Battle Protocol

This article is about the Autobot member-select program. For the eponymous cartoon episode, see Battle Protocol!.

Battle Protocol is an Autobot combat procedure from the 2001 Robots in Disguise continuity family.

When there's an emergency requiring Autobot attention, T-AI initiates Battle Protocol. The procedure includes:

• Use of the "Member Select" program to identify available Autobots.
• Dispatching operational instructions to the selected Autobots.
• Guiding the Autobots to the conflict point using the Global Space Bridge.

Calling all Autobots! Calling all Autobots! This is a battle protocol!T-AI, "The Test"

Fiction

2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon

T-AI often had problems getting Side Burn to stop chasing red sports cars and respond to the alert for Battle Protocol. Battle Protocol! Of course, sometimes he had really good excuses, like being underground The Secret of the Ruins or having been kidnapped by the Predacons. Sideburn's Obsession

When the Build Team convinced Optimus to let them go on their first mission, they insisted that T-AI give them a proper send off with the Member Select program. Wedge's Short Fuse

Notes

• The term has since gently crept into other continuities as an in-joke.