ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Devastation]]''
|2015
|PC, PS3, PS4, XB1, X360
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Battlegrounds]]''
|2020
|[[Nintendo Switch|NS]], PC, PS4, XB1
|''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers Beyond Reality]]''
|2022
|PS4, PS5
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition]]''
|2023
|NS, PC, PS4, PS5, XB1, XSX/S
|''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)|EarthSpark]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Galactic Trials]]''
|2024
|NS, PC, PS4, PS5, XB1, XSX/S
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|}

===Handheld games===
[[File:BeastWarsGameBoyColor.jpg|thumb|right|'''''[[Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle]]:''''' Now you're playing with power; PORTABLE POWER!]]
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release year
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | System
! scope="col" | Franchise
|-
|''[[Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle]]''
|1999
|[[Game Boy|GBC]]
|''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers The Game (PSP)|Transformers: The Game]]''
|2007
|PSP
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Autobots/Decepticons]]''
|2007
|[[Nintendo DS|NDS]]
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers Animated: The Game]]''
|2008
|NDS
|''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PSP)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''
|2009
|PSP
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Autobots/Decepticons]]''
|2009
|NDS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|Transformers: War for Cybertron: Autobots/Decepticons]]''
|2010
|NDS
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Autobots/Decepticons]]''
|2011
|NDS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition]]''
|2011
|[[Nintendo 3DS|3DS]]
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: Prime - The Game]]''
|2012
|NDS, 3DS
|''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''
|-
|''[[Race to the Rescue (video game)|Race to the Rescue]]''
|2013
|LeapPad/Leapster GS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark]]''
|2014
|3DS
|[[Live-action film series]] ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|}

===Arcade games===
[[File:Transformers Cabinet TEMP 0.jpg|thumb|right|'''''[[Transformers: Human Alliance]]:''''' Insert credit to continue reading this article.]]
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release year
! scope="col" | Franchise
|-
|''[[Greatest Showdown in History: Lio Convoy VS Galvatron]]''
|1998
|''[[Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers#Beast Wars II|Beast Wars II]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers Animated: The Chase]]''
|2010
|''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers Animated: The Shooting]]''
|2010
|''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Human Alliance]]''
|2013
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: Shadows Rising]]''
|2018
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: VR Battle Arena]]''
|2020
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: Decepticon Invasion]]''
|2022
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|}

===Mobile games===
[[File:TransformersEarthWars header.jpg|thumb|right|'''''[[Transformers: Earth Wars]]:''''' Now all we need is a little energon...and a '''lot''' of microtransactions.]]
[[File:Angry birds transformers.jpg|right|thumb|'''''[[Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers]]:''''' Inexplicably still online and still updating ''right now''.]]
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release year
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | System
! scope="col" | Franchise
! scope="col" | Available?
|-
|''[[Transformers (Glu)|Transformers]]''
|2007
|mobile phone
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers G1: Awakening]]''
|2008
|mobile phone, Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Glu)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''
|2009
|mobile phone
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Glu)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]''
|2011
|mobile phone
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (mobile game)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]''
|2011
|iOS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Defend the Earth]]''
|2011
|iOS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Battle Zone]]''
|2011
|Android
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]''
|2012
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Prime: Story Cube]]''
|2013
|Android
|''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Construct-Bots (mobile game)|Transformers: Construct-Bots]]''
|2013
|Android, iOS
|[[Construct-Bots]]
|No
|-
|''[[Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|Cross-franchise
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rising]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|No
|-
|''[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (mobile game)|Transformers: Age of Extinction]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Hasbro Arcade]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|[[Live-action film series]] ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''
|No
|-
|''[[TransformersCards]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Sky Forest Rescue]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Nestlé Arcade]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Battle Masters (mobile game)|Transformers: Battle Masters]]
|2014
|Android, iOS
|[[Battle Masters]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Battle Tactics]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|Cross-franchise
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Ultimate Allstars]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|Cross-franchise
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Frontiers]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Operation Omega]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Dino Island]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[McPlay]]''
|2015
|Android
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Earth Wars]]''
|2016
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Hero Adventures]]''
|2016
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Save Griffin Rock]]''
|2016
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers AR Guide]]
|2016
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Cade's Junkyard]]''
|2017
|Android, iOS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Forged to Fight]]''
|2017
|Android, iOS
|Cross-franchise
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Need for Speed]]''
|2017
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Disaster Dash]]''
|2017
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Shuffle|Transformers RID by Shuffle]]
|2017
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers TCG Companion App]]''
|2018
|Android, iOS
|[[Transformers Trading Card Game]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive]]
|2018
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|No
|-
|''[[Bee Vision]]''
|2018
|Android, iOS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Tactical Arena]]''
|2021
|iOS Apple TV, Mac
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Alliance]]''
|2022
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rage Battle]]''
|2023
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Hidden Pictures]]''
|2024
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers: Multi Shock]]''
|2025
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers: Eternal War]]''
|TBA
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|TBA
|}

===Other games===
[[File:Transformers battle universe bundle.jpg|thumb|right|'''''[[Transformers Battle Universe]]:''''' Everybody rumored... Nobody believed...]]
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release year
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | System
! scope="col" | Franchise
|-
|''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (handheld game)|Transformers: Generation 2]]''
|1993
|Stand-alone LCD Handheld
|''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers Electronic Handheld Game]]''
|2007
|Stand-alone LCD Handheld
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers Battle Universe]]''
|2007
|Net Jet
|Cross-franchise
|-
|''[[Beam Box|Transformers: Rescue Bots Beam Box]]''
|2013
|Self-Contained Plug-And-Play System
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|-
|''[[Robots in Disguise: Autobots Unite]]''
|2016
|Apple TV
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|}

===Online games===
:''For further information, see: [[Online game]]s''
{{--}}

===Crossover appearances===
[[Image:DreamMix-All.jpg|thumb|'''''[[DreamMix TV World Fighters]]:''''' Everyone is here!]]
The 2003 GCN/PS2 crossover fighting game ''[[DreamMix TV World Fighters]]'' features [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] as playable characters and [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] as a stage.

The 2005 PC social game ''[[Roblox]]'' has had a few different ''Transformers''-themed promotional events over the years, including some based on ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]'', [[Kre-O]], and ''[[Transformers One (film)|One]]''.

The 2013 sandbox game ''[[Blocksworld]]'' featured two ''Transformers'' themed character packs, which were temporarily available during 2014.

The 2014 [[Nintendo 3DS]] platform game ''[[Bike Rider DX3: Time Rider]]'' released ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''-themed downloadable content in June 2015, adding 10 levels that featured [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] as a playable character.

The 2015 [[Wii U]] shooting game ''[[Splatoon]]'' briefly featured a promotional tie-in with ''Robots in Disguise''. The event was exclusive to North America and took place in August 2015.

The 2013 MMORPG ''[[Elsword]]'' featured a ''Robots in Disguise'' crossover event for non-English markets in November–December 2015.

The 2017 electronic rhythm game ''[[DropMix]]'' received a special promotional card that would play a variation of the classic [[theme song]].

The 2018 mobile sandbox game ''[[Creative Destruction]]'' had a tie-in event for ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' during March–April 2019.

The 2015 mobile game ''[[Battle of Balls]]'' featured a limited-time ''Transformers'' event in 2020.

The 2015 MMO ''[[World of Warships: Transformers|World of Warships]]'' had two limited-time ''Transformers''-themed events in September 2020 and September 2021.

The 2020 card-based arcade game ''[[Toy Clash! Roboca Battle]]'' features a handful of ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]]'' character cards.

The 2019 mobile game ''[[Top War: Battle Game]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' crossover event that took place in August 2021.

The 2021 mobile rhythm game ''[[Beatstar]]'' includes "[[The Touch]]" as a selectable song, accompanied by ''Transformers'' themed visuals.

The 2016 mobile MOBA ''[[Mobile Legends: Bang Bang]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' crossover event during September–November 2021.

The 2014 MOBA ''[[Smite]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' crossover in November 2021.

The 2017 battle royale game ''[[Fortnite]]'' featured ''Transformers''-themed content as part of its fourth chapter in June and October 2023.

The 2015 vehicular soccer game ''[[Rocket League]]'' added a ''Transformers'' content bundle, including [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] as a playable car, in June 2023.

The 2020 mobile game ''[[Medarot S: Unlimited Nova]]'' added ''Transformers''-themed content during a crossover event in August 2023.

The 2021 mobile game ''[[Mob Control]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' event in March 2024.

The 2022 shooter game ''[[Overwatch 2]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' collaboration event in July 2024.

The 2017 mobile shooter game ''[[Sausage Man]]'' hosted a ''Transformers'' event in July 2024.

The 2020 party game ''[[Stumble Guys]]'' held a crossover event beginning in August 2024 that added ''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]'' character skins to the game.

The 2011 sandbox game ''[[Minecraft]]'' received a ''Transformers'' DLC pack and skins in September 2024.

The 2024 action game ''[[Squad Busters]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' event in September 2024.

The 2020 mobile puzzle game ''[[Puzzles & Survival]]'' held a two part ''Transformers'' event between December 2024 and January 2025.

The 2021 mobile shoot 'em up game ''[[Wing Fighters]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' event in January/February 2025.

The 2018 mobile battle royale game ''[[PUBG Mobile]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' crossover event in July 2025.
{{gamestub}}

===Canceled games===
[[File:Transformers Reactivate screenshot20220812 04.jpeg|thumb|right|'''''[[Transformers: Reactivate]]:''''' Unlikely to be reactivated any time soon.]]
A game based on ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'' was being developed for the Super Nintendo console by {{w|Argonaut Games|Argonaut Software}}, featuring polygonal characters created using the {{w|Super FX}} chip Argonaut had designed for Nintendo's ''{{w|Star Fox (1993 video game)|Star Fox}}''. The game was planned for release in 1994 and was to be published by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]], but was ultimately scrapped during development. It was rumored for several years that the project evolved into Argonaut's 1994 game ''{{w|Vortex (video game)|Vortex}}'', as both games shared a developer, console and planned release period, with ''Vortex'' even being based around a polygonal transforming robot. However, Michael Wong-Powell, programmer of ''Vortex'', told British magazine ''{{w|Retro Gamer}}'' in 2015 that ''Vortex'' and ''Transformers: Generation 2'' were developed as separate games by Argonaut, with the ''Transformers'' game ultimately being canceled.<ref>"The Making of: Vortex". Retro Gamer (147): p. 39. October 2015.</ref> Takara at one point claimed that the game would instead be released in 1995 for the then-nascent Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, and PlayStation, but that ended up not happening either.<ref>"At the Deadline". GamePro (60): p. 172. July 1994.</ref>

A ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' game was allegedly in development for the PlayStation 2, to be published by [[BAM! Entertainment]] like the previous two ''Beast Wars'' games, but no details were ever made public, and the only evidence it ever existed are placeholder pages on websites like IGN and GameFAQs.

After the completion of the [[Transformers (Armada PS2)|2004 PS2 game]], a sequel based on ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' entered production, but was scrapped after a few months of development when [[Atari, Inc.|Atari]] moved [[Melbourne House]] onto a different project. A PlayStation Portable strategy game partly based on the PS2 game was also pitched, titled ''Transformers: 2nd Strike'', but didn't make it far due to Atari's loss of the ''Transformers'' license.<ref>https://www.allspark.com/a-look-at-transformers-2nd-strike-the-psp-armada-game-port-that-never-was/</ref>

A second ''Cybertron'' game, this time an educational title called ''[[Transformers Cybertron: Quest for Cybertron|Quest for Cybertron]]'', was in development for the {{w|Hasbro iON}} game console. The game was canceled in 2006 following the system's poor sales.

A second ''Transformers'' game developed by [[Luxoflux]] was in development, unrelated to the ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (franchise)|Dark of the Moon]]'' franchise. However, the game was cancelled as a result of Luxoflux's closure. Over the years, artists [[Ken Christiansen]] and [[Frankell Baramdyka]] revealed character and environment concept arts intended for the game<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/vy7fyv/concept_art_for_an_unreleased_postrotf_game/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/wfb4mm/possible_concept_art_for_cancelled_luxoflux_tf3/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/y2nl1h/more_concept_art_for_cancelled_luxoflux_tf3_game/</ref>. No more details would be known until a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef0U67twBm0 prototype build] of the game leaked in 2024. In 2026, [https://hiddenpalace.org/Transformers:_Dark_of_the_Moon_(Aug_3,_2010_prototype) an Xbox 360 test build of ''{{w|Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure}}'' would get leaked online. This test build was dated August 3rd, 2010, an entire year before the game's release]. In the test build, as well as in the game files, there would be references to the ''Transformers 3'' game, such as a menu screen and some video files. Weirdly enough however, despite this build reusing a lot of assets from the Revenge of the Fallen game, it wasn't made by Luxoflux, but rather by {{w|XPEC Entertainment}}.

A G1-themed augmented reality mobile game, ''[[Transformers: Heavy Metal]]'', was developed by [[Niantic]] and was soft-launched in 2021, with a handful of regions able to access a playable beta version. However, these betas were shut down and the game was canceled in 2022, alongside three other upcoming Niantic projects, due to the company's financial troubles.<ref>https://www.gamespot.com/articles/pokemon-go-dev-cancels-transformers-game-and-three-others-lays-off-as-many-as-90-report/1100-6504991/</ref>

The online multiplayer game ''[[Transformers: Reactivate]]'' began development in 2017 at {{w|Certain Affinity}}, and was intended to launch on PC, with ports for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S all in development at different points. However, after a change in developer to [[Splash Damage]], a combined seven year development cycle, and virtually ''nothing'' shown of the game that entire time (''officially'', at least), it was finally confirmed to be cancelled in January 2025.

On the crossovers side, a ''Transformers'' collab for ''{{w|Fall Guys}}'' was planned to tie in with the release of ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'', but was cancelled before ever being announced, though a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0fsxUzDIDo planned trailer for the event] leaked a year after the movie's release.

Visual targets and concept art for a ''Transformers'' game, tentatively titled "Project Goliath", was revealed by art director [[Adam Hartel]] on his Artstation account in 2025.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/1kdcdcy/so_i_was_met_with_i_article_for_a_canceled/ Concepts retrieved on Reddit], original posts have been removed by Adam Hartel himself from his Artstation account.</ref>

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
[[File:MarvelUS-24.jpg|thumb|right|Thankfully, Prime had plenty of extra lives from hopping on the turtle in 3–1.]]
[[Ethan Zachary]] enjoyed playing ''[[Multi-World]]'' on his [[Energy Futures Industries|employer's]] computer after hours. When [[Decepticon]]s and [[Autobot]]s showed up to fight over the [[hydrothermocline]], Zachary proposed settling their differences by playing a game of ''Multi-World''. [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] won by cheating, but [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] agreed to be destroyed, per the initial agreement. {{storylink|Afterdeath!}}

Later, Zachary allowed Optimus Prime's personality (which was backed-up on a [[floppy disk]]) to exist as a character in the game world of [[Hyper-Fax]]. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!}}

====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] met [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] in [[Robots Video Arcade]] while Bumblebee was playing ''[[Robot Resource]]''. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}

====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
While [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] was slacking off and playing a fighting game starring [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] and [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] turned the game off so he could use the scanners to find the missing [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]. Later, Rattrap had switched to a first-person shooter where all the enemies were [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], only to hastily turn it off when Optimus arrived. {{storylink|Proving Grounds (BW)|Proving Grounds}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
[[Sgt. Savage]] enjoyed playing ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' in his 20s. {{storylink|When Eagles Scream}}

===Unicron Trilogy continuity family===
====''Armada'' cartoon====
[[Billy (Armada)|Billy]], [[Fred (Armada)|Fred]] and [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] all played a multiplayer video game that involved the [[Fighter Machine]]s. The game proved to be a little too addictive for Alexis, who became oblivious to the world around her. {{storylink|Past}} {{storylink|Past II}}

====''Cybertron'' cartoon====
[[Bud Hansen]] compared the Autobots' [[synchro-control]] system to the ''[[Canyon Racer XL]]'' machine at [[Rockville]]'s local arcade. {{storylink|Starscream (episode)|Starscream}}

===Live-action film series===
====''Transformers'' film====
An Xbox 360 game console was turned into a [[Xbox 360 robot|robot]] by the [[AllSpark]]. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

====''Bumblebee'' film====
Bumblebee briefly observed a game of ''{{w|Pong}}'' being played on the Watson family's [[Atari, Inc.|Atari 2600]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}

===''Animated'' continuity family===
====''Animated'' cartoon====
[[File:WhereIsThySting-Bumblebeesvideogame.jpg|thumb|250px|'''ULTRAAAAAAA COMBOOOOOOO!''']]
[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]], [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]], and [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] enjoyed playing video games, sometimes to the chagrin of the more nature-minded [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]. When he and Sari were trapped in a mine shaft, Bumblebee attempted to use his skills from playing ''[[Medieval Maze Monsters]]'' to lead them out, only to find themselves right back where they started. {{storylink|Nature Calls}} When [[Wasp]] was disguised as Bumblebee, Bulkhead proposed pitting the two against each other at a game of ''[[Ninja Gladiator]]'', believing it impossible for the true Bumblebee to lose after how much time he had spent playing it. Wasp, not liking his odds, refused the challenge and revealed himself. {{storylink|Where Is Thy Sting?}}

====''Animated'' video game====
Sari tempted an exhausted Bumblebee into playing games with her using a pre-release copy of ''[[Mage Master Maze Knight]]'' she had obtained. [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] grumbled that if the [[AllSpark]] had meant them to play video games, it would have programmed them into one. Bumblebee retaliated by asking how they could be sure they weren't in one already? ''Meta.'' {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The Game}}

===Aligned continuity family===
====''Prime'' cartoon====
[[Image:Racing game Scrapheap.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Watch out for the blue shell!]]
[[Jack Darby]], [[Miko Nakadai]], [[Raf Esquivel]], and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] enjoyed playing a [[generic racing game]]. Miko also sent Jack a social media message inviting him to play ''[[Super Guitar Band]]'' with her. {{storylink|Crisscross (episode)|Crisscross}}

====Titan Magazines ''Prime'' comics====
Raf picked up a copy of ''[[Invasionauts II]]'' from the [[Plug and Play]] game store, playing it extensively with Bulkhead. However, it turned out to be part of a Decepticon scheme, and Raf was nearly hypnotized into opening a [[GroundBridge]] for the Decepticons to enter [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]]. Fortunately, Miko and Jack caught on and unplugged the console, breaking Raf's trance and averting the crisis. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.4|Tinker, Tailor, Gamer, Spy!}} Jack and Raf once stayed up extremely late to play video games, only stopping due a power outage, which cost Jack his unsaved progress. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.18|Power Outage}}

====''Fall of Cybertron'' video game====
[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] took a break from sabotaging [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]'s security to play ''[[Super Grimlock Quest 64]]''. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (video game)|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron}}

====''Rescue Bots'' cartoon====
[[File:BackToVirtualReality players in Element Quest.jpg|thumb|250px|Only trust your fists! Police will never help you!]]
[[Cody Burns]] and [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] attempted to play the ''[[Griffin Rock Element Quest]]'' virtual reality game at the [[Hall of Inspiration]], but a freak storm caused the game to glitch, trapping them inside and turning the in-game hazards deadly. Thanks to the efforts of their teammates, the two beat the game and escaped before the power could shut off with them still plugged in. {{storylink|A Virtual Disaster}} ''Element Quest'' was later moved to [[Griffin Rock Fun Zone]], where Cody, [[Frankie Greene]], [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] and [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] went to try the game's 2.0 upgrade, only for it to fall under the control of the [[Morocco virus]]. Cody and Chief ultimately defeated the virus and won the game, but the virus escaped into the real world via a 3D printer. {{storylink|Back to Virtual Reality}}

====''Robots in Disguise'' comic====
[[Sideswipe (RID 2015)|Sideswipe]] spent his time after a mission playing ''Transformers: Mystery of Convoy''. He, unsurprisingly, died a lot, much to [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]]'s amusement.{{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 1|Robots in Disguise #1}}

====''Rescue Bots Academy'' cartoon====
[[Wedge (RBA)|Wedge]] and [[Whirl (RBA)|Whirl]] got hooked on the puzzle game installed on their new smartphones, with the two exchanging tips on how to beat each level. {{storylink|Screen Time}} [[Hot Shot (Prime)|Hot Shot]] later tried installing his new game, ''[[Invasion of the Giant Hedgehogs]]'', into the [[Hero Hall]] simulation system in place of a training simulation [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] had developed, causing the two to combine, but struggled to deal with the titular creatures due to not reading the instruction manual. The team ultimately managed to immobilize the hedgehogs while [[Hoist (RB)|Hoist]] disabled the simulation. {{storylink|Hack Attack}}

===''Q-Transformers'' cartoon===
[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] frequently played (and lost repeatedly at) ''[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns|Mystery of Convoy Returns]]'', prompting several discussions with [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] about the nature of crappy, unfair games, particularly the original ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|Mystery of Convoy]]''. {{storylink|Q-Transformers (cartoon)|Q-Transformers}}

===''Kre-O Transformers'' cartoon===
[[Grimlock (Kre-O)|Grimlock]] and [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus]] got frustrated playing a particularly difficult game at the arcade. When [[Fracture (RID)|Fracture]] managed to easily beat the level on his first try, Grimlock went on a rampage, knocking over arcade cabinets until being distracted by a foosball table. {{storylink|Arcade}}

===''SD SG'' comic===
[[Strongarm (SG)|Strongarm]] was a fan of ''[[Transformers: The Super Obvious Truth of Optimus Prime]]'', though [[Windblade (SG)|Windblade]] believed it strongly resembled a [[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|certain game]] from another dimension. {{storylink|SD SG issue 2|SD SG #2}}

===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
While searching a [[Decepticon scout ship]]'s computer for intel, all [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]] could find was a {{w|Pong|familiar-looking}} training program. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} [[Arcee (Cyberverse)|Arcee]] was later enjoying her time playing that same training program when [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] came by to ask if she knew anything about a [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|moon cheetah]]. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

===''BotBots'' cartoon===
[[File:BotBots ep3b Claw - 24K OhYeah.jpg|250px|thumb|50,000? You got 50,000 on ''Double Dragon''?!]]
After the [[Lost Bots]] stole [[Dave (BotBots)|Dave's]] [[Ring-A-Ling|phone]] to delete photographic evidence of the BotBots' existence, [[Dimlit]] found himself getting addicted to a cookie-matching puzzle game Dave had installed. [[Kikmee]] attempted to dissuade him, but instead he managed to get her hooked on an 8-bit [[American football|football]] game that was also on the phone. The two of them fought for control of the phone, as did the other Lost Bots who had gotten hooked on apps of their own, and it was only after the phone ran out of power and shut off that they all finally came to their senses. {{storylink |Phoning It In}} [[24K-Bit]] used his alternate mode to allow the Lost Bots to play as many games in the [[Game Palace|arcade]] as they wanted for free. Kikmee proved to be an expert, quickly conquering every cabinet she got her hands on. {{storylink|The Lost Bots and the Claw Crusade}}

===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
[[Robby Malto]] skipped out on a traditional [[Wakwak]] hunt with [[Alex Malto|his father]] to compete in an online gaming tournament. Despite a brief interruption from [[Twitch]], Robby's team emerged victorious, but by the time he finished, there was no one else around the house to celebrate with him. {{storylink|Traditions}}

===''One'' film===
The miners' quarters on Cybertron had an arcade machine for the miners to play on their off time. When [[Darkwing (One)|Darkwing]] was trying to intimidate the miners into working another straight shift, he was punched by the arriving [[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax]] straight into the machine, which fell on top of him and started spilling out all the change inside. {{storylink|Transformers One (film)|Transformers One}}

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Video games

2026-05-07T20:24:10Z

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Like many brands of its size, ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' has had its fair share of licensed '''video games''' released over the years, spanning multiple publishers and platforms.

==A Brief History of ''Transformers'' Video Games==
[[File:C64.jpg|thumb|right|300px|'''''[[The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers]]:''''' The one that started it all...which only an incredibly small segment of the fandom has played.]]
Despite the popularity of ''Transformers'' over the many decades, it's a bit surprising how few video games based on the franchise there were early on. During the heyday of [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]], only four games were released: two for the [[Commodore 64]] home computer system, and two for [[Nintendo]]'s [[Family Computer|Famicom]] console, neither of which came to its western counterpart the NES. After that, no new ''Transformers'' games would be released for another decade, skipping the 16-bit era entirely, until the rise of the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' franchise in the late 1990s. A few ''Beast Wars'' games were released for early 3D systems before the turn of the century, only for the brand to slow down again during the early-to-mid 2000s, save for a few one-off [[PlayStation]] 2 releases. During this early era, [[Takara]] themselves published most of these games in Japan, a practice that eventually stopped around the time they merged with Tomy in 2005.

With the [[Transformers (film)|first live-action movie]] on the horizon, game publisher [[Activision]] struck up a licensing deal with [[Hasbro]] in early [[2006]], granting them exclusive rights to publish ''Transformers'' games on all portable and home consoles. Thus, when the film was released the following year, it was accompanied by tie-in game adaptations for every system under the sun. The success of the film and subsequent resurgence of the brand caused the floodgates to finally open, and new software began to be released en masse, with Activision putting out new ''Transformers'' games almost every year. This included adaptations of the [[Transformers The Game|first]] [[Revenge of the Fallen (video games)|three]] [[Dark of the Moon (video games)|entries]] in the [[live-action film series]], tie-ins for new shows like ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]'', and the G1-influenced ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|War for Cybertron]]'' and its sequels, which would act as the starting point for Hasbro's new [[Aligned continuity family|"Aligned" continuity]]. Japanese fans were less lucky during this period, with specific ports of ''Transformers The Game'' and ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark]]'' being the only Activision games to make it to their shores. However, around the same time, [[Sega]] also acquired the license to develop ''Transformers'' arcade games, and would go on to release two arcade shooters based on the films and two Japanese ''Animated'' games utilizing [[Transformers Cards]]. Activision's final ''Transformers'' game was [[2015]]'s ''[[Transformers: Devastation|Devastation]]'', and all the games they had published were delisted from digital storefronts in late [[2017]] after the expiration of their licensing deal.

No new ''Transformers'' titles would be released for a dedicated game system until the launch of ''[[Transformers: Battlegrounds|Battlegrounds]]'' in 2020, published by [[Outright Games]] and [[Bandai Namco Entertainment]]. However, while both publishers have continued to push out new ''Transformers'' games primarily aimed at the all-ages market like ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition|Expedition]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Galactic Trials|Galactic Trials]]'', they do not seem to hold the exclusive rights to the license this time, allowing other interested publishers to produce their own games. The late 2010s and early 2020s also saw the launch of the franchise's first official virtual reality games, with arcade installations like ''[[Transformers: VR Battle Arena]]'' and home releases like ''[[Transformers Beyond Reality]]''.

That said, most of the brand's game output these days isn't even on consoles at all. Thanks to mobile gaming's rise in popularity and comparative ease of development, there have been countless free-to-play games, augmented reality apps, and activity centers released for phones, tablets and other mobile devices since the early 2010s. Since many of these apps are primarily designed to be promotional tools for a given film, cartoon or toyline, their active life cycle tends to end once their respective franchise has run its course. As a result, outside of a few outliers that have had around a ''decade'' of continued support, most ''Transformers'' mobile games can no longer be downloaded, and anyone who did is unable to actually play them due to the shutdown of their gameplay servers. Similarly, several online and mobile games have held limited collaboration events with ''Transformers'', adding Autobots, Decepticons and other elements to their games, but these are equally fleeting in nature, with all traces of the franchise typically wiped after the event concludes.
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==List of ''Transformers'' games==
===Console/PC games===
[[File:TransformersTheGame 2007 consolecovers.jpg|thumb|right|300px|'''''[[Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers: The Game]]:''''' Also coming soon to CD-i, N-Gage and Gizmondo!]]
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release year
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | System
! scope="col" | Franchise
! scope="col" | Strategy guides
|-
|''[[The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers]]''
|1985
|[[Commodore 64]], [[ZX Spectrum]]
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth]]''
|1986
|Commodore 64
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy]]''
|1986
|[[Family Computer|Famicom]]
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|''[[Transformers (Mystery of Convoy)]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (video game)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]''
|1987
|Famicom Disk System
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)|Beast Wars: Transformers]]''
|1997
|PC, [[PlayStation|PS1]]
|''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals]]''
|1999
|[[Nintendo 64|N64]]
|''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals]]''
|1999
|PS1
|''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''
|
|-
|''[[The Transformers (G1 PS2)|The Transformers]]''
|2003
|PS2
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers (Armada PS2)|Transformers]]''
|2004
|PS2
|''[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Armada]]''
|''[[Transformers: Prima's Official Strategy Guide]]'' ''[[Transformers Digital Video Guide]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers: The Game]]''
|2007
|PS2, PS3, [[Xbox|X360]], [[Wii]], PC
|[[Live-action film series]]
|''[[Transformers The Game Official Strategy Guide]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''
|2009
|X360, PS3, PC
|[[Live-action film series]]
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Strategy Guide]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Wii/PS2)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''
|2009
|Wii, PS2
|[[Live-action film series]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]''
|2010
|X360, PS3, PC
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Official Strategy Guide]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Cybertron Adventures]]''
|2010
|Wii
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360/PS3)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]''
|2011
|X360, PS3
|[[Live-action film series]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition]]''
|2011
|Wii
|[[Live-action film series]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron]]''
|2012
|X360, XB1, PS3, PS4, PC
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Official Strategy Guide]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Prime - The Game]]''
|2012
|Wii, [[Wii U]]
|''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark]]''
|2014
|X360, XB1, PS3, PS4, Wii U, PC
|[[Live-action film series]] ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Devastation]]''
|2015
|PC, PS3, PS4, XB1, X360
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Battlegrounds]]''
|2020
|[[Nintendo Switch|NS]], PC, PS4, XB1
|''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers Beyond Reality]]''
|2022
|PS4, PS5
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition]]''
|2023
|NS, PC, PS4, PS5, XB1, XSX/S
|''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)|EarthSpark]]''
|
|-
|''[[Transformers: Galactic Trials]]''
|2024
|NS, PC, PS4, PS5, XB1, XSX/S
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|
|}

===Handheld games===
[[File:BeastWarsGameBoyColor.jpg|thumb|right|'''''[[Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle]]:''''' Now you're playing with power; PORTABLE POWER!]]
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release year
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | System
! scope="col" | Franchise
|-
|''[[Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle]]''
|1999
|[[Game Boy|GBC]]
|''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers The Game (PSP)|Transformers: The Game]]''
|2007
|PSP
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Autobots/Decepticons]]''
|2007
|[[Nintendo DS|NDS]]
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers Animated: The Game]]''
|2008
|NDS
|''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PSP)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''
|2009
|PSP
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Autobots/Decepticons]]''
|2009
|NDS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|Transformers: War for Cybertron: Autobots/Decepticons]]''
|2010
|NDS
|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Autobots/Decepticons]]''
|2011
|NDS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition]]''
|2011
|[[Nintendo 3DS|3DS]]
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: Prime - The Game]]''
|2012
|NDS, 3DS
|''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''
|-
|''[[Race to the Rescue (video game)|Race to the Rescue]]''
|2013
|LeapPad/Leapster GS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark]]''
|2014
|3DS
|[[Live-action film series]] ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)|War for Cybertron]]''
|}

===Arcade games===
[[File:Transformers Cabinet TEMP 0.jpg|thumb|right|'''''[[Transformers: Human Alliance]]:''''' Insert credit to continue reading this article.]]
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release year
! scope="col" | Franchise
|-
|''[[Greatest Showdown in History: Lio Convoy VS Galvatron]]''
|1998
|''[[Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers#Beast Wars II|Beast Wars II]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers Animated: The Chase]]''
|2010
|''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers Animated: The Shooting]]''
|2010
|''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers: Human Alliance]]''
|2013
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: Shadows Rising]]''
|2018
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: VR Battle Arena]]''
|2020
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|-
|''[[Transformers: Decepticon Invasion]]''
|2022
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|}

===Mobile games===
[[File:TransformersEarthWars header.jpg|thumb|right|'''''[[Transformers: Earth Wars]]:''''' Now all we need is a little energon...and a '''lot''' of microtransactions.]]
[[File:Angry birds transformers.jpg|right|thumb|'''''[[Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers]]:''''' Inexplicably still online and still updating ''right now''.]]
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release year
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | System
! scope="col" | Franchise
! scope="col" | Available?
|-
|''[[Transformers (Glu)|Transformers]]''
|2007
|mobile phone
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers G1: Awakening]]''
|2008
|mobile phone, Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Glu)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''
|2009
|mobile phone
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Glu)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]''
|2011
|mobile phone
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (mobile game)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]''
|2011
|iOS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Defend the Earth]]''
|2011
|iOS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Battle Zone]]''
|2011
|Android
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]]''
|2012
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Prime: Story Cube]]''
|2013
|Android
|''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Construct-Bots (mobile game)|Transformers: Construct-Bots]]''
|2013
|Android, iOS
|[[Construct-Bots]]
|No
|-
|''[[Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|Cross-franchise
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rising]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|No
|-
|''[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (mobile game)|Transformers: Age of Extinction]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Hasbro Arcade]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|[[Live-action film series]] ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''
|No
|-
|''[[TransformersCards]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Sky Forest Rescue]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Nestlé Arcade]]''
|2014
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Battle Masters (mobile game)|Transformers: Battle Masters]]
|2014
|Android, iOS
|[[Battle Masters]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Battle Tactics]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|Cross-franchise
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Ultimate Allstars]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|Cross-franchise
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Frontiers]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Operation Omega]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Dino Island]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[McPlay]]''
|2015
|Android
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]''
|2015
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Earth Wars]]''
|2016
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Hero Adventures]]''
|2016
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Save Griffin Rock]]''
|2016
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers AR Guide]]
|2016
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Cade's Junkyard]]''
|2017
|Android, iOS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Forged to Fight]]''
|2017
|Android, iOS
|Cross-franchise
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Need for Speed]]''
|2017
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Disaster Dash]]''
|2017
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Shuffle|Transformers RID by Shuffle]]
|2017
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers TCG Companion App]]''
|2018
|Android, iOS
|[[Transformers Trading Card Game]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive]]
|2018
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|No
|-
|''[[Bee Vision]]''
|2018
|Android, iOS
|[[Live-action film series]]
|No
|-
|''[[Transformers: Tactical Arena]]''
|2021
|iOS Apple TV, Mac
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Alliance]]''
|2022
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rage Battle]]''
|2023
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers Rescue Bots: Hidden Pictures]]''
|2024
|Android, iOS
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers: Multi Shock]]''
|2025
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|Yes
|-
|''[[Transformers: Eternal War]]''
|TBA
|Android, iOS
|[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]
|TBA
|}

===Other games===
[[File:Transformers battle universe bundle.jpg|thumb|right|'''''[[Transformers Battle Universe]]:''''' Everybody rumored... Nobody believed...]]
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Release year
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | System
! scope="col" | Franchise
|-
|''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (handheld game)|Transformers: Generation 2]]''
|1993
|Stand-alone LCD Handheld
|''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]''
|-
|''[[Transformers Electronic Handheld Game]]''
|2007
|Stand-alone LCD Handheld
|[[Live-action film series]]
|-
|''[[Transformers Battle Universe]]''
|2007
|Net Jet
|Cross-franchise
|-
|''[[Beam Box|Transformers: Rescue Bots Beam Box]]''
|2013
|Self-Contained Plug-And-Play System
|''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]''
|-
|''[[Robots in Disguise: Autobots Unite]]''
|2016
|Apple TV
|''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''
|}

===Online games===
:''For further information, see: [[Online game]]s''
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===Crossover appearances===
[[Image:DreamMix-All.jpg|thumb|'''''[[DreamMix TV World Fighters]]:''''' Everyone is here!]]
The 2003 GCN/PS2 crossover fighting game ''[[DreamMix TV World Fighters]]'' features [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] as playable characters and [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] as a stage.

The 2005 PC social game ''[[Roblox]]'' has had a few different ''Transformers''-themed promotional events over the years, including some based on ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]'', [[Kre-O]], and ''[[Transformers One (film)|One]]''.

The 2013 sandbox game ''[[Blocksworld]]'' featured two ''Transformers'' themed character packs, which were temporarily available during 2014.

The 2014 [[Nintendo 3DS]] platform game ''[[Bike Rider DX3: Time Rider]]'' released ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''-themed downloadable content in June 2015, adding 10 levels that featured [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] as a playable character.

The 2015 [[Wii U]] shooting game ''[[Splatoon]]'' briefly featured a promotional tie-in with ''Robots in Disguise''. The event was exclusive to North America and took place in August 2015.

The 2013 MMORPG ''[[Elsword]]'' featured a ''Robots in Disguise'' crossover event for non-English markets in November–December 2015.

The 2017 electronic rhythm game ''[[DropMix]]'' received a special promotional card that would play a variation of the classic [[theme song]].

The 2018 mobile sandbox game ''[[Creative Destruction]]'' had a tie-in event for ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' during March–April 2019.

The 2015 mobile game ''[[Battle of Balls]]'' featured a limited-time ''Transformers'' event in 2020.

The 2015 MMO ''[[World of Warships: Transformers|World of Warships]]'' had two limited-time ''Transformers''-themed events in September 2020 and September 2021.

The 2020 card-based arcade game ''[[Toy Clash! Roboca Battle]]'' features a handful of ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]]'' character cards.

The 2019 mobile game ''[[Top War: Battle Game]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' crossover event that took place in August 2021.

The 2021 mobile rhythm game ''[[Beatstar]]'' includes "[[The Touch]]" as a selectable song, accompanied by ''Transformers'' themed visuals.

The 2016 mobile MOBA ''[[Mobile Legends: Bang Bang]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' crossover event during September–November 2021.

The 2014 MOBA ''[[Smite]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' crossover in November 2021.

The 2017 battle royale game ''[[Fortnite]]'' featured ''Transformers''-themed content as part of its fourth chapter in June and October 2023.

The 2015 vehicular soccer game ''[[Rocket League]]'' added a ''Transformers'' content bundle, including [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] as a playable car, in June 2023.

The 2020 mobile game ''[[Medarot S: Unlimited Nova]]'' added ''Transformers''-themed content during a crossover event in August 2023.

The 2021 mobile game ''[[Mob Control]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' event in March 2024.

The 2022 shooter game ''[[Overwatch 2]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' collaboration event in July 2024.

The 2017 mobile shooter game ''[[Sausage Man]]'' hosted a ''Transformers'' event in July 2024.

The 2020 party game ''[[Stumble Guys]]'' held a crossover event beginning in August 2024 that added ''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]'' character skins to the game.

The 2011 sandbox game ''[[Minecraft]]'' received a ''Transformers'' DLC pack and skins in September 2024.

The 2024 action game ''[[Squad Busters]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' event in September 2024.

The 2020 mobile puzzle game ''[[Puzzles & Survival]]'' held a two part ''Transformers'' event between December 2024 and January 2025.

The 2021 mobile shoot 'em up game ''[[Wing Fighters]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' event in January/February 2025.

The 2018 mobile battle royale game ''[[PUBG Mobile]]'' featured a ''Transformers'' crossover event in July 2025.
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===Canceled games===
[[File:Transformers Reactivate screenshot20220812 04.jpeg|thumb|right|'''''[[Transformers: Reactivate]]:''''' Unlikely to be reactivated any time soon.]]
A game based on ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'' was being developed for the Super Nintendo console by {{w|Argonaut Games|Argonaut Software}}, featuring polygonal characters created using the {{w|Super FX}} chip Argonaut had designed for Nintendo's ''{{w|Star Fox (1993 video game)|Star Fox}}''. The game was planned for release in 1994 and was to be published by [[TakaraTomy|Takara]], but was ultimately scrapped during development. It was rumored for several years that the project evolved into Argonaut's 1994 game ''{{w|Vortex (video game)|Vortex}}'', as both games shared a developer, console and planned release period, with ''Vortex'' even being based around a polygonal transforming robot. However, Michael Wong-Powell, programmer of ''Vortex'', told British magazine ''{{w|Retro Gamer}}'' in 2015 that ''Vortex'' and ''Transformers: Generation 2'' were developed as separate games by Argonaut, with the ''Transformers'' game ultimately being canceled.<ref>"The Making of: Vortex". Retro Gamer (147): p. 39. October 2015.</ref> Takara at one point claimed that the game would instead be released in 1995 for the then-nascent Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, and PlayStation, but that ended up not happening either.<ref>"At the Deadline". GamePro (60): p. 172. July 1994.</ref>

A ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' game was allegedly in development for the PlayStation 2, to be published by [[BAM! Entertainment]] like the previous two ''Beast Wars'' games, but no details were ever made public, and the only evidence it ever existed are placeholder pages on websites like IGN and GameFAQs.

After the completion of the [[Transformers (Armada PS2)|2004 PS2 game]], a sequel based on ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' entered production, but was scrapped after a few months of development when [[Atari, Inc.|Atari]] moved [[Melbourne House]] onto a different project. A PlayStation Portable strategy game partly based on the PS2 game was also pitched, titled ''Transformers: 2nd Strike'', but didn't make it far due to Atari's loss of the ''Transformers'' license.<ref>https://www.allspark.com/a-look-at-transformers-2nd-strike-the-psp-armada-game-port-that-never-was/</ref>

A second ''Cybertron'' game, this time an educational title called ''[[Transformers Cybertron: Quest for Cybertron|Quest for Cybertron]]'', was in development for the {{w|Hasbro iON}} game console. The game was canceled in 2006 following the system's poor sales.

A second ''Transformers'' game developed by [[Luxoflux]] was in development, unrelated to the ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (franchise)|Dark of the Moon]]'' franchise. However, the game was cancelled as a result of Luxoflux's closure. Over the years, artists [[Ken Christiansen]] and [[Frankell Baramdyka]] revealed character and environment concept arts intended for the game<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/vy7fyv/concept_art_for_an_unreleased_postrotf_game/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/wfb4mm/possible_concept_art_for_cancelled_luxoflux_tf3/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/y2nl1h/more_concept_art_for_cancelled_luxoflux_tf3_game/</ref>. No more details would be known until a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef0U67twBm0 prototype build] of the game leaked in 2024. In 2026, [https://hiddenpalace.org/Transformers:_Dark_of_the_Moon_(Aug_3,_2010_prototype) an Xbox 360 test build of ''{{w|Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure}}'' would get leaked online. This test build was dated August 3rd, 2010, an entire year before the game's release]. In the test build, as well as in the game files, there would be references to the ''Transformers 3'' game, such as a menu screen and some video files. Weirdly enough however, despite this build reusing a lot of assets from the Revenge of the Fallen game, the build wasn't made by Luxoflux, but rather by {{w|XPEC Entertainment}}.

A G1-themed augmented reality mobile game, ''[[Transformers: Heavy Metal]]'', was developed by [[Niantic]] and was soft-launched in 2021, with a handful of regions able to access a playable beta version. However, these betas were shut down and the game was canceled in 2022, alongside three other upcoming Niantic projects, due to the company's financial troubles.<ref>https://www.gamespot.com/articles/pokemon-go-dev-cancels-transformers-game-and-three-others-lays-off-as-many-as-90-report/1100-6504991/</ref>

The online multiplayer game ''[[Transformers: Reactivate]]'' began development in 2017 at {{w|Certain Affinity}}, and was intended to launch on PC, with ports for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S all in development at different points. However, after a change in developer to [[Splash Damage]], a combined seven year development cycle, and virtually ''nothing'' shown of the game that entire time (''officially'', at least), it was finally confirmed to be cancelled in January 2025.

On the crossovers side, a ''Transformers'' collab for ''{{w|Fall Guys}}'' was planned to tie in with the release of ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'', but was cancelled before ever being announced, though a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0fsxUzDIDo planned trailer for the event] leaked a year after the movie's release.

Visual targets and concept art for a ''Transformers'' game, tentatively titled "Project Goliath", was revealed by art director [[Adam Hartel]] on his Artstation account in 2025.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/1kdcdcy/so_i_was_met_with_i_article_for_a_canceled/ Concepts retrieved on Reddit], original posts have been removed by Adam Hartel himself from his Artstation account.</ref>

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 continuity family===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
[[File:MarvelUS-24.jpg|thumb|right|Thankfully, Prime had plenty of extra lives from hopping on the turtle in 3–1.]]
[[Ethan Zachary]] enjoyed playing ''[[Multi-World]]'' on his [[Energy Futures Industries|employer's]] computer after hours. When [[Decepticon]]s and [[Autobot]]s showed up to fight over the [[hydrothermocline]], Zachary proposed settling their differences by playing a game of ''Multi-World''. [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] won by cheating, but [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] agreed to be destroyed, per the initial agreement. {{storylink|Afterdeath!}}

Later, Zachary allowed Optimus Prime's personality (which was backed-up on a [[floppy disk]]) to exist as a character in the game world of [[Hyper-Fax]]. {{storylink|Pretender to the Throne!}}

====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] met [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] in [[Robots Video Arcade]] while Bumblebee was playing ''[[Robot Resource]]''. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}

====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
While [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] was slacking off and playing a fighting game starring [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] and [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] turned the game off so he could use the scanners to find the missing [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]. Later, Rattrap had switched to a first-person shooter where all the enemies were [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], only to hastily turn it off when Optimus arrived. {{storylink|Proving Grounds (BW)|Proving Grounds}}

====2005 IDW continuity====
[[Sgt. Savage]] enjoyed playing ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' in his 20s. {{storylink|When Eagles Scream}}

===Unicron Trilogy continuity family===
====''Armada'' cartoon====
[[Billy (Armada)|Billy]], [[Fred (Armada)|Fred]] and [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] all played a multiplayer video game that involved the [[Fighter Machine]]s. The game proved to be a little too addictive for Alexis, who became oblivious to the world around her. {{storylink|Past}} {{storylink|Past II}}

====''Cybertron'' cartoon====
[[Bud Hansen]] compared the Autobots' [[synchro-control]] system to the ''[[Canyon Racer XL]]'' machine at [[Rockville]]'s local arcade. {{storylink|Starscream (episode)|Starscream}}

===Live-action film series===
====''Transformers'' film====
An Xbox 360 game console was turned into a [[Xbox 360 robot|robot]] by the [[AllSpark]]. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

====''Bumblebee'' film====
Bumblebee briefly observed a game of ''{{w|Pong}}'' being played on the Watson family's [[Atari, Inc.|Atari 2600]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}

===''Animated'' continuity family===
====''Animated'' cartoon====
[[File:WhereIsThySting-Bumblebeesvideogame.jpg|thumb|250px|'''ULTRAAAAAAA COMBOOOOOOO!''']]
[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]], [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]], and [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] enjoyed playing video games, sometimes to the chagrin of the more nature-minded [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]. When he and Sari were trapped in a mine shaft, Bumblebee attempted to use his skills from playing ''[[Medieval Maze Monsters]]'' to lead them out, only to find themselves right back where they started. {{storylink|Nature Calls}} When [[Wasp]] was disguised as Bumblebee, Bulkhead proposed pitting the two against each other at a game of ''[[Ninja Gladiator]]'', believing it impossible for the true Bumblebee to lose after how much time he had spent playing it. Wasp, not liking his odds, refused the challenge and revealed himself. {{storylink|Where Is Thy Sting?}}

====''Animated'' video game====
Sari tempted an exhausted Bumblebee into playing games with her using a pre-release copy of ''[[Mage Master Maze Knight]]'' she had obtained. [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] grumbled that if the [[AllSpark]] had meant them to play video games, it would have programmed them into one. Bumblebee retaliated by asking how they could be sure they weren't in one already? ''Meta.'' {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The Game}}

===Aligned continuity family===
====''Prime'' cartoon====
[[Image:Racing game Scrapheap.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Watch out for the blue shell!]]
[[Jack Darby]], [[Miko Nakadai]], [[Raf Esquivel]], and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] enjoyed playing a [[generic racing game]]. Miko also sent Jack a social media message inviting him to play ''[[Super Guitar Band]]'' with her. {{storylink|Crisscross (episode)|Crisscross}}

====Titan Magazines ''Prime'' comics====
Raf picked up a copy of ''[[Invasionauts II]]'' from the [[Plug and Play]] game store, playing it extensively with Bulkhead. However, it turned out to be part of a Decepticon scheme, and Raf was nearly hypnotized into opening a [[GroundBridge]] for the Decepticons to enter [[Autobot Outpost Omega One]]. Fortunately, Miko and Jack caught on and unplugged the console, breaking Raf's trance and averting the crisis. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.4|Tinker, Tailor, Gamer, Spy!}} Jack and Raf once stayed up extremely late to play video games, only stopping due a power outage, which cost Jack his unsaved progress. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.18|Power Outage}}

====''Fall of Cybertron'' video game====
[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] took a break from sabotaging [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]'s security to play ''[[Super Grimlock Quest 64]]''. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (video game)|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron}}

====''Rescue Bots'' cartoon====
[[File:BackToVirtualReality players in Element Quest.jpg|thumb|250px|Only trust your fists! Police will never help you!]]
[[Cody Burns]] and [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] attempted to play the ''[[Griffin Rock Element Quest]]'' virtual reality game at the [[Hall of Inspiration]], but a freak storm caused the game to glitch, trapping them inside and turning the in-game hazards deadly. Thanks to the efforts of their teammates, the two beat the game and escaped before the power could shut off with them still plugged in. {{storylink|A Virtual Disaster}} ''Element Quest'' was later moved to [[Griffin Rock Fun Zone]], where Cody, [[Frankie Greene]], [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] and [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] went to try the game's 2.0 upgrade, only for it to fall under the control of the [[Morocco virus]]. Cody and Chief ultimately defeated the virus and won the game, but the virus escaped into the real world via a 3D printer. {{storylink|Back to Virtual Reality}}

====''Robots in Disguise'' comic====
[[Sideswipe (RID 2015)|Sideswipe]] spent his time after a mission playing ''Transformers: Mystery of Convoy''. He, unsurprisingly, died a lot, much to [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]]'s amusement.{{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 1|Robots in Disguise #1}}

====''Rescue Bots Academy'' cartoon====
[[Wedge (RBA)|Wedge]] and [[Whirl (RBA)|Whirl]] got hooked on the puzzle game installed on their new smartphones, with the two exchanging tips on how to beat each level. {{storylink|Screen Time}} [[Hot Shot (Prime)|Hot Shot]] later tried installing his new game, ''[[Invasion of the Giant Hedgehogs]]'', into the [[Hero Hall]] simulation system in place of a training simulation [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] had developed, causing the two to combine, but struggled to deal with the titular creatures due to not reading the instruction manual. The team ultimately managed to immobilize the hedgehogs while [[Hoist (RB)|Hoist]] disabled the simulation. {{storylink|Hack Attack}}

===''Q-Transformers'' cartoon===
[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] frequently played (and lost repeatedly at) ''[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns|Mystery of Convoy Returns]]'', prompting several discussions with [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] about the nature of crappy, unfair games, particularly the original ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|Mystery of Convoy]]''. {{storylink|Q-Transformers (cartoon)|Q-Transformers}}

===''Kre-O Transformers'' cartoon===
[[Grimlock (Kre-O)|Grimlock]] and [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus]] got frustrated playing a particularly difficult game at the arcade. When [[Fracture (RID)|Fracture]] managed to easily beat the level on his first try, Grimlock went on a rampage, knocking over arcade cabinets until being distracted by a foosball table. {{storylink|Arcade}}

===''SD SG'' comic===
[[Strongarm (SG)|Strongarm]] was a fan of ''[[Transformers: The Super Obvious Truth of Optimus Prime]]'', though [[Windblade (SG)|Windblade]] believed it strongly resembled a [[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|certain game]] from another dimension. {{storylink|SD SG issue 2|SD SG #2}}

===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
While searching a [[Decepticon scout ship]]'s computer for intel, all [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]] could find was a {{w|Pong|familiar-looking}} training program. {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} [[Arcee (Cyberverse)|Arcee]] was later enjoying her time playing that same training program when [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] came by to ask if she knew anything about a [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|moon cheetah]]. {{storylink|The Visitor}}

===''BotBots'' cartoon===
[[File:BotBots ep3b Claw - 24K OhYeah.jpg|250px|thumb|50,000? You got 50,000 on ''Double Dragon''?!]]
After the [[Lost Bots]] stole [[Dave (BotBots)|Dave's]] [[Ring-A-Ling|phone]] to delete photographic evidence of the BotBots' existence, [[Dimlit]] found himself getting addicted to a cookie-matching puzzle game Dave had installed. [[Kikmee]] attempted to dissuade him, but instead he managed to get her hooked on an 8-bit [[American football|football]] game that was also on the phone. The two of them fought for control of the phone, as did the other Lost Bots who had gotten hooked on apps of their own, and it was only after the phone ran out of power and shut off that they all finally came to their senses. {{storylink |Phoning It In}} [[24K-Bit]] used his alternate mode to allow the Lost Bots to play as many games in the [[Game Palace|arcade]] as they wanted for free. Kikmee proved to be an expert, quickly conquering every cabinet she got her hands on. {{storylink|The Lost Bots and the Claw Crusade}}

===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
[[Robby Malto]] skipped out on a traditional [[Wakwak]] hunt with [[Alex Malto|his father]] to compete in an online gaming tournament. Despite a brief interruption from [[Twitch]], Robby's team emerged victorious, but by the time he finished, there was no one else around the house to celebrate with him. {{storylink|Traditions}}

===''One'' film===
The miners' quarters on Cybertron had an arcade machine for the miners to play on their off time. When [[Darkwing (One)|Darkwing]] was trying to intimidate the miners into working another straight shift, he was punched by the arriving [[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax]] straight into the machine, which fell on top of him and started spilling out all the change inside. {{storylink|Transformers One (film)|Transformers One}}

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:''Bumblebee is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Movie continuity family]].''

[[File:TF-Alliance03 Cover Nizzi.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Hi, kids! I'm the new face of ''Transformers''! Hope you enjoy!]]
'''Bumblebee''' is one of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]'s most trusted lieutenants. Although he is not the strongest or most powerful of the Autobots, Bumblebee more than makes up for this with a bottomless well of luck, determination and bravery. He would gladly give his life to protect others and stop the [[Decepticon]]s.

Badly damaged in battle, Bumblebee lost the ability to speak verbally, though he can still communicate over [[Inter-Autobot radio|inter-Autobot frequencies]] (in a fashion that seems somewhat akin to instant messaging, a usable but more distant and less personal means of interaction). He can also communicate with the Autobots' human allies and his friend, [[Sam Witwicky]], by playing audio clips from popular media on his radio. Though he has these stable forms of communication, Bumblebee would love nothing more than to finally get his voice back someday.

As the battles on Earth have raged on and more of their old friends have perished in the fighting, Bumblebee has found himself forced to step up as acting Autobot leader whenever Optimus isn't around. This stint at leadership isn't exactly going that well, as not only are there barely any surviving Autobots around to lead, not many of them respect his authority. Bumblebee's trying his best, but he shows all the signs of a young 'bot forced to grow up too fast, with his impulsiveness sometimes giving the Autobots as much trouble as their adversaries.

He is also known as '''N.B.E.-02''', '''ZB-7''', '''B-127''', and has operated under the codename '''Goldwheels'''. He is also partnered with the [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobot]] [[Strafe (AOE)|Strafe]], and is brothers-in-arms with fellow Autobot [[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]].

{{quote|If there's anything you need, I won't be far away.|Bumblebee quoting ''{{w|Forrest Gump}}'' to Sam|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''}}

==Fiction==
===Movies===
{{note|The seven movies are the primary component of the live-action movie continuity family. Their events should be taken as canon for all other pieces of fiction listed below, unless otherwise specified.}}

====''Transformers'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Mark Ryan]] (English), [[Hiroshi Iwasaki]] (Japan radio voice), [[Akio Kato]] (Japan normal voice)|[[Bohdan Tůma]] (Czech), [[Lu Kui]] (Chinese), [[Patrick Béthune]] (European French), [[Helmut Gauß]] (German), [[Eduardo Borgerth]] (Portuguese), [[Omar Soto]], [[Marisol Romero]] (Latin American-Spanish Radio voices), [[Alfredo Gabriel Basurto]] (Latin American-Spanish normal voice), [[Paco Gázquez]] (Castilian Spanish), [[János Bácskai]] (Hungarian), [[Vilmos Papucsek]] (Hungarian radio voice), [[Saverio Indrio]] (Italian), [[Shanu Dev]] (Hindi), [[Altuğ Yücel]] (Turkish), [[Choi Jeong-ho]] (Korean), [[Kim Ki-heung]] (Korean)}}
[[File:Movie2007 Bumblebee dealership.jpg|left|upright=1.8|thumb|Out with the old, and in with the new.]]
When the Autobots scattered to the stars in search of the lost [[AllSpark]], Bumblebee made his way to the planet [[Earth]], where he connected the trail of the lost relic to the [[Witwicky (surname)|Witwicky]] family line. In 2007, disguised as a battered 1970s Camaro, Bumblebee followed [[Ron Witwicky]] and his son [[Sam Witwicky|Sam]] to [[Bolivia's Finest Quality Used Cars and Petting Zoo|a second rate car dealership]] and slipped himself amongst the vehicles, intending to have the boy purchase him so that he could get close to the family. When proprietor [[Bobby Bolivia]] couldn't agree on a price, however, it looked like Sam would wind up buying another car, so Bumblebee used a high-frequency sound wave to blow out the windows of every other vehicle in the lot, leaving Bolivia with no choice but to sell him.

[[File:Movie Bumblebee winner.jpg|upright=1.8|thumb|YOU BIG WINNER, HAHAHA.]]

The next day, Sam and his friend [[Miles Lancaster]] drove Bumblebee down to a party at the lake, where the disguised Autobot decided to do the boy a favor, playing "Drive" on his radio to subtly convince Sam to kick Miles out and offer his crush [[Mikaela Banes]] a ride home. When he neared a romantic spot overlooking the city, Bumblebee turned off his engine and began playing romantically suggestive songs; this didn't have the intended effect, and Bumblebee had to abruptly turn himself back on again when Mikaela started to walk off. After they returned Mikaela home, Bumblebee drove off during the night; Sam, believing it to be a car theft, followed him to a junkyard and witnessed the robot-mode Bumblebee sending a beacon into space to summon his fellow Autobots. Apparently unaware that he had been spotted, Bumblebee then scared off the junkyard's two guard dogs when they menaced Sam.

[[File:TF2007 bumblebee 2009 camaro.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Out with the new, and in with the newer.]]

When Bumblebee returned to the Witwicky home the next day, a terrified Sam fled from what he dubbed "Satan's Camaro", only to wind up being attacked by the Decepticon [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]], who was also on the trail of the AllSpark. While fleeing this new threat, Sam ran into Mikaela, and Bumblebee then snatched the pair up and drove them away, with Barricade in hot pursuit. Taking refuge at a deserted chemical plant, Bumblebee revealed his robot form to the two humans so he could engage Barricade in combat, eventually knocked the Decepticon out after a brawl. Afterward, Bumblebee—able only to communicate in sound bites broadcast over his radio—properly introduced himself to Sam and Mikaela, and drove them to nearby [[Griffith Observatory]] to watch as the other Autobots he had called upon arrived in the sky overhead. Along the way, when Mikaela wondered aloud why a super-advanced robot turned into a "piece of crap Camaro", a mildly insulted Bumblebee scanned a passing 2009 Camaro, taking on its sleek and shiny form himself.

[[File:Movie BumblebeeCC guardian.jpg|upright=1.8|thumb|I may be your guardian, but I will not carry you through a crowd to the music of Whitney Houston.]]

Bumblebee took his friends to a secluded alleyway, where Sam and Mikaela met the other Autobots, including their leader, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]. Medical officer [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] explained that Bumblebee's inability to speak was a result of an old injury to his [[processor|vocal processor]], which Ratchet then treated with a regenerative plasma beam.<ref name="Orci">[http://boards.transformersmovie.com/showthread.php?t=12054 Post-movie Q&A with screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman]</ref> Prime explained that Sam had been targeted because he owned [[Archibald Witwicky's glasses|a set]] of [[glasses]] belonging to his grandfather, [[Archibald Witwicky]], which had the location on the AllSpark inscribed on their lenses, and the entire group returned to the Witwicky home so they could obtain them.

[[File:Movie2007 Bumblebee lubricates Simmons.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1.8|"They should change my name to Bumble-PEE!!!" Ba Dum Tss! I'll be here all night!]]

Though the glasses were soon found, the forces of [[Sector Seven]] soon descended upon the house and apprehended Sam and Mikaela. The Autobots wasted no time in rescuing them, but when the interrogation of [[Seymour Simmons]] went nowhere, Bumblebee became so annoyed with his attitude that he released lubricant onto the agent. When Sector Seven reinforcements arrived, the Autobots were forced to hide; unfortunately, Sam and Mikaela fell from their hiding place beneath a bridge, and Bumblebee had to reveal himself to save them. Harpooned and frozen by Sector Seven agents, he was captured by the organization, with Optimus Prime regrettably unable to intercede as he knew the Autobots could not do so without harming the humans.

[[File:TF2007 bumblebee captured.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|"I WAS FROZEN TODAY!"]]
Taken to Sector Seven's base at [[Hoover Dam]], Bumblebee was continually doused with cryoblasts to keep him subdued while experiments were performed on him, until Sam and Mikaela (with some armed persuasion from [[William Lennox|Captain Lennox]]) convinced S7 to let him go. Upon his release, Bumblebee almost lashed out at his human oppressors until Sam calmed him down, informing him of the presence of the AllSpark and [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] in the facility, and that the Decepticons were coming for both. Following the humans to the AllSpark's chamber, Bumblebee hesitantly reached out to the life source of his people and reformatted it, shrinking the cube until it was a size that the humans could manipulate. Cube in hand, Bumblebee and a military escort fled to [[Mission City]], meeting the Autobots en route.

[[File:TF2007 bumblebee gives sam allspark.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|"I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you!"]]
Soon after Bumblebee and the Autobots arrived in the city, the Decepticons descended in force, with a missile attack from Starscream blowing off Bumblebee's legs. To get him to safety, Mikaela and Sam hoisted Bumblebee onto an abandoned tow truck, but Bumblebee pushed the AllSpark into Sam's hands, urging him to run while he still could. As Sam reluctantly left, Mikaela drove Bumblebee away from the fighting to relative safety, but she was soon overcome with guilt for leaving Sam and the battle. With Bumblebee's assent, she turned headed back in, driving the truck in reverse so that Bumblebee could fire his weapons at [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]], helping take the tank Decepticon out. Subsequently, Sam used the AllSpark to destroy Megatron, and in the aftermath, Bumblebee found that his voice had returned,<ref name="Orci"/> and he used it to request permission to remain with Sam. Optimus and Sam agreed, and after his legs were repaired, Bumblebee allowed Sam and Mikaela to make out on top of him as Optimus sent his message to space calling other Autobots to Earth. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

{{note|Bumblebee's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels "[[Transformers (novel)|Transformers]]," "[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]]" and "[[The Quest for the AllSpark]]"; the "[[Transformers: Movie Adaptation]]" and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; the activity book "[[Look and Find Transformers]]"; and the storybooks "[[Bumblebee Rumble]]," "[[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron]]," "[[Sam's New Car]]," "[[Transformers (interactive Play-a-Sound Storybook)|Transformers Play-a-Sound]]," "[[Transformers Mix & Match]]," "[[Meet the Autobots]]," "[[Meet the Decepticons]]," and "[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]." In several, Bumblebee has his own [[Moustache Man]] hologram driver, which does not appear in the finished film.}}

====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Mark Ryan]] (English, promo video)|[[Lu Kui]] (Chinese), [[Bohdan Tůma]] (Czech), [[Bernard Bollet]], [[Jean-Philippe Puymartin]], others (European French radio voices), [[Eduardo Borgerth]] (Portuguese), [[Omar Soto]] (Latin American-Spanish Radio voice), [[Enrique Cervantes]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Arturo Acosta]] (Latin American-Spanish radio voice), [[Alfredo Gabriel Basurto]] (Latin American-Spanish normal voice), [[Kim Ki-heung]] (Korean)}}
[[File:ROTF bumblebee opens fire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Fixing [[Appliancebot|broken appliances]] the most effective way.]]
Two years after the battle of Mission City, his voice still not properly repaired, Bumblebee was dozing in the Witwicky garage the day Sam was packing for [[Princeton University]] when a scream from Sam saw him called into action to blast the [[AllSpark Mutation]]s a surviving sliver of the AllSpark had made of the Witwicky kitchen appliances. Shrugging off [[Judy Witwicky]]'s complaints that he had blown up much of their house, 'Bee returned to the garage, where he was dismayed to learn that Sam was not planning on taking him to college with him, as just he wanted a normal life.

[[File:ROTF bee makes trouble.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Phew, turned the alarm off before it started playing "Imma Be".]]
Hoping that Sam could serve as an ambassador of sorts to help convince the [[President of the United States]] that it was important the Autobots stay on Earth to fight off the Decepticons, Optimus Prime had Bumblebee pick up Sam from college so he could talk to him. 'Bee caused trouble for Sam right away, disrupting a frat party he was attending, then wound up with an unwanted passenger in [[Alice (ROTF)|Alice]], about whom he could tell something wasn't right. Bonking her head off his dashboard and spraying her in liquid to get rid of her, he then took Sam to meet Optimus, but the boy turned down the Autobot leader's offer. Unfortunately, Sam soon proved to have little choice in whether or not he would be involved in the Transformers' war, when a resurrected Megatron captured him, and Bumblebee and Prime had to come to his rescue. 'Bee took Mikaela and Sam's roommate [[Leo Spitz]], to safety, but Optimus died protecting the boy.

[[File:ROTF bumblebee puppdogeyes.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|''You tell me that you open your eyes...'']]

Bumblebee, together with [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]], took the three humans to an abandoned prison where they would be safe, but soon, the Decepticons' master [[The Fallen]] struck across Earth, demanding Sam he turned over to them. Bearing Sam no grudge for Optimus's death, Bumblebee promised to help his fugitive friend in any way, though he advised against Sam turning himself in. At Leo's suggestion, the group went to [[New York City]] to meet his internet rival, the Robo-Warrior—in actuality, Bumblebee's old lubrication post Seymour Simmons, who provided evidence that [[Seeker (ROTF)|a group of Decepticons]] had been on Earth thousands of years ago. Following this information, the group located and reactivated the ancient [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]], who teleported them to [[Egypt]] to search for the [[Matrix of Leadership]], which Sam hoped could be used to revive Optimus.

[[File:ROTF Bumblebee twin bash.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6|Respect my authoritah!]]

Bumblebee transported the humans to [[Petra]], the supposed location of the [[Tomb of the Primes]], but when it appeared to be a dead end, the Twins got into an argument over why they were following Sam around. The argument turned into a brawl which threatened to crush the humans in the close quarters, so Bumblebee picked his two subordinates, slammed them together, and threw them out of the temple. However, the Twins' brawl had managed to unearth the Tomb of the Primes, and Bumblebee further opened the hole with his plasma cannon, where they found the Matrix...which instantly turned to dust. Gathering up the dust in hopes it would still work, the team headed back to Egypt, but were [[Operation: Firestorm|assaulted]] by Starscream on the way. 'Bee, Simmons, Leo, and the Twins led Starscream and the Decepticons away while Sam and Mikaela went on ahead, and when it became apparent that Starscream was no longer pursuing them, Bumblebee left to rejoin the pair.

[[File:ROTF movie BumblebeevsRampage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Move your body Rampage! Yeah, like that, gymnastics are really easy when you have two legs. Oh wait...]]

Arriving in the abandoned town Sam and Mikaela were hiding from the Decepticons in, Bumblebee found that Sam's parents were being held captive by [[Rampage (ROTF)|Rampage]]. Sam distracted the [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicon]] long enough for Bumblebee to jump him, but while they were grappling, [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] ambushed Bumblebee. The plucky Autobot managed to fight off Ravage and ''rip out his spine'', then overpowered and killed Rampage. At Sam's instruction, Bumblebee took the boy's parents to safety, returning in time to see Sam apparently be killed by a blast from Megatron, upon which he broke down in grief. However, Sam miraculously survived the attack, and with the reformed Matrix of Leadership, resurrected Optimus Prime. Together, the assembled Autobots and humans watched as Optimus combined with the remains of Jetfire, destroyed the harvester and killed The Fallen. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

{{note|Bumblebee’s involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]," "[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel]]" and "[[The Last Prime]]"; the comic mini-series "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation]]"; and the storybooks "[[I Am Optimus Prime (ROTF)|I Am Optimus Prime]]," "[[When Robots Attack!]]," "[[Rise of the Decepticons]]," "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Electronic Voice Changer]]" and "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Mix & Match]]." In the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|novelization]] of the film, Bumblebee speaks—with difficulty—in his own voice several times, a story element that was cut from the finished film.}}

====''Dark of the Moon'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Lu Kui]] (Chinese)|[[Eduardo Borgerth]] (Portuguese), [[Bohdan Tůma]] (Czech), [[Omar Soto]] (Latin American-Spanish Radio voice), [[Enrique Cervantes]], [[Arturo Acosta]] (Latin American-Spanish radio voice; ''Revenge of the Fallen''), [[Alfredo Gabriel Basurto]] (Latin American-Spanish normal voice), [[Ferso Velázquez]] (Latin American-Spanish radio voice), [[Paco Gázquez]] (Castilian Spanish)}}
[[File:DOTFfilm-BumblebeeStealthForce.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|''Stealth'' Force? Right...]]
Three years after the defeat of the Fallen, Bumblebee no longer lived with Sam, having been put back on active NEST duty now regularly engaged in top secret missions with the rest of the Autobots, mostly to prevent human conflict. Alongside [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]], [[Dino]] and [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Que]], Bumblebee investigated an illegal nuclear facility, employing his [[Stealth Force]] mode to destroy it. Upon returning to the [[NEST]] base, he assisted in teaching soldiers how to fight Decepticons.

[[File:DOTM bumblebee vs brazos.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Grumpy Bee is not impressed.]]

Having received information from his co-worker [[Jerry Wang]] that suggested a conspiracy of humans collaborating with the Decepticons, Sam and his new girlfriend [[Carly Spencer]] went to NEST headquarters to share what Sam had learned, but when the guards would not let him enter, he grabbed a radio and called for Bumblebee to "convince" them. The guards quickly backed off when Bumblebee burst out of the building, but the reunion wasn't an entirely happy one, as Sam made clear to his big 'bot buddy that he was upset that he wasn't around much any more. National Intelligence Director [[Charlotte Mearing]] had no interest in Sam's conspiracy theories, so Sam left with Bumblebee to investigate the matter himself. To "repay" Sam's boss eccentric [[Bruce Brazos]] for a few leads he was able to provide them, Bumblebee play-fought with the man, who tried some karate moves on him.

[[File:Dotm-sam&bumblebee-ahhh!-1-.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Here comes another Flight of the Bumblebee joke...]]
After Sam, [[Seymour Simmons|Simmons]] and [[Dutch (DOTM)|Dutch]] learned that the Autobots' recent actions—recovering their lost former leader [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]] and his [[space bridge]] [[pillar]]s from the wreck of the ''[[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]]'' they had discovered on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]]—had actually been orchestrated by the Decepticons, Bumblebee, Sideswipe and Dino escorted the humans and Sentinel back to the NEST base. En route, they were attacked by the [[Dread (DOTM)|Dreads]], and Bumblebee was forced to execute an impressive mid-air transformation to avoid a crashed truck, tossing Sam into the air as he switched modes, before transforming back to vehicle mode around the boy. When the group arrived back at NEST, Sentinel revealed he was in league with Megatron, and Bumblebee was unable to prevent [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] from being killed and the base from being destroyed as Sentinel retrieved his pillars.

[[File:DOTM-bumblebeesamsfriend.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Bee good.]]
Sentinel used his pillars to open a space bridge in the heart of Washington, and Bumblebee and the Autobots were vastly outnumbered by the Decepticon forces that poured through and had to retreat. When Sentinel forced the humans to exile the Autobots on their ship, the ''[[Xantium (DOTM)|Xantium]]'', Bumblebee was allowed a short time to say goodbye to Sam, and assured him he was always going to be his friend, before helping the others prepare the ship for launch. However shortly after lift-off, the ''Xantium'' was destroyed by [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], and Bumblebee and the rest of the Autobots were presumed dead.

[[File:DOTM bee and carly in ship.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Carly is not liking the in-flight movie.]]
In actuality, the Autobots had hidden in a rocket booster that was jettisoned before the Xantium's destruction, and arrived in the Decepticon-occupied [[Chicago]] in time to help Sam, [[Robert Epps|Epps]] and a team of soldiers in finding the kidnapped Carly. Bumblebee piloted one of the downed Decepticon fighters to get Sam into the building in which Decepticon conspirator [[Dylan Gould]] was holding Carly, and used it to both rescue the pair and blast off [[Laserbeak (DOTM)|Laserbeak]]'s head. He rejoined his fellow Autobots in attacking the Decepticon forces, and arrived in time to save Sam and Lennox from falling to their deaths after Sam managed to kill Starscream.

[[File:830px-Dotm-helluvarun-1-.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|He's right behind me, isn't he?]]
Unfortunately, Bumblebee, Sideswipe, Dino, Ratchet and Que were soon captured by [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] and his troops, and Bumblebee could only watch as Que was executed. He had barely a moment to mourn before he was pulled forward, sharing what seemed to be a final, heartfelt look with Sam... before [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] and [[Brains]] suddenly started dropping Decepticon fighters from a Decepticon warship above. With Soundwave distracted, Bumblebee attacked his would-be executioner, and after a short but intense battle, killed the Decepticon spy-master by punching straight through his chest and blasting his head to bits. Subsequently, Bumblebee joined the final battle, and with Ratchet's help, he tackled and destroyed the space bridge's control pillar, shutting the bridge down. After the defeat of the Decepticons and Sentinel Prime, Bumblebee produced a selection of gears and washers from inside his body so that Sam could use one as a ring to propose to Carly with, but Sam just told him that he needed to slow it down. He was then commended for his bravery in battle by Ratchet.{{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}
{{note|Bumblebee's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (novel)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]" and "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Junior Novel]]," the "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Adaptation]] and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics," and the storybooks "[[Autobots Versus Decepticons]]," "[[The Lost Autobot]]," "[[Optimus Prime's Friends and Foes]]," "[[Bumblebee's Best Friend]]," "[[Dark of the Moon: Action Pop-ups!]]" and "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Mix & Match]]."}}

====''Age of Extinction'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Ben Schwartz]] (English radio voice, see notes), [[Kōichi Yamadera]] (Japanese radio voice)|[[Lu Kui]] (Chinese), [[Bohdan Tůma]] (Czech), [[Vincent Ribeiro]], [[Tristan Petitgirard]], [[Frédéric Souterelle]], [[Cédric Dumond]], others (European French radio voices), [[Marc-André Bélanger]], [[François L'Écuyer]] and [[Frédéric Zouvi]] (Canadian French radio voices), [[Eduardo Borgerth]] (Portuguese), [[Ferso Velázquez]] (Latin American-Spanish radio voice), [[Gerardo Alonso]] (Latin American Spanish radio voice), [[Moisés Ivan Mora]] (Latin American Spanish radio voice)}}
[[File:AOEBumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|After a wild bender, Bumblebee woke up in the desert, stripped of his 2011 Camaro kibble.]]
At some point in the past, Bumblebee had a phase where he became extremely insubordinate and disrespectful to Optimus Prime.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Chicago, Bumblebee remained on Earth with the other Autobots, but they were all soon forced to go on the run when the U.S. government disbanded [[NEST]], and [[Harold Attinger]]'s [[Cemetery Wind]] taskforce began hunting down Transformers. Disguised as a beat-up 1967 Camaro, Bumblebee even found himself having to take command of the remaining Autobot refugees when Optimus Prime disappeared, even though the others saw him as brash and inexperienced.

[[File:AOE bee and stinger.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Bumblebee shares the same feeling with [[Stephanie Sheh|Usagi Tsukino]] when it comes to clones.]]

Five years after Chicago, Optimus returned and Bumblebee relinquished command, but this did not stop [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] from complaining about Bumblebee's leadership skills. Indignant at being called a "child" by the Autobot samurai, Bumblebee briefly brawled with Drift, but greater matters soon demanded the Autobots' attention. Following information provided by Optimus's new human ally [[Cade Yeager]] that revealed Cemetery Wind was delivering the bodies of the Transformers they captured to [[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated]], the Autobots prepared to infiltrate the company's Chicago headquarters; Bumblebee falsified ID cards to get Cade and [[Shane Dyson]] into the building, then drove them to the site, masquerading as a non-sentient vehicle being brought in for [[scanning]]. Upon seeing the company's display of [[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]], a drone based on his own design, as well as several videos and posters claiming that he was inferior to the human-made Transformer, Bumblebee flipped out and knocked over the prototype, then left Shane to take the blame for the accident.

[[File:AOE bumblebee missiles.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Hi Tom!]]

The information Cade brought out of KSI revealed to the Autobots that the captured Transformers were being melted down for their raw [[Living metal#Live-action film series|transformium]] metal. Learning that Ratchet had suffered this grisly fate, Bumblebee joined the Autobots in attacking the building, though not before scanning a newer 2014 Camaro along the way, as well as taking on a sleek new appearance based on Stinger. He got a lift from Drift's helicopter mode to the building's upper levels and was able to rescue Cade from Attinger's clutches, having no regard for damaging the building to avenge Ratchet. The Autobots then withdrew, but were pursued by Stinger and KSI's premiere creation, Galvatron; 'Bee attempted to cover Optimus and the humans by blasting Galvatron with a cluster of missiles, but was left in utter shock when the drone disintegrated and reassembled himself to avoid the attack.

[[File:AOE-BeeIsTheBest.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Never mind the fact we should be ripped to shreds by the shattered glass from this skyscraper, you're the best, Bee!]]
When Optimus was captured by [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]], Bumblebee and the Autobots infiltrated the [[Knight Ship|bounty hunter's ship]]. Bumblebee helped their human allies escape from several [[Steeljaw (AOE)|Steeljaw]]s, and though he could not stop the ship's anchors from being detached, causing the humans to fall towards Chicago, he still managed to save them by swinging down on the cables and grabbing them out of the air. Given a lift by [[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]] in a stolen gunship, 'Bee had to take over piloting the craft while Crosshairs engaged Lockdown's pursuing henchmen, and although he managed to lose the ships chasing them by diving into an underground roadway, he then promptly crashed the gunship into the city streets.

Bumblebee and the humans regrouped with the other Autobots at a disused train yard, where they learned from Brains that Galvatron was, in actuality, a reborn Megatron, and was planning to detonate a cyberforming [[seed]]—given to KSI head [[Joshua Joyce]] by Lockdown—in [[Hong Kong]]. The team immediately headed for China, but upon arrival, their ship was shot down, and Bumblebee, [[Hound (Movie)|Hound]] and the humans fell out and had to escort the seed out of the city. [[File:CheapKnockOffs.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|But how does he feel about the length of his toy page?]] Bumblebee and Hound acted as a defensive line against Galvatron's forces, and though they destroyed many drones, they slowly became overwhelmed by the onslaught. Salvation came in the form of Optimus Prime and the newly recruited [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobots]]; their airborne member [[Strafe (AOE)|Strafe]] partnered himself up with Bumblebee, and together, they took out Stinger, who 'Bee "eulogized" by calling him a "cheap knockoff" and let Strafe gnaw on his head. With the battle reaching fever pitch, Bumblebee was tasked by Cade with taking his daughter [[Tessa Yeager|Tessa]] and Shane out of the city, but the pair soon convinced him to turn around and help Optimus and Cade fight the returned Lockdown. Bumblebee quickly found he was no match for Lockdown, but his intervention gave Tessa and Shane enough time to help Optimus recover, and the Autobot leader slew the bounty hunter. Bumblebee, alongside the other Autobots, was tasked with protecting the Yeager family from any threats when Optimus left Earth to confront Lockdown's employers, the mysterious [[Creator]]s. With Optimus off-world, Bumblebee was left in charge of the Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}
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====''The Last Knight'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Erik Aadahl]] (English), [[Masato Obara]] (Japanese)|[[Atsuo Hasegawa]] (Japanese, radio voice), [[Lu Kui]] (Chinese), [[Bohdan Tůma]] (Czech), [[Boris Tessmann]] (German), [[Eduardo Borgerth]] (Portuguese), [[Omar Soto]] (Latin American-Spanish Radio voice), [[Alfredo Gabriel Basurto]] (Latin American-Spanish normal voice), [[Raúl Anaya]] (Latin American-Spanish, radio voice), [[José Luis Miranda]] (Latin American-Spanish, radio voice), [[Paco Gázquez]] (Castilian Spanish), [[János Bácskai]] (Hungarian)}}
[[File:TLK Bumblebee versus Nazis.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|left|He shot fifty men.]]
During [[World War II]], Bumblebee, then known as ZB-7, and [[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]] fought alongside Allies, during which the two met and befriended a young [[Edmund Burton]]. After the war however, Bumblebee resumed his search while Hot Rod remained behind. As the decades passed, Bumblebee would not come to remember World War II as a particularly noteworthy conflict.

[[File:TLK Bumblebee snags Santos.jpg|thumb|300px|If it's a Super Saiyan you're looking for, I can fill the part.]]
In the years since Optimus Prime's departure into space in search of the Creators, Bumblebee retook command of the remaining team of Autobots on Earth. He accompanied Cade and Hound to the Chicago No Go-Zone: a hotspot of Cybertronian artifacts that landed on Earth since the Battle of Chicago. He and Cade came to the aid of [[Izabella]] after her Autobot companion [[Canopy]] was killed with Bumblebee himself destroying one of the attacking Sentinels. When Cade was held up by the [[Transformers Reaction Force|TRF]], Bumblebee came to his assistance, albeit in an unorthodox manner. He blew himself apart, only for his individual pieces to piece back together and reassemble himself in order to dispose of the TRF forces, giving their side the advantage. If it weren't for Lennox's intervention, Bumblebee would very likely have killed TRF Commander [[Santos]]. With Cade easing the standoff to prevent any collateral damage and Hound arriving at the scene, he urged the TRF to lower their weapons and allow them to leave, but not without the TRF tagging Bumblebee with a tracker.

Back at the [[Junkyard (TLK)|junkyard]] where the other Autobots camped, he struggled to keep the team in order, with Grimlock stealing the local sheriff's cruiser and Crosshairs questioning his leadership skills, with whom he engaged in a small brawl. It wasn't helped by the arrival of the unscrupulous [[Daytrader]], who brought with him more of his shady trinkets, which included a [[Vatti Bot]] (which Bumblebee angrily crushed) and the deceased Starscream's head. The next morning, however, a convoy of Decepticons were heading towards at the junkyard. While Hound and [[Trench]] held the line, Bumblebee and others fled to a nearby town where Drift discovered and disabled the tracker the TRF had placed on Bumblebee. After the Decepticons had been lured into a trap, Bumblebee personally slew [[Mohawk]] before a [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] by the name of [[Cogman]] arrived on the scene to escort Cade to England to meet Sir Edmund Burton. Bumblebee accompanied Cade as extra muscle.

[[File:TLKOptimusVsBumblebee.jpg|left|upright=1.6|thumb|Ah, I was wondering what would break first! Your spirit -- ''or your body!'']]
At the castle, they were initially greeted by [[Bulldog (TLK)|a tank Transformer suffering from "robot-dimentia"]] attacking them before Sir Edmund scolded him for firing at guests. Burton then expressed joy at seeing Bumblebee despite the Autobot not remembering him. It was then that Bumblebee was reunited with Hot Rod, who had sort of kidnapped a woman named [[Viviane Wembly]]. When the TRF arrived, Bumblebee served as a getaway car for Cade and Vivian, depositing them at her flat before he took the two to the [[HMS Alliance|HMS ''Alliance'']], during which he managed to get his Decepticon nemesis Barricade off his tail by blasting him aside. Leaving Hot Rod behind, Bumblebee took hold of the massive femme as she submerged and took the humans to a [[Guardian Knights' ship|submerged Cybertronian ship]]. Inside the ship, however, the group was forced to split as ocean debris had made the path accessible to humans but inaccessible to Bumblebee. He caught up with the two soon after Viviane had found the [[Staff of Merlin]] and seconds before [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Nemesis Prime]] arrived to demand the staff. After threatening Viviane's life for it, Nemesis walked out and Bumblebee, spurred on by Cade, followed Nemesis to try and reawaken his true personality.

On the deck of the ship, Nemesis promptly beat Bumblebee into submission only for the sound of Bumblebee's true voice to reawaken Optimus Prime. Allying with the [[Guardian Knight]]s, the Autobots flew to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to confront and destroy [[Quintessa (TLK)|Quintessa]] while Viviane removed the staff from the [[ignition chamber]] to halt her plan. Though Cybertron's reconnecting and shifting geology proved an obstacle, the Autobots made it to the area of the ignition chamber only to be faced by a Decepticon army backed up by a gun emplacement and [[Infernocus]]; they were eventually destroy by Optimus and [[Sqweeks]]. Salvation came when the [[British Armed Forces|British military]] caused a nearby chunk of Cybertron to swing and impact the ignition chamber. In the temporary state of zero gravity, Bumblebee took the opportunity to kill [[Nitro Zeus]] by blowing up his head. Optimus then distracted Quintessa allowing Bumblebee to blast her from behind (with a quippy one liner) and Viviane to remove the staff saving Earth. on the surface of Earth, Optimus had felt that Cybertron had healed enough that the Autobots could return home and Bumblebee, after thanking the humans for saving Optimus, boarded the [[Knight Ship]] as it blasted off for Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

====''Bumblebee'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Dylan O'Brien]] (English), [[Ryōhei Kimura]] (Japanese)|[[Lu Kui]] (Chinese), [[Bohdan Tůma]] (Czech), [[Julien Allouf]] (European French), [[Louis-Philippe Berthiaume]] (Canadian French), [[Boris Tessmann]] (German), [[Rajesh Kava]] (Hindi), [[János Bácskai]] (Hungarian), [[Ivan Zaytsev]] (Italian), [[Shin Yong-woo]] (Korean), [[Paco Gázquez]] (Spain Spanish), [[Emilio Treviño]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Eduardo Borgerth]] (Portuguese), [[Levan Gorozia]] (Russian), [[Altuğ Yücel]] (Turkish)}}

[[File:Bumblejeep.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|"Maybe if I look like this, [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] will think I'm [[Swindle (G1)|a part]] of [[Combaticon (G1)|his brigade]]!"]]

A scout under the command of Optimus Prime, B-127 was part of the final battle for Cybertron — a battle that ended with the Autobot position overrun by the Decepticons and necessitating a full-scale Autobot evacuation of Cybertron. As part of this evacuation, Prime tasked him with a reconnaissance mission to the distant planet of [[Earth]]—its location hidden from the Decepticons—in the hopes that the scout could establish a base for the Autobots to regroup and strike back. Launched off-planet aboard an [[Autobot escape pod|escape pod]], B-127 crash-landed in [[California]] in the year [[1987]], having the bad fortune to land in the woods where [[Sector Seven]] agent [[Jack Burns]] had been conducting a training exercise.

Trying to flee the hostile humans, B-127 quickly [[scanning|scanned]] a jeep alternate mode to make his escape and fled through the woods until he was cornered outside of an abandoned mineshaft. Despite his best intentions to assure the humans of his good intentions, the Autobot scout found himself attacked by the Decepticon [[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]]. Believing that B-127 knew the whereabouts of Optimus Prime and his forces, the Decepticon grappled with the little Autobot in an attempt to get him to speak; when his foe retorted that he would never disclose Prime's location, Blitzwing "made it official" by ripping out B-127's voice box and grievously injuring him by hurling him off a cliff. Before the Decepticon could execute him, however, B-127 emerged triumphant by jamming one of Blitzwing's missiles into the Decepticon's superstructure, blowing Blitzwing to smithereens.

His [[voice box]] damaged, his memory cells offline, and his body failing, the critically wounded B-127 was able to limp to a nearby riverbank, and before entering stasis he was able to scan a new disguise: a Volkswagen Beetle. It was in this form that B-127 remained for some time while he recovered, and at some point the derelict car found its way to a run-down [[Hank's Marine Repair and Parts|salvage yard]] in [[Brighton Falls]], where it was sheeted and left to rust.

[[File:VWBumblebee.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.8|"Do [[Sam Witwicky|you]] have your [[Archibald Witwicky|grandfather]]'s [[Archibald Witwicky's glasses|glasses]]- wait, sorry, [[Charlie Watson|wrong human]]."]]

In August of that year, B-127's derelict form caught the attention of [[Charlie Watson]], and while trying to start the car she triggered the Autobot's radio, broadcasting a signal that inadvertently reached the Decepticons [[Shatter]] and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] on [[Saturn]]. Several days later, on her eighteenth birthday, yard owner [[Uncle Hank|Hank]] allowed Charlie the car as a birthday present if she could get it to start. After fixing the engine, Charlie drove her new car home, and while repairing the car her investigations inadvertently revealed B-127, still wounded, mute, and amnesiac from his battle on Earth. Inspired by the buzzing noises of his broken voice box, Charlie named him "Bumblebee."

The next morning, [[Sally Watson]] used her daughter's car to drive [[Conan|the family dog]] to the vet, with Bumblebee almost revealing himself to a panicked Charlie as she tried to catch up with him. That afternoon, Charlie took him to a nearby beach to teach the Autobot that he couldn't reveal himself to other [[humans]], and during a subsequent walk in the woods Charlie wound up activating a garbled hologram of Optimus Prime, jolting Bumblebee's memory and reminding him of Prime's final battle on Cybertron. His continual attempts to communicate with his broken radio inspired Charlie to replace it with the radio from her late father's Chevrolet, and Bumblebee's curiosity about her old diving tapes and records prompted Charlie to open up about the passing of her father and her difficulty coping with his death.

[[File:Bumblebee vs sofa.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|Bumblebee's first (and last) couch gag.]]
As Bumblebee played with his radio, the noise attracted the attention of Charlie's neighbor [[Memo]], and after swearing him to secrecy the pair went for a drive in Bumblebee, with the two humans realizing that Bumblebee was trying to use the radio to communicate. Following an antagonistic encounter with [[Tina Lark]] at a cliff-diving party hosted by [[Tripp Summers]], the trio decided to get revenge by pranking her house; Bumblebee got carried away while egging her car, however, and wound up destroying it entirely. Their hasty escape caught the attention of [[Sheriff Lock]], and Bumblebee was able to easily evade the sheriff's police cruiser during the subsequent police chase.

Realizing that she couldn't drive Bumblebee the next morning, Charlie left him in the garage while she went to work, though Bumblebee's curiosity soon got the better of him, and his clumsy exploration of the Watson home had him inadvertently destroy the house's interior in the process, while his experiments with an electrical outlet led to a massive [[energon]] surge. His destruction of the house caught the attention of Memo, who called Charlie home from work to deal with the problem. Though Memo was able to coax Bumblebee back to the garage to lie low, they were unable to clean up the house before Charlie's parents arrived, and the ensuing argument led to Charlie leaving home in Bumblebee... running into a Sector Seven ambush in the process, the agency having tracked Bumblebee thanks to his energon surge.

[[File:BBfilm-interrogation.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Bee finds himself in [[Megatron (Movie)#Alternate timeline|yet another]] Decepticon BDSM dungeon.]]
Bumblebee transformed to robot mode to carry Charlie to safety, and although he was able to outmaneuver the humans he was ambushed by Shatter and Dropkick, who took the little Autobot prisoner. Their interrogation revealed Prime's hologram; armed with the knowledge that the Autobots were on their way to Earth, the two Decepticons left to call in their army to finish off their foes—but not before blasting their prisoner.

Thanks to Charlie and Memo jury-rigging one of Sector Seven's electrical guns, the two were able to blast enough electricity into Bumblebee's systems to bring him back online, the reboot restoring his memory cells in the process. Cornered by Sector Seven agents, a weakened Bumblebee only found the strength to fight back after watching Agent Burns manhandle Charlie, blasting the humans until Charlie was able to talk him down; despite his human friend's belief that they needed to hide, Bumblebee set out to stop the Decepticons, bringing Charlie with him.

[[File:BBfilm-Charlie-Bee-underwater.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8|''[[W:The Shape of Water|The Shape of Metal]]'']]
The pair raced through the streets of Brighton Falls, accompanied by Charlie's family and pursued by more Sector Seven agents, until they reached the radio antennae that Shatter and Dropkick had repurposed into a makeshift Cybertronian relay to contact the Decepticon fleet. Bumblebee leapt into action immediately, killing Dropkick by tearing him apart with a chain and rescuing Agent Burns's disabled helicopter from crashing. As Charlie tried to manually disable the Decepticon relay, Bumblebee was able to narrowly prevent Shatter from taking her down, and as the pair battled in the dry dock below Bumblebee was able to blast the dam holding back the ocean, allowing the rush of water to fatally crush Shatter against a ship. With the Decepticons vanquished, Charlie dove into the water to guide Bumblebee back to shore, and as the pair recovered from their ordeal Agent Burns, having realized the error of his ways, allowed them to leave before his reinforcements arrived.

His memories restored and his body healed, Bumblebee drove Charlie to the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] to say his goodbyes so that he could reunite with the other Autobots and continue his mission on Earth. After thanking his human friend for helping him find his voice, Bumblebee scanned a passing Camaro and drove off, meeting up with Optimus Prime on the bridge and driving away. In the woods that night, Prime commended the scout for his bravery as the pair watched more Autobots arrive on Earth. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}
{{note|Bumblebee's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novel "[[Transformers: Bumblebee: The Junior Novel]]".}}

====''Rise of the Beasts'' film====
Seven years after Optimus Prime and the other Autobots had arrived on Earth, Bumblebee was laying low in New York, maintaining a low profile until the Autobot leader sent an order for Bumblebee and all of the other Autobots to meet up at their base of operations. Bumblebee arrived at the same time that Arcee had arrived, seeing that fellow Autobot [[Mirage (Movie)|Mirage]] had in fact taken a human, [[Noah Díaz]], to their location and revealed himself to the human. Optimus Prime arrived shortly thereafter and made the plan for the Autobots to rely on Noah and Mirage to get the [[Transwarp Key]] in order to head home to Cybertron, the young Autobot was placed in the same position as Optimus and Arcee to wait around the mainland to the Museum on Ellis Island.

While waiting for Noah to retrieve the Transwarp Key, Bumblebee spoke to Optimus on the matter of humans, the young Autobot in belief that not all humans are bad. While Optimus would agree that [[Charlie Watson|one human]] had treated Bumblebee well, Optimus stood firm on his belief and added he did not want Bumblebee going to drive-in theaters anymore after the young Autobot said that Optimus "{{w|A Few Good Men|can't handle the truth}}."

Bumblebee's wait was cut short when the [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcons]] arrived on the scene, and he rushed into battle alongside the other Autobots to face the threat. When Optimus was overpowered by the Terrorcon leader, [[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]] and [[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]], Bumblebee rushed in with Optimus's battle axe, but the young Autobot was impaled on Scourge's arm blade, and soon was blasted by Scourge's cannon, the Terrorcon leader shortly ripping Bumblebee's insignia off his head.

Bumblebee's body was carried away from the Museum by the other Autobots, and was kept hidden until the Autobots would enlist the help of [[Stratosphere]] to get to their next location, Peru. Arcee looked over the body alongside Optimus, suggesting an Energon transfusion could revive the young Autobot. Bumblebee's lifeless body was kept in the care of Stratosphere for the time being, eventually being placed in a village nearby the city of Cusco with the [[Maximal]]s.

The leader of the Maximals, [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]], revealed that there was Energon in the area, but it was currently inert and would not be of use to revive Bumblebee .The Autobot remained lifeless until the arrival of [[Unicron]] through a transwarp gate. The activation of the gate caused the Energon in the area to ignite and flow, reviving Bumblebee in time for his arrival to the final battle.

[[File:Bumblebee Comeback ROTB.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.8|"He's still alive?!" "Well, he's not as dead as we would've hoped.."]]
Bumblebee arrived in time to reinforce the Autobots, skydiving out of Stratosphere as he would shoot at the multiple Terrorcon pods containing [[Scorponok (ROTB)|Scorponoks]] as well as the multiple [[Sweep (ROTB)|Sweeps]] that had pinned Optimus to the bridge. His fall was intercepted by the Terrorcon [[Nightbird (ROTB)|Nightbird]], but he overpowered her, initially using the Terrorcon as a shield against Scourge's shots before the young Autobot impaled Nightbird's spark with one of her own wings, destroying her as he landed.

Bumblebee assisted Noah in the final battle, and upon the defeat of Scourge, Bumblebee's insignia was returned to him by Optimus, though Optimus soon ordered Bumblebee and all the others to escape as the Autobot leader prepared to destroy the Transwarp Key. Bumblebee drove off in his upgraded off-road Camaro alternate mode, carrying [[Elena Wallace]] in him as he and the other Autobots and Maximals escaped.

Bumblebee then returned to America alongside the other Autobots via Stratosphere.
{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts}}
{{note|Bumblebee's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the book "[[Mission at the Museum]]".}}

===Novels===
====''Ghosts of Yesterday''====
Before coming to Earth, Bumblebee was part of the crew of the [[Ark (Movie)|''Ark'']], searching through space for the lost AllSpark. In 1969, Earth-time, the crew encountered an alien ship, the ''[[Ghost 1]]'', in an abandoned solar system. After the ship turned tail and headed for one of the local planets, Optimus Prime sent Bumblebee down after it. Bumblebee located the ship, and was about to approach it when [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] arrived, and he was forced to retreat under the Decepticon's superior firepower. Shortly after Bumblebee discovered some apparently artificial pillars, the ground gave way beneath him, and 'Bee found himself plunged into a cave system. With his radio damaged, he explored the caves, and was attacked by giant, monstrous worm creatures, whose organic nature did not make them any less challenging as opponents. Fortunately, Optimus arrived in time to save him.

Prime and Bumblebee had a brief encounter with Starscream and the ''Ghost 1'', the crew of which had been persuaded by the Decepticon that the Autobots were the aggressors in the Transformer war. The pair retreated back below ground, and later found the ''Ghost 1'' in a battered state, having been abandoned by Starscream. Bumblebee made contact with its crew, a species known as "humans", and the earlier misunderstanding was soon cleared up. When more of the worm creatures turned up, Bumblebee acted as a diversion so Optimus could blast a way out of the caves, and everyone escaped intact. They returned to the ''Ark'' in time to fight the Decepticons once more. Bumblebee joined Ratchet in attacking Barricade, though the Decepticon gave them more than enough trouble. When the ''Ghost-1'' and its crew were lost during the battle, the Autobots turned their attention toward the planet from which it had hailed... Earth. {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

====''The Veiled Threat''====
Following the battle of Mission City and the destruction of the AllSpark, Bumblebee's guardianship of Sam Witwicky meant that he was not an activate participant in any missions carried out by the forces of NEST. {{storylink|Transformers: The Veiled Threat|The Veiled Threat}}

====''Classified'' novels====
[[File:Tfc-switchinggears.jpg|right|thumb|Psst, down here!]]
After the defeat of The Fallen, NEST resumed their regular business of hunting down rogue Decepticons. Bumblebee was at [[Edwards Air Force Base]] with Ratchet when they received word that two Cybertronians in transition forms had landed near [[Hurley's Crossing]]. The pair went there by helicopter and encountered [[Reverb (ROTF)|Reverb]], who claimed to be a Decepticon defector hunting down another Decepticon who was after the technology at [[Hawthorne Army Depot]]. Though Bumblebee was highly skeptical, he followed Ratchet's lead, and they took Reverb to the depot. When they reached it, [[Kevin Bowman]] let them know that [[Gears (ROTF)|Gears]] was an Autobot and in reality trying to protect an ancient weapons cache. The warning came too late, as Reverb turned the weapons on Bumblebee and Ratchet, who were unable to penetrate the personal forcefield Reverb had acquired. Despite this, Bumblebee lasted out Reverb's defeat with minimal damage. {{storylink|Transformers Classified: Switching Gears|Switching Gears}}

When Bumblebee and Gears were left at base, they received word from [[Douglas Porter]] that the Decepticon [[Blowback (Classified)|Blowback]] was heading up to [[Battle Mountain]] where a storehouse of Cybertronian artifacts had been discovered. The pair were compelled to travel to Battle Mountain with Kevin and Douglas, though Bumblebee made a detour to a [[Kwiki-Burger]] on the way. On arrival, they were attacked by Blowback and his men, and by the time they'd dispatched the four Decepticons, Kevin and Douglas had found the storehouse. They were subsequently picked up by Ironhide and taken back to face Optimus Prime's anger at them having gone off on their own. {{storylink|Transformers Classified: Battle Mountain|Battle Mountain}}

When the Battle Mountain cylinder was in danger of activating, Bumblebee and Gears took part in a convoy to transport the device to a NEST vault near [[Yucca Mountain]]. The trip was cut short when the convoy was ambushed outside [[Beatty]] by Reverb and some stolen [[Hyperdynamix]] autonomous tanks. They caught a break when Reverb was called away to the nearby Hyperdynamix Aerospace facility, and while Gears and Kevin followed the Decepticon, Bumblebee remained to protect the remains of the convoy. {{storylink|Transformers Classified: Satellite of Doom|Satellite of Doom}}
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===IDW movie comics===
[[File:Defiance1 Cliffjumper Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|"Tell Hasbro that [[Cliffjumper (disambiguation)|I]] don't want to be a [[repaint]] of [[Bumblebee (disambiguation)|you]] anymore!"]]

Bumblebee was born over 10,000 years ago, one of the second generation of Cybertronians spawned by the [[AllSpark]] since its rediscovery and the revitalization of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} He and [[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]] were guardians of the AllSpark at the [[Simfur Temple|Temple]] of [[Simfur]]. One day, when the AllSpark suddenly began giving off energy spikes, a nervous Bumblebee was troubled by the fact that planetary leaders Optimus and [[High Protector]] Megatron were more concerned with a nearby archaeological excavation than with the source of the spikes, but Cliffjumper reassured him that they could handle whatever came their way. He would soon regret those words when [[Ejoornian|aliens]] from the nearby [[Eshems Nebula]] attacked Simfur. The pair were seeking cover inside the temple when Lord Megatron swooped in, berated them for not taking the fight to the enemy, and destroyed their opponent. {{storylink|Defiance issue 1|Defiance #1}} Instructed to stay out of the military's way, Bumblebee was concerned that the attack signalled the start of something ''big'', but Cliffjumper was unconcerned on the basis that two lowly guards wouldn't be part of whatever it was. [[Prowl (Movie)|Prowl]] agreed, ordering them to stay at their posts, after which he quizzed them on how the AllSpark had reacted during the battle. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 2|Defiance #2}}

[[File:Defiance3 Optimus Bumblebee orders.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|Well, that's one way to make a first impression.]]

His ambition ignited by the [[The Fallen|mysterious relic]] discovered at the archaeological dig, a power-hungry Megatron sought to have Optimus disposed of, and sent a team led by Prowl—including Bumblebee—to apprehend him on charges of treason. When Optimus angrily demanded to know what he had done, Bumblebee pointed his weapon at the science leader and said they were just following orders, which seemed to satisfy Optimus. What 'Bee and the other security officers didn't know, however, was they were being led into a trap; on the way to the city of [[Metrotitan (ROTF)|Metrotitan]], they were ambushed by a soldiers loyal to Megatron, who had been ordered to kill them all, save Optimus. Bumblebee helped haul [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] to safety after the group was hit by an explosive round, and Optimus ordered them all to withdraw to [[Burthov]] while he took care of their attackers personally. {{storylink|Defiance issue 3|Defiance #3}} {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}}

[[File:Defiance Bumblebee vehiclemodes.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|My alt mode is Pac-Man!]]

After it was learned that Megatron had rebuilt his Defense Force as an army known as the "Decepticons", Optimus—now Optimus ''Prime'', embracing his destiny—organized Bumblebee and the others loyal to him to stand against Megatron's forces as the "Autobots". While on an apparent scouting mission, Bumblebee and Arcee discovered the Decepticon starship ''[[Nemesis (ROTF)|Nemesis]]'' while it was under construction; some time later, when the vessel was complete, they also observed as the majority of the Decepticon forces boarded. {{storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} Returning to the camp at Burthov, they and all the assembled Autobots watched at the ''Nemesis'' took off. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}} With the bulk of the Decepticons gone, the Autobots launched their first strike against the Decepticons, and the war between the two factions truly began. {{storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}}

[[File:MovieMegatron Bumblebee torture comic.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Megatron's attempt at a "Give me your arm!" meme didn't really take off...]]

After years of war, with no end in sight, Bumblebee participated in an assault on Simfur Temple to activate the "[[pillar|torch]]" [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]] had created, which Sentinel had promised would end the conflict. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}} Alas, Starscream blew up Sentinel's [[Ark (DOTM)|ship]], and Bumblebee retreated with the rest of the Autobots. However, the battle had weakened Decepticon forces to the extent that the Autobots were soon able to steal the AllSpark. {{storylink|Foundation issue 4|Foundation #4}} After moving the relic around the planet, Optimus Prime finally made the desperate decision to launch the AllSpark into space to put it beyond Megatron's reach. This decision took Bumblebee by surprise, but he supported Optimus. {{storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} Bumblebee was placed in command of a small Autobot unit at the AllSpark's hiding place in [[Tyger Pax]], on the assumption that the Decepticon would focus their attention on Simfur; unfortunately, Megatron sensed the AllSpark's true location, and Bumblebee and his men found themselves under attack by the Decepticon leader and his troops. [[Swindle (Movie)|Swindle]] tried and failed to torture the AllSpark's precise hiding spot out of Bumblebee, forcing Megatron to take up the task, but even 'Bee did not know ''exactly'' where it was—moments later, both he and Megatron could only watch as the cube was blasted into space from a launch site nearby. A furious Megatron crushed Bumblebee's voice capacitor beyond repair in a petty act of revenge and took off after the AllSpark; although the young bot survived and was dubbed a hero for his actions, he feared that all the Autobots had done was potentially spread their war to other worlds. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}}

[[File:MoviePrequel Interlude bee vs barricade.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.6]]

In time, the Autobots left Cybertron aboard the ''Ark'' in search of the AllSpark. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 1|The Reign of Starscream #1}} After years of questing, in 2003, Bumblebee traced the AllSpark to Earth's [[Solar System]], first touching down on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]], where his image was captured by the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] and passed to human organization [[Sector Seven]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}} Landing on Earth in the state of [[Virginia (state)|Virginia]], 'Bee quickly evaded S7 by scanning a battered old Camaro and making for [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]]. There, he used a remote link to a coffee shop computer to search [[Shwiggle]] for any signs of extraterrestrial sightings, and discovered the story of Captain [[Archibald Witwicky]], who claimed to have seen an "Ice Man" that Bumblebee recognized as a frozen Megatron. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3|Movie Prequel #3}} Bumblebee's followed Witwicky's trail to an [[Psychopathic Institute for the Long-Term Insane|asylum]] in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], where the late captain had been committed, {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 4|Movie Prequel #4}} then headed downtown to [[asylum|another asylum]] that had computerized records he could scan. Having thus obtained a list of Witwicky's descendants, Bumblebee set course for [[Springfield]], Missouri, in search of his son [[Clarence Witwicky|Clarence]], evading an attack by Sector Seven along the way. In Springfield, he found records of Clarence's children and started out to track them down, starting with his eldest son [[Ben Witwicky|Ben]] in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]]. Ben proved a dead end, so 'Bee took off for [[Tucson]], only to be again attacked by Sector Seven, evading their helicopters by blinding them and rocketing off at high speed. Not long after, he learned the Decepticons had followed him to Earth when he was attacked by Barricade in the desert. {{storylink|Planetfall (Movie)|Planetfall}} {{storylink|Interlude (Movie Prequel)|Interlude}}

[[File:Prequel3 bumblebee altmode.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.8]]

Escaping his various pursuers, a damaged and smoking Bumblebee stopped by the roadside on the way out of Colorado to rest and recover. Suddenly detecting a burst of AllSpark energy, he trace the source to [[New Mexico]], where Barricade tracked him down and attacked once again. Other Decepticons, meanwhile, attacked the energy source and found it to be a Sector Seven ruse; consequently, assuming Bumblebee would have further leads they could exploit, Barricade let 'Bee escape so that they would be able to covertly track his movements. Eventually, Bumblebee's search took him to [[Tranquility]], [[Nevada]], {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 4|Movie Prequel #4}} where he would soon encounter Sam Witwicky, whom he befriended and allied with during the subsequent battle for the AllSpark. {{storylink|Transformers: Movie Adaptation}}

[[File:Alliance2 Bumblebee takecove-rrk.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|"Why do they always aim for the throat!?"]]

Immediately following the battle in [[Mission City]], Bumblebee had his legs reattached by Ratchet, then he and the other Autobots rolled out to avoid Sector Seven's inquiries. 'Bee remained behind to guard Sam when the other Autobots were summoned to a meeting with Lennox a month later, {{storylink|Alliance issue 1|Alliance #1}} but then took part in the mission Lennox requested their help with: transporting the dead Decepticons' body to a navy base in [[San Diego]], [[California]] for disposal at sea. Before departing Sector Seven's [[Nevada]] base with the convoy, Optimus Prime gave the surviving AllSpark sliver to [[Vine|Professor Vine]] for safekeeping, but had second thoughts about his decision partway into the mission and sent Ironhide and Bumblebee back to the facility to retrieve it. Racing ahead, Bumblebee was greeted with an unexpected sight: the base aflame, and Decepticons [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]] and Starscream brawling in the midst of it all. 'Bee disarmed Wreckage with a well-aimed blast and Starscream finished him off, then turned his firepower on the humans; Bumblebee dived in front of them and took the blast, damaging his vocal processor once again. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2|Alliance #2}} {{storylink|Convergence chapter 4}} Ironhide praised him for his bravery and selflessness, Bumblebee regretted not being able to save everybody. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3|Alliance #3}}

[[File:Alliance3 Ironhide Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|"I see dead people, I mean it, look there's one right over there."]]

Two weeks later, Bumblebee was present for the burial at sea of [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] and the Decepticons, following which it was announced that the Autobots and Lennox's team would be working together as a new special unit, dedicated to protecting the Earth from threats posed by the remaining Decepticons. They began training on the island of Diego Garcia, but it took time for the humans and Autobots to learn to work together; during a training exercise on a shooting range, when Bumblebee instinctively fired on a target, he only narrowly avoiding blasting Epps in the process. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3|Alliance #3}} For their first mission, NEST was deployed to [[San Francisco]] to take out the Decepticons [[Jolt (Movie)|Deadend]] and 'Bee's old opponent Swindle. Bumblebee and Lennox chased Swindle onto the deserted [[Golden Gate Bridge]], where the Decepticon was amused upon realizing who it was he was facing once again. When Swindle turned on Lennox, however, he learned the folly of underestimating Bumblebee, who blasted his one-time torturer through the back, killing him. {{storylink|Alliance issue 4|Alliance #4}}

[[File:TotF1 bee vs barricade again.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4]]

Concerned that Sam Witwicky would become the target of the Decepticons again, Optimus selected Bumblebee to act as Sam's guardian again and sent him to live with the boy. {{storylink|Alliance issue 4|Alliance #4}} However, Bumblebee's attempts to integrate himself into Sam's life were not as smooth as he had hoped. Without the team structure of the Autobots, Bumblebee tended to act upon instinct, taking revenge on Mikaela's ex-boyfriend [[Trent DeMarco]] for his previous humiliations of Sam by wrecking his truck, smashing a would-be car thief with the door he was attempting to unlock, and inadvertently giving Sam traffic tickets by not observing the rules of the road. When Bumblebee was alone, he attempted to learn as much as he could about human culture, feeling that he owed it to his friend. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 1|Tales of the Fallen #1}} Though no longer on active NEST duty, Bumblebee very occasionally helped his Autobot allies out; in November 2008, he came on-scene to assist his team-mates after [[Demolishor (ROTF)|Demolishor]] had... demolished a sizeable amount of human property in [[Uruguay]]. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 2|Tales of the Fallen #2}}

Soon, the problem of Sam's impending departure for college arose: 'Bee intended to follow Sam wherever he went, but Sam feared that he might not be able to bring his car along with him. Not thrilled the prospect of Bumblebee continuing to live with them, Sam's father Ron decreed that once Sam had gone to school, Bumblebee would have to leave. However, unexpectedly, Ron came to Bumblebee seeking aid when Mikaela reported that Sam had never made a rendezvous with her. Speeding out of the garage without Ron (and without waiting for the garage door to open), Bumblebee searched for clues to Sam's whereabouts and eventually found a message from his old foe Barricade, who demanded the AllSpark in exchange for the boy. Finding the pair at an car wrecking yard, Bumblebee attacked Barricade, but was considerably outmatched, with the Decepticon gloating that Earth had made the Autobot soft, and their last encounter was down to pure luck. Eventually, with a distraction from Sam, Bumblebee was able to force Barricade into a pool of gasoline. With the Decepticon hardly down for the count, Bumblebee told Sam to run and ignited the gasoline, causing a tremendous explosion that sent both Transformers flying. In the aftermath, Bumblebee told Sam he had a feeling they hadn't seen the last of Barricade. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 1|Tales of the Fallen #1}}

[[File:After fight with Soundwave Nefarious 1.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|If you have a problem... if no one else can help... and if you can find them... maybe you can hire... The Bee Team.]]

In the wake of the Autobots' battle with The Fallen, {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation|Revenge of the Fallen movie adaptation}} with more new Autobots arriving on Earth regularly, Bumblebee was brought back onto active duty and placed in charge of a team made up of rookies [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]], [[Knock Out (ROTF)|Knock Out]], [[Dune Runner (ROTF)|Dune Runner]] and [[Breakaway (ROTF)|Breakaway]]. Bumblebee's team responded to Decepticon activity at [[Kingdom Petrochemicals]] in [[Florida]], but 'Bee and the other ground-based team-members arrived too late to save Breakaway from dying at Soundwave's hands. The Decepticons soon fled, as did a mysterious group of humans also active at the sight, leaving Bumblebee mystified as to what was going on. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 1|Nefarious #1}} He and his team returned to [[Edwards Air Force Base]], where Galloway was annoyed that he hadn't been notified about the arrival on Earth of some of the members of Bumblebee's team. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 2|Nefarious #2}}

After Optimus managed to capture Soundwave in [[Utah]], Bumblebee's team was assigned to escort the captive Decepticon to a NEST base in [[Odessa]], [[Texas]]. Decepticon. En route, their transport plane was shot down by [[Buzzsaw (ROTF)|Buzzsaw]], and when they attempt to continue the mission on the ground, they were soon obstructed by Soundwave's "mini-militia". Bumblebee tussled with [[Rumble (ROTF)|Rumble]], but quickly realized that his team was outmatched. Rather than a repeat of the loss of Breakaway, Bumblebee opted to release Soundwave. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 3|Nefarious #3}} Subsequently, Soundwave chose to ally himself with the Autobots to bring down the [[Initiative]], the human organization who had also been at Kingdom Petrochemicals, who were conspiring against the Transformers. Bumblebee's team were part of the NEST unit that follow Soundwave to the supposed location of the [[Initiative base|Initiative's base]] in [[Inyokern]], but the mobile facility had already relocated to [[Crater Lake]], [[Oregon]], by the time they got there. Pursuing it, 'Bee's team was sent to assault the base from the north, but when Bumblebee broke through the base wall, he was confronted by a most unexpected set of opponents: Initiative-controlled Transformers! {{storylink|Nefarious issue 5|Nefarious #5}} The damage he took from the initial blast knocked him out of the fight, but he had recovered in time to help during the clean-up. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 6|Nefarious #6}}

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While Bumblebee was picnicking with Sam and Arcee, a small earthquake, followed by the emergence of a Transformer energy signature, prompted the trio to investigate. Tracing the signal to a nearby cave, they were attacked by [[Space Case (DOTM)|Space Case]], who had been freed from his subterranean prison by the 'quake, and who promptly brought the cave down on top of the threesome. {{storylink|Transformers: Space Case}} Separated from Arcee in the cave-in, Bumblebee managed to hold up the collapsed ceiling, but could not get any transmissions out through the rocks, and found his strength slowly ebbing as the weight pressed down. 'Bee's mind drifted back to a recent encounter he and Sam had with Starscream, and remembered how the boy had aided him by using downed power lines to electrocute the Decepticon. Reminded that friendship meant trying your hardest and not letting your friends down, Bumblebee dug deep, and when a crack of light appeared overhead, managed to wrench the rocks clear. The pair were lifted to safety by Ratchet, who had been digging for them, and who was amazed that Bumblebee had had the strength to carry the weight for as long as he had. {{storylink|Transformers: Bumblebee}}

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While visiting Sam at college in [[Philadelphia]], Bumblebee was parked at the roadside waiting for him while he grabbed lunch when he was approached by "[[Brains]]", a Decepticon brain unit who had just recently come online and escaped from [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] and [[Astrotrain (DOTM)|Astrotrain]]. Believing him to be an ordinary Earth vehicle, but not understanding that said vehicles were not alive, Brains tried asking Bumblebee for help; naturally, Bee did not break cover by replying, but when an angry Brains then kicked him, 'Bee's temper got the better of him and he transformed. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 1|Rising Storm #1}} Sam and Bumblebee brought Brains back to his college, but this only made them targets for a force of Decepticons heralded by 'Bee's recurring opponent, Barricade. Vastly outnumbered, Bumblebee nearly met his maker at the end of [[Sonar (ROTF)|Sonar]]'s blaster, but was saved when NEST reinforcements [[Dino|Mirage]] and [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]] arrived. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}} As the battle intensified, Bumblebee and Barricade squared off once more, {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 3|Rising Storm #3}} but as more Autobot backup came to join the fight, Bumblebee got the better of his old enemy and defeated him yet again. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 4|Rising Storm #4}}

Concurrently with the battle in Philadelphia, Shockwave had staged a devastating attack on NEST's Diego Garcia base, necessitating a restructuring of the organization. NEST's [[Charlotte Mearing|new director]] removed Bumblebee from his position as Sam's guardian, and placed him on full-time NEST activity. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 4|Rising Storm #4}} Some time later, the Autobots faced the return of Sentinel Prime and Bumblebee and Sam were reunited to thwart his space bridge plot. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Adaptation|Dark of the Moon movie adaptation}}
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====''Transformers: Beginnings''====
[[File:MoviePrequel bumblebee seeks allspark.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.8|It's a great big universe, and we're all really puny We're just tiny little specs about the size of Mickey Rooney]]
{{voiceactor|[[Mark Ryan]]}}

[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] entrusted Bumblebee with the secret that the AllSpark would be sent into deep space to prevent Lord Megatron from possessing and corrupting it. Just after the launch, Megatron attacked Bumblebee in rage at losing the AllSpark and shattered the Autobot's voice capacitor beyond repair.

Bumblebee arrived on Earth and, sensing the AllSpark was near, took on local camouflage to search for the artifact. He immediately attracted the attention of Sector Seven agents and the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers: Beginnings (Movie)|Transformers: Beginnings}}

{{note|Transformers: Beginnings is a condensed, flash-animated retelling of the events of the [[Transformers: Movie Prequel|Movie Prequel]], described in the above section.}}
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====''Schick Hydrobot and the Transformers''====
While searching for Decepticons, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Hound came across [[Hydrobot (TLK)|Hydrobot]] and mistook him for a [[Decepticon]]. Before they could catch him, Hydrobot escaped from the Autobots' clutches. The trio started to realize that they might have judged the small 'bot wrongly when Hound found out that the [[H-Boostium|substance]] Hydrobot left behind was nothing like something a Decepticon would use. They traced its source to a [[Schick]] R&D department and gained access into it in vehicle mode by fooling the guard into believing that the vehicles modes they were using was ordered by the scientist Dr. [[Hiroshi Benson]] himself. Upon gaining access to the laboratory, they confronted Hiroshi in robot mode, which left the human scientist baffled.

Shortly after the scientist finished explaining the origin of the substance and Hydrobot, a squadron of Decepticons led by Megatron suddenly bursted through the wall, explaining their intent to use the devices inside Hiroshi's laboratory to build the Energon converter. Luckily, Hydrobot arrived at the scene to help the Autobots by knocking over [[Onslaught (ROTF)|Onslaught]]. With help from Hiroshi's [[Energy-field razor|control set]], Bumblebee released a shock burst towards the Decepticons, prompting them to retreat. After all was said and done, the Autobots gave Hydrobot a lift and bid their farewells, but Bumblebee knew that he would return one day. {{storylink|A New Friend|A New Friend}}
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====''Bumblebee Movie Prequel''====
{{note|Bumblebee Movie Prequel follows along with the continuity twist regarding Bumblebee's arrival on Earth that was established in [[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]], yet is incompatible with the Bumblebee film itself.}}
During the war for Cybertron, Bumblebee was friends with the Autobot [[Diabla (BB)|Diabla]], at one point battling alongside her in the [[smelting pool]]s of [[Polyhex]]. {{storylink|From Cybertron with Love}} Unbeknownst to Bumblebee, Diabla was a Decepticon mole who had infiltrated the Autobots to destabilize them from within; when Diabla's treachery was revealed, Bumblebee maintained that Diabla had ''always'' been an Autobot, albeit one who had gone bad and joined the Decepticons.

After arriving on Earth and serving in World War II, Bumblebee — prior to the loss of his voicebox — fell in with [[Sector Seven]] at some point after the end of the war. At some point during the early 1960s the organization traded him to [[Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]], Bumblebee joining the ranks of Britain's elite counterintelligence agency [[P.R.O.G.R.A.M.M.E.]] Partnered with the not-so-suave superspy [[David Reeve]], {{storylink|The Man with the Golden Car}} and taking pointers from intelligence specialist [[Diana Lux]], {{storylink|The Living Headlights}} Bumblebee and Reeve embarked on a series of globetrotting adventures, battling against the forces of [[Konrad Gotell]]'s [[E.I.D.O.L.O.N.]] crime syndicate. In [[1964]], the duo tracked Gottell to [[Germany|East Berlin]]. Though Reeve discovered that Gotell had already been killed, and his office booby-trapped rigged to blow, Bumblebee was forced to evade the German police before he could rescue his partner from [[Wild Rider|Wildrider]], killing him by throwing him into the [[Berlin Wall]] and crushing him with a chunk of rubble.

Some time later, the duo returned to the United Kingdom to rendezvous with their handlers at [[Maundy Gregory Studio]]; though initially put out about being left in the rain, his position allowed him to realize that [[Pelham|the agency's director]] had been killed, his car coopted as a disguise for the Decepticon [[Runabout (BB)|Runabout]]. Bee was barely able to warn Reeve and Lux before the blast from Pelham's explosive-rigged body took out the studio, shielding his human friends from Runabout and Diabla's attacks. At Reeve's suggestion, Bumblebee fell back, deploying an oil slick to trip up the Decepticons while he made his escape. Regrouping on [[Victoria Embankment]], Reeve was barely able to recontact [[B.A.S.E.S.T.A.T.I.O.N.]] on a secure line: learning that P.R.O.G.R.A.M.M.E. had been potentially compromised by a human collaborator, the trio were sanctioned to do whatever it took to eliminate the compromised agent. {{storylink|The Man with the Golden Car}} Reeve was unaware that Bee and Lux had tapped the call, and though Lux briefly wondered if Reeve would kill ''them'' based on that suspicions, the sight of his partner raising his gun caused the Autobot to flee... until it became clear that Reeve was aiming at the Decepticon duo who had tailed them, and the subsequent chase took them across London until Bumblebee transformed to tangle with Diabla atop [[Tower Bridge]]. When it became clear that Diabla wouldn't listen to her old comrade, and that the Decepticon had him phsycially outmatched, Bumblebee escaped death by diving into the [[Thames]] so that he could meet up with his human contacts at a secret P.R.O.G.R.A.M.M.E. safehouse.

To meet with Gottell's old contact [[Vladimir Vladek]], the two humans disguised themselves as a photographer and a model, staking out [[Carnaby Street]] in the process and using Bumblebee's vehicle mode to block the road from Diabla so that the two humans could break into Vladek's headquarters. In the ensuing battle, Bumblebee attempted to talk down his old friend; this time, the Decepticon agreed, and the pair retreated to the roof to converse. Despite his best efforts, Bumblebee was unable to convince Diabla to reveal any information about her human connections, and the entire conversation was quickly revealed to be a distraction, so that [[Dead End (ROTF)|Dead End]] could tie up another loose end by killing Vladek while [[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]] eliminated the Autobot. {{storylink|The Living Headlights}}

Left to the mercy of Diabla and Blitzwing, Diabla's brief moment of mercy — when she briefly considered giving Bumblebee a quick and painless death — allowed Bumblebee to take on Blitzwing, though it quickly became clear that the Autobot was outmatched. Instead, Bee fired at a nearby gas main, using the explosion as cover to scoop up his human allies before transforming and fleeing into the [[London Underground]]. Pursued by Diabla, Bumblebee was able to outmaneuver his Decepticon foe by deploying his meager rear-mounted weaponry, baiting her into getting hit by an oncoming train while he re-emerged in south London.

Having eluded their pursuers, Reeve made contact with an "old friend" who promised more news regarding the activities of their foes. That evening, the group headed to [[Hyde Park]] to meet up with Reeve's ally; though momentarily surprised by a Decepticon ambush, their opponents were taken offline by [[Heath Donovan]], a Sector Seven agent in charge of keeping tabs on Bumblebee. New information revealed the full extent of the Decepticon's plans, including the extinction of humanity by turning the [[Cold War (history)|Cold War]] hot, but thanks to the homing device he'd tagged Diabla with in the Underground Bumblebee revealed that he was able to take them to their base of operations. Hitching a ride aboard a [[Jetfire (Movie)|stealth jet]], the trio parachuted into an abandoned castle, with Bumblebee dropping [[Darksteel (DOTM)|a guard]] before fighting their way into the complex... and discovered the diminutive Decepticon [[Malignus (BB)|Malignus]] as the mastermind behind the conflict. {{storylink|Energon Is Forever}}

Having revealed his role in recent events, gloating about his plans to push the nations of Earth into a nuclear war, Bumblebee begged Diabla for help one last time — only for Lux to reveal that she had previously turned Bumblebee's homing rounds into explosive devices, and detonated Diabla's, causing a momentary distraction that allowed the three heroes to slip their bonds. Deploying an underwater mode, Bumblebee was able to dive into the castle waterways, using his oil slick to blind the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]]s that pursued him. When it seemed like his luck had run out, however, he was unexpectedly rescued... by ''Diabla'', who assured him that she had saved him only so that ''she'' could kill him, as revenge for his killing of the humans of E.I.D.O.L.O.N., siccing Dead End on the yellow Autobot. Though Reeve was able to kill Malignus, his missile had already launched, and the three spies were unable to do anything about it — only becoming aware that the conflicted Diabla had already climbed aboard to defuse it too late to stop her. Momentarily throwing Dead End off balance by using a falling Sharkticon to crush the red Decepticon, Bumblebee was too focused on preventing Diabla from killing herself to notice the arrival of Blitzwing and Dead End, but a shout from Reeve caused Bee to duck, and Blitzwing's shot to blow Dead End apart. Grabbing his two-human allies, Bumblebee leapt into the ocean as the disabled missile plummeted back into the castle, destroying it and all of its occupants.

In the aftermath, Bumblebee and his two-human allies survived, but were unable to determine if Diabla had done the same. Bumblebee spied one of her tires, which led her to believe that his old friend had survived the battle. Ferrying his partners back to shore, the Autobot vowed to find her... and, if he couldn't find her, than to kill Blitzwing. Over the next twenty years, Bumblebee left his human friends behind to pursue his new mission, travelling across the globe and eventually dedicating himself to eliminating Blitzwing instead. Eventually, Bumblebee tracked Blitzwing down, and the pair prepared to do battle once more... {{storylink|From Cybertron with Love}}

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===Titan movie comics===
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Bumblebee was part of a mission to trick Megatron into looking in the wrong place for the AllSpark{{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Reprint of Prequel #1}}, in which he was the only one who knew the truth (not even team leader [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] knew!) {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2|Recap in #2}} He lost his voice when Megatron crushed his vocal processor upon witnessing the launch of the AllSpark. The Decepticon leader immediately discarded his body and took off after the cube {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2|Prelude: Megatron}} and it was a long while before he was recovered. {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_3#Items of note|Prelude: Ratchet}}

Rendered voiceless, he continued to fight on Cybertron and would encounter [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] when the two were about to be thrown into a Decepticon smelting pool. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.2|Dogfight!}} In 2003, he travelled to Earth while tracing the AllSpark and would spend years evading Decepticons and Sector 7 alike. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3|Reprint of Prequel #3}} {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 4|Reprint of Prequel #4}}

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Bumblebee and his fellow Autobots would ultimately follow the AllSpark to the planet Earth, where Bumblebee befriended the human Sam Witwicky. Some time after the battle of Mission City, Bumblebee was driven by the Witwickys to [[Princeton University|Sam's college]], where he quietly endured their bickering while scanning everything around him for potential threats. When he picked up radio transmissions from two new Autobots, he drove off into battle, and saved [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] from being slaughtered by [[Ransack (ROTF)|the Decepticon Ransack]]. But with the villain threatening a long game, Bumblebee knew that trouble was on the horizon. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.2|Dogfight!}} 'Bee brought Skids and Mudflap to meet with the other Autobots at [[Edwards Air Force Base]] in California, but no sooner had he turned his back than the pair snuck off to find Optimus Prime on their own, insisting they had a message for his ears only. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|Learning Curve}}

[[File:Titan2-6 aimedatyourheart.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.8|There's only room for ''one'' kid-appeal character...]]

Some time later, Bumblebee was hanging out in Sam's garage when he received an emergency call from NEST: the twins, having apparently fallen in with the Decepticons, had abducted Sam! 'Bee tore out of the garage, tracked down the twins, and demanded they stop immediately. When they didn't, he launched suppressive fire and began ramming Skids, which soon convinced them to release Sam. As Bumblebee held the twins at gunpoint, ready to eliminate if necessary, Mudflap's tried to explain that they hadd been framed and there was a bigger threat coming... but before 'Bee could hear any more, he was gunned down in a surprise attack from Soundwave. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.6|Outlaw Blues}} The "bigger threat" the twins had warned of soon arrived, in the form of The Fallen, but the Autobots were able to defeat the ancient Decepticon. Afterwards, back in the field in [[Beverly Hills]], Bumblebee was part of a unit assigned to captured [[Reverb (ROTF)|Reverb]]; Jolt messed the mission up, but Bumblebee saved the day by ''ramming'' the bike head-on. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.9|Culture Shock}}

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Later, with Lennox and his crew searching for [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seekers]], Bumblebee was left with only [[Robert Epps]] to investigate an attack on Malmstrom Air Force Base and the disappearance of Optimus Prime. Epps worked out that Optimus had been victim of an electromagnetic bomb, and Bumblebee tracked his leader to where he was being held (Poor Epps had to ride in Bumblebee jumping a ravine, and almost spewed up his breakfast). After locating Prime, they found he was a captive of the [[Free Men]] militia. At Epps command, Bumblebee hit the Free Men compound with his full firepower, swiftly defeating the militia. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.10| Bring Me the Head of Optimus Prime}}

[[File:Titan18 Bumblethumbsup.jpg|thumb|upright=1|It's true!]]

Bumblebee selected [[Death Valley]] as the site for a survival exercise for raw recruits Jolt, Dune Runner, and [[Rollbar (ROTF)|Rollbar]].{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.11|Spare Parts!}} Later, he was summoned as back-up by NEST [[South Africa]] alongside [[Springer (ROTF)|Springer]] and Gears due to a Decepticon jailbreak led by [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]], but Optimus ordered him to let the Decepticons leave to prevent civilian casualties. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.13|Inside Out!}}

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Ultimately, this failure left the Autobots' reputations in the toilet, and with concerns that public fights risked alienating humans, Bumblebee was tasked to head a covert unit with [[Slap Dash (ROTF)|Slap Dash]] and [[Hubcap (TF 2010)|Hubcap]]. They were charged with operating under NEST's radar, monitoring Decepticons and waiting for windows of opportunity out of the public eye, before hitting hard and fast. In practice, this meant allowing Decepticons like [[Crankstart]], [[Brimstone (TF 2010)|Brimstone]], and [[Trenchmouth]] to run amok in cities, with Bumblebee restraining his desire to stop them and keeping his men from taking action. After an uncomfortable period of hoping nobody would be killed, the Decepticons went to an isolated stretch of road: now free to act, Bumblebee led his men in a vicious ambush and personally drove ''through'' Crankshaft. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.18|Shadow War}}

Information obtained from the Decepticon unit Bumblebee's covert squad had brought in allowed the Autobots to trace the location of Bludgeon's Decepticons' base to [[Arkhangelskaya Oblast]] in [[Russia]]. Regrettably, while strategizing together, Bumblebee and Ironhide made the mistake of dismissing Wheelie when he offered to help; insulted and angry, the little scrap drone sold the Autobots out to Bludgeon's Decepticons, who were able to ambush 'Bee and the Autobots when they moved to attacked their base, with Springer being shot out of the sky following an air strike by [[Skywarp (Movie)|Skywarp]] and [[Thrust (Movie)|Thrust]], Slap Dash being killed by Bludgeon, and Hubcap being subsequently killed/wounded as well. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.20|Divided Loyalties}} Fortunately for the Autobots, Megatron himself soon arrived and slew Bludgeon for his transgressions, meaning Bumblebee and the others did not have to battle the rogue Decepticon at all. In the wake of the two Decepticons' brawl, Bumblebee discovered the shattered remains of Wheelie, who had been torn to bits. Unaware of his treachery, 'Bee gathered up his parts to take back to Ratchet for repair... unaware that the cannibalistic Decepticon [[Dead End (ROTF)|Dead End]] was on his trail! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.21|A Short, Sharp Lesson!}}

Intrigued by the human ritual of "[[Christmas]]", Bumblebee convinced Sam to let him secretly observe the Witwicky family during the festive proceedings. Unfortunately, Dead End tracked the Autobot to the Witwickys' house and attacked on Christmas Eve, tearing bits of Bumblebee's mechanisms out to integrate into his own body. Luckily, 'Bee managed to shock the zombie-con into submission before their fight awoke Sam's parents, and he was even able to get into the gift-giving on Christmas morning, buying Judy Witwicky car wax. Sam's present was particularly timely: a new traction bearing to replace the one Dead End had torn out! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.19|The Nightmare Bee-4 Christmas}}

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When the Autobots were summoned to [[Fiesole Cathedral]] in [[Fiesole]], [[Italy]] to examine a mysterious object discovered there by an archaeology professor, Bumblebee accidentally smashed the cathedrals shrine to Saint Donatus. Determined to prevent the Autobots from getting ahold of the object—actually a piece of Sentinel Prime's ''Ark''—Starscream attacked the cathedral, blasting Bumblebee through a wall with a volley of missiles. Recovering, 'Bee joined Optimus Prime in pursuing Starscream to the cathedral's belltower, but the Decepticon then brought the tower down on top of them and escaped with the ''Ark'' component. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.1|Fight for Fiesole}}

At some point, Bumblebee uncovered some intel, pointing towards Soundwave working in conjunction with the [[Tanto Gang]], and passed on the information to Lennox. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.2|Gold And Blood}}

[[File:AcceptNoSubstitutes bumblebee vs stinger.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.5|Can ''you'' tell which is the real Bumblebee out of the guy who can talk and the one who can't?]]

Bumblebee was later teamed with Robert Epps to hunt down Soundwave in the Spanish [[Sierra Nevada]] mountain range, but NEST's intelligence regarding the Decepticons' operational status was flawed: Soundwave's weapons systems were in perfect working order, and Bumblebee was badly damaged by his attacks. Luckily, Optimus Prime arrived to save them. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.3|Dealing with the Devil}}

After the return of Sentinel Prime and the battle of Chicago, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and [[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]] tracked three Decepticon survivors of the conflict to [[Jakarta]], [[Indonesia]]. When the Decepticons retreated and Crosshairs tracked them to [[Pulau Bidadari]], Bumblebee monitored the ranger and relayed the events to Optimus. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.2|Thousand Island Fight}}

Not long after, Bumblebee was shocked to see a news report claiming that he had attacked a human power plant. Though 'Bee was eager to hunt down his mysterious doppelgänger, Optimus Prime encouraged him to wait until he had the Autobot leader to back him up. The choice was soon taken out of Bumblebee's hands, however: responding to a fire at a remote human homestead, he was attacked by his mysterious duplicate, who introduced himself as "[[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]]", and promptly welded 'Bee's battle mask shut so they would be totally indistinguishable from one another. Optimus Prime soon arrived and had to train his guns on the two identical Bumblebees... but the standoff was brief, as the real 'Bee revealed himself when he dived to save a human who had fallen from the burning building. Prime quickly sent Stinger packing, and he and Bumblebee rolled out together, wondering where Stinger had come from... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.3|Accept No Substitutes!}}
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====Alternate timeline====

[[File:Titan MikaelaBumblebee.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Why is he apologizing, you ask? Look where his left hand is.]]

In an [[Tyran 208.28 Gamma|alternate timeline]], the battle of Mission City turned out very differently—Megatron killed Sam, captured Optimus, and obtained the AllSpark. The Decepticons proceeded to conquer North America, and by the start of 2008, had begun a plan to cyberform the Earth using the AllSpark's energies. Bumblebee—his voice still functional—and Mikaela Banes went underground, working with [[Tom Banachek]] to fight a guerilla war against the Decepticons.

Considering Optimus their last, best hope for victory, Bumblebee and Mikaela went on a mission to rescue him from the old Sector Seven base in Hoover Dam, which the Decepticons were now using as their headquarters. Mikaela quickly shot down Bumblebee's concerns about her safety, though she ''did'' almost get squished when 'Bee took out the bunker guard Swindle. Entering, the pair quickly located Optimus, but in a most unexpected condition: frozen solid in the old cryo-system previously used to contain Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}} Stalked by Megatron, Bumblebee kept the Decepticon leader busy while Mikaela attempt to deactivate the freezing system, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 10|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2}} but was baited into revealing himself when the tyrant threatened to kill Mikaela. Bumblebee made a desperate attack, only to be beaten aside with ease, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 11|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 3}} but he remained defiant to the end and refused to beg for mercy. Luckily, Autobot reinforcements arrived; although even they were no match for Megatron, their added distraction provided Mikaela time to thaw out Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 12|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4}} While Prime and Megatron battled, Mikaela arrived with Phase Two of their plan: a Sector Seven nanovirus that targeted AllSpark energy. Loading the virus into himself, Bumblebee charged Megatron, forcibly transmitting the nano-virus into him via a light-beam from his headlights. The virus killed Megatron once and for all, but Bumblebee did not celebrate too loudly, as he knew too well that this just left a [[Starscream (Movie)|power vacuum]]... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5}}

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Bumblebee and the Autobots [[Savannah]], [[Georgia]], to survey the damage done by the Decepticons' AllSpark cyberforming project. He took Mikaela to a nearby refugee camp, but as Optimus Prime had feared, the humans the were fearful of him, viewing all Cybertronians as an unwanted presence. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 14|Aftermath, Part 1}} In apparent further validation of this fear, the Autobots soon came under attack from a [[NATO]] unit while attempting to defend the camp from a Decepticon attack, but intel from Banachek suggested something was not right. Spotting the human in charge of the unit, Bumblebee and Mikaela ran a gauntlet of human and Decepticon firepower, blinding the former with his headlights and roasting the latter with his fiery exhaust, in order to get to the man. Having got in close enough, Bumblebee was able to detect a mind-controlling Decepticon [[cerebro-strip]] on the man, and Mikaela freed him from its effects, ending the conflict. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 15|Aftermath Part 2}} Following this battle, the Decepticons continued their attacks on human infrastructure; Bumblebee was part of a unit defending an oil pipeline in [[Crooked Creek]], [[Alaska]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 16|Dark Spark}}

[[File:ReturntoCybertronpt2 ironhide restrained.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Leave it, mate, 'e's not worf it!]]

Bumblebee was part of a unit under Ironhide's command that was sent back to Cybertron in order to retrieve [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] in hopes it could be used to repair the damage inflicted upon the Earth by the AllSpark. Touching down on their homeworld, Bumblebee was sent on recon and discovered a strange satellite dish, but when the team investigated it, they were jumped by a team of Decepticons led by [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]]. The revelation that Stockade's "New Decepticons" were in control of the planet's Nucleon supply, followed by the appearance of a strange energy anomaly in Cybertron's orbit, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 17|Return to Cybertron: Part 1}} convinced Bumblebee to try talking, rather than fighting; after convincing Ironhide to stop throwing his face at Stockade's fists, he learned from Stockade that the anomaly was a living entity the Decepticons had deliberately summoned, believing it would rejuvenate Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 18|Return to Cybertron: Part 2}}

Not trusting this entity and wanting to stop all the Nucleon being used up, Bumblebee had the Autobots create a distraction while he turned the Nucleon transfer off, and sent a distress call to Optimus Prime on Earth. His efforts to prevent the arrival of the entity failed, and it revealed itself to be [[Unicron|Unicron, the Anti-Life]], as it began to possess Cybertron itself. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 18|Return to Cybertron: Part 2}} In the resulting chaos, Bumblebee had to rescue Ironhide when the satellite dish collapsed on him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 19|Return to Cybertron: Part 3}} Optimus soon arrived in response to Bumblebee's summons, brokered an alliance with Stockade, and came up with a plan: Cut off the Nucleon that Unicron's body was using for power. Bumblebee and Armorhide were dispatched to drain the Nucleon seam, but were not able to siphon all of the fuel off fast enough, so Ratchet came up with a quicker alternative: blowing it up. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 20|Return to Cybertron: Part 4}}

[[File:Titan MikaelaBumblebeereunion.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|OTP!]]

Upon returning to Earth, the Autobots found the Decepticons had pinched their base and all 600 square miles around it. They retreated, leaving Mikaela in Decepticon hands; Bumblebee was distraught over this. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 21|Hard Target}} He would be part of the raid to get her back, perfectly aware it was an obvious trap, but not caring due to how much they owed Mikaela. The raid was successful and the two were reunited, awwww! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 22|The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself}}

The pair's time together was short, as soon, the Decepticon-blackmailed American government ordering the Autobots off the planet. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Revolution, Part 1}} Knowing that the Decepticons were behind, Optimus Prime had Bumblebee and Ironhide prepare a decoy ship; {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution Part 3}} the following day, after Bumblebee said his farewells to Mikaela (and beat up the Decepticon [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] as an "up yours" gesture), the Decepticons had the ship blown up shortly after takeoff. [[File:Revolutionpt3 the end.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8]] {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Revolution, Part 1}} Believed dead, Bumblebee and the Autobots hid themselves on Cybertron, where they readied their final weapon against the Decepticons: a teleportation system that would trap the Decepticons on the dead planet, then teleport ''it'' off to the far reaches of the universe. When all was in readiness, the Autobots returned to Earth; Mikaela was ''not'' happy to find out they had not told her of their plan, but Bumblebee denied that it was because they didn't trust her—they had simply had to minimize any possible exposure. In the final battle that followed, Bumblebee tagged Megatron with the teleport tech, and the Decepticon leaders and his followers were soon exiled forever.

In the aftermath, after it became clear the Autobots had just exiled ''themselves'' to Earth forever—"Hey, there are worse fates," said Bumblebee—Mikaela forgave Bumblebee. Both had a lot of clean-up work to do, but also a brave new world to explore together...! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution, Part 3}}
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===Toy bios===
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Bumblebee learned hand-to-hand combat at the most prestigious combat training center on Cybertron, where he received his converting energon blade as a reward for his skills. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#WalmartRace|''Dark of the Moon'' Walmart-exclusive Bumblebee}} It was on the battlefields of Cybertron that Bumblebee first met the Decepticon Starscream, who he would meet again and again in combat. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BeeStarscream|Bumblebee/Starscream}}

Bumblebee repeatedly crossed paths with fellow elite spy Decepticon [[Hardtop (Movie)|Hardtop]]; initially a professional rivalry, the relationship between the two 'bots slowly evolved into a personal vendetta that saw the pair battle across the galaxy. It was a crack shot by Hardtop that damaged Bumblebee's vocal processors, causing the Autobot pain when he tries to speak. {{storylink|Hardtop (Movie)#Transformers (2007)|Hardtop}}

Bumblebee was sent to Earth ahead of the other Autobot by Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#TF2007_76deluxe|Deluxe Bumblebee ('76 Camaro)}} During [[World War II]], Bumblebee teamed up with [[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]] to provide serious firepower during an assault on an enemy stronghold they infiltrated, during which they unleashed the war machines within. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SS26|''Studio Series'' WWII Bumblebee}} {{storylink|Hot Rod (DOTM)#Studio Series|WWII Hot Rod}}

Prior to his arrival on Earth, Bumblebee cared little for the appearance of his alternate mode, simply scanning the first vehicle he saw, {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#evoofhero|Evolution of a Hero}} but that changed upon befriending Sam Witwicky. At the boy's urging, Bumblebee scanned a new Concept Camaro form, and came to appreciate how stylish he looked. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#TF2007ConceptCamaro|Deluxe Bumblebee (Concept Camaro)}} His shiny new form was soon badly damaged, however, during the battle of Mission City—with his legs blown off, Bumblebee had to be towed to safety by the newborn [[Longarm (Movie)|Longarm]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#TowedToSafety|Towed to Safety}}

When the AllSpark was destroyed, Bumblebee was briefly empowered by its radiation, and put the new power to use hunting down the straggling Decepticons. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#AllSparkPower|AllSpark Power Bumblebee}} One such Decepticon was [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]], who he hunted across the [[Middle East]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Allspark2pack|Bumblebee vs. Scorponok}} Then, with the initial threat over, Bumblebee decided to kick back and relax. Transcanning a rally car, he began hanging around at race tracks, pitting himself against the human racers. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Fast Action Battlers|Rally Rocket Bumblebee}}

Following this, Bumblebee volunteered to be Sam's guardian. It was a pretty swank deal: he got to hang with Sam and Mikaela all the time, got lots of [[oil]], and could join Ironhide in killing Decepticons whenever he wanted. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#ROTFdeluxe|''Revenge of the Fallen'' Bumblebee}} Peacetime afforded him the luxury of becoming meticulous about his alternate mode; he even had Ratchet learn a little about the cosmetic side of repair work. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Premium|Premium Series Bumblebee}}

In time, Bumblebee came to realize that with pictures of him all over the internet, ''everyone'' recognized him... including newly arriving Decepticons, which put Sam and others in danger! With Mikaela's help, Bumblebee recolored himself to help restore his disguise and make it easier to sneak up on the enemy. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#TF2007Stealth|Stealth Bumblebee}} With the Decepticon forces constantly growing, he also decided to upgrade his arsenal and modified his vehicle mode so he could use weaponry in it, deciding he'd been caught off guard too many times before. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Cannon|Cannon Bumblebee}} When the battle shifted to the deserts, he threw himself into the fray, upgrading himself for desert combat and wielding the mighty ''sand blast''! {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#SandAttack|Sand Attack Bumblebee}}

Following the defeat of The Fallen, Bumblebee returned to active NEST duty, hunting down the Decepticons hiding across Earth; Sam even began joining him in the field. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#ROTFHumanAlliance|Human Alliance Bumblebee}} Discovering that [[Dirge (Movie)|Dirge]] had secreted himself inside NEST itself, Bumblebee teamed with [[Armorhide (Movie)|Armorhide]] and [[Evac (Movie)|Evac]] to ferret him out. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Alliance|Alliance Bumblebee}} {{storylink|Evac (Movie)#Revenge of the Fallen|Evac (Deluxe)}} He had a particular dislike for [[Shadow Striker (ROTF)|Shadow Striker]], who really got under his metal skin. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#LegendsVsShadowStriker|Bumblebee vs Shadow Striker}}

At some point, Bumblebee took on Soundwave, {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#VsSoundwave|Battlefield Bumblebee vs Infiltration Soundwave}} and brought his battle blade to bear in combat with Ravage and [[Insecticon (Movie)|Insecticon]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BattleBlade|Battle Blade Bumblebee}} His experience fighting fliers also meant that he was fully equipped to deal with [[Thrust (Movie)|Thrust]] {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#CrashLandingAttack|Crash Landing Attack}} and [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]]. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BombingRunBattle|Bombing Run Battle}}

Bumblebee was the first Autobot try out the new [[MechTech]] weapons developed by NEST, {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#DOTM|''Dark of the Moon'' Leader Bumblebee}} and also began toting a Mobile Battle Bunker around. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#CyberverseActionSet|Bumblebee Mobile Battle Bunker}} Like several other Transformers, he took to inscribing [[Cyberglyphics]] on his armor before significant battles, out of a superstitious racial belief that they granted good luck. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Cyberglyph|"Cyberglyph" Bumblebee}}

Hating how Soundwave always seemed to track his movements, Bumblebee put together a plan to take care of him once and for all. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#BeeSoundwaveRodimus|Bumblebee / Soundwave with Rodimus}} He also found time to form the Autobot Daredevil Squad together with Sam and [[Backfire (TF 2010)|Backfire]], {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Daredevil|Autobot Daredevil Squad}} and battle Shockwave alongside Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#StreetsideBotBrawl|Streetside Bot Brawl}}

Following the battle of Chicago, Bumblebee had to disguise himself as a super-charged muscle car to avoid detection in a world where all Transformers are in danger of being hunted. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#HighOctaneDeluxe|High Octane Bumblebee}} When his allies were in danger, he dropped his disguise and charged into battle. {{storylink|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#2014Deluxe|''Age of Extinction'' Bumblebee}}

===''Mini Mayhem!''===
In a celebration of the Transformers brand, Bumblebee showed up as the representative for the "Movie" era of the franchise. {{storylink|Mini Mayhem!}}
===Cyber Missions===
{{voiceactor|[[Tom Anderson]], [[David Kledzik]], [[Tony Gialluca II]], [[Bronco D. Jackson]] (English)|[[José Antonio Macías]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Alexandre Moreno]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}

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Some time after the defeat of The Fallen, Bumblebee and Ironhide were reviewing some [[datatrax]] that Optimus Prime had made for preservation in [[Vector Sigma]] when they detected an explosion outside their base. Bumblebee remained to lock down the most important data tracks while Ironhide went to investigate [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|the cause]] of the explosion. However, that turned out to be just what the Decepticons wanted, as moments later, Soundwave burst into the base, overwhelming Bumblebee with a sonic attack. Bumblebee attempted to counter with a shot from his shoulder cannon, but Soundwave absorbed the sonic boom and sent the acoustic energy back at him, bragging about his mastery of sound. Bumblebee decided to put his sonic skills to the absolute test, and unleashed a barrage of automatic weaponsfire at the Decepticon. At ten thousand rounds per minute, Soundwave was faced with too many sonic booms to absorb, and was soon flat on his back. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 1}} [[File:CyberMissions8 bumblebee in the arctic.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.5]] Bumblebee enclosed the defeated Soundwave in an electromagnetically sealed bubble, cut off from all sound. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 2}}

Ironhide, meanwhile, had gone missing in the jungle; Bumblebee reported the problem to Optimus, who had 'Bee perform a scan of the area. Bumblebee discovered several rich deposits of [[energon]] ore, which Prime pinpoint Ironhide's location. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 5}} Reunited, Bumblebee and Ironhide went on a training exercise in the Arctic, where the bigger 'bot put 'Bee through his paces. As Bumblebee was frequently singled out as a target by the Decepticons because of his small size, Ironhide taught him the importance of staying on guard and being mindful of his surroundings. As the pair sparred, Bumblebee learned another benefit of being aware of everything around him when Ironhide stopped their fight after they nearly crushed a strange little plant growing through the ice... a plant, Ironhide implied, that could well be sentient. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 8}}

[[File:CyberMissions9 Bumblebee.JPG|upright=1.5|thumb|BUUU!]]

When Decepticons [[Smolder (PCC)|Smolder]] and [[Chopster]] set fire to a building [[Scramble City (city)|Scramble City]], Bumblebee and Ratchet were dispatched to the scene by Optimus Prime. A menacing look from Bumblebee sent the diminutive Chopster running off in terror; 'Bee called after him to tell Smolder they would "like a word", hoping they could perhaps talk the situation out rather than fight, but Smolder wasn't interested. Bumblebee grappled with the pyromaniac Decepticon while Ratchet powered up his EMP blaster, which he then used to knock Smolder offline. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 9}}

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Optimus reported finding Megatron and Starscream in the Arctic regions of Earth, and Bumblebee was summoned to aid his leader in battle alongside Ironhide, Ratchet and Sideswipe. Leaving Megatron to handle Prime, Starscream attacked all the Autobots at once, but the combined fire of the four heroes was enough to ground the Decepticon. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 12}}

Optimus later laid a trap to lure the Decepticons to a final confrontation with a hologram of Soundwave, and Megatron indeed walked right into it. Bumblebee, Ironhide, and Ratchet arrived to join the battle, and in the ensuing fight, Bumblebee took on Mindwipe. The Decepticon tried to hypnotize Bumblebee into not fighting, but Bumblebee blocked out his voice and kept up the attack. An army of humans soon arrived and surrounded the combatants, and the day went to the Autobots. Optimus instructed the Decepticons to leave Earth to be destroyed, and after they had fled, Bumblebee stamped a huge Autobot symbol in the dirt, a marker visible from far away that let all Decepticons who saw it know that the Autobots protected the planet. {{storylink|Decepticons Attack}}
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===Transformers Annual 2011===
Bumblebee charged to Sam's defense when Starscream tried to abduct the boy, but proved no match for the Decepticon, and was flung around the yard. As Starscream started making off with Sam, Bumblebee made another attempt to stop him, and was brushed aside. Luckily Optimus arrived to help, and Starscream soon fled, but the Witwicky's yard was in ruins. {{storylink|Sam in Danger}}

===''Unite for the Universe''===
[[File:UnitefortheUniverse bumblebee vs ravage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.6]]
During NEST's ongoing worldwide hunt for the Decepticons after the defeat of The Fallen, Bumblebee paid a visit to NEST's regional headquarters in [[Bloemfontein]], [[South Africa]]. As he entered the facility, Decepticon spy Ravage was able to quickly sneak through the closing door behind him, but Bumblebee spotted him in his rear-view mirror and quickly went on the attack. When Ravage pounced on him, Bumblebee triggered his headlights, blinding the feline Decepticon and sending him fleeing, leaving Bumblebee confused as to the point of the infiltration... unaware that an airborne nano-virus Ravage had carried with him had already picked NEST's computers clean of information regarding [[Project Unite|Project: Unite]]. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 1|Ambition Instigated}}
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===''I Can Read!'' books===
[[File:BumblebeeandSideswipe-TrainingDay.jpg|thumb|left]]
Bumblebee met up with Optimus, Ironhide and Sideswipe in a desert to train. He raced Sideswipe, only for their training to be interrupted by a large boulder tumbling towards a nearby town. The two Autobots destroyed the boulder before resuming their race. They met back up with Optimus and Ironhide afterwards, and Optimus revealed the they had encountered a "natural disaster" as well. The source of the disturbances soon revealed itself to be Megatron and Starscream tunneling underground. Though the two Decepticons attempted to ambush the Autobots, Bumblebee and the others were able to send them running thanks to the training they had gone through that day. {{storylink|Training Day (book)|Training Day}}

Bumblebee and Sideswipe had a nasty run-in with the Decepticons, leaving Bumblebee pinned under a massive metal bar. Thankfully, Ratchet came to their rescue, and repaired them both. Bumblebee later helped the Autobots defeat the Decepticons in Egypt. {{storylink|Ratchet to the Rescue}}

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Bumblebee was out for a drive with Wheelie, Sam and Mikaela one day when Starscream swooped down and began to attack them! Bumblebee suggested to Wheelie that they gun for Starscream's wings to defeat the Decepticon. Wheelie disagreed, saying that they had to outsmart Starscream to defeat him. The two Autobots began to argue, becoming oblivious to Starscream attacking their human companions. Thankfully, Optimus Prime showed up to knock out Starscream. Optimus then chastised Bumblebee and Wheelie for allowing their feelings get in the way of protecting Sam and Mikaela. Bumblebee realized he was in the wrong, but was still too worked up to make his apologies to Wheelie. Instead, he stormed off. But he didn't get far before Starscream regained consciousness and resumed his attack. Optimus ordered Bumblebee to work with Wheelie to stop Starscream. The pair managed to do so by outwitting Starscream and destroying his wings, making the Decepticon crash into a nearby tunnel and crippling his flying abilities. With Starscream down, Bumblebee and the rest of the group celebrated another victory over the Decepticons. {{storylink|Buddy Brawl}}
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===''Hunt for the Decepticons'' storybooks===
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Sam witnessed the Decepticons [[Buzzsaw (ROTF)|Buzzsaw]] and [[Ratbat (ROTF)|Ratbat]] tear up a human city, while Soundwave declared that the Autobots had abandoned the humans. Refusing to believe the Decepticon's lies, Sam and Bumblebee set out to find Optimus Prime and the rest of the Autobots. It turned out that the Autobots had been tricked by Soundwave to go to the wrong location when they rolled out to engage the Decepticons. Sam and Bumblebee led Optimus and his troops to the scene of the conflict, where Optimus quickly dispatched the Decepticons. Afterwards, Optimus thanked for Sam's part in the day's events, while Bumblebee and the rest of the Autobots cheered. {{storylink|Satellite Meltdown}}

===''Spot the 'Bots''===
Bumblebee helped Optimus chase down Megatron to an old warehouse. There, Bumblebee duked it out with Starscream. The battle between the Autobots and Decepticons that ensued would decide the fate of the Earth! {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Spot the 'Bots}}
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===''How to Ride your Dinobot''===
====Cartoon====
[[File:Htryd-chapter-1-bumblebee-yikes.jpg|left|upright=1.6|thumb|I'VE CHANGED INTO WILE E. COYOTE.]]
Bumblebee had never ridden a [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobot]] before, and decided to start by trying to mount [[Strafe (AOE)|Strafe]]. Guided by a kind but astonishingly unhelpful narrator, Bumblebee's attempts to mount Strafe left something to be desired. After many failed efforts, Bumblebee simply destroyed the instruction manual to riding Dinobots before storming off in annoyance, much to the narrator's surprise.
{{storylink|How to Ride Your Dinobot Chapter 1: Getting on a Dinobot|Getting on a Dinobot}}
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====Comic====

When Optimus Prime asked the Autobots to accompany him into the depths of a Chinese forest, Bumblebee was sure that their objective was important... but he never expected that the Autobot leader was taking them to learn the fine art of Dinobot riding! When Hound's tough-talking approach failed to win the Dinobots' hearts, 'Bee tried a kinder, gentler method, offering the Dinos a little snack. This worked a bit ''too'' well, and he would have been crushed when the Dinobots mobbed him to get the goodies had Strafe not lifted him into the air. Bumblebee pushed his luck when he climbed onto the flying Dinobot's back, however, and Strafe promptly threw him back to the ground. Subsequently, when Grimlock caught the scent of Decepticons nearby, Strafe and the other Dinobots relented and allowed Bumblebee and the Autobots to saddle up so they could all ride out to face the villains together. {{Storylink|How to Ride a Dinobot!}}
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===Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base===

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Bumblebee was hanging out at the [[Transformers Expo]] in [[Yokohama]] when [[Yokohama Convoy|Nemesis Prime]] came crashing into the building. The evil Prime initially mistook Bumblebee for a cosplayer, only to realize that the little yellow Autobot was the real deal when he attacked him alongside the two versions of Optimus Prime also visiting the show. Nemesis soon got himself some backup in the form of a ''second'' [[Nemesis Prime (AOE)|Nemesis Prime]] and [[Nemesis Grimlock]], but before they could all do much more than glare at each other, the combined energies of the AllSpark, the Matrix of Leadership and the [[seed]]—all on display at the Expo, because why not—suddenly began reacting with the [[Dark Energon]] within the first Nemesis Prime. This was all part of a complicated plot by [[Unicron]], but fortunately, Nemesis resisted the dark urges within himself, and channeled all the Dark Energon into the stickers his creator [[Doctor Arkeville]] had used to make him evil. Nemesis ripped the stickers off and hurled them into the air, where all the Autobots and Decepticons—and even the Expo's human attendees, using their cell phones—blasted them and stopped the chain reaction.

All together, pretty odd. {{storylink|Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base}}
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===''Cheetos/Age of Extinction'' comic===
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Discovering that the Decepticons were increasing their strength through artifacts from the [[Cheetos (galaxy)|Cheetos galaxy]], Bumblebee and the Autobots recruited [[you]]r help to acquire the power-enhancing objects. {{storylink|Cheetos/Transformers: Age of Extinction}}
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===''Q-Transformers'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Ryōhei Kimura]] (Japanese)}}
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In this world, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and Lockdown were aware that they were toys: specifically, ''Q-Transformers'', a new line of cute-looking ''Transformers'' merchandise produced to tie-in with the 30th anniversary of the [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]]. Bumblebee occasionally changed his look to one more reminiscent of [[Bumblebee (G1)|his Generation 1 counterpart]], but his "default" form was that of a toy based on his ''Age of Extinction'' look. They hung out at different famous service areas on Japanese expressways, and talked about the ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|Mystery of Convoy]]'' video game, and the remake produced as a tie-in with their toyline, ''[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns|Mystery of Convoy Returns]]''.

[[File:QTransformers1 Lockdown's bishonen fantasy.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.8|Bumblebee suddenly realized, much to his horror, that he was trapped in an anime high school AU.]]

Discussing the ins and outs of their cute designs, Optimus and his pals explained that they were created for the purpose of appealing to non-Transformers fans. Bumblebee suggested that another way to tap that market would be to create "Zodiac Transformers", based on all the different animals of the Chinese zodiac, but Lockdown had a different idea: a humanized Transformers "Boys Love" romance, where he and Optimus competed for Bumblebee's affection. Bumblebee was not impressed. {{storylink|Mystery of the 30th Anniversary Merchandise}} The trio went on to talk about the original ''Mystery of Convoy'', and Bumblebee got a telling-off from Optimus when he pointed out that it was a famously terribly game. Discussing traits that they thought made games bad, Bumblebee suggested that an RPG already completed when you started would be pretty awful. {{storylink|Mystery of Reliably Crappy Games}} When Lockdown suggested that re-releasing such a terrible game was like rubbing salt in a wound, Bumblebee didn't understand the expression. Optimus explained, and they all tried to come up with situations the phrase was applicable to; taking it a bit too far, Bumblebee suggested getting pooped on by bird, then looking up to discover that a meteor was about to crash into the Earth. {{storylink|Mystery of Smearing Salt in the Open Wound}} The group then talked about the rubbish stage bosses in ''Mystery of Convoy'', particularly the [[Destron Mark|floating Decepticon insignia]], and wondered what sort of fictional scenarios it could be used in. {{storylink|Mystery of the Stage Bosses}}

[[File:QTF bumblebee explorer.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.8]]

Prime and company began being joined by their friends to discuss facets of the game. [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] participated in a talk about the differences between the original and the remake, {{storylink|Mystery of the Wittily Similar Circumstances}} while [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] highlighted the tonal "gap" between the cute character designs and the very ''un''-cute action in the game. Everyone tried to think of examples of similar "gaps": Bumblebee suggested a handsome young man cooking a nice meal... for his mother. {{storylink|Mystery of the Gap of Unpopular Men}} [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] joined them to talk about classic terrible games, which turned into a discussion about adventure and exploring, and the comforts an explorer might like to have with them on such a journey—Bumblebee thought a nice pillow would be just the thing. {{storylink|Mystery of a Certain Explorer}} [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] and [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] also talked about some famously awful old games, segueing into a discussion about psychokinetic powers; Bumblebee was concerned about the potential of such powers to interfere with television. {{storylink|Mystery of a Certain Psychic}}

When [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] came along to share his thoughts on points of commonality among famously awful games, the group talked about the technical advancements of video games, with Bumblebee mentioning motion-control. {{storylink|Mystery of Game Balance}} [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] also had some opinions on the common themes of bad games, but Bumblebee and Optimus's willingness to settle for less frustrated Lockdown. {{storylink|Mystery of the Lowest Possible Standards}}

[[File:Qtransformers gtoptimus copenbee.jpg|right|thumb|upright=2]]

Bumblebee had changed his look when [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] dropped in, to one resembling his Generation 1 self but with a Daihatsu Copen alternate mode. They talked about the constantly changing looks of Transformers through history, and how Bumblebee used to be called "Bumble" in Japan. {{storylink|Mystery of Convoy}} Still sporting his Daihatsu Copen form, Bumblebee dropped in on a conversation between [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], the star of ''Mystery of Convoy''. He told them how Optimus and Lockdown would argue over the crappy's games merits—but to be reminded of the games shortcomings only sent Magnus into floods of shameful tears. {{storylink|Mystery of Mystery of Convoy}}

When [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] turned up to join the argument over just how bad ''Mystery of Convoy'' was, Optimus quickly switched bodies, taking on the form of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|his Generation 1 self]]; seeing this, Bumblebee also switched from his ''Age of Extinction'' form to his Daihatsu Copen body. They argued back and forth for a bit, discussing other ways the game could have been remade using staples of Japanese media, and Bumblebee proposed a "sports day"-style version. {{storylink|Mystery of Return of Convoy}}

[[File:QTransformers15-Bumblebee's sports uniforms.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.7]]
Bumblebee had to reveal that the show's budget had been slashed for the second season and that they were going to find ways to make Q-Transformers more popular. Optimus's suggestion that they turn the franchise into a Transformers version of [[Mito Kōmon]] led Bumblebee to dub him "Mito Convoy". {{storylink|The Road to Winning a New Fanbase}} While they were discussing ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers]]'', Lockdown complained that it was too hard to tell who was an Autobot and who was a Decepticon, to which Bumblebee suggested they could wear sports uniforms. {{storylink|The Road to Easy Identification}}

For the first installment of Q-Transformers Radio, Optimus and Bumblebee brought in guest star [[Yukimura Sanada]] for an interview, during which Bumblebee suggested that Transformers could guest star in the ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' game series. {{storylink|The Road to Borrowing Popularity from Sengoku Basara}} When Lockdown was confused by the jump from ''Transformers'' to ''Transformers 2010'' due to ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' not being released at the time, the group decided to brainstorm ways to better explain the changes. Bumblebee and the others were mostly just confused by the concept for an abridged movie that Optimus came up with. {{storylink|The Road to Smoothly Conveying the Content of the Movie}}

[[File:QTransformers19-Bumblebee Inner Self.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.8]]
Optimus next brought in [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] to cover the later Japanese Generation 1 series, only for him and Bumblebee to have to field a series of complaints from Lockdown. During the ensuing discussion of potential new types of Transformers, Lockdown came up with pop idol Transformers, which Bumblebee seized on and suggested that the singing could transform their inner selves. His demonstration of the idea startled Optimus. {{storylink|The Road to Newer Transformers}} When they had [[Kazumi Araiwa]] on Q-Transformers Radio, Bumblebee asked their guest for advice on the fact that Optimus was very unreliable, and asked him to say "roll out". {{storylink|The Road to Borrowing Popularity from Cooking Papa}}

For the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' and associated cartoons, Optimus brought [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] in to provide explanations, with him and Bumblebee providing context. This led to a discussion about ideas for a dark but funny ''Transformers'' show. {{storylink|The Road to Dark and Comical Transformers}} While [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] described more ''Transformers'' cartoons, Optimus and Bumblebee found themselves defending the changes in the various shows to Lockdown. {{storylink|The Road to These Definitely Failed Sequels}}

Still seeking ways to increase their popularity, Optimus dragged Bumblebee along to [[Sanrio Puroland]] to get ideas, only to run into [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] and have an enlightening discussion about the Decepticons' idea of a theme park. {{storylink|The Road to Q-Transformers Land Which Won't Lose to Puroland}} After Bumblebee announced that the second season was coming to an end, he and Optimus reflected that they had not actually learned much. They decided making ''Q-Transformers: The Movie'' would be a good idea, though discussion of what should be in it meandered.
{{storylink|The Road to Q-Transformers: The Movie}}
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===Legends World===
In the [[Legends World]], Bumblebee was just a fictional character featured in a series of popular movies and toylines. When [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] turned into [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]] and tried to revert the world back to how it was in the '80s, Rattrap attempted to stop him by singing the praises of modern-day Transformers, including the ''Q-Transformers'' incarnation of Bumblebee. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 5|Bonus Edition Vol. 5}}

Bumblebee had a big presence at the ''Q-Transformers'' event held at the Decks Tokyo Beach shopping center which Rattrap, [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] and [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] attended, including a standee, a statue, an exclusive sticker, and even a themed "Bumblebee Mango" drink. At the neighboring Joypolis amusement park, his voice actor Ryōhei Kimura attended a Q&A! {{storylink|Deckss × Q-Transformers Collaboration Event Report|Deckss × Q-Transformers}}
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===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Tyran 511.0 Kappa]], Bumblebee survived [[Cemetery Wind]]'s massacre and joined Optimus Prime along with fellow Autobot survivors [[Bulkhead (DOTM)|Bulkhead]] and [[Backtrack (Movie)|Backtrack]] as well as the desperate Decepticons [[Axor|Axel]] and [[Wild Rider]]. Initially skeptical of the Decepticons, the Autobots learned to appreciate Wild Rider, but Axel tried and failed to betray them to Lockdown. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/16}}

===Bee's Backtalk===
[[File:Ask Vector Prime Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|left]]

With [[Vector Prime]] still missing in action, Bumblebee became the fourth guest contributor to Vector Prime's [[Ask Vector Prime|column]]. He renamed the column to "Bee's Backtalk", answering questions from readers through patched-together audioclips.

Bumblebee gave us some more details about the state of the Autobots and their allies following the Chicago crisis. When asked about the fate of Sam following the rise of Cemetery Wind, Bumblebee became upset, and declined to comment. He noted that the Autobots were still searching for any more survivors of Cemetery Wind. A comment about the workmanship of KSI's Stinger units was enough to make him hopping mad, although he immediately apologized for his behavior. When someone asked Bumblebee why things in the [[Tyran|Tyran Cluster]] are prone to exploding, he suddenly found himself in the middle of a battleground as everything around him exploded. The Axiom Nexus News team lost contact with him (disappointing the editor, who was pleased that Bumblebee was able to stabilize ratings). As Andromeda was the one who found Bumblebee, she was tasked with finding his replacement: someone who, in contrast to Bumblebee's cryptic radio answers, could speak their mind in a straightforward manner.

[[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|And look how ''that'' turned out]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Bee's Backtalk|Bee's Backtalk}}

===''TV Magazine stories''===
As Megatron fought against several Autobots including Drift and Hot Rod, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee arrived in the battlefield, only to be shocked by Megatron's towering size. However, Optimus immediately though of a plan: transferring his Energon (along with Drift and Hot Rod's) to Bumblebee, giving the yellow scout a new ability called "Energon Charge", and defeats Megatron with a single punch. While victorious, Bumblebee is still considered as problematic for the napping Autobots as the glowing Energon effect is still on. {{storylink|The Explosive Birth of Energon Charge Bumblebee}}
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===''Mission to Cybertron'' comic===
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===''Sector 7 Adventures''===
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===''Bumblebee's First Life on Earth''===
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==Commercial appearances==
*Both Optimus and Bumblebee could be seen driving around the [[Speed Stars]] logo in vehicle mode. {{storylink|Commercial#Speed Stars|Speed Stars commercials}}
*Bumblebee was resting in vehicle mode in Al's Chevrolet car dealership, getting caught on tape while the dealership's owner filmed a commercial. The place's squirrel mascot playfully bashed Bumblebee's hood with a foam hammer, provoking Bumblebee into transforming and tossing him away. Bumblebee then sped away in a huff. {{storylink|Commercial/Dark of the Moon#Chevy|Dark of the Moon Super Bowl XLV Chevrolet Camaro TV Spot}}
*Bumblebee joined Optimus Prime on the road as part of the "[[Win A Ride To School With The Autobots]]" contest. {{storylink|Commercial/Dark of the Moon#Win A Ride|Win A Ride To School With The Autobots contest and commercial}}
*Bumblebee dazzled a group of Valero patrons by showing up at the gas station in his vehicle mode and... popping his fuel filler flap. {{storylink|Commercial/Age of Extinction#Valero|Age of Extinction Valero tie-in commercial}}
*While driving about town, Bumblebee crossed paths with a little boy in possession of a Mega 1-Step Bumblebee toy. Impressed by his miniature likeness, he paused to admire it, then gave the boy a fist bump. {{storylink|Commercial/Age of Extinction#Flip and Change|1-Step Optimus Prime & Flip and Change Grimlock toy commercial}}
*Bumblebee was one of many pop culture icons who were hanging out at Paramount Mountain and saw the arrival of the water bucket from ''{{w|Flashdance}}''. Once they finished reenacting the movie's famous scene, [[Kenny McCormick|Kenny]] got crushed to death by the giant bucket.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWRkBv4zJpU A Mountain of Entertainment | Storm l Paramount+]</ref>
*Bumblebee was one of [[Keegan-Michael Key|Mr. Garvey]]'s students during a roll call at Paramount Mountain, with his classmates being various cartoon characters from different [[Nickelodeon|Nick]] shows.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEdNAzv1LD8 A Mountain of Entertainment | Mr. Garvey's Mountain Survival Skills | Paramount+]</ref>
*Bumblebee was seen in an ''{{w|United Airlines}}'' commercial, alongside characters from other series, such as Thrall from ''{{w|World of Warcraft}}'', ''{{w|Peppa Pig}}'' and her family, and ''{{w|Crash Bandicoot}}''.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiYqwZaOKfA United — A New Era of Inflight Wi-Fi]</ref>

==Games==
{{main|Bumblebee (Movie)/games}}

==Toys==
{{main|Bumblebee (Movie)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Bumblebee (Movie)/merchandise}}

==Notes==
===Classic Camaro===
*According to an article on [http://web.archive.org/web/20071013122820/http://edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=121138?imw=Y Edmunds.com], the film makers wanted Bumblebee's original Earth form to be the 1976 iteration of the Camaro because it was the worst Camaro possible that also had chrome bumpers.
*The same article indicates that the 1976 Camaros used in the film were all purchased via online auction for under $6000 each, one for less than $2000. That one didn't run.
*One of the 1976 Camaros was sold on eBay. The bidding ended on July 18, 2007; the final price was $40,100.01.

===Modern Camaro===
*The 2008 Concept Camaro used for Bumblebee in the first movie was built by Saleen in 30 days, using a heavily modified 2006 Holden Monaro chassis as the basis. The '08 Camaro was not in production at the time that the first film was being made, hence an identical mock-up was needed to fill the role.<ref>[http://www.saleen.com/transformers.htm Saleen article about the construction of the Barricade and Bumblebee vehicles]</ref>
*In ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'', Bumblebee scans a working, driveable new generation Camaro — conveniently with the same paint job as his classic Camaro disguise at that time — that wouldn't be released until some time in the year 2009. However, it is possible that the Camaro in question was being road-tested by GM engineers, like they were doing in the real world.
*Although unexplained in the films, Bumblebee's vehicle mode changes appearance subtly between ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''. This is probably because of product placement: Bumblebee's old [[alternate mode]] was an unavailable concept Camaro, while in ''Revenge'' he uses what seems to be the new Z/28 Camaro... whose mass production was later canceled. Oops. However, it is perfectly reasonable to assume that it is the Camaro ZL1 that uses the same design.
*He changes models again between ''Revenge of the Fallen'' and ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' and becomes a production Camaro SS (rather than the previous two movies GTO-Based mock-ups); the movie prop car changes include the addition of a rear spoiler, the black racing stripes now being further apart while at the same time losing the outer pinstripes, the racing stripes now also covering the roof and Autobot badges in the front fenders.
*After the end of production of their respective films, the Camaros from ''Revenge of the Fallen'' through to ''The Last Knight'' were simultaneously sold for $500,000.

===Robot mode and CG model(s)===
[[File:MovieBBearlyconcept.jpg|thumb|upright=1]]
*An early concept art featuring a significantly different looking, more G1 inspired Bumblebee sporting his classic Camaro kibble was drawn by [[Don Figueroa]], as revealed through the artist's Twitter account.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=A VERY early character study of BB for the first #Transformers movie.|link=https://twitter.com/SketchyFig/status/1524542496847458304|name=Don Figueroa|site:Twitter|year=2022|month=May|day=12}}</ref> This or a related concept art most likely served as a basis for Bumblebee's [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Deluxe Class toys|Deluxe Class 1976 Camaro figure]] from the [[Transformers (2007 toyline)|2007 movie toyline]]. The two designs have noticeable similarities in their forearms and feet.
*The Bumblebee computer-generated model consisted of 7608 individual parts, 1,511,727 polygons, 19,722 rig nodes, and 8094 texture maps. The volume of all the pieces came to 1069.01 cubic feet.<ref>Robertson, Barbara (2007). Heavy Metal. ''Computer Graphics, 30''(7), 12-17.</ref>
*Bumblebee's character animation is based on the performance of {{w|Michael J. Fox}} in the ''[[Back to the Future]]'' movies.<ref>From ''Cinefex'' magazine, issue number 111, published October 2007.</ref>
[[File:MovieBumblebeeStinger.jpg|thumb|He uses it once, then dies.]]
*Bumblebee is equipped with a pair of arm-mounted electrical "[[Stinger (weapon)|stingers]]."<ref>Bumblebee's [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/Battle-Bios.cfm Battle Bio] at Hasbro.com</ref> While designed, the stingers were ultimately not featured in the movies, though they may have influenced [[Bumblebee (Animated)|other]] [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|media]].
*Speaking of weapons, for someone whose main job is being subtle, Bumblebee is quite well armed, with a [[plasma cannon]] powerful enough to rattle [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]], [[Mohawk]], and [[Nitro Zeus]], a blade capable of disabling [[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]]'s jet thrusters, and a ring-shaped light missile launcher in each shoulder. He is also a capable close-combat fighter, as seen in his fights against [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]], [[Rampage (ROTF)|Rampage]], [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], [[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]], and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]].
**Despite this, he has a [[Fireblast]] rating of ''three''. Also, he lost his blade while fighting [[Shatter]], requiring him to use his environment to his advantage.
[[File:ROTFBumblebeeAltColorsConcept.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|But will we ever '''get''' an orange Bumblebee? No, we'll just keep getting slightly different yellow ones.]]
*According to designer [[Paul Ozzimo]] on his website, at one point there were plans to make Bumblebee into a Z/28 convertible for ''Revenge of the Fallen'', and the possibility of changing his color to orange or black with yellow was also discussed. While none of these alterations happened, concept art for both appeared on the "25 Years of Transformers" feature on the ''Revenge'' DVD... though the black version is only seen from behind.
*Bumblebee stands approximately 16 feet tall, according to the [[Transformers The Game|official game]] strategy guide.
*In 2011, Bumblebee appeared in a Super Bowl XLV-related commercial, parodying car dealers by tossing a squirrel mascot knocking his hood to literally hammer the point of low prices. The TV spot also revealed ILM's modifications to his design for ''Dark of the Moon'', namely more pronounced shoulders and ribs ala his [[Bumblebee (WFC)|''Prime'' counterpart]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RttT4jC7_10 Chevrolet Super Bowl spot]</ref>
*Despite his Camaro alternate mode used for ''Dark of the Moon'' no longer sporting the outer pinstripes bordering his black racing stripes, the CG robot model still has them. Whoops.
*Similarly, in the first movie, after he gains the modern Camaro alt mode, Bumblebee's robot mode still features the scratches and dirt on his paint job of his original 1976 Camaro alt mode.
*In ''Age of Extinction'', Bumblebee's concept Camaro robot model sports a [[death-lock pincer]] similar to that of Megatron's ''Revenge of the Fallen'' body.
*Bumblebee's arm cannon in ''The Last Knight'' undergoes a slight visual tweak. Using his original trilogy's cannon design, the main barrel has a narrow barrel as the main firearm.
*In a profile image posted by the Movie series' Facebook page, Bumblebee is depicted to retain his battle mask from his ''Age of Extinction'' body, while the final cut features a variant of his original battle mask seen in the first 3 films.
*Meanwhile, although Bumblebee transforms into a regular, unarmored Mercedes-Benz 770 cabriolet in ''The Last Knight''{{'}}s World War II flashback sequence, his robot-mode kibble is that of a {{w|Humber Scout Car|Humber Scout Car}}, and his ''[[Studio Series]]'' toy based on the scene is yet ''another'' Humber model, specifically a {{w|Humber Light Reconnaissance Car}}.
*The design for Bumblebee's Cybertronian and Volkswagen bodies in ''Bumblebee'' draws heavy influence from his Generation 1 [[Bumblebee (G1)|namesake]].
*While on Cybertron, Bumblebee does not have the black 'wings' on his back as Cliffjumper does. However, when he lands on Earth they can clearly be seen on him.

===License plates===
Bumblebee sported several different [[license plate]]s between the movies, the video games and the toys:

*'''489 PCE''', registered in [[California]], was the 1976 Camaro's license plate in the first movie, which was kept consistent between the car prop and the CG model for the robot mode. The license plate was later auctioned off in 2008.<ref name="plate1">[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/movie-bumblebees-license-plate-for-sale/12255/ Movie Bumblebee (1976 Camaro edition) license plate for sale], Seibertron.com, January 2008.</ref> The same license plate was later used again in ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'' when Bumblebee upgraded from a Volkswagen Beetle to a 1977 Chevrolet Camaro. Of note, "PCE" is frequently used for license plates in film and TV productions because the California DMV does not issue that combination to the public. For example, another [[fandom:lostpedia:Hurley's Camaro Camaro|camaro]] seen several times in the television show ''[[Wikipedia:Lost (TV series)|Lost]]'' had the license plate "429 PCE", Phil Coulson's 1962 Chevrolet Corvette "[[fandom:marvelcinematicuniverse:Lola|LO.L.A.]]" in the TV show ''[[Wikipedia:Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.|Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.]]'' had the license plate "381 PCE" (or "681 PCE" in early epiodes), and [[fandom:strangerthings:Billy Hargrove|Billy Hargrove]]'s Camaro from the TV show ''[[wikipedia:Stranger Things|Stranger Things]]'' had the license plate "PCE 235".
*'''900 STRA''', without a state-specific registration, was the new license plate for the Concept Camaro car prop, which was kept for the production models used for all three subsequent movies. It was also used when the modern Camaro prop cars from the movies were on display at car shows and other events. Finally achieving consistency between both modes, Bumblebee also sported this plate in robot mode in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''. Furthermore, Hasbro started to use this license plate number with the Leader Class Bumblebee and Deluxe Class Nitro Bumblebee toys from the [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (toyline)|''Dark of the Moon'' toy line]] (both sporting ''sculpted'' license plate inscriptions in both modes), and the [[Activision]] [[Dark of the Moon (video games)|''Dark of the Moon'' video game]] also uses it for the vehicle mode. The license plate used in ''Revenge of the Fallen'' was auctioned off in October 2009.<ref name="2009auct">[http://www.icollector.com/Hero-Bumblebee-license-plate-from-Transformers-Revenge-of-the-Fallen_i8633011 ''Revenge of the Fallen'' Bumblebee license plate auction], icollector.com</ref> In ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]'', he even uses this license plate in his 1967 Camaro disguise, and still keeps it when he upgrades to his new 2014 Camaro concept form.
*'''4NZZ454''', registered in California, is probably the most well-known license plate number due to being used on the CG model for the robot mode in the 2007 movie and ''Revenge of the Fallen''.<ref name="proctercg">[http://www.benprocter.com/storage/oldersites/sitev2/html/PROJPAGE_Trans_06.html Official Hasbro promo shots of the finalized CG model for Bumblebee] on Ben Procter's portfolio</ref> This number was also used for a lot of Hasbro's toys from the first two movies' toy lines (in robot mode and often also in vehicle mode), including the Deluxe Class Classic Camaro.
*'''4NZZZ454''', with a red line indicative of a California registration, was an erroneous version of the above number with an extra "Z", used on some of Hasbro's toys, namely the Deluxe Class Concept Camaro Bumblebee toy from the [[Transformers (2007 toyline)|first movie's toy line]] (including several [[redeco]]s and [[retool]]s) and ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' [[Human Alliance]] Bumblebee.
*'''5LKZ213''' can be spotted on some photos of the life-sized robot prop from the Hoover Dam set from the first movie.<ref name="procterprop">[http://www.benprocter.com/storage/oldersites/sitev2/html/ZOOM_Trans/ZOOM_24.html Life-sized Bumblebee prop] on Ben Procter's portfolio</ref><ref name="unicubb">[http://www.unicron.us/tf2007/toypix/ultimate_bumblebee.html Review of Ultimate Bumblebee] at Unicron.com, including a set photo of the life-sized Bumblebee prop used for the movies.</ref>
*'''BUMBLBE''', registered in California, was used for the life-sized robot prop on various exhibits in 2007.<ref name="premiere">[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bob_karol/archives/date-taken/2007/06/27/ Transformers Movie premiere in Westwood Village, California], Flickr photostream of Candid Photos</ref><ref name="18foot">[http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/pictures-18-foot-bumblebee-transformer-invades-la "18 Foot Bumblebee Transformers invade LA"] at Techeblog</ref>
*'''FXPERTS''' (registered in California), a reference to the special effects company that built the life-sized robot prop,<ref name="fxperts">[http://www.fxpertsinc.com/trans.html Building the life-sized Bumblebee prop] at Fxperts</ref> was used on various exhibits in 2008.<ref name="dolby">[http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/ces-2008-giant-bumblebee-transformer-invades-the-dolby-booth "CES 2008: Giant BumbleBee Transformer Invades the Dolby Booth"] at Techeblog</ref><ref name="holloman08">[http://www.flickr.com/photos/61043118@N00/archives/date-taken/2008/09/22/ Transformers on display at Holloman Air Force Base in September 2008], Flickr photostream of snakebite000.</ref>
*'''KDM 0814''', registered in California, was used for the life-sized robot prop on various exhibits from 2009 to at least 2011.<ref name="sydney">[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/movie-bumblebee-prop-appears-in-sydney-australia/17305/ Life-sized Bumblebee prop in Sydney, Australia] at Seibertron.com</ref><ref name="vegas">[http://www.flickr.com/photos/deltamike/archives/date-taken/2009/03/30/ Transformers on display at the Las Vegas Strip], Flickr photostream of Mike Renlund</ref><ref name="childmuseum">[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=77515 "Bumblebee coming to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis"] at The Allspark, March 2011</ref> A variant of this, "KDM 814" minus the "0", had been previously used as the license plate of [[Twins (ROTF)|the Twins]]' combined ice cream truck mode in ''Revenge of the Fallen''.
*'''5BBM2''' (registered in California), mirrored on the other side, is used by Activision for the robot models used in the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (video games)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' and ''[[Dark of the Moon (video games)|Dark of the Moon]]'' video games.<ref name="nextgen">[http://www.nextgn.com/2009/05/15/transformers-2-playable-characters-and-soundtrack-revealed/ ''Revenge of the Fallen'' video game models] at Next Gen News</ref><ref name="actidotm">[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/video-games-17/transformers-dark-of-the-moon-the-game-hands-on-171673/ Activision trailer and promo stills for Dark of the Moon video game] at TFW2005.</ref> Due to its partially mirrored nature, this plate wouldn't actually be legal.
*'''4N7 454''' (registered in California), another erroneous variant of the robot mode license plate from the first two films, was seen on a hand-painted prototype used for early official stock photos of the ''Masterpiece Movie Series'' Bumblebee figure.<ref name="mpmsbb">[http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/01/10/shadow-spark-optimus-masterpiece-movie-bumblebee-official-images-330837 "Shadow Spark Optimus and Masterpiece Movie Bumblebee Official Images"] at TFW2005.com.</ref> Samples on display at both Hong Kong Toys & Games Fair 2017 and [[Toy Fair|New York Toy Fair]] 2017, on the other hand, sported a regular "900 STRA" license plate.
*'''ANZZ454''', ''another'' erroneous variant of the robot mode license plate from the first two films that mistakes the first "4" for the letter "A", was used for the redeco of ''Transformers'' (2007) Deluxe Class Classic Camaro Bumblebee from the ''[[Transformers Tribute]]'' [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#Tribute|Bumblebee Evolution 3-Pack]].
*'''MM''', an easter egg put on the [[Bumblebee (Movie)/merchandise#Robot Heroes|''Revenge of the Fallen'' Robot Heroes figure]] by its designer, [[Marcelo Matere]].
*'''WH 218 371''', a license plate used by Bumblebee in ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'' in a flashback set during [[World War II]] that showed him infiltrating the Nazis in the disguise of a Mercedes-Benz 770.
*'''RWM4V15''', registered in California, the license plate used by Bumblebee in his disguise as a Volkswagen Beetle in ''Bumblebee''.

===Lack of voice===
*For [[Transformers (film)|the first movie]], [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] had originally preferred the Transformers not to talk ''at all'' throughout the movie, a notion Hasbro heavily contested.<ref name="tfwtour">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-news-rumors/139273-botcon-2007-botcon-2007-hasbro-tour-updated-friday-12-45pm.html BotCon 2007 Hasbro tour report.]</ref> Bumblebee still ended up being mute throughout most of the movie, which, according to Orci and Kurtzman, was inspired by [[Steven Spielberg]]'s ''{{w|E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|E.T.}}'' and is supposed to signify that his friendship with Sam transcends words.<ref name="mtv">[http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1554426/20070312/story.jhtml MTV.com interview with Kurtzman and Orci.]</ref>
*According to the [[Movie Prequel issue 1|prequel comic]] by IDW Publishing, Megatron ripped out and crushed Bumblebee's voice capacitor during the battle at [[Tyger Pax]] back on Cybertron. [[Hardtop (Movie)|Hardtop]]'s toy bio claims the damage came from a shot fired by Hardtop. In the film itself, Ratchet only states to Sam that Bumblebee's "vocal processors were damaged in battle" and he was "still working on them". Ultimately, the most canon explanation of his loss of voice occurs during the events of ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'', when his voice box is ripped out by [[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]].
*By the end of all the conflict (the climax of the first film proper), Bumblebee has regained his ability to speak. Although it was not confirmed on-screen, screenwriter [[Roberto Orci]] did confirm ''off''-screen<ref name="Orci"/> that Ratchet's (regenerative) beam fired at Bee's throat was indeed the reason. Just as well, Roberto Orci ''also'' admitted that Bumblebee's brief contact with the AllSpark would be an equally valid (and even more "in-continuity") explanation.<ref name="Orci"/>
*The first known mention of Bumblebee losing his voice in Tyger Pax is from an early draft of the [[Transformers (film)|2007 movie]] called the ''Prime Directive'', where Ratchet reveals this information to Sam and Mikaela.
*When asked, Orci admitted there had been plans to have Bumblebee speak in ''Revenge of the Fallen''; however, ultimately they liked his "musical ability" too much, and [[Michael Bay]] wanted to focus more on [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]], since he thought kids would like the two characters.<ref name="orci">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-movie-discussion/180451-welcome-mr-roberto-orci-you-may-ask-him-questions-283.html#post3785383 Q&A with Roberto Orci at TFW2005]</ref>
*In the ''Dark of the Moon'' novel adaptation, it is stated that Bumblebee never fully recovered from the damage to his voice box, implying that the injury wasn't fully healed even back at the end of the first movie. It is further explained that while Bumblebee can indeed talk, it takes a great amount of effort for him to do so while talking through the radio takes no effort at all.
**In the same novel, according to Bumblebee's inner thoughts, there is seemingly always something on the radio available for him to use to be able to communicate his mind. This appears to imply that Bumblebee uses live broadcasts while talking through the radio and not broadcasts he recorded beforehand.
*When Bumblebee finally did speak in the first movie, he had a slightly British accent. However, in ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'', it appears he in fact has an ''American'' accent. This was carried over to ''Bumblebee'' as well, albeit with a younger-sounding voice to reflect the film's status as a prequel. As of yet, no explanation for this discrepancy has been made.
*In several foreign-language dubs, namely Japanese and Spanish, Bumblebee is dubbed over by only one voice actor. This choice has been criticized for creating an obvious contradiction ("If his voice box was damaged, how can he talk perfectly?"). However, in others, such as French, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu, Bee is voiced by multiple uncredited voice actors, and all of their voices have certain audio effects. That's some good respect for the source material.

===Arrival on Earth===
*While the 2007 movie never states how long Bumblebee has been on Earth, all the prequel materials (in particular IDW's comic books) establish that he arrived only a few years prior to the movie's present-day events. For many years, this was never explicitly contradicted by any other media...
*However, ''The Last Knight'' suddenly established that Bumblebee had been active on Earth as early as [[World War II]], fighting on the side of the Allies alongside [[Hot Rod (DOTM)|Hot Rod]] and several other Autobots. The [[Transformers: Bumblebee Movie Prequel|''Bumblebee'' prequel comic]] follows along with this backstory, chronicling Bumblebee's adventures during the [[Cold War (history)|Cold War]].
*However, the events of ''Bumblebee'' depict Bumblebee arriving on Earth in 1987, rendering both the WWII flashback and ''Bumblebee Movie Prequel'' inconsistent with the films themselves.
*Therefore, we can either assume that all prequel materials are considered null and void at this point, or there is a live-action counterpart to [[Centurion (IDW)|Centurion]] running around. The latter would likely explain how Bumblebee has no recollection of being a WWII veteran or knowing Sir Burton, as well as where his big hammer came from.

===Other===
[[File:BumblebeePrequelSketches.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Bumblebee: Year One"]]
*Bumblebee is a big fan of Earth cartoons! Some of his favorites include ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'', ''{{w|Ren and Stimpy}}'', ''{{w|Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law}}'', ''{{w|Futurama}}'', ''{{w|Voltron}}'', and ''{{w|Rick and Morty}}'', as noted in [[Ask Vector Prime]].
*Bumblebee's ability in ''The Last Knight'' to blow himself apart and magnetically reassemble himself came seemingly out of nowhere; with no explanation, having never demonstrated this ability before, and with no mention of this ability at any point in any other media whatsoever. The closest thing to an in-universe explanation for this ability would be that he was somehow able to mimic (for repairs and as a battle strategy) a similar ability shown by the man-made KSI drones in ''Age of Extinction'' to disintegrate and re-materialize for repairs and transformation (but even that's a ''huge'' stretch).
*Bumblebee's alternate mode in the [[Transformers: Bumblebee Movie Prequel|''Bumblebee'' prequel comic]] is a mixture of an {{w|Aston Martin}} and a {{w|Volkswagen Karmann Ghia|Karmann Ghia}}.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=It's actually sort of a blend of that with an Aston Martin.|link=https://twitter.com/glovestudios/status/1014997829775917059|name=Andrew Griffith|site=Twitter|year=2018|month=07|day=05|(defunct=)}}</ref>
*Bumblebee attended ''The Voice'' to watch [[Hailee Steinfeld]]'s performance of "Back To Life", the single from their movie.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJveg86lUWE Hailee Steinfeld - Back To Life (Live from The Voice / 2018) via YouTube]</ref>
*Almost nine years since the release of ''Age of Extinction'' in May 2023, comedian [[Ben Schwartz]] revealed on the ''{{w|Game Grumps}}'' web series that he provided lines for Bumblebee's radio voice in the film. Schwartz was hired by Bay to create original dialogue for the character's radio communication. While most of his work was in the finished movie, a portion of his radio voice was omitted and replaced by lines from various media.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQwL2b4UEGU&t=8349s Ben Schwartz OBLITERATES Super Castlevania IV - Youtube]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Czech:'' '''Čmelák''' (first movie's first dub only) (Bumblebee)
*''Japanese:'' '''Bumblebee''' (バンブルビー ''Banburubī'')
*''Korean:'' '''Bumblebee''' (범블비 ''Beombeulbi'')
*''Cantonese:'' '''Daai Wong Fung''' (大黃蜂, "Bumblebee")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Űrdongó''' ("Space Bumblebee"), '''Dongó''' ("Bumblebee", ''Rise of the Beasts'' dub only)
*''Mandarin:'' '''Dàhuángfēng''' (Taiwan, 大黃蜂, "Bumblebee"), '''Dàhuángfēng''' (China, 大黄蜂, "Bumblebee")
*''Spanish:'' '''Abejorro''' ("Bumblebee")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Bdzhilka''' (Бджілка, "Bee")

==See also==
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*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], the plucky yellow [[kid-appeal character]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]], the hothead yellow kid-appeal character from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]].''
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], the yellow kid-appeal character turned leader from the [[Aligned continuity family]].
*[[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]], the amnesiac yellow kid-appeal character from ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Transformers: Cyberverse]].''}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Autobot/Bumblebee/bumblebee.htm Bumblebee at TFU.info]
*[http://www.seibertron.com/toys/index.php?f_series=40&f_name=bumblebee&f_type=exact&Submit=Search Galleries of various different Bumblebee toys from the Movie]
*[https://www.instagram.com/p/BXNxtLPBtnK/], [https://www.instagram.com/p/BYYQ1Rej_e8/] Concept art for Bumblebee's World War II body by Josh Nizzi on Instagram

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