Beyond Repair
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| Beyond Repair | ||||||
| Season | 1 | |||||
| No. in season | 21 | |||||
| Production company | Hasbro Entertainment | |||||
| Airdate | January 24, 2026 | |||||
| Writers | Ryan Denham | |||||
| Animation studio | Omens Studio LTD | |||||
| Continuity | Cyberworld | |||||
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Fix it, fix it Wheeljack, as fast as you can.
Synopsis
[edit]Starscream fumes in his control room, watching footage of the other Cybertronians destroying his cameras, winning games, and acquiring prizes. The Decepticon vents his anger by destroying his attendant drones, hurling his crown into the screen when it plays the footage of his loss in the "Last Bot Standing" game. His temper tantrum is interrupted by an alert, and the cracked screens show Wheeljack running through the streets, having been spotted by security drones.
Unable to outrun the drones, Wheeljack flings a magnetic bomb at one to incapacitate it. Which does drag other drones into it, but the pull is strong enough that Wheeljack himself can't escape the field, and is hurled into a wall when the bomb finally explodes. Starscream picks this moment to step in, gloating over the prone yet unimpressed Autobot. Very annoyed at not being taken seriously, he shoots at Wheeljack, who leaps backwards just as a new game portal opens up behind the Autobot. Starscream follows into the "Quick Fix" game: both bots are given a tech-wrench and tasked with repairing and maintaining a number of devices throughout the field. The "repairs" largely boil down to tasks like turning a simple bolt with the wrench, though the impatient Starscream ignores this and tries to do things the hard way, resulting in electric shocks and an exploding device.
Wheeljack is getting well ahead, but suddenly his score drops: Starscream is destroying the devices Wheeljack fixed, costing him points as he fails to maintain them! Wheeljack rushes into try and stop him, but Starscream is the superior fighter, blasting the Autobot and leaving him weakened before smashing the last repaired device. With only seconds left in the game, Wheeljack staggers towards one viable device, getting one click of the wrench in before Starscream bashes him away and finishes the job properly himself, winning 1 to 0.
Further weakened by the level drain for losing, Wheeljack attempts to flee, but Starscream grabs him, and as the game field barrier dissipates the area swarms with drones. Starscream decides that he could "use a good mechanic" and has the drones drag Wheeljack away. As the Decepticon gloats, he's unaware that the whole scene is being watched by Mirage....
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
[edit]Starscream: HALT, interloper! Surrender yourself to the one and only Emperor Starscream!
Wheeljack: Do you always do this? Like...
Starscream: (splutters)
Wheeljack: ...is it rehearsed, or...?
Starscream: (sighs) You're really kinda ruining this for me.
"Classic Starscream. No patience for repairs, just looking for things to destroy."
"...How right you are."
- —Wheeljack accidentally gives Starscream an idea
Notes
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- When Wheeljack taunts Starscream's lack of technical skill, Starscream snarls that he's no "pathetic Q unit". This might be the proper name of the drones he uses.
Continuity notes
[edit]- Starscream lost the "Last Bot Standing" game back in "Screamer City Arena".
Character levels
[edit]- Wheeljack starts the episode at Level 5.
- Starscream starts at level 4.
Transformers references
[edit]- TBD
Real world references
[edit]- TBD
Trivia
[edit]- This episode was given the SEO-baiting title "Can Wheeljack Complete the Repair Challenge in Time?" Turns out, the answer is "no".
- As with the prior episodes, the original upload also had three other episodes tacked onto the end: "Over the Sea", "Torn Apart", and "Escape Velocity". Yes, the prior three episodes, inexplicably in reverse order.
Foreign localization
[edit]French
- Title: "Wheeljack réussira-t-il le défi de réparation à temps ?" ("Will Wheeljack succeed in the repair challenge in time?")
- Original airdate: January 24, 2026
German
- Title: "Schafft Wheeljack die Reparatur rechtzeitig?" ("Will Wheeljack manage the repair in time?")
- Alternate Title: "Wheeljacks Rennen zur Reparatur!"
- Original airdate: January 24, 2026
- The episode was re-released on January 29, 2026 with an alternative or YouTube title.
