Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)
| The name or term "Dweller in the Depths" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Dweller in the Depths (disambiguation). |
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| Production company | Allspark Animation | |||||
| Airdate | February 25, 2020 (UK) | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
Chromia and Bumblebee venture into Cybertron's gaseous Argon Sea in search of Windblade.
Synopsis
Chromia, Ratchet and Bumblebee stand before Windblade, preparing to upload what they have of her mind. Just as they finish, a shark-bot breaks into the sickbay and steals their friend. Taking a shuttle, Bee and Chromia follow the thief to the Argon Sea, and dive in.
Meanwhile, Optimus assembles the Autobots in a strategy meeting. Just before he finishes, he freezes, and the Matrix of Leadership floats out of his chest.
In the Argon Sea, Bee and Chromia find a beautifully populated landscape under the surface, and spotting the thief, immediately give chase. Unfortunately, he topples nearby structures to throw them off. Upon escaping, Bee and Chromia dive deeper to find a giant transmission of Windblade's face screaming for help. It disappears, and local wildlife attacks them.
As Optimus manifests into the Matrix, he is joined by Maccadam.
The creatures manage to damage the shields on the shuttle, and once they leave, the shark-bot arrives and smashes the window. Bumblebee mounts and incapacitates the shark-bot, but falls into the ravine. Chromia follows him down, and the shark-bot awakens, grumpy with his position. An argument breaks out, and the shark-bot introduces himself as Hammerbyte, the Argon Sea's Guardian. After explanations, they set off to rescue Bee and Windblade.
Finding Bumblebee, they follow him down a hatchway. Just before Hammerbyte enters, a tentacle appears and hits him with an orange gas, sending him into a mind-controlled trance. He quickly catches up to Chromia, who flees until she reaches Bumblebee... also under mind control. Evading both of them, Chromia reaches a large room with Windblade floating in the middle, before the Dweller. Quickly working out that it's a Titan, Chromia strands defiant, and the Dweller sics Bumblebee and Hammerbyte on her. Engaging her friends, Chromia quickly turns Bumblebee's stinger against them, breaking them out of their trances.
Not willing to lose potential citizens, the Dweller releases more hypnotic gasses, but the trio manage to grab Windblade and escape... though at the cost of their shuttle. Returning Windblade to her friends, Hammerbyte apologizes for his Dweller-induced actions and heads back into the Argon Sea.
Pondering how Maccadam is in the Matrix, Optimus's inquiry is answered: all along, he was one of the Thirteen: Alchemist Prime. He instructs Optimus to do the most appalling act for a Prime: the destruction of Megatron's Matrix.
As Optimus returns to the real world, he rounds up the troops; they have a world-saving mission on their hands.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Others |
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Quotes
Notes
Continuity notes
- Like Croaton before him, the Dweller is able to possess a cityspeaker, suggesting that this may be an ability of the Titans.
Transformers references
- When faced by the possessed Bumblebee, Chromia swears by the Mistress of Flame.
- The Dweller first appeared in the The Transformers episode which this one takes it name from. Though the original Dweller was a Quintesson Trans-Organic rather than a Titan.
- We finally learn the truth about Maccadam and, as we totally called, he's Alchemist Prime, taking inspiration from the idea put forth in Transformers: The Ultimate Guide that the old barkeep was one of the Thirteen Primes.
Real-world references
- The Dweller, now a monstrous, unknowable, tentacle-wielding monstrosity, has some heavy Lovecraftian vibes. Specifically he calls to mind Lovecraft's most famous creation Cthulhu.
Other trivia
- The mechanimals of the Argon Sea appear to be based on the Cambrian Era Opabinia regalis and Anomalocaris canadensis.
Animation and technical errors
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Foreign localization
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Home video releases
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