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 | |||||
The Decepticons aboard the Elite Guard ship decide to take down the Autobots that turned them in. Swindle shows off more of his awesomeness!
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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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.
"Enough talk! Let's kick some Autobot skid-plate! Yeah!!
- —Hothead Blitzwing wants some real action.
"Maybe that energon was a little too unstable!"
- —Optimus Prime realizes he may not have thought his plan through very well.
Notes
Animation or technical errors
- When Sentinel calls for Jetfire and Jetstorm, the prisoners do not have their facemasks.
- In the crowd scenes towards the end of this episode, characters change positions relative to each other every time the camera angle switches. Beachcomber, in particular, appears in literally four different places at once.
Continuity errors
- 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 the Liar Starscream a conehead accessory and Sunstorm a boxy helmet resembling those of the Generation 1 Seekers. The new cone-head is topped with a drill. Cool.
- Sentinel's adoring public consists of a seriously crazy amount of cameos, a great many of which have not been seen before this episode. The definitely-identified members of the crowd includes Beachcomber, Hubcap, Red Alert, Tracks, Huffer, Hot Shot, Warpath (and a red-and-blue lookalike), Cosmos, Mainframe, Autotrooper (based on Autrooper), Rosanna and juuuust cut off by the widescreen-to-fullscreen crop, Flareup. There are also a few unknown faces, including a character who looks like Brawn, but who is either someone else and just colored like him, or really off model; a blue version of the Bumblebee body-type who does not appear to be Glyph; someone who looks like he's in Ironhide's colors, but isn't him (possibly Powerglide?); and a kinda freaky, skinny tiger-striped dude who we "might find out [about] next week", according to Derrick Wyatt.
- Sentinel and the Autobot Council are carried upon Grandus. Behind them, the Decepticon prisoners are carried by a Grandus lookalike with yellow detailing; Derrick Wyatt stated that this was supposed to represent Grandus's Brave redeco, Dag Base.
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.
- When Sentinel uses his remote to unlock and re-lock Lugnut's mouth clamps they make the same noise as a car alarm remote.
Trivia
- Sentinel Prime went through the space disturbance to gain some time, but in the end, agreed to go all the way back to Earth to drop off Optimus Prime. So the whole thing ended up being a rather pointless act. Lesson learned, Sentinel?
- Sentinel seems to have decided to keep his Earth alt-mode this time.
- At the end of "SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy", Captain Fanzone claimed that Swindle would be stripped down of parts. But other than his weapons (which would have been confiscated by the Elite Guard if the Detroit Police hadn't already taken them) nothing obvious seems to be missing from his person. Maybe Fanzone was just trying to freak him out?
