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Reading list

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	*'''''[[Transformers: TransTech\|TransTech]]'': "[[Epilogue Two]]"''' (''G.I. Joe vs. Cobra'' #9 (Diamond Edition), 2017)		*'''''[[Transformers: TransTech\|TransTech]]'': "[[Epilogue Two]]"''' (''G.I. Joe vs. Cobra'' #9 (Diamond Edition), 2017)
	**Bumblebee makes a non-speaking cameo among glimpses of other negative polarity universes.		**Bumblebee makes a non-speaking cameo among glimpses of other negative polarity universes.
			*'''[[LG43 Trypticon\|''Legends Comic: Bonus Edition'' Vol. 43]]''' (2017)
			**Sari is depicted on a poster. You can skip this one, we promise.

	==Characters==		==Characters==

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	Morgan and Sorenson would collaborate again on the special "''Shattered Glass Animated''" edition of Sorenson and Forster's ''[[The AllSpark Almanac Addendum]]'', published in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 44\|''Transformers Collectors' Club'' magazine #44]] in April 2012. This edition showcased the character models from the lithograph, alongside new bios; additionally, a "diary" page written from Sari's perspective, penned by Morgan based on Sorenson's outline, summarised a number of adventures paralleling the episodes "[[Sound and Fury (episode)\|Sound and Fury]]", "[[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]" and "[[Human Error, Part I\|Human Error]]". This addendum would flesh out the world by establishing mirror versions of [[Prowl (SG Animated)\|Prowl]], [[Ratchet (SG Animated)\|Ratchet]], [[Bulkhead (SG Animated)\|Bulkhead]], [[Sentinel Prime (SG Animated)\|Sentinel Prime]], [[Ultra Magnus (SG Animated)\|Ultra Magnus]], [[Soundwave (SG Animated)\|Soundwave]], and a cadre of human superheroes in the form of [[Heroic Youths Battling Robots Infesting Detroit\|HYBRID]]. Sari's page canonized another of the illustrations from Wyatt's blog entry, showing her wielding energy chainsaw weapons. When this addendum was integrated into ''[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac\|The Complete AllSpark Almanac]]'' in 2015, it also officialised a piece of fanart from Wyatt's DeviantArt account, putting a face to the previously-mentioned [[Megatron (SG Animated)\|mirror universe Megatron]] and establishing the existence of [[Starscream (SG Animated)\|Starscream]] and the [[Autotrooper (SG Animated)\|Autotroopers]]. Presented in the in-universe ''Almanac'' style, the addendum refused to use "Shattered Glass" as a descriptor, instead referring to their characters with appellations such as "Optimus Prime (Mirror Universe)"; when printed inside the ''Complete Almanac'', these were simplified into the format "Mirror Optimus Prime".		Morgan and Sorenson would collaborate again on the special "''Shattered Glass Animated''" edition of Sorenson and Forster's ''[[The AllSpark Almanac Addendum]]'', published in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 44\|''Transformers Collectors' Club'' magazine #44]] in April 2012. This edition showcased the character models from the lithograph, alongside new bios; additionally, a "diary" page written from Sari's perspective, penned by Morgan based on Sorenson's outline, summarised a number of adventures paralleling the episodes "[[Sound and Fury (episode)\|Sound and Fury]]", "[[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]" and "[[Human Error, Part I\|Human Error]]". This addendum would flesh out the world by establishing mirror versions of [[Prowl (SG Animated)\|Prowl]], [[Ratchet (SG Animated)\|Ratchet]], [[Bulkhead (SG Animated)\|Bulkhead]], [[Sentinel Prime (SG Animated)\|Sentinel Prime]], [[Ultra Magnus (SG Animated)\|Ultra Magnus]], [[Soundwave (SG Animated)\|Soundwave]], and a cadre of human superheroes in the form of [[Heroic Youths Battling Robots Infesting Detroit\|HYBRID]]. Sari's page canonized another of the illustrations from Wyatt's blog entry, showing her wielding energy chainsaw weapons. When this addendum was integrated into ''[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac\|The Complete AllSpark Almanac]]'' in 2015, it also officialised a piece of fanart from Wyatt's DeviantArt account, putting a face to the previously-mentioned [[Megatron (SG Animated)\|mirror universe Megatron]] and establishing the existence of [[Starscream (SG Animated)\|Starscream]] and the [[Autotrooper (SG Animated)\|Autotroopers]]. Presented in the in-universe ''Almanac'' style, the addendum refused to use "Shattered Glass" as a descriptor, instead referring to their characters with appellations such as "Optimus Prime (Mirror Universe)"; when printed inside the ''Complete Almanac'', these were simplified into the format "Mirror Optimus Prime".

	Other collector-aimed stories would give the "''Shattered Glass Animated''" universe a more definitive place in the [[multiverse]]. The [[Transformers I.Q. issue 16\|edition of ''Transformers I.Q.'']] published in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 58\|''Collectors' Club'' magazine #58]] in 2014 established evil Sari to live in the universal stream [[Malgus -411.27 Zeta]] using some very leading questions. The 2015 pack-in manga [[~~Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 11~~\|''Legends Comic: Bonus Edition'' Vol. 11]] included Sari in a pan-universal display of evil female Transformers from all across the brand's fiction. One of the final ''Transformers'' stories Fun Publications ever released, 2017's "[[Epilogue Two]]", featured a mirror version of the TransTech establishing contact with a whole multiverse of negative polarity universes, among them a "''Shattered Glass Animated''" stream by the name "Cybertron -MA07".		Other collector-aimed stories would give the "''Shattered Glass Animated''" universe a more definitive place in the [[multiverse]]. The [[Transformers I.Q. issue 16\|edition of ''Transformers I.Q.'']] published in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 58\|''Collectors' Club'' magazine #58]] in 2014 established evil Sari to live in the universal stream [[Malgus -411.27 Zeta]] using some very leading questions. The 2015 pack-in manga [[LG11 Chromia\|''Legends Comic: Bonus Edition'' Vol. 11]] included Sari in a pan-universal display of evil female Transformers from all across the brand's fiction. One of the final ''Transformers'' stories Fun Publications ever released, 2017's "[[Epilogue Two]]", featured a mirror version of the TransTech establishing contact with a whole multiverse of negative polarity universes, among them a "''Shattered Glass Animated''" stream by the name "Cybertron -MA07".

	The capstone on the "''Shattered Glass Animated''" universe came in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 71\|the penultimate issue of the ''Collector's Club'' magazine]] in 2016. The main selling point of this issue was a "definitive" preliminary episode guide to ''Transformers Animated'' season four, with "Mirror, Mirror" once again summarised, paired with unseen artwork. The four bios originating from the BotCon 2011 lithograph were also reprinted in this issue, unabridged and unaltered. And, for the first time, the mirror continuity received a full comic strip as part of [[Josh Perez]]'s ''[[SD SG]]'' in the form of "[[The Re-Burn of Blurr]]", a tale written by Wyatt to parody ''Animated''{{'}}s own capstone story, "[[The Return of Blurr]]".		The capstone on the "''Shattered Glass Animated''" universe came in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 71\|the penultimate issue of the ''Collector's Club'' magazine]] in 2016. The main selling point of this issue was a "definitive" preliminary episode guide to ''Transformers Animated'' season four, with "Mirror, Mirror" once again summarised, paired with unseen artwork. The four bios originating from the BotCon 2011 lithograph were also reprinted in this issue, unabridged and unaltered. And, for the first time, the mirror continuity received a full comic strip as part of [[Josh Perez]]'s ''[[SD SG]]'' in the form of "[[The Re-Burn of Blurr]]", a tale written by Wyatt to parody ''Animated''{{'}}s own capstone story, "[[The Return of Blurr]]".
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	*'''[[Transformers I.Q. issue 16\|''Transformers I.Q.'' #16]]''' ([[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 58\|''Collectors' Club'' #58]], 2014)		*'''[[Transformers I.Q. issue 16\|''Transformers I.Q.'' #16]]''' ([[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 58\|''Collectors' Club'' #58]], 2014)
	**Contains characterisation and questions concerning Sari and Bumblebee.		**Contains characterisation and questions concerning Sari and Bumblebee.
	*'''[[~~Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 11~~\|''Legends Comic: Bonus Edition'' Vol. 11]]''' (2015)		*'''[[LG11 Chromia\|''Legends Comic: Bonus Edition'' Vol. 11]]''' (2015)
	**Sari makes a non-speaking cameo as part of a group of villainous women.		**Sari makes a non-speaking cameo as part of a group of villainous women.
	*'''''[[SD SG]]'': "[[The Re-Burn of Blurr]]"''' (''Collectors' Club'' #71, 2016)		*'''''[[SD SG]]'': "[[The Re-Burn of Blurr]]"''' (''Collectors' Club'' #71, 2016)

AzimuthAcolyte: Sound and Fury -> Sound and Fury (episode) update

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	As often happened with Wyatt's off-the-clock artwork, ancillary media would come along and [[Canonizing\|absorb it into the ''Transformers'' brand]]. For the Japanese guidebook ''[[Transformers Generations 2011 Vol. 1]]'', Wyatt completed the artwork of both Saris in conflict, teaming them up with fellow [[body-type]]-sharing enemies Optimus Prime and [[The Motor Master]]. "Shattered Glass" Sari thus became a canonical part of the ''Transformers'' universe and, if further proof were needed, the accompanying text confirmed that she had been intended to appear in ''Animated'' season four. Later that year, [[The 'Bots and The 'Cons\|a pair of lithographs]] were made available exclusively at [[BotCon 2011]], each comprised of a collection of all-new [[bio]]s and [[Tech Spec\|tech specs]] for minor ''Animated'' characters. The Decepticon lithograph included entries for "[[Optimus Prime (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Optimus Prime]]", "[[Bumblebee (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Bumblebee]]", "[[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Sumdac]]", and "[[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Sari]]", giving each character an official [[character model]] and profile for the first time. While the majority of the bios were written by Jim Sorenson, Sari's was written by Heather Morgan, who'd become something of a custodian for the character at Wyatt's behest.		As often happened with Wyatt's off-the-clock artwork, ancillary media would come along and [[Canonizing\|absorb it into the ''Transformers'' brand]]. For the Japanese guidebook ''[[Transformers Generations 2011 Vol. 1]]'', Wyatt completed the artwork of both Saris in conflict, teaming them up with fellow [[body-type]]-sharing enemies Optimus Prime and [[The Motor Master]]. "Shattered Glass" Sari thus became a canonical part of the ''Transformers'' universe and, if further proof were needed, the accompanying text confirmed that she had been intended to appear in ''Animated'' season four. Later that year, [[The 'Bots and The 'Cons\|a pair of lithographs]] were made available exclusively at [[BotCon 2011]], each comprised of a collection of all-new [[bio]]s and [[Tech Spec\|tech specs]] for minor ''Animated'' characters. The Decepticon lithograph included entries for "[[Optimus Prime (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Optimus Prime]]", "[[Bumblebee (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Bumblebee]]", "[[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Sumdac]]", and "[[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Sari]]", giving each character an official [[character model]] and profile for the first time. While the majority of the bios were written by Jim Sorenson, Sari's was written by Heather Morgan, who'd become something of a custodian for the character at Wyatt's behest.

	Morgan and Sorenson would collaborate again on the special "''Shattered Glass Animated''" edition of Sorenson and Forster's ''[[The AllSpark Almanac Addendum]]'', published in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 44\|''Transformers Collectors' Club'' magazine #44]] in April 2012. This edition showcased the character models from the lithograph, alongside new bios; additionally, a "diary" page written from Sari's perspective, penned by Morgan based on Sorenson's outline, summarised a number of adventures paralleling the episodes "[[Sound and Fury]]", "[[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]" and "[[Human Error, Part I\|Human Error]]". This addendum would flesh out the world by establishing mirror versions of [[Prowl (SG Animated)\|Prowl]], [[Ratchet (SG Animated)\|Ratchet]], [[Bulkhead (SG Animated)\|Bulkhead]], [[Sentinel Prime (SG Animated)\|Sentinel Prime]], [[Ultra Magnus (SG Animated)\|Ultra Magnus]], [[Soundwave (SG Animated)\|Soundwave]], and a cadre of human superheroes in the form of [[Heroic Youths Battling Robots Infesting Detroit\|HYBRID]]. Sari's page canonized another of the illustrations from Wyatt's blog entry, showing her wielding energy chainsaw weapons. When this addendum was integrated into ''[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac\|The Complete AllSpark Almanac]]'' in 2015, it also officialised a piece of fanart from Wyatt's DeviantArt account, putting a face to the previously-mentioned [[Megatron (SG Animated)\|mirror universe Megatron]] and establishing the existence of [[Starscream (SG Animated)\|Starscream]] and the [[Autotrooper (SG Animated)\|Autotroopers]]. Presented in the in-universe ''Almanac'' style, the addendum refused to use "Shattered Glass" as a descriptor, instead referring to their characters with appellations such as "Optimus Prime (Mirror Universe)"; when printed inside the ''Complete Almanac'', these were simplified into the format "Mirror Optimus Prime".		Morgan and Sorenson would collaborate again on the special "''Shattered Glass Animated''" edition of Sorenson and Forster's ''[[The AllSpark Almanac Addendum]]'', published in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 44\|''Transformers Collectors' Club'' magazine #44]] in April 2012. This edition showcased the character models from the lithograph, alongside new bios; additionally, a "diary" page written from Sari's perspective, penned by Morgan based on Sorenson's outline, summarised a number of adventures paralleling the episodes "[[Sound and Fury (episode)\|Sound and Fury]]", "[[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]" and "[[Human Error, Part I\|Human Error]]". This addendum would flesh out the world by establishing mirror versions of [[Prowl (SG Animated)\|Prowl]], [[Ratchet (SG Animated)\|Ratchet]], [[Bulkhead (SG Animated)\|Bulkhead]], [[Sentinel Prime (SG Animated)\|Sentinel Prime]], [[Ultra Magnus (SG Animated)\|Ultra Magnus]], [[Soundwave (SG Animated)\|Soundwave]], and a cadre of human superheroes in the form of [[Heroic Youths Battling Robots Infesting Detroit\|HYBRID]]. Sari's page canonized another of the illustrations from Wyatt's blog entry, showing her wielding energy chainsaw weapons. When this addendum was integrated into ''[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac\|The Complete AllSpark Almanac]]'' in 2015, it also officialised a piece of fanart from Wyatt's DeviantArt account, putting a face to the previously-mentioned [[Megatron (SG Animated)\|mirror universe Megatron]] and establishing the existence of [[Starscream (SG Animated)\|Starscream]] and the [[Autotrooper (SG Animated)\|Autotroopers]]. Presented in the in-universe ''Almanac'' style, the addendum refused to use "Shattered Glass" as a descriptor, instead referring to their characters with appellations such as "Optimus Prime (Mirror Universe)"; when printed inside the ''Complete Almanac'', these were simplified into the format "Mirror Optimus Prime".

	Other collector-aimed stories would give the "''Shattered Glass Animated''" universe a more definitive place in the [[multiverse]]. The [[Transformers I.Q. issue 16\|edition of ''Transformers I.Q.'']] published in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 58\|''Collectors' Club'' magazine #58]] in 2014 established evil Sari to live in the universal stream [[Malgus -411.27 Zeta]] using some very leading questions. The 2015 pack-in manga [[Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 11\|''Legends Comic: Bonus Edition'' Vol. 11]] included Sari in a pan-universal display of evil female Transformers from all across the brand's fiction. One of the final ''Transformers'' stories Fun Publications ever released, 2017's "[[Epilogue Two]]", featured a mirror version of the TransTech establishing contact with a whole multiverse of negative polarity universes, among them a "''Shattered Glass Animated''" stream by the name "Cybertron -MA07".		Other collector-aimed stories would give the "''Shattered Glass Animated''" universe a more definitive place in the [[multiverse]]. The [[Transformers I.Q. issue 16\|edition of ''Transformers I.Q.'']] published in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 58\|''Collectors' Club'' magazine #58]] in 2014 established evil Sari to live in the universal stream [[Malgus -411.27 Zeta]] using some very leading questions. The 2015 pack-in manga [[Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 11\|''Legends Comic: Bonus Edition'' Vol. 11]] included Sari in a pan-universal display of evil female Transformers from all across the brand's fiction. One of the final ''Transformers'' stories Fun Publications ever released, 2017's "[[Epilogue Two]]", featured a mirror version of the TransTech establishing contact with a whole multiverse of negative polarity universes, among them a "''Shattered Glass Animated''" stream by the name "Cybertron -MA07".

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	*The robots of "''Shattered Glass Animated''", much like other characters dreamed up by Wyatt since ''Animated''{{'}}s cancellation, were made from existing character models in the hopes that Fun Publications would produce them as toys.		*The robots of "''Shattered Glass Animated''", much like other characters dreamed up by Wyatt since ''Animated''{{'}}s cancellation, were made from existing character models in the hopes that Fun Publications would produce them as toys.
			*Some of Sari's doodles in her diary are changed for the page's printing in ''The Complete AllSpark Almanac'' for no clear reason: her "Stingers rock!" graffiti becomes "Stinger rocks!", her "poison apple" drawing changes completely, and her doodle of Prime's severed head loses its goatee. Weird!
	*In addition to Sari building her own Bumblebee, ideas for "''Shattered Glass Animated''" conceptualised by Wyatt to have not made the leap into official media include patrolling packs of vicious [[Sparkplug (robot dog)\|Sparkplugs]] (see his design for the [[wikia:scoobydoo:Fright Hound\|Fright Hound]] to see how they might have looked), a [[Tutor Bot]] that used brainwashing and emotional abuse, and a mother figure for Sari that Isaac kept caged to ensure their daughter's cooperation.<ref name=woulda/> What the crap, Derrick.		*In addition to Sari building her own Bumblebee, ideas for "''Shattered Glass Animated''" conceptualised by Wyatt to have not made the leap into official media include patrolling packs of vicious [[Sparkplug (robot dog)\|Sparkplugs]] (see his design for the [[wikia:scoobydoo:Fright Hound\|Fright Hound]] to see how they might have looked), a [[Tutor Bot]] that used brainwashing and emotional abuse, and a mother figure for Sari that Isaac kept caged to ensure their daughter's cooperation.<ref name=woulda/> What the crap, Derrick.

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	This was all happening behind closed doors, however, and ''Animated''{{'}}s initial public forays into mirror universes came in its ancillary media. The first was in 2009, in the artbook-cum-encyclopedia ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac\|The AllSpark Almanac]]'', which authors [[Jim Sorenson]] and [[Bill Forster]] presented as an in-universe document produced by their mirror doppelgangers. This other [[Jim Sorenson (Animated)\|Sorenson]] and [[Bill Forster (Animated)\|Forster]] originated from a universe referred to as [[Quadwal -3760.925 Theta]]; at the time, this marked only the second "negative polarity" universe documented in the [[universal stream]] terminology used by the officious [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s, after [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon\|the ''Shattered Glass'' universe itself]] (and the third in total, after "[[Shattered Expectations (SG)\|Shattered Expectations]]"). Later in the same year, the "Shatteredverse" comic [[Around Cybertron issue 6\|''Around Cybertron'' #6]] would use the likeness of [[Bumblebee (Animated)\|''Animated'' Bumblebee]]'s [[Bumblebee (Animated)/toys#EliteGuard\|"Elite Guard" toy]] as the [[Wireless Automated Sales Person]], with its exaggerated ''Animated'' styling representing its in-universe holographic cartooniness. 2010 saw the release of ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II\|The AllSpark Almanac II]]'', the rear cover of which included a quote of praise for the book attributed to "[[Swindle (SG Animated)\|Swindle (Mirror Universe)]]"—the first explicit, in-fiction appearance of a mirror universe ''Animated'' character.		This was all happening behind closed doors, however, and ''Animated''{{'}}s initial public forays into mirror universes came in its ancillary media. The first was in 2009, in the artbook-cum-encyclopedia ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac\|The AllSpark Almanac]]'', which authors [[Jim Sorenson]] and [[Bill Forster]] presented as an in-universe document produced by their mirror doppelgangers. This other [[Jim Sorenson (Animated)\|Sorenson]] and [[Bill Forster (Animated)\|Forster]] originated from a universe referred to as [[Quadwal -3760.925 Theta]]; at the time, this marked only the second "negative polarity" universe documented in the [[universal stream]] terminology used by the officious [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s, after [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon\|the ''Shattered Glass'' universe itself]] (and the third in total, after "[[Shattered Expectations (SG)\|Shattered Expectations]]"). Later in the same year, the "Shatteredverse" comic [[Around Cybertron issue 6\|''Around Cybertron'' #6]] would use the likeness of [[Bumblebee (Animated)\|''Animated'' Bumblebee]]'s [[Bumblebee (Animated)/toys#EliteGuard\|"Elite Guard" toy]] as the [[Wireless Automated Sales Person]], with its exaggerated ''Animated'' styling representing its in-universe holographic cartooniness. 2010 saw the release of ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II\|The AllSpark Almanac II]]'', the rear cover of which included a quote of praise for the book attributed to "[[Swindle (SG Animated)\|Swindle (Mirror Universe)]]"—the first explicit, in-fiction appearance of a mirror universe ''Animated'' character.

	''The AllSpark Almanac II'' was printed at a time when we knew ''Animated'' wasn't coming back for a [[Transformers Animated season 4\|fourth season]], so the authors were allowed a look at the cartoon team's internal documentation in order to allow them to briefly summarise what could have been. The guide revealed that the episode concept had since gained the name "Mirror, Mirror", after the [[wikia:memoryalpha:Mirror, Mirror (episode)\|''Star Trek'' episode]] that brought morally inverted parallel universes to the public consciousness. While it would be easy to lay the blame for the ''[[Star Trek]]'' reference on Sorenson, who [[Raikuru#Name\|had form]] doing so and would perfect the art in ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'', [[:File:Tfa s4 original2.jpg\|a look at those internal documents]] reveals that it was the ''Animated'' team that had coined the name "Mirror, Mirror" when the episode had been pushed to season four. [[:File:Tfa s4 ~~original2~~.jpg\|A later revision of the same document]] corroborated the ''Almanac'' summary that the focal characters of the episode were changed to [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)\|Sari]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)\|Bulkhead]], moving away from the "Optimus and crew" angle.<ref name=shoulda/>		''The AllSpark Almanac II'' was printed at a time when we knew ''Animated'' wasn't coming back for a [[Transformers Animated season 4\|fourth season]], so the authors were allowed a look at the cartoon team's internal documentation in order to allow them to briefly summarise what could have been. The guide revealed that the episode concept had since gained the name "Mirror, Mirror", after the [[wikia:memoryalpha:Mirror, Mirror (episode)\|''Star Trek'' episode]] that brought morally inverted parallel universes to the public consciousness. While it would be easy to lay the blame for the ''[[Star Trek]]'' reference on Sorenson, who [[Raikuru#Name\|had form]] doing so and would perfect the art in ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'', [[:File:Tfa s4 original2.jpg\|a look at those internal documents]] reveals that it was the ''Animated'' team that had coined the name "Mirror, Mirror" when the episode had been pushed to season four. [[:File:Tfa s4 revised1.jpg\|A later revision of the same document]] corroborated the ''Almanac'' summary that the focal characters of the episode were changed to [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)\|Sari]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)\|Bulkhead]], moving away from the "Optimus and crew" angle.<ref name=shoulda/>

	This change of focus might be attributed to Derrick Wyatt, who was greatly interested in the ''Shattered Glass'' concept and an [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)\|evil Sari]] in particular. According to his friend [[Heather Morgan]], Wyatt had began to design Sari during season three's production,<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Dug this up earlier. Forgot to post. First ever Shattered Glass Sari Sumdac art.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1659056882609266688\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2023\|month=05\|day=18}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=This is from actual preproduction before the cancellation, it was not drawn in 2010, that’s just when I saw it.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1659060932889268224\|\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2023\|month=05\|day=18}}</ref> despite her very small role in Pugsley and Klein's outline.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=If I remember what Derrick told me about the rough draft written while the show was still in production for mirror mirror, since I never saw it, SG Sari wasn’t really developed that much because she was barely going to be in it.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1574933629599645699\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2022\|month=09\|day=28}}</ref><ref name=coulda>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At0OmPh_JoA "Animated Season 4: What Could've Been"] on Keyan Carlile's Transformer Channel</ref> Wyatt would continue to foster the development of mirror universe Sari with Morgan and others on his Formspring account; the wider ''Transformers'' fandom would become aware of the character in 2010, when Wyatt posted a collection of Sari-themed artwork to his blog.<ref>[http://derrickjwyatt.blogspot.com/2010/10/many-moods-of-sari-sumdac.html "The Many Moods of Sari Sumdac"] on A Delightful Tedium</ref> "Shattered Glass" Sari was featured in five of these art pieces, including an inked and coloured icon based on his season three production sketch, a limbless Sari based on a [[wikia:gamera:Jet Emission\|flying]] [[wikia:gamera:Gamera\|Gamera]], and Sari posing with a [[Frankenstein's monster]] take on [[Bumblebee (Animated)\|Bumblebee]]. Morgan would later clarify that the pictured Bumblebee was intended to be evil Sari's own creation, based on the relationship she'd seen between regular universe Sari and Bee, explaining the image's filename, "SGSari'sBee.jpg".<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=[Sari] actually doesn’t like Bee at all, which is why she made her own eventually. That part never got a story but the ideas all exist.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1574939323476381696\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2022\|month=09\|day=28}}</ref> We stress that none of these three illustrations are official, despite being drawn by ''Animated''{{'}}s lead character designer, as they were created after the show had ceased production.		This change of focus might be attributed to Derrick Wyatt, who was greatly interested in the ''Shattered Glass'' concept and an [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)\|evil Sari]] in particular. According to his friend [[Heather Morgan]], Wyatt had began to design Sari during season three's production,<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Dug this up earlier. Forgot to post. First ever Shattered Glass Sari Sumdac art.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1659056882609266688\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2023\|month=05\|day=18}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=This is from actual preproduction before the cancellation, it was not drawn in 2010, that’s just when I saw it.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1659060932889268224\|\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2023\|month=05\|day=18}}</ref> despite her very small role in Pugsley and Klein's outline.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=If I remember what Derrick told me about the rough draft written while the show was still in production for mirror mirror, since I never saw it, SG Sari wasn’t really developed that much because she was barely going to be in it.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1574933629599645699\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2022\|month=09\|day=28}}</ref><ref name=coulda>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At0OmPh_JoA "Animated Season 4: What Could've Been"] on Keyan Carlile's Transformer Channel</ref> Wyatt would continue to foster the development of mirror universe Sari with Morgan and others on his Formspring account; the wider ''Transformers'' fandom would become aware of the character in 2010, when Wyatt posted a collection of Sari-themed artwork to his blog.<ref>[http://derrickjwyatt.blogspot.com/2010/10/many-moods-of-sari-sumdac.html "The Many Moods of Sari Sumdac"] on A Delightful Tedium</ref> "Shattered Glass" Sari was featured in five of these art pieces, including an inked and coloured icon based on his season three production sketch, a limbless Sari based on a [[wikia:gamera:Jet Emission\|flying]] [[wikia:gamera:Gamera\|Gamera]], and Sari posing with a [[Frankenstein's monster]] take on [[Bumblebee (Animated)\|Bumblebee]]. Morgan would later clarify that the pictured Bumblebee was intended to be evil Sari's own creation, based on the relationship she'd seen between regular universe Sari and Bee, explaining the image's filename, "SGSari'sBee.jpg".<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=[Sari] actually doesn’t like Bee at all, which is why she made her own eventually. That part never got a story but the ideas all exist.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1574939323476381696\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2022\|month=09\|day=28}}</ref> We stress that none of these three illustrations are official, despite being drawn by ''Animated''{{'}}s lead character designer, as they were created after the show had ceased production.
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	Unlike the "main" ''Shattered Glass'' franchise, which used the heroic Decepticons as its sympathetic point of view characters, "''Shattered Glass Animated''" largely focussed on the evil Autobots and Sari Sumdac. In this universe, [[Optimus Prime (SG Animated)\|Optimus Prime]] is an amoral dropout from the [[Elite Guard]], possibly due to collusion against the Autobots' [[Ultra Magnus (SG Animated)\|antiquated Magnus]]. Prime leads a crew of fellow renegades to find the [[AllSpark]], which they locate in the possession of [[Megatron (SG Animated)\|Megatron]] and his loyal Decepticons. In the ensuing skirmish, the two teams crash land on Earth.		Unlike the "main" ''Shattered Glass'' franchise, which used the heroic Decepticons as its sympathetic point of view characters, "''Shattered Glass Animated''" largely focussed on the evil Autobots and Sari Sumdac. In this universe, [[Optimus Prime (SG Animated)\|Optimus Prime]] is an amoral dropout from the [[Elite Guard]], possibly due to collusion against the Autobots' [[Ultra Magnus (SG Animated)\|antiquated Magnus]]. Prime leads a crew of fellow renegades to find the [[AllSpark]], which they locate in the possession of [[Megatron (SG Animated)\|Megatron]] and his loyal Decepticons. In the ensuing skirmish, the two teams crash land on Earth.

	Prime's disembodied head crashes separately like a meteor, and is found by a young [[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Isaac Sumdac]]. In subsequent years, Sumdac reverse engineers technology from Prime to establish a ruthless military technocracy, conquering lower Michigan and ruling it from his <s>Technodrome</s> [[Terrordrome]] in Detroit. Separately, Sumdac comes across a [[protoform]] that had made its way to Earth and loses an eye to it. Assimilating his DNA, the protoform grows into [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Sari]], and Sumdac comes to see her as his daughter. Sumdac's treatment of Sari includes caging her up and performing experiments on her with fragments of the AllSpark, which upgrades her with a battle mode. Sari is outfitted with a control collar to prevent her turning on her father.		Prime's disembodied head crashes separately like a meteor, and is found by a young [[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Isaac Sumdac]]. In subsequent years, Sumdac reverse engineers technology from Prime to establish a ruthless military technocracy, conquering lower [[Michigan]] and ruling it from his <s>Technodrome</s> [[Terrordrome]] in Detroit. Separately, Sumdac comes across a [[protoform]] that had made its way to Earth and loses an eye to it. Assimilating his DNA, the protoform grows into [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Sari]], and Sumdac comes to see her as his daughter. Sumdac's treatment of Sari includes caging her up and performing experiments on her with fragments of the AllSpark, which upgrades her with a battle mode. Sari is outfitted with a control collar to prevent her turning on her father.

	Subsequently, Sumdac revives the Autobots and uses the same control collars to enslave them, their primary mission being to defeat Megatron's Decepticons and capture the AllSpark. The in-fighting Autobots are united by their mutual hatred of Dr Sumdac, with Prime planning revenge once the collar comes off. Nonetheless, the Autobots are granted some degree of autonomy; [[Prowl (SG Animated)\|Prowl]] creates a clone army, and [[Ratchet (SG Animated)\|Ratchet]] is allowed to conduct unspecified macabre experiments.		Subsequently, Sumdac revives the Autobots and uses the same control collars to enslave them, their primary mission being to defeat Megatron's Decepticons and capture the AllSpark. The in-fighting Autobots are united by their mutual hatred of Dr Sumdac, with Prime planning revenge once the collar comes off. Nonetheless, the Autobots are granted some degree of autonomy; [[Prowl (SG Animated)\|Prowl]] creates a clone army, and [[Ratchet (SG Animated)\|Ratchet]] is allowed to conduct unspecified macabre experiments.

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	[[File:SG Animated Mirror Mirror.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.4\|Never underestimate one man's ~~love of~~ drawing goth girls.]]		[[File:SG Animated Mirror Mirror.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.4\|Never underestimate one man's passion for drawing goth girls.]]
	[[2008]] was a big year for ''Transformers''. ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)\|Transformers Animated]]'' began broadcasting its first season in full, marking a triumphant return for ''Transformers'' to western animation courtesy of [[Cartoon Network]]. Elsewhere, [[Fun Publications]] blazed their own trail by introducing the ''Transformers'' brand to its very first mirror universe in its then 25-year history in the form of ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]''. And when two production teams of asylum-running fans love each other very much, they create a horrific frankenbaby that this wiki has designated '''"''Shattered Glass Animated''"'''.		[[2008]] was a big year for ''Transformers''. ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)\|Transformers Animated]]'' began broadcasting its first season in full, marking a triumphant return for ''Transformers'' to western animation courtesy of [[Cartoon Network]]. Elsewhere, [[Fun Publications]] blazed their own trail by introducing the ''Transformers'' brand to its very first mirror universe in its then 25-year history in the form of ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]''. And when two production teams of asylum-running fans love each other very much, they create a horrific frankenbaby that this wiki has designated '''"''Shattered Glass Animated''"'''.

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	The capstone on the "''Shattered Glass Animated''" universe came in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 71\|the penultimate issue of the ''Collector's Club'' magazine]] in 2016. The main selling point of this issue was a "definitive" preliminary episode guide to ''Transformers Animated'' season four, with "Mirror, Mirror" once again summarised, paired with unseen artwork. The four bios originating from the BotCon 2011 lithograph were also reprinted in this issue, unabridged and unaltered. And, for the first time, the mirror continuity received a full comic strip as part of [[Josh Perez]]'s ''[[SD SG]]'' in the form of "[[The Re-Burn of Blurr]]", a tale written by Wyatt to parody ''Animated''{{'}}s own capstone story, "[[The Return of Blurr]]".		The capstone on the "''Shattered Glass Animated''" universe came in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 71\|the penultimate issue of the ''Collector's Club'' magazine]] in 2016. The main selling point of this issue was a "definitive" preliminary episode guide to ''Transformers Animated'' season four, with "Mirror, Mirror" once again summarised, paired with unseen artwork. The four bios originating from the BotCon 2011 lithograph were also reprinted in this issue, unabridged and unaltered. And, for the first time, the mirror continuity received a full comic strip as part of [[Josh Perez]]'s ''[[SD SG]]'' in the form of "[[The Re-Burn of Blurr]]", a tale written by Wyatt to parody ''Animated''{{'}}s own capstone story, "[[The Return of Blurr]]".

	And that's all there currently is to official "''Shattered Glass Animated''" content. Outside the realm of officialdom, Wyatt spent twelve years brainstorming concepts and characters to fill out the mirror universe, but outside of the canonized bits above, none of them ever made it into published ''Transformers'' media. In particular, he and Josh Perez created swathes of evil Autobots and heroic Decepticons by recolouring character models straight from the show,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BypswlDXoqo "Animated Shattered Glass: What Could've Been"] on Keyan Carlile's Transformer Channel</ref> but since they're not canon, there's no place for them here on the wiki. Not unless they make another ''AllSpark Almanac'', at least.		And that's all there currently is to official "''Shattered Glass Animated''" content. Outside the realm of officialdom, Wyatt spent twelve years brainstorming concepts and characters to fill out the mirror universe, but outside of the canonized bits above, none of them ever made it into published ''Transformers'' media. In particular, he and Josh Perez created swathes of evil Autobots and heroic Decepticons by recolouring character models straight from the show,<ref name=woulda>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BypswlDXoqo "Animated Shattered Glass: What Could've Been"] on Keyan Carlile's Transformer Channel</ref> but since they're not canon, there's no place for them here on the wiki. Not unless they make another ''AllSpark Almanac'', at least.

	==Overview==		==Overview==
			[[File:IsaacSumdacSGAnimated-model.jpg\|thumb\|Total dictatorship, n00b.]]
			Unlike the "main" ''Shattered Glass'' franchise, which used the heroic Decepticons as its sympathetic point of view characters, "''Shattered Glass Animated''" largely focussed on the evil Autobots and Sari Sumdac. In this universe, [[Optimus Prime (SG Animated)\|Optimus Prime]] is an amoral dropout from the [[Elite Guard]], possibly due to collusion against the Autobots' [[Ultra Magnus (SG Animated)\|antiquated Magnus]]. Prime leads a crew of fellow renegades to find the [[AllSpark]], which they locate in the possession of [[Megatron (SG Animated)\|Megatron]] and his loyal Decepticons. In the ensuing skirmish, the two teams crash land on Earth.

			Prime's disembodied head crashes separately like a meteor, and is found by a young [[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Isaac Sumdac]]. In subsequent years, Sumdac reverse engineers technology from Prime to establish a ruthless military technocracy, conquering lower Michigan and ruling it from his <s>Technodrome</s> [[Terrordrome]] in Detroit. Separately, Sumdac comes across a [[protoform]] that had made its way to Earth and loses an eye to it. Assimilating his DNA, the protoform grows into [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Sari]], and Sumdac comes to see her as his daughter. Sumdac's treatment of Sari includes caging her up and performing experiments on her with fragments of the AllSpark, which upgrades her with a battle mode. Sari is outfitted with a control collar to prevent her turning on her father.

			Subsequently, Sumdac revives the Autobots and uses the same control collars to enslave them, their primary mission being to defeat Megatron's Decepticons and capture the AllSpark. The in-fighting Autobots are united by their mutual hatred of Dr Sumdac, with Prime planning revenge once the collar comes off. Nonetheless, the Autobots are granted some degree of autonomy; [[Prowl (SG Animated)\|Prowl]] creates a clone army, and [[Ratchet (SG Animated)\|Ratchet]] is allowed to conduct unspecified macabre experiments.

			Megatron, aided by his loyal second-in-command [[Starscream (SG Animated)\|Starscream]] and a cadre of [[Autotrooper (SG Animated)\|Autotrooper]]s, makes his own moves against Sumdac's empire. One gambit involves stealing a sonic attack robot from Sumdac and upgrading it into [[Soundwave (SG Animated)\|Soundwave]], who makes multiple attempts to reprogram the Autobots to be nice. Sumdac is also opposed by a mysterious Professor [[Black]], who creates a number of superheroes with his advanced technology. Soundwave unites them as the [[Heroic Youths Battling Robots Infesting Detroit]].

			If the tongue-in-cheek strip "[[The Re-Burn of Blurr]]" is taken to be in the same continuity, Sari eventually shakes off her father's control collar, makes it to [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertron]], and becomes a part of [[Arcee (SG Animated)\|Arcee]]'s class of Autobot recruits.

	===Reading list===		===Reading list===
	What follows is a list of all officially published fiction concerning the denizens of "''Shattered Glass Animated''". Note that this does not include the out-of-universe episode summaries seen in multiple sources.		What follows is a list of all officially published fiction concerning the denizens of "''Shattered Glass Animated''". Note that this does not include the out-of-universe episode summaries seen in multiple sources.
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	;The Sumdacs		;The Sumdacs
	*~~Professor~~ [[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Isaac Sumdac]]		*Dr [[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Isaac Sumdac]]
	*[[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Sari Sumdac]]		*[[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Sari Sumdac]]
	;[[Heroic Youths Battling Robots Infesting Detroit\|HYBRID]]		;[[Heroic Youths Battling Robots Infesting Detroit\|HYBRID]]
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			==Notes==
			*The robots of "''Shattered Glass Animated''", much like other characters dreamed up by Wyatt since ''Animated''{{'}}s cancellation, were made from existing character models in the hopes that Fun Publications would produce them as toys.
			*In addition to Sari building her own Bumblebee, ideas for "''Shattered Glass Animated''" conceptualised by Wyatt to have not made the leap into official media include patrolling packs of vicious [[Sparkplug (robot dog)\|Sparkplugs]] (see his design for the [[wikia:scoobydoo:Fright Hound\|Fright Hound]] to see how they might have looked), a [[Tutor Bot]] that used brainwashing and emotional abuse, and a mother figure for Sari that Isaac kept caged to ensure their daughter's cooperation.<ref name=woulda/> What the crap, Derrick.

	==References==		==References==
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	As often happened with Wyatt's off-the-clock artwork, ancillary media would come along and [[Canonizing\|absorb it into the ''Transformers'' brand]]. For the Japanese guidebook ''[[Transformers Generations 2011 Vol. 1]]'', Wyatt completed the artwork of both Saris in conflict, teaming them up with fellow [[body-type]]-sharing enemies Optimus Prime and [[The Motor Master]]. "Shattered Glass" Sari thus became a canonical part of the ''Transformers'' universe and, if further proof were needed, the accompanying text confirmed that she had been intended to appear in ''Animated'' season four. Later that year, [[The 'Bots and The 'Cons\|a pair of lithographs]] were made available exclusively at [[BotCon 2011]], each comprised of a collection of all-new [[bio]]s and [[Tech Spec\|tech specs]] for minor ''Animated'' characters. The Decepticon lithograph included entries for "[[Optimus Prime (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Optimus Prime]]", "[[Bumblebee (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Bumblebee]]", "[[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Sumdac]]", and "[[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Sari]]", giving each character an official [[character model]] and profile for the first time. While the majority of the bios were written by Jim Sorenson, Sari's was written by Heather Morgan, who'd become something of a custodian for the character at Wyatt's behest.		As often happened with Wyatt's off-the-clock artwork, ancillary media would come along and [[Canonizing\|absorb it into the ''Transformers'' brand]]. For the Japanese guidebook ''[[Transformers Generations 2011 Vol. 1]]'', Wyatt completed the artwork of both Saris in conflict, teaming them up with fellow [[body-type]]-sharing enemies Optimus Prime and [[The Motor Master]]. "Shattered Glass" Sari thus became a canonical part of the ''Transformers'' universe and, if further proof were needed, the accompanying text confirmed that she had been intended to appear in ''Animated'' season four. Later that year, [[The 'Bots and The 'Cons\|a pair of lithographs]] were made available exclusively at [[BotCon 2011]], each comprised of a collection of all-new [[bio]]s and [[Tech Spec\|tech specs]] for minor ''Animated'' characters. The Decepticon lithograph included entries for "[[Optimus Prime (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Optimus Prime]]", "[[Bumblebee (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Bumblebee]]", "[[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Sumdac]]", and "[[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Shattered Glass Sari]]", giving each character an official [[character model]] and profile for the first time. While the majority of the bios were written by Jim Sorenson, Sari's was written by Heather Morgan, who'd become something of a custodian for the character at Wyatt's behest.

	Morgan and Sorenson would collaborate again on the special "''Shattered Glass Animated''" edition of Sorenson and Forster's ''[[The AllSpark Almanac Addendum]]'', published in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 44\|''Transformers Collectors' Club'' magazine #44]] in April 2012. This edition showcased the character models from the lithograph, alongside new bios; additionally, a "diary" page written from Sari's perspective, penned by Morgan based on Sorenson's outline, summarised a number of adventures paralleling the episodes "[[Sound and Fury]]", "[[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]" and "[[Human Error, Part I\|Human Error]]". This addendum would flesh out the world by establishing mirror versions of [[Prowl (SG Animated)\|Prowl]], [[Ratchet (SG Animated)\|Ratchet]], [[Bulkhead (SG Animated)\|Bulkhead]], [[Sentinel Prime (SG Animated)\|Sentinel Prime]], [[Ultra Magnus (SG Animated)\|Ultra Magnus]], [[Soundwave (SG Animated)\|Soundwave]], and a cadre of human superheroes in the form of [[Heroic Youths Battling Robots Infesting Detroit\|HYBRID]]. Sari's page canonized another of the illustrations from Wyatt's blog entry, showing her wielding energy chainsaw weapons. When this addendum was integrated into ''[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac\|The Complete AllSpark Almanac]]'' in 2015, it also officialised a piece of fanart from Wyatt's DeviantArt account, putting a face to the previously-mentioned [[Megatron (SG Animated)\|mirror universe Megatron]] and establishing the existence of [[Starscream (SG Animated)\|Starscream]] and the [[Autotrooper (SG Animated)\|Autotroopers]]. Presented in the in-universe ''Almanac'' style, the addendum refused to use "Shattered Glass" as a descriptor, instead referring to their characters with appellations such as "Optimus Prime (Mirror Universe)"; when printed inside the ''Complete Almanac'', these were simplified into the format "Mirror Optimus Prime".		Morgan and Sorenson would collaborate again on the special "''Shattered Glass Animated''" edition of Sorenson and Forster's ''[[The AllSpark Almanac Addendum]]'', published in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 44\|''Transformers Collectors' Club'' magazine #44]] in April 2012. This edition showcased the character models from the lithograph, alongside new bios; additionally, a "diary" page written from Sari's perspective, penned by Morgan based on Sorenson's outline, summarised a number of adventures paralleling the episodes "[[Sound and Fury (episode)\|Sound and Fury]]", "[[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]" and "[[Human Error, Part I\|Human Error]]". This addendum would flesh out the world by establishing mirror versions of [[Prowl (SG Animated)\|Prowl]], [[Ratchet (SG Animated)\|Ratchet]], [[Bulkhead (SG Animated)\|Bulkhead]], [[Sentinel Prime (SG Animated)\|Sentinel Prime]], [[Ultra Magnus (SG Animated)\|Ultra Magnus]], [[Soundwave (SG Animated)\|Soundwave]], and a cadre of human superheroes in the form of [[Heroic Youths Battling Robots Infesting Detroit\|HYBRID]]. Sari's page canonized another of the illustrations from Wyatt's blog entry, showing her wielding energy chainsaw weapons. When this addendum was integrated into ''[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac\|The Complete AllSpark Almanac]]'' in 2015, it also officialised a piece of fanart from Wyatt's DeviantArt account, putting a face to the previously-mentioned [[Megatron (SG Animated)\|mirror universe Megatron]] and establishing the existence of [[Starscream (SG Animated)\|Starscream]] and the [[Autotrooper (SG Animated)\|Autotroopers]]. Presented in the in-universe ''Almanac'' style, the addendum refused to use "Shattered Glass" as a descriptor, instead referring to their characters with appellations such as "Optimus Prime (Mirror Universe)"; when printed inside the ''Complete Almanac'', these were simplified into the format "Mirror Optimus Prime".

	Other collector-aimed stories would give the "''Shattered Glass Animated''" universe a more definitive place in the [[multiverse]]. The [[Transformers I.Q. issue 16\|edition of ''Transformers I.Q.'']] published in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 58\|''Collectors' Club'' magazine #58]] in 2014 established evil Sari to live in the universal stream [[Malgus -411.27 Zeta]] using some very leading questions. The 2015 pack-in manga [[Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 11\|''Legends Comic: Bonus Edition'' Vol. 11]] included Sari in a pan-universal display of evil female Transformers from all across the brand's fiction. One of the final ''Transformers'' stories Fun Publications ever released, 2017's "[[Epilogue Two]]", featured a mirror version of the TransTech establishing contact with a whole multiverse of negative polarity universes, among them a "''Shattered Glass Animated''" stream by the name "Cybertron -MA07".		Other collector-aimed stories would give the "''Shattered Glass Animated''" universe a more definitive place in the [[multiverse]]. The [[Transformers I.Q. issue 16\|edition of ''Transformers I.Q.'']] published in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 58\|''Collectors' Club'' magazine #58]] in 2014 established evil Sari to live in the universal stream [[Malgus -411.27 Zeta]] using some very leading questions. The 2015 pack-in manga [[Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 11\|''Legends Comic: Bonus Edition'' Vol. 11]] included Sari in a pan-universal display of evil female Transformers from all across the brand's fiction. One of the final ''Transformers'' stories Fun Publications ever released, 2017's "[[Epilogue Two]]", featured a mirror version of the TransTech establishing contact with a whole multiverse of negative polarity universes, among them a "''Shattered Glass Animated''" stream by the name "Cybertron -MA07".

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	This was all happening behind closed doors, however, and ''Animated''{{'}}s initial public forays into mirror universes came in its ancillary media. The first was in 2009, in the artbook-cum-encyclopedia ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac\|The AllSpark Almanac]]'', which authors [[Jim Sorenson]] and [[Bill Forster]] presented as an in-universe document produced by their mirror doppelgangers. This other [[Jim Sorenson (Animated)\|Sorenson]] and [[Bill Forster (Animated)\|Forster]] originated from a universe referred to as [[Quadwal -3760.925 Theta]]; at the time, this marked only the second "negative polarity" universe documented in the [[universal stream]] terminology used by the officious [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s, after [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon\|the ''Shattered Glass'' universe itself]] (and the third in total, after "[[Shattered Expectations (SG)\|Shattered Expectations]]"). Later in the same year, the "Shatteredverse" comic [[Around Cybertron issue 6\|''Around Cybertron'' #6]] would use the likeness of [[Bumblebee (Animated)\|''Animated'' Bumblebee]]'s [[Bumblebee (Animated)/toys#EliteGuard\|"Elite Guard" toy]] as the [[Wireless Automated Sales Person]], with its exaggerated ''Animated'' styling representing its in-universe holographic cartooniness. 2010 saw the release of ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II\|The AllSpark Almanac II]]'', the rear cover of which included a quote of praise for the book attributed to "[[Swindle (SG Animated)\|Swindle (Mirror Universe)]]"—the first explicit, in-fiction appearance of a mirror universe ''Animated'' character.		This was all happening behind closed doors, however, and ''Animated''{{'}}s initial public forays into mirror universes came in its ancillary media. The first was in 2009, in the artbook-cum-encyclopedia ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac\|The AllSpark Almanac]]'', which authors [[Jim Sorenson]] and [[Bill Forster]] presented as an in-universe document produced by their mirror doppelgangers. This other [[Jim Sorenson (Animated)\|Sorenson]] and [[Bill Forster (Animated)\|Forster]] originated from a universe referred to as [[Quadwal -3760.925 Theta]]; at the time, this marked only the second "negative polarity" universe documented in the [[universal stream]] terminology used by the officious [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s, after [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon\|the ''Shattered Glass'' universe itself]] (and the third in total, after "[[Shattered Expectations (SG)\|Shattered Expectations]]"). Later in the same year, the "Shatteredverse" comic [[Around Cybertron issue 6\|''Around Cybertron'' #6]] would use the likeness of [[Bumblebee (Animated)\|''Animated'' Bumblebee]]'s [[Bumblebee (Animated)/toys#EliteGuard\|"Elite Guard" toy]] as the [[Wireless Automated Sales Person]], with its exaggerated ''Animated'' styling representing its in-universe holographic cartooniness. 2010 saw the release of ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II\|The AllSpark Almanac II]]'', the rear cover of which included a quote of praise for the book attributed to "[[Swindle (SG Animated)\|Swindle (Mirror Universe)]]"—the first explicit, in-fiction appearance of a mirror universe ''Animated'' character.

	''The AllSpark Almanac II'' was printed at a time when we knew ''Animated'' wasn't coming back for a [[Transformers Animated season 4\|fourth season]], so the authors were allowed a look at the cartoon team's internal documentation in order to allow them to briefly summarise what could have been. The guide revealed that the episode concept had since gained the name "Mirror, Mirror", after the [[wikia:memoryalpha:Mirror, Mirror (episode)\|''Star Trek'' episode]] that brought morally inverted parallel universes to the public consciousness. While it would be easy to lay the blame for the ''[[Star Trek]]'' reference on Sorenson, who [[Raikuru#Name\|had form]] doing so and would perfect the art in ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'', [[:File:Tfa s4 original2.jpg\|a look at those internal documents]] reveals that it was the ''Animated'' team that had coined the name "Mirror, Mirror" when the episode had been pushed to season four. [[:File:Tfa s4 ~~original2~~.jpg\|A later revision of the same document]] corroborated the ''Almanac'' summary that the focal characters of the episode were changed to [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)\|Sari]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)\|Bulkhead]], moving away from the "Optimus and crew" angle.<ref name=shoulda/>		''The AllSpark Almanac II'' was printed at a time when we knew ''Animated'' wasn't coming back for a [[Transformers Animated season 4\|fourth season]], so the authors were allowed a look at the cartoon team's internal documentation in order to allow them to briefly summarise what could have been. The guide revealed that the episode concept had since gained the name "Mirror, Mirror", after the [[wikia:memoryalpha:Mirror, Mirror (episode)\|''Star Trek'' episode]] that brought morally inverted parallel universes to the public consciousness. While it would be easy to lay the blame for the ''[[Star Trek]]'' reference on Sorenson, who [[Raikuru#Name\|had form]] doing so and would perfect the art in ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'', [[:File:Tfa s4 original2.jpg\|a look at those internal documents]] reveals that it was the ''Animated'' team that had coined the name "Mirror, Mirror" when the episode had been pushed to season four. [[:File:Tfa s4 revised1.jpg\|A later revision of the same document]] corroborated the ''Almanac'' summary that the focal characters of the episode were changed to [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)\|Sari]] and [[Bulkhead (Animated)\|Bulkhead]], moving away from the "Optimus and crew" angle.<ref name=shoulda/>

	This change of focus might be attributed to Derrick Wyatt, who was greatly interested in the ''Shattered Glass'' concept and an [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)\|evil Sari]] in particular. According to his friend [[Heather Morgan]], Wyatt had began to design Sari during season three's production,<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Dug this up earlier. Forgot to post. First ever Shattered Glass Sari Sumdac art.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1659056882609266688\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2023\|month=05\|day=18}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=This is from actual preproduction before the cancellation, it was not drawn in 2010, that’s just when I saw it.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1659060932889268224\|\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2023\|month=05\|day=18}}</ref> despite her very small role in Pugsley and Klein's outline.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=If I remember what Derrick told me about the rough draft written while the show was still in production for mirror mirror, since I never saw it, SG Sari wasn’t really developed that much because she was barely going to be in it.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1574933629599645699\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2022\|month=09\|day=28}}</ref><ref name=coulda>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At0OmPh_JoA "Animated Season 4: What Could've Been"] on Keyan Carlile's Transformer Channel</ref> Wyatt would continue to foster the development of mirror universe Sari with Morgan and others on his Formspring account; the wider ''Transformers'' fandom would become aware of the character in 2010, when Wyatt posted a collection of Sari-themed artwork to his blog.<ref>[http://derrickjwyatt.blogspot.com/2010/10/many-moods-of-sari-sumdac.html "The Many Moods of Sari Sumdac"] on A Delightful Tedium</ref> "Shattered Glass" Sari was featured in five of these art pieces, including an inked and coloured icon based on his season three production sketch, a limbless Sari based on a [[wikia:gamera:Jet Emission\|flying]] [[wikia:gamera:Gamera\|Gamera]], and Sari posing with a [[Frankenstein's monster]] take on [[Bumblebee (Animated)\|Bumblebee]]. Morgan would later clarify that the pictured Bumblebee was intended to be evil Sari's own creation, based on the relationship she'd seen between regular universe Sari and Bee, explaining the image's filename, "SGSari'sBee.jpg".<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=[Sari] actually doesn’t like Bee at all, which is why she made her own eventually. That part never got a story but the ideas all exist.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1574939323476381696\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2022\|month=09\|day=28}}</ref> We stress that none of these three illustrations are official, despite being drawn by ''Animated''{{'}}s lead character designer, as they were created after the show had ceased production.		This change of focus might be attributed to Derrick Wyatt, who was greatly interested in the ''Shattered Glass'' concept and an [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)\|evil Sari]] in particular. According to his friend [[Heather Morgan]], Wyatt had began to design Sari during season three's production,<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Dug this up earlier. Forgot to post. First ever Shattered Glass Sari Sumdac art.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1659056882609266688\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2023\|month=05\|day=18}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=This is from actual preproduction before the cancellation, it was not drawn in 2010, that’s just when I saw it.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1659060932889268224\|\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2023\|month=05\|day=18}}</ref> despite her very small role in Pugsley and Klein's outline.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=If I remember what Derrick told me about the rough draft written while the show was still in production for mirror mirror, since I never saw it, SG Sari wasn’t really developed that much because she was barely going to be in it.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1574933629599645699\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2022\|month=09\|day=28}}</ref><ref name=coulda>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At0OmPh_JoA "Animated Season 4: What Could've Been"] on Keyan Carlile's Transformer Channel</ref> Wyatt would continue to foster the development of mirror universe Sari with Morgan and others on his Formspring account; the wider ''Transformers'' fandom would become aware of the character in 2010, when Wyatt posted a collection of Sari-themed artwork to his blog.<ref>[http://derrickjwyatt.blogspot.com/2010/10/many-moods-of-sari-sumdac.html "The Many Moods of Sari Sumdac"] on A Delightful Tedium</ref> "Shattered Glass" Sari was featured in five of these art pieces, including an inked and coloured icon based on his season three production sketch, a limbless Sari based on a [[wikia:gamera:Jet Emission\|flying]] [[wikia:gamera:Gamera\|Gamera]], and Sari posing with a [[Frankenstein's monster]] take on [[Bumblebee (Animated)\|Bumblebee]]. Morgan would later clarify that the pictured Bumblebee was intended to be evil Sari's own creation, based on the relationship she'd seen between regular universe Sari and Bee, explaining the image's filename, "SGSari'sBee.jpg".<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=[Sari] actually doesn’t like Bee at all, which is why she made her own eventually. That part never got a story but the ideas all exist.\|link=https://twitter.com/Tubesmith/status/1574939323476381696\|name=Heather Morgan\|site=Twitter\|year=2022\|month=09\|day=28}}</ref> We stress that none of these three illustrations are official, despite being drawn by ''Animated''{{'}}s lead character designer, as they were created after the show had ceased production.
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	Unlike the "main" ''Shattered Glass'' franchise, which used the heroic Decepticons as its sympathetic point of view characters, "''Shattered Glass Animated''" largely focussed on the evil Autobots and Sari Sumdac. In this universe, [[Optimus Prime (SG Animated)\|Optimus Prime]] is an amoral dropout from the [[Elite Guard]], possibly due to collusion against the Autobots' [[Ultra Magnus (SG Animated)\|antiquated Magnus]]. Prime leads a crew of fellow renegades to find the [[AllSpark]], which they locate in the possession of [[Megatron (SG Animated)\|Megatron]] and his loyal Decepticons. In the ensuing skirmish, the two teams crash land on Earth.		Unlike the "main" ''Shattered Glass'' franchise, which used the heroic Decepticons as its sympathetic point of view characters, "''Shattered Glass Animated''" largely focussed on the evil Autobots and Sari Sumdac. In this universe, [[Optimus Prime (SG Animated)\|Optimus Prime]] is an amoral dropout from the [[Elite Guard]], possibly due to collusion against the Autobots' [[Ultra Magnus (SG Animated)\|antiquated Magnus]]. Prime leads a crew of fellow renegades to find the [[AllSpark]], which they locate in the possession of [[Megatron (SG Animated)\|Megatron]] and his loyal Decepticons. In the ensuing skirmish, the two teams crash land on Earth.

	Prime's disembodied head crashes separately like a meteor, and is found by a young [[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Isaac Sumdac]]. In subsequent years, Sumdac reverse engineers technology from Prime to establish a ruthless military technocracy, conquering lower Michigan and ruling it from his <s>Technodrome</s> [[Terrordrome]] in Detroit. Separately, Sumdac comes across a [[protoform]] that had made its way to Earth and loses an eye to it. Assimilating his DNA, the protoform grows into [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Sari]], and Sumdac comes to see her as his daughter. Sumdac's treatment of Sari includes caging her up and performing experiments on her with fragments of the AllSpark, which upgrades her with a battle mode. Sari is outfitted with a control collar to prevent her turning on her father.		Prime's disembodied head crashes separately like a meteor, and is found by a young [[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Isaac Sumdac]]. In subsequent years, Sumdac reverse engineers technology from Prime to establish a ruthless military technocracy, conquering lower [[Michigan]] and ruling it from his <s>Technodrome</s> [[Terrordrome]] in Detroit. Separately, Sumdac comes across a [[protoform]] that had made its way to Earth and loses an eye to it. Assimilating his DNA, the protoform grows into [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)\|Sari]], and Sumdac comes to see her as his daughter. Sumdac's treatment of Sari includes caging her up and performing experiments on her with fragments of the AllSpark, which upgrades her with a battle mode. Sari is outfitted with a control collar to prevent her turning on her father.

	Subsequently, Sumdac revives the Autobots and uses the same control collars to enslave them, their primary mission being to defeat Megatron's Decepticons and capture the AllSpark. The in-fighting Autobots are united by their mutual hatred of Dr Sumdac, with Prime planning revenge once the collar comes off. Nonetheless, the Autobots are granted some degree of autonomy; [[Prowl (SG Animated)\|Prowl]] creates a clone army, and [[Ratchet (SG Animated)\|Ratchet]] is allowed to conduct unspecified macabre experiments.		Subsequently, Sumdac revives the Autobots and uses the same control collars to enslave them, their primary mission being to defeat Megatron's Decepticons and capture the AllSpark. The in-fighting Autobots are united by their mutual hatred of Dr Sumdac, with Prime planning revenge once the collar comes off. Nonetheless, the Autobots are granted some degree of autonomy; [[Prowl (SG Animated)\|Prowl]] creates a clone army, and [[Ratchet (SG Animated)\|Ratchet]] is allowed to conduct unspecified macabre experiments.