Nicole Dubuc

Nicole Dubuc (born November 6, 1978) is a television writer. She started out as a child actor, appearing in the sitcom Major Dad as Robin, one of the kids. After graduating from Yale, she began a career in children's animated television, writing a number of episodes for Kim Possible. She has since written scripts for shows such as W.I.T.C.H., Todd World, Jackie Chan Adventures, and Finley the Fire Engine. She served as story editor for season 2 of My Friends Tigger & Pooh, and is currently a trustee for the Animation Guild. As well as writing scripts (and theme song lyrics) for Transformers: Rescue Bots, she co-developed the series with Jeff Kline and Brian Hohlfeld and was story editor. She went on to create and executive produce the show's sequel series Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy, and later served as an executive producer on Transformers: EarthSpark.

Scripts

Transformers: Prime

• "Darkness Rising, Part 2"
• "Deus ex Machina"
• "Out of His Head"
• "Metal Attraction"
• "One Shall Rise, Part 1" (with Duane Capizzi)
• "Orion Pax, Part 1"
• "Operation Bumblebee, Part 2"

Transformers: Rescue Bots

• "Family of Heroes"
• "Under Pressure"
• "Walk on the Wild Side"
• "Shake Up"
• "It's a Bot Time"
• "A Virtual Disaster"
• "Buddy System"
• "Changes"
• "Double Villainy"
• "Land Before Prime"
• "Unfinished Business"
• "I Have Heard the Robots Singing"
• "Today and Forever"
• "New Normal"
• "Arrivals"
• "Enemy of My Enemy"
• "Upgrades"

Transformers: Robots in Disguise

• "More than Meets the Eye" (story, with Steven Melching)

Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy

• "Recruits Part I"
• "Recruits Part II"
• "All Washed Up"
• "Metal Munchers"

Transformers: EarthSpark

All episodes co-written with Dale Malinowski

• "Secret Legacy, Part 1"
• "Secret Legacy, Part 2"
• "Age of Evolution, Part 1"
• "Age of Evolution, Part 2"
• "Home, Part 1" (with Mae Catt)
• "Home, Part 2" (with Mae Catt)

Voice roles

Transformers: Rescue Bots

• Bumblebee (All episodes except Uninvited Guest)
• CAT
• Mrs. Luskey

Transformers: EarthSpark

• Skywarp
• Nova Storm

Convention appearances

• BotCon 2013
• BotCon 2014

Notes

• Having Ratchet complain "I needed that!" originated in Dubuc's scripts.
• Outside of her official Transformers work, Dubuc contributed a Rescue Bots short story entitled "Past's Present" to a 2024 Rescue Bots fanzine, set in the aftermath of an alternate version of "Bot to the Future".

External links

• Nicole Dubuc's Twitter
• Nicole Dubuc on Wikipedia

Interviews

• August 2021—TFNation (Rescue Bots, with Brian Hohlfeld, Jeff Kline, and Greg Johnson)
• August 2021—TFNation (Prime, with Jeff Kline, Marsha Griffin, Joseph Kuhr, Steven Melching, and Duane Capizzi)