Editing Fallen Comrades

{{episode
|series=BWtoon
|ep=7
|image=Fallen Comrades Tigatron beast.jpg
|caption=Do not bring your evil here.
|title="Fallen Comrades"
|production company=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|airdate=[[September 30]], 1996
|written by=[[Bob Forward]]
|directed by=[[Steve Ball]]
|animation studio=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|continuity= [[Beast Wars continuity]]
|packaged with=[[Tigatron#Beast Wars Telemocha Series|Tigatron]]
}}

'''A stasis pod falls in the Northern Sector of the planet and the Maximals and Predacons race to obtain it.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:Fallen Comrades Tiger pod.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Foreshadowing is fun.]]
A field of debris circles the planet. Among the waste, a [[stasis pod]] falls from orbit and enters the atmosphere. Both the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] watch as it falls into the distant icy [[Northern Sector]].  Rather than immediately going for it themselves, [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] decides to ambush the Maximals' only flier ([[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]) as he goes for the pod.

At the [[Axalon (BW)|Maximal base]], Primal is anxious to retrieve the pod containing a fellow Maximal. He falls for [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] and [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]]'s trap despite [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]'s attempt to protect the Maximal leader. However, Dinobot is able to prevent the Predacons from taking Primal out of commission. 

Back at the Predacon base, Megatron is disappointed to learn that Optimus Primal has survived, but realizes that the Maximals must now send a ground party to retrieve the stasis pod. This will leave the Maximal base undermanned and vulnerable to attack. Megatron dispatches his fliers to race to the pod, while he, [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]], and [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] go to attack the Maximal base.  

[[Image:Fallen Comrades Terrorsaur bridge.jpg|right|200px|thumb|You'd think they'd, y'know, use their guns.]]
Meanwhile, [[Rattrap]], [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]], and [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] run towards the pod. As they go, they remark that while leaving the base with the damaged Optimus Primal and Dinobot may not have been the best idea, it was their only option. Rhinox goes on to say that they need to hurry because, if the pod is damaged, the [[protoform]] robot within will be exposed to the planet's dangerous [[energon]] fields. Indeed, this seems to be the case when the stasis pod is shown opening, as the protoform's arm reaches from the pod and immediately begins to short out due to the high energon.

As they come to an ice bridge across a crevasse, the Maximal team is met by Waspinator and Terrorsaur. After a fire fight, the Predacons knock out the bridge and the Maximals' best hope of getting to the pod quickly.  

[[Image:Fallen Comrades Dinobot Optimus core.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Dinobot, Megatron's escaped. Recruit a team of Maximals with attitude.]]
Rattrap radios back to the base and informs Dinobot of this development. He accesses Optimus Primal's [[core consciousness]] in the [[CR chamber]] and informs him.  Primal suggests that they send a laser transmission to the pod by bouncing the signal off of something. 

Outside of the Maximal base, Megatron and the other Predacons observe Dinobot setting up a laser transmitter on top of the base. Megatron offers Dinobot a chance to return to the Predacons by handing over the base. Dinobot responds by shooting Megatron with his [[Optic weaponry|eye lasers]] and is then promptly shot by Tarantulas and Scorponok. Although damaged, Dinobot is able to activate the base's auto-weapons which quickly dispatch the Predacons. Megatron then calls off the assault to join the pursuit of the pod.  

With the transmitter in place, Optimus Primal is able to bounce a laser off one of the planet's moons and to the stasis pod. Both the Maximals, the Predacon fliers, and a nearby white tiger witness this development. The pod's [[DNA scanner]] comes online and scanning its surroundings.

His regeneration complete, Optimus Primal puts Dinobot in the CR chamber and begins his own flight towards the pod.  

[[Image:Fallen Comrades Tigatron gun.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Kiss my hand or I'll shoot you!]]
Meanwhile back in the Northern Sector, the Maximal group arrives at the pod to find Waspinator and Terrorsaur struggling to open it. The Maximals warn the Predacons to stop, but soon Megatron arrives and threatens to kill two white tigers if the Maximals do not surrender. They agree, but when Megatron opens the pod to reprogram the protoform into a Predacon, he finds that the pod is empty. It turns out that one of the white tigers was the new Maximal [[Tigatron]]! As he and Optimus Primal join the fight the Predacons soon realize that they are out-gunned and retreat.  

Primal welcomes Tigatron to the team and thanks him for his help. Tigatron tells his fellow Maximals that his identity circuits were damaged in the pod's landing and that he was not sure who he was until he saw that the Maximals were willing to risk their lives to save the tigers. He declines Optimus Primal's invitation to go back to the base with them, stating that he needs to stay in the wild since he is still more tiger than Maximal. Still, he promises his loyalty to the Maximals as a scout.  

The Maximals head back to their base and leave Tigatron with the [[Snowstalker|other white tiger]].

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Maximal]]s|c1=
*[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (1)
*[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] (2)
*[[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] (3)
*[[Rattrap]] (4)
*[[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (5)
*[[Tigatron]] (11)

|h2=[[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]|c2=
*[[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (6)
*[[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (7)
*[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] (8)
*[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] (9)
*[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] (10)
}}

==Quotes==
"Oh no! Waspinator in trouble!"
:—'''Waspinator'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s understatement after being flattened by a rock some ten times his size.


"Fear not, Optimus! I shall ensure your funeral is a glorious one, as befits a warrior who died in battle!"<br />
"'Fraid I'll have to miss it, Dinobot; I'm not scrap yet!"<br />
"Hmm, are you certain? It would be a triumphant passage."
:—'''Dinobot''' and '''Optimus''', the former perhaps being a little too hopeful.


"No excuses, you pathetic rodent.  Keep moving. Dinobot, out."<br />
"HEY! You can just kiss my pink, hairless—"
:—'''Dinobot''' and '''Rattrap''' share some friendly banter over the comms.


"You win, you depraved wad of stinkin' slag."
:—'''Rattrap''', gracious in defeat.


"Let the trails lead where they may—I will follow."
:—'''Tigatron''' gets poetic. This would serve as his motto in "[[Dawn of Future's Past]]" and ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook]]''.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
*After Optimus is shot down, his right shoulder pad is upside down.
*When Cheetor lowers his gun in surrender, it slides right through his leg.
*When Scorponok shoots Dinobot off of the Axalon roof, he has his scorpion-legs for nipples. How do they even make that mistake?
*In several shots near the end of the episode, Tigatron's beast-mode legs are yellow/tan instead of white.

===Continuity errors===
*Despite being flattened by a huge rock, Waspinator doesn't seem to spend any time being repaired and functions normally (for Waspinator, anyway) for the rest of the episode.
* Megatron got to the pod ''really'' quickly, despite the other Transformers taking nearly the entire ''episode'' to get there. Perhaps he should've just saved himself the trouble and just gone after the pod himself?
*The land-masses displayed on Terrorsaur's monitor when he indicates the position of the crashed pod bear little resemblance to the Earth, as shown in other episodes. Rather than modern-day continents, the land-mass shown appears to be an east-west flipped Cretaceous period Earth, with the stasis pod landing somewhere in what would be northern Europe.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Un Ami venu du Ciel'''" ("A Friend from the Sky")


:*''Title:'' "'''Ami venu du Ciel'''" (Canada, "Friend from the Sky")


'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Compagni dispersi'''" ("Missing Comrades")


'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Kodoku na Senshi Tigatron'''" (孤独な戦士タイガトロン, "The Solitary Warrior Tigatron")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[November 12|12 November]] [[1997]]
:*This episode provides a prime example of the excessive adlibbing (a trademark of dubs directed by [[Yoshikazu Iwanami]]) subjected to the Japanese dub of ''Beast Wars''.  Whereas in the English version, the entire scene where Tarantulas and Scorponok are targetted by the auto-guns is rendered in silent pantomime, in the Japanese dub, the characters talk and make noisy asides throughout the sequence.  Scorponok in particular cannot control his verbal tic of repeating ''ora ora'' over and over again.


'''Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Companheiros Caídos'''" ("Fallen Comrades")


'''Spanish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Camaradas Caidos'''" ("Fallen Comrades")

===Trivia===
*You can avoid being shot by Maximal [[autogun]]s if you stand perfectly still. Just try not to get so nervous that you shake uncontrollably.
*Talking of the autoguns, they are EXTREMELY weak for ship-mounted weapons, causing no visible damage to Scorponok, Tarantulas or Megatron despite several direct hits. It's possible that the power to the autoguns is much lower than in the first episode because the ''Axalon''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s main engine core is damaged (assuming the guns receive their power directly from the engine).
*When the Maximals are running towards the stasis pod, Cheetor activates binocular vision turning his eyes red. A possible nod to the running change of his toy.
*When Waspinator and Terrorsaur attack the Maximals at the bridge in the tundra, Cheetor is using his regular gut gun. Just before Tigatron appears, he is using his rump gun.
*When Waspinator and Terrorsaur are trying to open Tigatron's stasis pod, the hatch appears to have a window. A fact that no one notices while trying to open it to see that the protoform is NOT inside. Yet the [[Double Jeopardy|next episode]] clearly establishes Blackarachnia's stasis pod with a window showing her protoform body inside. [[The Spark|Future]] [[Spider's Game|episodes]] also show the stasis pods with windows on their hatches.
*This is the only episode to feature Tigatron's wrist weapon.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;VHS
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1996 — ''Beast Wars'' — A Feature Length Beasties Adventure ([[Alliance Atlantis|Alliance Video]])<br>
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1996 — ''Robots-Bêtes'' — Une Adventure Cybernetique (Alliance Video) — French audio only.<br>
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers'' — Lonely Warrior Tigatron ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only.<br>
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars'' / ''Robots-Bêtes'' Three pack (Alliance Video) — Available in English or French audio.<br>
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2001 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Beginning: Vol. 1 ([[Universal]])<br>
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Volume 3 ([[Rhino Entertainment|Rhinomation]])
;Laserdisc
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 1998 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Maximal Edition ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — English and Japanese audio.
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2000 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio.<br>
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2002 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Volume 2 ([[Rhino Entertainment|Rhinomation]])<br>
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2003 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — The Complete First Season (Rhinomation)<br>
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 2005 — ''Beast Wars'' — Classic Episodes — Where the Beasties Began! ([[Alliance Atlantis]]) — English and French audio.<br>
[[Image:Flag of Canada.png|20px|Canada]] 2005 — ''Beast Wars'' — The Complete First Season (Alliance Atlantis) — English and French audio.<br>
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2006 — ''Beast Wars: Transformers'' — Season 1 ([[Madman Entertainment]])<br>
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers: Beast Wars'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)


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