Unicron Unleashed

The name or term "Unicron" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Unicron (disambiguation).

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<tr> <td colspan="2" style="font-size: 14px; background-color:#e7d492; color:black;font-weight:bold;" align="center"> "Unicron Unleashed" <div style="font-size:x-small;font-weight:normal;">やれ！いまできること <br />(Yare! Imade kiru koto) <br />"Ah! Now It Is Possible"</div> </td></tr>

<tr> <td> Production company </td><td> WE'VE </td></tr> <tr> <td> Airdate </td><td> 18 June 2004 (Japanese)<br />September 4, 2004 (English) </td></tr>

</table> Unicron's body reactivates at last, and Megatron prepares to have him devour Cybertron.

Synopsis

As rain falls on the surface of Cybertron, Ironhide frets over the damaged energon grid. Prime orders Rad to start repairing Wing Dagger.

Floating above Planet Cybertron, Shockblast is frustrated, waiting for orders to attack.

Dr. Jones tells Kicker to stay with the Miranda II and run the ship.

The Autobots' energon stars conveniently fade out two seconds before a Decepticon attack. Tidal Wave—now reformatted into a new body and calling himself Mirage—leads a horde of Terrorcons. The Autobots surround Mirage when he lands, but he fires a beam into space, the signal for Shockblast's troops to attack. Thousands of Terrorcons pour through the opening in the grid. The Autobots try to counterattack, but are overwhelmed by superior numbers.

Shockblast blasts open the chamber of Primus, and the Terrorcons swarm in, chewing through the energy strands connecting to Primus. Rad reports that the energon grid is shutting down, so Prime has him re-route all the energon into the towers.

Shockblast orders a frantic retreat as the towers power up. A surge of energon rips through the Terrorcon ranks, destroying many. Rodimus saves Hot Shot from getting hit by the blast, reminding him that he's vulnerable to it without an energon star. Mirage unleashes a light blast to blind the Autobots and escapes.

Kicker and the Omnicons arrive via warp gate and see the aftermath of the attack. Optimus orders him to go back to Alpha Q with Ironhide, then prepares to go after Megatron.

Back at Unicron's head, Kicker won't take another call from his dad. Alpha Q wants to know what a "father" is, if he could meet this person, and if such a being could be useful to him.

Unicron's body says ARRRRRRRR and glows green. Within, Megatron is pleased to have all the energon that he needs, even going so far as complimenting Shockblast's work. Shockblast isn't terribly happy or impressed. Unicron rattles and shakes, reforming and repairing his body (and gaining a new color scheme), and Kicker senses the change.

Prime's team approaches and prepares to attack. Kicker urges Alpha Q to start moving toward the battle as well, but the alien says that the time is not right. Ironhide goes to help the rest of the Autobots as they move in.

Unicron begins to transform as the Decepticons deploy to defend the giant.

Scorponok is about to go join the battle, but Alpha Q stops him, saying it may already be too late. Kicker gives Alpha Q a piece of his mind, only to have Alpha Q fire back his own words to his father at him.

Megatron laughs off the Autobots' attacks as Unicron continues to transform. The Autobots are unable to find a way into Unicron. Hot Shot saves Rodimus from Shockblast, and after an awkward moment, they agree to powerlink.

Kicker tells Alpha Q that he's part of the team; in exchange, Alpha Q has a favor to ask: energon. Misha realizes that Dr. Jones could send energon from Earth. As she goes to make the call, Alpha Q points out to Kicker that he's stubborn and should realize how valuable Misha is.

Misha and Kicker call Dr. Jones and request all the energon, even at the risk of leaving Earth vulnerable. Dr. Jones agrees. Just then, they feel Unicron's head moving; Alpha Q says there's no time to wait, not even for the energon. Megatron powers up the transformed Unicron, ordering him to devour Cybertron. Unicron opens his sucking-stuff-up blaster as the horrified Autobots watch, but then Scorponok arrives, ordering them to clear out—Alpha Q is coming!

Unicron's head flies toward his body, and Alpha Q orders Kicker to get clear. The head rams into the side of the body, opening a path for the Autobots into Unicron's interior.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

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Quotes

"Here's the plan. We'll attack Unicron and defeat Megatron. Let's do it!"<br />

—Boy, it's no wonder that Optimus Prime is the leader!

Demolishor: "Huh heh! Let's get those Autobots!"<br /> Snowcat: "Uh, Demolishor, why don't we let, uh, Unicron take care of them for us?"<br /> Megatron: "I heard that!"

Notes

Lost in translation

Ironhide and Jetfire's opening lines are dub additions.
In Super Link, Shockblast is not impatient to attack, but rather angry that Megatron implied that he failed (which is what is supposed to be happening in the flashback).
In the dub, Kicker responds to his father's orders to stay on the ship with a peppy "Will do! We can handle it! Go team! Rah rah rah!" As can be seen from the animation, he's supposed to be getting mad at his dad, telling him that this isn't the time for his advice.
Mirage's introduction is a little less toy-selly in Super Link. And, sadly, the dub chooses not to find an equivalent for his amusingly repetitive "Shock... shock... shock... shock..." battle mantra.
Mirage yells "Mirage, transform!" but only goes to his Hyper Mode. It's a dub error.
Rodimus originally orders Prowl and Landmine to keep the Terrorcons away from Primus, rather than "the energon". Granted, it's not a hard mistake to make, considering how Shockblast is pretty confused about the matter himself.
Prowl's "I'll show those Terrorcons!" is supposed to be a moment of despair: "I keep firing, but..." The changed line clashes with the animation, which has Prowl stop firing as he says it.
In the dub, Optimus randomly repeats his orders to Rad about re-routing the energon two times. That's because the second set of lines is supposed to be from Primus, urging Rad to follow Optimus's orders despite the risk to himself.
After Rodimus saves Hot Shot, the dub is missing a short flashback to their stand-off on Mars. In Super Link, Hot Shot apologizes (for his earlier insubordination), rather than simply thanking Rodimus.
After Mirage and the rest retreat, Optimus comments that they'll have to get the grid running again soon, even though he's looking up at a perfectly functional grid! The animation was fixed for Super Link, showing the towers without the grid energy running between them.
The dub has Kicker saying he brought "an energon star"; it should be plural, stars, particularly since he's got a horde of Omnicons with him, and his trip to Cybertron would be totally pointless otherwise.
Primus's lines are again re-assigned to Optimus as he talks about preparing to revive Wing Dagger. Primus says he will place his remaining power into him. The dub replaces this with Optimus saying that he will "revive him with the energon", then saying something random about how people sometimes surprise you with their strength in battle.
In its introductory shots, Unicron's head lacks its usual shading, instead having a cheerily bright flat cel shading, which removes any sense of mass. Super Link features a dimly illuminated shot instead... so dim, in fact, that it's barely visible. This will become a recurring problem in future episodes.
Alpha Q's line about Dr. Jones being useful: dub addition.
Unicron's pirate growls: dub addition.
The dub omits Prime's orders to infiltrate Unicron, making his "battle plan" ludicrously vague.
Alpha Q is supposed to be parroting Kicker's own words back at him, but inattentive dubbing means it's more of a paraphrase.
The dub omits some narrative from Kicker as the Autobots battle, which makes Alpha Q's follow-up line about being part of the team come from out of the blue.
Alpha Q's rebuke to Kicker is a bit more emphatic in Super Link, telling Kicker that since they can only win by fighting as one, it might be time for him to join the one.

Pain count

"Uh?": 20, plus some "Uhah. Uhah. Uhah." as Inferno fires his gun.
Stock footage: 2
We need/they want energon: 1
It's time to: 2
Let's do it: 3
"You can't be serious": 1
"Wait up": 1
"Aw, man": 1

Super Link:

Eat this: 1

Animation and/or technical glitches

From the animation, there doesn't seem to be any reason for the hole in the energon grid.

Optimus's voice is missing its usual flanging when he orders Rad to re-route the energon.

Continuity errors

Unicron goes from hanging out a fair distance from Cybertron to looming right over Cybertron when Megatron orders him to chow down, then back to empty space after Alpha Q rams the head into him—all without any transition shots.

Miscellaneous notes

"Start repairs on Wing Dagger"? But... but... wasn't he dead?! Wasn't that the entire point of the emotional gathering around him at the end and the lifeless optics and his futile sacrifice and RAAAAGH?!?!!
Not likely an intentional reference, but Alpha Q ends his "Kicker's father could be very useful to us" with an extremely Beast Wars Megatron-like "yesss."
Unicron's new paint job is, of course, based on the Energon redeco of his toy.

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