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 Do not bring your evil here. | ||||||
| "Fallen Comrades" | ||||||
| Production company | Mainframe Entertainment | |||||
| Airdate | September 30, 1996 | |||||
| Written by | Bob Forward | |||||
| Directed by | Steve Ball | |||||
| Animation studio | Mainframe Entertainment | |||||
| Continuity | Beast Wars continuity | |||||
| Packaged with | Tigatron | |||||
A stasis pod falls in the Northern Sector of the planet and the Maximals and Predacons race to obtain it.
- French title: Un Ami venu du Ciel ("A Friend from the Sky")
- French-Canadian title: Ami venu du Ciel
- Japanese title: 孤独な戦士タイガトロン (Kodoku na Senshi Tigatron, "Solitary Warrior Tigatron")
- Latin-American title: Camaradas Caidos
- Italian title: Compagni dispersi ("Missing comrades")
- Brazilian title: Companheiros Caídos ("Fallen Comrades")
Synopsis
A field of debris circles the planet. Among the waste, a stasis pod falls from orbit and enters the atmosphere. Both the Maximals and Predacons watch as it falls into the distant icy Northern Sector. Rather than immediately going for it themselves, Megatron decides to ambush the Maximals' only flier (Optimus Primal) as he goes for the pod.
At the Maximal base, Primal is anxious to retrieve the pod containing a fellow Maximal. He falls for Waspinator and Terrorsaur's trap despite Dinobot's attempt to protect the Maximal leader. However, Dinobot is able to prevent the Predacons from taking Primal out of commission.
Back at the Predacon base, Megatron is disappointed to learn that Optimus Primal has survived, but realizes that the Maximals must now send a ground party to retrieve the stasis pod. This will leave the Maximal base undermanned and vulnerable to attack. Megatron dispatches his fliers to race to the pod, while he, Tarantulas, and Scorponok go to attack the Maximal base.
Meanwhile, Rattrap, Rhinox, and Cheetor run towards the pod. As they go, they remark that while leaving the base with the damaged Optimus Primal and Dinobot may not have been the best idea, it was their only option. Rhinox goes on to say that they need to hurry because, if the pod is damaged, the protoform robot within will be exposed to the planet's dangerous energon fields. Indeed, this seems to be the case when the stasis pod is shown opening, as the protoform's arm reaches from the pod and immediately begins to short out due to the high energon.
As they come to an ice bridge across a crevasse, the Maximal team is met by Waspinator and Terrorsaur. After a fire fight, the Predacons knock out the bridge and the Maximals' best hope of getting to the pod quickly.
Rattrap radios back to the base and informs Dinobot of this development. He accesses Optimus Primal's core consciousness in the CR chamber and informs him. Primal suggests that they send a laser transmission to the pod by bouncing the signal off of something.
Outside of the Maximal base, Megatron and the other Predacons observe Dinobot setting up a laser transmitter on top of the base. Megatron offers Dinobot a chance to return to the Predacons by handing over the base. Dinobot responds by shooting Megatron with his eye lasers and is then promptly shot by Tarantulas and Scorponok. Although damaged, Dinobot is able to activate the base's auto-weapons which quickly dispatch the Predacons. Megatron then calls off the assault to join the pursuit of the pod.
With the transmitter in place, Optimus Primal is able to bounce a laser off one of the planet's moons and to the stasis pod. Both the Maximals, the Predacon fliers, and a nearby white tiger witness this development. The pod's DNA scanner comes online and scanning its surroundings.
His regeneration complete, Optimus Primal puts Dinobot in the CR chamber and begins his own flight towards the pod.
Meanwhile back in the Northern Sector, the Maximal group arrives at the pod to find Waspinator and Terrorsaur struggling to open it. The Maximals warn the Predacons to stop, but soon Megatron arrives and threatens to kill two white tigers if the Maximals do not surrender. They agree, but when Megatron opens the pod to reprogram the protoform into a Predacon, he finds that the pod is empty. It turns out that one of the white tigers was the new Maximal Tigatron! As he and Optimus Primal join the fight the Predacons soon realize that they are out-gunned and retreat.
Primal welcomes Tigatron to the team and thanks him for his help. Tigatron tells his fellow Maximals that his identity circuits were damaged in the pod's landing and that he was not sure who he was until he saw that the Maximals were willing to risk their lives to save the tigers. He declines Optimus Primal's invitation to go back to the base with them, stating that he needs to stay in the wild since he is still more tiger than Maximal. Still, he promises his loyalty to the Maximals as a scout.
The Maximals head back to their base and leave Tigatron with the other white tiger.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Maximals | Predacons |
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Quotes
"Oh no! Waspinator in trouble!"
- —Waspinator's understatement after being flattened by a rock some ten times his size.
"Cowards! FACE ME......!
- —Dinobot sick of Terrorsaur and Waspinator's cowardice in battle.
"Fear not, Optimus! I shall ensure your funeral is a glorious one, as befits a warrior who died in battle!"
"'Fraid I'll have to miss it, Dinobot; I'm not scrap yet!"
"Hmm, are you certain? It would be a triumphant passage."
- —Dinobot and Optimus, the former perhaps being a little too hopeful.
"No excuses, you pathetic rodent. Keep moving. Dinobot, out."
"HEY! You can just kiss my pink hairy—"
- —Dinobot and Rattrap share some friendly banter over the comms.
"You were a Predacon once; become one again. Turn the base over to me and the Beast Wars will be over. We Predacons will rule the galaxy and you shall be my second in command. What do you say?"
"EAT SLAG!"
- — Megatron's inviting offer is turned down by Dinobot .
"You win, you depraved wad of stinkin' slag."
- —Rattrap, gracious in defeat.
"Let the trails lead where they may—I will follow."
- —Tigatron gets poetic. This would serve as his motto in "Dawn of Future's Past" and Beast Wars Sourcebook.
Notes
Technical/animation glitches
- After Optimus is shot down, his right shoulder pad is upside down.
- When Cheetor lowers his gun in surrender, it slides right through his leg.
- When Scorponok shoots Dinobot off of the Axalon roof, he has his scorpion-legs for nipples. How do they even make that mistake?
- In several shots near the end of the episode, Tigatron's beast-mode legs are yellow/tan instead of white.
Continuity errors
- Despite being flattened by a huge rock, Waspinator doesn't seem to spend any time being repaired and functions normally (for Waspinator, anyway) for the rest of the episode.
- Megatron got to the pod really quickly, despite the other Transformers taking nearly the entire episode to get there. Perhaps he should've just saved himself the trouble and just gone after the pod himself?
- The land-masses displayed on Terrorsaur's monitor when he indicates the position of the crashed pod bear little resemblance to Earth, as shown in other episodes.
Trivia
- You can avoid being shot by Maximal autoguns if you stand perfectly still. Just try not to get so nervous that you shake uncontrollably.
- Talking of the autoguns, they are EXTREMELY weak for ship-mounted weapons, causing no visible damage to Scorponok, Tarantulas or Megatron despite several directs hits. It's possible that the power to the autoguns is much lower than in the first episode because the Axalon's main engine core is damaged (assuming the guns receive their power directly from the engine).
- When the Maximals are running towards the stasis pod, Cheetor activates binocular vision turning his eyes red. A possible nod to the running change of his toy.
- When Waspinator and Terrorsaur attack the Maximals at the bridge in the tundra, Cheetor is using his regular gut gun. Just before Tigatron appears, he is using his rump gun.
- When Waspinator and Terrorsaur are trying to open Tigatron's stasis pod, the hatch appears to have a window. A fact that no one notices while trying to open it to see that the protoform is NOT inside. Yet the next episode clearly establishes Blackarachnia's stasis pod with a window showing her protoform body inside. Future episodes also show the stasis pods with windows on their hatches.
Home video releases
- VHS
1996 — Beast Wars — A Feature Length Beasties Adventure (Alliance Video)
1996 — Robots-Bêtes — Une Adventure Cybernetique (Alliance Video) — French audio only.
1998 — Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers — Lonely Warrior Tigatron (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only.
1998 — Beast Wars / Robots-Bêtes Three pack (Alliance Video) — Available in English or French audio.
2001 — Beast Wars: Transformers — The Beginning: Vol. 1 (Universal)
2002 — Beast Wars: Transformers — Volume 3 (Rhinomation)
- Laserdisc
1998 — Beast Wars: Transformers — Maximal Edition (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio.
- DVD
2000 — Beast Wars: Transformers — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio.
2002 — Beast Wars: Transformers — Volume 2 (Rhinomation)
2003 — Beast Wars: Transformers — The Complete First Season (Rhinomation)
2005 — Beast Wars — Classic Episodes — Where the Beasties Began! (Alliance Atlantis) — English and French audio.
2005 — Beast Wars — The Complete First Season (Alliance Atlantis) — English and French audio.
2006 — Beast Wars: Transformers — Season 1 (Madman Entertainment)
2009 — The Transformers: Beast Wars — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)
