Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)
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| "Coming of the Fuzors" (Part 1) | ||||||
| Production company | Mainframe Entertainment | |||||
| Airdate | November 2, 1997 | |||||
| Written by | Bob Forward | |||||
| Directed by | Steve Sacks | |||||
| Animation studio | Mainframe Entertainment | |||||
| Continuity | Beast Wars continuity | |||||
| Packaged with | Transmetal Spittor, Airazor, Razorclaw | |||||
Dinobot breaks into the Predacon base and steals the golden disks; meanwhile two oddly misshapen Transformers emerge from their stasis pods.
Synopsis
At the Predacon base, the ship's sensors detect two stasis pods that have landed in Delta Quadrant. Desperate for troops, Megatron and Inferno move out to secure them. Waspinator notices that there is only one moon now, and flies back into the base. Dinobot, looking from afar, also notices the planet's single satellite. Sneaking into the base, Dinobot corners Waspinator, who is looking at the Golden Disks. Grabbed by the thorax, Waspinator points out that there is only one moon now, and Dinobot explains the significance. They're on Earth, and the Disks can foretell the future. In a surprising show of ambition, Waspinator offers to join forces with Dinobot to steal the disks, but Dinobot uses Waspinator to deactivate the shield (by throwing him at it), then escapes and shoots the computers. Blackarachnia, hauling the deactivated body of Tarantulas to his lab, makes a half-hearted effort to stop Dinobot. Having been reduced to a crushed cube, Waspinator is forced to drag himself to the restoration chamber...again.
Meanwhile, the Maximals have found another stasis pod. Tigatron and Airazor are heading out for a more extensive survey to see what other effects the Planet Buster has had on the planet. Rattrap says that they should open up the pod, but there is no spark within, and the protoform is a blank. Rattrap asks what the use of that is, and Rhinox says there isn't a use—yet. Elsewhere, the two pods the Predacons are seeking activate their DNA scanners, but the scanners malfunction. Two Transformers emerge, one a wolf-eagle hybrid, the other a scorpion-cobra hybrid. Neither recognizes the other; the scorpion-cobra speculates that he could beat the wolf-eagle up, and attacks. The brawl is interrupted by Inferno, who viciously attacks both newcomers. Observing from afar, Megatron alters their command codes to become Predacons, before knocking Inferno out of the picture just before the latter can fry his foes. Introducing himself, the Predacon leader shows the hybrid robots that they are Transformers. As the scorpion-cobra names himself Quickstrike and the wolf-eagle names himself Silverbolt, Megatron welcomes them both to the Predacons.
Elsewhere, Dinobot considers the two disks. Do they hold the future, or just what might be the future? A quick look would confirm how he dies, but it could be used once, and Dinobot could not live unless he were master of his own fate. Destroying them would be a coward's act, so he resolves to know the truth, but later. Placing the original disk under a rock, he takes the alien disk back to the Axalon. At the Maximal base, Cheetor is sent to find Dinobot, while Rhinox hooks himself up to some equipment for an unnamed purpose. Cheetor spots the Preds, but is attacked and pursued. Cheetor calls in his predicament to Rattrap, who prepares to wake Rhinox for battle, only for the computer to inform him that any disturbance to Rhinox—or the base—will separate Rhinox's core consciousness from his body. Dinobot arrives (hiding the disk) and asks what's going on, noting that Sentinel is on full alert. As Rattrap explains the problems, Dinobot, carrying more armament than a small battleship, declares that they must take the fight away from the base.
At the Predacon base, Tarantulas's mind is restored to his body, but he has left a psychic link with Blackarachnia, in an attempt to control her. When Megatron contacts the base, a freshly-repaired Waspinator tries to report the earlier events, but Megatron orders them to link up with the others. As Rattrap and Dinobot meet up with Cheetor on a dusty plain, the Predacons, double the Maximal numbers, prepare to attack.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Maximals | Predacons |
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Quotes
"Oh, sure. Don't mind Waspinator. Waspinator just lie here and suffer. Drag himself to CR tank..." (continues grumbling to himself)
- —Waspinator after being ignored by Blackarachnia/Tarantulas
"Fool! Pain is my friend! Allow me to introduce you to it!"
- —Inferno to Quickstrike
"Teamwork and cooperation—those are the Predacon watchwords."
"How about backstabbin' and treachery?"
"Oh, we can be flexible..."
- —Megatron and Quickstrike
"What're you looking at? Hey, get your shiny new butt skyward and see if you can find Chopper-Face before the Preds do."
"You mean fly?"
"Do I mean fly? No! I mean take a submarine. Of course I mean fly! Now get going."
"All right!"
sigh "Optimus, how did you do it?"
- —Rattrap's problems ordering Cheetor around remind him of the last time that he was in charge.
"They're on my tail!"
"Oh, pussycat, you really know how to tickle my joystick."
- —Cheetor's predicament provokes an unfortunate choice of words from Rattrap.
"To be or not to be; that is the question. These disks I hold, are they a record of what will be, or only what may? For if, the future is indeed imutably foretold, then my demise is but moments from the confirmation. For I, I could not live if not the master of my fate. But if the future can be changed, if these disks record merely one path of all the myriad ways the cosmos might conform, then their power is infinite, and yet, still limited. For they could be used but once, and in that change be rendered fiction, forevermore. I could destroy them! But no. T'would be a coward's answer. I will know the truth instead. Then, it will be either them, or me, that face oblivion. Till then!..."
- —Dinobot, contemplating what to do with the disks.
Notes
- The remains of a third stasis pod can be seen near the two crashed pods. Shortly before Silverbolt and Quickstrike emerge, the remains of another robot can be seen, presumably the occupant of the wrecked pod. This may or may not be the same stillborn protoform seen at the end of last episode.
- As Rhinox explains about the blank protoform, the Cybertronix label on the stasis pod reads either as "dud" or "dod", depending how forgiving you want to be for flipped letters.
- This is the only episode of the series to not feature Optimus Primal in any capacity.
Animation and technical errors
- When Megatron shoots Silverbolt the smoke from his shoulder gun barrels stay the same shape and in place even as he is moving.
- When Rattrap is explaining the events of the episode to a returning Dinobot, his left thumb is gold through the entire scene while the rest of his hand is silver.
Transformers references
- Silverbolt's line "I think my name is...Silverbolt. Yes! Pure, strong, and...and fast." mirrors the first line of the original Silverbolt.
- As he prepares to leave base, Cheetor's Maximal logo lights up and fills the screen to act as a scene-wiping transition, vaguely in the style of the Generation 1 cartoon.
Real-world references
- Dinobot makes his second Hamlet reference when contemplating the Golden Disks.
- The final scene of the episode is a reference to old Spaghetti Westerns, right down to the music and the tumbleweed.
Foreign localization
French
- Title: "Nouveaux Arrivants - 1re partie" ("New Arrivals - Part 1")
- Title: "Fuzors 1" (Canada)
Italian
- Title: "Lo sbarco - Parte 1" ("The Landing - Part 1")
Japanese
- Title: "Shin Senshi Tōjō! Gitchonchon Desu!" (新戦士登場! ギッチョンチョンですっ!, "Enter the New Warriors! Snippety-snip, Sir!")[1]
Malaysian
- Title: "Fuzor Baru 1" ("New Fuzors 1")
Portuguese
- Title: "A Chegada dos Fuzores Parte 1" ("The Coming of the Fuzors Part 1")
Spanish
- Title: "La Llegada de los Fuzors (Parte 1)" ("The Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)")
- Title: "Los Recién Llegados Primera Parte" (America, "The Newcomers First Part")
Home video releases
- VHS
1998 — Beast Wars: Transformers — Series 2 / Volume 1 (Siren Entertainment)
1999 — Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers: Metals — We're Back! (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only.
2001 — Beast Wars: Transformers — Volume 5 (Universal)
- DVD
2000 — Beast Wars: Transformers: Metals — DVD Box 1 (Pioneer LDC) — English and Japanese audio.
2004 — Beast Wars: Transformers — The Complete Second Season (Rhinomation)
2006 — Beast Wars: Transformers — Season 2 (Madman Entertainment)
2009 — The Transformers: Beast Wars — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)
Footnotes
- ↑ The second half of the Japanese title combines the speech quirks given to the Japanese versions of Quickstrike and Silverbolt.
