Doubles as. Swindle is a charming individual who sells weaponry and whatever business he can get his hands on - as long as he can make a profit, it doesn't matter! Lugnut's devastating punch attack was nicknamed the "Punch of Kill Everything" or P. They're later caught in a massive explosion alongside their boss, Dirt Boss, but only Scrapper is currently shown to be alive.
Spawning a new continuity, Animated once again pits the Autobots against the Decepticons, borrowing some plot devices such as the Allspark from the movie. Now, in Transformers: Retribution, the prequel to the Transformers animated series, the epic odyssey of these two great warriors is finally revealed as Autobots and Decepticons battle one another.
Chapter One begins with their origins, their team members, their planet, and how they came to Earth, as told through the eyes of Cybertron's coolest hero. During their separation, Scrapper ended up on Dinobot Island, befriended Snarl, and briefly joined the "Subtitute Autobots", with poor effects. What he didn't expect was that Soundwave would become sentient, although he was only too willing to take up the Decepticon emblem. He resorts to assassinating Ultra Magnus before running off.
In his final battle against Optimus, Megatron was taken back to Cybertron, along with Lugnut and Shockwave, for imprisonment. Against the Autobots under the command of new leader Optimus Prime, the protracted warfare ran for five million years, draining Cybertron dry of energy and forcing the Transformers to seek new power sources on other planets. They were very impressed with his oil, but later went missing. The Decepticon equivalent of a used car salesman.
The boisterous and self-centered leader of Team Stunticon. He allowed them to bomb Cybertron and throw their society into chaos, for he rightly believed if he denied any connection to their extremist behavior, it would elevate him in the eyes of the High Council. Later still, Bulkhead and Bumblebee hunted through the remains of the base for a plasma dynamic thruster. Co-Dragons: With Lugnut after Starscream is ousted. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
After being brought back to life, Megatron renews his attempts to destroy the Autobots by sending an army of fierce dinosaur robots after them. Defeated, the Decepticons dispersed, and, according to Ultra Magnus, the only sight of them would be an occasional scout ship. He gloatingly reveals himself to Bumblebee in the season two finale, only for Megatron's space-bridge plan to fail, leaving him terrified of discovery. The evil Decepticons have appeared in Detroit.
The Autobots try to keep the AllSpark from the Decepticons. She's currently stuck in an unknown jungle with Waspinator. Basic plot: keep the Decepticon's from destroying the world. Sunstorm - Target Exclusive. Transformers Animated is a Japanese-American animated television series which debuted on December 26, , as part of the franchise of the same name.
They defeated him using the mine's disused machinery, only for him to use the space bridge to transwarp to Cybertron. Cybertron is almost always a shining metal, technological world; a planet of towering future cities without end and vast metallic plains, spiraling metal mountains and bottomless neon-lit chasms.
Fan Feed. Lockdown was seen in Nefarious to be among the Transformers captured and brainwashed by the Initiative. The rest are still at large, except Starscream, who died when his AllSpark fragment was removed. They are typically concerned with such things as conquering Cybertron, defeating the Autobots, amassing large quantities of energon, developing powerful weaponry, and beating people up. Not necessarily in that order. In some media, he is the same character as the unaffiliated bounty hunter Lockdown.
In a surprising turn from the regular "Optimus Prime vs. Megatron" setup of most Transformers series, here Megatron regards Optimus as a minor nuisance, in fact, up until the last episode he never even calls him by name.
Of course she can't let them know about that. They are usually portrayed as the main antagonists of the Transformers franchise. This tends to cause some conflict, given how generally every Decepticon thinks that they're the most powerful. Yet the full story of the conflict between the two most famous Transformers—everything that happened before Optimus and Megatron arrived on planet Earth—has always been a mystery. The Autobots made short work of Blitzwing and Lugnut, but were stopped by Mixmaster.
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All Rights Reserved. Established June Without Optimus' leadership, all the defeats the Autobots faced would surely have eliminated them. He is able to pull them out of any bind and keep them fighting, no matter what happens.
Part of what makes Optimus such a great leader and a fascinating character is his anatomy. That body of his is very unique, even among other giant, transforming, hero robots.
Between different transformations, different names, and different origin stories, Optimus remains the best leader they could ever ask for. When Optimus Prime was created, his core energy source was the Matrix of Leadership.
This matrix gives Optimus more power than the average autobot along with the willpower to lead. However, the matrix isn't just for him. In the event of his passing, the matrix passes on to a new leader at least in the animated series , and both Ultra Magnus and Hot Rod have used this matrix as well.
In the films, humans used the matrix a bit differently. This time, Sam puts it into Optimus to resurrect him as a better, higher-powered version of himself. The Matrix of Leadership makes Optimus Prime a stronger leader to his people, something vital during their civil war.
As a result, it is one of the most important parts of his body. Though most people think of Optimus Prime and the Autobots as protectors of Earth, that's not always the case. Even in the highly popularized film, by the time he meets Mark Wahlberg's Cade Yeager, Optimus is starting to lose faith in humanity. This heavily contrasts his earlier position, where he considered Earth their new home.
Furthermore, in some of the animated series, Optimus Prime deliberately orders his team not to get involved with humans, or sometimes, any other planets at all. He wants their efforts to be completely focused on re-taking Cybertron. Unfortunately, though, those orders don't always work out. First and foremost, Optimus wants to protect his people, and it depends on the iteration if Earth and humanity are a part of that.
As the transformative part of Optimus in semi-truck form is only the front carriage, writers have gotten creative with what he's carried in the back. Sometimes, it's for battle stations, scout cars, or even transporting other characters better. However, in the live action films, the writers particularly chose to make Optimus carry an armory.
Over the films, he picks up quite a few cannons, swords, and more, so it's not too wild of a choice. This way, Optimus can remain fairly mobile and reactive while still having his more clunkier items nearby. When the leader of the Autobots is just the front end of a semi-truck, there really is a lot of options.
Might as well keep him well-stocked. While the Autobots and Decepticons have a lot of guns and cannons, their durability means they end up doing a lot of hand-to-hand combat. Because of this, all of the main characters end up becoming expert melee fighters, with Optimus Prime being adept in martial arts. This is because not only are they useful in close up battle, but the Transformers series were also released in Japan first, which makes more sense why the characters would know traditional battle styles.
With his guns, blades, and martial arts training, Optimus is a formidable foe for any other bot. He's a hard hitter that's even harder to take down; there's a reason why his battles with Megatron are always so epic. Optimus has always had the same personality: a good, moral individual trying to do his best to lead the Autobots.
However, other than that, he's had some whacky changes over the series and films. Between wielding blades, having hidden pasts, riding dinobots, and having robot girlfriends, he's evolved a lot, but one of the cutest things that he sometimes has is a scout bot named Roller. With six wheels and nerves of steel, Roller does his best to help, and his attitude very much reflects that of the bot who owns him.
Which would probably improve both Cybertron and France. Scale when it comes to planets is so fraught it's painful. The problems of describing citybots as "cities" is a thousand times worse if Unicron is supposed to have a planet alternate mode, and Cybertron is in turn supposed to be of similar size. To start with, Cybertron was shown throughout Generation One with buildings visible from space.
Although this was intended to show that the planet was technological in nature, it makes little sense, as the structures would have to be the size of small nations to be visible. If the buildings were in fact supposed to be skyscrapers or even A. By comparison, the rather Coruscant -like shots of Cybertron in Beast Machines may be less distinctive or "Cybertronian", but are far more believable. It states however in the first issue of the Marvel comics Transformers, that Cybertron is a "Jupiter sized world".
But, contradicting this statement, in The Transformers episode " The Ultimate Doom, Part 2 ", it is revealed that Cybertron in this continuity was in fact half the size of Earth's moon. Thus, making it possible that buildings can be seen from space. As well, the size of Cyberton could become roughly the size of a state or county. Either Galvy is humungo, or Lithone is tiiinyyy!!! Unicron is a more extreme problem. Assuming no size changing occurs during his transformation and really, what possible reason would he have to become smaller?
Scenes in the Movie in which he directly interacts with normal Cybertronians are blatantly absurd though totally phat-looking. Shots such as the Dinobots fleeing his grasping hand, a starship penetrating his eye, impaling Brainstorm on his fingernail in the comic , or especially him picking up Galvatron between his fingers before swallowing him, break any concept of "planetary" scale.
If Unicron as a planet is about the size of Earth it's as good a size for him to be as any , his hands would be the size of Western Europe. This would make Galvatron in the image to the right the size of Ireland.
There is no explanation for any of this. Just go with it. However, since Cybertron is smaller than the moon and it has been shown that Unicron is smaller than Cybertron, it is most likely that Unicron is the size of a county or large city. This explaining that his head is the size of a city more specifically Trypticon or Metroplex and his hands being smaller than his head allows easy interaction with large Transformers such as the Dinobots. The depiction of Unicron's scale in Armada was debatably a slight improvement, in that physical interaction with normal beings was not attempted.
He preferred instead to communicate with normal Transformers by possessing one of them. Nevertheless, shots featuring Thrust and Megatron standing on his neck are still farcically out of scale. Much less common are instances of a Transformer turning into an overscaled real-world object. Most such instances occur in the Beast Wars era. Although the Beast Warriors are consistent day-to-day in their relative size to each other, their scale in relation to their real-world animal equivalents is more complex.
While the bug characters such as Waspinator and Inferno are obviously scaled-up, most of the characters are subtly not quite the right size. Cheetor and Tigatron are shown standing next to real members of their species, and they are both the same size as the animals in question.
Beast Wars Part 1 Law of the Jungle This makes them and Cheetor in particular, since he's around more the measuring sticks for the other characters. Therefore, Rattrap is a monstrously huge rat, the size of a medium-sized dog such as a Labrador indeed, the writers stated that Season 1 Rattrap was 5' 1.
Dinobot is considerably larger than a real velociraptor, closer in size to a Utahraptor. Rhinox is about half the size of an adult rhinoceros, and Optimus Primal is a roughly normal or female gorilla. However, Megatron is a tiny specimen of T. In their interactions with adult protohumans , the Transformer characters seem between twice and three times their height.
Considering our ancestors really were smaller than modern humans, this is not extremely wrong, but it deserves noting. With 20th Anniversary Prime and Smallest Transformers Bumblebee, you can actually recreate this scene. Some scale problems are for the sake of characterization. For example, Optimus Prime is routinely shown as thoroughly gargantuan, several stories in height, and capable of cradling humans in his palm.
If he's the size of a real truck, Prime in robot mode should be 8—10 m 25'—30' tall, at best. He's drawn large because he's a leader character. Conversely, Bumblebee is sometimes shown only a few feet taller than an average human, while in reality he would be 3—5 m 10'—15' tall the Marvel comic actually states he's 15' tall [ citation needed ].
He's drawn small because he's a human-friendly character, and a junior member of the Autobots. With fighter jet alternate modes, the Seekers should be among the largest everyday Transformers and would tower over their Autobot adversaries; instead, the animation depicts characters such as Thundercracker and Wheeljack as about the same height.
Though jets are much larger than cars, they're drawn the same height so the battles appear fair. And also to make it easier to animate; blocking a shot where characters differ radically in height is difficult.
In a related vein, sometimes Transformers are able to enter human buildings, fitting through their doors and able to run up their staircases without crashing through.
A cast that couldn't enter buildings would be grossly inconvenient for telling some stories, so the animators fudge things. One side makes you larger , one side makes you small. Op's been noshing on the first side too much. Sometimes artists draw a character at a different size intentionally.
For example, on the cover of the first issue of Marvel Generation One , Optimus Prime is extremely huge, compared to the highway, bridge, and normal cars. Laserbeak is bigger than usual, too. This is purely for dramatic effect. What's more, you know those things are definitely Meet the Supreme class Munky Optimus Primal. The creators of the live-action movie took great pains to avoid out-of-scale issues. Well, greater than previous franchises. This is sometimes reflected in the choice of vehicle or the design of their robot mode.
Starscream 's robot mode is nearly as wide as it is tall, with shorter, digitigrade legs, so the massive jet-former won't end up twice as tall as Optimus. In the case of Blackout , his massive alternate mode simply results in a hulking, towering robot mode.
There are still minor scale issues to be found, though. For example, Optimus Prime can hold both Sam and Mikaela in one hand. Comparing this shot with when he picks up Archibald Witwicky 's glasses a few minutes later, it seems the glasses have lenses a foot 30cm in diameter. This is a visual cheat so the glasses are visible to the audience.
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