Bad Moon Rising

This article is about the Cyberverse episode. For the Lost Light issue, see Dissolution Part 4: Bad Moon Rising.

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"Bad Moon Rising"
Production company	Hasbro Studios
Airdate	August 24, 2019 (France) September 3, 2019 (CN app/website) September 14, 2019 (USA)
Animation studio	Boulder Media Studio

Starscream makes a power play for control of the Decepticons as the Moon hurtles toward the Earth.

Synopsis

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Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Notes

Real-world references

• The episode's name, is of course, taken from the Creedence Clearwater Revival song of the same name.

Trivia

• This episode marks the first time the Nemesis is mentioned by name.

Other errors

It's par for the course in most soft sci-fi stories, so we can't really hold the writers responsible for this (though we'll certainly point it out), but Wheeljack's ability to simply "reverse" the planetary engines is something of a handwave to move the plot along; you can't just "reverse" a rocket thruster like a car motor. In reality, "reversing" the planetary engines and restoring the Moon's normal orbit would involve having to turn the entire Moon 180 degrees, then firing the engines to push it back into its normal orbit—assuming, that is, that Cybertronian technology obeys the laws of physics...

Home video releases

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