Dark Birth
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| "Dark Birth" | ||||||
| Production company | Allspark Animation | |||||
| Airdate | August 31, 2019 (Australia/NZ) | |||||
| Writer | Randolph Heard | |||||
| Director | Ehud Landsberg | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
The Autobots attack Megatron, believing he has the Allspark, while Starscream creates a terrible new army.
Synopsis
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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
- The episode begins with a clip of Megatron's seeming execution of Starscream in "Bad Moon Rising", before showing what happened to him after the Nemesis departed.
Transformers references
- Scraplets are a race that first appeared in the Marvel comic, though they would remain an obscure one-off menace until they made their on-screen debut years later, in the Transformers: Prime episode "Scrapheap." Cyberverse's Scraplets are physically based on their Prime counterparts—vaguely insectoid creatures with massive, toothy mouths. These Scraplets, however, are far less deadly than their Prime counterparts, however; in their prior appearances, they were ravenous, piranha-like creatures, who quite literally ate their victims alive, while these Scraplets only feed only on their victim's energon, leaving them paralyzed but otherwise unharmed.
Real-world references
- Starscream tells Acid Storm that "Time is the fire in which we burn;" this is a line from the poem "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day" by Delmore Schwartz. The line was also famously used by Tolian Soran in Star Trek: Generations.
Trivia
- While initially it seemed that all the Seekers went AWOL to join Starscream, this episode shows several generic Seekers among the Decepticon forces. It's entirely possible only the "core" Seekers (Thundercracker, Nova Storm et al) abandoned Megatron for Starscream.
Animation and technical errors
- Starscream uses an excavator as armor, but the actual toy depiction is a bulldozer.
Foreign localization
Home video releases
- TBA
