First Encounter
| This article is about Armada episode. For Armada comic story, see First Encounter (comic issue). |
A group of human children inadvertenly send a homing signal to an alien planet, bringing their war to our world.
Summary
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Original airdate:
Written by: ???
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Regulars
Guests |
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Quotes
"Would you hurry up, they've probably gone home already!"
"Hey! You don't have to yell at me, I got feelings too, ya know! I-I'm trying my hardest, but no, nothing's ever good enough for you!"
"Aww, quit your bellyaching!"
"My therapist says I don't have to take this from you because you're not the boss of me! Besides, I'm getting hungry again."
- -- Billy and Fred arrive at the cave Rad and Carlos are exploring
Megatron: "You have something of mine."
Alexis: "We have what?"
Megatron: "Give it back immediately or you shall suffer the consequences."
Rad: "Oh... great."
Megatron: "I have given you your chance, Earthling."
"Stand down, Megatron!"
- -- The line that made a room full of fans cheer at BotCon 2002, Optimus Prime appears
Other Notes
Animation and/or technical glitches
- The narrator at the beginning of this episode uses lightyears as a unit of time measurement, when its actually a unit of distance measurement. This mistake periodically reappeared throughtout the Armada series as well as the Energon sequel series.
Continuity errors
Transformers references
- The narrator mentions a 'unique digital entity' coming into being and creating a race of living machines to explore the galaxy, making it the first reference to Primus in the Unicron Trilogy.
- Many Generation 1 character models are used as generic Autobot and Decepticons during the scenes on Cybertron. This trend would continue throughout the series for all scenes with random Transformers set on Cybertron.
- This episode marks the first time that a variation of the original Generation 1 theme music has been used as the main theme for a Transformers series since the Generation 1 television series.
Real-world references
Miscellaneous trivia
- Billy and Fred appear in this episode as recurring guest characters, but later become part of the regular human cast. According to the Micron Legend Yearbook 2003, the producers of the Armada cartoon kept meaning to write Billy and Fred out of the series, but ultimately never got around to it. Their staying through to the end of the show was, thus, wholly unintentional.
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