Editing Uprising (Armada)

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{{episode|
|series=Armada
|ep=44
|prev=Puppet
|next=Dash (episode)
|title="Uprising"
|furigana=せいばーとろん
|japanese=帰還<!--uprising-->
|romaji=Cybertron
|translation=Return: Cybertron
|image=Uprising-SidewaysSpookyGhost.jpg
|caption=
|production code=TF: A-44
|production company=[[TV Tokyo]], [[Nihon Ad Systems|NAS]]
|writer=[[Akira Okeya]]
|director=[[Ken'ichi Ishikura]]
|animation studio=[[Actas Inc.]]
|airdate=[[September 25]], [[2003]] (English, United Kingdom)<br>[[October 31|31 October]] [[2003]] (Japanese)<br>[[November 14]], [[2003]] (English, United States)
|continuity=[[Unicron Trilogy]]
}}

'''The Autobots arrive on Cybertron to find Galvatron has already conquered it, but a larger evil still approaches.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Decepticon Uprising.jpg|thumb|200px|left]]
As [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Galvatron]]'s ship reaches [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], a fleet of ships rises from the surface of the planet to meet it. Using the [[Mini-Con]] weapons, the [[Decepticon]] leader is easily able to take down two of the ships, and he sends his men to the surface of the planet to engage the [[Autobot]]s below in combat. Although [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] hesitates, believing Galvatron will steal all the glory, [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]] says simply to follow his lead and the universe will be theirs.

Meanwhile, the Autobots are struggling to repair their ship after the damage it sustained during the last clash with the Decepticons. The kids worry that they're sitting ducks should the Decepticons decide to come back. Although [[Blurr (Armada)|Blurr]]'s calculations suggest that the heaviest fighting will be in the north of Cybertron, [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus]] decides they'll set down in the south rather than going into battle immediately. With the drive finally repaired, they hit warp.

From space, Cybertron looks deserted. [[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]], [[Grindor (Armada)|Grindor]] and [[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]] suddenly become excited and jump out an airlock, closely followed by [[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]]. The boy watches as, cloaked in balls of green light, the swarm of Mini-Cons all begin to come together. Blurr intercepts Carlos. On the ship, the kids realise the Mini-Cons are forming a shield of some sort while what appears to be a black hole hangs menacingly in space. [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] believes that this means [[Unicron]] is coming. Optimus and [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] merge and go to talk to High Wire. A phantasm of [[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]] appears and is fired on by the Mini-Cons. After telling the Mini-Cons to get lost, the apparition promptly disappears again.

The Decepticons realise that Optimus's group of Autobots have arrived.

The kids and the Autobots discuss the impending arrival of Unicron and the situation on Cybertron. Though the Autobots want to mount a single surprise attack, Optimus believes that a more dispersed attack is required. They touch down individually in pods to find a ruined landscape, and begin searching for survivors. Optimus and Jetfire soon run into trouble in the form of Galvatron and his men. Starscream and Thrust hang back above the fight. With the two Autobots pinned down, Optimus contacts the [[Axalon (Armada)|''Axalon'']] and orders the launch of [[Overload (Armada)|Overload]]. [[Side Swipe (Armada)|Side Swipe]] is hesitant, as it will leave the ship and Mini-Cons unprotected, but Red Alert reminds him it's an order. Optimus powerlinks with Overload and begins blasting the Decepticons.

Elsewhere, the other Autobots are fighting more Decepticons while searching for Autobot survivors. Autobot ships begin rising out of the ground and opening fire on the Decepticon fleet.

The kids on the ''Axalon'' realise their Mini-Cons have gone missing again and intercept the trio at the airlock, ready to go out and join the battle. Carlos is opposed to it, but the other kids feel that the Mini-Cons have a right to go out and fight for their home planet.

Galvatron and Optimus meet in one-on-one battle, but Optimus tells his foe of the oncoming danger going by the name of Unicron. Galvatron doesn't believe him, naturally, but the discussion is momentary interrupted by the ground quaking and a chunk of building almost hitting the Decepticon leader. Optimus points dramatically to the sky at the black hole. Chunks of ground begin floating upwards. Soon the debris and even the ships hanging in the sky begin to be sucked towards the black hole.

Thrust gloats that the plan is coming together, much to Starscream's confusion. Soon they notice a new activity: The Mini-Cons begin to pour into the black hole. More Mini-Cons reinforce the shield, and energy begins to rain down on Cybertron. The voice of the Mini-Cons implores for the fighting to stop.

Galvatron is still skeptical of Optimus, even when [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] reports that the Mini-Cons have driven off whatever was attacking the planet, but he calls a retreat. Optimus orders the Autobots back to the ''Axalon''. Thrust observes that the Mini-Cons have stopped their attack on the black hole.

Sideways swears that the Mini-Cons will pay for their attack.

The kids and Autobots thank the Mini-Cons, but High Wire says that Unicron will be back, and the Mini-Cons will protect them again.

Galvatron still thinks Unicron is just an Autobot trick. Thrust muses that this foolish belief will make things much easier for his true master.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (7)
*[[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (8)
*[[Smokescreen (Armada)|Hoist]] (9)
*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (10)
*[[Blurr (Armada)|Blurr]] (19)
*[[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] (20)
*[[Side Swipe (Armada)|Side Swipe]] (22)
*[[Scavenger (Armada)|Scavenger]] (23)
*[[Overload (Armada)|Overload]] (24)
*[[generic|generic Autobots]]

|c2=
*[[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]] (1)
*[[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] (2)
*[[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] (3)
*[[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] (4)
*[[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] (5)
*[[Wheeljack (Armada)|Wheeljack]] (6)
*[[generic|generic Decepticons]]

|c3=
*[[Fred (Armada)|Fred]] (11)
*[[Billy (Armada)|Billy]] (12)
*[[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] (14)
*[[Rad White|Rad]] (15)
*[[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]] (17)

|h4=[[Mini-Con]]s|c4=
*[[Sureshock (Armada)|Sureshock]] (13)
*[[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]] (16)
*[[Grindor (Armada)|Grindor]] (18)

|c5=
*[[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]] (21)
}}

==Quotes==
"This is where the battle begins and ends, gentlemen."
:—'''Thrust'''


"Optimus Prime is marching right into the palm of my hand, where I will crush him."
:—'''Galvatron'''


"Welcome to Cybertron! It's so nice of you to join us. At least now we'll be able to bury you on your home planet, Optimus Prime."
:—'''Galvatron'''


"This war transcends far beyond us, Galvatron. A force is coming, and you and I alone cannot stop it."
:—'''Optimus''' attempts to warn Galvatron about Unicron.


"Would ya like a little cheese with your whine?"
:—'''Jetfire''' tries to be a generously insulting waiter for Cyclonus.

==Notes==
===Differences with ''Micron Legend''===
*During one of the opening pans with the assembled Decepticons in the background, ''Micron Legend'' removes an emblem from the floor in the foreground.
*When Thrust first speaks to Starscream, the wing on Thrust's left arm sticks out at a different angle. Thrust doesn't raise his arms at the end of the shot in ''Micron Legend''.
*During the zoom-in on the moon just before the title card, ''Micron Legend'' omits two of the incoming lasers seen in ''Armada'', yet their sound effects can still be heard.
*''Micron Legend'' corrects some coloring confusion between Blurr's vehicle-mode canopy and the chair in which he is sitting when Optimus Prime asks him about landing coordinates, making the canopy consistently red with gray trim and the chair consistently mint green. It also removes an odd barrier behind Blurr which turns out to have been completely concealing Red Alert!
*After Rad and Alexis first observe Cybertron, High Wire does not speak Japanese in ''Micron Legend'', only his usual beeps.
*''Armada'' shows lots of Mini-Con light balls "raining" straight down past the ''Axalon'', while ''Micron Legend'' has just seven of them whirling in circles.
*When Carlos pounds on the doors to the airlock, ''Micron Legend'' removes the white from his eyes.
*As Carlos floats out the airlock, the ceiling behind him is a dull brown in ''Armada'' but a medium blue in ''Micron Legend''.
*In the crowd of glowing Mini-Cons, the two in front who look like [[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] and [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] in ''Armada'' are replaced with [[Spiral]] and [[Backtrack (Armada)|Backtrack]] in ''Micron Legend''.
*Upon cutting from the crew's speculation back to Blurr in space, the black hole is much smaller in ''Micron Legend'' than in the same shot in ''Armada''.
*High Wire only beeps instead of speaking Japanese to Jet Optimus in space in ''Micron Legend'' as well.
*After Sideways vanishes, the black hole is already present at the start of the next shot in ''Micron Legend'' but has to fade back into view in ''Armada''.
*Where the doors open to reveal Carlos and the Mini-Cons' return in ''Armada'', ''Micron Legend'' has them already standing in front of closed doors, yet there's still the sound of doors moving then.
*The Mini-Con speech phenomenon gets switched around when the kids ask the Mini-Cons about Unicron: High Wire only beeps in ''Armada'', but he speaks of "the Mini-Cons' enemy" in Japanese in ''Micron Legend'' and lights up his eyes yellow as he does so!
*In the exterior establishing shot for the Autobots conferring, Cybertron fills much more of the frame in ''Armada'', taking a while to even enter the frame in ''Micron Legend''.
*The Decepticon fleet's lasers that somehow became yellow upon impacting Cybertron in ''Armada'' were correctly recolored back to purple for ''Micron Legend''.
*When Jetfire remarks on the ambush, Optimus Prime's gray arm in ''Armada'' is recolored to its usual blue and yellow for ''Micron Legend''.
*Different music plays from when Optimus Prime transforms to Super Mode until the kids notice the Mini-Cons have left again.
*The first random Decepticon that Hot Shot attacks is recolored in ''Micron Legend'' to match the colors he receives on falling down in ''Armada''. The fourth Decepticon to take a hit is also recolored, possibly because ''Armada'' gave him the same color scheme as the first Decepticon.
*When the Mini-Cons are about to leave again, the second door to the airlock waits for the first door to open completely in ''Micron Legend'', but ''Armada'' has it open halfway simultaneously first.
*In their last shot before the Mini-Cons are outside again, Carlos and Rad are redrawn so that Rad doesn't appear to be rolling his eyes upward in ''Micron Legend''.
*After Galvatron dramatically leaps down to challenge Optimus Prime, ''Micron Legend'' adds an inert Overload to the background and Optimus Prime to the foreground, and it zooms out to reveal Prime there.
*When Galvatron charges at Optimus Prime with the [[Star Saber (Armada)|Star Saber]], he only has diagonal speed lines behind him in ''Armada'' but has an actual Cybertron background pulling back in ''Micron Legend''.
*When Optimus Prime stops Galvatron's sword hand, Optimus's own hand is recolored and his arm redrawn for ''Micron Legend'' for being erroneously drawn in Super Mode for this scene in ''Armada''.
*As Optimus tries to get through to Galvatron about the threat of Unicron, the (likely recycled) closeup of Galvatron's face from ''Armada'' is replaced by a whole new shot of Optimus and Galvatron leaning into each other. Then the following panning closeup of Optimus is entirely redrawn; notably, ''Armada'' features an unusual "radiator shutters" interpretation of his helmet crest that becomes a flat sheet of rectangles for ''Micron Legend''.
*The reverse shot of Galvatron grappling with Optimus Prime is redrawn for ''Micron Legend'' because Optimus is again in Super Mode by mistake in ''Armada''. The shot is also less cropped in ''Micron Legend'', bringing Optimus's face into the frame. And when Galvatron pushes him away, ''Micron Legend'' has an actual full-body animation of Optimus staggering back where ''Armada'' simply recycles the previous closeup with a bounce and a zoom-out to imply his steps.
*''Micron Legend'' adds Optimus Prime to the shot where the falling wreck near-misses Galvatron, making them both have to dash out of the way.
*The shot of the black hole that pans left in ''Armada'' pans right in ''Micron Legend'' and has a different space background with Cybertron added to the foreground.
*In ''Micron Legend'', the rubble that rises out of Cybertron has been recolored from blue to brown in the wide shot of Optimus Prime and Galvatron and behind Galvatron in his subsequent closeup, yet it's still blue in the rest of the scene, including in front of Optimus's face! Must be some varied ground there.
*The Mini-Cons glow much brighter when they first streak away in ''Armada''; ''Micron Legend'' recolors the streaks to the same shade of yellow they have in the rest of the scene.
*''Micron Legend'' adds a pillar of wreckage for Cyclonus to crash into in two shots where he appears to be pinned against nothing in ''Armada''. It does appear in ''Armada'' the second and fourth times it should, however.
*High Wire and Grindor both get to speak words in both English and Japanese in the end, but their eyes only glow yellow for the Japanese dub.
*When Demolishor objects to Galvatron's certainty at the end, their faces have been redrawn for ''Micron Legend''. For Galvatron this mainly makes his eyes shiny and his chin a little flatter. For Demolishor this makes his eyes more uneven, and he shifts into a grimace instead of a pucker of surprise.

===Animation and technical errors===
* Alexis calls Sureshock "Grindor", again.
* Optimus Prime refers to the ''Axalon'' as the ''Axion''.
**Shortly afterwards (just before he orders Overload to be launched), his left arm is colored entirely gray.
* In a shot where Galvatron boasts to Optimus while combined with Tidal Wave, the right arm armor piece is not drawn in. All the while the Requiem Blaster he's holding is miscolored dark purple and grey like the said armor piece he's missing.
* Hot Shot punches a [[generic]] Decepticon who has a yellow body and blue helmet and arms as the punch lands, and a blue body and a yellow helmet and arms as he hits the ground. That Powerlinx upgrade must really pack a wallop.
*When the Decepticons are to "take care of the small fry first" Wheeljack and the Autobot Generics shown just afterward are shown to fire without weapons, with shots coming from their FISTS! The Autobot generics' hands are also clearly supposed to be clutching guns.

===Trivia===
*It takes an amazingly short time for Galvatron to lay all of Cybertron to ruin.
*[[Sureshot (G1)|Sureshot]] and [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]]'s character models get used again, as generic Autobot soldiers who face the initial Decepticon attack, and again as Mini-Cons.

===Foreign localization===
'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Der Aufstand'''" ("The Uprising")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 16|16 December]] [[2003]]

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Ütközet'''" ("Clash")

==Home video releases==
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;DVD
[[File:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2004 — ''Transformers: Micron Legend'' — Volume 11 ([[Columbia Music Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only.<br>
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2006 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Season One: Part Two ([[Rhino Entertainment]])<br>
[[File:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2009 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — Volume Two ([[New KSM]]) — English and German audio.<br>
[[File:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''Transformers: Armada'' — The Complete Series ([[Shout! Factory]])

[[Category:Armada episodes]]