Terminal Velocity
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| "Terminal Velocity" | ||||||
| Production company | Hasbro Studios | |||||
| Airdate | October 7, 2018 (Canada) | |||||
| Writer | Gavin Hignight | |||||
| Director | Jean Texier | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
Bumblebee explores a nightmarish memory of his visit to Velocitron while Windblade pilots the shuttle in a relentless dogfight with the Decepticon Seekers.
Synopsis
A news reporter tells everyone about Velocitron while cars race around a track. Suddenly, rust consumes the screen.
In the present day, Windblade reports to Bumblebee that she couldn't find any trace of a Decepticon signal. At the ship, Bee is bored with watching Earth TV. He decides to go for a dip in his own memory to see if he can find out if he can find any more useful info. When Windblade comes back, she finds Seekers and knocks them down with her Sonic Blast. Coming into the ship, she sees Bumblebee in the cortical psychic patch. She scoffs, takes off, and sits next to Bee, hoping he's finding some useful info.
Bumblebee meets up with Hot Rod and Blurr on Velocitron. After some friendly little quips between the two racers, they decide to race, but not before Bee meets someone who has rust on their arm. Bee shrugs it off, and goes after the two racers. After a while, Bee finds them wanting to race on an amazing track. However, their fun is shortlived after a track maintenance drone infected with the Rust Plague crashes into the track that they're on. Deciding to take a closer look, they see that it is covered in rust, and it spreads to the track. Racing away from it, they find some victims of it. Suddenly, another drone crashes behind them.
Featured characters
Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Others |
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Quotes
Notes
Continuity notes
- Bumblebee has kept the Cube he and Windblade found in the scoutship's stores in "Cube".
- Bumblebee and Hot Shot are shown wearing Autobot insignias during their trip to Velocitron; this suggests that this adventure took place early into the war, following the events depicted in the first half of "Megatron Is My Hero"... raising questions as to whether Velocitron's fate was entirely an accident...
Transformers references
- The colony world of Velocitron makes its return to television for the first time in more than a decade; first appearing in the Transformers: Cybertron cartoon, it put in minor apperances in both the "Aligned" and the IDW Generation 1 continuities since then. Blurr makes his first (and only?) appearance as a Velocitronian, as per his Aligned counterpart.
- Bumblebee and Hot Shot are shown arriving and later leaving Velocitron via space bridge, a technology first established in the original animated series and later canonized in the Unicron Trilogy as the primary means of travel between Cybertron and her colonies. Notably, Cyberverse marks one of the first occasions where these space bridges are still functioning in the modern day, connecting Velocitron and other colonies to Cybertron.
- The Rust Plague, a re-imagining of the traditional Transformer ailment of cosmic rust, was first established in The Covenant of Primus as an apocalyptic plague responsible for cutting Cybertron's many colonies off from their ancestral homeworld. Whether by coincidence or design, several aspects of this backstory find their way into the episode — the decision to shut down the space bridge so as to prevent the spread of the disease to Cybertron, for instance, is lifted wholesale from the book.
- Blurr calls Hot Rod by the nickname "Hot Shot". Believe it or not, "Aligned" Rodimus went by "Hot Shot" in the Nintendo DS version of the War for Cybertron videogame.
- The plague victim's cry of "red rust" is also the name of another nasty rusting disease.
Real-world references
- With its wings retracted, the Decepticon scout ship bears a distinct resemblance to the Millennium Falcon, and some of the maneuvers Windblade pulls with it evoke the Falcon's nimbleness as well.
- The Plague of Rust victim in Blurr's hideout babbles "red rust", his voice making it sound a lot like "redrum".
- Blurr's final fate, his still-living body crumbling to dust and blowing away in the wind, seemingly evokes the infamous finale of Avengers: Infinity War.
Trivia
- Blurr's character bio on the Cyberverse site notes that he speaks remarkably fast, not unlike his G1 and Animated counterparts. However, he speaks normally here.
- The Plague of Rust carrier uses a recolored version of Wheeljack's animation model, with pink eyes and highlights and yellow "ears".
Animation and technical errors
- The deployment and retraction of the scout ship's wings is wildly inconsistent between cuts.
Foreign localization
Home video releases
- TBA
