Activation code

Activation codes are the phrases Transformers say to transform from one mode to another.

Fiction

Beast Wars

As part of the Great Upgrade, the Autobots and Decepticons became Maximals and Predacons and installed onboard computers into their bodies. These computers could handle a variety of functions, including transformation. Each faction used its own code to transform from beast mode to robot mode. Maximals used "{Robotname}, maximize!" (e.g., "Cheetor, maximize!"), while Predacons used "{Robotname}, terrorize!" (Obviously, they put a great deal of thought into these words.) Beast Wars (Part 1) On occasion, when groups were transforming all at once, the variations "Maximals, maximize!" and "Predacons, terrorize!" were used. For the transformation from robot to beast, Beast Era transformers sometimes used the phrase "Beast mode." However, none of these phrases was used universally, and the "maximize"/"terrorize" code was used on rare occasions for transforming out of robot mode, so exactly how strictly necessary they are is unclear. Changing an activation code from "maximize" to "terrorize" was relatively easy and could even be done to one Transformer by another under the right circumstances. Beast Wars (Part 2) Maximal, No More Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)

Beast Machines

After the Oracle reformatted Optimus Primal's team into technorganic bodies, their old activation codes stopped working. The Maximals now had to find an "emotional still point" to switch to robot mode. To help focus, they used the phrase "I am transformed," but this was not strictly an activation code. The Reformatting The "I am transformed" phrase was used for the first season of Beast Machines, but dropped for the second season.

Vehicon drones did not have activation codes. The initial Vehicon generals each had a unique code:

• Tankor - "Tankor, pulverize!"
• Jetstorm - "Jetstorm, afterburn!"
• Thrust - "Thrust, overdrive!" and (on one occasion) "Thrust, accelerate!"

These codes were sometimes used to transform to vehicle mode, sometimes to transform to robot mode, and sometimes (particularly for Tankor) as just verbal tics, unaccompanied by transformation.

The later Vehicon generals, Obsidian and Strika, used "obliterate" and "terminate" as the entirety of their vocabulary when they were initially pretending to be 7 bits short of a byte, but did not particularly use those words during transformation, and essentially dropped them when the ruse was over.

Japanese activation codes

• Most of the Japanese Generation 1 Transformer franchises have had Transformers shouting "{Robotname} transform!" or just "Transform!" when they transform. There are also special phrases such as "Pretender!" for the Pretenders, "Head on!" for the Headmasters, "God on!" for the Godmasters, and "Brain set!" for Brainmasters.

• In the Japanese Beast Wars fiction, as well as Car Robots, Transformers have different activation codes depending on whether they turn into vehicles or animals. Those that transform into animals shout "Henshin!" (Japanese for "transform") while those who turn into vehicles scream "Transform!" in English.

• Although he regularly declared "Optimus Prime, super mode!" before the appropriate transformation, it may or may not have been a necessary activation code. Optimus Prime once said that it was merely a way to get psyched up. City

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