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

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Featured characters

Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons
Bumblebee Windblade Autobot soldiers Grimlock Wheeljack Arcee Chromia Optimus Prime Deadlock Ratchet Rack'n'Ruin	Shockwave Slipstream Megatron

Notes

Continuity notes

• Maccadam told Bumblebee and Windblade that they needed to find the "king of the dinosaurs" in the previous episode.
• Deadlock, first seen defecting from the Decepticons in "Maccadam's", is here shown as an Autobot and part of the crew of the Ark. Whether or not this is actually the case is open to question, given the flashback memory was either modified or created from whole cloth by Shockwave.

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...

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.

Home video releases

• TBA