Endgame, Part II

This article is about the Animated episode. For the Beast Machines episode, see Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall.

« Transformers Animated ep 42
Mission: ACCOMPLISHED!
"Endgame, Part II"
Airdate	May 23, 2009
Written by	Marsha Griffin
Directed by	Kalvin Lee Yoshio Frank Chatani
Animation studio	Mook

The Autobots fight to defend Detroit from Megatron and his clones of Omega Supreme.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans	Others
Jazz (4) Bumblebee (5) Prowl (6) Ratchet (7) Optimus Prime (8) Bulkhead (9) Omega Supreme (11) Arcee (13) Carerra (18) Searchlight (19) Seaspray (20) Cosmos (21) Powerglide (22) Furao (23) Sedan (24) Sentinel Prime (25) Hubcap (26) Warpath (27) Cliffjumper (28) Sky Garry (29) Dai Atlas (30) Red Alert (31) Mainframe (32)	Three Lugnut Supremes (1–3) Megatron (10) Lugnut (12) Shockwave/Longarm Prime (14) Starscream (17)	Isaac Sumdac (16)	Sari Sumdac (15)

Quotes

Megatron: Lugnut, let's begin this field test with Sumdac Tower. I want to see my former prison crumble to the ground.
Lugnut: As you command, oh great and glorious Megatron! Your genius exceeds all others! And I am but your humble and obedient servant! Furthermore—
Megatron: Shockwave! Is there anyway to bypass this endless pontificating and command these clones directly?
Shockwave: Still working on the data patch, my liege. Until then, you'll just have to relay all. Orders. Through. Lugnut.

—Megatron desperately seeks to cut out the middleman, while Shockwave demonstrates how to smirk without a face.

Sari: I'm going too! I have a jetpack.
Optimus: No Sari, it's—
Sari: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's "too dangerous", I know. It's always "too dangerous"!
Optimus: I was going to say, "It's more important for you to protect your father and your fellow organics."
Sari: Oh. Right. Sorry.

—Sari isn't used to being treated as an equal.

Sari: Dad, I just want to say you are the best father anybody could ask for.
Sumdac: Ooh, that is very sweet, Sari. But why are you telling...oh! You think you are going with them? To the Moon?

-Isaac Sumdac, as sharp as always...

"You're a persistent little Autobot."
"My name is OPTIMUS PRIME!"

—Megatron and Optimus Prime

"If I can't save my clones, I will at least have the satisfaction of taking you off-line, Optimus Prime."
"So, you can remember my name!"

—Took you long enough, Megatron.

"Can't find...any more fragments. Only one way..."

—Prowl makes his choice. The rest....is silence.

Notes

Animation or technical errors

• When Omega Supreme runs towards one of the Lugnut Supremes, the clone has a purple Autobot symbol on its midsection as it gets up.

• Megatron's helicopter cockpit kibble (usually seen behind his head on his back) briefly vanishes for a second as he kicks Optimus Prime towards the Allspark-powered forcefield.

• Prowl's ghost appears with his armour on, but when it reaches out to save Optimus, the armour has vanished.

• When Megatron makes one last attempt to destroy Optimus Prime, his right shoulder guard is drawn rather small. As he's knocked down to Earth and insists Optimus finishes him, it reverts back to its proper size.

• When the Autobots hold up Prowl's coffin before the cheering crowd (as seen in the picture on this page), Prowl's body is drawn rather short. If one compared the height of his body to Bumblebee at his left, Bumblebee would actually be a head taller.

Continuity errors

• Due to the incomplete activation code, the Lugnut Supremes only worked when Lugnut consciously directed them from Omega Supreme. Yet after Omega tossed him out, not only did Starscream take them over, they continued to function autonomously after he was dead.

Transformers references

• At the very end, Optimus Prime is shown with the large piece of AllSpark which Jazz and Prowl pulled together, in a container strongly resembling the Matrix of Leadership—and he's wearing it on a chain around his neck.

• Even at this late stage, a new face still appears in the crowd scene on Cybertron: Hubcap. Dai Atlas and Sky Garry make their first in-person appearances (though Dai Atlas only appears from behind), and the unnamed, orange female robot, whose arm could juuuuuust be seen poking in from offscreen back in "Decepticon Air", also gets to appear in full. The crowd also includes a crazy amount of miscolored-slash-generic robots, including such gems as a Hot Shot-colored robot using the Bumblebee body-form, a blue-and-green Sky Garry and a yellow Warpath.

• Yoketron's dying words in "Five Servos of Doom" (where he tells Prowl that he will understand when his time comes) finally come to pass.

Real-world references

• Ratchet refers to the Lugnut Supremes as "knockoffs".

Trivia

• Shockwave transforms into a purple Longarm. Maybe he was just confused or something.

• Jazz states that they can't find all the AllSpark fragments; at the very least, this makes sense because Skywarp, Thundercracker, Sunstorm, and Liar Starscream aren't on Earth anymore. There is no indication that any other Earthbound characters animated by AllSpark fragments were de-fragmented and killed like Starscream, and they don't seem to be kept alive the same way he is... Though it would be a mighty convenient and internally consistent way of quickly writing any number of them, or even all of them, off the show.

• This is the first episode since "Megatron Rising - Part 2" to feature Prime's faceplate.

• Arcee didn't join the other Autobots on their victory/funeral parade at the end.

• It is revealed during the events of this episode, that while in robot mode, Sari is capable of surviving in the hostile vacuum of space... This is noteworthy due to the fact that during the events of "Megatron Rising - Part 2," Blackarachnia revealed that due to her OWN techno-organic nature, she was limited to tasks that her own organic half could survive. It seems that Sari's techno-organic nature additionally cancels out some of her human limitations.

• As of this episode, there's a lot of remaining uncaptured Decepticons!
  • Thundercracker and Skywarp are still floating out somewhere in space.
  • Blackarachnia and a bleeding, shattered Waspinator are still in that mysterious jungle, precise whereabouts (and even whenabouts) unknown.
  • Laserbeak fled the scene with the sentient part of Soundwave in "Human Error, Part II".
  • Scrapper's whereabouts are presumably still known to the Autobots; he may have returned to Dinobot Island with Snarl after "Human Error".
  • Swindle leaves for parts unknown in "Decepticon Air".
  • Lockdown, the Female Starscream, Team Chaar and any unseen Decepticons all remain at large.
  • Mixmaster and Dirt Boss may have been destroyed in the explosion in "Three's a Crowd"—if not, add them to the list.
• Several other plot points have yet to have been resolved by the end of this episode:
  • Sari's origin has yet to be completely explained. It still hasn't been revealed how or why a protoform showed up on Earth years ago, or why it looked so different compared to other protoforms seen during the course of the series. Since it has been shown that all the protoforms Lockdown stole were blanks, it's unlikely she came from that batch.
  • Meltdown was last shown apparently reconstituting himself at the end of "Black Friday", and has not been seen since.
  • Wreck-Gar and all three Dinobots are not present at the end of the episode, and presumably are still on Earth. Although it could be speculated that they stayed there by choice, one must wonder what kind of measures that Optimus and company took to prevent said bots from any more disastrous encounters with the populace of Earth.
  • Ultra Magnus was last seen being repaired, but his fate isn't revealed.