Sabotage
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 "And that, Bumblebee...that is how one dominates." | ||||||
| "Sabotage" | ||||||
| Production company | Hasbro Studios | |||||
| Airdate | October 26, 2018 (Xfinity X1) | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
Shockwave traps Bumblebee in a false memory designed to convince him he's a Decepticon.
Synopsis
As Shockwave watches at a security video of Windblade and Bumblebee, he instructs Slipstream over a communicator to distract of Windblade while he goes into Bee's mind to reveal what he really is: A Decepticon.
In the cave, the pair are searching for "the king of the dinosaurs". Shockwave appears behind Windblade, and changes his appearance to look like her. Masquerading as Windblade, he gets Bee to access a memory, but Bee is a bit hesitant because of "her" monotone voice. Outside, the real Windblade realizes what’s happening and tries to stop it, but fails. As she attempts to operate the ship's controls, the ship takes off by itself, with Shockwave in command, taking it to the Seekers.
Inside the Ark, Optimus Prime tells the Autobots that Teletrann-1 has found energon. As the other Autobots cheer, Bumblebee sneaks off to… transmit their coordinates to Megatron?!? After disabling the engines, Bee bumps into Rack'n'Ruin, who tell him about explosions in the engine room, and then into Wheeljack, who blames him for disabling the energon filtration system. After stinging Wheeljack, Ratchet gets angry after seeing him outside in space, where fighting ensues.
Featured characters
Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Transformers references
- While scouring his mind for information about kings, Bumblebee notes that he has a memory of Starscream wearing a crown — a reference to Starscream's infamous "coronation" scene from the 1986 animated film, which was homaged in 2012's Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and many, many toys.
- First appearing as a Wrecker in the Marvel UK comics, a new version of the classic character(s) Rack'n'Ruin marks the first televised appearance of this oddball 'bot. The nature of this "flashback," however, makes it difficult to discern if they were really members of the Ark...
Real-world references
Trivia
- This episode was originally scheduled to debut on Canadian television on October 21, 2018, several weeks ahead of its US broadcast. A re-run of "Fractured" wound up airing instead.
- This episode was made available for YouTubeTV subscribers and OnDemand for subscribers to U.S. cable provider Comcast's Xfinity X1 service on October 26, 2018, along with the ninth, tenth, and twelvth episodes of the series, "Shadowstriker," "Maccadam's," and "Teletraan-X," all prior to their Cartoon Network broadcast debuts. Intially, "Sabotage" was not included in this release, leaving a one-episode gap, but it was added before the end of the same day.
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