The Secret of Omega Supreme (episode)
Omega Supreme reveals his past to Optimus Prime, which involves a city's destruction, Megatron and the Constructicons.
Detailed synopsis
Optimus Prime discovers the Constructicons are excavating a asteroid orbiting Earth and contacts Omega Supreme for help. But Omega confesses a personal vendetta against the Constructicons. They were once his friends when he guarded their creation, the Crystal City on Cybertron, until they were altered by Megatron's Robo-Smasher and permanently changed into Decepticons. Omega's own run-in with the Smasher while trying to rescue them seems to have left him scared and emotionally barren except for his desire for vengence against his once-friends.
Prime cautions Omega to only observe the operation, but once on the asteroid, the vengeful Omega immediately attacks his enemies, wildly smashing open a huge fissure. The entire asteroid breaks in two like an egg, hatching an alien creature which flies toward Earth. (Although it appears somewhat robotic, Teletraan I claims that the asteroid was organic in nature, implying that the creature is in fact biological.)
Subsequently learning that the creature is preparing to attack Earth out of hunger, Prime tells Omega that only he can save Earth by luring the monster back to its food supply on the asteroid. Omega, after a personal struggle, forgoes his desire for revenge against the Constructicons in order to save the Earth from destruction. In the end he expresses hope that he might one day regain some of the feelings that he lost during the Constructicons' betrayal.
Stats
Original airdate: 6th November 1985
Written by: David Wise
Featured characters
Omega Supreme (G1), Constructicons, Devastator
Notable quotes
- Megatron to Astrotrain: "Depart for the asteroid in 1 hour; space shuttle mode." - He would hardly be going in his train mode now would he?
- Tracks: Keep San Francisco clean. Leave!
- Omega Supreme: Constructicons: enemies. Enemies: die.
- Optimus: No, Omega. This is not a personal vendetta.
- Omega Supreme: Results: Same.
Other notes
Animation and/or technical glitches
Near the beginning of the episode, when Hook is talking to Megatron, Sideswipe (an Autobot) is standing to his right.
Continuity errors
According to Omega Supreme, the Constructions lived on Cybertron before the Ark launched, and later left on their own. He pursued them "for millions of years, across the galaxies" until they eventually found Earth and were reunited with Megatron.
However, in "Heavy Metal War" (the Constructicons' first appearance) Megatron states the Constructicons were recently built on Earth.
Further complicating the Constructicons origins was a flashback in Five Faces of Darkness, Part Four where the Constructicons are shown creating Megatron.
These three different origins for the Constructicons have become notorious as one of the biggest continuity errors in the series.
Real-world references
- San Francisco
Miscellaneous trivia
- Misc
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