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Henry Djanik

2026-05-14T17:15:29Z

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{{disambig3|Henry}}
[[File:HenryDjanik.jpg|190px|thumb|Pictured: your awesome uncle.]]
'''Henry Djanik''', born '''Arthur Djanikian''' ([[March 21]], [[1926]] - [[August 18]], [[2008]]) was a French actor specialized in dubbing.

Having a unique raspy voice, very characteristic and easily recognizable, Henry was a singular voice in dubbing.

When he was a teenager, he worked in a factory, then he enlisted in the {{w|French Forces of the Interior}} during [[World War II]]. On his return, he met a dancer at the Opera who told him about a drama class he signed up for. This is how he obtained a few roles in films, on stage and ultimately dubbing.

As a voice actor, Henry was the regular French voice of Anthony Quinn in most of his films, but also Mr. T (notably in the ''A-Team''), Telly Savalas (notably in ''Kojak''), and Ernest Borgnine. He was one of the voices of [[Lionel Stander]], Bud Spencer, Al Lettieri, Charles Bronson and Martin Benson. His roles also include Kjell Nilsson as Humungus in ''Mad Max 2'', Robert Englund as [[Freddy Krueger]] in the first two ''A Nightmare On Elm Street'' films and Roy Chiao as Lao Che in ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom''.

In animation, he is notably the French voice of [[Leader-1 (GoBots)|Leader-1]] in ''[[GoBots]]'', [[Peter Cullen|Eeyore]] and Owl in ''Winnie the Pooh'', Bart in ''Sesame Street'', [[Hideyuki Hori|Ikki]] in ''Saint Seiya'' and Panthro, Jackalman and Jaga in ''Thundercats''.

His voices for Mr. T and Megatron sound extremely close. French dub Megatron got a shade awesomer as a result.

==Voice roles==
===''The Transformers''===
====Main roles====
{{collist|2|
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]
*[[Devastator (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Devastator]]
*[[Gears (G1)|Gears]]
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]]
*[[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]
*[[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]]
*[[Prowl (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Prowl]]
*[[Ravage (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ravage]] (when reporting)
*Various [[Sweep (G1)|Sweeps]]
*[[Vector Sigma]]
}}

====Occasional substitutions====
{{collist|2|
*[[Beachcomber (G1)|Beachcomber]] (''Prime Target'')
*[[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] (''The Key to Vector Sigma'' episodes)
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (''Prime Target'')
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (''Trans-Europe Express'')
*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (''Enter the Nightbird'')
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (''The Immobilizer'')
*[[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] (''Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2'' and ''Prime Target'')
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (''Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1'')
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (''Countdown to Extinction'')
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] (''Countdown to Extinction'')
*[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] (''Dinobot Island, Part 2'', ''Kremzeek!'' and ''Prime Target'')
*[[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]] (''Webworld'')
*[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (''Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2'')
*[[Ratchet (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ratchet]] (''Autobot Spike'', ''Attack of the Autobots'', ''Traitor'' and ''The Immobilizer'')
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] (''The Killing Jar'', ''Dark Awakening'', ''Starscream's Ghost'', ''Madman's Paradise'' & ''The Return of Optimus Prime'' episodes)
*[[Scattershot (G1)|Scattershot]] (''The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1'')
*[[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] (''The Golden Lagoon'')
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (''The Insecticon Syndrome'' and ''Quest for Survival'')
*[[Sideswipe (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sideswipe]] (''More than Meets the Eye, Part 2'' and The Immobilizer'')
*[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] (''Webworld'')
*[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] (''B.O.T.'')
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sunstreaker]] (''Hoist Goes Hollywood'')
*[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (''Desertion of the Dinobots'' episodes)
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (''Auto-Bop'' and ''The Revenge of Bruticus'')
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (''The Killing Jar'', ''Dark Awakening'', ''Surprise Party'', ''Madman's Paradise'', ''Webworld'', ''Carnage in C-Minor'' and ''The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1'')
*[[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]] (''Autobot Spike'' and ''The Immobilizer'')
}}

====Incidentals====
{{collist|2|
*[[Indian maharaja]] (''The Ultimate Doom, Part 1'')
*[[Carl Andrews]] (''Day of the Machines'')
*Pirate Captain (''Dinobot Island, Part 2'')
*[[Bosch]] (''The Gambler'')
*[[Football coach]] (''Triple Takeover'')
*[[Hector Ramirez]] (''Prime Target'')
*[[Furg]] (''Auto-Bop'')
*[[Attack of the Alien Robots director]] (''Hoist Goes Hollywood'')
*[[Abdul Ben-F'aisal]] (''Trans-Europe Express'')
*[[Lippo the Clown]] (''The Killing Jar'')
*[[Mara-Al-Utha]] (''Madman's Paradise'')
*[[Basso Profundo]] (''Carnage in C-Minor'')
*[[It]] (''The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2'')
}}

{{note|As you noticed, the European French dub of ''The Transformers'' was pretty casual about maintaining voice actor continuity across episodes.}}

==External links==
{{GBwiki|Henry Djanik}}
*{{w|lang=fr|Henry Djanik|Wikipedia entry}} ''(French)''
*[http://www.planete-jeunesse.com/staff-137-henry-djanik.html Planète Jeunesse page] ''(French)''
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr-Li8fJrz0 Voice roles compilation on YouTube (with chapters)]
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0229102/ Henry Djanik on the IMDb]
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[[Category:French voice actors]]

FranÃ§ois Siener

2026-05-14T09:51:47Z

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[[File:François Siener.jpg|190px|thumb]]
'''François Siener''' (b. [[May 14]], [[1951]]) is a French actor active in theater, TV series and dubbing.

As a voice actor, he is one of the French voices of M. C. Gainey, [[Ron Perlman]], [[Lance Henriksen]] and Sam Elliott. In Japanese animation, he is mostly known as Gonta in ''Pom Poko'', Seijirô Inui in ''Paprika'', Joseph Joestar in ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'', Gonza in ''Princess Mononoke'' and Unkar Plutt in ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]: Episode VII – The Force Awakens'' and ''Forces of Destiny''.

He is also the French voice of the narrator in ''Fallout 3'' and ''Fallout: New Vegas''.

==Voice roles==
===''Beast Wars: Transformers''===
*[[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (season 1)
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (season 1)

==Notes==
*Following the departure of François Siener from the series, the voice roles of Megatron and Terrorsaur were taken over by [[Pierre Forest]] for the second season of ''Beast Wars''.

==External links==
*[https://wikidoublage.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Siener Wiki Doublage page] ''(French)''
*[https://www.imdb.com/fr/name/nm0797191/?reasonForLanguagePrompt=browser_header_mismatch IMDb entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Siener, François}}
[[Category:French voice actors]]

Michel VignÃ©

2026-05-14T09:51:24Z

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[[File:Michel Vigné.jpg|250px|thumb|He's watching you.]]
'''Michel Vigné''' (b. [[August 10]], [[1956]]) is a French actor specialized in dubbing.

He is the regular French voice of Mickey Rourke, Michael Wincott and [[Ron Perlman]], and one of the voices of Sylvester Stallone, Danny Trejo, William Forsythe, Steven Seagal, Hulk Hogan, Rutger Hauer, Michael Madsen, Chow Yun-fat, Nick Nolte, Patrick Swayze, Faran Tahir, Robert Patrick and Dolph Lundgren. He also dubbed Al Pacino in ''Carlito's way'', John Travolta in ''Pulp Fiction'' and Sauron in ''The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring''.

Among his many roles in animation are Alex Murphy / RoboCop in ''RoboCop: The Animated Series'', Rod Ross in ''Death Note'', Savage Opress in ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'', Skipper in the ''Planes'' films, the Watcher in ''What If...?'' and Green Lantern in various animated films and series.

Regarding video games, he dubbed the narrator in ''Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness'', Branden in ''Batman: Arkham Origins'', Crach an Craite in ''The Witcher 3'', Unkar Plutt for the ''Lego Star Wars'' games, and he reprised his role of Green Lantern in the ''Injustice'' games.

On [[July 28]], [[2024]], he announces that he will significantly slow down his career, annoyed by the current working conditions in the realm of dubbing.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Certaines déconvenues récentes m'ont fait prendre conscience des changements sociétaux profonds qui se sont opérés dans mon métier.|link=https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ndHnpecQmECxrFfd/|name=Michel Vigné|site=Facebook|year=2024|month=07|day=28}}</ref>

==Voice roles==
===''Beast Wars: Transformers''===
*[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]
*[[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] (except for his first appearance in ''[[Spider's Game]]'')
*[[Clone One]]
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]
*[[Vok|Vok disguised as Unicron]]
===''Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen'' (video game)===
*[[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]]
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (video game)===
*[[Brawl (WFC)|Brawl]]
*Decepticon [[Soldier (unit)|Soldiers]]
*Decepticon [[Rocket Soldier|Rocket Soldiers]]
*Additional voices

===''Transformers: Rise of the Beasts''===
*[[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]]

==Notes==
*In the French dub of ''Beast Wars'', Michel Vigné gave Starscream a very foppish accent, in addition to the very formal language he uses. That way of speaking is pretty distant from both the original version and the [[Jacques Ferrière|two]] [[Albert Augier|voices]] he had in the French dub of the original cartoon. However, that is strangely pleasant to hear.
:*Actually, he will soon after give that exact same voice to Inferno for the rest of the show, since he takes over the role just after the ''Possession'' episode.
*He briefly dubbed [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] for the cameo of ''[[War of the Dinobots]]'' in the 1994 film ''{{w|Léon: The Professional}}'', in which Mathilda tries to watch ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]'' on TV.
*In 2023, when reminded about his role of Dinobot in ''Beast Wars'', Michel Vigné said that he remembers the dubbing of the series as a great memory, working together with friends and having a lot of fun.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Animutants est un grand souvenir, que des amis, nous travaillions ensemble à cette époque. Nous nous sommes beaucoup amusés.|link=https://twitter.com/WeeWee_hours/status/1666695865442902016|name=Michel Vigné|site=Twitter|year=2023|month=06|day=08}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0897112/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 IMDb entry]
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=28714 Anime News Network entry]
*{{w|lang=fr|Michel Vigné|Wikipedia entry}} ''(French)''

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[[Category:French voice actors]]

Jacques Bouanich

2026-05-06T18:32:16Z

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[[File:Jacques Bouanich.jpg|220px|thumb]]
'''Jacques Bouanich''' (b. [[February 22]], [[1952]]) is a French actor.

He played a number of secondary roles for cinema or TV, and he is very active in dubbing, being the regular voice of [[Kevin Pollak]], William H. Macy, Jim Beaver, and also one of the voices of [[Kevin Dunn]] and John C. Reilly.

In April 2026, he was sentenced to four years in prison, including one year to be served under electronic monitoring, for sexually assaulting his daughter and stepdaughter between 1999 and 2012, when they were minors.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
*[[Ron Witwicky]]

===''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen''===
*Ron Witwicky

===''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''===
*Ron Witwicky

==External links==
*{{w|lang=fr|Jacques Bouanich|Wikipedia entry}} ''(French)''
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098810/ IMDb entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bouanich, Jacques}}
[[Category:French voice actors]]

1965

2026-05-01T17:08:49Z

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{{yearofthe|1965}}
The year '''1965''' (MCMLXV) predates the launch of the [[Transformers brand]] by nineteen years.

{{see|Transformers timeline}}

==Non-Fiction==
===Births===
* ???? — [[Robert Belgrade]], [[Nick Abadzis]], [[Philippe Tasquin]], [[Christian Jungwirth]], [[Adolfo Pastor]]

====January====
* [[January 1]] — [[Gabriel Gama]]
* [[January 19]] — [[Masaki Aizawa]]
* [[January 27]] — [[Jörg Pintsch]]
* [[January 30]] — [[Yutaka Aoyama]]

====February====
* [[February 1]] — [[Yasutaka Mizushima]]
* [[February 4]] — [[Robin Atkin Downes]]
* [[February 5]] — [[Mayumi Shō]]
* [[February 13]] — [[Dario Oppido]]
* [[February 17]] — [[Michael Bay]], [[Thierry Kazazian]]
* [[February 26]] — [[Nicolas Böll]]

====March====
* [[March 9]] — [[Christian Rudolf]]
* [[March 10]] — [[Iara Riça]]
* [[March 21]] — [[Miyako Endō]], [[Ja-hyeong Gu]]
* [[March 24]] — [[Peter Jacobson]]
* [[March 27]] — [[Guillaume Lebon]]
* [[March 29]] — [[Flavio Arras]]
* [[March 31]] — [[Affonso Amajones]]

====April====
* [[April 1]] — [[Thomas Schmuckert]]
* [[April 2]] — [[Andréa Murucci]]
* [[April 15]] — [[Koichi Namiki]]
* [[April 21]] — [[Robert Tondera]]
* [[April 22]] — [[Ja-hyeong Gu]]
* [[April 30]] — [[Adrian Pasdar]]

====May====
* [[May 1]] — [[Johannes Berenz]]
* [[May 5]] — [[Kiyoyuki Yanada]]
* [[May 10]] — [[François L'Écuyer]]
* [[May 19]] — [[Maile Flanagan]]
* [[May 20]] — [[Shunsuke Sakuya]]
* [[May 23]] — [[Kappei Yamaguchi]]
* [[May 24]] — [[Janne Porkka]], [[Jirō Saitō]]
* [[May 27]] — [[Vagner Santos]]

====June====
* [[June 2]] — [[Ricardo Rossatto]]
* [[June 5]] — [[Tyler Bates]]
* [[June 20]] — [[Roberto Molina]]

====July====
* [[July 5]] — [[Petri Hanttu]]
* [[July 7]] — [[Frantz Confiac]]
* [[July 15]] — [[Rintarō Nishi]]
* [[July 16]] — [[Javier Amilibia]]
* [[July 26]] — [[Eduardo Bosch]]
* [[July 30]] — [[Frédéric Popovic]]

====August====
* [[August 7]] — [[Jon Jon Briones]]
* [[August 13]] — [[Hayato Matsuo]]
* [[August 23]] — [[Kenichi Sakaguchi]]
* [[August 25]] — [[Masato Obara]]
* [[August 27]] — [[Staz|Stewart "Staz" Johnson]]

====September====
* [[September 1]] — [[Viktor Pavel]]
* [[September 16]] — [[Michel Hinderyckx]]
* [[September 18]] — [[Thomas Semeraro]]

====October====
* [[October 2]] — [[Gerardo Reyero]]
* [[October 5]] — [[Sven Hasper]], [[Carlos Comério]]
* [[October 12]] — [[Dan Abnett]]
* [[October 17]] — [[Carlos Carvajal]]
* [[October 18]] — [[Frank Schaff]]
* [[October 19]] — [[Su-jin Gang]]
* [[October 28]] — [[Katsuhiro Hayashi]]

====November====
* [[November 2]] — [[Kim Sun-yeong]]
* [[November 8]] — [[Sérgio Muniz]]
* [[November 12]] — [[Lex Lang]]
* [[November 17]] — [[Darryl Kurylo]]
* [[November 18]] — [[Simone Mori]]
* [[November 20]] — [[Takeshi Kusao]]
* [[November 23]] — [[Frédéric Meaux]]
* [[November 28]] — [[Tony Beck]]
* [[November 30]] — [[Megumi Urawa]]

====December====
* [[December 2]] — [[Luis Miguel Perez]]
* [[December 5]] — [[Dietmar Wunder]]
* [[December 13]] — [[Kyle Baker]]
* [[December 15]] — [[Torsten Münchow]]
* [[December 21]] — [[Guillermo Martínez]]
* [[December 22]] — [[Laurent Pasquier]]
[[Category:Real-world events by year]]

November 23

2026-05-01T17:08:04Z

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<noinclude>{{cal-date|11|23}}</noinclude>

* '''19?? —''' colourist and artist [[Jason Cardy]] is born.
* '''[[1936]] —''' [[Horst Lampe]] (German voice actor of [[Ratchet (Animated)|Animated Ratchet]], [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Revenge of the Fallen Soundwave]] and [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Cyberverse Shockwave]]) is born.
* '''[[1942]] —''' [[Yoo Kang-jin]] (Korean voice of [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron/Galvatron]] and [[John Keller]]) is born.
* '''195? —''' [[Mun-Ja Choi]] (Korean voice of [[Arcee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ar]][[Arcee (WFC)|cee]] and [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]]) is born.
* '''[[1964]] —''' Comic artist [[Jim Fern]] is born in Long Island, New York.
* '''1964 —''' [[Paolo Marchese]] (Italian voice of [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] and [[Cogman]] in the ''[[live-action film series]]'') is also born.
* '''[[1965]] —''' [[Frédéric Meaux]] (French voice of [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] in ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' and various characters in ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise 2015]]'') is born.
* '''[[1973]] —''' [[Kizatomi Nimura]] (voice of [[R.E.V.|Eagle Killer]]) is born.
* '''[[1977]] —''' The S. S. Kresge Corporation is renamed to the [[Kmart]] Corporation.
* '''[[1986]] —''' [[Katia Sorrentino]] (Italian voice of [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] and [[Dani Burns]]) is born.
* '''[[1997]] —''' The ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode "[[Maximal, No More]]" premieres in the US.
* '''[[2005]] —''' ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Galaxy Force]]'' - Vol. 06 is released on DVD in Japan by [[Victor Entertainment]].
* '''2005 —''' The ''[[Transformers Galaxy Force: Sound Pack 2]]'' soundtrack album is released in Japan by [[Victor Entertainment]].
* '''[[2011]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' episode "[[Convoy (episode)|Convoy]]" premieres in [[France]].
* '''[[2012]] —''' "[[Friend or Foe?]]" is first published by [[Eaglemoss]]/GE Fabbri in [[Russia]].
* '''[[2013]] —''' [[Ricardo Soto]] (Chilean voice of [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]], [[Meltdown (Animated)|Meltdown]] and [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]]) passes away as the result of heart problems.
* '''2013 —''' ''[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]'', a TV movie concluding ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' premieres in [[Brazil]].
* '''[[2014]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Rescue Bots]]'' episode "[[Buddy System]]" premieres in [[Hungary]].
* '''[[2016]] —''' ''[[The Transformers: Till All Are One|Till All Are One]]'' [[Ping|#5]], and ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 comic)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'': ''More than Meets the Eye'' TPB are released by [[IDW Publishing]].
* '''2016 —''' "[[Journey's Eve]]" is released by [[Fun Publications]].
* '''2016''' — The ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' episodes "[[Pretzel Logic]]" and "[[Mighty Big Trouble]]" premiere in [[Italy]].
* '''[[2018]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'' episode "[[Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership]]" airs on the [[Cartoon Network]] app and website.
* '''[[2019]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#MP45|MP-45 Cybertron Espionage Bumble (Ver. 2.0)]] and [[Blackarachnia (BW)/toys#Masterpiece|MP-46 Blackwidow (Beast Wars)]] and ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' [[Impactor (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|SG-36 Autobot Impactor]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#S40|SG-37 Galaxy Upgrade Optimus Prime]].
* '''2019 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (cartoon)|Rescue Bots Academy]]'' episodes "[[Milford Goes To The Dogs]]" and "[[The Ice Wave]]" premiere on [[Discovery Family]].
* '''2019 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'' episode "[[I Am The Allspark]]" premieres in [[Germany]] and in the [[United States|U.S]].
* '''[[2022]] —''' ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass II|Shattered Glass II]]'' [[Shattered Glass II issue 4|#4]] is released by [[IDW Publishing]].
* '''2022 —''' The ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|Transformers: EarthSpark]]'' episode "[[Decoy (episode)|Decoy]]" premieres on [[Nickelodeon]] in the UK.
* '''[[2024]] —''' '''TFWiki''' creates its 31,000th article: [[Eric Pearson]]
* '''[[2025]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|EarthSpark]]'' episode "[[The Need for Read]]" premieres in Cantonese.
* '''2025 —''' The ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|EarthSpark]]'' episode "[[The Great Escape]]" premieres on [[Nicktoons]] in the [[United States|U.S]].

FrÃ©dÃ©ric Meaux

2026-05-01T17:06:10Z

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[[File:Frédéric Meaux.jpg|200px|thumb]]
'''Frédéric Meaux''' (b. [[November 23]], [[1965]]) is a Belgian voice actor and voice director. He is specialized in cartoons and animes dubbings, but sometimes he dubs in some live action movies.

His voice roles are mostly secondary roles in titles including ''Beyblade'', ''Naruto'' and ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'', among numerous other animated series. He is also the French voice of Peter Parker in the short ''Spider-Man: The New Animated Series''.

He was the voice director for the French versions of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines: Transformers]]'', ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]''.

==Voice roles==
===''Beast Machines: Transformers''===
* [[Diagnostic Drone]]
{{note|The French dub for ''Beast Machines: Transformers'' was made in 2007.}}

===''Transformers Prime''===
{{collist|2|
* [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]]
* [[Tailgate (Prime)|Tailgate]]
* [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]]
* [[Jerky Teen]] ("[[Darkness Rising, Part 1]]")
* [[Science fair judge]] ("[[Masters & Students]]")
* [[Museum security guard]] ("[[Deus ex Machina]]")
* [[Starter Guy]] ("[[Speed Metal]]")
}}

===''Transformers: Rescue Bots''===
*[[Vigil]]
*[[Barney]] (second voice)

===''Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)''===
{{collist|2|
* [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] (first voice)
* [[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] (first voice)
* [[Bisk (RID)|Bisk]]
* [[Clawtrap]]
* [[Headlock (RID)|Headlock]]
* [[Ragebyte]]
* [[Springload (RID)|Springload]] (second voice)
* [[Zorillor]]
* [[Buzzstrike (RID)|Buzzstrike]] ("[[History Lessons]]")
* [[Overload (RID)|Overload]] ("[[Decepticon Island (Part 1)|Decepticon]] [[Decepticon Island (Part 2)|Island]]")
* [[Quillfire (RID)|Quillfire]] ("[[Breathing Room]]")
}}
==== Incidentals ====
* [[Museum guard|Guard #2]] ("[[Pilot (Part 1)]]")
* [[Windward]] captain ("[[Trust Exercises]]")

==Voice direction==
*''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines: Transformers]]'' (French dub)
*''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' (French dub)
*''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' (French dub)

==Notes==
*In 2007, Sony decided to edit ''Beast Machines:Transformers'' in DVD, in France (among other countries) for the first time. Frédéric Meaux directed the French dub of the show, just before directing the one of ''Transformers Prime'' a few years later. That is why the team of voice actors is almost the same between the two series.
*Amusingly he, [[Susan Blu]] and [[Yoshikazu Iwanami]] all of shared the duties of voice directing for Beast Machines and Prime in their respective language dubs.
*In ''Prime'', he dubs the entirety of the Vehicons in the first season. It's only from season 2 onwards that other actors give them their voices.

==External links==
*[https://wikidoublage.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Meaux Wiki Doublage page] ''(French)''

{{DEFAULTSORT: Meaux, Frederic}}
[[Category:French voice actors]]
[[Category:Voice directors]]

Philippe Lacheau

2026-04-28T21:43:42Z

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{{disambig3|Philip}}
[[File:Philippe Lacheau.jpg|300px|thumb]]
'''Philippe Lacheau''' (b. [[June 25]], [[1980]]) is a French actor, director, screenwriter and radio/TV host.

His first professional experience was in a radio show in which he performed a sketch every week. Then he did the same, but for television. Since 2010, he is active in cinema, starting with minor roles before escalating.

Philippe Lacheau is known for his roles in the ''Babysitting'' films, ''Alibi.com'', ''Épouse-moi mon pote'', but also ''Nicky Larson et le parfum de Cupidon'', the live-action adaptation of ''City Hunter'' in which he plays Ryo Saeba. He wrote and directed all these films (except ''Épouse-moi mon pote'', directed by his good friend Tarek Boudali), and they were all successes at the French box-office.

His rare voice acting roles are Peter Rabbit in the eponymous 2018 film, Max in ''The Secret Life of Pets'' and its sequel, and Christopher King in ''City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes''.

==Voice roles==
[[File:Philippe Lacheau Premiere.jpg|210px|thumb|I know this guy!]]
===''Transformers One''===
*[[Bumblebee (One)|B-127/Bumblebee]]

==Notes==
*Philippe Lacheau was present at the French premiere of ''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]'' in [[Paris]] on October 13th, along with [[Adrien Antoine]], [[Baptiste Marc]], [[Audrey Fleurot]], [[Julien Fébreau]] and [[Pauline Brunel]].
*During an interview, he said that if he was a Transformer, he would like to turn into a blender because he loves milkshakes.

==External links==
*{{w|lang=en|Philippe Lacheau|Wikipedia entry}} ''(English)''
*{{w|lang=fr|Philippe Lacheau|Wikipedia entry}} ''(French)''
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3743617/ IMDb entry]
*[https://twitter.com/paramountfr/status/1808907556817154142 Cast announcement for Transformers One on X]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDIgmvR6bN4 Transformers One: Behind the scenes of dubbing with Philippe Lacheau] ''(French)''

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lacheau, Philippe}}
[[Category:French voice actors]]

1959

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{{yearofthe|1959}}

The year '''1959''' (MCMLIX) predates the launch of the [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]] by twenty-five years.

{{see|Transformers timeline}}

==Fiction==
===Panini ''Armada'' comic===
During the construction of a casino in [[Las Vegas]], the [[Land Military Mini-Con Team]] were uncovered and subsequently the [[Extra-Terrestrial Response Division]] attempted to use [[inhibitor clamp]]s to control them. The [[Mini-Con]]s broke free and drove to nearby [[Stillwater]], [[Nevada]], delivering a message to [[Amos Hume]] before they were recaptured. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 6#Blast from the Past!|Blast from the Past!}}

==Non-Fiction==
===Births===
Unknown date — [[Christopher Elves]], [[Ed Frugé]], [[Thomas Albus]], [[Barbara Zielińska]], [[Karl Jürgen Sihler]], [[Peter Wenke]]

====January====
* [[January 5]] — [[Clancy Brown]]
* [[January 11]] — [[Bob Harras]], [[Brad Joyce]]
* [[January 14]] — [[Alexandr Novikov]]
* [[January 18]] — [[Héctor Lee]], [[Kim Tae-woong]]
* [[January 22]] — [[Atsuki Tani]]
* [[January 24]] — [[Pierre-Alain de Garrigues]]

====February====
* [[February 9]] — [[Kazunori Maruyama]], [[Rebeca Manriquez]]
* [[February 10]] — [[Minoru Komorita]]
* [[February 13]] — [[Yuriko Yamamoto]], [[Werner Böhnke]]
* [[February 26]] — [[Eleazar Osorio]]

====March====
* [[March 2]] — [[Éric Etcheverry]]
* [[March 7]] — [[Leopoldo Ballesteros]]
* [[March 10]] — [[Akira Okeya]]
* [[March 20]] — [[Frank Muth]]
* [[March 22]] — [[Lew Stringer]]
* [[March 23]] — [[Kazue Ikura]]
* [[March 24]] — [[Matthias Klages]]
* [[March 30]] — [[Lúcia Helena]]

====April====
* [[April 2]] — [[Sanae Miyuki]]
* [[April 9]] — [[Sheila Dorfman]]
* [[April 10]] — [[Yukiyoshi Ōhashi]]
* [[April 12]] — [[Alain Zouvi]]
* [[April 20]] — [[Leonardo Araujo]]
* [[April 24]] — [[Glenn Morshower]]

====May====
* [[May 11]] — [[Kōjin Ōno]]
* [[May 14]] - [[Jan Kurbjuweit]]
* [[May 19]] — [[Jim Ward]]
* [[May 23]] — [[Toshiyuki Takahashi]]
* [[May 25]] — [[Glenn Wrage]]

====June====
* [[June 8]] — [[Olivier Cuvellier]]
* [[June 9]] — [[Fritz Rott]]
* [[June 13]] — [[Steven DeNure]]
* [[June 17]] — [[Kazuki Yao]]

====July====
* [[July 5]] — [[Akari Hibino]], [[Paul Borne]]
* [[July 6]] — [[Tilo Schmitz]]
* [[July 7]] — [[Frank Röth]]
* [[July 9]] — [[Massimo Corvo]]
* [[July 12]] — [[Jordi Boixaderas]]
* [[July 16]] — [[Bob Joles]]
* [[July 20]] — [[Élcio Sodré]]
* [[July 22]] — [[José Padilla]]
* [[July 24]] — [[Krystyna Kozanecka]]
* [[July 25]] — [[Hiroaki Harakawa]]
* [[July 28]] — [[Ian Akin]]
* [[July 29]] — [[Ricardo Omaña]]

====August====
* [[August 2]] — [[Hiroshi Ōtaki]]
* [[August 15]] — [[Yōichi Kobiyama]]
* [[August 17]] — [[Benoit Rousseau]]
* [[August 18]] — [[Beth Bornstein]]
* [[August 27]] — [[Peter Mensah]]

====September====
* [[September 22]] — [[Alberto Olivero]]
* [[September 30]] — [[Mario Bombardieri]]

====October====
* [[October 8]] — [[Guilherme Lopes]]
* [[October 13]] — [[Dan DiDio]]
* [[October 15]] — [[Masako Katsuki]]
* [[October 18]] — [[Jim Massara]]
* [[October 20]] — [[Luis Lugo]]
* [[October 21]] — [[Ken Watanabe]]
* [[October 23]] — [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]

====November====
* [[November 6]] — [[Nobuo Tobita]]
* [[November 11]] — [[Fushigi Yamada]]
* [[November 12]] — [[Massimo Lodolo]]
* [[November 21]] — [[Mari Mashiba]], [[Naoko Watanabe]]
* [[November 24]] — [[Akio Ōtsuka]]
* [[November 28]] — [[Judd Nelson]]

====December====
* [[December 2]] — [[Kari Tamminen]]
* [[December 18]] — [[Jean-Philippe Puymartin]], [[José Augusto Sendim]]
* [[December 21]] — [[Lindsay Dawson]]
* [[December 23]] — [[Marcos Henrique Melo Hailer]]
* [[December 25]] - [[Michael Bauer]]
* [[December 26]] — [[Yoshikazu Hirano]]
* [[December 30]] — [[Carlos del Campo]]

[[Category:Fictional events by year]]
[[Category:Real-world events by year]]

August 17

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<noinclude>{{cal-date|8|17}}</noinclude>

* '''[[1936]] —''' [[Thomas Rau]] (German voice of [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]], [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and more) is born.
* '''[[1939]] —''' Two children and four [[Rescue Bot]]s emerge from the [[Temporal Station]], having traveled back in time from [[2012]], and accidentally alter history, allowing [[Doctor Morocco]] to take over [[Griffin Rock]]. {{storylink|It's a Bot Time}}
* '''[[1942]] —''' Sound editor [[Michael Tomack]] is born.
* '''1942 —''' [[László Ujréti]] (Hungarian voice of numerous characters in the first dub of [[The Transformers: The Movie]]) is born.
* '''[[1958]] —''' [[Kim Yeong-hun]] (Korean voice of [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]])
* '''[[1959]] —''' [[Benoit Rousseau]] (Canadian French voice of [[Tom Banachek]] and [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]] in the [[live-action film series]]) is born.
* '''[[1966]] —''' [[Hinako Yoshino]] (voice of [[Pīpō]]) is born.
* '''[[1975]] —''' [[Antoni Lo Presti]] (French voice of [[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]] in [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|''Robots in Disguise'' 2015]]) is born.
* '''[[1984]] —''' [[David Camarillo]] (Mexican voice of [[Gnaw (Cyberverse)|Lord Gnaw]]) is born.
* '''[[1989]] —''' [[Lupita Leal]] (Mexican voice of [[Twitch]]) is born.
* '''[[1994]] —''' [[Tasuku Hatanaka]] (Japanese voice of [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]]) is born.
* '''[[1995]] —''' [[Alejandro Orozco]] (Mexican voice of [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise 2015]] [[Blurr (Prime)|Blurr]] and [[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy]] [[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]]) is born.
* '''[[2005]] —''' [[Nilton Valério]] (Portuguese voice of [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]], [[Octane]], [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] and [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original cartoon]]) passes away, aged 69.
* '''[[2007]] —''' The [[Transformers (film)|''Transformers'' live-action movie]] is released in [[Poland]].
* '''[[2010]] —''' Preorders begin for the Japanese [[7-Eleven|7-11]] [[exclusive]] [[Donald Duck|Donald Duck Halloween Ver.]] toy.
* '''[[2011]] —''' The remaining stock of [[Side Burn (RID)#Toys|Side Burn]], the [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] membership "freebie" for 2011, goes on sale at the Club store... and sells out in about three hours.
* '''[[2013]] —''' Third day of [[Cybertron Con 2013]] at the China Millennium Monument in [[Beijing]], [[China]].
* '''2013 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' episode "[[Inside Job]]" premieres in [[Brazil]].
* '''[[2014]] —''' "[[Hell Day]]": The [[Decepticon]]s led by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] invade [[Earth]] with [[Teletran 3]]'s teleportation ability, and devastate the planet. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 3}}
* '''2014 —''' The [[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns]] mobile game is released in [[Japan]] on Android.
* '''2014 —''' Final day of the [[Transformers Expo]] taking place in Yokohama, [[Japan]].
* '''[[2015]] —''' The [[Q-Transformers (cartoon)|Q-Transformers]]" episode "[[The Road to Transformers for Adults]]" first premieres.
* '''[[2016]]''' — ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' [[Ten to Midnight|#56]], ''[[The Transformers: Till All Are One|Till All Are One]]'' [[Things We Said We'd Never Do|#3]] and a new reprinting of ''[[Transformers: War Within Omnibus]]'' are released by [[IDW Publishing]].
* '''[[2017]] — ''' The ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Rescue Bots]]'' episodes "[[Turning the Tide]]", "[[The Last of Morocco]]" and "[[The New Recruits]]" premiere in [[Italy]].
* '''[[2023]] —''' [[Threezero]] reveals their [[Shattered Glass]] [[Optimus Prime (SG)|Optimus Prime]] and also a full colour reveal of the [[Threezero]] DLX [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]].
* '''2023 —''' [[Klaus Lochthove]] (German voice of [[Porter C. Powell]], [[Leadfoot (DOTM)|Leadfoot]], [[Dragstrip (WFC)|Drag Strip]] and [[The Fallen#2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon|Megatronus]]) dies at age 69.
* '''[[2025]] —''' [[Torsten Michaelis]] (German voice of [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] and [[Unicron]]) dies at age 64.
[[Category:Fictional events by day]]

Benoit Rousseau

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[[File:Benoît Rousseau.jpg|180px|thumb]]
'''Benoît Rousseau''' ([[August 17]], [[1959]] - [[April 24]], [[2026]]) was a Canadian actor and voice director specialized in dubbing. He has been the the regular Canadian French voice of Nicolas Cage, [[Dwayne Johnson]], Kevin Bacon, and Tim Robbins, among other actors. He also dubbed Liam Neeson in Episode I of ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]''.

In animation, he is the Canadian French voice of Mr. Burns, Duffman, Kirk Van Houten, and other characters in ''The Simpsons'', Hamm in the ''Toy Story'' saga, Mack in the ''Cars'' saga and Mr. Incredible in ''The Incredibles'' 1 and 2, among numerous other voice roles.

He was also active in videogame dubbing, being the voice of Flynn in the ''Skylanders'' games, and several secondary characters in the ''Assassin's Creed'' franchise.

On April 24, 2026, a few months after interrupting his career to fight cancer, Benoit Rousseau died in the Montreal region, at the age of 66.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
*[[Tom Banachek]]

===''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen''===
*[[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]]

==External links==
*{{w|lang=fr|Benoît Rousseau|Wikipedia entry}} ''(French)''
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0745913/ IMDb entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rousseau, Benoit}}
[[Category:French voice actors]]

FrÃ©dÃ©ric Meaux

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[[File:Frédéric Meaux.jpg|200px|thumb]]
'''Frédéric Meaux''' is a Belgian voice actor and voice director. He is specialized in cartoons and animes dubbings, but sometimes he dubs in some live action movies.

His voice roles are mostly secondary roles in titles including ''Beyblade'', ''Naruto'' and ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'', among numerous other animated series. He is also the French voice of Peter Parker in the short ''Spider-Man: The New Animated Series''.

He was the voice director for the French versions of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines: Transformers]]'', ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]''.

==Voice roles==
===''Beast Machines: Transformers''===
* [[Diagnostic Drone]]
{{note|The French dub for ''Beast Machines: Transformers'' was made in 2007.}}

===''Transformers Prime''===
{{collist|2|
* [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]]
* [[Tailgate (Prime)|Tailgate]]
* [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]]
* [[Jerky Teen]] ("[[Darkness Rising, Part 1]]")
* [[Science fair judge]] ("[[Masters & Students]]")
* [[Museum security guard]] ("[[Deus ex Machina]]")
* [[Starter Guy]] ("[[Speed Metal]]")
}}

===''Transformers: Rescue Bots''===
*[[Vigil]]
*[[Barney]] (second voice)

===''Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)''===
{{collist|2|
* [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] (first voice)
* [[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] (first voice)
* [[Bisk (RID)|Bisk]]
* [[Clawtrap]]
* [[Headlock (RID)|Headlock]]
* [[Ragebyte]]
* [[Springload (RID)|Springload]] (second voice)
* [[Zorillor]]
* [[Buzzstrike (RID)|Buzzstrike]] ("[[History Lessons]]")
* [[Overload (RID)|Overload]] ("[[Decepticon Island (Part 1)|Decepticon]] [[Decepticon Island (Part 2)|Island]]")
* [[Quillfire (RID)|Quillfire]] ("[[Breathing Room]]")
}}
==== Incidentals ====
* [[Museum guard|Guard #2]] ("[[Pilot (Part 1)]]")
* [[Windward]] captain ("[[Trust Exercises]]")

==Voice direction==
*''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines: Transformers]]'' (French dub)
*''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' (French dub)
*''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' (French dub)

==Notes==
*In 2007, Sony decided to edit ''Beast Machines:Transformers'' in DVD, in France (among other countries) for the first time. Frédéric Meaux directed the French dub of the show, just before directing the one of ''Transformers Prime'' a few years later. That is why the team of voice actors is almost the same between the two series.
*Amusingly he, [[Susan Blu]] and [[Yoshikazu Iwanami]] all of shared the duties of voice directing for Beast Machines and Prime in their respective language dubs.
*In ''Prime'', he dubs the entirety of the Vehicons in the first season. It's only from season 2 onwards that other actors give them their voices.

==External links==
*[https://wikidoublage.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Meaux Wiki Doublage page] ''(French)''

{{DEFAULTSORT: Meaux, Frederic}}
[[Category:French voice actors]]
[[Category:Voice directors]]

Pilot (Part 2)

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{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' (2015) ep 2
|image=RID2015 Underbite chases autobots.jpg
|caption="Hey, I didn't order this dinner to go!"
|prev=Pilot (Part 1)
|next=Trust Exercises
|title="Pilot (Part 2)"
|season=1
|season ep=2
|airdate=[[February 21]], [[2015]] (Australia/NZ) [[March 14]], [[2015]] (USA)
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|writers=[[Adam Beechen]], [[Duane Capizzi]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|director=[[David Hartman]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cHxE0lppWI
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''Bumblebee and his new team must stop Underbite from reaching nearby Crown City.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:PilotPart2 Underbite Grimlock square off.jpg|thumb|left|250px|''Walking with Beasts: Hasbro Edition'']]
[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] prevents [[Russell Clay|Russell]] from pursuing [[Underbite]], insisting it's too dangerous, but [[Sideswipe (RID 2015)|Sideswipe]] points out the incoming [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]], who transforms to dino mode. Though Bumblebee's braced to fight Grimlock off, the Dinobot simply sniffs at them and then dashes off into the woods after Underbite. Telling the others to stay put, Bumblebee gives pursuit, however when Russell runs off as well, [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] uses it as an excuse to follow suit. Also [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]]'s jabbering results in Sideswipe going after them. Grimlock intercepts Underbite at [[Vintage Salvage Depot for the Discriminating Nostalgist|the scrapyard]] and the pair begin grappling. Though Underbite suggests that they're on the same side and therefore don't need to fight, Grimlock disagrees and they continue to toss each other around, while an oblivious [[Denny Clay]] puts away the [[Billy the Breakfast Beaver]] statues he's bought. Bumblebee arrives and prepares to subtly intervene, however the element of surprise is spoiled by the arrival of the rest of his team, who dive straight in. After tossing Grimlock aside, Underbite starts chowing on the Beaver statues, until Strongarm manages to attract his attention.

[[File:PilotPart2 Denny is anguished.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"Yeah, Fowler had that reaction too the first time we broke something of his."]]
Sideswipe and Russell find Denny in the old diner, and Russell points his dad to the Autobots and Decepticon rapidly bearing down on them. Grimlock jumps on Underbite and begins punching him repeatedly. While the Decepticon is thus busy, Bumblebee suggests Denny take his son somewhere safe and complains about his team not following orders. Underbite again manages to get the better of Grimlock, and begins chowing down on the junk, however he soon spots [[Crown City]] in the distance, and immediately sets out for it. With the Autobots gathering themselves together, Grimlock again springs to his feet, only to find his foe has gone. Realizing where Underbite is headed, Bumblebee prepares to give chase, and the others insist on going too. Strongarm scans a new vehicle mode on Bumblebee's insistence that they maintain a low profile. Fixit also arrives with the news that he's got a single [[stasis pod|stasis cell]] back online, and some capture devices which he distributes to the team. Bumblebee, Strongarm, Denny, and Grimlock soon roll out, leaving Sideswipe to take care of Russell.

[[File:PilotPart2 Bumblebee Strongarm vs Underbite.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]], [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]], and [[William Fowler|Fowler]] were right, this ''is'' tingly!]]
Driving along, Underbite is slowly weakening from the lack of sustenance — organic material being unsuitable for him to consume. Meanwhile, Sideswipe finally finds a car to scan, and Russell has the idea to take along the rest of the Beaver statues. The rest of the team has already caught up with Underbite at the bridge to Crown City and start using Fixit's capture tools on him, however the tools swiftly fail. They attempt to block Underbite's way, though a fight proves unnecessary as Sideswipe arrives and lures Underbite away with the trailer-load of Beaver statues. They lead the Decepticon to the edge of the quarry, and the team starts trying to push Underbite over the edge. Unfortunately when Sideswipe joins in, it allows Underbite to grab some statues from the Autobot's trailer and powers himself up. Tossed aside, the Autobots can only watch in alarm as Underbite picks up Denny's truck and begins crushing it.

[[File:PilotPart2 Optimus ex Machina.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Did you really think Hasbro would let him [[To sell toys|stay]] [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|dead]]?]]
At which point [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] suddenly grabs Underbite and tosses him into the quarry. After revealing that Denny is fine, Optimus admits he's not quite sure whether he's alive or not. After complimenting the team Bumblebee has put together, Optimus gives a stirring speech and tells them he does not know what fate has in store for him, before dematerializing. Some time later, Underbite is resecured in the working stasis cell as the Autobots move the equipment salvaged from the ''[[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]]'' in to the scrapyard. Grimlock's concerned that they'll put him back into a stasis cell too, but Bumblebee instead puts him on probation. The inevitable team squabbling begins.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] (1)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (3)
*[[Sideswipe (RID 2015)|Sideswipe]] (4)
*[[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] (5)
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (9)

|c2=
*[[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] (6)
*[[Underbite]] (8)

|c3=
*[[Russell Clay]] (2)
*[[Denny Clay]] (7)

}}

==Quotes==
"Oh mercy, his dad's in there!" <pause> "What's a dad?" 
"Um...it's an older member of this planet's dominant species that shares genetic material with the younger member and assists in the rearing and education of that member." 
"Oh. Why didn't you just say that?"
:—'''Fixit''' gets a brief lecture on [[relatives]] from '''Bumblebee'''.

"I'm no fighter either, I'm a lover. Let's see if ol' Fixit can find something to help out with these fugitives. Maybe some weapons... gear... I can tell we're going to be great friends, Sideswipe. Hey, do you have a nickname? No no, wait, let me guess. Scooter? Rumblejack? Bill? Mine is M.C. It's actually a loooong story... Sideswipe? Hello?"
:—'''Fixit'''

"We got a dance to finish skrud!" 
"You're from the prison ship too. I'm not gonna eat the whole planet. Just the crunchy parts. So why're you botherin' me?" 
"I like to pick on things my own size. And just because we rode here together, doesn't make us travel buds." 
:—'''Grimlock''' picks a fight with '''Underbite'''.

"Fixit, you are my favorite Mini-Con." ''[Capture device breaks]'' "Fixit, I'm rethinking my rankings."
:—'''Bumblebee'''

"Together you will confront many challenges. The forces facing Earth are immense and formidable, but I am certain you will accomplish great things. As you did today." 
"But we needed your help, Optimus. We always will." 
"You are ready to lead, Bumblebee, do not doubt yourself." 
:—''' Optimus Prime''' talks to '''Bumblebee''' and gives Team Bumblebee the pep talk.

"YEAH! I'm on probaaaation. Yes on probaaation."
:—'''Grimlock'''

"I... we... won't let you down Optimus. And if I say it enough, maybe I'll actually believe it."
:—'''Bumblebee''' has high hopes for his new team.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* In this and part 1, the capsules holding the Decepticons are referred to as "stasis cells", whereas in later episodes they're referred to using the more standard name "stasis pods". This change appears to have been made due to the amount of spitting the term "stasis cell" produced in the recording booth. <ref>{{citesocial|quote=The recording studio filled with spit every time someone said "stasis cell." @willfriedle @m_whitfield @ConstanceZimmer #transformersRID|link=https://twitter.com/sonnova/status/576869010010075136|name=Adam Beechen|site=Twitter|year=2015|month=03|day=14|(defunct=)}}</ref>
**A device Bumblebee uses which looks like the [[Decepticon Hunter]] introduced in "[[As the Kospego Commands!]]". It's unclear if this is actually meant to be another Decepticon Hunter, and it doesn't function the same way.
** A crossbow claimed by Strongarm, which malfunctions in this episode, but she'll be seen using it in later episodes.
** A sword, which goes unclaimed but can be seen being used by Sideswipe in later episodes.
* When the Autobots confront Underbite near the bridge, Underbite is so low on energy that he can barely walk. However, even after being attacked by Bumblebee and Strongarm, he somehow has the energy to run after Sideswipe and then transform and chase after him. It's ''possible'' that the weapons Bumblebee and Strongarm used somehow energized Underbite, but there's nothing in the scene to suggest this.

===Prisoner manifest===
* ''In stasis'': [[Underbite]]
* ''On probation'': [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]]
* ''Countless others all missing, presumed at large''

===Transformers references===
* Fixit's nickname M.C. could stand for [[Mini-Con]].

===Real-world references===

===Animation and technical errors===

===Trivia===
*The first thirteen episodes of the series, this included, first premiered in Mandarin on Chinese streaming video site M1905.
* The bird Underbite tries asking for directions appears to be entirely hand-drawn, compared to anything else on the show,

===Foreign localization===
'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Piloto - Part 2 '''" ("Pilot - Part 2")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 31]], 2015

'''Chinese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Dìqiú Rènwù (xià)'''" (地球任务（下）, "Mission Earth (Part 2)")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 31]], [[2014]]

'''Danish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Pilot - Del 2'''" ("Pilot - Part 2")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Finnish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Pilotti - Osa 2'''" ("Pilot - Part 2")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Le dévoreur'''" ("The Devourer")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[February 9]], [[2015]]
::*Underbite's phrase "Oh... A buffet!" is strangely dubbed by Grimlock's voice actor, saying what is supposedly Underbite's next phrase "Oh... It's heaven there". Underbite, with the correct voice just after, repeats it a second time.

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Mission Erde - Episode 2'''" ("Mission Earth - Episode 2")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[April 4]], 2015

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Robotok álruhában'''" ("Robots in Disguise"; both pilot episodes shared the same title with no numbering, despite being aired separately)
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 17]], 2015

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Più di quanto non sembri, parte 2'''" ("More than how it looks like, Part 2")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[February 28]], 2015 (preview in select cinemas); [[March 7]], 2015 (TV airing)

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Team Bumblebee, Tanjō'''" (チーム・バンブルビー、誕生, "The Birth of Team Bumblebee")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 22]], 2015

'''Norwegian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Pilot - Del 2'''" ("Pilot - Part 1")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

'''Polish''':
:*''Title:'' "'''Pilot - część druga'''" ("Pilot - part two")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 17]], 2015

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 3]], 2015

'''Russian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Пилот, часть 2'''" (Pilot, Part 2)
:*''Original airdate:'' [[August 3]] (Along with "Pilot, Part 1")

'''Spanish (Latin American)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Piloto. parte 2''" (Pilot, part 2)
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 31]] (Along with "Pilot, Part 1")

'''Swedish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Pilot - Del 2'''" ("Pilot - Part 2")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Robots in Disguise'' — Collect 'em All ([[Beyond Home Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2015 — ''Transformers Robots in Disguise'' — A New Autobot Mission ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2016 — ''Transformers Robots in Disguise'' — A New Mission ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2016 — ''Transformers Robots in Disguise'' — Season One (Shout! Factory) 

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) episodes]]

Jean-Michel Vovk

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[[File:Jean-Michel Vovk.jpg|200px|thumb]]
'''Jean-Michel Vovk''' (b. [[May 21]], [[1961]]) is a Belgian actor.

Alongside his numerous roles in theater, films and TV series, he is also very active in dubbing.

In animation, his roles include the French voice of Zane in ''Ninjago'', Pedro in ''One Piece'', Kizamé in ''Naruto'' and additional voices in ''Pokémon''.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Prime''===
* [[William Fowler]] (first voice)
* [[Skylynx (Prime)|Skylynx]]

===''Transformers: Rescue Bots''===
* [[Ezra Greene|Doc Greene]] (season 2 onwards)

===''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' (2015)===
* [[Drift (RID)|Drift]]
* [[Underbite]] (second voice)
* [[Groundpounder (RID)|Groundpounder]]

===''Transformers: Cyberverse''===
* [[Drift (Cyberverse)|Drift]]

==Notes==
* He also voiced [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in the French dub of the ''Robot Chicken'' short "''Everything in Good Working Order?''".

==External links==
*{{w|lang=fr|Jean-Michel Vovk|Wikipedia entry}} ''(French)''
*[https://wikidoublage.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Jean-Michel_Vovk Wiki Doublage page] ''(French)''
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1033514/ IMDb entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT: Vovk, Jean-Michel}}
[[Category:French voice actors]]

Martin Spinhayer

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{{disambig3|Martin}}
[[File:Martin Spinhayer.jpg|200px|thumb]]
'''Martin Spinhayer''' (b. [[April 18]], [[1975]]) is a Belgian actor and singer, active in dubbing.

In addition to his appearances in films, he is the French voice of [[J.K. Simmons|J. Jonah Jameson]] in ''[[Spider-Man|Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', Hiashi Hyûga and [[Jamieson Price|Tobirama]] [[Kenyū Horiuchi|Senju]] in ''[[Kurama|Naruto]]'', and several secondary characters in famous titles including ''Pokémon'', ''One Piece'', ''Doctor Who'', ''Saint Seiya'' and ''Yu-Gi-Oh!''.

He voiced [[John Cena]] once (in ''The Marine'').

He is also very active in voiceover for TV and radio advertisements, audiobooks and documentaries.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Prime''===
* [[William Fowler]] (second voice)

===''Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)''===
* [[Underbite]] (first voice)
* [[The Fallen|Megatronus]]
* [[Groundpounder (RID)|Groundpounder]] (''The Champ'' episode)
* TV host (''Pilot, Part 1'')

==External Links==
*[https://wikidoublage.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Martin_Spinhayer Wiki Doublage page] ''(French)''
*[http://www.planete-jeunesse.com/staff-7116-martin-spinhayer.html Planète jeunesse page] ''(French)''
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2709314/ IMDb page]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Spinhayer, Martin}}
[[Category:French voice actors]]

Underbite

2026-04-26T15:39:14Z

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{{faction|decepticon}}
{{disambig2|the Aligned Decepticon|similarly-named characters|Overbite (disambiguation)}}
:''Underbite, Devourer of Nuon City, is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[File:Underbite.jpg|thumb|upright=2.2|Say hello to goodbye, Dr. Venture!]]
Two things rule the thought processes of '''Underbite''': eating and bragging. This Decepticon [[Chompazoid]] is extraordinarily proud of his strength, which increases as he consumes more metal. To him, everything is a workout, all in the goal of pumping up and bulking out. He's even gone so far as to name his forearms "Thundercruncher" (right) and "Boltsmasher" (left). He kisses them.

He claims to have devoured the entirety of [[Nuon City]], a feat about which he brags endlessly. So proud is he that he reacts quite violently to anyone ''not'' aware of his reputation.

Physically, he has few equals... provided he's got a steady diet of metal to masticate. On mainly-organic worlds like [[Earth]], however, his rampages can drain him quickly, leaving him with little to juice up on. So strong is his need to feed that he'll ignore threats in favor of chasing down a pick-me-up.

{{bigquote|I know what you're thinking. Is that tall, dark, and handsome really Underbite, devourer of Nuon City?|Underbite|"[[Pilot (Part 1)]]"}}

==Fiction==
===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Liam O'Brien]] (English), [[Kōsuke Gotō]] (Japanese)|[[Su Xin]] (Chinese), [[Tamás Bognár]] (Hungarian), [[Silvio Pandolfi]] (Italian), [[Tilo Schmitz]] (German), [[Dafnis Fernández]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Ridha Hassani]] (Arabic), [[Martin Spinhayer]] (French, first voice), [[Jean-Michel Vovk]] (French, second voice), [[Wellington Lima]] (Brazilian Portuguese, seasons 1 and 2), [[Waldyr Sant'Anna]] (Brazilian Portuguese, season 3), [[Mikołaj Klimek]] (Polish), [[So Jeong-hwan]] (Korean, Tooniverse dub)}}
[[File:PilotPart2 Underbite Grimlock square off.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"We need more teeth."]]

Underbite was apparently arrested for destroying Nuon City, and was incarcerated aboard the prison ship ''[[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]]''. After it crashed on [[Earth]], he was freed from his [[stasis pod]] by the impact, and set off in search of food. He eventually encountered [[Sideswipe (RID 2015)|Sideswipe]], and after a brief chase he tangled with the rest of [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]'s team. After spying a nearby scrapyard through the trees, he headed off to devour that instead. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}} Despite tussling with [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]], Underbite began chowing down on the contents of the scrapyard, only to spot a bigger prize—nearby [[Crown City]]. Unfortunately, the organic matter he encountered along the way was unsuitable for his consumption, and he slowly weakened. Using [[Billy the Breakfast Beaver|metallic bait]], the Autobots managed to lure him to the edge of a quarry. Underbite managed to outfight them and prepared to munch [[Denny Clay]]'s pickup truck. Fortunately, a ghostly [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] intervened and helped defeat the Decepticon by grabbing him and throwing him to the quarry. The Autobots later placed the incapacitated Underbite back in his stasis pod. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 2)}}

[[File:Sideways Underbite vehicle mode.jpg|right|250px|thumb|So, would this fall under the term "muscle car"?]]

Underbite's stasis pod was stolen by Grimlock while the Dinobot was under the control of [[Minitron]]. Although the other Autobots were able to free Grimlock from the [[cyber-tick]]'s influence, [[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]], who had masterminded the heist in the first place, made off with the stasis pod and reactivated Underbite. {{storylink|True Colors}}

Now a member of Steeljaw's [[Steeljaw's Pack|pack]], Underbite was hanging out at the Decepticon hideout with [[Fracture (RID)|Fracture]] when Steeljaw arrived with newcomer [[Clampdown (RID)|Clampdown]]. After Clampdown fled due to [[Thunderhoof (RID)|Thunderhoof]] threatening him, the other Decepticons tracked him to a garbage tip where they encountered the Autobots. Underbite fought with Grimlock, however this time the Autobot managed to take him out- first by force-feeding him plastic and then cannonballing him. Steeljaw later freed the gang, and they escaped back to their hideout. {{storylink|Sideways (episode)|Sideways}}

[[File:Lockout-underbiteflexes.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Underbite skips leg day.]]

Underbite took part in an attempt to free the prisoners in the Autobots' scrapyard. After Steeljaw trapped the Autobots outside using subsonics, Underbite was given the task of guarding the prisoners, only for them to escape while he was eying up some nearby scrap as potential food. Once the Autobots regained access to the scrapyard, Underbite was swiftly taken down by [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] and later fled back to base with the rest of Steeljaw's gang. {{storylink|Lockout}}

[[File:BattlegroundsPart2-Underbitepowersup.jpg|thumb|right|250px|I eat heavy metal and gargle premium gas. I drink heavy water and nitro-demitasse.]]

Out collecting parts for the device Steeljaw's [[The Fallen|mysterious friend]] wanted them to build, Underbite and Thunderhoof happened across Sideswipe and Strongarm, promptly capturing the pair with Fracture's help. When [[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]] flew over the steel mill hideout, Underbite was able to bring her down with a precisely thrown beam, adding her to their collection of hostages. The Decepticons were soon busy at work constructing the gateway Steeljaw's ally required, however when Bumblebee and Drift arrived, Steeljaw assigned Underbite and Thunderhoof to intercept them. Underbite swiftly dealt with Drift, allowing Megatronus to arrive on Earth. He and the other Decepticons were rendered unconscious when [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] tried to interfere with the arrival. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 1}} They came around in time to prevent the Autobots getting hold of Megatronus's staff, however when Megatronus turned on Steeljaw, Underbite, Thunderhoof and Clampdown attempted to flee. They ran straight into Team Bee, and Underbite was taken out when Bumblebee cannonballed into him. The defeated Decepticons were later stored away in stasis pods. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 2}}

Underbite's stasis pod was later taken back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] by Optimus Prime, Windblade and [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 2)}}

[[File:PrepareForDeparture Underbite guarding.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]
When the [[Autobot High Council|High Council]] released Steeljaw from prison to keep Bumblebee and his team occupied while they made plans to summon [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]], {{storylink|Freedom Fighters}} Underbite was also released with the promise of a full pardon should the Pack succeed in terminating the Bee Team. They returned to Earth where they mounted an assault on Denny's scrapyard that forced the Autobots out of their home. Switching tack, they headed to the [[Crown City Dam]] where they sabotaged it to draw the Autobots out, resulting in a fight which ended with the Decepticons falling into the river. {{storylink|Exiles}} Underbite and the other members of the Pack split up to search for members of the Bee Team. {{storylink|Breathing Room}} Gaining new orders from [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]], the Pack were sent to a waste disposal site to dig up spent nuclear fuel, though Underbite played guard dog while the others excavated. When the Autobots inevitably turned up, Underbite battled an oddly-reluctant Grimlock until Clampdown hit paydirt and the Decepticons made off with their prize. The Pack stopped off in a warehouse so [[Quillfire (RID)|Quillfire]] could dispute the nuclear fuel towing arrangements, resulting in the Autobots catching up with them. During the fight which ensued, Underbite was stomping the Autobots when Sideswipe threw Grimlock at him. The Decepticons were again forced to retreat. {{storylink|Prepare for Departure}}

[[File:PrisonerPrinciples Underbite chomp.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
Steeljaw next set the Pack's sights on breaking into a nuclear plant, having Underbite and the others scan new color schemes to use as disguises. They managed to gain entry into the plant and started looting fuel rods until the Autobots again crashed their operation. Underbite did his best to keep Bumblebee busy, but was knocked out by his opponent. After Steeljaw set the plant to meltdown, Bumblebee and Strongarm had to carry Underbite's unconscious body clear. He and the other captured Pack members were temporarily housed in makeshift cells in the Autobot's cave. {{storylink|Prisoner Principles}} The Pack members were returned to the scrapyard when the Autobots took it back, however Underbite promptly escaped while Grimlock was trying to secure him in a stasis pod. During the ensuing battle, Underbite ate the field generator out of the [[GroundBridge]], which resulted in him randomly teleporting to different locations as the Bee Team struggled to keep up with him. Fixit was eventually able to GroundBridge him back to the scrapyard and nullify the field generator, after which Denny and [[Russell Clay|Russell]] tricked him back into a stasis pod. {{storylink|Something He Ate}}

===''Robots in Disguise'' shorts===
[[File:Carjacked-underbite.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Om nom 'Con.]]
Underbite ate a compact car that a thief had entered. {{storylink|Carjacked!}}

===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' books===
After being reprimanded by Steeljaw, Underbite and Thunderhoof went for a stroll down to the Crown City docks, where they stumbled on [[Slink]]'s pet food hoarding operation. Underbite fought her lackeys [[Sneak]] and [[Snitch (RID)|Snitch]] until the Autobots arrived, at which point he battled Grimlock, until the Dinobot defeated him with Bumblebee's help. When Thunderhoof brought the warehouse down, Underbite departed with all haste. {{storylink|Sideswipe Versus Thunderhoof}}

===IDW ''Robots in Disguise'' comic===
[[File:RIDissue6-Underbite.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
Following the defeat of Megatronus, Underbite was among the Decepticons who were freed by Steeljaw and set to work mining [[energon]] for their new empire, though he hated being underground as people kept sneaking up on him. When Team Bee turned up, Underbite tackled Grimlock. {{storylink|Robots in Disguise issue 6|Robots in Disguise #6}}

===''Rescue Bots Academy'' cartoon===
Grimlock told the [[Rescue Bot Training Center]] trainees about Underbite and [[Scowl (RID)|Scowl]], which scared the young [[Hoist (RB)|Hoist]] away. {{storylink|Tyrannosaurus Wrecked}}
{{--}}

==Games==
===''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game===
[[File:TFRIDGame Underbite.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"Brilliant deduction. You've discovered my brilliant plan to chain myself to an albino."]]

<center>
{|class="wikitable" border="5" style="width:65%"
|-
! scope="col" width="30%" | '''Version'''
! style="background: #00CCFF; color: black" scope="col" width="35%" | '''Unlock Cost (Energon)'''
! style="background: #BF00FF; color: white" scope="col" width="35%" | '''Unlock Cost (Ultra Sparks)'''
|-
|Starter
|500
|10
|-
|Cybertron
|500
|10
|-
|Legion
|1500
|30
|-
|Legion Clash
|1500
|30
|-
|One-Step
|2000
|40
|}
</center>
When Crown City was overrun with [[Insecticon (WFC)#Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|Insecticon]]s, Underbite took the opportunity to join in the mayhem. The Autobots found him attacking a train, and pursued him to a square where they defeated him. {{storylink|Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|Robots in Disguise}}

{{note|Though he appears in the story as a CPU-controlled boss, Underbite is also a playable character. Yes, he can beat himself up. His three toy-forms can be temporarily unlocked by scanning the badges on said toys. However, these and his show-accurate "Starter" form (which the CPU boss uses) can also be permanently unlocked by spending Energon Cubes.}}

===''Protect Crown City''===
There were lots of Underbites! They attempted to escape before the Autobots secured them back into their stasis pods. {{storylink|Protect Crown City}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===''Robots in Disguise'' (2015)===
{{note|Virtually every toy in this list has a scannable [[insignia]] sticker on it. For [[Hasbro]] releases, it temporarily unlocks that toy as a playable character in the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game]], and can only be scanned once per day. [[TakaraTomy]] releases simply check that off on their mobile app's collection list. It's honestly quicker and less redundant to say which toys '''don't''' have this feature.}}

====One-Step Changers====
[[File:RID15-toy Underbite 1Step.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|Seems I'm missing a piece keepin' me in robot mode. THAT'S BECAUSE I ATE IT! ''(Hasbro Version Pictured)'']]
[[File:TakaraTomy-Transformers-Adventure-Series-TAV-06-Underbite.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Darn it Japan! You don't brighten my purple to make it too pretty! ''(TakaraTomy version pictured)'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Underbite''' (One Step Changers, 2015)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[March 21]], 2015
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TAV-06'''

: Part of the first wave of Hasbro's ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)#One-Step Changers|One Step Changer]]s, Underbite changes from a Cybertronian four-wheeled tank-like car-thing into a Chompazoid. His spring-loaded transformation to each mode is triggered by pressing his back legs together. The back of his beast-head has a spring-loaded lever that activates his bitey-jaw gimmick.

: He is adorable.

: Like all ''Robots in Disguise'' toys, he has a bordered [[insignia]] on the top of his head/vehicle roof. However, it can't be scanned while he's still in-package, as it's behind the front-bubble instructions.

: The TakaraTomy version of Underbite, part of the first wave of the ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)#TakaraTomy Adventure toyline|Adventure]]'' line, features a brighter shade of his purple plastic, and a different scan-badge, which is compatible with the ''[[Transformers Chronicle (app)|Transformers Chronicle]]'' app, unlocking him in the toy checklist.

: Caution should be used with his transformation, as many early samples would lose the ability to lock into robo-[[beast mode]] with rigorous/repeated squeezing of the haunches (vehicle is the "default" state, beast mode relies on a tensed spring to stay locked in). This also shares to his Japanese release too. Also, Underbite does not work with [[Grimlock (RID 2015)#Stomp & Chomp|Stomp & Chomp Grimlock]] due to him being quadrupedal.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Decepticon/OSCUnderbite/underbite.htm More information on One-Step Changer Underbite at TFU.info]''

{{-}}{{anchor|RIDCollection}}
[[File:RID2015-One-Step-Changers-Collection-6-pack.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Robots in Disguise Collection''' (6-pack, 2015)}}</ul>

:A 6-pack featuring the One-Step figures of [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#RIDCollection|Bumblebee]], [[Steeljaw (RID)#RIDCollection|Steeljaw]], [[Grimlock (RID 2015)#RIDCollection|Grimlock]], [[Sideswipe (RID 2015)#RIDCollection|Sideswipe]], Underbite (all of them unchanged from their individual releases), and a new One-Step [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#RIDCollection|Optimus Prime]] figure available only in this set. This set was exclusive to [[Target]] stores in the United States and to [[Toys"R"Us]] stores in Canada.

: Sideswipe, Steeljaw, Underbite, and Bumblebee's badges are all scannable in-package.
{{-}}

====Legion Class====
{{anchor|LegionClass}}
[[File:RID2015LegionUnderbite.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|Headin' for cuteness.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Underbite''' (Legion Class, 2015)}}</ul>

: Part of the third wave of ''Robots in Disguise'' Legion Class series, Underbite transforms into a Cybertronian four-wheeled tank-like car-thing into a Chompazoid.

: Like all ''Robots in Disguise'' toys, he has a bordered [[insignia]] is on the top of his vehicle rear/beast mode butt.

{{-}}{{anchor|Clash of the Transformers}}
[[File:RID2015-CotT-2-pack-Underbite.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|With my added bright green, I am 100% more stealthy!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Bumblebee VS Underbite''' (2-pack, 2015)}}</ul>

: Part of the [[Toys"R"Us]] exclusive "Clash of the Transformers" subline, this Underbite is a stealth-themed redeco of the Legion Class figure above.

: He was only available in a two-pack with an "armored" deco of Legion-class [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Clash of the Transformers|Bumblebee]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Decepticon/TRULegUnderbite/underbite.htm More information on ''Clash of the Transformers'' Underbite at TFU.info]''

{{-}}{{anchor|TAV35}}
[[File:TAV-35-EZ-Collection-Underbite.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|[[Overbite (disambiguation)|Overbite]] and underbite and then up for [[Sky-Byte (disambiguation)|airbite]]...]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Autobot VS Decepticon Set''' (EZ Collection 4-pack, 2015)}}</ul>
:*''ID Number'': '''TAV35'''

: Available for this set, this version of Underbite is a redeco of the original Legion Class toy, featuring a different shade of purple, and features additional paint details. He was released as a four-pack along with [[Steeljaw (RID)#TAV35|Steeljaw]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#TAV35|Optimus Prime]], and [[Grimlock (RID 2015)#TAV35|Grimlock]].

: Unlike the Hasbro release, the toy features no scan-badges on the toy, instead it was printed on one small card, along with the other 3 badges.

: Like the rest of the ''Adventure'' EZ Collection sets, some online retailers like Amazon Japan were still selling it 2 years later at greatly reduced prices (70% off).

: His vehicle mode is mistransformed: His front legs are not rotated.
{{-}}

===''Kre-O''===
{{anchor|UnderbiteJetpackTakedown}}
[[File:Underbite kreon.JPG|thumb|150px]]
*'''Underbite Jetpack Takedown''' (2015)
**'''Set Number''':B0950
**'''Kreons''': Optimus Prime, Underbite, Ped
**'''Pieces''': 189

:Available only in the Underbite Jetpack Takedown set, this set comes with both the Kreon and the buildable larger version of himself. As for his Kreon version, he reuses Knock Out's helmet, and a pair of Starscream's null ray-ish arm cannons. Also: his Kreon is bipedal rather than quadrupedal. The larger build version of Underbite features a firing missile on his back. Additional Kreons included in this set are a jetpack-equipped Optimus Prime and [[Ped (RID)|Ped]].

:The set was first released in Taiwan and Singapore from January 2015, and later in Canada and the US (liquidated almost exclusively through TJ Maxx/Marshalls stores) from May 2015.

==Merchandise==
===''Tiny Titans''===
[[File:TinyTitans Underbite.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|oh god he's like a tiny pitbull puppy wanna give him bacon and squeezy toys]]
*'''Underbite''' (Tiny Titans, 2015)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''7/12'''

: Part of the initial assortment of ''[[Tiny Titans]]'' [[blindpacking|blindpacks]], this super-adorable version of Underbite is a very small, soft-plastic figure of him in his beast-robot mode.

: He includes a collectible card that includes a scan-badge for the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|''Robots in Disguise'' mobile game]], which unlocks a random amount of Energon "currency" and a randomized bonus power-up item.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Decepticon/TTUnderbite/underbite.htm More information on ''Tiny Titans'' Underbite at TFU.info]''
{{--}}

===McDonald's===
[[File:RID15-toy UnderbiteMcD.jpg|right|thumb|200px|If you thought plastic clogged him up bad, just wait til you see what the McNuggets do.]]
*'''Underbite''' (Happy Meal toy, 2015)
**''McNumber'': '''5'''

: Part of the ''Robots in Disguise'' [[McDonald's]] Happy Meal promotion in April and May of 2015 (alongside ''[[My Little Pony]]''), McUnderbite is a non-transforming action figure of the beast-bot. Pushing down on his haunches sets him into a slow, steady rise until he suddenly jumps up, snapping at the air with his flappy-head.

: The bag he comes in and instruction sheet have a scan-badge that unlocks a random amount of Energon "currency" and a randomized bonus power-up item. This badge is the same for all of the ''Robots in Disguise'' Happy Meal bags and instructions.

: Underbite can also be scanned into the McDonald's [[McPlay]] app, which recognizes the toy's silhouette. Doing so unlocks Underbite's version of the "[[Stasis Pod Battle]]" game.
{{--}}

===''Radz''===
*'''Underbite''' (Radz candy dispenser, 2015)
**''Blindbag code'': '''D'''

: The [[Radz]] candy-dispenser version of Underbite is a plastic spheroid with feet, spiky "hair", and a keychain fob. Pulling the hair back opens the toy's "mouth" and projects a little bowl-like tongue, dispensing a single colored sugar pellet. The hair can be taken off to refill the dispenser, and swapped with any other Radz.

:Underbite was available both on a card with a clear bubble, and in a blindpacked baggie, though the bag has a code number on the back under the "best by" date that tells you what's inside (only the last letter is the important part). Both versions come with a bag of sugar pellets, and a mini-poster with a collection checklist on the back.

===''Transformers Adventure Gum''===
*'''Fixit & Underbite''' (2016)

:Part of the new ''Adventure'' subline of the Transformers Gum series, this Underbite is a fully-transformable snap-fit kit based on his One-Step Changer toy, going from doggy-bot to Cybertronic land cruiser and back. He is molded in black and blue plastic, with customer-applied stickers for detailing.

:The kit is bundled with a similarly-buildable [[Fixit (RID)#Transformers Adventure Gum|Fixit]].

==Notes==
*When asked about Underbite's ultimate fate, [[Adam Beechen]] stated in a deleted blog post that he was brought back with the other imprisoned Decepticons to Cybertron after the events of "[[Freedom Fighters]]".

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Underbite''' (アンダーバイト ''Andābaito'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Bào Yá''' (暴牙, "Snaggletooth")<ref>https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/play/ep106862</ref>

==References==
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FrÃ©dÃ©ric Meaux

2026-04-26T15:36:23Z

SoundSky: /* Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) */

[[File:Frédéric Meaux.jpg|200px|thumb]]
'''Frédéric Meaux''' is a Belgian voice actor and voice director. He is specialized in cartoons and animes dubbings, but sometimes he dubs in some live action movies.

His voice roles are mostly secondary roles in titles including ''Beyblade'', ''Naruto'' and ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'', among numerous other animated series. He is also the French voice of Peter Parker in the short ''Spider-Man: The New Animated Series''.

He was the voice director for the French versions of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines: Transformers]]'', ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]''.

==Voice roles==
===''Beast Machines: Transformers''===
* [[Diagnostic Drone]]
{{note|The French dub for ''Beast Machines: Transformers'' was made in 2007.}}

===''Transformers Prime''===
{{collist|2|
* [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]]
* [[Tailgate (Prime)|Tailgate]]
* [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]]
* [[Jerky Teen]] ("[[Darkness Rising, Part 1]]")
* [[Science fair judge]] ("[[Masters & Students]]")
* [[Museum security guard]] ("[[Deus ex Machina]]")
* [[Starter Guy]] ("[[Speed Metal]]")
}}

===''Transformers: Rescue Bots''===
*[[Vigil]]
*[[Barney]] (second voice)

===''Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)''===
{{collist|2|
* [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] (first voice)
* [[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] (first voice)
* [[Bisk (RID)|Bisk]]
* [[Clawtrap]]
* [[Headlock (RID)|Headlock]]
* [[Ragebyte]]
* [[Springload (RID)|Springload]] (second voice)
* [[Zorillor]]
* [[Buzzstrike (RID)|Buzzstrike]] ("[[History Lessons]]")
* [[Overload (RID)|Overload]] ("[[Decepticon Island (Part 1)|Decepticon]] [[Decepticon Island (Part 2)|Island]]")
* [[Quillfire (RID)|Quillfire]] ("[[Breathing Room]]")
* [[Museum guard|Guard #2]] ("[[Pilot (Part 1)]]")
}}

==Voice direction==
*''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines: Transformers]]'' (French dub)
*''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' (French dub)
*''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' (French dub)

==Notes==
*In 2007, Sony decided to edit ''Beast Machines:Transformers'' in DVD, in France (among other countries) for the first time. Frédéric Meaux directed the French dub of the show, just before directing the one of ''Transformers Prime'' a few years later. That is why the team of voice actors is almost the same between the two series.
*Amusingly he, [[Susan Blu]] and [[Yoshikazu Iwanami]] all of shared the duties of voice directing for Beast Machines and Prime in their respective language dubs.
*In ''Prime'', he dubs the entirety of the Vehicons in the first season. It's only from season 2 onwards that other actors give them their voices.

==External links==
*[https://wikidoublage.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Meaux Wiki Doublage page] ''(French)''

{{DEFAULTSORT: Meaux, Frederic}}
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Museum guard

2026-04-26T15:35:32Z

SoundSky: /* 2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon */

{{faction|autobot}}
{{noname-designation}}
:''The museum guards are [[Autobot]]s originally from the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:PilotPart1 Museum Guards.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Vehicon (Prime)|Steve]] got a rockin' new style.]]
The "'''museum guards'''" are a group of [[Autobot]]s that work at the [[Cybertron History Museum]].

==Fiction==
===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Liam O'Brien]] (Guard #1, English), [[Makoto Tamura]] (Japanese)|[[Daniele Demma]] (Italian), [[Frédéric Meaux]] (Guard #2, French)}}
During [[Springload (RID)|Springload]]'s search for [[Doradus]], he took out many museum guards as well as law enforcement before he was apprehended. {{storylink|Rumble in the Jungle (RID)|Rumble in the Jungle}}

The museum guards were making their rounds when they were stopped by [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], who claimed to have just been hired as a new guard. The guards were ecstatic to meet ''the'' Bumblebee, until they heard [[Sideswipe (RID 2015)|two]] [[Strongarm (RID)|intruders]] tampering with [[Space bridge|museum property]]. When they attempted to investigate, they were stopped by Bumblebee, leading them to conclude that he wasn't ''the'' Bumblebee, simply a bad impersonator. The guards attempted to detain the three intruders, but were unsuccessful and could only watch as the intruders retreated through the Spacebridge to [[Earth|parts unknown]]. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
[[File:LL25 RiD Museum Guard guarding Whirl.jpg|thumb|right|He still gets the dangerous jobs.]]

Following the end of the ''[[Lost Light]]''{{'}}s quest, a pair of guards accompanied [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] to New Cybertron to arrest [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]] and take him to [[Garrus-10]]. Centuries later, when [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]] passed, another guard escorted [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]], an inmate at G-10 at that time, to the funeral. {{storylink|How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
Before the [[Speedia 500]], a guard observed the pre-race socializing among the racers. {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 2}} After the chaotic race, the guards arrested the members of both [[Mayhem Attack Squad|Mayhem]] and the [[Wreckers]]. {{storylink|Tread & Circuits Part 3}}
{{-}}

==Notes==
*The museum guards' body style is identical to that of the [[proctor]]s of the [[Kaon Police Academy]]. The [[Autotrooper (Animated)|Autotroopers]] ride again!

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Frederik HaÃ¹gness

2026-04-26T15:33:45Z

SoundSky:

[[File:Frédérik Haùgness.jpg|280px|thumb]]
'''Frederik Lars Haùgness''' (b. [[September 30]], [[1974]]) is a Belgian actor, director, writer and musician specialized in theater, who also practices dubbing.

He graduated from the Institute of Diffusion Arts, in the ''Theater'' section since 1996. He played in around 60 plays for the time being. He currently works on adaptations of the works of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]].

In addition to his theater career, he played in several films, TV series and short films.

Relatively discrete in dubbing, he is the French voice of secondary characters in animation series including ''[[My Little Pony]]'', ''Saint Seiya'' and ''Tokyo Mew Mew''. He also voiced Jonah Hill in ''Grandma's Boy''.

He is married with fellow actress [[Fanny Roy]] since 1996.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' (2015)===
*[[Bisk (RID)|Bisk]] (''Bumblebee's Night Off'' episode)
*[[Chop Shop (RID)|Chop Shop]] (''More than Meets the Eye'' episode)
*[[Slicedice]] (''Suspended'' episode)
*[[Thunderhoof (RID)|Thunderhoof]] (''More than Meets the Eye'' episode)

== Notes ==
*In the season 1 credits of the French dub of Robots in Disguise, Frederik Haùgness was also credited dubbing a bot named Lowblow, while no character in the series bears that name.

==External links==
*[http://haugness.be/Haugness.be/Home.html Personal website] ''(French)''
*{{w|lang=fr|Frederik Haùgness|Wikipedia entry}} ''(French)''
*[https://wikidoublage.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Frederik_Ha%C3%B9gness Wiki Doublage page] ''(French)''

{{DEFAULTSORT:Haùgness, Frederik}}
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Predacons Rising (Prime)

2026-04-26T13:12:54Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign localization */

{{disambig3|Predacons Rising}}
{{episode
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]''
|prev=Deadlock (episode)
|next=Pilot (Part 1)
|image=PredaconsRisingCover.jpg
|caption="Today we face the monsters that are at our door, today we are cancelling the apocalypse!"
|title=''Predacons Rising
|airdate=[[October 4]] (TV premiere) and [[October 8]] (home video release), [[2013]]
|written by=[[Duane Capizzi]] [[Marsha Griffin]] [[Steven Melching]]
|directed by=[[Vinton Heuck]] [[Scooter Tidwell]] [[Todd Waterman]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU9AtTbcR_M
|videosite=YouTube
}}
'''Autobots, Decepticons, and Predacons form an unlikely alliance to battle a resurrected Unicron.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] has been restored, and [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] gives a speech honoring those not still with them who helped make it possible. However even as he does so, back on [[Earth]] at the bottom of the ocean, [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] is awoken by [[Unicron]]. Megatron is confused as to why his [[spark]] is not one with the [[AllSpark]], but Unicron explains that Megatron's [[Dark Energon]] use has made that impossible. Requiring a new vessel with which to carry out his plans, Unicron reformats Megatron's body into a more powerful form, takes possession of it and heads into the sky. Meanwhile, Optimus holds a short ceremony to promote [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] to warrior, before announcing that he and [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] are going to retrieve the physical AllSpark from where it was hidden during the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]].

[[File:PredaconsRisingBumblebeeisaWarrior.jpg|left|thumb|Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Bumblebee Rising]]
Streaking through space, Megatron believes Unicron intends to become ruler of Cybertron, but Unicron reveals that he instead intends to destroy Primus, which will spell the end for that planet, and soon all of the universe.

As [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] finds construction with [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] a troublesome task, [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] reports they've had no luck finding [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] and [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]. [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]], incarcerated on the [[Trypticon (WFC)|warship]], attempts to persuade the Bumblebee he's on their side by providing him with information on where they might locate the fugitive Decepticons. [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] patrol the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]], now restored to a city, and run into an unpleasant surprise—the [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacons]] [[Darksteel (Prime)|Darksteel]] and [[Skylynx (Prime)|Skylynx]]. The two Autobots are no match for the new clones, and Magnus is severely injured before Smokescreen manages to use the [[phase shifter]] to make their escape. [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] is called to Cybertron to tend to Magnus, while the other Autobots try to decide on their next step.

[[File:PredaconsRisingSkylynxandDarksteelDragons.jpg|right|thumb|So, uh, when do we start rising?]]

Across space, Optimus and Wheeljack track the AllSpark to [[Theta Scorpii]]. Not wanting to risk losing the ''[[Iron Will]]'' in the hazardous conditions there, Optimus continues on alone.

Utilizing Bumblebee's tracking skills, the Autobots find [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]], who has located a Predacon burial ground uncovered by the restoration of Cybertron. Bumblebee attempts to persuade Predaking that there can be a truce, but Predaking refuses to forget the Autobots' role in the destruction of his brethren. The Autobots instead head for Megatron's old fortress of [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]], which Knock Out has informed them may contain a map showing the location of Shockwave's laboratories.

Shockwave's current lab is in the ruins of [[Six Lasers Over Cybertron]]. Starscream arrives with another recovered Predacon bone, shortly before Darksteel and Skylynx return, laughing about their recent scrap. Starscream is furious to learn they've wandered off and revealed themselves to the Autobots, ruining their one major advantage, the element of surprise.

Over at Theta Scorpii, Optimus finally sights the AllSpark's container, but there's also an incoming [[plasma storm]], and he has to rush to retrieve their target before it can close in.

As the Autobots are checking out the Darkmount computer, they're interrupted by the arrival of Unicron, who makes it aggressively clear to both Autobot and Megatron alike who's in control of the Decepticon leader's form. The Autobots are no match for the dark god, so they attempt to scram. They're brought to a halt by a [[Smelting pool|smelting pit]], and a blast from Unicron leaves Bulkhead, Arcee and Smokescreen dangling over certain doom. Bumblebee manages to keep Unicron occupied long enough for Ratchet to provide a means of escape via [[GroundBridge]].

Meanwhile, Optimus has retrieved the AllSpark and made it back to the ''Iron Will'' mere seconds before the plasma storm, and the Autobots book it out of there, though an asteroid thrown by the chaos collides with the ship. Back on the warship, Bumblebee attempts to contact Optimus, but the damage the ''Iron Will'' sustained means though his message gets through, Optimus can't respond. The Autobots quickly realize that Unicron's plan is to destroy their home planet.

[[File:PredaconsRisingMegatronandUnicron.JPG|thumb|left|Can I borrow the car after this?]]
Acting on information from Bumblebee, Predaking finds evidence of Darksteel and Skylynx. He creates a signal in the form of a column of fire to attract the pair to his position, however the first to respond to it is Unicron. Megatron tricks Unicron into fighting the Predacon in the hopes that if their shared body is mangled enough, it will be of no further use to Unicron and Megatron will be freed, however Unicron manages to defeat Predaking and, probing the Predacon's mind, learns of the burial ground.

The burial ground has also been found by Starscream, Darksteel and Skylynx, who summon Shockwave to help in gathering up the bones. Their task is interrupted by the arrival of Unicron, and Starscream is overjoyed to see who he assumes is Megatron, however Unicron corrects him and bats him aside. Darksteel and Skylynx attack, but have no more luck against Unicron than anyone else has had. Opposition defeated, Unicron uses his power to raise the Predacon bones as an army of [[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcons]]. Starscream flees, while Shockwave is quickly dogpiled by the horde.

[[File:PredaconsRisinglastlineofdefense.jpg|right|thumb|Group selfie]]
The Autobots, using the warship's computer to locate Unicron, detect the huge build up of Dark Energon at the burial ground and quickly realize what Unicron intends. As the horde starts moving across [[Hydrax Plateau]] towards the [[Well of All Sparks]], the Autobots prepare to use the warship to defend the location. Ratchet and Ultra Magnus are dropped off at a safe location and Smokescreen goes to retrieve the remaining relics from storage. Starscream arrives on the ship and frees the imprisoned Decepticons. They attempt to retake the ship, however Knock Out turns against Starscream, using the phase shifter to seize the [[Immobilizer]] and clock him with it... which also destroys the Immobilizer. Ooops.

Predaking arrives at the burial ground and is horrified to see that it has been desecrated. He asserts his dominance over Skylynx and Darksteel by fighting them, however Shockwave pops up to suggest they put their combat skills to more productive use against Unicron's horde.

[[File:Predaconsrising-chaosandcreation.jpg|thumb|left||"So you came to die with your planet!" "No, [[Batman|I]] came back to <s>stop you</s> die ''for'' it."]]
The Autobots make their last stand in the warship, opening fire on the oncoming Terrorcons. While the horde flies up to attack the ship, the Predacon trio arrive to lend a hand. Unfortunately the warship is shot down a short time later by concentrated Terrorcon fire blasts. The Autobots emerge, but Predaking tells them to leave the fighting to the beasts. The Predacons are only able to slow the horde's advance and the Terrorcons start heading into the Well of All Sparks. Unicron himself feels the presence of the AllSpark as the ''Iron Will'' returns to Cybertron. Optimus jumps out to attack Unicron, who shoots down the ship down before Optimus can engage him. Even Optimus has trouble fighting Unicron, and he's only saved when Bumblebee uses the [[polarity gauntlet]] to halt Unicron's blow. Optimus flies to where Bulkhead and Arcee are helping Wheeljack out of the wreck of the ''Iron Will'', intending to secure the AllSpark. Unicron breaks free of the polarity gauntlet's grasp and catches up with Optimus, who is now fleeing with the AllSpark, shooting the Autobot leader down. Unicron opens the AllSpark container intending to devour the contents, only to find it is empty. Unicron's anti-spark is drawn out of Megatron by the vessel, which pulls it into itself and seals, trapping it there. The link to Unicron severed, the Terrorcon army disintegrates just before it can reach the core.

[[File:PredaconsRisingWellofAllSparks.jpg|thumb|right|AllSpark: Taste the Rainbow.]]
Starscream lands, having escaped his cell during the crash, and welcomes Megatron back from the dead, believing Megatron will once again lead the Decepticons. Having been put through the torments of Unicron, Megatron is broken, and no longer wishes to be an oppressor. Over Starscream's objections, he declares the Decepticons no more, and flies away, destination unknown. Starscream also flees, going instead to Darkmount where he intended to take his place as Decepticon leader. His reign is short-lived, as the Predacons arrive looking to settle some old scores with him.

At the Well of All Sparks, Optimus reveals that in order to set the trap for Unicron, he was forced to empty the AllSpark into the [[Matrix of Leadership]] inside him. This unfortunately means that his own spark is one with the multitude of others now inside the Matrix, and the only way the AllSpark can be restored to the Well is by merging it with the planet's core, which means giving up his own life. Despite protestations, Optimus assures them there is no other way, and that the age of Primes is over... and that new leaders will arise not by decree of ancient talismans, but by the virtue of their actions. Optimus flies into the Well, sacrificing himself, which releases a multitude of sparks into the sky.

[['Til all are one|'Til all are]]—[[Pilot (Part 1)|wait a second]]...

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*[[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] (2)
*[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (3)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (4)
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] (5)
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (6)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (7)
*[[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (11)
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (14)

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*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] (10)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (16)
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (17)

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*[[Darksteel (Prime)|Darksteel]] (12)
*[[Skylynx (Prime)|Skylynx]] (13)
*[[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] (15)

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*[[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcon]] Predacons (18)
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==Quotes==
"Optimus Prime would deem it a tragedy to stain Cybertron's fresh soil with any newly-spilled energon. So help us prove what Megatron was never willing to, that more than one race can peacefully co-exist on our planet." 
"You assume that because I turned against Megatron, I can forgive the Autobots their role in the destruction of my brethren on Earth? Leave me be and dare not trespass here again."
:—'''Bumblebee''' and '''Predaking'''

"What are we supposed to call him, huh? Megacron? Unitron?" 
"Really? That's your biggest issue right ''now''?"
:—'''Smokescreen''' and '''Arcee'''

"It isn't fair. How many more times do we have to save a world? Have to fight for the survival of our home?" 
"Regrettably the struggle between creation and destruction is an eternal one, and the battle lines which separate the two run through the very spark of Cybertron. Good and evil; order and chaos; one victorious, one vanquished. Each forming the core of their own separate worlds, Cybertron and Earth. And now the darkness has followed us all the way home."
:—'''Arcee''' and '''Ratchet'''

"In the name of the mighty legions of Predacons who preceded me, I shall never again yield to your charge, but I will heed your previous advice and face my true enemy as a beast!"
:—'''Predaking''' to Unicron/Megatron.

'''Unicron:''' "'''I am the bringer of chaos, the destroyer of worlds, and the lord of the undead!'''" 
'''Shockwave:''' "Unicron..." 
'''Skylynx:''' "I say we show the 'lord of the undead' what it's like to be unliving!"

"'Bee, in case I'd never get another chance to say this, you've really proved your mettle." 
"I'd like to think my actions always spoke louder than my words, Arcee, but it didn't hurt to watch and learn from the best." 
"''Would'' be nice if Optimus showed up about now." 
"I was referring to a powerful little two-wheeler I know."
:—'''Arcee''' and '''Bumblebee'''

"'''The past shall consume the future, the dead shall consume the living, and chaos shall reign supreme!'''"
:—'''Unicron'''

"And who made you boss?" 
"I am not your boss. I am your ''KING''!"
:—'''Darksteel''' and '''Predaking'''

"Why'd you do it, Knock Out? Why'd you turn against Starscream?" 
"Even if I ''had'' helped him seize this ship, he would probably just fire me out of the first airlock. Oh. And he's ''rude''."
:—'''Arcee''' and '''Knock Out'''

'''Starscream:''' "Your new battle armor will take things to the next level, my liege! Together we will reunite all Decepticons and once again grind Cybertron under your mighty heel!" 
'''Megatron:''' "''No!''" 
'''Starscream:''' "What? Why?" 
[''Megatron glares at Optimus Prime, before turning solemn''] 
'''Megatron:''' "Because I now know the true meaning of oppression, and have thus lost my taste for inflicting it." 
'''Starscream:''' "Ehe, you've clearly been traumatized, master. A good power down and a stroll around the smelting pit will put you back in touch with your inner warlord." 
'''Megatron:''' "''Enough!'' The Decepticons are no more, and that ''is'' '''''final!'''''"
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Megatron''', before disbanding the Decepticons for good

'''Starscream:''' "This is not quite how I envisioned my rise to the throne, but since Lord Megatron all but surrendered it to me, I will gladly revive the Decepticons in my name." 
[''Starscream gasps upon the Predacons' arrival''] 
'''Starscream:''' "Though, perhaps, the throne is more befitting of an actual king?" 
'''Predaking:''' "I am not here to seize thrones, Starscream. But to settle scores."

'''Optimus:''' "While this may very well mark the end of the Age of Primes, leadership can be earned, with or without the Matrix. And in my view, you have ''each'' acted as a Prime." 
'''Knock Out:''' "Well, I never really had the best role models."

"Above all, do not lament my absence, for in my spark, I know that this is not the end, but merely a new beginning. Simply put, another transformation."
:—'''Optimus Prime's''' closing words of the film and the whole series

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Bumblebee is promoted to Warrior-class after first mentioning it as his goal in "[[Masters & Students]]", and later admitting he was holding back to be promoted on Cybertron in "[[Project Predacon]]".
* Bulkhead goes back to construction as Ratchet suggested in "[[Alpha/Omega]]".
* A handful of Vehicons are seen helping repair buildings on Cybertron with the Autobots, though it's not made clear if this is forced labor or they just decided to switch sides. Other Vehicons are seen imprisoned with Knock Out, further muddling the issue.
* The AllSpark was introduced to the [[Aligned continuity family]] in the novel ''[[Transformers: Exodus|Exodus]]'', where it was launched from Cybertron during the war. The novel concluded with the Autobots' picking up its signal after departing Cybertron—an obvious allusion to a [[live-action film series|live-action movie]]-style journey to [[Earth]] in search of it—but this was dropped for the sequel ''[[Transformers: Exiles|Exiles]]''. Similar events may have took place in the cartoon's continuity, but only Optimus seems to remember much about the whole affair.
* Optimus states that without the AllSpark, no new Cybertronians can come to life. How this ties with Shockwave's past and ongoing cloning experiments is unknown.
* Knock Out was locked up after being decked by [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] in "[[Deadlock (episode)|Deadlock]]".
* [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] says that Megatron has "perished and returned before". This is referring to Megatron's apparent death way back in "[[Darkness Rising, Part 5]]", before reviving himself with Dark Energon in "[[Out of His Head]]".
* Knock Out gets payback on Smokescreen by sticking him in a wall with the Phase Shifter in an identical position to his own wall-imprisonment in "[[Inside Job]]".
* Knock Out destroys the [[Immobilizer]], which was introduced in "[[Partners (Prime)|Partners]]", by knocking Starscream out with it.
* Smokescreen mentions that he almost became a Prime, which occurred in "[[Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion]]".
* Predaking [[Minus One|takes Megatron's advice]] and faces his true enemy [[Synthesis|as a beast]]!
* Knock Out refers to the Predacon Terrorcons as "zombiecons", a term previously used by Miko in "[[Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone]]".
* Predaking wishes to settle scores with Starscream due to the abuse inflicted upon him in "[[Prey (episode)|Prey]]", "[[Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command]]", '[[Plus One (Prime)|Plus One]]", and "[[Evolution]]", as well as for the cheap shot that resulted in him losing his fight against Megatron in "[[Synthesis]]".
* Arcee mentions going to Vector Sigma to save Optimus's life like before, which occurred when Arcee took Jack to Vector Sigma to obtain the reloaded Matrix of Leadership to restore Optimus's memory.
* Shockwave's eye is damaged yet again, something which was first inflicted in "[[Out of the Past]]" by Arcee, and in "[[Deadlock (episode)|Deadlock]]" by Bumblebee.
* In ''[[Transformers: Exodus|Exodus]]'', the Core of Cybertron itself reveals to Optimus Prime after offering him the Matrix that the Matrix and the Core are working through Optimus to allow Cybertron's regeneration; it has also predicted he would lead Cybertron into a new age of unimagined wonders just as Optimus marks the end of the age of the Primes.
* Bumblebee told Knock Out that they needed the broken Immobilizer, recalling Ratchet's famous catchphrase throughout the show.

===Transformers references===
* Megatron's resurrection from the bottom of the ocean and subsequent travel into space recall similar scenes from ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''.
* Unicron rebuilding Megatron into a more powerful form is similar to his creation of [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.
* Lord Smokescreen, [[Emperor of Destruction]]!
* Unicron calls his new form an [[Instruments of Destruction|Instrument of Destruction]].
* Bumblebee lists off the warship’s armaments, which consist of [[Fusion cannon|fusion cannons]], [[Null-ray|null rays]], and [[Ion blaster|ion blasters]].
* Optimus brings new life to Cybertron by jumping into a pit that leads to the core of the planet and committing suicide. Why does that sound [[Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|familiar]]?
* The Predacon in the process of being cloned in Shockwave's lab heavily resembles [[Ripclaw]], albeit with a few minor changes.
* The [[AllSpark]] is cast into space beyond Megatron's reach for safekeeping, [[Transformers (film)|yet]] [[Transform and Roll Out|again]].
* Smokescreen makes a reference to [[Alpha Trion]].

===Real-world references===
* The laying of a sword on the shoulders as Optimus does with Bumblebee during the warrior ceremony is from the investiture ceremony, used when someone is knighted.

===Errors===
* Predaking is often missing his wings when he transforms into [[beast mode]], for instance during the fight with Unicron/Megatron, Darksteel and Skylynx, and the fight against the Terrorcon Predacons. At the end of the last fight they just suddenly reappear when it ends at the Well of All Sparks.
* Darkmount's throne is undamaged when Starscream tries to claim it, even though Unicron shot it multiple times and pitched a spear through it.
* The manacles that Knock Out and the Vehicons are wearing in their first appearance are gone when Starscream shows up to break them out.
* Ratchet's medical scan of Ultra Magnus shows two intact hands, when he clearly still has the claw Ratchet fashioned for him.
*Megatron claims he's leaving and swearing off his villainy because he finally understands what it feels like to be under tyranny...even though he ''started'' the war over the unfair and domineering [[Functionism|caste system]] and considered himself a freedom fighter. Guess he forgot about that?

===Trivia===
* ''Predacons Rising'' is a "[[Hub Network|Hub]] Original Family Movie", concluding the ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]'' cartoon.
* Originally, TVGuide's listing for this movie was incorrectly (yet still more appropriately) titled "Chaos Rising", which was later said to be the original title before Hasbro ordered the title changed. Though, TVGuide does still list it as a [http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/transformers-prime-beast-hunters-2013/episode-14-season-3/chaos-rising-part-1/308171 three] [http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/transformers-prime-beast-hunters-2013/episode-15-season-3/chaos-rising-part-2/308171 part] [http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/transformers-prime-beast-hunters-2013/episode-16-season-3/chaos-rising-part-3/308171 episode] instead of a movie. Subsequently, however, this movie ''did'' eventually air on the Hub split into episode form, using the titles given by TVGuide. "Predacons Rising - Part 1" aired on [[November 14]], 2013, "Predacons Rising - Part 2" aired on [[November 18]], 2013, and "Predacons Rising - Part 3" aired on [[November 19]], 2013.
* Bumblebee demonstrates leadership skills as he manages the defense against Unicron's attack on the Well of All Sparks in Optimus Prime's absence. This is an arc that is further explored and developed for Bumblebee as he leads his team in the sequel series ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]''.
* The [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]] is used by Optimus to promote Bumblebee, and is never seen again in the rest of the movie. It's never mentioned as being aboard the ''Nemesis'' like the other Iacon relics are, so Optimus must still have it. But if so, why didn't he use it against Unicron?
* The film was leaked online a few weeks before its airdate.
* Some plot threads from this series would return in the follow-up series ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'':
**[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] and [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]] return from the Shadowzone in "[[Portals]]" before being chucked right back in. Soundwave's voice from the Shadowzone was heard throughout Season 3 until the duo returned in "[[Collateral Damage]]", only to be defeated.
**The [[Dark Star Saber]]'s whereabouts, or even survival, were unknown following its fall from Earth orbit; it was recovered in "[[Mighty Big Trouble]]".
**The aftermath of Starscream's last altercation with the Predacons was elaborated upon in "[[Mini-Con Madness (RID)|Mini-Con Madness]]"; the episode confirmed the fatal fate of [[Darksteel (Prime)|Darksteel]] and [[Skylynx (Prime)|Skylynx]], while [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]]'s whereabouts were revealed in [[Robots in Disguise issue 6|Issue #6]] of the tie-in comic.
*[[Rik Alvarez]] said originally, Megatron (or '''Galvatron'''), would have allied with Airachnid and her undead Insecticons to supplement his Terrorcons.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-robots-disguise-prime-discussion/1053596-aligned-continuity-panel-tf-con-charlotte-5.html#post13037062 Aligned Continuity panel at TF Con Charlotte notes]</ref>

===Foreign localization===
'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 23]] [[2013]]
::*Something odd occurs in the Portuguese dubbing of Megatron. He is voiced by two actors in the movie, by [[Guilherme Lopes]], dub voice of [[William Fowler]], when in his mind and by [[Antônio Moreno]], his regular voice actor, when speaking through his body. What's strange is that in the dubbing credits, Lopes is credited as "Inner Megatron", indicating that this casting choice was not a mistake, but an order from the distributor.

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 1]] [[2013]]
::*In Unicron's phrase "I now wish to finish what I began eons ago", "eons" is not translated, making it a Transformer-specific time measure.
::*Smokescreen's phrase "Phase beats flame every time!" is dubbed by "We've proven ourselves as dragon tamers!".
::*Bumblebee's phrase "Wheeljack! Do you read?" still has the radio effect on it, despite the camera being back to the ship with Bumblebee.

'''Indonesian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Transformers Prime: Kebangitan Predakon'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 4]] [[2013]]

'''Spanish (Spain)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 1|1 December]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Predacons Rising ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Predacons Rising ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Predacons Rising ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Intégrale Saison 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Predacons Rising (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Predacons Rising (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Predacons Rising (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Die komplette Staffel 3 (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Predacons Rising (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2016 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Real world films]]
[[Category:Prime media]]

Deadlock (episode)

2026-04-25T21:12:58Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign localization */

{{disambig3|Deadlock}}
{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 65
|prev=Synthesis
|next=Predacons Rising (Prime)
|image=Tfp deadlock omega lock.jpg
|caption=Take that to the secondary cargo hold. We need to make room for the Stargate.
|title="Deadlock"
|season=3
|season ep=13
|airdate=[[July 26]], [[2013]]
|written by=[[Steven Melching]]
|directed by=[[Shaunt Nigoghossian]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btQX2_v9TgU
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''The Autobots face the Decepticons for a final showdown.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Megatron TFPS313 standing.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|Momo, time for you to go.]]
The [[Autobot]]s storm the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' via the outer hull, while [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] lets them know he's heading for the [[Omega Lock]]'s control station. As he approaches the ship, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]] orders the [[Stealth Team (Prime)|Stealth Team]] to join Ratchet while [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] and the [[Wreckers]] take the bridge. [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] asks if they should destroy the lock, but Optimus does not intend to pass up a second chance to restore [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] has to be prompted to follow the others when he's momentarily distracted by the sight of [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] arriving on the upper deck with the [[Dark Star Saber]]. The Decepticon leader uses the sword to damage Optimus's [[jet pack]]. Optimus manages to land on one of the lower spires and starts climbing up.

Telling them he has something he needs to do, Smokescreen leaves Arcee and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], much to Arcee's annoyance. Meanwhile, Ratchet reaches the control station and begins facing off, rather badly, against [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]. Arcee and Bumblebee approach the control station as well, but they're cut off by [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] and a bunch of Seekers who open fire on them. Elsewhere, [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] packs for a journey he might have to make. Smokescreen arrives at the warship's storage chamber and retrieves the [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]].

Ultra Magnus and his team storm the bridge; however, their attempt is cut short by [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]], who [[GroundBridge]]s them to the brig, where they're quickly surrounded. Ultra Magnus notifies everyone that his team has been delayed, which gives [[Jack Darby|Jack]] an idea. He asks [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] to bridge him onto the ''Nemesis'' bridge as he's come up with a plan.

On the ''Nemesis'', Shockwave finishes pummeling Ratchet and is about to finish the Autobot off, but is interrupted by the Omega Lock signaling that it's ready to fire. As he opens the huge portal to ready the firing sequence, he spots Optimus hanging onto the Omega Lock's structure and is forced to take cover as Optimus opens fire. Megatron soon arrives to engage Optimus directly and orders Shockwave to begin the firing sequence.

Knock Out, wandering the corridors, finds himself cut off by the fighting. The bridge, meanwhile, is invaded by Jack and an [[Apex Armor (Thirteen)|Apex Armor]]-clad [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]]. She quickly finishes off the Vehicons onsite, but Soundwave advances on her with an open GroundBridge. Jack tells Raf to open a GroundBridge right behind Soundwave, and the conflicting bridge energies promptly transwarp Soundwave into the [[shadowzone (dimension)|shadowzone]]. As Jack and Miko head to the controls, the Omega Lock begins powering up. On its rim, Optimus and Megatron continue to battle, with Optimus knocking the Dark Star Saber from Megatron's grip and decking him. Megatron orders Shockwave to prepare to fire, but is interrupted by the ship lurching while under Jack's control.

[[File:Tfp bee down.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|There can be no triumph without loss. No victory without suffering. No freedom without sacrifice.]]

Down below, Smokescreen passes Arcee and Bumblebee, carrying the Star Saber into the Omega Lock control room. He attempts to throw the sword down to Optimus, only to be blasted by Shockwave. Arcee, Bumblebee, Starscream and Shockwave all run for the weapon. Arcee is forced to take out Starscream, and Bumblebee reaches the Star Saber first. He throws it up in the air, decking Shockwave and cracking his optic before grabbing the sword midair. Ratchet warns Optimus that he must use the Star Saber to destroy the Omega Lock; however, as Bumblebee jumps to pass the weapon to Optimus, he's blasted repeatedly by Megatron. As other Autobots and Decepticons watch in horror and glee, respectively, Bumblebee's optics flicker out, and he dies. He plunges lifelessly into the Omega Lock's energy field.

[[File:Tfp megatron impaled.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|left|Megatron: I did [[Dark Energon|it]] for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really... I was alive.]]

Outraged, Optimus smashes Megatron backward in a series of powerful blows, only to be knocked off the Omega Lock when Megatron recovers the Dark Star Saber and uses its wave attack to blast Optimus. As Prime clings to the side, Megatron prepares to finish the Autobot off, only to turn around in response to someone calling his name. Bumblebee runs him through with the Star Saber, and as everyone looks on in shock, Megatron dies and his body falls from the Omega Lock and plunges Earthward, burning as it enters the atmosphere. Bumblebee helps Optimus climb up as the remaining [[Decepticon]]s scramble to escape. As the Autobots reunite, they marvel at the fact that Bumblebee has his voice back, and Optimus passes on the news to Magnus's team and [[Hangar E]] that Megatron has perished. With the ship now under Autobot control, Optimus orders Magnus to set course for Cybertron. Bumblebee radios Raf to let him know to come up so he can be there for the restoration of Cybertron.

[[File:Tfp cybertron restored.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Peace.]]

As the ship passes through the [[space bridge]], Starscream and Shockwave reach the escape pods to find there's only one left. They cram into it and eject, though Starscream complains about the cramped conditions. Ratchet explains that he does not have the complete formula to synthesize cyber-matter (never having learned Shockwave's portion of it) and the current amount was intended to cyberform Earth, not the much larger Cybertron. Optimus directs the ship to the [[Well of All Sparks]], so they can revitalize Cybertron's core. The beam of energy strikes Cybertron's core, and the planet is soon restored and glowing a healthy blue. On the bridge, Knock Out admires the planet's new luster, and claims to be "joining the winning team", only to be decked by Miko. [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]], still clinging to the hull, looks out over Cybertron before transforming and flying off.

Back on Earth, Optimus gives a speech about how they're going to miss [[Earth]]. Fowler says the three kids will be members of [[Unit:E]], June modifying it by mentioning that they'll be in a consulting capacity only until they're of age, and Ratchet takes the opportunity to announce he's staying on Earth. Bumblebee, Bulkhead and Arcee give a tearful farewell to their respective partners, while Fowler, Magnus, Wheeljack and Smokescreen share a mutual salute. As the Autobots head through the space bridge, Optimus gives Ratchet a last goodbye, and with a final lingering look at his human companions, strides through after his team.

==Featured characters==
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*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (2)
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] (3)
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (4)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (5)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (6)
*[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (7)
*[[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] (8)
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (9)

|c2=
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] (1)
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (14)
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (15)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (16)
*[[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (17)
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] (18)

|c3=
*[[William Fowler]] (10)
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (11)
*[[Jack Darby]] (12)
*[[Raf Esquivel]] (13)
*[[June Darby]] (20)

|h4=[[Predacon (Prime)|Predacons]]|c4=
*[[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] (19)
}}

==Quotes==
"Shut it down, Shockwave. I cannot allow you to harm Earth!" 
"The planet will not be harmed. Only its indigenous lifeforms." 
''"Over my sparkless husk!"'' 
:—'''Ratchet''' prepares to duel '''Shockwave''' for the planet he's learned to love.

"Pack light. Pack light! [''Finds his rotary buffer''] Oh! Pack ''smart''!"
:—'''Knock Out'''

"Prepare to join your scout... in the Allspark!"
:—'''Megatron's''' final words

"You took my voice. You will never rob anyone, of ''anything'', ever again."
:—'''Bumblebee'''

"I will avenge you, Master!" 
[''Shockwave grabs him''] 
"Starscream, do not be a fool!" 
[''They flee as Starscream resists''] 
"Curse you and your logic!"
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Shockwave'''

"Bumblebee..." 
"Your voice..." 
"My voice? What're you g-... My voice!" 
[''grabs '''Ratchet''' in a great big hug''] 
"Ratchet! I have my pipes back!" 
"Errhmm, y-yes! Yes we noticed!"
:—'''Ratchet''', '''Arcee''', and '''Bumblebee'''

"Rrrgh, your elbow articulator is digging into my lateral flexor!" 
"Do you intend to whine for the duration of the voyage?" 
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Shockwave'''

"Ah, such luster." 
''[Autobots stare in disbelief]'' 
"What? I'm joining the winning team."
:—'''Knock Out'''

"Raf..." 
"I know Bee. You don't have to say anything." 
"I never did."
:—'''Bumblebee''' and '''Raf''' share their last exchange.

"Until we meet again, old friend..."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' says goodbye to '''Ratchet''', and in a way, to us.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Ultra Magnus refers to Soundwave's combat GroundBridging as a "relocation trick", which he had used on Arcee in "[[Orion Pax, Part 1]]", a Predacon bone fragment in "[[Project Predacon]]", and [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] and her [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]] in "[[Thirst]]".
* Miko previously used the Apex Armor in "[[Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command]]".
* Jack, Miko, and Raf experienced the effects of crossed GroundBridges firsthand in "[[Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone]]".
* The [[Immobilizer]] is seen in a stasis field in the vault, thus accounting for all the weapons left on Cybertron last season.
* The Star Saber was previously seen in the Decepticon vault in "[[Prey (episode)|Prey]]". Despite not making a note of it then, that fact did not escape Smokescreen's notice.
* Bumblebee's formerly-destroyed voicebox was the result of a run-in with Megatron at [[Tyger Pax]], as explained in "[[Operation Bumblebee, Part 1]]" and the novel, ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]''.
* The Autobots fire the Omega Lock into the Well of All Sparks, last seen in flashback in "[[One Shall Rise, Part 1]]".
* This is the second time Knock Out [[Orion Pax, Part 1|has mentioned being on the "winning team"]].
* Wheeljack takes the [[Cybertronian sport#Lobbing|lobbing]] ball with him to Cybertron. It was last seen in "Project Predacon".
* Bumblebee managed to crack Shockwave's eye, making it the second time it has been damaged.
* [[Hangar E]] retains the paint modification it received in [[Persuasion]] to make it look like Hangar F, while the real Hangar F remains destroyed.
* Ratchet once again displays his immense development in character, from a bot not too fond of organics to a relentless protector of humankind.

===Real-world references===
* Raf refers to opening conflicting Space Bridge portals as "crossing the streams", a term from ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' for literally touching the energy streams created by the franchise's signature energy backpacks; a reprise of the same reference from the first time this happened in "Shadowzone".

===Errors===
* Ultra Magnus goes into the battle using his built-in blasters, but in the next scene is lugging around the same handheld cannon he used in "[[Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion]]".
* During the Autobots' attack, Bumblebee deploys his shield to charge forward but Arcee decides to run directly in front of him. Surely she should hide behind his shield if they are charging a Decepticon warship?
* Even though the ship is orbiting Earth, Transformers and objects fall at a rate consistent with Earth-normal gravity outside of the ship.
* When Jack arrives on the ''Nemesis'', Laserbeak (on Soundwave's chest) is missing its left wing.
* When Smokescreen takes a hit from Shockwave before he is able to pass the Star Saber to his leader, he falls backward onto one of the tanks while the Star Saber flies to his left side at a slight angle. After the scene cuts to him against the tanks, the sword has somehow moved a considerable distance further, enough that Smokescreen would have had to purposefully throw it in that direction to get it that far.
* As Bumblebee is blasted by Megatron, the Star Saber falls with him at the same angle, apparently towards the cybermatter pool. Yet when Bumblebee falls in, the Saber clangs to the surface of the Omega Lock rather than in the pool, as its trajectory would suggest.
* Though it makes sense that Megatron and Optimus failed to notice Bumblebee's revival, certainly the assembled Autobots and Decepticons should have, considering Bumblebee would have had to climb out of the cybermatter pool, grab the sword, then walk over to Megatron to stab him with it.
* Knock Out more or less appears out of nowhere when he comments on a restored Cybertron's beauty. He certainly wasn't on the bridge when the Wreckers finally secured it, and they should have noticed if he entered the room.
* Wheeljack picks up the lobbing ball before he enters the GroundBridge, but it disappears after he salutes Agent Fowler and walks through the portal.

===Trivia===
* Between solicitations for upcoming issues of the [[Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters (comic)|''Beast Hunters'' comic]] (which revealed that Cybertron would be restored), the press release for the ''[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]'' movie (which revealed that Megatron was going to die) and a clip shown at the ''Prime'' panel at the San Diego Comic Con and later released online (which revealed that Bumblebee would regain his voice), a well-informed Transfan had pretty much ''every'' surprise of this episode spoiled ''by official sources'' well in advance of its airing. Boo.
* Just before Megatron retrieves the Dark Star Saber from the Omega Lock to use its wave attack to push Optimus off the side, it emits a sound very similar to the [[Star Saber (Armada)|original Star Saber sword]] whenever it was activated.
* While the limited cybermatter created to cyberform Earth was enough to restore Cybertron's core, the surface is still in ruins. Ratchet predicted this much would happen in the previous season, even though he was technically wrong at the time. The original Omega Lock could have restored both the surface and the core.
* Bumblebee was wearing a battle mask over his mouth for the whole series, which is revealed when he retracts it upon discovering he can speak again.
* Despite being exposed to space at various points along the hull, certain areas of the ''Nemesis'' appear to be airtight, specifically the bridge.
* The Omega Lock's [[Living metal|cyber-matter]] was able to fully heal Bumblebee's wounds and restore his voice box. Perhaps Ultra Magnus should have dipped his hand in before they used it to restore Cybertron.
* An extended version of Megatron's death scene is included as a bonus feature on [[Shout! Factory]]'s release of the third season. It features no extra dialogue, but includes several extra shots of Bumblebee stabbing the Star Saber deeper into Megatron as the Decepticon leader fights against the blade and tries to right himself before eventually succumbing.
* The episode's title "Deadlock" refers to a scenario where a conflict never ends due to the opposing parties waiting for the other to make a move... which doesn't really apply here, as the Autobots win the war, rendering the title pretty unfitting for this episode. (However, it does feature both a death and a lock.)
* The episode was heavily censored for its original broadcast on [[Cartoon Network]]'s Central and Eastern European division. Several seconds were cut from Megatron's death scene, mainly shots that showed the Star Saber stuck in his chest. Thus, after Bumblebee stabbed him and delivered his first spoken line, the scene abruptly cut to Megatron's body falling to Earth. As reported by the now-defunct Hungarian youth entertainment blog ''Rajzfilmövezet'', the network took an even harder stance on the side of censorship on February 12, 2017, issuing a ban affecting sixty episodes from various cartoon series that had been airing at the time. This was the only episode of ''Transformers: Prime'' to be subjected to this ban, and it was subsequently removed from Cartoon Network's programming.

===Foreign localization===
'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Impasse'''" ("Deadlock")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 7|7 December]] [[2013]]

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''La reconstruction'''" ("The reconstruction")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 28|28 September]] [[2013]]
::*Optimus Prime now uses the more informal "tu" with Ultra Magnus while he used the formal "vous" in previous episodes.
::*The Omega Lock, called "Serrure Omega" in French, is mistakenly called "Serrure Omega Lock" by Shockwave.
::*Raf's phrase "Are you sure about this, Jack? Last time we crossed the streams..." has a phone effect on it, while the camera is in the Autobot base with Raf.
::*While the Star Saber has been called "Sabre des Étoiles" before ("Stars Saber"), it has now lost many stars and is only "Sabre de l'Étoile" ("''unique'' Star Saber").
::*The Well of All Sparks is abominably translated to "Bien de l'Allspark", translating "well" in the sense of "good". So it's now the "Good of the Allspark". Translators were ''particularly'' lazy that day.

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Stillstand'''" ("Deadlock")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 16|16 October]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Végjáték'''" ("Endgame")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 18|18 September]] [[2013]]
::*As mentioned under the Trivia section, Cartoon Network Central and Eastern Europe originally aired the episode by truncating Megatron's demise. Syndicated reruns on the TV station RTL Klub and their online platform restored the full scene.
::*Despite said censorship, the episode dub contained an example of blatant cussing. Starscream's line "''Curse you and your logic!''" was translated as "''Cseszd meg a logikádat!''", roughly meaning "''F-ing screw your logic!''"

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Stallo'''" ("Deadlock")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 6|6 September]] [[2013]]

'''Spanish (Spain)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Punto muerto'''" ("Deadlock")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 3|3 November]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Ultimate Bumblebee (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 3: Omega Lock ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 2: Race for Salvation ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Saison 3 Volume 2: L'ultime affrontement (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Staffel 3 Teil 2: Auf zur Rettung (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Intégrale Saison 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Die komplette Staffel 3 (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2016 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Synthesis

2026-04-25T19:06:39Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign localization */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 64
|prev=Persuasion
|next=Deadlock (episode)
|image=Synthesis Megatron and Predaking.jpg
|caption=Everytime after Fiesta Night on the ''Nemesis'', Megatron gets extreme constipation for days on end.
|title="Synthesis"
|season=3
|season ep=12
|airdate=[[July 19]], [[2013]]
|written by=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|directed by=[[Scooter Tidwell]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKT1hU2_huw
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''The Autobots attempt to rescue one of their own by tracking the Decepticon warship, while secrets are revealed to Predaking.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Team Prime]] gathers outside [[Hangar E|their base]] for the launch of [[Raf Esquivel|Raf's]] probe, [[Chip]]. It will instinctively follow its signal to the [[Decepticon]] warship with [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] following right behind, ready to relay the ship's coordinates to the other [[Autobot]]s. Optimus tells Raf that [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] would be proud of what he's done, and a moment later, both Chip and the Autobot leader take off into the night sky.

In [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]]'s laboratory, Ratchet and [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] discuss the issue at hand: once a stable form of [[Synthetic Energon|synthetic energon]] exists, it will be able to bond with [[CNA]] to create a stable form of [[Living metal#Aligned continuity|cyber-matter]]. Knock Out muses that this good fortune wouldn't have come about had the Decepticons not let the Autobots destroy the [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] clones. Ratchet picks up on the use of the word "let", but Knock Out and Shockwave quickly change the subject.

[[File:Synthesis-scienceguys.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|'''Shockwave''': Is that T-rex pee? '''Ratchet''': Yup. '''Knock Out''': How'd you get it? '''Ratchet''': You don't want to know.]]
Team Prime continues to monitor Optimus as he follows Chip. [[Jack Darby|Jack]] wonders what will happen when the Decepticons pick up [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak's]] signal, and Raf says they're counting on Optimus making visual contact with the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' before that happens.

On the ship, Knock Out is bristling at being reduced to an assistant in his own lab. He fetches a CNA sample from a locked cabinet for Shockwave, not noticing when a second sample jar tips over and blocks the cabinet's sliding door from closing again. Ratchet does notice, and asks Knock Out to fetch another lab instrument to distract him while he yanks the sample jar free.

[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] is watching a computer simulation of [[Earth]]'s [[cyberforming|cyberformation]] when [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] alerts him that Laserbeak's signal has been detected outside the ship. [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] notes the impossibility of that, as Laserbeak is right there in front of them. Megatron recognizes it for an Autobot trick, the complexity of which suggesting that Starscream failed to destroy their base. Starscream hastily volunteers to troubleshoot the problem.

With the aid of the Decepticons' advanced technology, Ratchet is able to complete the Synth En formula. His elation disappears upon hearing Megatron's voice over the comm system, ordering Shockwave to assist in the final stages of the [[Omega Lock]]'s assembly. Ratchet realizes he can never allow Megatron to possess the formula, and deletes it from the computer before setting off an explosion in the corner of the lab and blaming it on the formula's instability. Knock Out calls in some [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] to help extinguish the blaze, and when the lab's doors open, Ratchet transforms and drives out.

Optimus Prime continues following Chip until Starscream appears, firing a missile at him. Optimus dodges and fires back with his gatling gun. A squadron of Vehicons join the aerial assault, but Optimus blasts through them with ease. Starscream realizes Laserbeak's frequency isn't emanating from Optimus and continues the search for its source.

Knock Out alerts Megatron to the prisoner's escape, while Ratchet dodges Vehicon fire throughout the halls of the ship. He doesn't get far before Megatron finds him, stopping the ambulance in its tracks by stomping on it. Ratchet warns Megatron that if he kills him, he'll never get the Synth En formula. Megatron assures him that his experts are untangling Ratchet's false trail of information and will soon find the answer themselves.

Starscream finally locates Chip, destroying the probe with a single missile. Optimus opens fire on him, but is unable to prevent the Decepticon from escaping through a mid-air [[GroundBridge]]. Optimus is left alone in the sky, with no trail to follow.

Knock Out retrieves Ratchet's stolen sample of CNA and Shockwave confirms the stability of the Synth En formula. With the aid of hyper-acceleration technology, it will not take long to begin production. Megatron fulfills his promise by having Ratchet taken to [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking's]] quarters. The self-proclaimed leader of the Predacons wastes no time attacking the helpless Autobot in the name of his slaughtered kin.

[[File:TFP-Synthesis-PredakingandRatchet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|Ah, hello, my new footrest.]]
Shockwave begins the synthesis of the cyber-matter, and Megatron orders the Omega Lock to be moved into ready position.

Just as Predaking is about to finish off his prey, Ratchet warns the Predacon not to let his vengeance end with him, but to continue avenging right up to Megatron. Predaking asks what he means, and Ratchet explains Megatron's role in the destruction of the Predacon clones. He challenges Predaking to analyze the situation; the enormity of the supposed coincidence that the Autobots somehow stumbled upon Shockwave's lab while looking for [[Energon]]. Predaking, starting to become convinced, asks why Megatron would wish to harm his kind. Ratchet says that Megatron fears him, and any like him. Enraged, Predaking storms into the halls, demolishing Vehicons along the way. One Vehicon is able to alert Megatron to the rampage before being terminated.

Ratchet makes his way to a communications array and contacts Optimus and Team Prime. Their joy is cut short when Ratchet reveals that Megatron has a working Omega Lock and is about to cyberform Earth. He deactivates the ship's shielding, allowing the Autobots to get a fix on his location, but is forced to leave the array by the sound of approaching gunfire. Optimus orders the Autobots to lock onto Ratchet's coordinates and storm the Decepticon ship. [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] sadly says that they can't leave without saying goodbye, but Fowler promises her they'll be back. The Autobots gear up with the arsenal from [[Iron Will|Ultra Magnus's ship]], and Raf opens a GroundBridge to the ''Nemesis''. As they enter, Optimus Prime tells them that this may be their last battle. But for the sake of Ratchet, Earth, and [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], they must take the Decepticon warship.

[[File:Synthesis-predakingvsmegatron.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Listen to me darling, you are beautiful!]]
Megatron, followed by Starscream and Knock Out, heads for the ship's vault, wondering aloud how the so-called Predacon king will fare against the [[Dark Star Saber]]. They're interrupted by Predaking, who tosses a deactivated Vehicon in their direction. Knock Out continues to the vault while Predaking asks if Megatron truly planned the destruction of his Predacon army. Megatron says he did, and his only mistake was not including Predaking in the destruction. He lands a few hits with his blade before Predaking overpowers him, clubbing him with the deactivated body of a Vehicon and knocking him down the length of the hall. Starscream distracts Predaking momentarily with a missile in the back, allowing Megatron to hurl the Predacon into the room behind them. Megatron hits a button on a computer panel inside the room, opening a door to the outside directly behind Predaking. He grips the sides of the door frame to fight against the sudden air pressure, but a blast from Megatron's cannon sends him tumbling out of the ship and into the clouds. Starscream closes the hull door and Knock Out arrives with the Dark Star Saber just as a Vehicon reports over the comm that the Autobots are attacking the ship. Megatron grabs the Dark Star Saber and tells the Decepticons to prepare to make their last stand.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (5)
*[[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] (6)
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] (7)
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (8)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (9)
*[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (10)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (11)
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (12)

|c2=
*[[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (13)
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (14)
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (15)
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] (16)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (17)
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s (18)

|c3=
*[[William Fowler]] (1)
*[[Jack Darby]] (2)
*[[Raf Esquivel]] (3)
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (4)

|h4=[[Predacon (Prime)|Predacons]]|c4=
*[[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] (19)
}}

==Quotes==
"So we know this cyber-matter to be produced by an atypical molecular-displacement reaction." 
"Extensive empirical evidence indicates the fundamental instability within the Synth En formulation to be the cause." 
"Double-blind analysis?" 
"Naturally. The results only confirmed my original hypothesis. Once the erroneous variable has been corrected for, the stabilized synthetic material will bind properly with cybernucleic acid." 
"And produce a stable form of cyber-matter... ''remarkable''." 
"Yes. Quite an act of providence."
:—'''Ratchet''' and '''Shockwave'''

"Starscream, you ''did'' destroy the Autobot base, did you not?" 
"With great fervor, my lord. Why do you ask?" 
"Because Laserbeak's frequency has been detected on radar." 
"But that's not possible. He's right here in Soundwave's torso."
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Starscream''' with a sentence you can only get from ''Transformers''

''[Over comm]'' "Lord Megatron. There's been a situation... more like an accident, really—" 
"Spit. It. OUT!" 
''[Short pause]'' "THE PRISONER HAS ESCAPED!"
:—'''Knock Out''' and '''Megatron'''

"At last. Good riddance to a wretched species." 
"Although I will say they manufacture some fine-looking automobiles."
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Knock Out''' debate the merits of Earth

"Why would my liege wish to destroy us?" 
"Having just been on the receiving end of your might, one theory springs to mind. Megatron ''fears you''."
:—'''Predaking''' and '''Ratchet'''

"Members of Team Prime, Autobot and human, it has been my honor to lead you. On this day, the fates of two worlds hang in the balance, and the battle to come may very well be our last. But for Earth, for Cybertron, for our comrade Ratchet, we must take the Decepticon warship."
:—'''Optimus Prime'''

"Is it true that you ordered the annihilation of my army?" 
"Indeed. And my only mistake was not seeing the extermination through."
:—'''Predaking''' and '''Megatron'''

"Bravo, my liege, it isn't every day one would witness the extinction of a species all over again." 
"One ultimate weapon, coming right up! Where's tall, dark and scaly?"
:— '''Starscream''' right before '''Knock Out''' comes in

"If Optimus Prime wishes to wage a battle for the fate of both Earth and Cybertron, then I shall oblige him. '''This WILL be our last stand'''!"
:—'''Megatron'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Starscream believed he destroyed the Autobot base in "[[Persuasion]]". That same episode, Megatron promised Predaking the honor of destroying Ratchet.
* Megatron set the Predacon clones up to be destroyed by the Autobots in "[[Evolution]]".
* The Dark Star Saber was last seen in "[[Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour]]".
* Megatron mentions his time as a gladiator in the pits of Kaon, as described in "[[Crossfire (Prime)|Crossfire]]" and the novel ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]''.
* Megatron tells Predaking he should have obeyed his command and fought as a beast, as he requested in "[[Minus One]]".
* Before they leave for the ''Nemesis'', the Autobots all grab the weapons they obtained from Ultra Magnus's ship in "[[Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion]]". Smokescreen gets a new weapon resembling a futuristic bow.
* Ratchet attempts, to no avail, to erase information crucial to the Decepticons, [[Orion Pax, Part 3|much like "Orion Pax" did]].

===Transformers references===
* Knock Out's frustrated muttering is a reference to [[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul's]] from the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|G1 cartoon]] episode [[The Master Builders (episode)|"The Master Builders"]].

:"Knock Out, bring this. Knock Out, get that! Grrrrrr!"
::—'''Knock Out'''

:"Ugh, get this. Bring that!"
::—'''Long Haul'''

===Errors===
* Prior to being confronted by Predaking, Megatron, Starscream, and Knock Out were headed to the vault to get the Dark Star Saber. When Knock Out leaves to retrieve it, however, he turns right, which would take him back down the corridor they just entered from.
* Why do the car-type Vehicons ''run'' after ambulance-mode Ratchet as he darts through the corridors of the ship? He's able to elude them rather easily, which would be more difficult if they transformed and [[Darkness Rising, Part 1|''drove'' after him in their sports-car mode with their pop-out guns deployed]].
* After Shockwave verifies that Ratchet has perfected the Synth-En formula, the canister he removes from the spectrographic analyzer and which he and Megatron victoriously brandish about contains a yellow liquid, indistinguishable from CNA fluid, when, if it's meant to be the Synth-En, it should presumably be green. This isn't ''necessarily'' an error—the perfected formula may be a different color from the imperfect green one—but when Shockwave initiates the generation of cybermatter soon after, it is shown being formed from a mix of green Synth-En and yellow CNA fluid, so either one of these scenes contains a coloring error, or the canister didn't actually contain Synth-En, despite the way it was being brandished about.

===Trivia===
* This episode was dedicated to storyboard artist [[Armen Mirzaian]], who lost his life in a car accident on [[February 21]], 2013.
* Megatron and Starscream seem awfully quick to write off Predaking as dead, considering they merely blew him out an airlock and his [[beast mode]] can fly.
* Megatron's suspicions of Predaking's might are proven true. Predaking proves far mightier than Megatron in combat, and the latter only wins because Starscream shoots Predaking in the back.
* One of the devices at the lab is similar to a centrifuge, such as which is common biochemistry lab equipment. Those sometimes end up damaged like Ratchet does this one, by switching them on while they're unevenly loaded and thus sending the rotor spinning off balance.

===Foreign localization===
'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Síntese'''" ("Synthesis")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 7|7 December]] [[2013]]

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''L'Ultime Affrontement'''" ("The Ultimate Confrontation")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 25|25 September]] [[2013]]
::*While the Dark Star Saber was called "Sabre Noir des Étoiles" ("Black Saber of the Stars") in season 2, it is now called "Sabre de l'Étoile Noire" ("Black Star Saber").

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Synthese'''" ("Synthesis")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 15|15 October]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Szintézis'''" ("Synthesis")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 17|17 September]] [[2013]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Sintesi'''" ("Synthesis")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 6|6 September]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 3: Omega Lock ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 2: Race for Salvation ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Saison 3 Volume 2: L'ultime affrontement (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Staffel 3 Teil 2: Auf zur Rettung (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Intégrale Saison 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Die komplette Staffel 3 (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2016 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Dark Star Saber

2026-04-25T19:06:09Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign names */

[[File:Megatron TFPS313 standing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Wait, how does it stay on his back? Glue?]]

The '''Dark Star Saber''' (sometimes spelt '''Dark Star Sabre''') is a sword made from pure [[Dark Energon]]. Intended to be a dark counterpart of the [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]] itself, this blade possesses all the powers of the original blade, and is even stronger than its counterpart. Unlike the original blade, the Dark Star Saber doesn't require a Prime to activate its powers. It also appears somewhat sentient as it can resist [[Starscream (WFC)|certain individuals]], but even they can still use the blade's powers to an extent.

== Fiction ==
=== ''Prime'' cartoon ===
[[File:AlphaOmegaDarkStarSaber.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|''Mine's'' bigger now!]]
[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]], after securing the arm of a [[Liege Maximo|dead Prime]], used the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] to craft a counterpart to the [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]] out of a huge chunk of [[Dark Energon]]. Megatron first brought the blade into action after the decoding of the next Iacon relic in Egypt, and used it to make fools out of [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]]. The waves of energy it created threw Smokescreen against a pyramid. When [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]] arrived with his own Star Saber, the two engaged in battle, but the Dark Star Saber would prove to be stronger, breaking Optimus's sword. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}}

Megatron took the sword with him to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to find the [[Omega Lock]]. He got the opportunity to use it when the Autobots showed up, and Optimus attacked him with the reforged Star Saber. Megatron was confident that he could destroy the blade a second time but the Autobots escaped with the Omega Keys before he could do so. It also proved capable of destroying the [[Spark extractor|Spark Extractor]] when [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] used the device against Megatron's men. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}} After Megatron began using the Omega Lock to [[cyberforming|cyberform]] [[Earth]], Optimus charged at him with the Star Saber. Megatron managed to counter his first blow using the Dark Star Saber, only for Optimus to slice his sword arm off at the elbow. Both sword and arm were subsequently caught in the explosion when Optimus destroyed the Omega Lock. {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}

Knock Out and a squad of Vehicons headed back to Cybertron to retrieve any relics they could, {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} the Dark Star Saber being one of those which were found and stored it in the ''Nemesis'' vault. When [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] turned on the Decepticons for Megatron terminating his Predacons, Megatron decided to test the sword against him. Predaking found him before he could reach the vault, however, and Megatron was forced to outwit him without its might. [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] brought the sword moments too late for it to be of use against Predaking, but just in time to be used against an imminent Autobot attack on the ship. {{storylink|Synthesis}}

He got the chance to employ it against Optimus when the Autobot leader attacked the warship. As the Autobot leader flew towards the ship, Megatron used the blade to take out the Autobot's jetpack. Optimus did eventually get to the Omega Lock, only for Megatron to attack him yet again with the blade, but this time Optimus managed to knock it out of his hand. After Megatron terminated [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], the Decepticon leader used the dark blade to knock Optimus off the ship and cling for his life. Before Megatron could finish the job, he was killed when Bumblebee, who had been resurrected by the Omega Lock's energies, ran him through with the original Star Saber. As Megatron died he tried to run him down with the Dark Star Saber, only for it to fall from his grip and plummeted towards Earth. {{storylink|Deadlock (episode)|Deadlock}}

===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[File:RiD 2015 Mini-Con Madness Screamy's Sword.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|And now I shall get to the center of this Tootsie Pop Roll.]]
The Dark Star Saber was found at the bottom of the Earth's ocean by [[Clawtrap]] and the [[Scavengers (RID)|Scavengers]]. However Starscream showed up, tracking down the Minicons, and quickly reclaimed the sword. Strangely, the Dark Star Saber was starting to reject him. {{storylink|Mighty Big Trouble}} He observed that the sword seemed to think he wasn't totally worthy of it, but continued to utilise it anyway, including threatening Bumblebee and hunting "Earth rodents" when not carrying it clamped to his back at all times aboard his ship. {{storylink|Mini-Con Madness (RID)|Mini-Con Madness}}

When Starscream went into battle against the Autobots and [[Weaponizer (RID)|Weaponizer]] Mini-Cons, the Dark Star Saber showed the ability to unleash a pulse of stunning electricity, knocking out the Seeker's opponents to the last bot. Following his defeat by Optimus Prime, the Dark Star Saber was locked away on [[Prime Force One|Optimus' ship]] for safe transport back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Worthy}}
{{--}}

==Games==
=== Angry Birds Transformers ===
{{note|The Dark Star Saber is in the Mobile Game Angry Birds Transformers a Accessory for King Pig as Ultimate Megatron, Dark Megatron, Dark Megatron and Lord Megatron}}
===''Transformers: Devastation''===
{{note|[[Optimus Prime (G1)#Transformers: Devastation|Optimus Prime]]'s [[Nemesis Prime (G1)#Transformers: Devastation|Nemesis Prime]] DLC skin comes bundled with the Dark Star Saber instead of Optimus's default [[energon-axe]]. In-game, it sends waves of energy that add range and penetration to its attacks, although this also means that its damage output isn't as great as most other weapons. {{Storylink|Transformers: Devastation|Devastation}} }}

===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
{{ew-char
|name=Dark Star Saber
|image=[[File:Earth Wars Dark Star Saber.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|center]]
|link=[https://tfew.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4733775088799-Prima-s-Star-Saber-Dark-Star-Saber#toc2 Dark Star Saber at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
|faction=Decepticon
|unit=Weapon
|star=2
|class=Melee
|ability=Increases the user's DPS by a percentage. The Dark Star Saber tears through time to summon a [[Hologram|hologram]] of Megatron that has 50% of the user's health and 100% of their DPS (only one hologram can be summoned per user in battle). For every 10 seconds, it lands a massive strike that deals a percentage of the user's damage in an area.
|usedby=Warriors, [[Triple Changer#Transformers: Earth Wars|Triple Changers]] (specifically [[Blitzwing (G1)#Transformers: Earth Wars|Blitzwing]] only) and Melee Special (excluding [[Deluge (G2)#Transformers: Earth Wars|Deluge]]) classes
|date=[[April 4]], [[2024]]
|counterpart=[[Star Saber (Thirteen)#Transformers: Earth Wars|Prima's Star Saber]]
|notes=The Dark Star Saber's in-game appearance is directly based on its appearance in ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]''.
}}

The Dark Star Saber was a thrice-dammed blade which, according to the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]], the [[Tripredacus Council|Tri-Predacus Council]] knew the location of. {{Storylink|Power Moves}} They could summon it when combined as [[Tripredacus]]. {{Storylink|The Big Hunt}} Legend described the sword as semi-sentient and able to possess the mind of its wielder. {{Storylink|Double Jeopardy (Earth Wars)|Double Jeopardy}} It had been previously wielded by [[Bomb-Burst (G1)|Bomb-Burst]], who became a shadowy predator that hunted [[Spark]]s for [[Unicron]]. {{Storylink|The Price}} It rested in the [[Unspace|Cosmic Void]] {{Storylink|Dark Designs (Earth Wars)|Dark Designs}} until it was called upon by Tripredacus when they sensed the void was breached. {{Storylink|The Big Hunt}} While in battle with [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], Tripredacus dropped the blade. [[Tonbot]], [[Deluge (G1)|Deluge]], and [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]] attempted to take the blade, and [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimal Optimus]] tried to stop them. He knew that both the Star Saber and the Dark Star Saber needed to be returned to the void to stop the "[[Great Resetting]]". {{Storylink|Double Jeopardy (Earth Wars)|Double Jeopardy}} Deathsaurus and Megatron both claimed the Dark Star Saber for themselves. Optimal warned them that if either raised it with conquest in mind, it would consume their eternal Spark and twist their minds. Megatron questioned how Optimal knew this, the answer was because when he tried using [[Prima]]'s Star Saber, he felt it attempt to insinuate itself into his Spark. Megatron told Optimal he could live with the Dark Star Saber as he saw no real downsides for himself. Deathsaurus also believed he could master the blade. {{Storylink|The Price}}
{{gamestub|{{storylink|The Reckoning}} onwards}}

{{--}}

==Toys==
===''Prime''===
[[File:Primetoy-TakaraTomy-DarkEnergonSaber.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Nothing but knife.]]
*'''Final Battle Megatron''' ([[February 25]], [[2013]])
**''ID number'' (Gabu): '''M-18'''
**''ID number'' (Baru): '''M-19'''
**''ID number'' (Dai): '''M-20'''

:Part of the eleventh and final assortment of TakaraTomy ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'' toys, the "Dark Energon Saber" is a smoky-translucent-black [[redeco]] of the [[Arms Micron]] [[Dark Matter Calibur#Toys|Dark Matter Calibur]] sword, and the three Arms Microns (now named [[Gabu (Prime)#Shadow|Shadow Gabu]], [[Baru (Prime)#Shadow|Shadow Baru]], and [[Dai#Shadow|Shadow Dai]]) that form the weapon. The Dark Energon Saber is only available with the Voyager-sized [[Megatron (WFC)/toys#Darkest|Final Battle Megatron]].
{{--}}

==Merchandise==
===XM Studios===
*'''Megatron''' (2022)

:The accessories of this 26" tall painted porcelain statue of Generation 1 [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] include the Dark Star Saber.

:258 pieces were produced, with a suggested price of about US$1,600.

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Dark Energon Saber''' (ダークエネルゴンセイバー ''Dāku Enerugon Seibā'')
*''French:'' '''Sabre Noir des Étoiles''' ("Black Saber of the Stars"), '''Sabre de l'Étoile Noire''' ("Black Star Saber")
*''German:'' '''Dunkler Sternensäbel''', '''Das Schwert des dunklen Sterns''', '''Finstersternsäbel'''

[[Category:Earth Wars weapons]]
[[Category:Mini-Con weapons]]
[[Category:Prime weapons]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) weapons]]
[[Category:Sabers]]

Persuasion

2026-04-25T17:14:37Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign localization */

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|next=Synthesis
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|caption= "You ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?"
|title="Persuasion"
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|written by=[[Michael G. Stern]]
|directed by=[[Todd Waterman]]
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'''Megatron appeals to Ratchet for the greater good while the Autobots try to cope with the disappearance of a friend.'''

==Synopsis==

[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] struggles to his feet after having been knocked out of the sky by [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]], who transforms to [[robot mode]] and lands nearby. The [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] charges up his blaster, but Optimus rebounds with a flurry of punches.

[[File:PersuasionMagnusVsShockwave.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|It gets better when you remember that it was Shockwave's creations that caused both of them to lose a hand.]]
Inside the Solaris building, a firefight between [[Autobot]]s and [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s is brought to a swift end by one of [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack's]] grenades. The Autobots make their way into the next room, where [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] is overseeing the theft of the particle collider, and begin fighting the [[Decepticon]] forces there.

Outside, Optimus continues to hammer away at Predaking, temporarily keeping him on the defensive, but the Predacon lashes out with a savage kick that sends Optimus sprawling. Predaking transforms back to [[beast mode]] and is about to unleash a blast of flame at the prone Autobot when [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] contacts him over the comm, ordering him to help secure the collider. Frustrated, Predaking fires his flame into the night sky.

Inside, the Autobots finish mopping up the Vehicons as [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] beats Shockwave to his knees. He offers the Decepticon a chance to surrender before Predaking bursts in, makes short work of the Autobots, and flees with Shockwave and the collider. Outside, Optimus Prime rises shakily to his feet, just in time to see Predaking [[GroundBridge]] out.

[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] radios [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] to return them to base. [[William Fowler|Fowler]], [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]], and [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] are just coming to after being knocked out by [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]], and Bulkhead reports that Ratchet is gone.

Aboard the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', Megatron informs the captive Ratchet that he requires his assistance. Ratchet defiantly refuses to cooperate. Megatron says that cooperation isn't required, as Shockwave approaches the Autobot with a [[cortical psychic patch]].

At the Autobot base, Arcee examines the piece of [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak's]] wing that Smokescreen shot off while the young Autobot laments his poor aim. Ultra Magnus and Bulkhead confirm that Ratchet is nowhere on the premises, and that he didn't leave via the Autobot GroundBridge. Because there have been no ransom demands, Optimus reasons that Ratchet has something the Decepticons want.

Predaking learns that an Autobot is aboard the ship, and states that he's going to do to him what he failed to do to [[Prime (rank)|the Prime]]. Megatron explains that the captive is necessary for the restoration of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], but once that's no longer the case, he will be turned over to the Predacon.

While Fowler barks orders for increased surveillance and satellite monitoring into the phone, Wheeljack theorizes that the Decepticons took Ratchet for his [[Synthetic Energon]] formula. Smokescreen asks why that would be necessary when the Decepticons already control most of the planet's [[Energon]]. Optimus remembers Ratchet's belief that Megatron is attempting to rebuild the [[Omega Lock]], and deduces that Synth En could be a necessary component. Fowler, now off the phone, relays his concern to the Autobots; if the Decepticons found Ratchet, it means they know the location of their base.

[[File:Persuasion-Ratchetalone.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|"Now would probably be a bad time to mention that I have a phobia of cliché lighting...".]]
Shockwave reports that the psychic patch only confirms Ratchet has not yet stabilized the synthetic energon formula. Megatron tries a different tactic, waiting for Ratchet to revive and telling the Autobot directly that he wants to help him complete the formula. Ratchet rejects the idea outright, until Megatron reveals his intentions; that the Synth En, when combined with [[CNA]], forms the basis for an alternative [[Living metal#Aligned continuity|cyber-matter]] that can be used to restore Cybertron. Ratchet refuses to collaborate with Megatron, calling him a barbarian responsible for destroying Cybertron in the first place and crushing [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee's]] [[voice box]]. Megatron offers him a choice: the first option is to complete the formula. The second option is represented by an image of [[Jack Darby|Jack]], [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]], and [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] displayed on [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave's]] visor. Ratchet tries to feign disinterest in the humans, but the image on Soundwave's visor changes to that of the Autobot base. Megatron tells Ratchet that if he agrees to cooperate, the humans and the Autobots will not be harmed. The Decepticons leave him to ponder the offer, and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] asks if Megatron was being serious. Megatron says of course he wasn't, and tells Starscream to assemble his armada and destroy the Autobots' base once again.

At the base, Fowler and the Autobots are uneasy about the lack of Decepticon activity. Optimus notes that since the Cons aren't stealing Predacon bones or [[Earth]] technology anymore, there's no way to track them. Ultra Magnus suggests splitting into teams for some "old school" searching, but is interrupted by alarms signaling an incoming attack. As Starscream and a fleet of Vehicons emerge from the skies, soldiers rush to their jets to prepare a defense. Starscream commands his troops to concentrate their attack on [[Hangar E]] as the military jets open fire. Starscream evades the humans' artillery and lets loose a volley of missiles that hit Hangar E and reduce it to a fiery ruin. He reports to Megatron that the mission has been accomplished, and the Decepticons depart.

[[File:Persuation attack afterman n.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Anyone got any marshmallows?]]

The Autobots watch as soldiers put out the flames amidst the rubble that used to be the mess hall, and Ultra Magnus muses that the Decepticons were fooled by a simple paint job. The actual Hangar E, now repainted to say F, is still in one piece.

Back on the ''Nemesis'', Megatron has Ratchet released to give him a tour of the ship. Ratchet's first instinct is to attack, but he finds himself reluctantly impressed by the Decepticon technology. Megatron uses the opportunity to convince him that Autobots and Decepticons share a common goal in the restoration of Cybertron. Ratchet says that bringing back Cybertron would not stop Megatron's ambitions, which the Decepticon leader doesn't deny, but at least they would have a world worth fighting over. Ratchet asks what assurance he would have that Megatron would leave Earth alone. Megatron simply replies that no assurance is being offered, confident that Ratchet's desire to restore Cybertron will overpower his reservations.

At their base, the Autobots have realized that the piece of Laserbeak which Smokescreen shot off is his transponder. Raf hooks it up to his laptop and says that it's trying to communicate with the Decepticon warship. Jack asks how Raf can understand [[Cybertronian language|Cybertronian code]], and Raf says that Ratchet used to teach him in his free time. Fowler asks if they can triangulate the signal, but Ultra Magnus reminds him it's going to a shielded ship. Arcee notes that if the transponder was still attached to Laserbeak, they could follow it. Wheeljack proposes giving it wings, and he and Raf start putting the idea into action.

Jack sees Fowler staring thoughtfully at the [[Apex Armor (Thirteen)|Apex Armor]] and asks if anything's wrong. Fowler admits he's been thinking of humanity's close calls at the hands of the Decepticons, and that technology like the armor could give their military agents a fighting chance even when the Autobots aren't around to protect them. He also suggests that Jack could be one of those agents himself someday, an idea he's apparently discussed with [[June Darby|Jack's mother]]. Jack isn't thrilled to hear they've been talking about him, but his protest is interrupted by the result of Raf's work: [[Chip]], a small flying device built to house Laserbeak's transponder, which will lead them straight to the Decepticon warship.

Ratchet posits that even if the Omega Lock could be reconstructed, there's no way to scientifically replicate the device's mystical properties. Megatron says they won't know until they try, and shows Ratchet their progress: an almost-completed Omega Lock, attached to the underbelly of the ''Nemesis''. Realizing just how close they really are to being able to restore Cybertron, Ratchet agrees to complete the Synth En formula.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (4)
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] (5)
*[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (6)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (7)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (10)
*[[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] (11)
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (12)

|c2=
*[[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] (2)
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s (3)
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (8)
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (13)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (14)
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] (15)

|c3=
*[[William Fowler]] (9)
*[[Raf Esquivel]] (16)
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (17)
*[[Jack Darby]] (18)
}}

==Quotes==
"This is no place for a one-handed Autobot." 
"I'll take one bum hand over one good eye any day."
:—'''Shockwave''' and '''Ultra Magnus'''

"Collaborate with the barbarian who essentially destroyed our planet in the first place... who sadistically crushed Bumblebee's voice box, while looking him in the eye? No thank you."
:—'''Ratchet'''

"Humans. Always the weak link."
:—'''Starscream'''

"Ratchet didn't think this new hand he built for me was good enough. But I'll tell you what truly isn't good enough: giving up."
:—'''Ultra Magnus'''

'''Ratchet''': Megatron, you would just try to conquer Cybertron all over again, and enslave anyone who refuses to pledge allegiance to you. 
'''Megatron''': Of course I would!

'''Ratchet''': What assurance do I have that you would leave humankind be, and that you wouldn't instantly terminate me once you get what you need? 
'''Megatron''': None whatsoever. After all, we both know that as a Decepticon, any assurances I might offer would be worthless.

"Miko, ''I needed that!''"
:—'''Raf'''

'''Megatron''': It will not take long for this Omega Lock's drives to be fully operational. All that is still needed to restore our home is the cybermatter to launch through it. 
'''Ratchet''': Which requires a stabilized formula for the production of synthetic energon. 
'''Megatron''': I have every confidence in you, doctor. 
'''Ratchet''': I'll do it. But then, you already knew that, didn't you? 

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Megatron persuades Ratchet into completing the synthetic energon formula that he created in "[[Stronger, Faster]]".
* Megatron tearing out Bumblebee's vocoder is again referenced, this time explicitly. It was first detailed in "[[Operation Bumblebee, Part 1]]" and the novel ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]''.
* Soundwave's picture of the children was taken way back in "[[Darkness Rising, Part 5]]".
* Starscream has previously described humans as "the weak link" in "[[Darkness Rising, Part 3]]".
* The Decepticons already destroyed [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|one Autobot base]] in "[[Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour]]".
* Miko obtained the Apex Armor in "[[Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command]]".
* Fowler mentions being stuck in [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out's]] trunk with June Darby, which occurred in "[[Plus One (Prime)|Plus One]]".
* The Decepticons successfully reconstructed the Omega Lock underneath the ''Nemesis''. The previous Lock was first seen in "[[Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration]]", then in "Darkest Hour".
* Raf brings out Ratchet's ever-famous catchphrase throughout the show.

===Transformers references===
* "Chip" the flying drone is a reference to [[Chip Chase]].

===Real-world references===
* Fowler's dazed ramblings about there being "a man on the wing of this plane" refers to the famous ''[[Twilight Zone|The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "{{w|Nightmare at 20,000 Feet}}".
* Chip's kamikaze attack brings Fowler to swear by George Armstrong Custer (specifically his mustache).

===Errors===
* Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus are shown to be the same height when standing behind the hanger after the Decepticon attack. In "[[Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion]]" and every episode since, Optimus has been depicted at least a head and shoulders taller than Ultra Magnus.
* As with [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler's]] jet, the human military jets have [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]/[[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] robot-mode kibble underneath, due to sharing the animation model.

===Trivia===
* Though Predaking named himself in "[[Evolution]]", this episode marks the first instance of him telling it to the Autobots.
* Shockwave mocks Ultra Magnus's bad hand during their fight, even though he likewise only has one functional hand and a permanently affixed cannon.
* This is the first episode to lack a title sequence since "[[Darkness Rising, Part 5]]".
* With this being the last episode in the series to take place in a snowy, cold setting, Optimus [[Scrapheap (episode)|never got Raf a snowball.]]
* Agent Fowler makes a hint at a possibility of Jack becoming an agent of Unit:E, yet another reference to the planned Unit:E Hasbro crossover.

===Foreign localization===

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Persuasão'''" ("Persuasion")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 7|7 December]] [[2013]]

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''L'Otage'''" ("The Hostage")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 22|22 September]] [[2013]]
::*Everyone says "the Laserbeak" in this episode.
::*Raf's phrase "I'm still fine-tuning Chip's remote" is dubbed by "I'm still fine-tuning the remote's chips", which causes the drone to lose its name. Consequently, Arcee repeating "the chips?" sounds weird.

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Überzeugungskraft'''" ("Convincibility")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 14|14 October]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Meggyőző erő'''" ("Cogency")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 16|16 September]] [[2013]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Persuasione'''" ("Persuasion")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 6|6 September]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 3: Omega Lock ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 2: Race for Salvation ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Saison 3 Volume 2: L'ultime affrontement (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Staffel 3 Teil 2: Auf zur Rettung (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Intégrale Saison 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Die komplette Staffel 3 (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2016 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Persuasion

2026-04-25T17:08:09Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign localization */

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|directed by=[[Todd Waterman]]
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'''Megatron appeals to Ratchet for the greater good while the Autobots try to cope with the disappearance of a friend.'''

==Synopsis==

[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] struggles to his feet after having been knocked out of the sky by [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]], who transforms to [[robot mode]] and lands nearby. The [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] charges up his blaster, but Optimus rebounds with a flurry of punches.

[[File:PersuasionMagnusVsShockwave.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|It gets better when you remember that it was Shockwave's creations that caused both of them to lose a hand.]]
Inside the Solaris building, a firefight between [[Autobot]]s and [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s is brought to a swift end by one of [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack's]] grenades. The Autobots make their way into the next room, where [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] is overseeing the theft of the particle collider, and begin fighting the [[Decepticon]] forces there.

Outside, Optimus continues to hammer away at Predaking, temporarily keeping him on the defensive, but the Predacon lashes out with a savage kick that sends Optimus sprawling. Predaking transforms back to [[beast mode]] and is about to unleash a blast of flame at the prone Autobot when [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] contacts him over the comm, ordering him to help secure the collider. Frustrated, Predaking fires his flame into the night sky.

Inside, the Autobots finish mopping up the Vehicons as [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] beats Shockwave to his knees. He offers the Decepticon a chance to surrender before Predaking bursts in, makes short work of the Autobots, and flees with Shockwave and the collider. Outside, Optimus Prime rises shakily to his feet, just in time to see Predaking [[GroundBridge]] out.

[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] radios [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] to return them to base. [[William Fowler|Fowler]], [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]], and [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] are just coming to after being knocked out by [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]], and Bulkhead reports that Ratchet is gone.

Aboard the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', Megatron informs the captive Ratchet that he requires his assistance. Ratchet defiantly refuses to cooperate. Megatron says that cooperation isn't required, as Shockwave approaches the Autobot with a [[cortical psychic patch]].

At the Autobot base, Arcee examines the piece of [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak's]] wing that Smokescreen shot off while the young Autobot laments his poor aim. Ultra Magnus and Bulkhead confirm that Ratchet is nowhere on the premises, and that he didn't leave via the Autobot GroundBridge. Because there have been no ransom demands, Optimus reasons that Ratchet has something the Decepticons want.

Predaking learns that an Autobot is aboard the ship, and states that he's going to do to him what he failed to do to [[Prime (rank)|the Prime]]. Megatron explains that the captive is necessary for the restoration of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], but once that's no longer the case, he will be turned over to the Predacon.

While Fowler barks orders for increased surveillance and satellite monitoring into the phone, Wheeljack theorizes that the Decepticons took Ratchet for his [[Synthetic Energon]] formula. Smokescreen asks why that would be necessary when the Decepticons already control most of the planet's [[Energon]]. Optimus remembers Ratchet's belief that Megatron is attempting to rebuild the [[Omega Lock]], and deduces that Synth En could be a necessary component. Fowler, now off the phone, relays his concern to the Autobots; if the Decepticons found Ratchet, it means they know the location of their base.

[[File:Persuasion-Ratchetalone.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|"Now would probably be a bad time to mention that I have a phobia of cliché lighting...".]]
Shockwave reports that the psychic patch only confirms Ratchet has not yet stabilized the synthetic energon formula. Megatron tries a different tactic, waiting for Ratchet to revive and telling the Autobot directly that he wants to help him complete the formula. Ratchet rejects the idea outright, until Megatron reveals his intentions; that the Synth En, when combined with [[CNA]], forms the basis for an alternative [[Living metal#Aligned continuity|cyber-matter]] that can be used to restore Cybertron. Ratchet refuses to collaborate with Megatron, calling him a barbarian responsible for destroying Cybertron in the first place and crushing [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee's]] [[voice box]]. Megatron offers him a choice: the first option is to complete the formula. The second option is represented by an image of [[Jack Darby|Jack]], [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]], and [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] displayed on [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave's]] visor. Ratchet tries to feign disinterest in the humans, but the image on Soundwave's visor changes to that of the Autobot base. Megatron tells Ratchet that if he agrees to cooperate, the humans and the Autobots will not be harmed. The Decepticons leave him to ponder the offer, and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] asks if Megatron was being serious. Megatron says of course he wasn't, and tells Starscream to assemble his armada and destroy the Autobots' base once again.

At the base, Fowler and the Autobots are uneasy about the lack of Decepticon activity. Optimus notes that since the Cons aren't stealing Predacon bones or [[Earth]] technology anymore, there's no way to track them. Ultra Magnus suggests splitting into teams for some "old school" searching, but is interrupted by alarms signaling an incoming attack. As Starscream and a fleet of Vehicons emerge from the skies, soldiers rush to their jets to prepare a defense. Starscream commands his troops to concentrate their attack on [[Hangar E]] as the military jets open fire. Starscream evades the humans' artillery and lets loose a volley of missiles that hit Hangar E and reduce it to a fiery ruin. He reports to Megatron that the mission has been accomplished, and the Decepticons depart.

[[File:Persuation attack afterman n.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Anyone got any marshmallows?]]

The Autobots watch as soldiers put out the flames amidst the rubble that used to be the mess hall, and Ultra Magnus muses that the Decepticons were fooled by a simple paint job. The actual Hangar E, now repainted to say F, is still in one piece.

Back on the ''Nemesis'', Megatron has Ratchet released to give him a tour of the ship. Ratchet's first instinct is to attack, but he finds himself reluctantly impressed by the Decepticon technology. Megatron uses the opportunity to convince him that Autobots and Decepticons share a common goal in the restoration of Cybertron. Ratchet says that bringing back Cybertron would not stop Megatron's ambitions, which the Decepticon leader doesn't deny, but at least they would have a world worth fighting over. Ratchet asks what assurance he would have that Megatron would leave Earth alone. Megatron simply replies that no assurance is being offered, confident that Ratchet's desire to restore Cybertron will overpower his reservations.

At their base, the Autobots have realized that the piece of Laserbeak which Smokescreen shot off is his transponder. Raf hooks it up to his laptop and says that it's trying to communicate with the Decepticon warship. Jack asks how Raf can understand [[Cybertronian language|Cybertronian code]], and Raf says that Ratchet used to teach him in his free time. Fowler asks if they can triangulate the signal, but Ultra Magnus reminds him it's going to a shielded ship. Arcee notes that if the transponder was still attached to Laserbeak, they could follow it. Wheeljack proposes giving it wings, and he and Raf start putting the idea into action.

Jack sees Fowler staring thoughtfully at the [[Apex Armor (Thirteen)|Apex Armor]] and asks if anything's wrong. Fowler admits he's been thinking of humanity's close calls at the hands of the Decepticons, and that technology like the armor could give their military agents a fighting chance even when the Autobots aren't around to protect them. He also suggests that Jack could be one of those agents himself someday, an idea he's apparently discussed with [[June Darby|Jack's mother]]. Jack isn't thrilled to hear they've been talking about him, but his protest is interrupted by the result of Raf's work: [[Chip]], a small flying device built to house Laserbeak's transponder, which will lead them straight to the Decepticon warship.

Ratchet posits that even if the Omega Lock could be reconstructed, there's no way to scientifically replicate the device's mystical properties. Megatron says they won't know until they try, and shows Ratchet their progress: an almost-completed Omega Lock, attached to the underbelly of the ''Nemesis''. Realizing just how close they really are to being able to restore Cybertron, Ratchet agrees to complete the Synth En formula.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (4)
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] (5)
*[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (6)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (7)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (10)
*[[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] (11)
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (12)

|c2=
*[[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] (2)
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s (3)
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (8)
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (13)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (14)
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] (15)

|c3=
*[[William Fowler]] (9)
*[[Raf Esquivel]] (16)
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (17)
*[[Jack Darby]] (18)
}}

==Quotes==
"This is no place for a one-handed Autobot." 
"I'll take one bum hand over one good eye any day."
:—'''Shockwave''' and '''Ultra Magnus'''

"Collaborate with the barbarian who essentially destroyed our planet in the first place... who sadistically crushed Bumblebee's voice box, while looking him in the eye? No thank you."
:—'''Ratchet'''

"Humans. Always the weak link."
:—'''Starscream'''

"Ratchet didn't think this new hand he built for me was good enough. But I'll tell you what truly isn't good enough: giving up."
:—'''Ultra Magnus'''

'''Ratchet''': Megatron, you would just try to conquer Cybertron all over again, and enslave anyone who refuses to pledge allegiance to you. 
'''Megatron''': Of course I would!

'''Ratchet''': What assurance do I have that you would leave humankind be, and that you wouldn't instantly terminate me once you get what you need? 
'''Megatron''': None whatsoever. After all, we both know that as a Decepticon, any assurances I might offer would be worthless.

"Miko, ''I needed that!''"
:—'''Raf'''

'''Megatron''': It will not take long for this Omega Lock's drives to be fully operational. All that is still needed to restore our home is the cybermatter to launch through it. 
'''Ratchet''': Which requires a stabilized formula for the production of synthetic energon. 
'''Megatron''': I have every confidence in you, doctor. 
'''Ratchet''': I'll do it. But then, you already knew that, didn't you? 

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Megatron persuades Ratchet into completing the synthetic energon formula that he created in "[[Stronger, Faster]]".
* Megatron tearing out Bumblebee's vocoder is again referenced, this time explicitly. It was first detailed in "[[Operation Bumblebee, Part 1]]" and the novel ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]''.
* Soundwave's picture of the children was taken way back in "[[Darkness Rising, Part 5]]".
* Starscream has previously described humans as "the weak link" in "[[Darkness Rising, Part 3]]".
* The Decepticons already destroyed [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|one Autobot base]] in "[[Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour]]".
* Miko obtained the Apex Armor in "[[Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command]]".
* Fowler mentions being stuck in [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out's]] trunk with June Darby, which occurred in "[[Plus One (Prime)|Plus One]]".
* The Decepticons successfully reconstructed the Omega Lock underneath the ''Nemesis''. The previous Lock was first seen in "[[Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration]]", then in "Darkest Hour".
* Raf brings out Ratchet's ever-famous catchphrase throughout the show.

===Transformers references===
* "Chip" the flying drone is a reference to [[Chip Chase]].

===Real-world references===
* Fowler's dazed ramblings about there being "a man on the wing of this plane" refers to the famous ''[[Twilight Zone|The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "{{w|Nightmare at 20,000 Feet}}".
* Chip's kamikaze attack brings Fowler to swear by George Armstrong Custer (specifically his mustache).

===Errors===
* Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus are shown to be the same height when standing behind the hanger after the Decepticon attack. In "[[Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion]]" and every episode since, Optimus has been depicted at least a head and shoulders taller than Ultra Magnus.
* As with [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler's]] jet, the human military jets have [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]/[[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] robot-mode kibble underneath, due to sharing the animation model.

===Trivia===
* Though Predaking named himself in "[[Evolution]]", this episode marks the first instance of him telling it to the Autobots.
* Shockwave mocks Ultra Magnus's bad hand during their fight, even though he likewise only has one functional hand and a permanently affixed cannon.
* This is the first episode to lack a title sequence since "[[Darkness Rising, Part 5]]".
* With this being the last episode in the series to take place in a snowy, cold setting, Optimus [[Scrapheap (episode)|never got Raf a snowball.]]
* Agent Fowler makes a hint at a possibility of Jack becoming an agent of Unit:E, yet another reference to the planned Unit:E Hasbro crossover.

===Foreign localization===

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Persuasão'''" ("Persuasion")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 7|7 December]] [[2013]]

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''L'Otage'''" ("The Hostage")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 22|22 September]] [[2013]]
::*Everyone says "the Laserbeak" in this episode.

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Überzeugungskraft'''" ("Convincibility")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 14|14 October]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Meggyőző erő'''" ("Cogency")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 16|16 September]] [[2013]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Persuasione'''" ("Persuasion")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 6|6 September]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 3: Omega Lock ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 2: Race for Salvation ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Saison 3 Volume 2: L'ultime affrontement (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Staffel 3 Teil 2: Auf zur Rettung (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Intégrale Saison 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Die komplette Staffel 3 (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2016 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Minus One

2026-04-25T17:07:24Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign localization */

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'''The Autobots question a captured enemy for information regarding Megatron's plans.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] explains to [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] that the combination of elements in the [[Living metal#Aligned continuity|cyber-matter]] that was accidentally created in his lab would allow them to [[cyberforming|cyberform]] entire planets. [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] mocks what sounds like another "Shockwave plan", until Shockwave grabs him with an angry reminder about how Starscream recently left him to the mercy of the [[Autobot]]s. Megatron does not object as Shockwave forces Starscream's face closer and closer to a jagged protrusion of cyber-matter. Scrambling for a defense, Starscream notes that his actions made their current situation possible. Shockwave accepts the logic of this and lets Starscream go. Without missing a beat, Megatron asks Shockwave why the cyber-matter appears so chaotic, and the scientist pledges to correct the instability of the elements. Megatron notes that they will require a launch mechanism from which to use the cyber-matter, and declares that they will focus their resources on reconstructing the [[Omega Lock]].

[[File:MinusOne-UltraMagnus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Oh no! My Me Time hand!]]

At the [[Hangar E|Autobot base]], [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] finishes his repair of [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]]' mangled right hand. Due to a lack of equipment and spare parts, the repair consists of an unsightly hook appendage that Ratchet says will be functional, but potentially unfit for battle. [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] tries to assure [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] that Ultra Magnus will overcome this setback. [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] bets that the hook will become Magnus' signature, making a comparison to [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]'s [[voice box]] that the scout doesn't appreciate. Bumblebee buzzes angrily and storms off. [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] explains to [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] and [[Jack Darby|Jack]] that Bumblebee still misses the sound of his old voice. [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] tries to lighten the mood by focusing on the defeat of the [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] cloning project, but [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] reminds them all of [[Predaking (Prime)|the Predacon who recently revealed his abilities in transformation]].

Aboard the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', Megatron tells Predaking that they will soon punish the Autobots for destroying his brethren. Predaking vows that revenge will come, but that Project Predacon was only ever a starting point. He says that if Megatron truly wishes to restore [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], this should include resurrecting the entire Predacon race from the remains that lie there, so that Predaking can lead them against their shared enemies. Megatron regards this request with skepticism.

Shockwave reports that they've salvaged the wreckage of the Omega Lock, but that the damage was severe, and Earth technology will be needed to retrofit its systems. Megatron orders Starscream to acquire whatever materials Shockwave requires.

The next day, [[William Fowler|Fowler]] reports that [[Decepticon]]s stole twenty tons of control rods from a nuclear plant during the night. Optimus wonders gravely what they're attempting to build.

Shockwave reports to Megatron that the [[Synthetic Energon|synthetic energon]] formula provided by [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] is incomplete, resulting in the instability of the cyber-matter. Megatron tells him to complete it quickly, citing the need for enough cyber-matter to restore Cybertron and cyberform [[Earth]]. Shockwave respectfully asks what the logic is in ruling two planets, to which Megatron replies that the two are linked, one [[Unicron]] and the other [[Primus]], and to rule only one would be ruling neither.

Fowler reports another Decepticon theft in progress. Ratchet opens a [[GroundBridge]], but stops Ultra Magnus when he tries to go through, citing the need for further rehabilitation. Optimus says that Ratchet has the final word in medical matters, to which Ultra Magnus reluctantly agrees. Wheeljack watches the exchange with discomfort.

[[File:MinusOne-staredown.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|So, you Autobots about ready to give up yet?]]

The Autobots arrive on the scene and immediately advance on squad of [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s, who are carrying away their spoils. [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] emerges from the sky in alt-form, opening a GroundBridge directly in front of the retreating Vehicons. [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]] is deployed, and Optimus transforms and takes to the air with his [[jet pack]] to engage them both. The Vehicons escape through the bridge, but Optimus' gatling gun is able to bring Soundwave crashing to the ground. Laserbeak escapes, and Optimus contacts Ratchet to let him know they will be returning with a prisoner.

At the Autobot base, Soundwave finds himself secured to a table. Ratchet notes that the base's shielding will prevent the Decepticon from contacting his ship. Wheeljack gleefully says that they have all the time in the world to make Soundwave talk, and Miko wonders if he even does talk.

On the ''Nemesis'', Starscream asks Megatron if he's worried about what the captive Soundwave might say. Megatron states his confidence in Soundwave's ability to withhold information.

[[File:Soundwave Mocks.jpg|thumb|left|I punch those numbers into my calculator and it makes a happy face.|upright=1.4]]
Optimus asks Soundwave why the Decepticons have been stealing human technology. Soundwave mockingly plays back a remix of the question set to music, and punctuates it with a smiley face emoticon on his visor. Optimus threatens a less civil method of interrogation, and Soundwave broadcasts a sonic pulse throughout the room that causes humans and Autobots alike to double over in pain. Ratchet angrily suggests opening Soundwave up to get the information they need, but the Decepticon responds by erasing data directly from his own drives. With a final taunt spoken in his own voice, he says, "Soundwave superior, Autobots inferior." His visor blinks out and he slumps down on the table, off-line. An astonished Ratchet reports that the Decepticon's vital signs are stable, but that he crashed his own drives rather than allow them to be read.

Shockwave locates the only item on Earth with enough raw tonnage to power the rebuilt Omega Lock; a particle collider synchrotron. However, his efforts to complete the synthetic energon formula have met with less success. Megatron recalls that Knock Out obtained the formula from Ratchet, and muses that the simplest solution is to recruit him. Shockwave says that Laserbeak can upload the order to Soundwave after reconnecting with him, but Starscream notes that they don't know the location of the Autobot base. Shockwave recalls that Soundwave kept surveillance records on all the Autobots' human allies, not just the children.

From his car phone, Fowler tells Optimus that he's on his way to a meeting with [[Bryce|General Bryce]] about the recent Decepticon heists, and that he'll be back to the base as soon as possible. Behind the car, Laserbeak follows from the sky.

Megatron orders Predaking to be present at the Decepticons' next objective, as they expect the Autobots will interfere. Predaking says that he looks forward to facing the [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] again. This cavalier attitude enrages Megatron, who screams at the Predacon about their dwindling forces. Predaking merely states that he will have to fight twice as hard.

On his way back to the base, Fowler contacts the Autobots and reports that the Decepticons are attacking the Solaris particle collider project at the South Pole. Optimus readies the Autobots for action. Ratchet attempts to hold Ultra Magnus back again, but Wheeljack declares that the commander is ready. Wearily, Ratchet relents and opens a GroundBridge. Optimus commands Bulkhead and Smokescreen to stay behind and help Ratchet guard Soundwave, then he and the others depart. While the younger Bots comment on the prone Decepticon, Ratchet wonders what Megatron wants with a device powerful enough to open a [[Black hole (phenomenon)|black hole]].

Outside, Fowler parks in front of the base, still followed by Laserbeak.

[[File:MinusOnePredaking.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|''I am the shadow on the moon at night'' ''Filling your dreams to the brim with fright!'']]
It dawns on Ratchet that enough power to swallow a world could also be enough power to create one. He contacts Optimus at the South Pole and relays his suspicion that Megatron plans to rebuild the Omega Lock. He wonders if they should let him, but Optimus knows Megatron will use the Lock to cyberform Earth as well as Cybertron. Disappointed, Ratchet says he understands.

Just then, Predaking strikes from the sky, firing blasts of flame breath that send the Autobots scattering. Optimus returns fire and orders the Autobots to stop the Decepticons from obtaining the collider while he faces the Predacon alone. As the Autobots race to the Solaris building, Optimus draws his gatling gun and engages in an aerial duel with the Predacon. Optimus pours on the firepower, but is unable to keep the beast at bay. With a final, savage swipe of his tail, Predaking sends Optimus crashing down to the ground far below.

Inside the building, the other Autobots find a squad of Vehicons lying in wait for them. As the two groups exchange fire, Shockwave oversees the retrieval of the particle collider in the next room.

At the Autobot base, Smokescreen is trying to convince Ratchet that they'll restore Cybertron somehow when Fowler walks in. He is followed a moment later by Laserbeak crashing through the window. The [[Deployer (WFC)|Deployer]]'s lasers keep the Autobots at bay long enough for him to sever Soundwave's bonds. Smokescreen returns fire, hitting Laserbeak's wing, but is unable to prevent the bird from reuniting with his master. Soundwave springs back to life and effortlessly dispatches Smokescreen, Bulkhead, and Fowler with his tentacles before advancing on Ratchet.

==Featured characters==
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*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (4)
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (5)
*[[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] (6)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (7)
*[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (8)
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (9)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (10)
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] (11)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (1)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (2)
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (3)
*[[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] (15)
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s (17)
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] (18)
*[[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]] (19)

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*[[Raf Esquivel]] (12)
*[[Jack Darby]] (13)
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (14)
*[[William Fowler]] (16)
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==Quotes==
"Master! Are you going to allow one lieutenant to harm another? Master?!" 
"I'm thinking."
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Megatron'''

"I am tempted to force you to share my ''perception'' of things."
:—'''Shockwave''' really hates or really loves having one eye, as he tells Starscream

"Exemplary teamwork."
:—'''Megatron''', after Starscream convinces Shockwave not to share his perspective

"It has taken me quite some time to fully comprehend that Earth and Cybertron have always been linked. Two halves of one whole; Primus and Unicron. And that to rule only one, would be to never truly rule either."
:—'''Megatron'''

''"Soundwave superior. Autobots inferior."''
:—'''Soundwave''' breaks his code just this once

"Can't we throw a tarp over him? He's creeping me out." 
"Yeah, it's like he's watching. No matter where you go."
:—'''Bulkhead''' and '''Smokescreen'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* The [[Omega Lock]] was destroyed by Optimus the last time Megatron tried using it to cyberform Earth, in "[[Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour]]".
* Ultra Magnus's hand was mangled by [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] in the [[Evolution|previous episode]].
* The story of how Bumblebee lost his vocoder was established in "[[Operation Bumblebee, Part 1]]" and the novel ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]''.
* Megatron recalls how the formula for synthetic energon was collected from Ratchet in "[[Stronger, Faster]]".
* Unicron was discovered to be buried within the Earth in "[[One Shall Rise, Part 1]]".
* The Decepticons tried to extract the location of the Autobot base from Fowler in "[[Darkness Rising, Part 3]]".
* Ultra Magnus still wears the back hook for the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] as Optimus used for the [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]], the latter having been made by Ratchet in "[[Alpha/Omega]]".
* Optimus has learned his lesson about letting Laserbeak sneak up behind him as he did in "[[Project Predacon]]".
* In [[Regeneration (Prime)| Regeneration]], [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] stepped in and disposed of [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] when the latter tried to kill [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. Here he simply stands and watches as [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] attempts to impale Starscream for not warning him about the incoming [[Autobots]] in the [[Evolution|previous episode]]. Most likely because he knew Shockwave wasn't actually going to kill Starscream.

===Transformers references===
* Speaking with his own voice for the first time in the entire series, Soundwave paraphrases one of his most famous lines, directly from the [[The Transformers: The Movie|1986 movie]]. He is voiced by his original G1 voice actor, [[Frank Welker]], using the same Dr. Claw-esque tone used for Soundwave's [[Soundwave (ROTF)|live-action counterpart]] in the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|second]] and [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|third]] films. The Soundwave from ''Transformers Animated'' states the same line only backwards, "Autobots inferior, Soundwave superior," in the episode "[[Human Error, Part I]]", and Aligned Soundwave previously uttered it (several times) in the ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (video game)|Fall of Cybertron]]'' video game.
* Bulkhead and Smokescreen's quoted fretting about Soundwave is near identical to [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Professor Sumdac]]'s fretting about the [[Headmaster unit]] in "[[Three's a Crowd (episode)|Three's a Crowd]]" from ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]''.

===Animation and technical errors===
* After the Vehicons get away during the Autobots' first call out, the other Autobots sit motionless in vehicle mode while Optimus engages Soundwave and Laserbeak, only transforming after Soundwave is shot down. What are they doing?
* [[Captain Fanzone's car|Fowler must have a bunch of the same car.]] It was wrecked back in "[[Nemesis Prime (episode)|Nemesis Prime]]", but the one he's seen driving sports the same [[license plate]].
* Smokescreen damages Laserbeak's wing, but the damage disappears once Laserbeak reattaches to Soundwave.

===Trivia===
* Ultra Magnus appears unable to use the blaster in his right arm with his hand destroyed. This is similar to ''Animated'' [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] who could not use his hand if his wrecking ball cable was severed.
* Fowler wields a fire extinguisher against Soundwave, previously Jack's weapon of choice in both "[[Scrapheap (episode)|Scrapheap]]" and "[[Convoy (episode)|Convoy]]".
* The particle collider base has halls high enough to accommodate Transformers.
* Transformers' rear-view mirrors in their vehicle modes function as [[Sensor|optical sensors]]. This has previously been seen in episodes such as "[[Darkness Rising, Part 1]]" and "[[Speed Metal]]".
* This is the last episode of the series to use an [[theme song|opening theme]]; all following episodes only show the show's title and the showrunners' names much like the pilot.
* Despite directly continuing the story from "Evolution", this episode features no recap sequence as the majority of episodes that formed a story arc had. This was no doubt cut to save time for the actual episode itself, due to the serialized plot coming to a close with the end of the series being nigh.
* UK TV guides for this episode incorrectly call Soundwave "Shockwave".

===Foreign localization===

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Menos Um'''" ("Minus One")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 7|7 December]] [[2013]]

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Complot planétaire'''" ("Planetary Conspiracy")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*Starscream says "the Laserbeak". This error will happen again in subsequent episodes.
::*After Optimus said "Understood, agent Fowler", the rest of the phrase still has the telephone voice effect, despite the camera being back in the Autobot base.

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Minus Eins'''" ("Minus One")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 11|11 October]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Mínusz egy'''" ("Minus One")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 13|13 September]] [[2013]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Il più piccolo'''" ("The smallest")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 6|6 September]] [[2013]]

'''Spanish (Spain)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Menos uno'''" ("Minus One")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 27|27 October]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 3: Omega Lock ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 2: Race for Salvation ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Saison 3 Volume 2: L'ultime affrontement (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Staffel 3 Teil 2: Auf zur Rettung (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Intégrale Saison 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Die komplette Staffel 3 (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2016 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Evolution

2026-04-25T17:03:40Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign localization */

{{disambig2|''Transformers Prime'' episode|the 2022 ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' toyline|Transformers: Legacy}}

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|prev=Thirst
|next=Minus One
|image=Evolution Predaking Stand.jpg
|caption="He's so hot! He's so hot! He's so hot!"
|title="Evolution"
|season=3
|season ep=9
|airdate=[[June 28]], [[2013]]
|written by=[[Steven Melching]]
|directed by=[[Shaunt Nigoghossian]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
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'''Predaking reveals his secret, causing the Decepticons to question the wisdom of their cloning project.'''

==Synopsis==
While a storm rages, [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] fly down from the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' to the entrance of a mine. This feeling "[[Rock Bottom|uncomfortably familiar]]" to Starscream, he reluctantly follows Megatron inside and immediately begins playing down his "[[Thirst|latest indiscretion]]". Megatron furiously reminds Starscream that his actions cost them the entire [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]] hive and a great deal of their [[Vehicon (Prime)|regular troops]], prompting Starscream to beg for his life. Megatron sighs wearily and proceeds deeper into the mine, which Starscream finally realizes it's [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]'s off-site laboratory. The lab contains dozens of cloning tanks, each with a [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] floating motionless within. Shockwave reports that the clones have almost fully evolved, and will be combat-ready in three solar cycles.

On Megatron's order, [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] travels down from the ship in a lift while [[Predaking (Prime)|the Predacon]] watches intently. Arriving in the cave, Knock Out presents his [[Synthetic Energon]], which Shockwave states he will examine after the deployment of the Predacon army. They are interrupted by the Predacon, who emerges from the shadows with a roar. Starscream hits it with a pipe, and the beast responds by transforming into [[robot mode]] and threatening some physical violence in return. Starscream and Megatron are both shocked by this, but Shockwave notes that [[transformation]] is a fundamental part of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] biology; they simply had no way of knowing the Predacons ever reached that evolutionary stage before becoming extinct in the [[Great Cataclysm]]. The Predacon stares at his brethren in the tanks and says he will no longer be alone. He apologizes to Megatron for keeping his abilities a secret, claiming he only became aware of them recently. He says he has no memories prior to arriving on Earth, and learned what he was from the databanks of the ''Nemesis''. Megatron tells him he is unique, a miracle of science. The Predacon looks back at the clone tanks and regards them in silence.

At [[Hangar E|their base]], the [[Autobot]]s are chafing under [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus's]] command. He pressures [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] to finish his Synthetic Energon experiments, chides the [[Team Prime|Beast Hunter]]s for taking a breather between scouting missions, and demands to know what the returning [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] was doing outside the base. The Wrecker surprises him by revealing that he's been recalibrating the engines on the ''[[Iron Will]]'' to increase their efficiency. [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] returns from his reconnaissance mission and the Autobots flock to him, happy to turn their attention from Ultra Magnus. Optimus sees this with a note of sadness.
[[File:Evolution-Potentialcoup.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|"So, can I get in on Free Donut Thursdays now?"]]
Aboard the ''Nemesis'', the Predacon pledges his loyalty to Megatron and requests to be put in command of the clone army, taking the name Predaking. Megatron conceals his wariness of the former beast's newfound ambition.

Alone with his command staff, Megatron voices his concern that Predaking and the Predacon army can and will turn on them. The only thing they can do to prevent it is destroy the clones. Shockwave agrees, but Knock Out asks what will happen if Predaking finds out. Starscream, no stranger to treachery, suggests that the Autobots be used to do the deed, and thus draw Predaking's wrath.

Ultra Magnus is watching human soldiers run drills outside the base when Optimus Prime asks what's troubling him. Magnus has finally realized that [[Team Prime]] isn't taking to his command style. Optimus reminds his old friend that they're not the [[Elite Guard]], and have in fact grown into something greater than an army. Before he can say what that is, Ratchet announces that their scanners have located exposed energon. Optimus declares that they must investigate, due to their own short supply.

A squadron of [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] are standing vigil outside an energon mine when Optimus and the [[Wreckers]] appear and order them to surrender. The Vehicons open fire, but are quickly cut down by the Wreckers' forward advance and the [[Stealth Team (Prime)|Stealth Team]] ([[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]], [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], and [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]]) attacking from the rear. Optimus orders the Wreckers to reconnoiter the mine while the Stealth Team transports their energon spoils back to the base. Joined by an eager Smokescreen, the Wreckers investigate the supposed energon mine, growing suspicious about the lack of energon signals or additional security. Ultra Magnus orders them to split up, with he and Wheeljack going in one direction and Smokescreen and Bulkhead in the other.

Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack come across Shockwave's laboratory and the rows of cloning tanks. Shockwave is working at a computer console when he notices them, opening fire briefly before contacting Starscream. Starscream says he didn't reveal that his plan was already in motion, just so that Shockwave's surprised reaction would be genuine. Starscream terminates the link. Knock Out knows exactly why Starscream staged his plan this way, and received a less than subtle confirmation. Shockwave contacts Soundwave to open a [[GroundBridge]]. Before fleeing, Shockwave triggers an electrical surge that travels through the cloning tanks, causing the liquid which keeps the beasts in stasis to drain out.

On the ''Nemesis'', Starscream reports that the Autobots have taken possession of the Predacon clones. Megatron orders him to scramble his seeker armada, but Predaking says that he alone will confront the enemy that threatens his brethren.

Dozens of Predacons begin to stir as the stasis fluids drains from their tanks. Wheeljack notices a cache of synthetic energon in the corner of the room and, with Ultra Magnus's blessing, tosses a grenade at it. The Autobots transform and drive away at high speed, but come to a stop as Predaking, in robot mode, GroundBridges right in front of them much to their surprise. Ultra Magnus, seeing the symbol on Predaking's chest, identifies him. Just then, the laboratory behind them explodes in a massive fireball.

On the surface, Bulkhead and Smokescreen emerge from the mine just as the ground is shaken by the explosion. Optimus Prime stares at the mine with a grave expression.
[[File:EvolutionMagnusWheeljacktogether.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|"Alright, you take the one on the right!" "There ''is'' only one." "There's one for you, and I'll just be odd-Autobot-out!" "You're telling me."]]
Predaking, meanwhile, stares in horror at the charred remains of Shockwave's lab. With a roar, he attacks the two Autobots, his powerful blows sending them flying through the air. Wheeljack mounts a brief and successful counterattack, but Predaking quickly regains the upper hand, until Ultra Magnus lays into him with the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. Magnus and his hammer buy Wheeljack time to recover, and the two Autobots launch a powerful combined attack that ends when they bring a colossal stalactite crashing down on the Predacon. But Predaking merely lifts the stalactite off him and uses it as a weapon to knock Ultra Magnus to the ground and crush Wheeljack against a wall. Magnus reaches for the Forge, but Predaking jumps up and lands on his hand, smashing it underfoot until the Autobot's fingers are nothing but ruined scrap flattened into the ground. Wheeljack laments that he was just starting to tolerate his commander, and Ultra Magnus responds by saying it was an honor to serve with him. Predaking snaps the Forge in half. He makes ready for the killing blow when Optimus Prime flies in and sends the Predacon sprawling. Optimus unleashes his gatling gun on the cave ceiling, raining rubble down on Predaking and allowing him to grab his wounded comrades. Optimus flies them out of the mine with Predaking in close pursuit, and is able to make it through a GroundBridge before a blast of flame makes contact. Predaking roars in rage.

Ultra Magnus comes back online to find himself on Ratchet's operating table while the medic cauterizes the jagged stump of metal that remains of his hand. The other Autobots are gathered around, with Wheeljack musing that Magnus fought like a Wrecker. Ultra Magnus asks Optimus what he was referring to earlier that could be greater than an army. Optimus says that it is a human concept called family.

[[File:Evolution Predaking Anger.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.67|Guess not.]]
On the ''Nemesis'', Starscream and Knock Out can barely stifle their amusement as Megatron promises Predaking that they will make the Autobots pay for what they've done. The lies do little to acquiesce the silently fuming titan, and Megatron keeps a wary eye on him as he continues glaring at his leader. From his lab, Shockwave confirms that the clones are beyond salvaging, but says that there's something in the ruins Megatron must see. Megatron and Starscream GroundBridge down to it and are stunned to find a large quantity of pure [[Living metal#Aligned continuity|cyber-matter]], like that which once existed on ancient Cybertron, and which more recently created the Decepticon [[Darkmount (Earth)|citadel]]. Shockwave theorizes that it was created when the explosion mixed the [[CNA]] of the Predacon clones with Knock Out's synthetic energon.
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==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (6)
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] (7)
*[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (8)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (9)
*[[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] (10)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (11)
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (12)
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (14)
|c2=
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (1)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (2)
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (3)
*[[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (4)
*[[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] (5)
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s (15)
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] (16)
|c3=
*Soldiers (13)
}}

==Quotes==
"Strike me again, and I will bury that rod in your spark."
:—'''Predaking''' speaks his first words

"Your vision... is boundless."
:—'''Megatron''' considers whether his former pet might become a future rival

"The moment our 'Royal Highness' realizes that his army possesses greater might than what currently remains of the Decepticons..." 
"Evolution will give way to revolution."
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Starscream'''

"Blow these beasts back to the [[Age of Rust|Rust Age]]!"
:—'''Ultra Magnus'''

"What have you done to my brethren!? '''WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!'''"
:—'''Predaking'''

"Optimus. When we spoke earlier... what could be greater than an army?" 
"A human concept, one I have learned since coming to Earth: family."
:—'''Ultra Magnus''' and '''Optimus Prime'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Starscream's reluctance to follow Megatron into another abandoned mine calls back to "[[Rock Bottom]]".
* The experiment Starscream apologizes for, which resulted in the loss of the Insecticons, happened in "[[Thirst]]".
* Shockwave's off-site laboratory was first mentioned in "[[Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command]]".
* Knock Out's synthetic energon is derived from Ratchet's formula, which Knock Out obtained in "[[Stronger, Faster]]". He was ordered to turn over his research on the subject to Shockwave in the previous episode.
* Ultra Magnus questions Ratchet on his progress into the synthetic energon formula. Ratchet began working on his own formula again in "[[Project Predacon]]".
* Wheeljack asks Ultra Magnus for permission to employ a grenade in a confined space, a tactic for which he was reprimanded in "[[Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command]]".
* Megatron's citadel Darkmount was created by the [[Omega Lock]] in "[[Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour]]".

===Transformers references===
* Ultra Magnus was one of the [[Elite Guard]] during the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|war for Cybertron]].
* Starscream refers to an evolution that will become a revolution. "[[Evolution Revolution]]" was a teaser [[theme song|theme]] used for ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Machines]]''.
* Wheeljack shows a high mechanical aptitude by increasing the output of Ultra Magnus's ship's engines. [[Wheeljack (G1)|We have yet to see if the engines work as efficiently as he said]].

===Errors===
* Shockwave says that the Predacon clones would have fully "evolved" within a few solar cycles. Given he's simply cloning them, "matured" or "grown" would have been more appropriate. But then again, Shockwave's choice of diction has been odd at times.
* When Optimus smashes Predaking away just before the latter could end Ultra Magnus's life, his jetpack is active and running. As he watches his target slam against the wall, his boosters and jetpack just fold away without the usual set of clicks and clanks.
* Shortly before Magnus hurls Wheeljack into the air with the Forge during the attack in the cave, the sound of his footsteps is horribly out of sync with his actual leg movement.
* Optimus refers to family as a "human concept", despite family being a very common element of Transformers fiction, including [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] and [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]], who were explicitly stated to be twins.

===Trivia===
* We learn that the original Predacons of Cybertron faced a similar apocalyptic wipeout to that of the dinosaurs of Earth, further reinforcing the parallels drawn between the two.
* Like Arcee, Predaking undergoes a dramatic amount of [[size changing]] when transforming, but in reverse. He goes from a colossal monster that Megatron can barely look in the chest to a beefy robot about a head taller than Megatron. This is likely so he can have scenes in [[robot mode]] while inside the ''Nemesis''.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''La Menace Predacon'''" ("The Predacon Menace")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*After the characters using two different translations of "Beast Hunters" in previous episodes, Ultra Magnus uses the English name "Beast Hunters" in this episode.

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Evolution'''" ("Evolution")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 10|10 October]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Evolúció'''" ("Evolution")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 12|12 September]] [[2013]]

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Evolução'''" ("Evolution")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 29|29 November]] [[2013]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Evoluzione'''" ("Evolution")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 6|6 September]] [[2013]]

'''Spanish (Spain)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Evolución'''" ("Evolution")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 26|26 October]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 3: Omega Lock ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 2: Race for Salvation ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Saison 3 Volume 2: L'ultime affrontement (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Staffel 3 Teil 2: Auf zur Rettung (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Intégrale Saison 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Die komplette Staffel 3 (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2016 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

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

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

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{{yearofthe|2026}}
The year '''2026''' (MMXXVI) is the 43rd year of the [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]].

{{see|Transformers timeline}}

==Events==
===Fiction===
====''Legends'' comic====
[[Sixshot (G1)|Greatshot]] reunites with his old friends after being injured in the [[Silvart War]]. {{storylink|LG-EX Greatshot}}

===Non-fiction===
====Deaths====
* [[January 3]] — [[Frédéric Cerdal]]
* [[January 9]] — [[T.K. Carter]]
* [[January 19]] — [[Stefan Gossler]]
* [[January 20]] — [[Kōzō Shioya]]
* [[January 23]] — [[Sal Buscema]]
* [[January 24]] — [[Michel Barbey]]
* [[February 4]] — [[Ricardo Schnetzer]]
* [[February 21]] — [[Raymond Bouchard]]
* [[February 22]] — [[Éric Peter]]
* [[March 9]] — [[Yukie Maeda]]
* [[April 4]] — [[Marcel Guido]]
* [[April 24]] — [[Benoit Rousseau]]
{{--}}

[[Category:Fictional events by year]]

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* '''[[1947]] —''' [[Márcia Gomes]] (Brazilian voice of [[Red Alert (Animated)|Red Alert]]) is born.
* '''[[1958]] —''' [[Zhao Xiaoming]] (Chinese voice of [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]], [[The Fallen]] and [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]) is born.
* '''[[1959]] —''' [[Glenn Morshower]] ([[Sharp|Colonel Sharp]] in ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' and [[Morshower|General Morshower]] in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'') is born.
* '''[[1969]] —''' [[Rory McCann]] (voice of [[Megatron (ES)|Megatron]] in ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|EarthSpark]]'') is born. '''YARP!'''
* '''[[1974]] —''' Italian singer [[Santo Verduci]] (and Italian voice of [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]], [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] and more in the redub of [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation One]]) is born.
* '''[[1981]] —''' [[Douglas Guedes]] (Brazilian voice of [[Dave (BotBots)|Dave]]) is born.
* '''[[1982]] —''' [[Cassiano Ávila]] (Brazilian voice of [[24K-Bit]], [[Fottle Barts]] and [[Sky-Byte (Cyberworld)|Sky-Byte]]) is born.
* '''[[1987]] —''' The ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010]]'' episode "[[The Ultimate Weapon]]" airs in [[Japan]].
* '''[[1990]] —''' [[Ellie Main]] (voice of [[Moonracer (G1)|Moonracer]] in the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'') is born.
* '''1990 —''' [[Miles Luna]] (voice of [[Teletraan I]]/[[Ark (G1)|Arkbot]] and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] in the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]'') is born.
* '''[[1993]] —''' [[Gabby16bit]] (Italian voice of [[Announcer Bot]] in [[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]) is born.
* '''[[1997]] —''' [[Samina König]] (German voice of [[Elena Wallace]]) is born.
* '''[[1998]] —''' ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers]]'' — [[Geneon Universal Entertainment#Beast Wars|There Are 2 Dinobots?'' and ''Resurrected Beast Power'']] are released on VHS in [[Japan]] by [[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]].
* '''[[2002]]''' —The second printing of ''[[Transformers: Generation 1 (Dreamwave)|Transformers: Generation 1]]: [[Prime Directive]]'' [[Prime Directive issue 1|#1]] and the second printing of the [[Prime Directive Preview]], along with the [[Armada Preview]] are released in the [[United States of America|US]] by [[Dreamwave Productions]].
* '''[[2003]] —''' After a nearly four month gap, Takara releases the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Armada (toyline)#Takara Legends of the Microns toyline|Legends of the Microns]]'' product: MC-07 [[Scavenger (Armada)#Toys|Devastor]] and MX-01 [[Sideways (Armada)#Armada|Double Face]].
* '''2003 —''' [[Japan]]ese [[Toys"R"Us]] stores offer the promotional [[Land Military Mini-Con Team#Night|Land Military Night Attack Edition Microns]] ([[Bonecrusher (Armada)#NightAttack|Bomb]], [[Knock Out (Armada)#NightAttack|Crack]], and [[Wreckage (Armada)#NightAttack|Shot]]), one free with the purchase of any ''Legends of the Microns'' product.
* '''[[2006]] —''' The ''[[Beast Wars Reborn]]'' text story, "[[Planetfall (BWR)|Planetfall]]", is published in issue no. 99 of ''[[Figure Ō]]'' magazine in [[Japan]].
* '''2006 —''' The fourth show in the [[Transformers: Kiss Players (radio drama)|''Kiss Players'' radio drama series]] airs in [[Japan]] on the "[[Lyrian]] Moe-tchao" program.
* '''[[2008]] —''' First day of [[BotCon 2008]].
* '''2008 —''' ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (pack-in manga)|Henkei! Henkei!]]'' [[Henkei! Henkei! volume 2|volume 2]] is first published.
* '''2008 —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases ''[[Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (toyline)|Henkei! Henkei! Transformers]]'' D-03 [[Astrotrain (G1)/toys#Henkei! Henkei!|Astrotrain]].
* '''[[2010]] —''' The second wave of TakaraTomy's ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Animated]]'' toyline is released: [[Arcee (Animated)#Toys|Arcee]], [[Blitzwing (Animated)#Toys|Blitzwing]], [[Shockwave (Animated)#Toys|Shockwave]], [[Lugnut (Animated)#Toys|Lugnut]], [[Soundwave (Animated)#Deluxe Class|Soundwave]], and the two-packs of [[Bulkhead (Animated)#Voyager Class|Ironhide]]/Soundwave and Prowl/[[Blitzwing (Animated)#Toys|Blitzwing]].
* '''2010 —''' The ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' episode "[[Sound and Fury (episode)|The Great Sound Wave Operation]]" debuts in [[Japan]].
* '''[[2013]] —''' ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' [[The Gloaming|#16]] and ''[[G.I. Joe/Transformers Volume 3]]'' are released by [[IDW Publishing]].
* '''2013 —''' [[Philip L. Clarke]] (voice of [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]], [[Auggie Cahnay (G1)|Auggie Cahnay]] and others in ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]'') passes away.
* '''[[2015]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' episode "[[W.W.O.D.?]]" premieres in [[Germany]].
* '''[[2016]]''' — The ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' episodes "[[Misdirection]]" and "[[Bumblebee's Night Off]]" premieres in [[France]].
* '''[[2021]] —''' [[TakaraTomy]] releases ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' [[Megatron (BW)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|KD-04 Megatron (Beast)]] and [[Blackarachnia (BW)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|KD-05 Blackarachnia]] and ''[[Studio Series]]'' [[Jazz (G1)/toys#Studio Series|SS-59 Autobot Jazz]], [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Studio Series|SS-60 Hot Rod]] and [[Kup (G1)/toys#Studio Series|SS-61 Kup]], plus ''[[War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Earthrise]]'' [[Runabout (G1)#Generations|ER EX-23 Runabout]] and [[Thrust (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|ER EX-24 Thrust]] and ''Kingdom'' [[Vertebreak (Kingdom)#Toys|KD EX-02 Vertebreak]] are released as [[TakaraTomy Mall]] [[exclusive]]s.
* '''2021 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (cartoon)|Rescue Bots Academy]]'' episodes "[[Enter the Flood]]" and "[[Wizard of Botz]]" premieres in the [[United States]].
* '''[[2023]] —''' First day of the ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (franchise)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], [[Optimus Primal (ROTB)|Optimus Primal]] and [[Mirage (Movie)|Mirage]] World Tour in [[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]].
* '''2023 —''' The ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)|EarthSpark ]]'' episode "[[Hashtag: Oops]]" premieres in [[France]], [[Hungary]] and [[Turkey]].
* '''[[2024]] —''' ''[[Duke (comic)|Duke]]'' [[Duke issue 5|#5]] is released by [[Image Comics]] and [[Skybound Entertainment]].
* '''[[2025]] —''' [[Transformers: Eternal War]] starts its closed Beta in [[Australia]] & [[New Zealand]].
* '''[[2026]] —''' [[Hasbro]] officially reveals the [[Studio Series|Studio Series 86]] [[Blitzwing (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Blitzwing]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Cliffjumper]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)/toys#Studio Series|Cyclonus]].
* '''2026 —''' The last day to have one's shipping address changed for the [[Hasbro Pulse#HasLab|HasLab]] [[Liokaiser_(Victory)#Legacy|Liokaiser]].
* '''2026 —''' [[Benoit Rousseau]] (Canadian French voice of [[Tom Banachek]] and [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]] in the [[live-action film series]]) passes away at the age of 66, due to cancer.

Benoit Rousseau

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[[File:Benoît Rousseau.jpg|180px|thumb]]
'''Benoît Rousseau''' ([[1959]] or [[1960]] - [[April 24]], [[2026]]) was a Canadian actor and voice director specialized in dubbing. He has been the the regular Canadian French voice of Nicolas Cage, [[Dwayne Johnson]], Kevin Bacon, and Tim Robbins, among other actors. He also dubbed Liam Neeson in Episode I of ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]''.

In animation, he is the Canadian French voice of Mr. Burns, Duffman, Kirk Van Houten, and other characters in ''The Simpsons'', Hamm in the ''Toy Story'' saga, Mack in the ''Cars'' saga and Mr. Incredible in ''The Incredibles'' 1 and 2, among numerous other voice roles.

He was also active in videogame dubbing, being the voice of Flynn in the ''Skylanders'' games, and several secondary characters in the ''Assassin's Creed'' franchise.

On April 24, 2026, a few months after interrupting his career to fight cancer, Benoit Rousseau died in the Montreal region, at the age of 66.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
*[[Tom Banachek]]

===''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen''===
*[[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]]

==External links==
*{{w|lang=fr|Benoît Rousseau|Wikipedia entry}} ''(French)''
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0745913/ IMDb entry]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rousseau, Benoit}}
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Benoit Rousseau

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[[File:Benoît Rousseau.jpg|180px|thumb]]
'''Benoît Rousseau''' is a Canadian actor specialized in dubbing. He is the regular Canadian French voice of Nicolas Cage, [[Dwayne Johnson]], Kevin Bacon, and Tim Robbins, among other actors. He also dubbed Liam Neeson in Episode I of ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]''.

In animation, he is the Canadian French voice of Mr. Burns, Duffman, Kirk Van Houten, and other characters in ''The Simpsons'', Hamm in the ''Toy Story'' saga, Mack in the ''Cars'' saga and Mr. Incredible in ''The Incredibles'' 1 and 2, among numerous other voice roles.

He is also active in videogame dubbing, being the voice of Flynn in the ''Skylanders'' games, and several secondary characters in the ''Assassin's Creed'' franchise.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers (2007)''===
*[[Tom Banachek]]

===''Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen''===
*[[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]]

==External Links==
*{{w|lang=fr|Benoît Rousseau|Wikipedia entry}} ''(French)''

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rousseau, Benoit}}
[[Category:French voice actors]]

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{{disambig2|the ''Prime'' episode|the ''Rescue Bots'' episode|Plus One (RB)}}
{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 59
|prev=Chain of Command (Prime)
|next=Thirst
|image=PlusOne-notdating.jpg
|caption=So, you come here often? ''I'm getting so damn tired of that joke''!
|title="Plus One"
|season=3
|season ep=7
|airdate=[[May 31]], [[2013]]
|written by=[[Greg Weisman]]
|directed by=[[Todd Waterman]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-EXrdQ5jJQ
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''While on a mission to gather a Predacon bone, Agent Fowler finds himself in a tight squeeze with June.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:PlusOne-surrounded.jpg|left|thumb|300px|You must be new here if you thought those guys would actually pose a threat.]]
[[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] picks up a signal from [[Scotland]] and [[GroundBridge]]s [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] back to the [[Hangar E|Autobot base]]. [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] asks why he's returned alone, and Wheeljack disdainfully notes that the mission was a failure, and that the rest of his team will be returning via [[Iron Will|Ultra Magnus's ship]]. [[William Fowler|Fowler]] emerges from his office with reports of [[Decepticon]] activity in [[New Mexico]]. With [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime's]] team still in [[Texas]] and the rest of the [[Wreckers]] still en route, that leaves Arcee and Wheeljack to continue the hunt for [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] remains. They bridge to Fowler's coordinates and end up right in the middle of a squadron of [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s. The two Autobots take them out quickly, impressing one another with their skills.

[[June Darby|June]] arrives at the [[Hangar E|Autobot base]] to pick up medical supplies being donated by Fowler, who asks her to call him "William". Raf announces that he's discovered a Predacon talon in a museum, kept in storage because scientists didn't know how to classify it. Fowler volunteers to retrieve the fossil, and invites June to accompany him. She's reluctant at first, but is angered by the hypocrisy in [[Jack Darby|Jack]] forbidding her from endangering herself, and agrees to go.

On the outer hull of the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] praises his [[Predaking (Prime)|new pet]] for successfully retrieving the fossil from Scotland. [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] reports the discovery of another Predacon energy signature, and Megatron orders him to acquire it. [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] arrives to mock Knock Out, but Megatron halts their bickering by telling Starscream to take Knock Out's place on monitor duty. As Megatron and Knock Out return inside the ship, a frustrated Starscream kicks the Predacon's tail. The beast responds with a vicious tail swipe that narrowly misses Starscream and wrecks the ship's communications array.

In a cave in New Mexico, Arcee inquires as to Wheeljack's foul mood. Wheeljack tries to brush off her questions, but Arcee persists, claiming that she knows Wheeljack only pretends to prefer working solo.

Fowler and June emerge from the museum with the Predacon talon in tow, joking about the experience and comparing past relationships. Their bonding is interrupted by the arrival of Knock Out, who renders them unconscious with a beam of light. They awake in the [[Decepticon]]'s trunk moments before he speeds off into the desert, leaving June's cell phone crushed on the ground. Knock Out attempts to request a GroundBridge, but is unable to make contact with the base.

On the ''Nemesis'', Starscream rants about the Predacon disabling their communications network while a couple of Vehicons attempt to repair it. Starscream enters an override code into a nearby computer console to reboot the system, but this only produces a shower of sparks.

Jack is worrying about how long his mother is taking when he receives a call from [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]]. She says that [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] is worried about Wheeljack, and Jack explains that he's on a mission with Arcee. Miko is annoyed that Wheeljack would replace Bulkhead so quickly, but also admits that she expected the two lone wolves to hook up.

June and Fowler bicker within Knock Out's trunk until the Decepticon tells them to stifle themselves. He continues to attempt communication with the ''Nemesis'', and June and Fowler begin devising an escape plan.

While digging in the cave walls, Wheeljack reveals to Arcee that Bulkhead, not [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]], is the source of his current frustration. He feels his onetime partner has gone soft. Arcee tells him that people change and he has to either adapt or rust. She knows [[Tailgate (Prime)|from]] [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|experience]] the pain of losing a partner.

[[File:PlusOne-snatched.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Now kiss!]]

Fowler emerges from Knock Out's trunk and into his vehicle interior, forcing the startled Decepticon to stop at a railroad yard by twisting his steering wheel and slamming on the break. June races from the car with the Predacon talon and Fowler flees in the opposite direction. Knock Out transforms and quickly finds Fowler hiding amongst the freight cars. He grabs Fowler and threatens to kill him if June doesn't reveal herself and the talon.

Jack tries calling his mother and Fowler, but both of their phones go straight to voicemail. Raf innocently suggests they went to a movie.

As he lugs a Predacon spine out of the cave, Wheeljack admits that he was wrong to abandon Bulkhead like he did. Arcee receives a distress call from Jack, who is now in the museum parking lot holding his mother's crushed phone and watching a set of tire tracks lead into the desert.

At the train yard, Knock Out notices a railcar pull away, revealing a defiant June. She tells Knock Out that she hid the fossil in one of the cars, and will only tell him which after he's let Fowler go. Knock Out realizes the fossil is most likely on the departing train car, grabs June, and heads after it.

On the ''Nemesis'', a furious Megatron discovers that communications have been down for hours. No sooner does [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] get the network back online than Knock Out calls again, reporting that he has the Predacon bone in his sights and Wheeljack and Arcee on his tail.

A squad of [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]] are GroundBridged to Knock Out's location and open fire on the pursuing Autobots. Wheeljack and Arcee fight back but continue to move forward. Knock Out reaches the freight car where the bone is hidden and launches himself into the air, transforming to robot mode as he does and letting June and Fowler drop. Below, Wheeljack transforms into robot mode, catches them, and transforms back into vehicle mode with the humans inside. Knock Out snatches the fossil and makes it through the Decepticon GroundBridge before Arcee can catch him.

At the Autobot base, Jack is relieved to see his mother, but less excited that she's taken to calling Fowler "Bill". Miko teases that Jack has also lost his Autobot partner to Wheeljack. But Wheeljack and Bulkhead quickly make up, much to Miko and Jack's delight.

Back at the ''Nemesis'', Megatron congratulates Knock Out and chastises Starscream. While Starscream again blames the Predacon's bestial stupidity, the so-called beast is busy entering Starscream's access code into the computer console from earlier, calling up the ship's information on Predacons.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (3)
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (4)
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (5)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (14)
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] (15)

|c2=
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s (7)
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (9)
*[[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] (10)
*[[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (11)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (12)
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] (16)
*[[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]] (17)

|c3=
*[[Raf Esquivel]] (1)
*[[Jack Darby]] (2)
*[[William Fowler]] (6)
*[[June Darby]] (8)
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (13)

}}

==Quotes==
"I didn't choose 'emergency' as my vehicle mode for laughs."
:—'''Ratchet'''

'''Wheeljack''': Know what I love most about Vehicon troopers? 
'''Arcee''': They're easily distracted.

"I'll have you know, Nurse Darby, I was an [[United States Army|Army Ranger]] and federal agent for [[Unit:E]] three decades before I ever heard the ''name'' 'Optimus Prime'."
:—'''Agent Fowler'''

'''Megatron''': Knock Out, do not return empty-handed. 
'''Knock Out''': Moi? Don't know the meaning of the word. 
'''Starscream''': Isn't "empty-handed" two words? 
'''Knock Out''': You would know. Or did your [[Apex Armor (Thirteen)|missing armor]] turn up?
:—'''Starscream's''' gonna need some ice after that burn.

"I wondered how long it would take for our two lone wolves to hook up."
:—'''Miko''', playing cupid with Arcee and Wheeljack

"Knock Out to Lord Megatron. I have secured one vintage Predacon talon. Plus, two of the Autobots' pets, for you to employ as hostages, lab experiments... well, any way you see fit. So go on, Big M, tell me you love me more than Starscream." 
''[Comm static]'' 
"My liege? Hello?" 
''[More static]'' 
"Too familiar?"
:—'''Knock Out'''

"Frankly, I find it ''repulsive''. The whole ''idea'' of you fleshies...''[[Reproduction|interfacing]]''." ''[Shudders]''
:—'''Knock Out'''

"*sigh* Okay, running from Bulk, shutting down like that, pretty spineless of me." 
"On the bright side, you have plenty of backbone now."
:—Guess what kind of fossil '''Wheeljack''' and '''Arcee''' found

"Bromance trumps romance."
:—'''Jack''' has it figured out

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Optimus Prime's unit went to "[[Texas|oil country]]" in "[[Project Predacon]]".
* Wheeljack ditched his unit, the Decepticons recovered the Predacon fossil, and Starscream lost the Apex Armor in "[[Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command]]".
* Jack traveled to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], much to his mother's discomfort, in "[[Orion Pax, Part 2]]".
* The complex equation Ratchet refers to is more than likely the [[Synthetic Energon|synthetic energon]] formula, which he's been trying to recreate since "Project Predacon".
* Arcee still has the laser weapon she took from Ultra Magnus's arsenal in "[[Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion]]".
* The files accessed by Predaking are the same primitive renditions of Predacons that Ratchet showed to the others in "Project Predacon".
* While bickering, Starscream calls Knock Out a "wheel-bound" something before Megatron cuts him off. He previously showed disdain for Knock Out's choice of alt-mode in "[[Deus ex Machina]]".
* The museum where Fowler and June find the Predacon talon appears to be the same one that housed the [[Energon Harvester]] in "Deus ex Machina".

===Transformers references===
* Megatron refers to his upcoming Predacon army as "[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|beast machine]] super-soldiers".

===Real-world references===
* Fowler references the {{W|Mona Lisa}} and {{W|Warren G. Harding}}, who was [[President of the United States]] when the Predacon talon was excavated in 1922.
* The video game Jack is playing appears to be a knock-off of ''{{w|Galaga}}''. Certainly a step-up from the [[generic racing game]] the kids played before.
**The game also features sounds from the original arcade game, though somewhat confusingly, mostly consists of sounds from {{w|Pac-Man (Atari 2600)|the Atari 2600 port of ''Pac-Man''}}, which was inexplicably ''the'' go-to for game sound effects for a few decades.

===Errors===
* Wheeljack's mouthplate silently opens and retracts when he fights the Vehicons.
* June Darby's car has only one lit headlight when she arrives at the base.
* The communication dish on the flight deck of the ''Nemesis'' didn't exist prior to this episode. In addition, it is initially shown to be on the port side of the vessel, but is on the starboard side (and facing the opposite direction) when Soundwave is working on it.
* Predaking copies Starscream's override code to access the communication array, but he was on the wrong side of the dish to see it when Starscream first used it.
* The locomotive on the train that June hides the talon in is diesel-electric, yet it makes the chuffing noise of a steam locomotive as it pulls out.

===Trivia===
* Vehicons are named for the first time within the series.
* Pepper spray apparently works on [[Sensors#Optical sensors|optic sensors]], just not nearly as long as it does on humans.
* Wheeljack's and Arcee's claim that the Vehicons are easily distracted is more obvious than it first appears, since they have Arcee and Wheeljack trapped yet just stand there while the former slowly tosses the latter into the air. Even after this they seem to pay no attention to the fight, and appear to barely wish to engage in combat, with extremely sluggish attacks and little, if any, return fire.
* Knock Out seems to be extremely adept with human catchphrases and terms, even with those he finds "repulsive". He's also picked up some French.
* It's ridiculously easy for June and Fowler to escape from inside Knock Out. Knock Out is somehow unable to keep them from turning his steering wheel, forcing him to stop by stomping his brake pedal, and opening his doors.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Wrecker un jour, Wrecker toujours'''" ("Wrecker One Day, Wrecker Forever")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*Raf's phrase "I wondered what was taking so long with those sodas" is mistakenly dubbed by "I was wondering why ''he'' was taking so long bringing some sodas". It may also be "why ''they'' were taking so long", but it would imply that Raf knew Miko was with the Autobots, and that he thought that Bulkhead, Magnus and Wheeljack were going for sodas. Anyways, that did not seem to bother the voice actress, the voice director or anyone, even after Miko references those same sodas later in the episode.
::*The "milk run" running gag is replaced by a "piece of cake" running gag. Consequently, Jack's phrase "It's just that... you're lactose intolerent" is dubbed by "It's just that... you always say you're on a diet". The "milk run turned a little sour" is dubbed by "the cake was less tasty than expected".
::*Knock Out's joke "I have a bone to pick with both of you" is also nicely translated with "You know what, lovebirds? ''There's a bone.''", "''Il y a un os''" being an expression meaning "We have a problem".

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Plus Eins'''" ("Plus One")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 8|8 October]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Három már tömeg'''" ("Three's a Crowd")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 10|10 September]] [[2013]]

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Mais Um'''" ("Plus One")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 15|15 November]] [[2013]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Uno in più'''" ("One More")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 6|6 September]] [[2013]]

'''Spanish (Spain)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Más uno'''" ("Plus One")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 16|16 October]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 2: Race for Salvation ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Saison 3 Volume 1: Le règne de Mégatron ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 1: Battle for Darkmount (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Staffel 3 Teil 1: Schlacht um Darkmount (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Intégrale Saison 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Die komplette Staffel 3 (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2016 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Plus One (Prime)

2026-04-24T22:05:17Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign localization */

{{disambig2|the ''Prime'' episode|the ''Rescue Bots'' episode|Plus One (RB)}}
{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 59
|prev=Chain of Command (Prime)
|next=Thirst
|image=PlusOne-notdating.jpg
|caption=So, you come here often? ''I'm getting so damn tired of that joke''!
|title="Plus One"
|season=3
|season ep=7
|airdate=[[May 31]], [[2013]]
|written by=[[Greg Weisman]]
|directed by=[[Todd Waterman]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-EXrdQ5jJQ
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''While on a mission to gather a Predacon bone, Agent Fowler finds himself in a tight squeeze with June.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:PlusOne-surrounded.jpg|left|thumb|300px|You must be new here if you thought those guys would actually pose a threat.]]
[[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] picks up a signal from [[Scotland]] and [[GroundBridge]]s [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] back to the [[Hangar E|Autobot base]]. [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] asks why he's returned alone, and Wheeljack disdainfully notes that the mission was a failure, and that the rest of his team will be returning via [[Iron Will|Ultra Magnus's ship]]. [[William Fowler|Fowler]] emerges from his office with reports of [[Decepticon]] activity in [[New Mexico]]. With [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime's]] team still in [[Texas]] and the rest of the [[Wreckers]] still en route, that leaves Arcee and Wheeljack to continue the hunt for [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] remains. They bridge to Fowler's coordinates and end up right in the middle of a squadron of [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s. The two Autobots take them out quickly, impressing one another with their skills.

[[June Darby|June]] arrives at the [[Hangar E|Autobot base]] to pick up medical supplies being donated by Fowler, who asks her to call him "William". Raf announces that he's discovered a Predacon talon in a museum, kept in storage because scientists didn't know how to classify it. Fowler volunteers to retrieve the fossil, and invites June to accompany him. She's reluctant at first, but is angered by the hypocrisy in [[Jack Darby|Jack]] forbidding her from endangering herself, and agrees to go.

On the outer hull of the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] praises his [[Predaking (Prime)|new pet]] for successfully retrieving the fossil from Scotland. [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] reports the discovery of another Predacon energy signature, and Megatron orders him to acquire it. [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] arrives to mock Knock Out, but Megatron halts their bickering by telling Starscream to take Knock Out's place on monitor duty. As Megatron and Knock Out return inside the ship, a frustrated Starscream kicks the Predacon's tail. The beast responds with a vicious tail swipe that narrowly misses Starscream and wrecks the ship's communications array.

In a cave in New Mexico, Arcee inquires as to Wheeljack's foul mood. Wheeljack tries to brush off her questions, but Arcee persists, claiming that she knows Wheeljack only pretends to prefer working solo.

Fowler and June emerge from the museum with the Predacon talon in tow, joking about the experience and comparing past relationships. Their bonding is interrupted by the arrival of Knock Out, who renders them unconscious with a beam of light. They awake in the [[Decepticon]]'s trunk moments before he speeds off into the desert, leaving June's cell phone crushed on the ground. Knock Out attempts to request a GroundBridge, but is unable to make contact with the base.

On the ''Nemesis'', Starscream rants about the Predacon disabling their communications network while a couple of Vehicons attempt to repair it. Starscream enters an override code into a nearby computer console to reboot the system, but this only produces a shower of sparks.

Jack is worrying about how long his mother is taking when he receives a call from [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]]. She says that [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] is worried about Wheeljack, and Jack explains that he's on a mission with Arcee. Miko is annoyed that Wheeljack would replace Bulkhead so quickly, but also admits that she expected the two lone wolves to hook up.

June and Fowler bicker within Knock Out's trunk until the Decepticon tells them to stifle themselves. He continues to attempt communication with the ''Nemesis'', and June and Fowler begin devising an escape plan.

While digging in the cave walls, Wheeljack reveals to Arcee that Bulkhead, not [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]], is the source of his current frustration. He feels his onetime partner has gone soft. Arcee tells him that people change and he has to either adapt or rust. She knows [[Tailgate (Prime)|from]] [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|experience]] the pain of losing a partner.

[[File:PlusOne-snatched.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Now kiss!]]

Fowler emerges from Knock Out's trunk and into his vehicle interior, forcing the startled Decepticon to stop at a railroad yard by twisting his steering wheel and slamming on the break. June races from the car with the Predacon talon and Fowler flees in the opposite direction. Knock Out transforms and quickly finds Fowler hiding amongst the freight cars. He grabs Fowler and threatens to kill him if June doesn't reveal herself and the talon.

Jack tries calling his mother and Fowler, but both of their phones go straight to voicemail. Raf innocently suggests they went to a movie.

As he lugs a Predacon spine out of the cave, Wheeljack admits that he was wrong to abandon Bulkhead like he did. Arcee receives a distress call from Jack, who is now in the museum parking lot holding his mother's crushed phone and watching a set of tire tracks lead into the desert.

At the train yard, Knock Out notices a railcar pull away, revealing a defiant June. She tells Knock Out that she hid the fossil in one of the cars, and will only tell him which after he's let Fowler go. Knock Out realizes the fossil is most likely on the departing train car, grabs June, and heads after it.

On the ''Nemesis'', a furious Megatron discovers that communications have been down for hours. No sooner does [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] get the network back online than Knock Out calls again, reporting that he has the Predacon bone in his sights and Wheeljack and Arcee on his tail.

A squad of [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]] are GroundBridged to Knock Out's location and open fire on the pursuing Autobots. Wheeljack and Arcee fight back but continue to move forward. Knock Out reaches the freight car where the bone is hidden and launches himself into the air, transforming to robot mode as he does and letting June and Fowler drop. Below, Wheeljack transforms into robot mode, catches them, and transforms back into vehicle mode with the humans inside. Knock Out snatches the fossil and makes it through the Decepticon GroundBridge before Arcee can catch him.

At the Autobot base, Jack is relieved to see his mother, but less excited that she's taken to calling Fowler "Bill". Miko teases that Jack has also lost his Autobot partner to Wheeljack. But Wheeljack and Bulkhead quickly make up, much to Miko and Jack's delight.

Back at the ''Nemesis'', Megatron congratulates Knock Out and chastises Starscream. While Starscream again blames the Predacon's bestial stupidity, the so-called beast is busy entering Starscream's access code into the computer console from earlier, calling up the ship's information on Predacons.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (3)
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (4)
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (5)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (14)
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] (15)

|c2=
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s (7)
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (9)
*[[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] (10)
*[[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (11)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (12)
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] (16)
*[[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]] (17)

|c3=
*[[Raf Esquivel]] (1)
*[[Jack Darby]] (2)
*[[William Fowler]] (6)
*[[June Darby]] (8)
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (13)

}}

==Quotes==
"I didn't choose 'emergency' as my vehicle mode for laughs."
:—'''Ratchet'''

'''Wheeljack''': Know what I love most about Vehicon troopers? 
'''Arcee''': They're easily distracted.

"I'll have you know, Nurse Darby, I was an [[United States Army|Army Ranger]] and federal agent for [[Unit:E]] three decades before I ever heard the ''name'' 'Optimus Prime'."
:—'''Agent Fowler'''

'''Megatron''': Knock Out, do not return empty-handed. 
'''Knock Out''': Moi? Don't know the meaning of the word. 
'''Starscream''': Isn't "empty-handed" two words? 
'''Knock Out''': You would know. Or did your [[Apex Armor (Thirteen)|missing armor]] turn up?
:—'''Starscream's''' gonna need some ice after that burn.

"I wondered how long it would take for our two lone wolves to hook up."
:—'''Miko''', playing cupid with Arcee and Wheeljack

"Knock Out to Lord Megatron. I have secured one vintage Predacon talon. Plus, two of the Autobots' pets, for you to employ as hostages, lab experiments... well, any way you see fit. So go on, Big M, tell me you love me more than Starscream." 
''[Comm static]'' 
"My liege? Hello?" 
''[More static]'' 
"Too familiar?"
:—'''Knock Out'''

"Frankly, I find it ''repulsive''. The whole ''idea'' of you fleshies...''[[Reproduction|interfacing]]''." ''[Shudders]''
:—'''Knock Out'''

"*sigh* Okay, running from Bulk, shutting down like that, pretty spineless of me." 
"On the bright side, you have plenty of backbone now."
:—Guess what kind of fossil '''Wheeljack''' and '''Arcee''' found

"Bromance trumps romance."
:—'''Jack''' has it figured out

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Optimus Prime's unit went to "[[Texas|oil country]]" in "[[Project Predacon]]".
* Wheeljack ditched his unit, the Decepticons recovered the Predacon fossil, and Starscream lost the Apex Armor in "[[Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command]]".
* Jack traveled to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], much to his mother's discomfort, in "[[Orion Pax, Part 2]]".
* The complex equation Ratchet refers to is more than likely the [[Synthetic Energon|synthetic energon]] formula, which he's been trying to recreate since "Project Predacon".
* Arcee still has the laser weapon she took from Ultra Magnus's arsenal in "[[Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion]]".
* The files accessed by Predaking are the same primitive renditions of Predacons that Ratchet showed to the others in "Project Predacon".
* While bickering, Starscream calls Knock Out a "wheel-bound" something before Megatron cuts him off. He previously showed disdain for Knock Out's choice of alt-mode in "[[Deus ex Machina]]".
* The museum where Fowler and June find the Predacon talon appears to be the same one that housed the [[Energon Harvester]] in "Deus ex Machina".

===Transformers references===
* Megatron refers to his upcoming Predacon army as "[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|beast machine]] super-soldiers".

===Real-world references===
* Fowler references the {{W|Mona Lisa}} and {{W|Warren G. Harding}}, who was [[President of the United States]] when the Predacon talon was excavated in 1922.
* The video game Jack is playing appears to be a knock-off of ''{{w|Galaga}}''. Certainly a step-up from the [[generic racing game]] the kids played before.
**The game also features sounds from the original arcade game, though somewhat confusingly, mostly consists of sounds from {{w|Pac-Man (Atari 2600)|the Atari 2600 port of ''Pac-Man''}}, which was inexplicably ''the'' go-to for game sound effects for a few decades.

===Errors===
* Wheeljack's mouthplate silently opens and retracts when he fights the Vehicons.
* June Darby's car has only one lit headlight when she arrives at the base.
* The communication dish on the flight deck of the ''Nemesis'' didn't exist prior to this episode. In addition, it is initially shown to be on the port side of the vessel, but is on the starboard side (and facing the opposite direction) when Soundwave is working on it.
* Predaking copies Starscream's override code to access the communication array, but he was on the wrong side of the dish to see it when Starscream first used it.
* The locomotive on the train that June hides the talon in is diesel-electric, yet it makes the chuffing noise of a steam locomotive as it pulls out.

===Trivia===
* Vehicons are named for the first time within the series.
* Pepper spray apparently works on [[Sensors#Optical sensors|optic sensors]], just not nearly as long as it does on humans.
* Wheeljack's and Arcee's claim that the Vehicons are easily distracted is more obvious than it first appears, since they have Arcee and Wheeljack trapped yet just stand there while the former slowly tosses the latter into the air. Even after this they seem to pay no attention to the fight, and appear to barely wish to engage in combat, with extremely sluggish attacks and little, if any, return fire.
* Knock Out seems to be extremely adept with human catchphrases and terms, even with those he finds "repulsive". He's also picked up some French.
* It's ridiculously easy for June and Fowler to escape from inside Knock Out. Knock Out is somehow unable to keep them from turning his steering wheel, forcing him to stop by stomping his brake pedal, and opening his doors.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Wrecker un jour, Wrecker toujours'''" ("Wrecker One Day, Wrecker Forever")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*Raf's phrase "I wondered what was taking so long with those sodas" is mistakenly dubbed by "I was wondering why ''he'' was taking to long bringing some sodas". It may also be "why ''they'' were taking so long", but it would imply that Raf knew Miko was with the Autobots, and that he thought that Bulkhead, Magnus and Wheeljack were going for sodas. Anyways, that did not seem to bother the voice actress, the voice director or anyone, even after Miko references those same sodas later in the episode.
::*The "milk run" running gag is replaced by a "piece of cake" running gag. Consequently, Jack's phrase "It's just that... you're lactose intolerent" is dubbed by "It's just that... you always say you're on a diet". The "milk run turned a little sour" is dubbed by "the cake was less tasty than expected".
::*Knock Out's joke "I have a bone to pick with both of you" is also nicely translated with "You know what, lovebirds? ''There's a bone.''", "''Il y a un os''" being an expression meaning "We have a problem".

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Plus Eins'''" ("Plus One")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 8|8 October]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Három már tömeg'''" ("Three's a Crowd")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 10|10 September]] [[2013]]

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Mais Um'''" ("Plus One")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 15|15 November]] [[2013]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Uno in più'''" ("One More")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 6|6 September]] [[2013]]

'''Spanish (Spain)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Más uno'''" ("Plus One")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 16|16 October]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 2: Race for Salvation ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Saison 3 Volume 1: Le règne de Mégatron ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 1: Battle for Darkmount (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Staffel 3 Teil 1: Schlacht um Darkmount (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Intégrale Saison 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Die komplette Staffel 3 (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2016 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Chain of Command (Prime)

2026-04-24T21:51:48Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign localization */

{{disambig2|the ''Prime'' episode|the ''Beast Wars'' episode|Chain of Command (BW)}}
{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 58
|prev=Project Predacon
|next=Plus One (Prime)
|image=ChainOfCommand Miko clobbering time.jpg
|caption=And now every Decepticon in range soils himself with fear.
|title="Chain of Command"
|season=3
|season ep=6
|airdate=[[May 24]], [[2013]]
|written by=[[Mairghread Scott]]
|directed by=[[Vinton Heuck]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko3Vk5BlFyA
|videosite=YouTube}}

'''Tension builds between Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack as their team faces the return of the Predacon.'''

==Synopsis==
Somewhere in the Arctic, the [[Predaking (Prime)|Predacon]] remains frozen solid in ice as the sun rises. Power cells in its body activate, causing the ice to start melting and then crack, until the beast is able to break free completely. The creature roars and flies away.

[[File:ChainOfCommand Predacon come home.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"Shockwave, remind me to thank the humans for global warming."]]
Aboard the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] questions the wisdom of allowing [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] to create his cloned [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] army in such confined quarters. Shockwave reveals that an off-site laboratory has been constructed for this purpose. The warship is rocked by a sudden impact, which turns out to be the Predacon landing on the upper hull. Shockwave notes that Predacons have precise homing instincts, but [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] is more impressed by the beast's resilience. He orders Starscream to assume command of it, leaving his terrified first officer alone out on the hull with the Predacon.

In [[Scotland]], the ''[[Iron Will]]'' lands on a bluff atop a suspected [[Decepticon]] excavation site. The [[Wreckers]] emerge, and [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] immediately bolts forward and starts climbing down the cliff to investigate, much to [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Magnus]]'s chagrin. [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] tries to advise caution, but Wheeljack pays no heed. They spot a lone [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]] emerging from a cave below, who Wheeljack dispatches with little difficulty. He looks back up to give Ultra Magnus a mocking salute, when an entire squad of Vehicons emerge from the cave and attack. The three [[Autobot]]s make short work of the Decepticons. After the battle, Wheeljack hears a knocking sound coming from inside his chest. Suddenly remembering he has a passenger, he lets [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] out, and she begins gasping for air.

[[File:ChainOfCommand stowaway.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|You wouldn't believe it, there's, like, three other passed-out kids in here!]]
Back at the ''Nemesis'', Starscream tries unsuccessfully to get the Predacon into a cage. He prompts the beast with an [[Energon prod]], and the Predacon responds with a blast of flame from its mouth that singes Starscream's crest.

Ultra Magnus demands to know why a human was brought on the mission. Wheeljack cites Miko's accomplishments and states that she's an official Wrecker as far as he's concerned. Bulkhead tries to defuse the situation by turning Magnus's attention to the now-unguarded cave entrance.

Now having donned the indestructible [[Apex Armor (Thirteen)|Apex Armor]], Starscream tries again to make the Predacon heed his commands. The dragon grasps Starscream's arm in its jaws and shakes him around like a rag doll for a bit before flinging him the length of the room. The "training" is interrupted by Megatron, who orders Starscream to take the Predacon and see why one of the excavation teams has failed to report in.

While the Wreckers explore the cave, Bulkhead tries to keep everyone's spirits up, but Wheeljack, chafing under Ultra Magnus's leadership, is having none of it. He tells Bulkhead he was smart to leave the Wreckers when he did, "before the rust set in". Confused, Miko says she thought Wheeljack was the one who left the Wreckers. Bulkhead says he left first, to join up with [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], and thinks a part of Wheeljack resents him for it. Miko says that you never want to be the one who breaks up the band.

The rock walls suddenly starts to shake as the Predacon bursts in, prompting the Autobots to transform and drive deeper into the cave. The Predacon pursues, firing blasts of flame from his mouth, until he encounters a passage too narrow to get through. The Autobots are now trapped in a small enclosure and unable to get a comm link signal so far underground. Bulkhead notices a small opening in the rock above them and tells Miko to climb up the cave wall to freedom. She's reluctant to leave them until Ultra Magnus tasks her with the mission of reaching the ''Iron Will'' and contacting Optimus Prime. The Autobots draw their weapons and prepare for the Predacon to inevitably break through to their location.

[[File:ChainOfCommand Magnus forges a head.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|You want me to put the hammer down?!]]
Miko makes it to surface and rushes over to the ''Iron Will'', only to find that Starscream and a couple of Vehicons have gotten there first. Starscream brags to his soldiers about how he tamed the Predacon, which is stifled by one of the Vehicons pointing out that he's still wearing the Apex Armor protect himself from it. Buying into his own press, Starscream retracts the armor and lays the condensed relic on a rock.

The Predacon finally makes it through to the Wreckers' location and attacks. Ultra Magnus lands a few powerful hits with the depowered [[Forge of Solus Prime]], but the Predacon takes him and Bulkhead out with a wave of its tail. Wheeljack waits for the Predacon to attempt another flame blast and tosses a grenade at the beast's open mouth, but the Predacon bats it away with its tail. The explosive device hits the ground and rolls to a rest mere feet from Bulkhead and Ultra Magnus.

Topside, Starscream and the Vehicons are startled by the explosion, which rips a hole in the ground in front of them. While they investigate, Miko makes a run for the ''Iron Will'', but does not escape Starscream's notice.

In the cave, the Predacon bursts free from the rubble caused by the explosion, none the worse for wear. It notices a Predacon fossil lying on the ground, and seeing it brings back a memory of another time and place...

Starscream swipes at Miko, but she's able to avoid him long enough to reach the Apex Armor. Landing on the relic triggers it, and a smaller version of the armor envelops Miko. Before she can put it to use, the Predacon appears, dropping the fossil at Starscream's feet. Miko attempts to flee, but the Predacon pounces on her.

The Autobots emerge from the rubble below, and Ultra Magnus takes Wheeljack to task for deploying a grenade in an enclosed space. Bulkhead, more concerned with Miko's safety than continuing to play peacemaker, rushes out of the cave to find her.

[[File:ChainOfCommand unhappy Wheeljack.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Wheeljack sees what you did there.]]
Starscream watches with amusement as the Predacon hammers Miko and the armor with blasts of flame. Megatron contacts Starscream, who gleefully provides a status report. Megatron orders the immediate return of the beast and the Predacon fossil and tells Starscream he can stay behind to finish the Autobots. Starscream briefly wonders how he'll get the Predacon to follow this order, but the Predacon answers the question by knocking him down, grabbing the fossil in its teeth, and flying away. Indignant, Starscream walks over to the scorched crater where Miko lies to retrieve his armor. But Miko springs to life and tosses Starscream away with ease. Miko continues pounding the Decepticons as the Autobots rush onto the scene. Ultra Magnus admits that Wheeljack may have been right about her. Seeing the odds are only getting worse, Starscream orders the Vehicons to retreat, and the three of them transform and fly away. Wheeljack commends Miko and says he wants to remember the Wreckers just as they are right now, "before the rust sets in" once again. With that, he transforms and drives away. Bulkhead sadly notes that Wheeljack just broke up the band.
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==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] (6)
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (7)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (8)

|c2=
*[[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] (1)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (2)
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (3)
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (4)
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s (5)

|c3=
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (9)

}}

==Quotes==
'''Ultra Magnus''': Does Wheeljack not comprehend the chain of command? I didn't authorize him to advance without proper cover. 
'''Bulkhead''': I'm sure Jackie's just trying to prove himself now that you and he are serving together again, sir. 
''[Wheeljack gleefully leaps off a cliff]'' 
'''Wheeljack''': Yee-HAH!

"Wrecker Fact #17?" 
"'Guards never look up'."
:—A trope-savvy '''Wheeljack''' and '''Bulkhead'''

'''Ultra Magnus''': And what could have possibly compelled you to bring the native? 
''[Wheeljack thinks back to just before they left the Autobot base]'' 
'''Miko''': Yo. Can I come with? 
'''Wheeljack''': Why not?

"Are your circuits impaired, soldier?" 
"Prime told you to lead the Wreckers on this one. I assumed he meant all of them."
:—'''Ultra Magnus''' and '''Wheeljack''' argue over Miko's Wrecker status.

"''Tsk tsk tsk tsk.'' Even the strongest armor can't protect the weakest of creatures." 
"It protected ''you'', didn't it?"
:—'''Starscream''' gets burned by '''Miko'''

"You ''do'' know that I vanquished [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]], don't you?" 
"Big whoop. I snuffed [[Hardshell]]."
:—'''Starscream''' finally gets his "I killed Cliffjumper" boast shut down by '''Miko'''.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Predaking was GroundBridged to the Arctic by [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] in "[[Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion]]".
* Ultra Magnus was ordered to lead the Wreckers to Scotland in "[[Project Predacon]]", and picked up the Forge of Solus Prime in the same episode.
* The Apex Armor was recovered by [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] in "[[Darkmount, NV]]".
* Starscream continues to get as much mileage as he possibly can out of killing Cliffjumper in "[[Darkness Rising, Part 1]]". Thankfully, this is the last time in the series he brings it up.
* Miko killed Hardshell and was inducted into the Wreckers by Wheeljack in "[[Hurt]]".
* Miko is thankful that she did not throw up on Wheeljack's upholstery, as she did with Bulkhead while hiding in his chest compartment in "[[Darkness Rising, Part 4]]".
* Ultra Magnus uses the same type of back hook for the Forge of Solus Prime as Optimus used for the [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]], the latter having been made by Ratchet in "[[Alpha/Omega]]".
* The Predacon seen by Predaking during his brief memory sequence appears to be [[Skystalker (Prime)|Skystalker]], or another with his [[body-type]].
* Starscream learned Miko's name in "[[Rock Bottom]]".
* Wheeljack recites the first half of the Wrecker motto, "Wreckers don't call for back-up", which was used in "[[Loose Cannons]]". Bulkhead opts not to finish the saying, still trying to keep the peace between him and Ultra Magnus.
* This episode appears to occur concurrently with the [[Project Predacon|previous one]]. Though the Wreckers appear to finish with their mission first.

===Transformers references===
* Bulkhead left the Wreckers to join up with Optimus at the Battle of [[Thunderhead Pass]].

===Real-world references===
* Miko's rather haphazard fighting "style" takes some cues from professional wrestling, with numerous drop-kicks and flying tackles, and video games, including what looks to be a "[[Ryu|Shoryuken]]" leaping uppercut from ''Street Fighter II''.

===Errors===
* Before Shockwave says "...but there appears to be an enormous mass upon the upper hull", Starscream's left leg is slightly transparent.
* When Predaking denied Starscream's order to move, a part of his head moved through his neck.
* The two large rocks outside Ultra Magnus's ship shift position several times (or the ship does). When Ultra Magnus lands, the forward landing strut is between the two rocks. After they exit the ship, the rock which Starscream places the Apex Armor on later has moved to the opposite side of the landing strut. During a later establishing shot, both rocks have moved a considerable distance back, only to return to their previous position once Miko reaches the surface.
* As Predaking swings Starscream around while in the Apex Armor, the latter's headspike clips through the armor.
* Miko lands on the front side of the Apex Armor, which then forms a shell around her, but it's somehow managed to flip itself into the proper position during Starscream's reaction shot.
* Starscream retains his arm-mounted missile right after firing it at Miko. It disappears when he boasts about killing [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]], only to appear once more as he flees. He must keep them in [[subspace storage pocket|subspace]].
* Although the Predacon fossil is seemingly an optic, everyone refers to it as a bone.
* The ''Iron Will'' appears to gain a third landing strut closer to the bow in this episode. Previously it only had two towards the stern.

===Trivia===
* Since time is of the essence in retrieving Predacon bone fragments, Ultra Magnus taking the ''Iron Will'' instead of using the GroundBridge seems like a rather significant tactical error for someone so insistent on proper protocol and preparation. Wheeljack alludes to this in the next episode.
* Wheeljack has a chest compartment like Bulkhead does, allowing him to store a human there in [[robot mode]].
* Made official this episode, the number of [[Verity Carlo|human Wreckers]] in the Transformers franchise increases by 100%.
* Ultra Magnus's [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] model has been modified to fit the Forge of Solus Prime where the trailer hitch would be, and unsurprisingly, bears a large resemblance to Optimus' initial vehicle mode.
* The Predacon fossil uncovered by Predaking is far more mechanical than the bone-like pieces found in prior episodes, appearing to be an intact [[Sensors#Optical sensors|optical sensor]].
* The Apex Armour adjusts its size to fit whoever activates it, including humans. Another "[[Phase shifter|intuitive]]" relic.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Predator'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*The French title is, of course, a reference to the {{w|Predator (film)|eponymous film franchise}}.
::*For some reason, Starscream uses the formal "vous" with Shockwave in this episode. It may be to be ironic or overdramatic, but if it works with his first phrase, it doesn't really fit with the second.
::*Starscream's "How did it find us?" is mistakenly dubbed by "How did they find us?" (the "they" used here being plural only in French).
::*If they were called "Chasseurs d'animaux" ("Animal hunters") by Optimus Prime in previous episode, this time Ultra Magnus and Bulkhead refer to themselves as "Chasseurs de bestiaux" ("Cattle hunters"), which sounds a little more familiar and less serious.

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Befehlskette'''" ("Chain of Command")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 7|7 October]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Ranglista'''" ("Chain of Command")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 9|9 September]] [[2013]]

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Cadeia de Comando'''" ("Chain of Command")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 4|4 November]] [[2013]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Gerarchia'''" ("Hierarchy")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 6|6 September]] [[2013]]

'''Spanish (Spain)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Cambio de comando'''" ("Chain of Command")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 15|15 October]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 2: Race for Salvation ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Saison 3 Volume 1: Le règne de Mégatron ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 1: Battle for Darkmount (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Staffel 3 Teil 1: Schlacht um Darkmount (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Intégrale Saison 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Die komplette Staffel 3 (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2016 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Chain of Command (Prime)

2026-04-24T21:49:34Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign localization */

{{disambig2|the ''Prime'' episode|the ''Beast Wars'' episode|Chain of Command (BW)}}
{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 58
|prev=Project Predacon
|next=Plus One (Prime)
|image=ChainOfCommand Miko clobbering time.jpg
|caption=And now every Decepticon in range soils himself with fear.
|title="Chain of Command"
|season=3
|season ep=6
|airdate=[[May 24]], [[2013]]
|written by=[[Mairghread Scott]]
|directed by=[[Vinton Heuck]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko3Vk5BlFyA
|videosite=YouTube}}

'''Tension builds between Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack as their team faces the return of the Predacon.'''

==Synopsis==
Somewhere in the Arctic, the [[Predaking (Prime)|Predacon]] remains frozen solid in ice as the sun rises. Power cells in its body activate, causing the ice to start melting and then crack, until the beast is able to break free completely. The creature roars and flies away.

[[File:ChainOfCommand Predacon come home.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"Shockwave, remind me to thank the humans for global warming."]]
Aboard the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] questions the wisdom of allowing [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] to create his cloned [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] army in such confined quarters. Shockwave reveals that an off-site laboratory has been constructed for this purpose. The warship is rocked by a sudden impact, which turns out to be the Predacon landing on the upper hull. Shockwave notes that Predacons have precise homing instincts, but [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] is more impressed by the beast's resilience. He orders Starscream to assume command of it, leaving his terrified first officer alone out on the hull with the Predacon.

In [[Scotland]], the ''[[Iron Will]]'' lands on a bluff atop a suspected [[Decepticon]] excavation site. The [[Wreckers]] emerge, and [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] immediately bolts forward and starts climbing down the cliff to investigate, much to [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Magnus]]'s chagrin. [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] tries to advise caution, but Wheeljack pays no heed. They spot a lone [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]] emerging from a cave below, who Wheeljack dispatches with little difficulty. He looks back up to give Ultra Magnus a mocking salute, when an entire squad of Vehicons emerge from the cave and attack. The three [[Autobot]]s make short work of the Decepticons. After the battle, Wheeljack hears a knocking sound coming from inside his chest. Suddenly remembering he has a passenger, he lets [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] out, and she begins gasping for air.

[[File:ChainOfCommand stowaway.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|You wouldn't believe it, there's, like, three other passed-out kids in here!]]
Back at the ''Nemesis'', Starscream tries unsuccessfully to get the Predacon into a cage. He prompts the beast with an [[Energon prod]], and the Predacon responds with a blast of flame from its mouth that singes Starscream's crest.

Ultra Magnus demands to know why a human was brought on the mission. Wheeljack cites Miko's accomplishments and states that she's an official Wrecker as far as he's concerned. Bulkhead tries to defuse the situation by turning Magnus's attention to the now-unguarded cave entrance.

Now having donned the indestructible [[Apex Armor (Thirteen)|Apex Armor]], Starscream tries again to make the Predacon heed his commands. The dragon grasps Starscream's arm in its jaws and shakes him around like a rag doll for a bit before flinging him the length of the room. The "training" is interrupted by Megatron, who orders Starscream to take the Predacon and see why one of the excavation teams has failed to report in.

While the Wreckers explore the cave, Bulkhead tries to keep everyone's spirits up, but Wheeljack, chafing under Ultra Magnus's leadership, is having none of it. He tells Bulkhead he was smart to leave the Wreckers when he did, "before the rust set in". Confused, Miko says she thought Wheeljack was the one who left the Wreckers. Bulkhead says he left first, to join up with [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], and thinks a part of Wheeljack resents him for it. Miko says that you never want to be the one who breaks up the band.

The rock walls suddenly starts to shake as the Predacon bursts in, prompting the Autobots to transform and drive deeper into the cave. The Predacon pursues, firing blasts of flame from his mouth, until he encounters a passage too narrow to get through. The Autobots are now trapped in a small enclosure and unable to get a comm link signal so far underground. Bulkhead notices a small opening in the rock above them and tells Miko to climb up the cave wall to freedom. She's reluctant to leave them until Ultra Magnus tasks her with the mission of reaching the ''Iron Will'' and contacting Optimus Prime. The Autobots draw their weapons and prepare for the Predacon to inevitably break through to their location.

[[File:ChainOfCommand Magnus forges a head.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|You want me to put the hammer down?!]]
Miko makes it to surface and rushes over to the ''Iron Will'', only to find that Starscream and a couple of Vehicons have gotten there first. Starscream brags to his soldiers about how he tamed the Predacon, which is stifled by one of the Vehicons pointing out that he's still wearing the Apex Armor protect himself from it. Buying into his own press, Starscream retracts the armor and lays the condensed relic on a rock.

The Predacon finally makes it through to the Wreckers' location and attacks. Ultra Magnus lands a few powerful hits with the depowered [[Forge of Solus Prime]], but the Predacon takes him and Bulkhead out with a wave of its tail. Wheeljack waits for the Predacon to attempt another flame blast and tosses a grenade at the beast's open mouth, but the Predacon bats it away with its tail. The explosive device hits the ground and rolls to a rest mere feet from Bulkhead and Ultra Magnus.

Topside, Starscream and the Vehicons are startled by the explosion, which rips a hole in the ground in front of them. While they investigate, Miko makes a run for the ''Iron Will'', but does not escape Starscream's notice.

In the cave, the Predacon bursts free from the rubble caused by the explosion, none the worse for wear. It notices a Predacon fossil lying on the ground, and seeing it brings back a memory of another time and place...

Starscream swipes at Miko, but she's able to avoid him long enough to reach the Apex Armor. Landing on the relic triggers it, and a smaller version of the armor envelops Miko. Before she can put it to use, the Predacon appears, dropping the fossil at Starscream's feet. Miko attempts to flee, but the Predacon pounces on her.

The Autobots emerge from the rubble below, and Ultra Magnus takes Wheeljack to task for deploying a grenade in an enclosed space. Bulkhead, more concerned with Miko's safety than continuing to play peacemaker, rushes out of the cave to find her.

[[File:ChainOfCommand unhappy Wheeljack.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Wheeljack sees what you did there.]]
Starscream watches with amusement as the Predacon hammers Miko and the armor with blasts of flame. Megatron contacts Starscream, who gleefully provides a status report. Megatron orders the immediate return of the beast and the Predacon fossil and tells Starscream he can stay behind to finish the Autobots. Starscream briefly wonders how he'll get the Predacon to follow this order, but the Predacon answers the question by knocking him down, grabbing the fossil in its teeth, and flying away. Indignant, Starscream walks over to the scorched crater where Miko lies to retrieve his armor. But Miko springs to life and tosses Starscream away with ease. Miko continues pounding the Decepticons as the Autobots rush onto the scene. Ultra Magnus admits that Wheeljack may have been right about her. Seeing the odds are only getting worse, Starscream orders the Vehicons to retreat, and the three of them transform and fly away. Wheeljack commends Miko and says he wants to remember the Wreckers just as they are right now, "before the rust sets in" once again. With that, he transforms and drives away. Bulkhead sadly notes that Wheeljack just broke up the band.
{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] (6)
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (7)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (8)

|c2=
*[[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] (1)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (2)
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (3)
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (4)
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s (5)

|c3=
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (9)

}}

==Quotes==
'''Ultra Magnus''': Does Wheeljack not comprehend the chain of command? I didn't authorize him to advance without proper cover. 
'''Bulkhead''': I'm sure Jackie's just trying to prove himself now that you and he are serving together again, sir. 
''[Wheeljack gleefully leaps off a cliff]'' 
'''Wheeljack''': Yee-HAH!

"Wrecker Fact #17?" 
"'Guards never look up'."
:—A trope-savvy '''Wheeljack''' and '''Bulkhead'''

'''Ultra Magnus''': And what could have possibly compelled you to bring the native? 
''[Wheeljack thinks back to just before they left the Autobot base]'' 
'''Miko''': Yo. Can I come with? 
'''Wheeljack''': Why not?

"Are your circuits impaired, soldier?" 
"Prime told you to lead the Wreckers on this one. I assumed he meant all of them."
:—'''Ultra Magnus''' and '''Wheeljack''' argue over Miko's Wrecker status.

"''Tsk tsk tsk tsk.'' Even the strongest armor can't protect the weakest of creatures." 
"It protected ''you'', didn't it?"
:—'''Starscream''' gets burned by '''Miko'''

"You ''do'' know that I vanquished [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]], don't you?" 
"Big whoop. I snuffed [[Hardshell]]."
:—'''Starscream''' finally gets his "I killed Cliffjumper" boast shut down by '''Miko'''.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Predaking was GroundBridged to the Arctic by [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] in "[[Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion]]".
* Ultra Magnus was ordered to lead the Wreckers to Scotland in "[[Project Predacon]]", and picked up the Forge of Solus Prime in the same episode.
* The Apex Armor was recovered by [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] in "[[Darkmount, NV]]".
* Starscream continues to get as much mileage as he possibly can out of killing Cliffjumper in "[[Darkness Rising, Part 1]]". Thankfully, this is the last time in the series he brings it up.
* Miko killed Hardshell and was inducted into the Wreckers by Wheeljack in "[[Hurt]]".
* Miko is thankful that she did not throw up on Wheeljack's upholstery, as she did with Bulkhead while hiding in his chest compartment in "[[Darkness Rising, Part 4]]".
* Ultra Magnus uses the same type of back hook for the Forge of Solus Prime as Optimus used for the [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]], the latter having been made by Ratchet in "[[Alpha/Omega]]".
* The Predacon seen by Predaking during his brief memory sequence appears to be [[Skystalker (Prime)|Skystalker]], or another with his [[body-type]].
* Starscream learned Miko's name in "[[Rock Bottom]]".
* Wheeljack recites the first half of the Wrecker motto, "Wreckers don't call for back-up", which was used in "[[Loose Cannons]]". Bulkhead opts not to finish the saying, still trying to keep the peace between him and Ultra Magnus.
* This episode appears to occur concurrently with the [[Project Predacon|previous one]]. Though the Wreckers appear to finish with their mission first.

===Transformers references===
* Bulkhead left the Wreckers to join up with Optimus at the Battle of [[Thunderhead Pass]].

===Real-world references===
* Miko's rather haphazard fighting "style" takes some cues from professional wrestling, with numerous drop-kicks and flying tackles, and video games, including what looks to be a "[[Ryu|Shoryuken]]" leaping uppercut from ''Street Fighter II''.

===Errors===
* Before Shockwave says "...but there appears to be an enormous mass upon the upper hull", Starscream's left leg is slightly transparent.
* When Predaking denied Starscream's order to move, a part of his head moved through his neck.
* The two large rocks outside Ultra Magnus's ship shift position several times (or the ship does). When Ultra Magnus lands, the forward landing strut is between the two rocks. After they exit the ship, the rock which Starscream places the Apex Armor on later has moved to the opposite side of the landing strut. During a later establishing shot, both rocks have moved a considerable distance back, only to return to their previous position once Miko reaches the surface.
* As Predaking swings Starscream around while in the Apex Armor, the latter's headspike clips through the armor.
* Miko lands on the front side of the Apex Armor, which then forms a shell around her, but it's somehow managed to flip itself into the proper position during Starscream's reaction shot.
* Starscream retains his arm-mounted missile right after firing it at Miko. It disappears when he boasts about killing [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]], only to appear once more as he flees. He must keep them in [[subspace storage pocket|subspace]].
* Although the Predacon fossil is seemingly an optic, everyone refers to it as a bone.
* The ''Iron Will'' appears to gain a third landing strut closer to the bow in this episode. Previously it only had two towards the stern.

===Trivia===
* Since time is of the essence in retrieving Predacon bone fragments, Ultra Magnus taking the ''Iron Will'' instead of using the GroundBridge seems like a rather significant tactical error for someone so insistent on proper protocol and preparation. Wheeljack alludes to this in the next episode.
* Wheeljack has a chest compartment like Bulkhead does, allowing him to store a human there in [[robot mode]].
* Made official this episode, the number of [[Verity Carlo|human Wreckers]] in the Transformers franchise increases by 100%.
* Ultra Magnus's [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] model has been modified to fit the Forge of Solus Prime where the trailer hitch would be, and unsurprisingly, bears a large resemblance to Optimus' initial vehicle mode.
* The Predacon fossil uncovered by Predaking is far more mechanical than the bone-like pieces found in prior episodes, appearing to be an intact [[Sensors#Optical sensors|optical sensor]].
* The Apex Armour adjusts its size to fit whoever activates it, including humans. Another "[[Phase shifter|intuitive]]" relic.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Predator'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*For some reason, Starscream uses the formal "vous" with Shockwave in this episode. It may be to be ironic or overdramatic, but if it works with his first phrase, it doesn't really fit with the second.
::*Starscream's "How did it find us?" is mistakenly dubbed by "How did they find us?" (the "they" used here being plural only in French).
::*If they were called "Chasseurs d'animaux" ("Animal hunters") by Optimus Prime in previous episode, this time Ultra Magnus and Bulkhead refer to themselves as "Chasseurs de bestiaux" ("Cattle hunters"), which sounds a little more familiar and less serious.

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Befehlskette'''" ("Chain of Command")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 7|7 October]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Ranglista'''" ("Chain of Command")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 9|9 September]] [[2013]]

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Cadeia de Comando'''" ("Chain of Command")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 4|4 November]] [[2013]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Gerarchia'''" ("Hierarchy")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 6|6 September]] [[2013]]

'''Spanish (Spain)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Cambio de comando'''" ("Chain of Command")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 15|15 October]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 2: Race for Salvation ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Saison 3 Volume 1: Le règne de Mégatron ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 1: Battle for Darkmount (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Staffel 3 Teil 1: Schlacht um Darkmount (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Intégrale Saison 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Die komplette Staffel 3 (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2016 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Chain of Command (Prime)

2026-04-24T21:49:07Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign localization */

{{disambig2|the ''Prime'' episode|the ''Beast Wars'' episode|Chain of Command (BW)}}
{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 58
|prev=Project Predacon
|next=Plus One (Prime)
|image=ChainOfCommand Miko clobbering time.jpg
|caption=And now every Decepticon in range soils himself with fear.
|title="Chain of Command"
|season=3
|season ep=6
|airdate=[[May 24]], [[2013]]
|written by=[[Mairghread Scott]]
|directed by=[[Vinton Heuck]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko3Vk5BlFyA
|videosite=YouTube}}

'''Tension builds between Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack as their team faces the return of the Predacon.'''

==Synopsis==
Somewhere in the Arctic, the [[Predaking (Prime)|Predacon]] remains frozen solid in ice as the sun rises. Power cells in its body activate, causing the ice to start melting and then crack, until the beast is able to break free completely. The creature roars and flies away.

[[File:ChainOfCommand Predacon come home.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"Shockwave, remind me to thank the humans for global warming."]]
Aboard the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] questions the wisdom of allowing [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] to create his cloned [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] army in such confined quarters. Shockwave reveals that an off-site laboratory has been constructed for this purpose. The warship is rocked by a sudden impact, which turns out to be the Predacon landing on the upper hull. Shockwave notes that Predacons have precise homing instincts, but [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] is more impressed by the beast's resilience. He orders Starscream to assume command of it, leaving his terrified first officer alone out on the hull with the Predacon.

In [[Scotland]], the ''[[Iron Will]]'' lands on a bluff atop a suspected [[Decepticon]] excavation site. The [[Wreckers]] emerge, and [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] immediately bolts forward and starts climbing down the cliff to investigate, much to [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Magnus]]'s chagrin. [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] tries to advise caution, but Wheeljack pays no heed. They spot a lone [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]] emerging from a cave below, who Wheeljack dispatches with little difficulty. He looks back up to give Ultra Magnus a mocking salute, when an entire squad of Vehicons emerge from the cave and attack. The three [[Autobot]]s make short work of the Decepticons. After the battle, Wheeljack hears a knocking sound coming from inside his chest. Suddenly remembering he has a passenger, he lets [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] out, and she begins gasping for air.

[[File:ChainOfCommand stowaway.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|You wouldn't believe it, there's, like, three other passed-out kids in here!]]
Back at the ''Nemesis'', Starscream tries unsuccessfully to get the Predacon into a cage. He prompts the beast with an [[Energon prod]], and the Predacon responds with a blast of flame from its mouth that singes Starscream's crest.

Ultra Magnus demands to know why a human was brought on the mission. Wheeljack cites Miko's accomplishments and states that she's an official Wrecker as far as he's concerned. Bulkhead tries to defuse the situation by turning Magnus's attention to the now-unguarded cave entrance.

Now having donned the indestructible [[Apex Armor (Thirteen)|Apex Armor]], Starscream tries again to make the Predacon heed his commands. The dragon grasps Starscream's arm in its jaws and shakes him around like a rag doll for a bit before flinging him the length of the room. The "training" is interrupted by Megatron, who orders Starscream to take the Predacon and see why one of the excavation teams has failed to report in.

While the Wreckers explore the cave, Bulkhead tries to keep everyone's spirits up, but Wheeljack, chafing under Ultra Magnus's leadership, is having none of it. He tells Bulkhead he was smart to leave the Wreckers when he did, "before the rust set in". Confused, Miko says she thought Wheeljack was the one who left the Wreckers. Bulkhead says he left first, to join up with [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]], and thinks a part of Wheeljack resents him for it. Miko says that you never want to be the one who breaks up the band.

The rock walls suddenly starts to shake as the Predacon bursts in, prompting the Autobots to transform and drive deeper into the cave. The Predacon pursues, firing blasts of flame from his mouth, until he encounters a passage too narrow to get through. The Autobots are now trapped in a small enclosure and unable to get a comm link signal so far underground. Bulkhead notices a small opening in the rock above them and tells Miko to climb up the cave wall to freedom. She's reluctant to leave them until Ultra Magnus tasks her with the mission of reaching the ''Iron Will'' and contacting Optimus Prime. The Autobots draw their weapons and prepare for the Predacon to inevitably break through to their location.

[[File:ChainOfCommand Magnus forges a head.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|You want me to put the hammer down?!]]
Miko makes it to surface and rushes over to the ''Iron Will'', only to find that Starscream and a couple of Vehicons have gotten there first. Starscream brags to his soldiers about how he tamed the Predacon, which is stifled by one of the Vehicons pointing out that he's still wearing the Apex Armor protect himself from it. Buying into his own press, Starscream retracts the armor and lays the condensed relic on a rock.

The Predacon finally makes it through to the Wreckers' location and attacks. Ultra Magnus lands a few powerful hits with the depowered [[Forge of Solus Prime]], but the Predacon takes him and Bulkhead out with a wave of its tail. Wheeljack waits for the Predacon to attempt another flame blast and tosses a grenade at the beast's open mouth, but the Predacon bats it away with its tail. The explosive device hits the ground and rolls to a rest mere feet from Bulkhead and Ultra Magnus.

Topside, Starscream and the Vehicons are startled by the explosion, which rips a hole in the ground in front of them. While they investigate, Miko makes a run for the ''Iron Will'', but does not escape Starscream's notice.

In the cave, the Predacon bursts free from the rubble caused by the explosion, none the worse for wear. It notices a Predacon fossil lying on the ground, and seeing it brings back a memory of another time and place...

Starscream swipes at Miko, but she's able to avoid him long enough to reach the Apex Armor. Landing on the relic triggers it, and a smaller version of the armor envelops Miko. Before she can put it to use, the Predacon appears, dropping the fossil at Starscream's feet. Miko attempts to flee, but the Predacon pounces on her.

The Autobots emerge from the rubble below, and Ultra Magnus takes Wheeljack to task for deploying a grenade in an enclosed space. Bulkhead, more concerned with Miko's safety than continuing to play peacemaker, rushes out of the cave to find her.

[[File:ChainOfCommand unhappy Wheeljack.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Wheeljack sees what you did there.]]
Starscream watches with amusement as the Predacon hammers Miko and the armor with blasts of flame. Megatron contacts Starscream, who gleefully provides a status report. Megatron orders the immediate return of the beast and the Predacon fossil and tells Starscream he can stay behind to finish the Autobots. Starscream briefly wonders how he'll get the Predacon to follow this order, but the Predacon answers the question by knocking him down, grabbing the fossil in its teeth, and flying away. Indignant, Starscream walks over to the scorched crater where Miko lies to retrieve his armor. But Miko springs to life and tosses Starscream away with ease. Miko continues pounding the Decepticons as the Autobots rush onto the scene. Ultra Magnus admits that Wheeljack may have been right about her. Seeing the odds are only getting worse, Starscream orders the Vehicons to retreat, and the three of them transform and fly away. Wheeljack commends Miko and says he wants to remember the Wreckers just as they are right now, "before the rust sets in" once again. With that, he transforms and drives away. Bulkhead sadly notes that Wheeljack just broke up the band.
{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] (6)
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (7)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (8)

|c2=
*[[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] (1)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (2)
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (3)
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (4)
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s (5)

|c3=
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (9)

}}

==Quotes==
'''Ultra Magnus''': Does Wheeljack not comprehend the chain of command? I didn't authorize him to advance without proper cover. 
'''Bulkhead''': I'm sure Jackie's just trying to prove himself now that you and he are serving together again, sir. 
''[Wheeljack gleefully leaps off a cliff]'' 
'''Wheeljack''': Yee-HAH!

"Wrecker Fact #17?" 
"'Guards never look up'."
:—A trope-savvy '''Wheeljack''' and '''Bulkhead'''

'''Ultra Magnus''': And what could have possibly compelled you to bring the native? 
''[Wheeljack thinks back to just before they left the Autobot base]'' 
'''Miko''': Yo. Can I come with? 
'''Wheeljack''': Why not?

"Are your circuits impaired, soldier?" 
"Prime told you to lead the Wreckers on this one. I assumed he meant all of them."
:—'''Ultra Magnus''' and '''Wheeljack''' argue over Miko's Wrecker status.

"''Tsk tsk tsk tsk.'' Even the strongest armor can't protect the weakest of creatures." 
"It protected ''you'', didn't it?"
:—'''Starscream''' gets burned by '''Miko'''

"You ''do'' know that I vanquished [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]], don't you?" 
"Big whoop. I snuffed [[Hardshell]]."
:—'''Starscream''' finally gets his "I killed Cliffjumper" boast shut down by '''Miko'''.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Predaking was GroundBridged to the Arctic by [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] in "[[Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion]]".
* Ultra Magnus was ordered to lead the Wreckers to Scotland in "[[Project Predacon]]", and picked up the Forge of Solus Prime in the same episode.
* The Apex Armor was recovered by [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] in "[[Darkmount, NV]]".
* Starscream continues to get as much mileage as he possibly can out of killing Cliffjumper in "[[Darkness Rising, Part 1]]". Thankfully, this is the last time in the series he brings it up.
* Miko killed Hardshell and was inducted into the Wreckers by Wheeljack in "[[Hurt]]".
* Miko is thankful that she did not throw up on Wheeljack's upholstery, as she did with Bulkhead while hiding in his chest compartment in "[[Darkness Rising, Part 4]]".
* Ultra Magnus uses the same type of back hook for the Forge of Solus Prime as Optimus used for the [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]], the latter having been made by Ratchet in "[[Alpha/Omega]]".
* The Predacon seen by Predaking during his brief memory sequence appears to be [[Skystalker (Prime)|Skystalker]], or another with his [[body-type]].
* Starscream learned Miko's name in "[[Rock Bottom]]".
* Wheeljack recites the first half of the Wrecker motto, "Wreckers don't call for back-up", which was used in "[[Loose Cannons]]". Bulkhead opts not to finish the saying, still trying to keep the peace between him and Ultra Magnus.
* This episode appears to occur concurrently with the [[Project Predacon|previous one]]. Though the Wreckers appear to finish with their mission first.

===Transformers references===
* Bulkhead left the Wreckers to join up with Optimus at the Battle of [[Thunderhead Pass]].

===Real-world references===
* Miko's rather haphazard fighting "style" takes some cues from professional wrestling, with numerous drop-kicks and flying tackles, and video games, including what looks to be a "[[Ryu|Shoryuken]]" leaping uppercut from ''Street Fighter II''.

===Errors===
* Before Shockwave says "...but there appears to be an enormous mass upon the upper hull", Starscream's left leg is slightly transparent.
* When Predaking denied Starscream's order to move, a part of his head moved through his neck.
* The two large rocks outside Ultra Magnus's ship shift position several times (or the ship does). When Ultra Magnus lands, the forward landing strut is between the two rocks. After they exit the ship, the rock which Starscream places the Apex Armor on later has moved to the opposite side of the landing strut. During a later establishing shot, both rocks have moved a considerable distance back, only to return to their previous position once Miko reaches the surface.
* As Predaking swings Starscream around while in the Apex Armor, the latter's headspike clips through the armor.
* Miko lands on the front side of the Apex Armor, which then forms a shell around her, but it's somehow managed to flip itself into the proper position during Starscream's reaction shot.
* Starscream retains his arm-mounted missile right after firing it at Miko. It disappears when he boasts about killing [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]], only to appear once more as he flees. He must keep them in [[subspace storage pocket|subspace]].
* Although the Predacon fossil is seemingly an optic, everyone refers to it as a bone.
* The ''Iron Will'' appears to gain a third landing strut closer to the bow in this episode. Previously it only had two towards the stern.

===Trivia===
* Since time is of the essence in retrieving Predacon bone fragments, Ultra Magnus taking the ''Iron Will'' instead of using the GroundBridge seems like a rather significant tactical error for someone so insistent on proper protocol and preparation. Wheeljack alludes to this in the next episode.
* Wheeljack has a chest compartment like Bulkhead does, allowing him to store a human there in [[robot mode]].
* Made official this episode, the number of [[Verity Carlo|human Wreckers]] in the Transformers franchise increases by 100%.
* Ultra Magnus's [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] model has been modified to fit the Forge of Solus Prime where the trailer hitch would be, and unsurprisingly, bears a large resemblance to Optimus' initial vehicle mode.
* The Predacon fossil uncovered by Predaking is far more mechanical than the bone-like pieces found in prior episodes, appearing to be an intact [[Sensors#Optical sensors|optical sensor]].
* The Apex Armour adjusts its size to fit whoever activates it, including humans. Another "[[Phase shifter|intuitive]]" relic.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Predator'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*For some reason, Starscream uses the formal "vous" with Shockwave. It may be to be ironic or overdramatic, but if it works with his first phrase, it doesn't really fit with the second.
::*Starscream's "How did it find us?" is mistakenly dubbed by "How did they find us?" (the "they" used here being plural only in French).
::*If they were called "Chasseurs d'animaux" ("Animal hunters") by Optimus Prime in previous episode, this time Ultra Magnus and Bulkhead refer to themselves as "Chasseurs de bestiaux" ("Cattle hunters"), which sounds a little more familiar and less serious.

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Befehlskette'''" ("Chain of Command")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 7|7 October]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Ranglista'''" ("Chain of Command")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 9|9 September]] [[2013]]

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Cadeia de Comando'''" ("Chain of Command")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 4|4 November]] [[2013]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Gerarchia'''" ("Hierarchy")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 6|6 September]] [[2013]]

'''Spanish (Spain)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Cambio de comando'''" ("Chain of Command")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 15|15 October]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 2: Race for Salvation ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Saison 3 Volume 1: Le règne de Mégatron ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 1: Battle for Darkmount (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Staffel 3 Teil 1: Schlacht um Darkmount (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Intégrale Saison 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Die komplette Staffel 3 (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2016 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Project Predacon

2026-04-24T21:39:54Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign localization */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 57
|prev=Rebellion (Prime)
|next=Chain of Command (Prime)
|image=ProjectPredacon-skull.jpg
|caption=Okay, who cooked the turkey too long?
|title="Project Predacon"
|season=3
|season ep=5
|airdate=[[May 17]], [[2013]]
|written by=[[Duane Capizzi]]
|directed by=[[Shaunt Nigoghossian]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bkjy2pJj1g
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''The Decepticons launch a new scheme to clone an army of beasts.'''

==Synopsis==

[[File:ProjectPredacon-MASKdivision.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Back repainting strikes again|Can you name the truck with four wheel drive, smells like a steak, and seats thirty five? Canyonero! Canyonero!]]

[[William Fowler|Fowler]] arrives at the [[Autobot]]s' [[Hangar E|new base]] driving a massive military truck, described as an "experimental, all-terrain, expeditionary fighting vehicle". [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]] gives his approval and begins to scan it.

The next day, [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] return from the rubble of the former Autobot base with what little they could find. Wheeljack is happy enough to find their [[Cybertronian sport#Lobbing|lobbing]] ball, which he immediately throws to [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] to initiate a game. Unprepared, Bulkhead is unable to catch the ball and it bounces off him, very nearly crushing [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]], who is pulled to safety by [[Jack Darby|Jack]]. Ultra Magnus admonishes Wheeljack's reckless behavior, once again citing his distaste for [[Wreckers|Wrecker]] behavior. He tells Wheeljack that if he'd rather not follow orders, he's free to walk away, as he did back on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Wheeljack remarks that if [[Jackhammer (Prime)|his ship]] wasn't destroyed, he'd do just that.

Meanwhile, Optimus flies with his new [[jet pack]] to investigate recent [[Decepticon]] activity. He comes upon a cave entrance in the side of a mountain and transforms into his new vehicle mode to enter.

Miko wishes all of the Autobots had jet packs, but [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] reminds everyone that the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] had been depleted of its power. [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] returns from scanning new "war paint", but this fails to impress Ultra Magnus, who immediately assigns him a menial duty. Smokescreen grumbles about how he nearly became a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]], yet is still treated like a rookie, but pretends to have said something else when Ratchet overhears.

In the cave, Optimus comes across a group of [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]s excavating some very large skeletal remains, and makes short work of most of them, but he is unable to prevent [[Bombshock (Prime)|Bombshock]] from escaping with a piece of the fossil.

Optimus returns the rest of the fossil to the base, and reveals that it's the remains of a [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]]. Smokescreen notes that Predacons are supposed to have been extinct since before most life began on Cybertron. The Autobots deduce that the recently returned [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] is behind [[Predaking (Prime)|the one they already fought]], and most likely plans to clone more of them.

[[File:ProjectPredacon-Predacons.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Once upon a time, robot animals ruled the earth.]]

Aboard the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'', [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] reacts to the presence of Predacon remains on Earth with cynicism. [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] explains that the remains actually belong to an army of clones that he had commissioned during the war. They were sent to Earth to kill Autobots and gather [[energon]], and they remained there until succumbing to the ravages of time. Shockwave confirms that he can create new clones from the endomatter of the deceased batch.

Ratchet shows the children images of Predacons from Cybertronian historical texts. Jack recognizes them as robotic versions of creatures from Earth's own various mythologies. Optimus notes that the Predacons were very likely the inspiration for such tales.

Ratchet revisits his [[Synthetic Energon|synthetic energon]] formula, in hopes of replenishing the energon stores lost when their base was destroyed. Fowler suddenly reports that satellites have picked up Decepticon activity in both [[Texas]] and [[Scotland]]. Optimus assigns Ultra Magnus, now wielding the depowered Forge, to lead the Wreckers to Scotland. Meanwhile, he, [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], and Smokescreen [[GroundBridge]] to a field of [[oil]] derricks in Texas and split up.

Alone together, Smokescreen asks Bumblebee if he'd ever wanted to be a Prime. Bumblebee says his only aspiration is to be a warrior. When Smokescreen asks why Optimus hasn't promoted him from scout yet, Bumblebee reveals that it's his choice. When Smokescreen asks him why he wants to wait, Bumblebee responds that he would rather be promoted on Cybertron. Smokescreen notes that this would be more meaningful, and that Bumblebee was one patient guy, musing that he ought to take a cue from him. They then interrupt a squad of [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s, only to be interrupted by Shockwave toting the remains of a Predacon. Shockwave flees from the Autobots but runs into Optimus, who blasts him out of vehicle mode. Just then, a GroundBridge opens and [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] emerges in alt-form for some altitude-combat with a flying Optimus. Shockwave makes a run for the GroundBridge, but is attacked by Bumblebee and Smokescreen.

[[File:ProjectPredacon-wishbone.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Ultimate Tug of War: Who Will Take Home the Wishbone???]]

While Optimus fends off Soundwave, [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]] is deployed and gets in close, delivering an electrical shock that sends Optimus crashing to the ground. On the highway overpass above him, Bumblebee and Smokescreen are able to wrest the Predacon fossil away from Shockwave, but not without breaking it, sending a small piece falling over the edge. Optimus rushes back into the air to catch it, but Soundwave activates a second GroundBridge that catches the falling fossil in mid-air and deposits it into Megatron's waiting hand aboard the ''Nemesis''. Their mission complete, the Decepticons retreat through the GroundBridge from which Soundwave emerged.

On the ''Nemesis'', Megatron decides that Shockwave is much too valuable to Project Predacon to risk using in the field. Shockwave agrees to confine himself to his lab and leave the task of collecting bones to Starscream. Megatron notes how anxious he is to set his army of beasts on humankind.

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==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (1)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (3)
*[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (4)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (5)
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (8)
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] (10)
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (11)
*[[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] (12)

|c2=
*[[Bombshock (Prime)|Bombshock]] (13)
*[[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]] (14)
*[[Decepticon Miner]] (15)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (16)
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (17)
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (18)
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s (19)
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] (20)
*[[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]] (21)

|c3=
*[[William Fowler]] (2)
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (6)
*[[Jack Darby]] (7)
*[[Raf Esquivel]] (9)

}}

==Quotes==
"What were you thinking, soldier?" 
"I was thinking Bulk could catch that lob."
:—'''Ultra Magnus''' and '''Wheeljack''' air their grievances like mature adults who hate each other.

"I was nearly a Prime, but somehow I'm still a rookie."
:—'''Smokescreen'''

'''Raf''': They're like Earth's dinosaurs. 
'''Jack''': Which means for you guys, running into one would be like us meeting a T-Rex. 
'''Miko''': So, then what were Dinobots? 
'''Bulkhead''': [[Dinobot (FOC)|Totally different]].

"Autobots, we must become Beast Hunters."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' sees the writing on the package--Er, wall

"Pfft. Another scavenger hunt?"
:—'''Starscream'''

"How logical would it really be to locate all the dusty remains of your former pets?" 
"You are not suggesting that I would send my creations to a distant planet without first having them microchipped?" 
"Well, I-- Well, I was. But... seriously? You did?"
:—'''Starscream''' is shut down by '''Shockwave'''

"Um... what's a kilt?" 
"Agent Fowler can at times be oblique. I find it best to simply nod and mobilize."
:—'''Ultra Magnus''' and '''Optimus Prime'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Wheeljack finds his and Bulkhead's Lobbing ball from "[[Con Job]]" in the rubble of the former Autobot base and brings it back to the new base to continue the fun.
* Ultra Magnus confirms he led the Wreckers back on Cybertron, as in [[Alex Irvine]]'s ''[[Transformers: Exodus|Exodus]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Exiles|Exiles]]'' novels. However, he also notes that the assignment was given to him by Optimus Prime, and refers to them as "your Wreckers" to Wheeljack, indicating that he had no part in founding the team.
* The [[Dinobot (FOC)|Dinobots]], a subgroup of Autobots mutated by Shockwave into dinosaur forms and who serve as the main characters in the tie-in ''[[Transformers Prime: Rage of the Dinobots|Rage of the Dinobots]]'' and [[Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters (comic)|''Beast Hunters'' comics]], have at least been mentioned in passing to Miko in the past.
* Megatron reveals that he had an army of Predacon clones commissioned during the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|war for Cybertron]]. Included in the artistic flashback appear to be [[Hun-Gurrr (Prime)|Hun-Gurr]] (or [[Twinstrike (Prime)|Twinstrike]]), [[Lazerback (Prime)|Lazerback]], [[Grimwing (Prime)|Grimwing]], [[Rippersnapper (Prime)|Rippersnapper]], [[Ripclaw]], [[Skystalker (Prime)|Skystalker]] and a previous incarnation of [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]]. Also, the Predacon picture Ratchet shows the kids looks somewhat similar to Ripclaw, minus the Siphon Claw on her tail.
* Ratchet returns to work on the synthetic energon formula he last tried replicating in "[[Stronger, Faster]]".
* Laserbeak is apparently up and running now. Soundwave must have repaired him since "[[Darkmount, NV]]".
* Megatron mentions Shockwave's apparent demise in the space bridge accident in "[[Out of the Past]]".
* This episode appears to occur concurrently with the [[Chain of Command (Prime)|following]] episode.

===Transformers references===
* Wheeljack's near-lethal game of catch is quite similar to the one in "[[Rise of the Constructicons]]" from [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated.]] It even has Bulkhead involved, albeit as the failed catcher instead of the tosser.
* Smokescreen uses the "robots in disguise" tagline as justification for his new paint job.
* Bulkhead refers to the potential threat of a cloned Predacon army as a "[[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]]". Megatron continues the trend by saying he sent his army of Predacon clones to Earth to "unleash the beast" on Autobots stationed there.
* Ultra Magnus arms himself with [[Magnus Hammer|a very large hammer]].

===Real-world references===
[[File:ProjectPredacon-UnitE.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1]]
* Micro-chipping pets is a human method of identifying lost dogs, cats and other pets through use of a sub-dermal chip implant. Mind you, in the real world, it works by scanning the animal directly to see if it even has a chip that stores the owner's information, rather than the show's GPS-like take.
* In possibly the most self-indulgent meta-reference in ''Transformers'' ever, the Autobots' new base is set up inside "[[Unit:E]]". This was the title of Hasbro's more-or-less stillborn [[Unit:E (issue)|crossover franchise]], mixing numerous properties Hasbro owned yet didn't have much going on with at the moment, including ''[[Micronauts]]'', ''[[Jem]]'', ''[[M.A.S.K.]]'', ''Stretch Armstrong'', ''Candyland'' (no, really), and more. ''Transformers'' and ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' also had cameos as part of a colossal multiverse. Fowler's office door even uses the ''Unit:E'' logo. While "[[Grill (episode)|Grill]]" made a background reference to it, this episode is pretty blatant in its reference to it.
* As part of the gleeful shamelessness, Fowler says that the truck Optimus scans comes from the "M.A.S.K." division. ''M.A.S.K.'' was all about humans piloting (mostly) ordinary-looking vehicles that transformed into battle-modes.

===Errors===
* When Optimus scans his new vehicle mode, the beams from his eyes are blue instead of green like previously shown scans. However, [[Skyquake (Prime)|the]] [[Airachnid (Prime)|other]] [[Dreadwing (Prime)|scanners]] were all Decepticons and/or non-Primes, so that may be a factor.
* Optimus conveniently has kibble matching his new vehicle mode before he scans the truck, but that's nothing new.
* Bumblebee states to Smokescreen that it was his own choice to not yet graduate from scout to warrior, which contradicts with Prime's belief in "[[Masters & Students]]" that Bumblebee wasn't experienced enough in the field. It's possible that Prime has since changed his mind on the subject.
* When Soundwave transforms to robot mode and lands on the clifftop, he's wearing Laserbeak, even though at that point his deployer's separated from him.
* There's no logical reason for the tug of war for the Predacon jawbone. Since Smokescreen is wearing the phase shifter, he could have simply pulled it right through Shockwave's hand, as demonstrated in "[[New Recruit]]" and "[[Inside Job]]". Shockwave, meanwhile, is using his only hand to pull back, instead of shooting or punching Smokescreen and Bumblebee with his free cannon arm.

===Trivia===
* This episode premieres a new [[title sequence]] with significantly more [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] and Shockwave in it, and also features Prime's new body and Bumblebee's new paint job.
* This episode establishes that when a Transformer upgrades their body, the alternate mode for that body is reset and they must choose another appropriate one.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Les Clones de Shockwave'''" ("Shockwave's Clones")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*[[Bruno Bulté]] takes back the role of Shockwave from now on, that he dubbed in season 2. He had been replaced by [[Jean-Marc Delhausse]] for the beginning of season 3.
::*After Ratchet asks "What was that about a Prime?", the French word that sounds similar that was chosen was "brame" (bellow). Smokescreen corrects himself by saying "The bellow. I heard the stag's bellow when I explored Earth".
::*For some reason, instead of kilts, Fowler says "Don't forget to pack your bagpipes". It works, too.

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Projekt Predacon'''" ("Project Predacon")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 4|4 October]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''A Predacon művelet'''" ("The Predacon Procedure")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 6|6 September]] [[2013]]
::*Strangely, Optimus Prime is dubbed by a different actor in the opening scene, with heavy voice modulation. The rest of the episodes features his regular voice actor.

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Projeto Predacon'''" ("Project Predacon")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 1|1 November]] [[2013]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Progetto Predacon'''" ("Project Predacon")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 6|6 September]] [[2013]]

'''Spanish (Spain)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Proyecto Predacon'''" ("Project Predacon")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 14|14 October]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 2: Race for Salvation ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Saison 3 Volume 1: Le règne de Mégatron ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 1: Battle for Darkmount (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Staffel 3 Teil 1: Schlacht um Darkmount (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Intégrale Saison 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Die komplette Staffel 3 (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2016 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Jean-Marc Delhausse

2026-04-23T19:12:17Z

SoundSky: /* Transformers Prime */

[[File:Jean-Marc Delhausse.jpg|200px|thumb]]
'''Jean-Marc Delhausse''' (born in Liège on [[February 13]], [[1960]]) is a Belgian actor, director and voice director.

His most famous roles include [[Unshō Ishizuka|Professor Oak]] and Mewtwo in the ''Pokémon'' universe, Smoker in ''One Piece'', [[David Kaye|Professor X]] in ''X-Men: Evolution'', the Grand Inquisitor in ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]] Rebels'', [[Mark Oliver|Lord Garmadon]] in ''Ninjago'' and Lucario in the ''Super Smash Bros'' videogames, among other voice roles in many animated series.

He also uses his voice for radio and television commercials, as well as audio books.

==Voice roles==
===''Beast Machines: Transformers''===
*[[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]
*[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]
{{note|The French dub for ''Beast Machines: Transformers'' was made in 2007.}}

===''Transformers Prime''===
* [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]
* [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]]
* [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (episodes 53 to 56 only)
* [[Vogel]]

===''Transformers: Rescue Bots''===
* [[Doctor Morocco]]

== Notes ==
* Skyquake quickly returned in season 2 of ''Transformers: Prime'', in a flashback of events that happened in "[[Masters & Students]]". However, instead of using audio archive from season 1, the French version re-dubbed all the flashbacks. Jean-Marc Delhausse could not come back to voice his few lines, so they were spoken by [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]'s voice actor instead, [[Patrick Descamps]].

==External links==
*[https://wikidoublage.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Jean-Marc_Delhausse Wiki Doublage page] ''(French)''
*[http://www.planete-jeunesse.com/staff-1906-jean-marc-delhausse.html Planète Jeunesse page] ''(French)''
*[https://www.audiolib.fr/intervenants/jean-marc-delhausse Audiolib page] ''(French)''

{{DEFAULTSORT: Delhausse, Jean-Marc}}
[[Category:French voice actors]]

Shockwave (WFC)

2026-04-23T19:11:07Z

SoundSky: /* Prime cartoon */

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{{disambig3|Shockwave}}
:''Shockwave is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[File:PrimeShockwave.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|SPM seeking abominations of science. Turn-ons: dinosaurs, logic.]]

'''Shockwave''' was a member of the scientist caste in the industrial city of [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]]. In a reversal of the usual order, he was swayed by the ambitions of the former mining caste member turned gladiator [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]. Serving as Megatron's "pet mad scientist" and [[second-in-command]], he saw to the fighter's armament during his rise to prominence, all the while fantasizing on the prospect of ''mass producing'' such warriors. Thankfully, Megatron's more practical nature reined in Shockwave as the movement which became the Decepticons finally moved out of the shadows.

Shockwave naturally only serves his one true master: logic. He's willing to ignore petty squabbles and jabs at him, and will only do what he finds logical. Megatron is pleased by his dedication and his competence stemming from it, starkly contrasting with the egotistical and gloating [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. His passive nature to goings-on around him may paint him as apathetic, but whoever believes that is writing their death warrant. Shockwave is as brutal and fierce as any Decepticon warrior, and has the strength and durability to withstand everything from explosions to Autobot assault. He does '''not''' take well to attempts on his life or his experiments failing or being tampered with. [[Primus]] help you if you actually do break his seemingly eternal calm.

{{quote|Shockwave, you would bring down all of creation just to satisfy your own ambition.|Alpha Trion|''[[Transformers: Retribution|Retribution]]''}}

==Fiction==
===''The Covenant of Primus''===
Shockwave emerged from the [[Well of All Sparks]] sometime during or prior to the [[Age of Wrath]]. Shockwave was among the earliest rebels to oppose their [[Quintesson]] "masters", and he rejected both the invaders and their puppet government. Shockwave's genius led him to be the first Cybertronian able to translate the Quintesson language.

Even after the fall of the Quintessons, Shockwave remained on the outskirts of Cybertronian civilization, never taking any official position with the government or its council, despite his brilliance. He eventually became a member of [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]'s Decepticons as war broke out against the Autobots. After the Ark departed, Megatron left Shockwave behind to oversee Cybertron in his stead.

Shockwave's brilliant but unhinged mind caused him to see other Cybertronians and society itself as a Petri dish for his experiments. He was responsible for creating a new underclass of Cybertronians known as the [[Forged]], test subjects so mentally and physically damaged by his experiments that they forgot their original designations. Shockwave worked with his Insecticon swarms and also was responsible for creating the [[Dinobot (FOC)|Dinobot]]s. He restored the only remaining [[Space bridge]] on Cybertron, powering it to warp space and time in order to look back on Earth during the Cretaceous Era as inspiration for his experiments. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|Covenant of Primus}}

===Aligned novels===
Shockwave was a scientist who lived on the fringes of Cybertronian society, admitting to [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Orion Pax]] he knew little of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. He was one of the scientists whose innovations allowed the mass production of stressed-crystal material used to build [[Crystal City]]. There he began his [[combiner]] experiments, creating [[Bruticus (WFC)|Bruticus Maximus]], whose lack of intelligence in combined form made him a danger to friend and foe, and he was put in [[stasis lock]]. Shockwave moved to [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]], becoming a surgeon for the gladiators, where he met [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]us. He continued his combination experiments with the three [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]s, whom Megatronus bested in combat: it was in this match that the crowd chanted a shorter name for the gladiator, Megatron. Megatron recognized two things about Shockwave: that he was bereft of any morality or ethics, and that while he was his most loyal ally, he would turn on him one day.

[[File:WFCcomicDecepticons.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|''We three 'Cons of Kaon are...'']]

During the [[Autobot]]-[[Decepticon]] war, Shockwave perfected his experiments with the [[Constructicon (WFC)|Constructicon]]s, creating a [[Devastator (WFC)|Devastator]] which was unleashed on Crystal City. Shockwave set up a laboratory in the ruins but was ordered to take command of the newly conquered city state [[Tarn (polity)|Tarn]]. Autobot sympathizers became fodder for experiments, while Shockwave's forces conquered [[Vos (polity)|Vos]]. He quelled dissent in both cities by requesting Vos' Air Commanders [[photon missile]] strike Tarn, for which he claimed the Autobots were responsible, and then had a photon missile strike (of supposedly unknown origin) ordered on Vos, killing the Air Commanders whose true loyalty lay with [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]].

When the Decepticons captured [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] Station, Shockwave oversaw two of Starscream's scientists ingest [[Dark Energon]]: the powerful result activated a security [[gyro-inhibitor charge]] which rendered Shockwave unconscious. Shockwave later subjected the two subjects to a deprivation study, and found it necessary to muzzle them as the duo agonized as a result of Dark Energon's absence in their bodies. Shockwave also used the [[Spark]]s of those killed in the capture to turn Trypticon into a Decepticon, able to spawn drones and [[Mini-Con|Minicons]] in its corridors.

Shockwave remained on Cybertron in command of the Decepticons, while Megatron left with his elite soldiers on the ''Nemesis'' to pursue the Autobot ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]''. Shockwave promised Megatron that [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1|Cybertron would remain as he left it]], the notion of which Megatron chastised. He ordered Shockwave to rebuild Cybertron and enslave the remaining Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

{{note|Shockwave's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the comic "[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (comic)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]."}}

{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}}}

On Cybertron, Shockwave established his rule out of the remains of Iacon, building a massive [[Tower of Shockwave]] as his personal citadel. Although he employed [[Ratbat (WFC)|Ratbat]] and other Decepticons ostensibly to patrol the city, in reality Shockwave preferred chaos in the streets to continue producing new variables for him to explore and exploit.

Shockwave eventually decided to seize the historian, Alpha Trion, and use him for his experiments. Shockwave recognized Alpha Trion as a Prime, one of the original [[Thirteen]], and thought to use the old bot's systems to gain access to the [[Vector Sigma]] super-computer. However, Shockwave was unaware that his data-tracs had been remotely hacked by the Quintessons, who intended to use his work with Alpha Trion to instead repower the space bridge, allowing their invading army to arrive from [[Aquatron]].

Shockwave recognized his mistake far too late, and General [[Tyrannicon]] led an army of [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]]s to Cybertron. Despite his best efforts, even [[Devastator (WFC)|Devastator]] and [[Omega Supreme (WFC)|Omega Supreme]] failed to defend Shockwave's rule. He hoped to loot the [[Hall of Records]] for weapons or artifacts, only to discover Alpha Trion had jettisoned them into space long before. Fortunately, the actions of Megatron across the galaxy on Aquatron ended the threat of the Sharkticons for him. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

===Cartoon continuity===
====IDW Aligned comics====
[[File:LastStand-Shockwave.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|And as purple as he is logical.]]

Shockwave had been put in charge of a remote Decepticon base in the middle of the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]], where he was to oversee a reportedly unlimited source of [[Energon]], a potentially amazing advantage in the waning days of the war for Cybertron. [[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]] had been dispatched to investigate this mysterious Energon-rich Decepticon base when he overheard a conversation between Shockwave and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. Starscream was concerned that Shockwave's attentions were diverted away from the Energon discovery and was wasting his talents on examining the [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]s he'd discovered and the "cosmic secrets" he had learned. Shockwave's Insecticon horde discovered Swoop's presence, and the Autobot was captured. {{storylink|Secrets (FOC)|Secrets}}

Predictably, the other members of Swoop's Autobot team, the [[Lightning Strike Coalition Force]] arrived in hopes of retrieving Swoop. Shockwave confronted the four and boasted that this action on their part was central to his plans. The Lightning Strike Coalition Force would make "perfect test subjects" for his experiments, {{storylink|Siege Mentality}} and as their leader, [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]], fought back, Shockwave thanked him for not alerting [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] of their whereabouts. The five would be fashioned into the ultimate weapon for the Decepticon cause! He then quickly fell Grimlock with surgeon-like precision, all the while gloating that the Coalition's absence from the front lines would allow the Decepticons to easily take Autobot City from Optimus Prime's control. {{storylink|Last Stand (FOC)|Last Stand}}

Shockwave was waiting when Grimlock awoke, strung up in his laboratory. He explained that he had discovered ancient Transformers technology, a [[space bridge|bridge that could traverse both space and time]]. This "space bridge" had offered him a glimpse of many worlds, but most relevantly Shockwave had seen into the past of a certain [[Earth|small blue planet]] where [[dinosaur (dinosaur)|amazing and terrible creatures]] once stalked its lands. {{storylink|Fragmentation (FOC)|Fragmentation}} {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 3|Beast Hunters #3}} Having already experimented in recreating dinosaurs organically in the past, Shockwave went to work reconstructing the Dinobots in their image. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 4|Beast Hunters #4}} As Shockwave's machinery took Grimlock apart, he told the Autobot that he and his team would be rebuilt into weapons for the Decepticons. {{storylink|Fragmentation (FOC)|Fragmentation}} As Grimlock was being reformed, through his pain he saw visions of the future, of being unwittingly unleashed by Starscream and ultimately taking his revenge on Shockwave. Shockwave quelled these visions by breaking into Grimlock's mind, reducing the once fiercely intelligent leader to nothing but a feral berserker. {{storylink|Fall}}

The events in Grimlock's vision came to pass nonetheless, and Shockwave was left battered by the Dinobot as they escaped from him. {{storylink|Rage of the Dinobots issue 4|Rage of the Dinobots #4}}

After Optimus Prime and [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]'s group of warriors had left the planet, Shockwave remained behind and fashioned a new faction known as [[Forged]]. He commanded this group through [[Ser-Ket (Prime)|Ser-Ket]], a former Decepticon whom he had experimented on and granted a draconic [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]] altmode. {{storylink|Rage of the Dinobots issue 2|Rage of the Dinobots #2}} Ser-Ket reported to Shockwave after the Forged had captured [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]], {{storylink|Rage of the Dinobots issue 1|Rage of the Dinobots #1}} an event that led to the Forged base being attacked by Grimlock's Dinobots, who killed Ser-Ket. Sending a remote-control avatar [[drone]] in time to witness the battle, Shockwave didn't think much of his underling's death, explaining to the Dinobots that she had overestimated her role in his machinations. {{storylink|Rage of the Dinobots issue 3|Rage of the Dinobots #3}} By strategic use of a force field and an [[Electromagnetic pulse|EMP grenade]], he defeated the Dinobots and brought them to one of his labs to finish what he had started by purging them of their sentience once and for all. As he began to work on Grimlock, however, the other Dinobots broke out of captivity and ripped his avatar to pieces. The real Shockwave then contacted them via hologram to let them know they had only destroyed one of many avatars in one of many labs, but one day they might come face to face with the real deal once again. {{storylink|Rage of the Dinobots issue 4|Rage of the Dinobots #4}}

====''Prime'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[David Sobolov]] (English), [[Kenta Miyake]] (Japanese)|[[Liu Beichen]] (Chinese), [[Ja-hyeong Gu]] (Korean), [[Gergely Horváth-Töreki]] (Hungarian), [[Uli Krohm]] (German), [[Jorge Badillo]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Luis Vicente Ivars]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Jussi Wahlgren]] (Finnish, season 2), [[Osku Ärilä]] (Finnish, season 3), [[Jari Salo]] (Finnish, "[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]"), [[Bruno Bulté]] (French), [[Jean-Marc Delhausse]] (French, early season 3 only), [[Maurizio Trombini]] (Italian), [[Mauro Castro]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
[[File:Prime-Shockwave&Cliffjumper.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|left|Logic dictates that there is a small chance that I will kill you, here and now... but I'm gonna shoot anyway.]]

During the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|War for Cybertron]], Shockwave cloned a small army of [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacons]] and had them micro-chipped so he could track them at all times. On Megatron's orders, he dispatched them to Earth to destroy the Autobots stationed there and secure any energon they could find. {{storylink|Project Predacon}}

While most of the population left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] during the [[Great Exodus]], Shockwave stayed behind. He spent his time building and scavenging technology, and managed to reverse-engineer [[space bridge]] technology. His efforts had come to fruition when [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], while delivering Energon to power the bridge, brought him an encrypted Autobot transmission along with two prisoners, [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]]. By using his own invention, the [[cortical psychic patch]], on Arcee, Shockwave gained the codes to decrypt the transmission, revealing it to be a message from [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] calling the Autobots to [[Earth]]. He later found the two Autobots sabotaging the space bridge, and was buried in rubble during the ensuing fight. After he dug himself out, he followed them into the space bridge and was only stopped when Arcee hit his optical sensor. Caught inside the space bridge as it exploded, {{storylink|Out of the Past}} Shockwave found himself back on the abandoned planet Cybertron, blinded. He repaired his injuries and continued his experiment, using recovered CNA to clone a [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]].

Years later, Shockwave detected the energy surge caused by the [[Omega Lock]] and went to investigate, encountering [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] who had come on an unrelated mission. {{storylink|Scattered}} Shockwave returned with him to [[Earth]], where [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] had created [[Darkmount (Earth)|a fortress]]. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} Megatron appointed Shockwave his first lieutenant in charge of science. With Starscream's interrogation of [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] failing to yield results, Shockwave attempted a cortical psychic patch, but was similarly unable to gain any information. The continuing failure to track down the scattered Autobots led Shockwave to reveal the fruits of his cloning work—a [[Predaking (Prime)|huge Predacon]]. {{storylink|Scattered}} Shockwave gave the creature a whiff of Wheeljack's energon before unleashing it, however it eventually returned empty-handed. {{storylink|Prey (episode)|Prey}}

[[File:Rebellion-Shockwave.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Logic dictates that my altmode should look ''awesome''.]]
When Darkmount came under attack, Shockwave suggested unleashing the Predacon, only for the beast to be defeated moments after it entered battle. Though Starscream took the opportunity to get some mocking in, Shockwave simply turned and jumped his way down the outside of the fortress before defeating the Autobots himself. The victory was short-lived, as once Optimus Prime turned up, the Autobots turned on their captor. Despite holding his own against them, Shockwave retreated through a GroundBridge once the citadel was destroyed. {{storylink|Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion}}

Shockwave then began retrieving Predacon remains from the clones previous sent to Earth, so that he could clone them again and form a new army of Predacons. {{storylink|Project Predacon}} When the Predacon returned safe and well to the ''Nemesis'', Shockwave was content for Megatron to place it under Starscream's command. {{storylink|Chain of Command (Prime)|Chain of Command}} While he was retrieving Predacon remains in [[Texas]], he was attacked by [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]], [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and Optimus Prime. Soundwave arrived through a GroundBridge to give Shockwave support, keeping Prime busy while Shockwave grappled with the other two Autobots. Though the fossil broke apart during Shockwave's fight, thanks to Soundwave a fraction of it was GroundBridged back to the [[Trypticon (WFC)|''Nemesis'']]. Upon returning to the ship and at Megatron's urging, Shockwave opted to let Starscream retrieve further genetic material. {{storylink|Project Predacon}}

Shockwave's cloning process neared completion, but the revelation that the existing Predacon was intelligent resulted in the Decepticons rethinking the entire plan, as [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] might turn against them. Shockwave agreed it was logical that they should use the Autobots to terminate the clones, however Starscream lured the Autobots to the off-site laboratory while he was still purging sensitive information from the computers. He retreated, and after the laboratory was destroyed, discovered that the [[Synthetic Energon]] they'd been storing in it had created Cybermatter. {{storylink|Evolution}}
[[File:ShockwavePunishesScreamer-MinusOne.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1.66| Happy birthday, Starscream!]]
Shockwave almost put out one of Starscream's eyes over the early arrival of the Autobots, but was talked out of it in time. The Decepticons decided to repair the Omega Lock as a launch mechanism, with Shockwave in charge of perfecting Synthetic Energon. When they realized that Ratchet would be helpful in perfecting the formula, Shockwave instructed Laserbeak to track [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] to find the Autobot base. Meanwhile, Shockwave himself took part in a raid on the [[Solaris particle collider]]. {{storylink|Minus One}} Unfortunately [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] proved too much for Shockwave to handle, and he had to be rescued by Predaking.

Back on the ''Nemesis'', he used a cortical psychic patch on Ratchet in an attempt to learn the completed Synth-En formula, but came up empty handed. As a result, the Decepticons had to switch tack and attempt to persuade Ratchet to help them. {{storylink|Persuasion}} While Ratchet was put to work on the Synthetic Energon formula, Shockwave was called away to oversee the completion of the Omega Lock. As a result, he was not there when Ratchet attempted to escape, but he was able to salvage the completed formula from the mess Ratchet left, and began the process of synthesizing enough to power the Omega Lock. {{storylink|Synthesis}} Shockwave's attempts to activate the Omega Lock were hampered by having to fight Ratchet and the other Autobots who turned up. Following Megatron's demise, he grabbed the protesting Starscream and the pair made a run for it. They escaped the warship in a lifepod, somewhere over Cybertron. {{storylink|Deadlock (episode)|Deadlock}}

Shockwave resumed his experiments, though he had to relocate his lab a number of times to avoid detection, and successfully created [[Darksteel (Prime)|Darksteel]] and [[Skylynx (Prime)|Skylynx]]. He was summoned when the two Predacons led Starscream to a Predacon burial ground uncovered by the upheaval of Cybertron's rebirth, however as they were gathering up the bones, they were witness to the unexpected return of Megatron. It turned out to be [[Unicron]] using Megatron's body, and after the dark god raised an army of undead Predacons, the horde's first act was to swarm the terrified Shockwave.

He somehow survived, and later approached Predaking and the other two Predacons as they fought each other, suggesting they might instead like to go fight Unicron, only to disappear as mysteriously as he appeared. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

====Titan ''Prime'' comic====
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===''Tales of the Beast Hunters''===
Shockwave cloned [[Lazerback (Prime)|Lazerback]] in a [[Hyperevolution Chamber]], unaware his subject could hear everything he said. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 3}} On awakening [[Ripclaw]], Shockwave told the Predacon that [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] was in danger from the [[Autobot]]s. Ripclaw promptly took off out of the laboratory. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 8}} Sometime later, Shockwave realized that the Predacons were as big a threat to the Decepticons as to the Autobots and decided to shut down the cloning project. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 11}} He found [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] sneaking around his laboratory {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 10}} and came up with a new plan to blame the laboratory's destruction on the Autobots, hopefully causing Predaking to eliminate Prime's team. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 11}} Smokescreen and Shockwave's battle caused some of the Predacons in nearby evolution vats to awaken, and [[Skystalker (Prime)|Skystalker]] soon joined the conflict. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 12}} Ultimately, Smokescreen escaped from Shockwave with several data discs in hand. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 13}}

Deciding to cut his losses and run, Shockwave enlisted [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]]'s help in packing up his laboratory. The pair took the last two remaining Hyperevolution Chambers with them to Cybertron. {{storylink|Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 20}}

===''Full of Fire!''===
Shockwave revealed to Megatron that more Predacons had been cloned. The scientist dispatched five new Predacons with Predaking to test the Autobots and record data on the enemy's combat effectiveness. When all six were defeated, Megatron believed the data to be useless as the Autobots now knew the extent of the Predacon army, only for Shockwave to reveal that he had many more Predacons ready to go. {{storylink|Full of Fire!}}

===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
Whereas most Transformers left Cybertron for Earth in pursuit of the Allspark, Shockwave remained behind. He acted as Megatron's steward over Cybertron, occupying his time by rebuilding his prisoners into weapons of war. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}

===Precursor World===
[[Primus Vanguard|Warriors of the Seven Lights]] resembling multiple incarnations of Shockwave were members of the [[Purple Order]]. One listened through a screen as their commander [[Purple Wicked Convoy]] received word of the fall of the [[Blue Order]] and the threat of the [[G1 World|interdimensional]] warlord [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Generations Selects Special Comic (1)|Ultra Megatron Omega]] from the [[Primus Vanguard]]'s [[Primus#The_old_universe|eponymous supreme leader]].

Another oversaw the containment of Megatron and his turncoat [[Straxus (G1)#Precursor World|Straxus]] followers by the Order's [[Pretender Monster]] creations such that Wicked could propose an alliance. {{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3)===
{{voiceactor|[[Richard Epcar]] (English)|[[Bernard Métraux]] (French)}}

[[File:War for Cybertron Shockwave.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|"When your hit percentage exceeds mine, YOU may choose the soundtrack!"]] {{Note|Shockwave is an pre-order [[exclusive]] downloadable content character for use in multiplayer modes, and is not playable in the ''War for Cybertron'' storyline campaign. Using a preorder code to unlock him will allow the player to use Shockwave in Escalation mode, and makes his chassis available for customizing an online multiplayer character for Decepticon scientists. His chassis is labelled as "Retaliator". Shockwave was later made available alongside the other preorder-exclusive characters in the ''Transformers: War for Cybertron Map and Character Pack''. He was available for the XBox 360 and PS3 versions of the game, but not for the PC version.}}
{{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' - Decepticons (DS)===
{{voiceactor|[[Steve Blum]] (English)|[[Marc Alfos]] (French)}}

{{Note|Shockwave is an unlockable character for the Nintendo DS version of ''War for Cybertron''. On the Decepticon version he can replace any of the other Decepticons in the campaign mode. He can be unlocked by beating Purification 6 in Arena Mode.}}

Shockwave was at the Energon Purification zone when the Decepticons had used it for their stores of Energon. Shockwave challenged Megatron and his troops to a fight, saying if they beat him, he'd join their ranks. Shockwave was indeed defeated, and somewhat reluctantly joined the Decepticon ranks.
{{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|War for Cybertron - Autobots/Decepticons}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''===
{{voiceactor|[[Steve Blum]] (English)}}
[[File:FoCShockwave2.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1.66|He's being scouted for potential membership into the Legion of Doom.]]
When Cybertron was beginning to shut down, Shockwave wanted to reboot it, but to do this, he needed a large energon supply. As he searched for one, he discovered an ancient technology in the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]] called a Space Bridge. Using the observatories of the ancients that used to reside in the Sea of Rust, Shockwave began searching for new planets that he could suck the life out of, and found [[Earth|one]] rich in raw energy. He also began experimenting on several [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]] which had started coming onto the planet's surface, and took three unusually intelligent Insecticons, [[Hardshell]], [[Kickback (FOC)|Kickback]] and [[Sharpshot]], under his command. He later used them to capture [[Dinobot (FOC)|five Autobots]], whom he gave new forms based on the [[Dinosaur (dinosaur)|large reptiles]] he saw on the planet.

After [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] was killed during siege on Iacon, [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] took command of the Decepticons. The two argued over the use of a lake of Energon near the Space Bridge tower, and though Shockwave attempted to convince him of its potential usefulness, Starscream simply wanted to drain the lake. When [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] disrupted the fuel line leading to the tower, Shockwave unleashed an army of Insecticons upon them while he attempted to rectify the problem. He failed to do so, but luckily he had already built a replica tower in Kaon. Following [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]]'s resurrection of Megatron, Shockwave went to Kaon meet him and informed him of his discovery of the Space Bridge and the planet they could plunder. Megatron subsequently went to retrieve [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]]'s power core so that they could power a craft to get them there, while Shockwave went to finalize the completion of the tower.

Later, Starscream infiltrated Shockwave's facility and watched as Shockwave and his Insecticons tortured [[Grimlock (WFC)|one of the Autobots]] he had experimented on, before he attempted to recruit Grimlock, which failed and resulted in the Autobot being freed. Shockwave decided to consider the breakout a test of Grimlock's new abilities, and monitored him closely as he fought his Insecticon minions, and proceeded to tear apart every one of them. Much later, Grimlock had attempted to attack Shockwave at the Space Bridge, but he was quickly restrained. Shockwave taunted Grimlock saying that he wouldn't create such a powerful weapon without a means to control it, calling him a pet, and contacted Megatron to let him know the tower was active and the portal was open. After Megatron assigned Shockwave to take charge of the Decepticons in his absence, Grimlock was enraged enough for him to transform into his Tyrannosaurus mode and attack Shockwave, tearing his left arm off and ''swallowing it'' before knocking him away with his tail. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (video game)|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron}}

{{note|Shockwave is also a playable character in the 'Oblivion' Escalation map. He fights alongside [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]], [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]], and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. He is the team's [[Medic (FOC)|Medic]], with a heal beam that can be used to revive an injured teammate and replenish their health.}}
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===''Transformers On Your Street''===
Shockwave arrived on [[you]]r street from space in jet mode. He fought [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] and landed a blow against him while you watched through your blinds. Grimlock retaliated by transforming into dinosaur mode, the sight of which sent Shockwave flying away. {{storylink|Transformers On Your Street}}

===''Hunt the Beasts'' online game===
Shockwave infused protoforms with ancient PRedacon CNA to create powerful monstrous troops for the Decepticons. However, they proved uncontrollable, and broke free of their restraints. Shockwave sent out a transmission to [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] to warn him that his Predacon experiments had escaped his lab despite his best efforts to contain them. As he explained that the beasts were heading towards Earth, he was overpowered by [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]], bringing his transmission to an end. {{storylink|Hunt the Beasts}}
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===''Transformers Prime: Beast Creator''===
When Shockwave left his technology unattended, you could use it to custom-create your own monstrous Predacon! {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Beast Creator|Beast Creator}}

===''Transformers Prime: Decepticon Strike''===
Shockwave used his tank mode's impressive firepower to do battle against Optimus Prime in the middle of a lush tropical forest environment. Boasting that logic would prevail, Shockwave was nonetheless sent fleeing after sustaining too much damage at the hands of the Autobot leader. Shockwave later returned to aid Megatron in his own fight against Optimus, but the Decepticons were defeated once more, and sent fleeing. {{storylink|Transformers Prime: Decepticon Strike|Decepticon Strike}}

===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark''==={{voiceactor|[[Steve Blum]] (English)}}
====Console====
Prior to the launch of the ''Ark'', Shockwave, Soundwave and Starscream were tasked to locate and bring the [[Dark Spark]] to Megatron. As the trio searched for the Dark Spark. When the trio arrived at the ruins of [[Crystal City]], they were beset upon by the [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]]. After the three had breached the ruins and beaten back the swarm, Shockwave followed the drones back to Hardshell, Kickback and Sharpshot, the three alphas of the swarm. Managing to defeat the three, Shockwave inducted them into the Decepticons.

Sending the Insecticons on patrol, Shockwave reunited with his allies in time to advance through the final layer of security around the Dark Spark. When they returned to the final vault after unsealing it, the Decepticons found that [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] and [[Ironhide (WFC)|Ironhide]] had already claimed the Dark Spark and fled. The Decepticons pursued the Autobots, managing to rig the Autobots' escape train with a bomb. Following, Shockwave was informed by Sharpshot that Ironhide, not Optimus Prime, had the Dark Spark. After claiming it, Shockwave, escorted by Sharpshot, made for Decepticon territory where they were found by the [[Combaticon (WFC)|Combaticons]], who further reinforced them. Through the power of [[Bruticus (WFC)|Bruticus]], the Decepticons managed to push through to [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]] where Shockwave gave the Dark Spark to Megatron.

Having taking Cliffjumper prisoner, Shockwave designed an experiment to use the Dark Spark to remove the Autobots' will to fight. Before this could be tested however, Optimus Prime freed Cliffjumper. Instead, the Dark Spark was used to control [[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcons]]. Despite these reinforcements, Megatron failed to match Optimus Prime's experience with the [[Matrix of Leadership]] which managed to blast the Dark Spark out of Megatron, knocking him into stasis, Shockwave dragging his master away. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark}}

====3DS====
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{{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (3DS)|Rise of the Dark Spark}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
Shockwave participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! That is, if he was ever released, but he never made it into the game. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}

===''Splatoon''===
[[Squid Sisters|Marie]] considered Shockwave among the coolest of the Decepticons. {{storylink|Splatoon}}

==Commercial appearances==
{{voiceactor|[[Corey Burton]] (English)}}
[[File:WFC Shockwave game.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Well done. Here come the test results: "You are a horrible person." That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.]]
Megatron left Shockwave to handle an unknown battle when he arrived. Shockwave instructed Soundwave to transform into boombox mode and play [[The Touch]]! After a while, Starscream asked about Shockwave's choice of songs and was told once he got a higher hit percentage than Shockwave then he could choose a soundtrack. {{storylink|Commercial#War for Cybertron|GameStop's commercial for their Shockwave multiplayer exclusive}}
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==Toys==
===''Generations''===
[[File:Generationstoy-Shockwave.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"I want him in the games until he dies playing. Acknowledge." "Acknowledged, Master Control." "End of line."]]
*'''Shockwave''' (Deluxe Class, 2012)
**''Series/number'': '''01 / #003'''
**''Accessories:'' Two-piece laser cannon

: Part of the first wave of [[2012]] ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' Deluxe Class toys, ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]'' Shockwave transforms into a "Cybertronian mobile artillery" mode. The front center fuselage of the vehicle becomes a [[5 mm post|hand-held]] "laser cannon" that's modeled after the [[Sling Shock#Generations|Sling Shock]]. It can be stored on a 5 mm port on his back, and undocumented in his [[instructions]], can replace his hands by folding either one of them in, and tabbing the cannon onto the revealed wrist socket. As another undocumented feature, the cannon actually consists of two pieces, with a large Y-shaped muzzle that can be removed, revealing the sculpted ends of a triple-barreled gun. The muzzle stays on the cannon through friction and, depending on the [[quality control]], can fit rather loosely and slide off if pointed downward. (A bit of double-stick tape wrapped around the end of one of the barrels will help it stay in place without permanent changes.) The muzzle part can also be stored on Shockwave's back, forming some sort of [[jet pack|jet-pack]] exhaust.

:Shockwave features two examples of [[Kibble#faux-parts|faux-parts]]: The undersides of his heels resemble the front end of the Y-shaped muzzle part, effectively serving as an extension of the muzzle in vehicle mode, whereas a fake replica of the top end of his head (including his signature "ear" panels) is sculpted on the top side of his vehicle mode (which ends up on the underside of his backpack in robot mode).

:The figure has a "dramatic reveal" feature, where pressing the chest into place causes the head to pop up. The clasp used to hold the spring-loaded piece in place is fairly strong, and requires a small amount of force to latch if the head isn't pressed down before moving the chest assembly. Depending on the individual quality of the figure, this can cause the latch to wear out, and the spring is strong enough that the head will push the whole assembly out of place in vehicle mode if not properly retracted. As such, care should be taken on this step of conversion.

: This toy was [[repurposing|repurposed]] as ''[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]'' [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Generations|Shockwave]] in [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Robots in Disguise]]'' comics. This mold was also [[redeco]]ed/[[retool]]ed into ''Fall of Cybertron'' [[Fireflight (FOC)|Air Raid]] and [[BotCon 2014]] [[Brimstone (G1 Star Seeker)|Brimstone]]. His weapons were later reused for the Million Publishing mail-away exclusive [[Starscream_(G1)/toys#Generations_.28Japan.29|Infiltrator Starscream]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/GenShockwave/shockwave.htm More information on Shockwave at TFU.info]''

===''Prime''===
[[File:Primetoy-TakaraTomy-Shockwave.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|[[Narrator|It is the year 2005...]]]]
*'''Shockwave''' (Deluxe Class, 2012-[[December 15|12-15]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''AM-29'''
**''Accessories:'' "Bido" Arms Micron

: Part of the ninth wave of [[TakaraTomy]] ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'' toys, Shockwave is a redeco/retool of his ''Fall of Cybertron'' toy, and is the only release of said toy in Japan. His wings have been retooled with additional 5mm posts and ports, and he has been redecoed to have a brighter, metallic shade of purple plastic. Additionally, he has brighter silver [[paint operation]]s, and some of his other paint operations have been replaced with customer-applied [[sticker]]s.

: Instead of his two-piece laser cannon, he now comes with an [[Arms Micron]], [[Bido (Prime)|Bido]], who transforms from a robotic rhinoceros beetle into [[Sling Shock#Prime|Shockwave's cannon]] and vehicle fuselage. Bido features numerous 5mm ports and posts for mounting, but can only be used as a hand-held cannon, and is unable to replace Shockwave's hand. Sorry.
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====''Beast Hunters''====
[[File:BHtoy Voyager Shockwave.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Shockwave's early attempt at indoctrinating the Predacons to the Decepticon cause involved wearing dragon costumes. It... didn't go over so well.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Shockwave''' (Voyager Class, 2013)}}</ul>
:*''Series/number'': '''02 / 003'''
:*''Accessories'': Chest armor panel, 2 shoulder/foot armor panels

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime: Beast Hunters]]'' Voyager Class toys, Shockwave transforms into a Cybertronian tank. He features numerous 5mm ports, such as his shoulder-pads, right hand, and right forearm in robot mode, and his feet in vehicle mode. His rear treads are made of rubberized plastic, and the left tread unfurls to become a hose that attaches to the permanently attached "[[Hyperflux Cannon]]" that makes up his left forearm. By repeatedly pressing down on the trigger on top of the cannon, the barrel of the cannon spins while opening and closing, revealing more of its translucent red tip.

:For accessories, he comes with three "beast armor" pieces—a three-eyed chest-plate and two claw-shaped panels—that can be attached to Shockwave in both robot and vehicle modes, with the "claw" pieces attaching to his shoulders and feet via 5mm post. Be aware that these pieces have a tendency to attract dust and acquire a "faded" look. While this munge ''can'' be washed off, it likes to get in the creases and requires a bit of work.

:His instructions forget to mention that the "spike" panels on his tread [[Kibble|backpack]] need to be swung up for robot [[show-accuracy]], and that the treaded portions themselves are on [[Slide joint|telescoping joints]], and need to be pulled apart and extended for tank mode. His instructions also include the [[Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 11|eleventh chapter]] of the ''[[Tales of the Beast Hunters]]'' series.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/Shockwave/shockwave.htm More information on ''Beast Hunters'' Shockwave at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Shockwave's-Lab-Shockwave.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|[[Shockwave (G1)|It is only logical.]]]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1p2|'''Shockwave's Lab''' (Multi-pack, 2013)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Lab Playset

: A [[redeco]] of the ''Beast Hunters'' Voyager Shockwave in brighter G1 coloring, this set depicts Shockwave's creation of [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]], complete with a lab playset and a ''[[Cyberverse (toyline)|Cyberverse]]'' Commander Class [[Predaking (Prime)#SDCC|Predaking]] in translucent and opaque blue. Despite what the stock images suggest, the fuchsia highlights were largely replaced with black on the actual figure.

:This set was exclusive to [[San Diego Comic-Con]] and [[Hasbro Toy Shop]], and is considered the ''[[Thrilling 30#30 exclusive toys|Thrilling 30]]'' exclusive 02.

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1p2|'''Shockwave's Lab''' (Multi-pack, 2013)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Lab Playset

: Exclusive to Cybertron-Con, this Shockwave's Lab set is essentially unchanged from the San Diego Comic Con version, the only difference being that the [[Predaking (Prime)#Cyberverse|Predaking]] figure is now in translucent and opaque orange.

: This set is considered the ''[[Thrilling 30#30 exclusive toys|Thrilling 30]]'' exclusive 06.
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====''Cyberverse''====
[[File:PrimeBHtoy-Cyberverse-Shockwave.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|"Impersonating a stalemate associate. I just added that to the list. It's a list I made of all the things you've done. Well, it's a list that I '''AM''' making, because you're still doing things right now, even though I'm telling you to stop. Stop, by the way."]]
*'''Shockwave''' (Cyberverse Commander Class, 2013)
**''Series/number'': '''03 / 007'''
**''Accessories:'' [[Missile]]
{{toydesigner|[[Joe Kyde]] (Hasbro)}}

: Part of the third wave of ''Prime: Beast Hunters'' [[Cyberverse (toyline)#Series 3|Series 3 ''Cyberverse'']] Commander Class toys, Shockwave is a [[Size class|smaller-scale]] mold. His right hand is compatible with [[C joint|3mm post]]s, and his left forearm is a "Hyperflux Cannon" that can launch its missile via pressure launch.

:Care must be taken on the legs' swivel joints: the construction between the lower side of the left leg's upper thighs is somewhat prone to warping due to it's ''very'' tight construction.

:This mold was later retooled to make [[Bludgeon (Prime)|Bludgeon]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/CybCommShockwave/shockwave.htm More information on Cyberverse Shockwave at TFU.info]''

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[[File:PrimeBH-PredaconsRising-toy-Cyberverse-Shockwave.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|"Okay. I guess emotional outbursts require more than one point six volts. Now we know that. We just need to relax. We're still going to find out what the hell's going on here. But calmly."]]
* '''Bombshock & Shockwave ''' (Commander Class 2-pack)
**''Accessories'': Missile

: A [[redeco]] of Shockwave in colors more reminiscent of his ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]]'' [[Shockwave (G1)/toys#Generation 1|precursor]], this version of Shockwave was only available as part of a "[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Exclusives 2|Predacons Rising]]" Commander Class 2-pack with [[Bombshock (Prime)|Bombshock]], which, as a second [[wave]] ''Predacons Rising'' release, was only available as a [[Target]] [[exclusive]] in the United States (and not in Canada, Australia or Europe), even though it was used in official advertising by BigW in Australia (who ultimately only stocked the wave 1 [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Target2pack|Optimus Prime]] vs [[Predaking (Prime)#Target2pack|Predaking]] two-pack).

:Curiously, like all ''Predacons Rising'' multi-packs featuring redecoed ''Cyberverse'' figures, this set doesn't identify the figures as ''Cyberverse'' products anywhere on the [[packaging]].

:As shown by an official [[stock photography|stock photo]],<ref name="targetlisting">[http://www.target.com/p/transformers-predacons-command-shockwave-figure/-/A-14575734 Target listing] for the Shockwave/Bombshock set, depicting the packaging with mixed up names.</ref> the packaging in its original presentation featured the name "Shockwave" in front of Bombshock, who is placed on the left, and "Bombshock" in front of Shockwave, who is placed on the right. By the time the two-pack hit stores, this was remedied by stickers with the correct names covering up the wrong ones. However, the side panels retain the old names and the "wrong" set of tech specs.<ref name="stickers">[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-news-rumors/953415-predacon-rising-bombshock-shockwave-found.html "Predacon Rising Bombshock and Shockwave found"] thread at TFW2005, showing the stickers.</ref>

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/PRShockwave/shockwave.htm More information on ''Predacons Rising'' Shockwave at TFU.info]''

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===''Kre-O''===
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[[File:Kre-O-Autobot-Command-Center.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Did you know that people with guilty consciences are more easily startled by loud noise--[train horn]--"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Autobot Command Center''' (2013)}}</ul>
:*''Set number'': '''A5412'''
:*''Pieces'': '''461'''
:*''Kreons'': [[Arcee (WFC)#AutobotHQ|Arcee]], [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)#AutobotHQ|Bumblebee]], [[Ratchet (WFC)#Kre-O|Ratchet]], Shockwave, [[Knock Out (Prime)#Kre-O|Knock Out]] mystery figure

: The ''[[Kre-O]]'' [[Autobot Command Center]] set comes with a Shockwave [[Kreon]] to put in the Autobot jail cell. He has a new deco based on ''Prime'' Shockwave.

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[[File:KreO-toy Shockwave BattleChanger.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Shockwave''' (Battle Changer, 2015)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Tank barrel/hand-blaster
{{toydesigner|[[Evan Brooks]] (Hasbro)}}<ref>[https://youtu.be/PdsHMGVDZFg?si=7IIIhq2AU8jwMnSx Interview] with [[Hasbro]] designer [[Evan Brooks]] on the Triple Takeover podcast, from their YouTube channel</ref>

: Released as part of the second wave of Battle Changers, Shockwave is a core Kreon torso with massively built-up limbs and a backpack that transforms into a Cybertronic tank without removing any parts! The tank barrel detaches to clip into his hand to become his wrist-mounted blaster. The robot mode is based on Generation 1 Shockwave, while the vehicle mode is reminiscent of [[Shockwave (WFC)|''Prime'' Shockwave]].

: All of the 2015 ''Transformers [[Kre-O]]'' product was skipped by retailers in the US (at first), seeing release in Canada, Australia, and various Asian markets. In late 2015, much of the line was finally released at discount in the US through TJ Maxx and Marshalls stores, including this set.
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===''Construct-Bots''===
[[File:ConstructBots BH Shockwave.jpg|thumb|300px|More spikes and hard angles than a Bayformer.]]
* '''Shockwave''' (Beast Hunters Elite Class, 2013)
**''Accessories:'' 2 missiles, cannon, sword

: Shockwave transforms into a purple truck with a huge cannon on top. The figure's imposing cannon can be placed on either forearm and even includes a rubber hose! He includes an array of bladed weapons and 2 different types of projectile for his cannon.

:Like pretty much all ''Beast Hunters'' Construct-Bots, Shockwave never saw release in the United States.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/CBBHShockwave/shockwave.htm More information on the Beast Hunters version of Shockwave at TFU.info]''
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===''Bot Shots''===
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[[File:BotShotsS2 Shockwave.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Oh. Hi. So, how are you holding up? Because '''I'M A POTATO.'''"]]
*'''Shockwave''' (2013)
**''Series'': '''2'''
**''Number'': '''B003'''
{{toydesigner|[[Hisao Nishimoto]] (TakaraTomy)}}
::*''Fist strength'': '''645'''
::*''Blaster strength'': '''865'''
::*''Sword strength'': '''110'''

:Part of the first wave of ''Bot Shots'' Series 2 single-packs, Jump Shot Shockwave springs up when auto-transforming from tank to robot mode (complete with gun hand).

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/BSJSShockwave/shockwave.htm More information on Jump Shot Shockwave at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BotShotsS2 3pack Shockwave.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"I can't move. And unless you're planning to saw your own head off and wedge it into my old body, you're going to need me to replace him. We're at an impasse."]]
*'''Bumblebee / Shockwave / Skyquake''' (Multi-pack, 2013)
**''Series'': '''2'''
**''Number'': '''BP003'''
***''Fist strength'': '''710'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''790'''
***''Sword strength'': '''115'''

:Part of the first wave of ''Bot Shots'' Series 2 three-packs, this is a redeco of Jump Shot Shockwave in a lighter, more-bluish purple, with bronze details. He comes with [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#BotShot3pack2|Jump Shot Bumblebee]] and [[Skyquake (Prime)#BotShot3pack2|Super Bot Skyquake]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/BSShockwave/shockwave.htm More information on three-pack Jump Shot Shockwave at TFU.info]''

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===''Go!''===
[[File:Transformers-Go!-G-13-Hunter-Shockwave.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|[[Shockwave (Movie)|He lost his teeth.]]]]
*'''Hunter Shockwave''' (2013-[[April 27|04-27]])
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''G13'''
**''Accessories:'' Chest armor panel, 2 shoulder/foot armor panels

:Part of the first wave of ''[[Triple Combination: Transformers Go! (toyline)|Go!]]'' toys, Hunter Shockwave is a redeco of the [[#Beast Hunters|''Beast Hunters'' Voyager Class Shockwave]] toy cast in a darker, metallic shade of purple plastic. He features additional metallic blue paint applications. His armor pieces are now black.
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==Merchandise==
===''Thrilling 30''===
*'''Shockwave''' (Collectible Figurine, 2014)
**''Series / Number:'' '''2 / #22'''
**''Accessories:'' Collector's base
:A super-deformed Shockwave was released among the blindpacked [[Thrilling 30#Collectible Figurines|''Thrilling 30'' Collectible Figurines]] by [[Goldie Marketing]]. He comes with a base to help him stand, a collector's card that doubles as a puzzle piece, and a checklist.

*'''Collectible Figurines''' (5-pack, 2014)
**''Series:'' '''2'''
**''Accessories:'' 5 collector's bases
:The same Shockwave figurine was also available in a 5-pack alongside [[Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Thrilling 30|Bumblebee]], [[Wheeljack (Prime)#Thrilling 30|Wheeljack]], [[Soundwave (WFC)#Thrilling 30|Soundwave]] and an [[Insecticon (WFC)#Thrilling 30|Insecticon]].

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==Notes==
* In the map of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] from the "[[Binder of Revelation]]" included in ''[[Transformers Vault]]'', Shockwave came from [[Tarn (polity)|Tarn]], which explains why he took control of it during the war.
* As noted above, Shockwave's model is usable in ''War for Cybertron'' multiplayer as the Retaliator-type chassis for [[Scientist (WFC)|Scientist]]-class characters. His parts are also available for Scientists in ''Fall of Cybertron'', now classified as Defender-type components.
* Shockwave is usable in both the Autobot and Decepticon versions of the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|''War for Cybertron'' games for the DS]]. He is used only for multiplayer, bonus missions and Arena mode in the Autobot version and used in Multiplayer, Arena mode, and campaign in the Decepticon version.
* In the Xbox 360/PS3 versions of War for Cybertron, Shockwave's left arm is his Plasma Cannon, but in the DS version, it's his ''right'' arm.
* Like the rest of the DLC characters, Shockwave in Escalation shares voice lines with his Multiplayer class. In this case, he's voiced by [[Richard Epcar]].
* The GameStop ''War for Cybertron'' commercial describes Shockwave as second-in-command of the Decepticons, and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] is never officially referred to as such.
* For said commercial, Shockwave was voiced by [[Corey Burton]], voice actor of [[Shockwave (G1)|Generation 1]] and [[Shockwave (Animated)|Animated]] Shockwaves. He later lamented over [http://www.coreyburton.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=853&sid=3992b18086e21d8f6face60940505757 a forum post] that the performance was so rushed and the "gag" nature so out of character, that it hardly even sounded like him: "Two different sessions; and while they were awfully nice to work with, I have to say that the gag line was written and directed completely off-character. Since it was all supposed to be pretty "camp" anyway, and it had to be wedged-into a space that wasn't even there in the initial cut, I just went along with it. Figured it's just a silly bit of hype, that wasn't worth taking seriously enough to fuss over."
* The aforementioned commercial also indicates that Shockwave is evidently a fan of [[Stan Bush]].
* According to his [[Transformers Hall of Fame]] bio, Shockwave's emotions sometimes get the better of him, leading to irrational behavior. He also hopes that one day his work will let him reformat all Cybertronians to a new form of existence and ideally become ruler of Cybertron in the process. Looks like Megatron's hunch wasn't far off...
* Although Shockwave is a Jet in the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game, he's a ground vehicle in the DS Version. This is most probably because the mission he is unlocked in features his Autobot counterpart, [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]], a Heavy Ground vehicle. Shockwave's increasable stats are, however, those of a Flying Vehicle.
* The ''Prime'' writers admitted that, not knowing what to do with the character, Shockwave was not going to survive his debut episode, before eventually coming up with a way to incorporate the character as a regular during the third season.
* In the Japanese dub of ''Prime'', actor [[Kenta Miyake]] channels the unique personality of [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] from the Japanese dub of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original ''The Transformers'' cartoon]] in that he's a grizzled old man with a gravelly voice and a short temper. Unlike the Japanese Generation 1 Shockwave, ''this'' Shockwave has a new verbal tic in which he endlessly punctuates sentences by bellowing the word ''"Shock!"''

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Shockwave''' (ショックウェーブ ''Shokkuwēbu'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Zhènbō''' (Taiwan, 震波, "Shockwave"), '''Zhèndàngbō''' (Mainland China, 震荡波, "Shockwave")
*''Russian:'' '''Vzryvala''' (Взрывала, "Blaster")

==See also==
{{OtherVersions
|charname=Shockwave
|disambig=Shockwave (disambiguation)
|body=
*[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], the logical Decepticon who's to blame for everything from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].
*[[Shockblast]], the murderous Decepticon berserker from [[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|''Energon'']].
*[[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]], the loyal Decepticon spy from [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|''Animated'']].
*[[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]], the Decepticon beastmaster and killing machine from [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|''Dark of the Moon'']].
*[[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]], the Decepticon mad scientist from [[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|''Cyberverse'']].}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Construct-Bots Decepticons]]
[[Category:Cyberverse]]
[[Category:Fall of Cybertron Decepticons]]
[[Category:Generations]]
[[Category:Go! Decepticons]]
[[Category:Hall of Fame characters]]
[[Category:Kre-O Decepticons]]
[[Category:Kreons]]
[[Category:Prime Decepticons]]
[[Category:Purple Order]]
[[Category:Scientists]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron Decepticons]]

Cortical psychic patch

2026-04-23T19:06:44Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign names */ annnd another one!

[[Image:Corticalpsychicpatchcable.jpg|300px|thumb|Now, where to hang this doohickey...]]

[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] developed the '''cortical psychic patch''' during the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]]. It is a procedure through which the mind of one [[Transformer]] can be joined with another, using a cable connected directly between the two Transformers' brains. By this means, the victim's memories can be viewed by both parties, allowing information to be extracted, though it appears to be a read-only arrangement. The procedure was banned by the [[Autobot]]s, though there are a substantial number of texts on the subject available to interested Autobot medics.

==Fiction==
===''Prime'' cartoon===
Shockwave used a cortical psychic patch to extract decryption codes from [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]]'s mind, thus informing the Decepticons of the Autobots' new home on [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Out of the Past}}

With [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] infected with [[cybonic plague]] and time short, [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] decided to try the procedure, though he had never previously attempted it himself. He talked Arcee through setting up a cortical psychic patch between [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]], who at the time was lying comatose in the [[Trypticon (WFC)|Decepticon warship]]. The procedure succeeded, inserting Bumblebee into the replication of [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]] constructed by Megatron's subconscious, and Bumblebee was able to interact with Megatron and retrieve the formula for the plague cure. Arcee then disconnected the patch, but Megatron was able to use the dying connection to jump into Bumblebee's head. {{storylink|Sick Mind}} Megatron subsequently returned to the ''Nemesis'' in Bumblebee's body and used the patch to return to his own form as he revived it with a shard of [[Dark Energon]]. {{storylink|Out of His Head}}

Megatron successfully learned the purpose of the [[Omega Key]]s by using a patch to view [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]]'s memories. {{storylink|Inside Job}}

Another patch proved useful when Megatron wanted to find out [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]'s true motives, as he was able to replay Starscream's own memories. Though when the memories started to incriminate him as well, [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] was tempted to prematurely disconnect the link, trapping Megatron in Starscream's head, and was only stopped by [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]. {{storylink|Patch (episode)|Patch}}

A patch used on [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] by Shockwave failed to yield any useful information on the whereabouts of the scattered Autobots, as Wheeljack didn't know anything. {{storylink|Scattered}} Shockwave used a patch to try to extract information from Ratchet on how to complete the Synthetic Energon formula but failed as the doctor didn't know how to complete it any more than the Decepticons did. {{storylink|Persuasion}}

===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
[[File:Cortical psychic patch (Cyberverse - Fractured).jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Now say 'aaah'."]]
The cortical psychic patch was invented by [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]]. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

In an attempt to help the amnesiac [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] regain his memories, [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]] used a cortical psychic patch to enter his mind. However, the process failed and subjected the Autobots to extreme pain before rendering them unconscious. It also emitted a powerful energy pulse that attracted the attention of nearby Decepticons [[Thundercracker (Cyberverse)|Thundercracker]] and [[Nova Storm (Cyberverse)|Nova Storm]]. {{storylink|Fractured}} Upon defeating the [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]], the two Autobots managed to locate and board their ship, where Windblade managed to successfully use the cortical psychic patch to enter her friend's mind by using the ship itself as extra computing power. {{storylink|Memory (Cyberverse)|Memory}} Following this, Windblade and Bumblebee made regular use of the cortical psychic patch to tap into Bumblebee's mind and attempt to access his memories, {{storylink|Cube (episode)|Cube}} the scout even going in on his own once. {{storylink|Terminal Velocity}}

The duo's frequent usage of the patch would inspire Shockwave to hack into one of the sessions and trap Bumblebee in a false memory. Though Bumblebee was able to break free of the illusion, doing so came at the cost of destroying their [[Decepticon scout ship|ship]] though they managed to hold onto the patch. {{storylink|Sabotage}}

[[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]] was able to interface with the patch, helping Bumblebee remember more about [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}}

Slipstream used a cortical psychic patch to try and gleam information from Windblade but failed to find any useful information in the [[cityspeaker]]'s mind. {{storylink|Siloed}}

After the [[Quintesson]]s had invaded Cybertron and wired the populace into the Loop, the resistance utilized a cortical psychic patch to interact with the virtual reality. {{storylink|The Loop}} [[Perceptor (Cyberverse)|Perceptor]] later located a second patch in one of Shockwave's labs, sending [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]] and [[Clobber (Cyberverse)|Clobber]] to retrieve it. {{storylink|The Dead End}}

Hot Rod later used the patch to try and free [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]] but used it for so long that the [[Prosecutor (Cyberverse)|Prosecutors]] managed to pinpoint his position. {{storylink|The Sleeper}} When trying to free Windblade, Hot Rod and Clobber used the patch to reenter the simulation. {{storylink|The Trial}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
Upon discovering [[Gauge]] and her family aboard the ''[[Exodus (G1 ship)|Exodus]]'', the [[Reversionist]]s used a psychic patch to reprogram the young Cybertronian before [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] and [[Greenlight]] used another to restore her memories. {{storylink|Gauging the Truth, Part Two: A Truth for a Truth}}

==Notes==
*The cortical psychic patch in ''Prime'' resembles [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]]'s tentacles, though thinner, with the appendages being based on his [[Soundwave (ROTF)|live-action counterpart]]'s.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Nōnai shinnyū program''' (''Prime'', 脳内侵入プログラム, "intracerebral invasion program"), '''Nōmiso Tunageru-kun''' (''Cyberverse'', 脳みそ繋げるくん, "Brain Connection-kun")
*''French:'' '''Connexion cortico-psychique''' (''Prime'', "cortico-psychic connection"), '''Patch de voyance corticale''' (''Prime'', "cortical psychic patch"), '''Test psycho-cortical''' (''Prime'', "psycho-cortical test"), '''Implant cortico-psychique''' (''Prime'', "cortico-psychic implant"), '''Dispositif psychique cortical''' (''Cyberverse'', "cortical psychic device"), '''Patch psychique cortical''' (''Cyberverse'', "cortical psychic patch")
*''Italian:'' '''Cavo di connessione neuronale''' ("neuronal link cable")
*''Russian:'' '''Psikhokortikal'noye soyedineniye''' (Психокортикальное соединение, "psychocortical connection")

==See also==
*[[Mnemosurgery]]
*[[Psycho-probe]]

[[Category:Cyberverse technology]]
[[Category:IDW (2019) technology]]
[[Category:Prime technology]]

Scattered

2026-04-23T19:05:56Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign localization */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 54
|prev=Darkmount, NV
|next=Prey (episode)
|image=Scattered-JackArcee.jpg
|caption=Everything you know will be scattered.
|title="Scattered"
|season=3
|season ep=2
|airdate=[[March 15]], [[2013]] (Singapore) [[March 29]], 2013 (USA)
|written by=[[Steven Melching]]
|directed by=[[Vinton Heuck]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWcVbWVgiNc
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''A key Decepticon arrives on Earth while Wheeljack manages a small victory.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] are both surprised to see [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]], having believed him dead. Shockwave explains that after his battle with [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] and [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] in the [[space bridge]], he found himself marooned on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. After repairing himself, he continued his experiments until an energy surge led him to [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]]'s team in the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]]. He asks Starscream pointedly why he was left for dead and, when Starscream says everybody thought he died in the explosion, judges the response logical enough. Megatron appoints Shockwave first lieutenant in charge of science, something Starscream doesn't seem that happy with.

[[File:Scattered-Bigfoot.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Unlike [[Bigfoot]], Ratchet is actually findable.]]

[[Jack Darby|Jack]] and Arcee stop at a deserted farmhouse for a break and Jack worries that they're all that's left of Team Prime. Arcee says there are other Autobots out there who escaped in the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'', but who knows where they are? Meanwhile [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] is surfing [[Internet|conspiracy websites]] in search of [[Autobot]] sightings. He hits dirt in the form of a photo of [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] in a junkyard outside Woodland Park. Starscream, doing likewise, finds the same picture, but before he can draw the other Decepticons' attention to it, Raf replaces the picture with a dancing monkey. To quell Megatron's displeasure, Shockwave suggests using a [[cortical psychic patch]] on [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]]. Meanwhile, [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] and [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] are waiting fruitlessly at the Wrecker meeting spot.

[[File:Scattered-Ultra Magnus.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"Hey, who's that?"]]

Shockwave reports that the patch didn't yield any new information. Starscream announces he'll see to Wheeljack's termination, and soon Wheeljack is standing on a platform over lava. The attendant [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s push Wheeljack towards the edge, but he grabs one of them and throws it off before jumping himself. The Vehicon transforms to flight mode, and Wheeljack lands on its back, proceeding to go on a Vehicon-trashing flight before driving off. Megatron is very upset until Starscream reveals he's planted a tracking device on Wheeljack so the Autobot can lead them to his friends.

Bumblebee and Raf reach the junkyard to find Ratchet sitting in vehicle mode and sporting the surliest mood as the Autobots have patently lost. The pair suggest that they can use the ''Harbinger''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s resources to fight back, but Ratchet has no hope they can do anything, and tells them to leave him alone.

Meanwhile, [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] has been unable to salvage anything medical from the ruins of the base. When [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]] asks about the [[Forge of Solus Prime]], Smokescreen reasons it must be in the fortress somewhere, and goes to look.

[[File:Scattered-loomingshadow.jpg|left|thumb|300px|So big he's got his own zipcode.]]

Bulkhead and Miko's waiting is finally rewarded by the arrival of Wheeljack. The Decepticons, monitoring Starscream's bug, see that their plan has paid off, and Starscream sends out his Vehicon seekers. The Decepticons arrive at a river, but all they see is a log floating downstream. The log turns out to have both the tracking device and a grenade attached, the latter of which takes them all out. Watching from a nearby hill, Wheeljack reveals how he found the tracking device, and says he has some more explosives.

Raf and Bumblebee try unsuccessfully to power up the ''Harbinger'', only to be pleasantly surprised when Ratchet arrives to help noting they miscalibrated the [[energon transducer]]. Elsewhere, Jack and Arcee's journey is interrupted by the surprise arrival of a [[Iron Will|starship]]. It lands in front of them and out steps none other than [[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]].

On the ''Nemesis'', Megatron rages over Starscream's failure, but Shockwave reveals he has a wild card of his own, sitting in his lab on Cybertron. Taking a trip back to their home planet, Shockwave returns through the space bridge with the huge creature he has cloned—a [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacon]].

==Featured characters==
(Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks.) 
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*''[[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]] (5)''
*[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (6)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (9)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (12)
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (13)
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (15)
*[[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] (16)
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (17)
*[[Ultra Magnus (WFC)|Ultra Magnus]] (18)
|c2=
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (1)
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (2)
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] (3)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (4)
*[[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (7)
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s (14)
*[[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] (19)

|c3=
*[[Jack Darby]] (8)
*[[Raf Esquivel]] (10)
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (11)

}}

==Quotes==
"I find your reply to be... logical."
:—'''Shockwave''''s response to Starscream's explanation.

"Careful, Starscream. You may dislocate a landing gear patting yourself on the back."
:—'''Knock Out''' snarks at Starscream's billionth "I killed Cliffjumper" gloat.

"Do your worst, Doc. I'm a Wrecker. I can take it." 
"Trust me. You, in fact, cannot.
:—'''Shockwave''' is unimpressed by '''Wheeljack's''' defiance in the face of a cortical psychic patch.

"We can't stop Megatron. Not any more. The war is over, and ''we '''lost'''''."
:—'''Ratchet''', bucking for [[Huffer (Prime)|Huffer's]] job.

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
* Shockwave's battle with Arcee and Cliffjumper took place in "[[Out of the Past]]".
* Starscream brings up the fact that he offlined Cliffjumper, yet ''again''.
* The photo Raf uses to replace Ratchet's is the same one he used in "[[New Recruit]]".
* Jack mentions the [[Key to Vector Sigma]], which Optimus gave him in "[[One Shall Rise, Part 2]]" and was returned in "[[Orion Pax, Part 3]]".
* Wheeljack counts Miko among the Wreckers when he reunites with her and Bulkhead, having unofficially inducted her into the group after she offlined [[Hardshell]] in "[[Hurt]]".

===Transformers references===
* Much like its Generation 1 equivalent, Darkmount has a [[smelting pool]].
* As of this episode, the silver Jet Vehicon Generals are identified as "[[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]" by both Starscream and the end credits.
* Starscream's tracking device looks like a smaller version of [[Dreadwing's bombs]].
* Like in other continuities, Shockwave has been stuck on Cybertron as he reveals in this episode as his past.

===Real-world references===
* Shockwave notes that "Reports of my demise were greatly premature," a paraphrase of a famous quote from [[Mark Twain]].
* The photo of Ratchet homages {{w|Patterson–Gimlin film|a particularly iconic image of Bigfoot}}.

===Animation and technical errors===
* As in the previous episode, Wheeljack is perfectly clean despite being pulled from the wreckage of his ship relatively disheveled and somewhat damaged. He does retain the scars on his chest, but these don't carry over to his vehicle mode.
* As Arcee chats with Jack about other Autobots who left Cybertron, the wings on her back are missing in one shot (see the main image). Later on, Bumblebee is missing one of his wings when he and Raf try to talk to Ratchet.
* When Starscream says he'll see to Wheeljack's immediate termination, his right arm seems to move out of place.
* Before Starscream commands his armada to the flight deck, the screen already shows five seekers approaching Wheeljack.

===Continuity errors===
*Knock Out shoving a Vehicon out of the way to get a look at Shockwave's arrival is inconsistent with the previous episode, which showed a Vehicon pointing it out to him.

===Trivia===
* The worldwide premiere screening of the first three episodes was held at the Globe Theater in Universal Studios Hollywood on [[March 14]].
* The worldwide television premiere of "Scattered" was a day later on okto, a Singaporean channel, where it aired back-to-back with "[[Darkmount, NV]]" and "[[Prey (episode)|Prey]]".
* Raf is an ''amazing'' hacker. He not only replaced the image file of Ratchet where it was found on the internet, he ''also'' somehow managed to change the already downloaded image on Starscream's open browser window.
* It takes Ratchet mere seconds to deduce that Starscream was using the ''Harbinger'' as a base of operations back when he was an independent agent. Surely this would have been useful when [[Triangulation|he stole the Apex Armor]], the [[New Recruit|red energon]], or the [[Inside Job|Omega Keys]]. Ah, hindsight.
* By the same token, it seems odd that Starscream simply abandoned the ''Harbinger'', rather than have the Decepticons occupy it upon his return. He is aware that the Autobots know of its location, and it's the only available source of Cybertronian technology on the planet for them to make use of now that their base has been destroyed. This would later be addressed in "[[Rebellion (Prime)|Rebellion]]".
* Knock Out is now the [[Ratchet (WFC)|third]] [[Starscream (WFC)|Cybertronian]] to be amused by human humor.
* Cybertronians apparently need to stretch.
* The sound Bulkhead's charging cannon makes when he's aiming at what turns out to be Wheeljack is one [[Ernie Hudson]] would probably recognize: that of a ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' [[proton pack]] being switched on.
* ''No One Cares About Vehicons'': Starscream's ploy to let Wheeljack escape involved (either by design or by happenstance) the destruction of four Vehicon jets.
* ''No One Cares About Vehicons, Redux'': When Wheeljack detonates his grenade in the faces of Starscream's armada, Screamer's only complaint is being outsmarted by the Wrecker.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Le Secret de Shockwave'''" ("Shockwave's Secret")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*[[Jean-Marc Delhausse]] voices Shockwave, while he was dubbed by [[Bruno Bulté]] for his one episode in season 2. Delhausse will keep the role for three episodes, before Bulté takes it back from episode 5 onwards to the end of the series.
::*"Sea of rust" is finally fully translated. In season 2, "Rust" was kept in English, making it a place or a region of Cybertron.
::*As usual, the cortical psychic patch changes its French name again. Its new name (the 4th in the series) is now "implant cortico-psychique" ("cortico-psychic implant").

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Verstreut'''" ("Scattered")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 1|1 October]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Szétszórva'''" ("Scattered")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 3|3 September]] [[2013]]

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Espalhados aos Ventos'''" (Scattered to the Winds)
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 11|11 October]] [[2013]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Sparpagliati'''" ("Scattered")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 6|6 September]] [[2013]]

'''Spanish (Spain)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Esparcidos'''" ("Scattered")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 8|8 October]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Dawn of the Beast ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 1: Battle for Darkmount ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Saison 3 Volume 1: Le règne de Mégatron ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 1: Battle for Darkmount (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Staffel 3 Teil 1: Schlacht um Darkmount (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Intégrale Saison 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Die komplette Staffel 3 (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2016 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Darkmount, NV

2026-04-23T19:00:03Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign localization */

{{disambig3|Darkmount}}

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|caption=Sigh. Tourists.
|title="Darkmount, NV"
|season=3
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|airdate=[[March 15]], [[2013]] (Singapore) [[March 22]], 2013 (USA)
|written by=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|directed by=[[Shaunt Nigoghossian]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
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'''Optimus struggles to survive while the other Autobots try to find each other.'''

==Synopsis==
The [[Decepticon]]s search the ruins of [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|Outpost Omega One]]. [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] has investigated the wreckage of the ''[[Jackhammer (Prime)|Jackhammer]]'', and returns with [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] as captive. [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] orders him taken back to [[Darkmount (Earth)|Darkmount]] for questioning while the troops continue to search not far from where [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus]] is half-buried. The Decepticons eventually dig up [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]], still trapped in her stasis chamber, and the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] but are unable to find any bodies. This turns out to be because [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] has spirited Optimus away using the [[phase shifter]]. The young [[Autobot]] shelters his badly-damaged leader in an underground cavern. Meanwhile, as Megatron orders [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] to monitor frequencies Earth-wide for Autobot communications, Starscream spots an incoming human military force and offers to dispatch the armada to deal with them. Megatron instead turns Darkmount's [[fusion cannon]]s on them, devastating the human forces as well as [[Jasper]].

[[File:DarkmountNV-Bumblebee.jpg|left|thumb|Upright=2.6|''Black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow.'']]
Megatron contacts [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]], warning him that the Decepticons should not be interfered with, but with the news that Megatron bears the humans no ill will and simply wants to settle on Earth in peace. Starscream is impressed with Megatron's talent for deception. Fowler, meanwhile, reports to [[Bryce|his superior]] that Jasper's evacuation was completed in time and a cover story in place, but the military want to [[Nuclear weapon|nuke]] the Decepticons. [[June Darby]], working as a medic on the military base, asks if there's been any word from the others, but there's no way to contact anyone without giving away their position.

A patrolling [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]] scans cars moving along a road, but fails to recognize [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], who has a new paint job. Bumblebee and [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] stop and discuss how they're going to find the rest of the team, concluding the best bet is to continue heading towards Jasper. In the [[Rocky Mountains|Rockies]], [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] and [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] head towards a [[Wreckers|Wrecker]] meeting spot Bulkhead and Wheeljack had decided on.

Back in Darkmount, Starscream's interrogation of Wheeljack is not bearing fruit as Wheeljack doesn't know anything. Megatron orders [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] to take a team back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to search for Iacon relics at their previous battle site.

[[File:DarkmountNV-SmokescreenOptimus.jpg|thumb|300px|Smokescreen, am I... turning grey yet?]]
Optimus stirs, and Smokescreen relates how he snuck back to the base during the evacuation, and used the phase shifter to get Optimus out. While Smokescreen is keen to go find Ratchet, Optimus stops him, saying cryptically that there is "no hope" of finding Ratchet, but powers back down into unconsciousness before he can explain.

[[Jack Darby|Jack]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] pause in their travels and spot a helicopter. Arcee leaves Jack to go investigate, whereupon Jack decides that sending a text message to his mother might be safe. Unfortunately his message is detected by Soundwave, and the Decepticons swiftly dispatch a force. Jack only has time to put away his phone before a Vehicon starts strafing him. Arcee, having identified the helicopter as civilian, sees the explosions and heads back. Jack unsuccessfully seeks shelter under a truck, but Arcee gets back in time to save him. The pair set up a trap at a nearby gas station, destroying it to take out the two Vehicons and [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]], before fleeing.

The search for relics on Cybertron turns up the [[Apex Armor (Thirteen)|Apex Armor]], and... something else. Back on Earth, Soundwave is examining Laserbeak and failing to retrieve any of the surveillance data when Knock Out's call comes through. Knock Out returns triumphantly through the space bridge with a surprise guest: [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]!

==Featured characters==
(Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks.) 
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (5)
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (6)
*''[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]''
*[[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] (8)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (11)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (13)
*[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (17)
|c2=
*[[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]s (1)
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]]s (2)
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (3)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (4)
*[[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (15)
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] (18)
*[[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]] (19)
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (20)
|c3=
*[[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] (9)
*[[June Darby]] (10)
*[[Raf Esquivel]] (12)
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (14)
*[[Jack Darby]] (16)
|c4=
*[[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] (7)
}}

==Quotes==
"Agent Fowler, I admit that war brings out the worst in me, but the conflict with the Autobots is now over, and our quarrel has never been with your kind. Now that the one true enemy of the Decepticons is no more, my only wish is to coexist on this planet with the human race... peacefully. Together, Agent Fowler, I believe that you and I can make that dream a reality."
:—'''Megatron''' on the phone.

"Earth is our planet now, Starscream, and we shall finish what we started. Humankind has no idea what lies ahead for them."
:—'''Megatron''' off the phone.

"He's feeding me a load of horse puckey, trying to crush our spirit."
:—'''Agent Fowler''' is not buying what Megatron is selling.

"How long does it take to exterminate a lone Autobot and her human pet?!" 
"Well, in my experience-" 
"Not a riddle, Starscream."
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Starscream'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Fowler contacts his superior, [[Bryce|General Bryce]], previously seen in "[[Grill (episode)|Grill]]".
*This episode covers the fates of the various Iacon relics and other things left unattended in the previous episode. With the exception of the phase shifter, the relics taken by Prime's team were left on Cybertron. The Forge of Solus Prime and Airachnid both survived the destruction of the Autobot base. Prime's [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]] and Megatron's [[Dark Star Saber]] turn up again later, intact (while the dead Prime's arm was never seen again).
*Megatron is shocked to find the Forge in the Autobot base. [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] stole it and gave it to the Autobots back in "[[Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration]]". Obviously Megatron didn't find out about that particular bit of treachery.
*Megatron also has his original arm back, last seen being removed by Knock Out in "[[Alpha/Omega]]". Evidently he kept it in storage.
*Starscream expresses surprise at Megatron's diplomatic skills, echoing an exchange in ''[[Transformers: Exodus]]''.
*The [[Milky Way]] is shown outside Cybertron, consistent with the stellar cartography in ''Exodus''.

===Transformers references===
*The name "Darkmount" comes from the [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|fortress of the same name]] first introduced in the [[The Smelting Pool!|original Marvel comic]]; the name was later used for a toy representing [[Straxus (G1)|the commander of Darkmount]].
*Fowler references containment procedure "[[The Transformers (franchise)|G-1]]000" when describing the evacuation of Jasper.
*Bumblebee's new black-and-yellow paint job resembles an [[Bumblebee (Movie)#Robot mode and CG model(s)|unused redesign]] for him in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''.
*Darkmount's cannons seem to share a few similarities with the [[Dimensional Decimator]], a weapon featured in the 2012 game ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron]]''. Both of them suck in nearby objects and clump them together, only to explode and send whatever was grabbed (or what's left) flying.

===Animation and technical errors===
[[File:DarkmountNV-Louisiana.jpg|thumb|250px|So the Decepticons' master plan is to drive the Louisiana landmass into the ocean, forcing the state to re-locate inside Texas? ''Those bastards!'']]
*As previously seen in "[[The Human Factor]]", the map of the continental [[United States of America|United States]] shows [[Louisiana]] rendered within [[Texas]], with a noticeable gap along the coastline where Louisiana should be.

===Continuity errors===
*The shape of the Decepticon citadel appears to have changed since the previous episode to accommodate the four huge fusion cannons.
*The tanks spearheading the failed assault on Darkmount resemble German Leopard 2s more than M1 Abrams tanks- the latter being the more logical choice as the one operated by the United States.
*In "[[Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour]]", Optimus Prime had his mouthplate retracted when he was preparing to destroy the GroundBridge controls. When he is seen lying in the rubble, he is wearing it, only for it to disappear once Smokescreen pulls him into the cavern.
*The Decepticon citadel was previously named as "New Kaon" in "[[Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour]]", only to be called Darkmount in this one. While a change of heart regarding the name isn't out of the question, there can't be more than a few hours' difference between this episode and the previous one.
*Smokescreen's return to the base is inconsistent with the previous episode, or even the flashbacks to it in this episode. He is shown to have returned within moments of the base's destruction, but was the second-to-last to use the GroundBridge, Ratchet being the last. Since Ratchet changed the coordinates, he should have returned well before the blast, and should have been spotted by Optimus when he did.
*Since releasing gasoline from the hoses requires money, or at least using an activation code inside the station, behind the counter, there is no way Jack would have been able to activate the gas line from inside the station or use a credit card to activate it within the few seconds of the Vehicons' arrival.
*At the military base, the gas station, the truck depot and everywhere else the Autobots travel, there are no civilian humans but the named cast visible anywhere.

===Trivia===
*This episode was initially revealed in [[Hub Network|The Hub]]'s March highlights document under the name "Darkmouth, NV".
*The worldwide premiere screening of the first three episodes was held at the Globe Theater in [[Universal|Universal Studios]] Hollywood on [[March 14]].
*The worldwide television premiere of "Darkmount, NV" was a day later on okto, a Singaporean channel, where it aired back-to-back with "[[Scattered]]" and "[[Prey (episode)|Prey]]".
*This episode was rebroadcast on [[April 19]] with "Autobits", which are popups with trivia or jokes, added in.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Le Règne de Megatron'''" ("The Reign of Megatron")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*Knock Out's call to Megatron before he comes back to Darkmount with Shockwave is missing its radio effect, making it sound like Knock Out is already in the room.

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Darkmount, Nevada'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 30|30 September]] [[2013]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Darkmount'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 2|2 September]] [[2013]]

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Darkmount, Nevada'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 4|4 October]] [[2013]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Darkmount, Nevada'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' [[September 6|6 September]] [[2013]]

'''Spanish (Spain)'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Darkmount, Nevada'''"
:*''Original airdate:'' [[October 7|7 October]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] [[2013]] — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Dawn of the Beast ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] [[2014]] — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 1: Battle for Darkmount ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] [[2015]] — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Saison 3 Volume 1: Le règne de Mégatron ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season 3 Volume 1: Battle for Darkmount (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Staffel 3 Teil 1: Schlacht um Darkmount (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Intégrale Saison 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Die komplette Staffel 3 (Primal Screen) — English, German, Dutch and French audio. 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — The Complete Season 3 (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] [[2016]] — ''Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters'' — Season Three Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Regeneration (Prime)

2026-04-22T12:16:24Z

SoundSky: /* Foreign localization */

{{disambig2|the episode from ''Prime''|the episode from Armada|Regeneration (Armada)}}

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 51
|prev=Patch (episode)
|next= Darkest Hour (episode)
|image=RegenerationOmegaKeysHologram.jpg
|caption=This is ''totally'' not gonna be epic.
|title="Regeneration"
|season=2
|season ep=25
|airdate=[[October 26]], [[2012]]
|written by=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|directed by=[[Todd Waterman]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Allspark (company)|Hasbro Studios]]
|video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMbNsEbisjQ
|videosite=YouTube
}}

'''The quest for the Omega Lock takes the Autobots and the Decepticons to Cybertron for a battle.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] is already making plans to move in with [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] while [[Jack Darby|Jack]] is feeling left out of the loop. [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] points out they no longer have the [[Omega Key]]s, let alone any way to get to Cybertron. They speculate that [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] has used the keys to bargain his way back with the [[Decepticon]]s. While they're wondering why Starscream didn't just try to sell the keys to the highest bidder, they are contacted by [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]], who requests a meeting. [[GroundBridge|Bridging]] out to a remote location, they find Dreadwing, who presents them with the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. Disillusioned by the fate of [[Skyquake (Prime)|his brother]], Dreadwing no longer believes in the Decepticon cause, though he's not interested in joining the Autobots either.

Back at base, the Autobots wonder what [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] will do with the Omega Keys, and [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] believes he will use them to restore Cybertron for political points. Optimus is aware that Megatron doesn't know of the existence of the [[Omega Lock]], which is needed to use the keys. He reveals to the others that [[Alpha Trion]] entrusted him with knowledge of the Lock and its location on Cybertron during the message stored in the [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]]. Optimus starts using the Forge to modify the GroundBridge.

[[Image:DreadAttacksScream-Regeneration.JPG|thumb|left|250px|My name is Kunta Kinte! Not Toby!]]
Dreadwing returns to the ''[[Trypticon (WFC)|Nemesis]]'' where Megatron encounters him in a corridor and makes sure to stress that the Decepticons must be united to restore Cybertron. For his part, Dreadwing intends to personally reach out to [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. In the medical bay, [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] has just finished restoring Starscream's [[Transformation cog (biology)|T-Cog]] when Dreadwing arrives and immediately attempts to kill Starscream. As Knock Out flees, Dreadwing advances on the patient with his sword, but as he raises his sword, Megatron arrived and demands he stand down. Dreadwing refuses, and Megatron is forced to blast a hole through him with Dreadwing's own cannon. Megatron then promptly warns the relieved Starscream to ''never'' make him regret killing his former second-in-command.

The Autobots wonder why Optimus has been hiding things from them. [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] points out that Megatron would have learned about the Omega Lock by now if Optimus had been more open.

Knock Out and Starscream work on studying the Omega Keys in an attempt to discover how they work. Starscream resorts to hitting one against the table, and then against Knock Out, and they inadvertently discover that the keys lock together. By combining all four, they reveal a holographic map of Cybertron with a location marker on it. Pleased, Megatron orders the [[space bridge]] fired up.

Optimus finishes turning the GroundBridge into a space bridge. The base sensors detect the Decepticon space bridge firing up, and the Autobots realize that time is short. Optimus believes they still have the element of surprise. The Autobots pull the various Iacon relics they possess from storage. Meanwhile, Megatron leaves Starscream in command of the ship and takes a platoon of [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] with the Omega Keys through the space bridge. As the Autobots likewise fire up their space bridge, Optimus uses the Forge to recreate the Star Saber, and they too head through. Megatron and his men soon stand at the edge of the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]].

Jack gives Ratchet a call, as school's out and he, Miko and [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] haven't been picked up by the Autobots yet. Ratchet merely tells them the others are busy and hangs up.

As Megatron and his men walk through the Sea of Rust, Smokescreen rises out of the ground and attacks them from behind. [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] drops scrap on them using the [[polarity gauntlet]], Bulkhead zaps them with the [[Immobilizer]], and Arcee smashes through them while wearing the [[Apex Armor (Thirteen)|Apex Armor]]. Megatron himself faces Optimus and the Star Saber, and while the pair fight, the other Autobots take back the Omega Keys. With a swipe of his blade, Optimus sends Megatron flying so the Autobots can retreat. As Megatron orders his men to follow, Smokescreen phases out of some nearby scenery and drops the [[spark extractor]] before disappearing again. The device obliterates the Vehicons before Megatron hurls the [[Dark Star Saber]], impaling it. Megatron orders Starscream to send reinforcements, but Starscream and Soundwave have an even better idea.

[[Image:RegenerationOmegaLockActive.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Pure. Epicness.]]
The Autobots reach the Omega Lock, an unassuming dimple on the landscape. The Keys glow, and the location transforms, creating a huge ring over their heads that fills with a shimmering energy field. Megatron arrives and demands they hand over the Keys. While the Autobots are wondering what motivation Megatron could give them for doing that, a space bridge opens and Starscream, Knock Out and [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] step out, carrying the three kids in airtight containers. Megatron threatens to expose all three to Cybertron's toxic atmosphere unless they return the Keys to him.
{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (2)
*[[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] (4)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (6)
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (7)
*[[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] (8)
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (9)
|c2=
*[[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] (10)
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] (11)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (12)
*[[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (13)
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] (14)
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] (15)
|c3=
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (1)
*[[Jack Darby]] (3)
*[[Raf Esquivel]] (5)
}}

==Quotes==
"Then I appeal to you again. Join us and help end this conflict once and for all." 
"Betraying my kind is not the same as accepting yours."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' appeals to '''Dreadwing''', to no avail.

"Rise and shine! Your T-Cog transplant was a success! Yes, I am just that good."
:—'''Knock Out'''

"There must be ''something'' I can do! Some form of reparation I can offer you to alleviate your anguish!" 
"YOUR SPARK WILL SUFFICE!"
:—'''Starscream''' and '''Dreadwing'''

"Do not ever make me regret which one of you I spared." 
:—'''Megatron''' to Starscream, right after blowing a hole through Dreadwing's chest.

"Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' makes the obligatory [[The Transformers: The Movie|shoutout]].

"I will have those keys or I will have your sparks!" 
"I can help with the last part."
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Smokescreen'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
[[File:DreadwingdeathImage.jpg|thumb|200px]]
* Dreadwing gives the Autobots the [[Forge of Solus Prime]], last seen being used to forge Megatron's Dark Star Saber in "[[Alpha/Omega]]". Optimus uses it to convert the GroundBridge into a space bridge and reforge the Star Saber, the latter of which was destroyed in that episode. Megatron himself references the event in battle with Optimus.
* Dreadwing attempts to kill Starscream for desecrating his twin's body in "[[Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone]]", which he learned about in the previous episode.
* Every relic which has been collected by the Autobots thus far sees action. This is also the first actual ''use'' of the spark extractor.
* The research on the Autobots' human allies, first mentioned in "[[Hard Knocks]]", sees fruition in this episode.
* The spark extractor's effectiveness on the Vehicon troopers kind of puts an end to the ambiguity as to if they are living Cybertronians or drones, doesn't it?
* The fact that it took the Decepticons a full ''fifty-one'' episodes to locate the kids is kind of sad. Put aside for the moment the fact that Silas found Jack's home address in an hour or so based on a facial scan in "[[Crisscross (episode)|Crisscross]]", and Soundwave's had his picture of the kids since the opening story arc. Consider:
** The concrete ditch where Bumblebee and Arcee fought Vehicons in the opening arc was, as confirmed in "[[The Human Factor]]", within line of sight of Raf's house.
** Knock Out confronted Jack and Bumblebee street racing on the outskirts of Jasper, Nevada in "[[Speed Metal]]".
** [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]] was working with Silas during the aforementioned "Crisscross" episode. Even if she didn't know Jack's address, she knew Jack and his mother lived within a short driving distance of their trap site.
** And while Agent Fowler supposedly "relocated" Raf's family after "The Human Factor", he was still going to the same school as Jack and Miko in this episode, meaning it wasn't a particularly ''thorough'' relocation.
* So congratulations, Soundwave and Starscream, for taking months to complete a task even a [[Silas|lab rat]] finished in under a day.

===Transformers references===
* The Omega Lock was previously seen in the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' cartoon, where it was also used to restore life to Cybertron.
* Optimus declares "[[The Transformers: The Movie|Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost!]]"

===Errors===
* As in "[[Inside Job]]", Megatron still has his fusion cannon when he transforms into vehicle mode, despite the arm it was attached to being removed.
* The Star Saber and Dark Star Saber vanish when their owners transform, even though both weapons are nearly as tall as their owners and shouldn't fit within their vehicle modes.
* When the Polarity Gauntlet saw action on Earth for the first time in "[[Metal Attraction]]", it affected both the bots around ''and'' the metal in the environment. When Bumblebee used it to pull the Omega Keys from the Vehicons, none of the bots around were affected, not even the reinforced Arcee.

===Trivia===
* Despite the rather high stakes, no one on Team Prime thinks to contact [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]]. This is indirectly addressed in the following episode.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Retour sur Cybertron'''" ("Back to Cybertron")
:*''Original airdate:'' ?
::*Like in its previous mention, the "Rust" in "Sea of Rust" has not been translated, which makes it a place or a region of Cybertron.

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Regeneration'''" ("Regeneration")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[February 26|26 February]] [[2013]]

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Fukkatsu Henkei! Yomigaeru Cybertron-sei'''" (復活変形!よみがえるサイバトロン星, "Resurrection Transformation! The Reviving of Planet Cybertron")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 23|23 March]] [[2013]]

'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''A Restauração'''" ("The Restoration")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[August 19|19 August]] [[2013]]

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Rigenerazione'''" ("Regeneration")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[February 18|18 February]] [[2013]]

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2012 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Season Two ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2013 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Vol. 26 ([[Avex Trax]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Volume 5: Advance on Cybertron ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Folge 12: Die Entscheidung ([[EDEL:kids]]) — English and German audio. 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Season Two Collection (Madman Entertainment) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2014 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Saison 2 Vol. 4: Bataille épiques ([[Primal Screen]]) 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Season 2 Vol. 4: Darkest Hour (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Intégrale Saison 2 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Stagione 2 Vol. 4: L'ora più buia (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio. 
[[File:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime'' — The Complete Season 2 (Primal Screen) 
[[File:Flag of Italy.png|20px|Italy]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime'' — La Seconda Stagione Completa (Primal Screen) — English, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian audio.
;Blu-ray
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2012 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Season Two (Shout! Factory) 
[[File:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2015 — ''Transformers Prime'' — Season Two Collection (Madman Entertainment) 

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Patrick Descamps

2026-04-22T02:49:56Z

SoundSky:

{{disambig3|Patrick}}
[[File:Patrick Descamps.jpg|240px|thumb]]
'''Patrick Descamps''' (born on [[December 13]], [[1956]]) is a Belgian actor, as well as a theater director/teacher. He performed in a lot of plays and movies and is now active in voice acting too. He is, at times, the French voice of Robert De Niro (though [[Jacques Frantz|De Niro's regular French voice]] is famous as well in French Transformers fandom).

He won five awards for his theater roles between 1985 and 2008.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers Prime''===
* [[Unicron]]
* [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]
* [[Hardshell]]
* [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]] (flashback redub in "''[[Patch (episode)|Patch]]''")

== Notes ==
* Skyquake quickly returned in season 2 of ''Transformers: Prime'', in a flashback of events that happened in "[[Masters & Students]]". However, instead of using audio archive from season 1, the French version re-dubbed all the flashbacks. [[Jean-Marc Delhausse]], who voiced Skyquake in season 1, could not come back to voice his few lines. Consequently, they were spoken by Dreadwing's voice actor instead, Patrick Descamps.

==External links==
*{{w|lang=fr|Patrick Descamps|Wikipedia entry}} ''(French)''
*[https://wikidoublage.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Patrick_Descamps Wiki Doublage page] ''(French)''
*[http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=20679.html Allociné page] ''(French)''
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0221029/ IMDb page]

{{DEFAULTSORT: Descamps, Patrick}}
[[Category:French voice actors]]

Jean-Marc Delhausse

2026-04-22T02:47:41Z

SoundSky:

[[File:Jean-Marc Delhausse.jpg|200px|thumb]]
'''Jean-Marc Delhausse''' (born in Liège on [[February 13]], [[1960]]) is a Belgian actor, director and voice director.

His most famous roles include [[Unshō Ishizuka|Professor Oak]] and Mewtwo in the ''Pokémon'' universe, Smoker in ''One Piece'', [[David Kaye|Professor X]] in ''X-Men: Evolution'', the Grand Inquisitor in ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]] Rebels'', [[Mark Oliver|Lord Garmadon]] in ''Ninjago'' and Lucario in the ''Super Smash Bros'' videogames, among other voice roles in many animated series.

He also uses his voice for radio and television commercials, as well as audio books.

==Voice roles==
===''Beast Machines: Transformers''===
*[[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]
*[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]
{{note|The French dub for ''Beast Machines: Transformers'' was made in 2007.}}

===''Transformers Prime''===
* [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]
* [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]]
* [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (second voice)
* [[Vogel]]

===''Transformers: Rescue Bots''===
* [[Doctor Morocco]]

== Notes ==
* Skyquake quickly returned in season 2 of ''Transformers: Prime'', in a flashback of events that happened in "[[Masters & Students]]". However, instead of using audio archive from season 1, the French version re-dubbed all the flashbacks. Jean-Marc Delhausse could not come back to voice his few lines, so they were spoken by [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]'s voice actor instead, [[Patrick Descamps]].

==External links==
*[https://wikidoublage.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Jean-Marc_Delhausse Wiki Doublage page] ''(French)''
*[http://www.planete-jeunesse.com/staff-1906-jean-marc-delhausse.html Planète Jeunesse page] ''(French)''
*[https://www.audiolib.fr/intervenants/jean-marc-delhausse Audiolib page] ''(French)''

{{DEFAULTSORT: Delhausse, Jean-Marc}}
[[Category:French voice actors]]

Skyquake (Prime)

2026-04-22T02:39:48Z

SoundSky: /* Prime cartoon */

{{disambig3|Skyquake}}
{{factions|decepticon}}
:''Skyquake is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[Image:SkyquakePrime.jpg|thumb|300px|Ain't he unglamorous?]]

'''Skyquake'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s loyalties are unlikely to be questioned anytime soon. A Decepticon guardian sent to protect [[Earth]]'s [[energon]] stocks, he is completely loyal to [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]. He will not only obey every order, he will follow them until Megatron says otherwise, regardless of the passage of time. He also possesses a rather short temper towards the disloyal, and is not beyond backhanding even a [[Starscream (WFC)|superior officer]] who gets in the way of Megatron's will. Otherwise, he's actually a polite guy when it comes down to it, even to his targets and foes. He's succinct, and will not mince his words. It's nothing personal, it's just orders from his master.

His split-[[Spark]] [[twin]] brother is the similarly honor-bound [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]. The two are able to sense each other, even across the galaxy.

Skyquake also has [[Skyquake Pre-Memorial Hospital|a hospital]] named after him. Prematurely, anyway.

{{bigquote|It will be a shame to crush you, [[Bumblebee (WFC)|bug]], but it is my duty.|Skyquake|"[[Masters & Students]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Prime'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Richard Green]] (English), [[Frank Welker]] (English, "Shadowzone"), [[Kellen Goff]] ([[BotCon 2011]] script reading), [[Masami Iwasaki]] (Japanese)|[[Tilo Schmitz]] (German), [[Ángel Amorós]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Gerardo Alonso]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Marco Antônio Abreu]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Tamás Bognár]] (Hungarian), [[Alessandro D'Errico]] (Italian), [[Do-hyeong Nam]] (Korean), [[Jean-Marc Delhausse]] (French), [[Patrick Descamps]] (French, flashback redub in "Patch"), [[Jacek Król]] (Polish)}}
[[Image:Masters&Students-MyLittleFriend.jpg|thumb|250px|left|NOW IS COWARD KILLING TIME!]]

Millennia ago, during the great war, [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] tasked Skyquake with assassinating [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] at the [[Battle of Technahar]] but Skyquake failed to carry out his mission. He was later one of a number of Decepticon guardians sent to Earth by Megatron when the planet was seeded with Energon. {{storylink|Masters & Students}} He also became the namesake for "Skyquake Pre-Memorial Hospital", though it's unclear whether he ever learned of the hospital's founders anticipating his demise. {{storylink|Unreliable Narratives}}

In the modern era, he was sought out by [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], who needed a strong presence to inspire [[Vehicon (Prime)|his troops]] into believing his reign would be a successful one. However, Skyquake was less amiable to the idea, firmly announcing both his loyalty to Megatron and his lack of faith in Starscream's claims of Megatron's death. Before the pair came to blows, Optimus and [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] appeared on the scene. Skyquake reminded Prime of their encounter during the Battle of Technar, but Optimus still offered both Decepticons a chance at peace. Starscream showed some interest, as long as Optimus bowed to him, causing a frustrated Skyquake to belt him aside and attack Prime. Bumblebee threw himself into the fray but proved more of a distraction than anything else. He did manage to buy Optimus the time to realize Skyquake still lacked a [[Alternate mode|vehicle mode]].[[Image:Masters&Students-SkyquakeDeceased.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Medic!]] Using the canyon they were battling in to their advantage, the Autobots managed to corner Skyquake. Unfortunately, [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] appeared in a [[Fowler's V-tol|high-tech military jet]], which Skyquake immediately [[Scanning|scanned]].

Skyquake quickly dominated the battle until Bumblebee threw himself on the jet and, as Skyquake tried to shake him off, ripped out his internals. Bumblebee jumped onto Fowler's plane as a heavily injured Skyquake crashed into the ground. After Skyquake closed his optics for possibly one last time, Prime sadly noted how things might have been different, before burying the Decepticon. {{storylink|Masters & Students}} Dreadwing sensed his brother's emergence from stasis and later death. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}}

[[Image:Shadowzone-alone.jpg|left|thumb|300px|I am not ''burned'', just ''scorched.'' Wait...]]

Some time later, Starscream attempted to resurrect Skyquake using the chunk of [[Dark Energon]] that he ripped from Megatron's chest. It worked, and Skyquake rose as a [[Terrorcon (Prime)|zombie]], however a [[GroundBridge]] incident transported him to a strange alternate dimension along with the Autobots' human friends [[Miko Nakadai]], [[Jack Darby]] and [[Raf Esquivel]]. After discovering that he couldn't harm the Autobots, who were still in the real world, Skyquake began pursuing the three kids. They managed to find Starscream's arm, left behind during the battle, and used it to shoot Skyquake. This merely resulted in his arm coming off and chasing them. It followed them back through a rescue portal created by [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] and briefly assaulted Starscream before he shook it loose. It ran after him again but Starscream GroundBridged himself away. The rest of Skyquake continued to roam the [[shadowzone (dimension)|shadowzone]] and made a vain attempt to repair himself with Starscream's lost arm. {{Storylink|Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone}} Megatron wasn't happy about Starscream using the Dark Energon shard that was previously merged with his Spark to bring Skyquake back, among other things. {{storylink|Rock Bottom}}

Dreadwing was drawn to Earth after feeling his twin's death, where Megatron and [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] confirmed his loss. Dreadwing swore the Autobots would pay for offlining his brother, though his attempts to gain revenge were unsuccessful. {{storylink|Loose Cannons}} Starscream encountered Dreadwing at the Antarctic, but at first mistook him for Skyquake before being corrected. When Starscream obtained the [[Apex Armor (Thirteen)|Apex Armor]], he prepared to reunite Dreadwing with his twin before Dreadwing blew a hole in the ice, into which Starscream fell. Optimus Prime expressed his remorse for his part in Skyquake's death and extended the same offer of a place in the Autobot ranks to Dreadwing. {{storylink|Triangulation}} Megatron used the oath Dreadwing swore on Skyquake's demise to get him to open the coffin of a Prime, rather than simply opening it himself. {{storylink|Alpha/Omega}}

While Megatron was using a [[cortical psychic patch]] to interrogate Starscream, Dreadwing finally learned his brother's ultimate fate, roaming the shadow dimension as a zombie, and was more than a little upset that Megatron would withhold that information from him to shield Starscream. {{storylink|Patch (episode)|Patch}} As a result, Dreadwing turned the [[Forge of Solus Prime]] over to the Autobots before attempting to avenge his brother by killing Starscream. However, it was Dreadwing who met his end when Megatron intervened in Starscream's favor. {{storylink|Regeneration (Prime)|Regeneration}}
{{--}}

===Takara ''Legacy'' toy bios===
Dreadwing emerged into the [[Legacy World]] from Prime Spacetime in search of his brother. {{Storylink|Dreadwing (Prime)#Legacy|TL-57 Dreadwing bio}}

===''End of G1 Universe===
Being found by Dreadwing, Skyquake went with him through the [[Space Bridge Project|Multiverse Space Bridge]] to another world's [[Velocitron]]. They watched the [[Speedia 500]] races. {{storylink|Mystery of Speedia 500}}

Skyquake still acted as a spectator for one instance of the Speedia 500 on Velocitron, where he reattached his right arm. {{storylink|Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 3}}

==Games==
===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[Image:Bs-skyquake.jpg|thumb|Sandvich and me going to beat your ass!]]
Skyquake originated from the far side of the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]], and spoke with an [[accent]] that was strange to others. He was among the many Bot Shots who battled in the arenas of Cybertron. {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===''Prime''===
====''Cyberverse''====
[[Image:Primetoy-SkyquakeCyberverse.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Meet the Heavy.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Skyquake''' (Cyberverse Commander, 2012)}}</ul>
:*''Series / Number'': '''2 / 010'''
:*''Takara ID number'': '''EZ-18'''
:*''Accessories'': Two blasters (combine to form Tornado Cannon)
:*''Known designers'': [[Joe Kyde]] (Hasbro)

: Part of the fourth wave of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime]]'' [[Cyberverse (toyline)#Series 2|Series 2 ''Cyberverse'']] Commander Class toys, Skyquake is a redeco of [[Dreadwing (Prime)#Cyberverse|Dreadwing]], with new weapons, and transforms into a modified {{w|F-35 Lightning II}}. He features translucent plastic on the center of his jet/his back and cockpit-chest, allowing him to be illuminated by the larger Cyberverse sets. He comes with two translucent orange blasters, and both weapons feature multiple [[C joint|3mm post]]s, with one blaster additionally featuring two 3mm post-holes. This allows them to be held with his hands or mounted onto his arms and wings in different ways, store on Skyquake's back, combine with other Cyberverse weapons, as well as combine with each other to form a "Tornado Cannon" that resembles a mini-gun, and can be held with both hands.

:Oddly, the [[instructions]] and the official Hasbro [[stock photography|stock photos]] for the toy completely ignore the fact that the "Tornado Cannon" consists of two smaller weapons, and consistently depict it as one single weapon.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/CommSkyquake/skyquake.htm More information on Cyberverse Skyquake at TFU.info]''
{{--}}

====''Robots in Disguise''====
{{anchor|Voyager}}
[[Image:Primetoy-SkyquakeVoyager.jpg|thumb|right|300px|What was that, Sandvich? "Kill them all"? Good idea! Hahahaha!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Skyquake''' (Voyager, 2012)}}</ul>
:*''Series / Number'': '''01 / 007'''
:*''Accessories'': Light-up pulse cannon/Shatterwave blaster, sword

: Part of the fifth and final wave of [[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Robots in Disguise (2012)|''Prime: Robots in Disguise'']] Voyager Class toys, Skyquake is a [[redeco]] of [[Dreadwing (Prime)#Voyager|Dreadwing]]. He comes with a pulse cannon ([[retool]]ed from Dreadwing's cannon to have a new barrel) and sword, both of which can be mounted (via [[5 mm post]]s) onto ports on his forearms, hands, wings, and back, as well as behind the cockpit canopy. The sword itself features an additional peg on its hilt, and the cannon has a peg-hole on its translucent side. The cannon can transform into a longer-barreled "Shatterwave blaster" that's illuminated at the barrel by a red LED as a sort of "Energon glow". As with other ''Robots in Disguise'' Voyager Class toys, the deployed weapon cannot lock into place.

: Skyquake's wave was pretty much skipped by most US retailers, leaving fans to order him from online outlets or get them from European fans. However, in late spring/early summer of 2013, US [[Toys"R"Us]] stores started putting the Skyquake waves on shelves. At one per case, Skyquake was still difficult to come across, but hey, beats his prior distribution!

: His stock photography depicts him with much brighter translucent orange plastic, as well as silver [[paint operation]]s on his shoulder-pads and jet fuselage that were omitted on the final product.

: Voyager Skyquake and Dreadwing's very similar looking left & right robot mode feet are notorious for being incorrectly added to the figure during factory assembly, resulting in a left foot on a right leg, a right foot on a left leg, two left feet, or two right feet. Not having the right foot on the right leg and left foot on the left leg causes him to not stand properly because each foot is designed on the bottom to sit at a specific slanted angle. Both feet look very similar to one another, however they can be identified by finding the corresponding "L" and "R" on each one. If placed on a flat surface to be viewed, one will notice that both feet have subtle slants to their stance.

: All versions of this mold have a spot that's ''very'' prone to breakage: the thruster/ stabilizer fin assembly which folds up onto his back has a joint that can crack and break the whole assembly off- even on brand new figures! This can be avoided by gluing it in vehicle mode configuration- while it loses functionality it is not detrimental to his robot mode.

: This mold was also redecoed into ''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' [[Megaplex#Timelines|Megaplex]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/Skyquake/skyquake.htm More information on Voyager Skyquake at TFU.info]''
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===''Bot Shots''===
[[Image:Bot Shots Skyquake.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Heavy flip baby!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Skyquake / Jetfire / Powerglide''' (Multi pack, 2012)}}</ul>
:*''Series'': '''1'''
:*''Number'': '''BP006'''
:**''Fist strength'': '''475'''
:**''Blaster strength'': '''750'''
:**''Sword strength'': '''395'''

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Bot Shots (toyline)|Bot Shots]]'' Series 1 three-packs, Skyquake is a [[redeco]] of [[Starscream (G1)/toys#Bot Shots|Starscream]] in green and grey. He comes with [[Jetfire (G1)#BotShot3Pack|Jetfire]] and [[Powerglide (G1)#BotShot3Pack|Powerglide]].

:This mold was also used to make [[Acid Storm (G1)|Acid Storm]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], and Series 2 [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]], and was also [[retool]]ed into Series 1 [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Bot Shots|Skywarp]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BSSkyquake/skyquake.htm More information on Series 1 three-pack Skyquake at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BS2 Skyquake.jpg|thumb|right|300px|You did well!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Bumblebee / Skyquake / Shockwave''' (Multi pack, 2013)}}</ul>
:*''Series'': '''2'''
:*''Number'': '''Super Bot 006'''
:**''Fist strength'': '''460'''
:**''Blaster strength'': '''955'''
:**''Sword strength'': '''205'''

: Part of the first wave of ''Bot Shots'' Series 2 three-packs, Super Bot Skyquake is cast in translucent green plastic, though a darker shade than Acid Storm. As a Super Bot, he has more lopsided stats than a regular Bot Shot. Once again, he was available only in a three pack, this time with [[Shockwave (WFC)#BotShot3pack2|Jump Shot Shockwave]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#BotShot3pack2|Jump Shot Bumblebee]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Decepticon/BSSkyquake/skyquake.htm More information on Series 2 three-pack Skyquake at TFU.info]''

===''Legacy''===
[[Image:TF-Legacy-Leader-Class-Skyquake.jpg|thumb|right|300px|After twelve years, Skyquake realizes he was cursed to have all posthumous toy releases.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Prime Universe Skyquake''' (Leader Class, [[2023]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TL-35'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[August 26]], 2023
:*''Accessories'': Gatling gun, Energon clip/sword
:*''Known designers'': [[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy), [[Marcelo Matere]] (concept artist)<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CoI0KeWuUgW/ design notes on ''Legacy'' Skyquake] from Hasbro designer [[Mark Maher]] on Instagram</ref><ref>[[January 31]], [[2023]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l33J9hIaQm8 Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream] on YouTube, with [[Delaney Norris]], [[Evan Brooks]], [[Mark Maher]] and [[Ben MacCrae]].</ref>

: The first new Leader Class figure in ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy: Evolution]]'', "Prime Universe Skyquake" is an amalgamation of his cartoon appearance and his [[Skyquake_(G1)|Generation 1's namesake]] in both modes. His robot mode torso, feet, and head crest are borrowed from his namesake, along with some sculpted details. The jet mode leans closer to the original Skyquake's toy, with almost the entire rear half being based on that version.

: Skyquake comes with a gatling gun with an "Energon clip" that can detach and turn into a sword (that only his left hand can properly accommodate) for him to wield as part of his [[Evo-Fusion]] gimmick. His jet mode features three retractable landing gear and an openable cockpit canopy. [[Skyquake (G1)|Interestingly]], Skyquake has some slots on the top of his jet mode that allow [[Needlenose (G1)#Legacy|Needlenose]] to slot in, and this is illustrated in the instructions.

: It would appear Skyquake had some late engineering changes to how the front jet portion transforms, as the instructions show the clear canopy sliding down inside when the nose is folded under a full 180 degrees, which isn't actually possible on the final figure due to the canopy being prevented from sliding inwards by ridges in the surrounding plastic. This can be mostly worked around by threading the canopy through the gap between the thruster assembly and the main wings/hull plate on the backpack. There is also an extra swivel joint inside the front portion that goes completely unused, as well as either arm having totally different (but identically functional) elbow joints to allow for the connecting pegs and holes on the back of his lower arms.

: If one desires a more show accurate look, a semi-convincing [[fan mode]] can be achieved via swapping his arms at the bicep swivel, swinging his wings around to the faux cockpit, rotating his waist, and finally rotating then sliding his head into place.

: The stock photos have a slight mistransformation; there is a panel meant to cover the gap in his forearms.

: Skyquake and his case-mate [[Megatron (BW)/toys#Legacy|Transmetal II Megatron]] were inexplicably shipped for a ''long'' time; new cases were arriving in [[Target]] stores well into ''2025'', long after ''Evolution'' had been replaced with ''United''.

: He was recolored to make his brother [[Dreadwing (Prime)#Legacy 2|Dreadwing]].

::*''[https://www.instagram.com/p/CoI0KeWuUgW/ Designer commentary on ''Legacy'' Skyquake from Mark Maher]''
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==Merchandise==
===Eaglemoss cards===
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==Notes==
*It's a lucky thing Agent Fowler provided a jet with arm and leg kibble underneath for Skyquake to scan!
*While crash-landings have rarely been fatal to [[Transformer]]s in past series, ''Prime'' executive producer [[Jeff Kline]] has stated that "When we kill a character, we kill a character."<ref>[http://www.toonzone.net/2011/02/transformers-prime-premiere-report-and-video-clip-plus-season-two-confirmation/ ToonZone.net summary of a Q&A session with the ''Prime'' creative team]</ref> He has the dubious honor of becoming the first named Decepticon fatality of the series.
*Skyquake was originally going to be [[Skywarp (WFC)|Skywarp]].<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-robots-disguise-prime-discussion/1053596-aligned-continuity-panel-tf-con-charlotte-5.html#post13037062 Aligned Continuity panel at TF Con Charlotte notes]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Skyquake''' (スカイクエイク ''Sukaikueiku'')

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Bot Shots Decepticons]]
[[Category:Cyberverse]]
[[Category:Demolitions specialists]]
[[Category:Prime Decepticons]]
[[Category:Legacy Decepticons]]
[[Category:Zombies]]

Patrick Descamps

2026-04-22T02:39:06Z

SoundSky: /* Transformers Prime */

{{disambig3|Patrick}}
[[File:Patrick Descamps.jpg|240px|thumb]]
'''Patrick Descamps''' (born on [[December 13]], [[1956]]) is a Belgian actor, as well as a theater director/teacher. He performed in a lot of plays and movies and is now active in voice acting too. He is, at times, the French voice of Robert De Niro (though [[Jacques Frantz|De Niro's regular French voice]] is famous as well in French Transformers fandom).

He won five awards for his theater roles between 1985 and 2008.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers Prime''===
* [[Unicron]]
* [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]
* [[Hardshell]]
* [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]] (flashback redub in "''[[Patch (episode)|Patch]]''")

==External Links==
*{{w|lang=fr|Patrick Descamps|Wikipedia entry}} ''(French)''
*[https://wikidoublage.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Patrick_Descamps Wiki Doublage page] ''(French)''
*[http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=20679.html Allociné page] ''(French)''
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0221029/ IMDb page]

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[[Category:French voice actors]]

Patrick Descamps

2026-04-22T02:38:43Z

SoundSky: /* Transformers Prime */

{{disambig3|Patrick}}
[[File:Patrick Descamps.jpg|240px|thumb]]
'''Patrick Descamps''' (born on [[December 13]], [[1956]]) is a Belgian actor, as well as a theater director/teacher. He performed in a lot of plays and movies and is now active in voice acting too. He is, at times, the French voice of Robert De Niro (though [[Jacques Frantz|De Niro's regular French voice]] is famous as well in French Transformers fandom).

He won five awards for his theater roles between 1985 and 2008.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers Prime''===
* [[Unicron]]
* [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]]
* [[Hardshell]]
* [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]] (flashback redub in "[[Patch (episode)|Patch]]")

==External Links==
*{{w|lang=fr|Patrick Descamps|Wikipedia entry}} ''(French)''
*[https://wikidoublage.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Patrick_Descamps Wiki Doublage page] ''(French)''
*[http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=20679.html Allociné page] ''(French)''
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0221029/ IMDb page]

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[[Category:French voice actors]]

Jean-Marc Delhausse

2026-04-22T02:37:57Z

SoundSky: /* Transformers Prime */

[[File:Jean-Marc Delhausse.jpg|200px|thumb]]
'''Jean-Marc Delhausse''' (born in Liège on [[February 13]], [[1960]]) is a Belgian actor, director and voice director.

His most famous roles include [[Unshō Ishizuka|Professor Oak]] and Mewtwo in the ''Pokémon'' universe, Smoker in ''One Piece'', [[David Kaye|Professor X]] in ''X-Men: Evolution'', the Grand Inquisitor in ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]] Rebels'', [[Mark Oliver|Lord Garmadon]] in ''Ninjago'' and Lucario in the ''Super Smash Bros'' videogames, among other voice roles in many animated series.

He also uses his voice for radio and television commercials, as well as audio books.

==Voice roles==
===''Beast Machines: Transformers''===
*[[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]]
*[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]
{{note|The French dub for ''Beast Machines: Transformers'' was made in 2007.}}

===''Transformers Prime''===
* [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]]
* [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]]
* [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] (second voice)
* [[Vogel]]

===''Transformers: Rescue Bots''===
* [[Doctor Morocco]]

==External links==
*[https://wikidoublage.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Jean-Marc_Delhausse Wiki Doublage page] ''(French)''
*[http://www.planete-jeunesse.com/staff-1906-jean-marc-delhausse.html Planète Jeunesse page] ''(French)''
*[https://www.audiolib.fr/intervenants/jean-marc-delhausse Audiolib page] ''(French)''

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