Optimus Prime vs Megatron: The Ultimate Battle
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Welcome to the Unicron Trilogy! Also, please enjoy your toys homaging Generation 1 Optimus Prime and Generation 2 Megatron.
Synopsis
A red and blue robot comes on the screen to give the viwers a warning: evil Decepticons have invaded Earth! Telling us he has fought them across "time and space", he says that they intend to destroy our world. The robot informs us that his name is Optimus Prime, and that he comes from the planet of Cybertron. Cybertron, Optimus says, was once a peaceful, sunlit planet. Thousands of years of war have ravaged it, turning it into a shell of the world that Prime once knew.
As the war progressed, the conflict spread beyond Cybertron, with "countless" other worlds becoming caught up in it. If the Decepticons aren't stopped here and now, Prime proclaims, the Earth will be destroyed... and he can't let that happen!
The inhabitants of Cybertron, Optimus tells us, are Transformers—a race of living robots with the ability to change their forms. Though made of the hardest substance in the galaxy, Transformers have the same range of thoughts and emotions that (most) humans do. Furthermore, Prime says, Transformers come in all shapes and sizes: some are small, some are big, and others are truly gigantic!
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Others |
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*Appears in footage where, at the time of the story, the character was no longer aligned with the Decepticons.
Notes
"Optimus Prime VS Megatron: The Ultimate Battle" was included with the Classics Optimus Prime / Megatron two-pack. The episode features the Cybertron version of Optimus Prime (voice of Garry Chalk) speaking to the viewer and explaining the basics of the Transformers Unicron Trilogy universe over reused footage from the Armada, Energon and Cybertron cartoons.
The North American version includes a gallery that features the Classics line. The international version drops the gallery of the Classics line in favor of multiple languages for the episode.
Reused footage
- Footage of the "reborn" planet Cybertron from the Cybertron episode "Unfinished" is used to depict the beautiful Cybertron of the far past.
- Various footage from the Armada episode "First Encounter" is used to depict the "thousands of years of warfare" between the Transformers, giving cameos to Crosshairs, Beachcomber, Skyfire, Wing, Strafe and the Mini-Con space-ark Exodus.
- The footage of the planet Moritorus exploding from the Cybertron episode "Fallen" is used to illustrate the Transformers' battle spreading to other worlds.
- The footage where the camera pulls back from a monitor screen to show Optimus Prime looking at a field of three monitors is from the Galaxy Force episode "The Sacred Homeworld, Planet Cybertron, Destroyed?!". Was this used in Cybertron? Um...
- Footage of Optimus Supreme floating with Rodimus is reused from the Energon episode ???.
- Footage of Scavenger, Optimus, and Jetfire is reused from the Armada episode ???.
- Footage of Menasor, Quickmix, and Metroplex is reused from the Cybertron episode ???.
- Footage of Hot Shot transforming on a Velocitron race track is reused from the Cybertron episode ???. While Hot Shot transforms, Clocker, Brakedown and Crumplezone can barely be seen in the background, and become hidden by his legs and/or buttflap when he reaches robot mode.
- Footage of Jetfire, Ironhide, Wing Saber and a couple of Skyblasts transforming in the chamber of Primus is reused from the Energon episode ???.
- Footage of Optimus Prime opening his Matrix chest compartment is reused from the Cybertron episode ???.
- Footage of Evac's arms pounding on Megatron is reused from the Cybertron episode ???.
- Footage of a bunch of Transformers and humans crying (including Coby's and Lori's unnamed mothers) is reused from the Cybertron episode ???.
- Footage of Hot Shot grinning like an idiot is reused from the Armada episode "Palace".
- Footage of Lori and Bud polishing Landmine is reused from the Cybertron episode "Fallen".
- Footage of Vector Prime shouting "YES!" at a race and getting embarrassed is reused from the Cybertron episode ???.
- Footage of Hot Shot and Coby agreeing to become partners for a race and then fist-bumping is reused from the Cybertron episode ???.
- A panning shot featuring a huge array of Transformers (including Primus) is reused from the Cybertron episode ???.
- Rad White deploying Laserbeak is reused from the Armada episode "Jungle".
Misc
- Transformers are made of durabyllium steel, which Optimus claims is the hardest metal in the galaxy. This refers back to the Technobot Nosecone's "durabyllium-steel alloy" drill.
- Plasma cannons expel enough energy to power an entire city on Earth, and this is BEFORE being augmented by Mini-Cons or Cyber Planet Keys.
- ...and yet, swords are apparently some of the strongest weapons in the universe.
- The only new piece of "animation" in the episode is a digital overlay highlighting Hot Shot's different bodies.
