Decepticon Air
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| "Decepticon Air" | ||||||
| Airdate | May 2, 2009 | |||||
| Written by | Michael Ryan | |||||
| Directed by | Kalvin Lee Shigeharu Takahashi | |||||
| Animation studio | Mook | |||||
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Others |
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Quotes
Sentinel Prime: All due respect, Alpha Trion, the Council should concern itself with more important matters, like beefing up security for the Decepticon prisoners that...ahem...I captured.
Cliffjumper: I thought that was Prowl.
- —Actually, they're both wrong.
"Those bureaucratobots couldn't find their own diodes with a bitmap and a homing beacon."
- —Sentinel Prime talks behind the council's back.
Notes
Animation or technical errors
Continuity errors
- So, the time it takes for Swindle's escape pod to get away from the shuttle is also all the time the shuttle requires to fly all the way back to Earth?
- Safeguard is able to create a tornado in outer space?
Transformers references
- His reference to a "personal storage dimension" from which accessories can be pulled at a moments' notice hearkens back to the concept of subspace.
- To help tell the Starscream clones apart, Swindle gives "Ramjet" a conehead accessory and Sunstorm a boxy helmet resembling those of the Generation 1 Seekers.
Real-world references
- The title is a play on Con Air, a Nicolas Cage movie where prisoners being transported by plane get free and do bad things.
- Speaking of action movies, Optimus crawling through an air shaft while sarcastically complaining about how much fun he's having is very similar to a famous sequence from Die Hard. And then when he drops out of the air shaft suspended by a wire harness, it's similar to a famous sequence from Mission Impossible. And finally, Prime "accidentally" revealing to his enemies that he has a small chamber he can use to trap them, only for them to doublecross him and force him inside instead, only for him to triplecross them when in fact the chamber is the only safe place from the real trap, has just got to be a direct nod to the end of Superman II.
- Sari's fingers extending and separating when she types are a reference to Ghost in the Shell.
