Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2
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| "Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2" | |||||||||
| Production code | #700-35 | ||||||||
| Production company | Sunbow Productions | ||||||||
| Airdate | October 15, 1985 | ||||||||
| Written by | Donald F. Glut | ||||||||
| Continuity | Generation 1 cartoon continuity | ||||||||
Having had the Autobots exiled from Earth, Megatron reveals the Decepticons' true intentions.
- Japanese title: メガトロン地球征服作戦 PART II (Megatron Chikyū Seifuku Sakusen PART II, "Megatron's Plan to Conquer Earth PART II")
Synopsis
Victor Caroli provides a "Last time, on The Transformers" recap.
As a marching band parades through the streets of Central City, Berger announces that today is Decepticon Day. Sparkplug and Chip immensely dislike the event, but Chip says that it's too late now for Spike to be searching for evidence to prove the Autobots are innocent.
Back in a video viewing room, Spike finishes watching another tape showing the Decepticons as the real culprits. He's about to leave when he meets Ravage. During a brief fight, in which Ravage slams into a TV screen, gets fried, smacked with an office chair, and then finally gets buried under a shelf of video tapes (poor kitty), Spike makes his escape.
At a nearby high school disco, Soundwave and his cassettes make an appearance. Rumble dances with the ladies, Ravage gets petted by some schoolgirls, and Laserbeak gives a real evil glare to a kid who's offering him a cracker (probably considering eating the kid instead).
In deep space, Cosmos is leading the rocket ship carrying the Autobots. Inside, Ironhide and Cliffjumper persuade Prime to turn around and head back to Earth. After the ship doesn't respond to Cliffjumper's control input, Hound uses his shoulder scanner to pinpoint their destination...the SUN! Cosmos finds he is unable to link up with Teletraan I as the rocket starts to overheat...along with the Autobots inside. Cosmos then comes aboard and starts working on the computer, but to no avail.
Inside the Decepticon base, Megatron looks on with glee as he watches the Autobots and their ship collide with the sun and explode. The Decepticons then leave for a press conference.
In the Mayor's Office of Central City, Spike shows the Mayor the tapes he's found. The Mayor can't bring back the Autobots, but now armed with the right evidence, he and Spike start a campaign to clear the Autobots' names.
At the press conference, Megatron reveals that he plans to conquer the planet and suck it dry of energy. He is now the marshal of Central City, newly christened as Megatronia 1, and everyone will be made slaves to obtain energy for the Decepticons. A nearby screen shows the Coneheads running amok through Central City. Spike learns of the Autobots' destruction and escapes, but the tape of evidence is destroyed. Berger saves Spike from getting killed by Laserbeak, but their escape is short-lived, as they're all captured by Megatron.
Back in space, the Autobots have been saved by Trailbreaker's force field. They're attached to Cosmos, who is still heading towards the Sun, since his actions are controlled by Teletraan I.
Back on Earth, things are grim. All the humans have been enslaved by the Decepticons, and they're being forced to mine energy from every available source. Berger's received his reward: He too is cuffed and made to work in a power plant. One night, Chip breaks out of the power plant and sneaks on board a nearby truck. He heads for the Autobot base, where he sets to work at Teletraan I. He finds out that the Autobot rocket was destroyed and is about to learn more when Thrust breaks into the base, destroys Teletraan I and takes Chip back to the plant.
Meanwhile, Cosmos realises he's got control back and turns around. Back on Earth, an Air Force rescue attempt is easily thwarted by the Seekers and Blitzwing. Megatron has the humans cornered when the Autobots arrive. Optimus Prime assembles the entire '84 and '85 line his entire forces to combat the Decepticons, and they win, heavily damaging many of their foes, including the Insecticons and Constructicons. Having thoroughly lost their advantage, the Decepticons retreat.
The Mayor pardons the Autobots, while Berger is taken by the authorities to face justice. With the Decepticons defeated, the Autobots transform and roll for home.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Quotes
"Hey, get down with it, Soundwave."
- —Rumble apparently likes dancing with human girls.
"Uh, Laserbeak wanna cracker?"
- —Male human teen who suspects Laserbeak wants to eat him.
Ironhide: Are we going anywhere, Cosmos, or is this a tour of the stars?
Hound: Lay off him, Ironhide. He didn't cause our problems.
Ironhide: You're right! Maybe we oughta take it out on the one who got us into this mess!
Optimus Prime: I did what was necessary.
- — Only Ironhide could get away with taking a shot at Prime like that.
"This evidence is conclusive, Spike. How could we be so stupid?"
- —The Mayor stating what every fan was thinking
"Berger, you filthy swine!"
- —Human reporter after learning that Shawn Berger betrayed Humanity to the Decepticons.
"This city is under martial law...and I am the marshal!"
- —Megatron spells doom for the people of Central City...and makes a funny.
"It is over. I saw the Autobot ship, like a silver bullet, streaking toward the Sun, and it collided—collided with destiny! I saw the end. They died in a cosmic funeral pyre!"
- —Shawn Berger, destroying all hope
"Let us teach them a lesson in sorrow!"
- —Dirge as he and the Coneheads terrorize Central City during the Decepticon-imposed martial law.
"Megatron! Immobilized human escapes!"
- —Soundwave as Chip Chase flees the Decepticon slave labor camp
"You...pile of reject parts, I'll—"
"Reject parts? BWAHAHAHAHHAHA!"
- —Chip Chase as Thrust destroys Teletraan I and, perhaps, mocks the handicapped.
"Starscream, go and—"
"I anticipated your order, Megatron."
- —Megatron and Starscream, getting along...for once
"You are going to face justice, and may it be kinder to you than it was to us."
- —Optimus Prime, deciding not to have Berger taken on a collision course with the Sun
Notes
- When the Decepticon jets fly off to face the human resistance fighter, as Thundercracker passes the camera, his silver coloured parts have an almost heroic, shiny gleam to them, which is unusual given he is a villain in this story.
Animation or technical glitches
- At the end of the episode, we see two Ironhides. (One is actually Ratchet miscoloured as Ironhide. You can tell this because of the lights on his roof.)
- The panning shots of the various Autobots firing on the Decepticons is repeated several times.
- Starscream's optics are mis-colored blue while firing his null-ray finger.
- During the dance, Spike is dancing with a girl when he should be with Ravage.
- Soundwave's mouth plate disappears after threatening "increase efficiency or be terminated" and firing on the slaves.
Transformer references
- First onscreen appearances of Cosmos and Astrotrain.
Trivia
- Though he single-handedly saves the Autobots on his own initiative, Trailbreaker gets no lines in the episode, and barely even appears except as a Jesus-like silhouette at the center of his force field.
- Starscream fires the null-ray from his finger.
- As is made evident by the shooting script for this episode, a large portion of this episode was actually added in at a later stage to bring the episode up to the required length - namely, Cosmos's inability to alter his flight path, Chip's escape and Thrust's blasting of Teletraan I.
- When released as a video in the UK, both episodes were compiled as a 45-minute "movie" instead being treated as a two-part episode.
- Judging by the girls surrounding him at the club, Soundwave is popular with the ladies. Trust women to be attracted to something large, cold and mechanical.
