Survival of the Fittest

Sari is kidnapped and the evidence points to the Dinobots. So Prowl and Bulkhead head to a mysterious island to investigate—with a highly suspicious Captain Fanzone on their tail.

Stats

• Written by: Steven Granat
• Directed by: Irineo Maramba & Makoto Fuchigami
• Original airdate: March 8, 2008

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Humans
Bulkhead Prowl Grimlock Swoop Snarl Ratchet Optimus Prime Bumblebee	Captain Fanzone Meltdown Colossus Rhodes Isaac Sumdac Sari Sumdac

Quotes

"Dibs on lefty, I hate lawyers."

—Captain Fanzone, naming something else he hates when he and Prowl are about to fight Black's mutant freaks.

Fanzone: "What the?!"
Sari: "Whoa..."
Bulkhead: "Uh, they couldn't do that before. Right?"

—The gang learns that the Dinobots are more than meets the eye.

"Meltdown not hurt Dinobots, Dinobots hurt Meltdown"

—Grimlock. Run far, run fast Melty.

Other notes

Transformers references

They've got the power to surprise.

• Meltdown's genetically engineered minions (previous failed attempts at producing "human transformers") bear a striking resemblance to the Generation 1 Pretenders Bomb-Burst/Blood and Submarauder/Gilmer. In fact, Meltdown's plan shows some similarity to the Pretender concept.

Miscellaneous trivia

• This is the first episode where Snarl and Swoop transform.
• Bumblebee appears in this episode, but doesn't speak.
• Part of Grimlock's transformation is recycled animation from Blast From The Past

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.