The Butterfly Effect

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"The Butterfly Effect"
Season	2
No. in season	4
Production company	Hasbro Entertainment Nickelodeon
Airdate	June 7, 2024 (Paramount+) TBD 2024 (Nickelodeon)
Writer	Jen Bardekoff
Director	William Ruzicka Scooter Tidwell
Animation studio	88 Pictures

Robby's feelings for his new crush interfere with the Maltos' mission to get an Ember-shard from Fairmaestro.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans	Terrans
Cosmos (2)	Swindle (1)	Robby Malto (8) Mo Malto (5) Agent Schloder (4) Fairmaestro (3) Izzy (9)	Twitch (7) Thrash (6)

Notes

Transformers references

• Fairmaestro offers Swindle a scatter blaster; a weapon used by his "Generation 1" and Animated counterparts.
• Various iterations of Cosmos have been intended to appear in prior cartoons where their alternate mode was explained by them being involved in some form of human attraction/entertainment, but each time those stories never happened. Well, finally, it's here!

Real-world references

• The title of the episode refers to the "butterfly effect", where a tiny change can have big (and unexpected) consequences; the example that originated the term being that the mere flap of a butterfly's wings could cause a chain reaction of air current events that could ultimately affect the behavior of a tornado formed weeks later. Kinda the precursor to the domino meme. In this case, the butterflies in Robby's stomach affect his sibling's ability to outmaneuver the Fairmaestro.

Errors

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Trivia

• TBD

Foreign localization

Brazilian Portuguese

• Title: "O Efeito Borboleta" ("The Butterfly Effect")
• Original airdate: July 6, 2024