The whole point of the second movie is Megatron teaming up with the Fallen to reactivate the Sun Harvester he put here ages ago. But again, the good guys win, and humanity gets another stay of execution. It is! Anything else? Sam Witwicky the sweaty boy from the first two movies, played by Shia LaBeouf and his great-great-grandfather Archibald Witwicky the guy who discovered Megatron in the Arctic are part of a long line of Transformer secret keepers.
One more thing? Yes, the Transformers heroines exist in this unimpeachable order. There will be no disagreeing. Already a subscriber? He has no choice but to venture to Earth after it, with Megatron and his Decepticons trailing behind while the war continues back on Cybertron — until the planet dies. In the world of the "Transformers: Prime" cartoon, meanwhile, Megatron renders Cybertron uninhabitable, leading to the "Great Exodus" in which all Transformers flee the planet.
No matter the reason, Optimus and Megatron leave Cybertron, and the war and planet are never the same. While Optimus and Megatron lie dormant on Earth, life continues on. For most Cybertronians, this means fighting the Great War. On Earth, it means something else entirely. In 's "Beast Wars," Optimus Primal no relation to Prime leads a small band of Maximals -— the future descendants of Autobots — through warp space in pursuit of this story's Megatron who named himself after the original and a tiny crew of Predacons -— the descendants of Decepticons.
They crash on a planet that, we eventually learn, is prehistoric Earth in the earliest days of homo sapiens: Beast Megatron has traveled back in time after finding a message from the original Megatron with instructions to kill the dormant Optimus Prime.
More time travel shenanigans ensue, but ultimately the Maximals fend off the Predacons and return to their own time. Then came Netflix's "War for Cybertron Trilogy. They survive their crashes and meet the Maximals and Predacons, who have already been on Earth for ages, having traveled back in time again thanks to a message from the original Megatron.
The time travel gets even more wibbly-wobbly in this universe, but it firmly establishes the Maximal and Predacon prehistoric Earth battle as an integral part of the "Transformers" timeline. Humans are fickle creatures who tend not to care about things that don't involve us.
That's why most Transformer tales begin in the modern era when the Cybertronians bring their war to Earth, thereby making it our problem. The stories of this time are too numerous and varied to recount, but you'll be hard-pressed to find a comic, cartoon, or movie that doesn't offer a version of the Autobot-vs.
In the original cartoon and Marvel comics that set the stage for most Generation 1 realities, the Autobots and Decepticons awaken on Earth in the '80s after lying dormant for millions of years.
They then continue their war on our planet, dragging humans into their endless conflagration. Some more modern tellings, like IDW's "Transformers" comic book series, have Optimus, Megatron, and their troops intentionally infiltrating modern Earth, having never lain dormant at all.
Sometimes the humans even bond with Transformers, becoming Headmasters. Yes, that's their actual title. Other times, like in Marvel's original series and the IDW continuation, "Transformers: Regeneration One," the humans gain superpowers to aid or hurt the giant bots.
Whether our planet hosts Energon, the Allspark, powerful artifacts, or just good, old-fashioned human interference, one thing is always agreed upon: Earth, and its modern era, is a critical turning point of the Great War. Unicron was, is, and will be once again. More or less.
After he was defeated, he headed over to Marvel comics, threatening their universe beginning in He made his first appearance in "Transformers" 66, "All Fall Down. The comics then created alternate futures, multiple Galvatrons, a few Unicron threats and, before there was even a multiverse, established a series of parallel timelines. Since then, across timelines and multiverses, Unicron's return has become all but inevitable.
In , after over a decade of avoiding the ultimate evil, IDW comics finally brought Unicron in with a vengeance in "Unicron" 0. The massive battle spread across the franchise's comics, unified the Transformers, and brought 13 years of a comic book story to an end. Back on TV, meanwhile, his and Galvatron's time-travel manipulation brought the Autobots, Decepticons, Maximals, and Predacons crashing together in spectacular fashion in the "War for Cybertron Trilogy.
It doesn't matter where in the multiverse you land: Unicron is coming. In one reality, the Autobots and the Decepticons never come to Earth to do battle. Instead, 's "Transformers: Robots in Disguise" cartoon tells the story of Optimus Prime leading his Autobots to protect Earth when Megatron and his Predacons not Decepticons target it.
The show never gets into these Transformers' history much, but there are some interesting quirks. The "Robots" Ultra Magnus, for instance, is Optimus' brother , never forgiving his sibling for getting the Matrix of leadership instead of him.
The bat-slash-jet-slash-two-headed-dragon Megatron brings the Predacons to Earth in search of the immensely powerful Fortress Maximus. And the Decepticons? Well, they exist. Kind of. The only Decepticons in the entire universe are created when Megatron gets his hands on a small handful Autobot "protoforms" Autobot blank slates and brainwashes them into new, evil creations. In the real world, "Robots in Disguise" was an adaptation of the anime "Transformers" series, "Car Robots.
The adaptation, on the other hand, was the first departure into what would come to be many, many official "Transformers" reboots. Before that, shows and comics would pick through Generation 1 and offer tweaks and expansions unique to each story, but all falling under the main continuity. Transformers' faces run the gamut of design, from looking like a metal human in a helmet, to characters like Shockwave or Whirl , whose faces consist of little more than a single glowing eye, or more animalistic designs such as Waspinator.
While humanoid forms are the norm, they are certainly not the rule , and it is not at all uncommon for a Transformer to possess a primary mode based on an animal or vehicle—for instance, Ravage , Grand Slam and Raindance , who transform from cassette tapes into a panther, a tank, and a jet, respectively.
We consider these to be their "robot modes;" while they are definitely inhuman, they are at least capable of independent movement. Transformers are generally large in comparison to Earth lifeforms; the average Transformer stands roughly four times the height of a human, depending on its size and shape. However, great variances in form are common; some Transformers, like the Mini-Cons , Micromasters , Maximals , or Predacons , are approximately human sized.
Still others, such as the Real Gear Robots or the BotBots , are small enough to fit in a human's palm. On the other end of the scale, some Transformers are large enough to dwarf other Cybertronians. The colossal city-bots known as Titans are one such faction, transforming into entire cities for smaller Transformers to inhabit. Particularly large Transformers, like Unicron and Primus , might transform into entire planets.
In the Cybertron series, the planet Gigantion is populated by both extremes: robots who tower over "normal"-sized Transformers, aided by their tiny Mini-Con partners. For the most part, however, the "average" Transformer ranges from about 15 to 40 feet in height. Though their metal bodies were shown to be easily built by other Transformers from conventional materials, even the very earliest stories in the franchise showed that Transformers could feel pleasurable and painful sensations—physically "alive" in body, not just mind.
This " living metal " was described as having a cellular structure in the Victory cartoon , a fact independently reiterated by the the Marvel Generation 2 comic books , which also established that Transformers possessed "genetic material" useful when "budding". It was the Marvel comic which first introduced the idea that the Transformers originally emerged from the very fabric of the planet Cybertron itself, an idea that has become the dominant "origin" story for the species in modern media, and the means by which new Transfomers come into being even in the present day.
Following its introduction in the Beast Wars cartoon , the first stage of Transformer life, prior to taking on an alternate mode, has come to usually be depicted as the raw, featureless " protoform ". As living matter, Transformers' bodies are even capable of being ravaged by disease.
Being mechanical creatures, Transformers possess a number of distinct parts that make up their anatomy; some are largely analogous to human components, but many others serve exotic purposes: complex fuel reactors and ammunition storage are among them. The eponymous, and most iconic, component of the Transformers franchise is, of course, their characteristic ability to transform from one shape to the other—in most cases, this involves changing from a humanoid robot mode into an alternate mode ; this alternate mode is usually some kind of vehicle or creature, but Transformers across the multiverse have assumed unconventional forms: buildings , plants , household appliances , or even human food.
Early stories depicted this ability as something that the Transformer race as a whole was not created with; it was either a wartime innovation designed to disguise themselves from their opponents, or an unexpected side effect as a result of their rebuilding at the hands of the Ark on Earth.
However, it would not take long for this ability to be cemented as a natural extension of Cybertronian biology; later stories would, for the most part, establish that Transformers are born with a functioning alternate mode, or at least the ability to assume one.
Modern Transformers fiction has established that the complex mechanical "organ" known as the transformation cog , or T-cog, allows a Cybertronian to transform; most Transformers in contemporary fiction can change their alternate modes at will e. Some Cybertronians possess unique forms of transformation: they may have the ability to transform much faster than "regular" Transformers or the ability to assume multiple alternate modes , for instance.
In rare instances, Transformers may lose the ability to transform over their lifetimes; the Marvel Comics continuity depicted this as a symptom of inducing mutagenic Nucleon as a fuel source, sacrificing transformation for enhanced durability and power, while in the IDW continuity the decision to give up one's alternate mode was a religious choice which involved voluntarily removing the Transformation cog. Though their bodies and minds are robotic in nature, Transformers are not mere automatons: most Cybertronian lifeforms are living, sentient, emotional, and fully-intelligent beings.
This animating, semi-mystical "life-force" that sets them apart from simple machines is traditionally referred to as the spark , a specially charged mass of positrons that resides in, and energizes, their mechanical frames. Though the concept was first introduced in the Beast Wars animated series, it has gone on to inform every incarnation of the Transformers franchise, and has even been retroactively applied to the earliest Generation 1 continuities.
A spark can be thought of as the "soul" of the Transformer; a Cybertronian life effectively begins with the ignition of a new spark, and ends when that spark is extinguished. The spark's relationship to the rest of the Transformer is somewhat nebulous and varies aross continuities. In some stories, a spark is the sum totality of a Transformer; it can be extracted from the body of one Cybertronian and implanted into the frame of another, effectively "uploading" the memories and personality encoded in that Spark into a new body.
In other continuities, the spark's presence in the body is harder to define; in these continuities, it coexists with other components crucial to Transformer life, such as the brain module , making it harder to define where certain aspects of Transformer life begin or end. Some Cybertronians are created without sparks, and these Transformers are generally referred to as " drones ", deriving sentience from their programming.
While their appearance and programming may allow them to adopt a convincing imitation of life and intelligence, most Cybertronians generally do not consider these Transformers to be truly "alive". Unlike humans, who require food, air, and water to survive, the only substance Cybertronians require to assure their continued functioning is a fuel source—though for a species as large and powerful as the Transformers, the average Cybertronian consumes a significant amount of fuel on a regular basis.
This desire for energy has led to many wars, and the frequent depletion of their home planet's energy sources. Though early stories such as the Marvel comic , suggested that Cybertronians could directly convert human energy sources like oil and gasoline, into a nebulously-defined Transformer fuel , it wasn't long before the cartoon introduced the concept of " energon :" a Cybertronian fuel that could be created by processing other fuel sources into an energon cube , which generally became the default form of Transformer fuel going forward.
To survive the constant fuel shortages, various Transformers across the multiverse have attempted to find means of either reducing or circumventing their reliance on energon.
Alternate fuel sources, such as Nucleon , Angolmois Energy , or even the dreaded Dark Energon , can fulfill most of the energy needs of a Transformer, but may have unpredictable side effects. Some continuities have expanded on Marvel's idea, and asserted that while Transformers can synthesize a usable fuel substitute from local energy sources, this Energon derivative is largely inefficient and offers poor fuel efficiency, making it a poor substitute for the genuine article.
In other instances, Transformers may upgrade themselves into more fuel-efficient bodies, capable of functioning on exponentially less energon than other Transformers.
The most famous of these are the Micromasters , who derogatorily refer to other Transformers as " guzzlers ". The Maximals and Predacons of Beast Era Cybertron would follow in their footsteps; by their time, three hundred years after the end of the Great War, the entire Transformer race had downsized to the point where they were only slightly taller than an average human.
Not all Transformers exclusively rely on energon, however, and some Transformers have developed various solutions to cheaply convert organic material into energy. The Generation 1 Insecticons were one such group, who could sustain themselves by eating both organic and inorganic matter. Transformers who upgraded themselves into Powermasters , meanwhile, could binary-bond with a specially-augmented biological partner, using this smaller lifeform's metabolism as a battery to fuel their systems in the absence of energon.
In some universes, such as Beast Wars: Uprising , the Maximals and Predacons have displayed the power to directly process food into energon by using their beast modes, though this is not a universally-established ability. Some Transformers have displayed the ability to physically unite with one or more Cybertronians to assume a single, unified shape. These unusual Transformers are known as " combiners ".
The exact nature of this combination depends on the individuals. Some Transformers, such as the Mini-Cons , are capable of undergoing a unique form of combination known as " powerlinking ", where the smaller partner is able to imbue their "bulk" partner with extra powers, and, in some cases, new weaponry. In rare cases, two Transformers may combine to form a single, shared vehicle mode, such as the Micromaster Combiners.
In other situations, teams of Transformers may unite to form weapons or tools, such as the Star Saber , the combined form of the Mini-Con Air Defense Team. Generally, though, the most famous and memorable combiners are those Transformers who unite into a single "super robot", an exponentially larger and more powerful being than any of its components.
This super robot, or "gestalt", may be made up of as few as two Transformers, or as many as six, but in most cases this combined form is, essentially, their own character, possessing a unique personality and consciousness that's more than just the sum total of their parts. The origins of combination, when explored, are not particularly clear; the earliest fictions treated it as a unique trait that only these Transformers could possess through nebulous means, but as the Transformers franchise evolved other continuities would introduce various supernatural artifacts—such as the Spark of Combination or the Enigma of Combination —which could instantaneously change any group of Cybertronians into a functional combiner.
Even the most peaceful Cybertronian is far from harmless; while the sheer bulk of their massive mechanical bodies poses an inadvertent threat to smaller life-forms, most, if not all, Transformers also have access to a devastating variety of weapons. The earliest Transformers stories faithfully depicted the various accessories packaged with indidividual toys as unique handheld weapons, with Bob Budiansky coming up with a wide variety of powers to set each gun apart from the next, such as Cliffjumper 's signature glass gas.
Other weapons, such as Prowl 's shoulder-mounted cannons, are directly incorporated into their physical form. Like humans, Transformers may display a proficiency with long-ranged artillery weapons, medium-ranged rifles and pistols, or melee weapons like axes and swords. Individual weapons display varying levels of sophistication: melee weapons may be made out of solid metal alloys or pure energy, while their guns may fire bullets, slugs, chemical compounds, or exotic laser bolts.
Where exactly Transformers store these weapons when not wielding them was something of a mystery for many years; some obscure media would later declare that the majority of Transformers have access to a " subspace storage pocket :" a miniature dimension capable of storing matter, and the place where weapons and other accessories eg.
Optimus Prime's trailer went when not in use. Later stories, most prominently the original film and its sequels, would drop this concept entirely. Rather, these stories depicted the various weapons of any given Transformer as "built-in" extensions of their natural bodies, depicting their weapons as physical transformations for their hand and forearm.
This treatment carried over into the Prime cartoon, though it would be dropped once again for its sequel. In other instances, Transformers may possess rare abilities that, while they may not have a directly offensive use, set the Transformer apart from their comrades.
Depending on the universe, these may be the result of natural upgrades to their bodies, or a sort of "genetic mutation" that distinguishes them from other Transformers—see Skywarp 's ability to teleport himself from place to place, or Windcharger 's power to generate magnetic fields. Cybertronians are a constantly-developing race, and after making contact with non-mechanical intelligences both Autobots and Decepticons have been known to harness the potential of organic life, as both weapons of war and to advance their own development as a species.
Though these upgrades are powerful, and frequently coveted by other Cybertronians, not all Cybertronians are convinced of the soundness of this so-called "evolutionary leap;" some Transformers view the prospect of carbon-based life as repulsive, and these technologies as revolting or downright heretical. The fusion between organic and mechanical takes many forms across the vast Transformers multiverse, running the gamut from simple binary-bonded partnerships—where a Transformer develops a symbiotic partnership with a smaller creature, to the point where they may telepathically merge into a single entity—to the advanced Pretender armor, concealing the mechanical shape of a Transformer beneath a specially-tailored "shell" that incorporates organic matter.
These so-called "Pretenders" possess enhanced regenerative abilities, with their shells even allowing them to pass as non-robotic humanoids. In those future universes where the Great War gives way to the Beast Era , the Maximals and Predacons will go on to develop advanced DNA scanners ; thanks to advancements in both Micromaster and Pretender technology, these future Cybertronians are able to copy genetic material and directly integrate organic components into their structures, allowing them to disguise themselves as organic life without the need for an external Pretender shell.
Even this arrangement can be enhanced: exposure to the energies of the Oracle can unite both forms of life at the cellular level to create the first " technorganic " Transformers, a form of life said to be neither organic nor technological. As a kid-friendly franchise first and foremost, most continuities have established that Transformers reproduce through decidedly asexual means; despite this, however, the Cybertronian species is usually depicted with a degree of sexual dimorphism , with clearly "male" and "female" robots coexisting, both in fiction and on toy shelves—though the male-to-female ratio has been historically skewed greatly in favor of the former.
In early Transformers installments and even some later stories! Changes in the real-world pop culture landscape, and an increased number of female writers in the Transformers franchise, have led to more recent works taking steps to depict female Cybertronians and their gender presentation as nothing particularly different from their male counterparts: just a natural aspect of the Cybertronian species.
As a kid's franchise, the topic of what Transformer gender really means in a society of asexual robots hasn't really been explored in most continuities, though some works, most notably IDW's older-skewing comics, have used their settings to tackle some deeper issues relating to gender and gender identity in Transformer society and the real world. The earliest female Transformers introduced to the mythos: Chromia , Moonracer , Firestar , Arcee , and so on, were generally depicted as curvier than the boxy "male" Transformers, looking more like attractive human women in armor than anything else.
Since then, however, female Transformers have been allowed to diversify in appearance and personality, giving us some less-stereotypical females like Beast Machines Strika and Robots in Disguise Strongarm , while new headline characters like Windblade have increased representation of female characters as a whole in the franchise. The vast majority of Transformers continuities have firmly established that the Transformers reproduce asexually, though the individual mechanisms of just how a new Transformer comes to life can vary even within the same fictional universe.
The creation of a new Transformer generally begins with the ignition of a spark —whether this spark comes from the living computer Vector Sigma , the AllSpark itself, or a sacred implement such as the Matrix of Leadership and its Primal Program depends on the story—and then infusing that spark into a suitable body.
In some instances, such as those Transformers brought to life directly by the AllSpark , this body can be a mundane Earth machine, its structure supernaturally altered to become the living metal that makes up all Transformers, but, for the most part, most continuities have established that new Transformers begin as a " protoform :" a humanoid mass of liquid metal that requires the infusion of a spark to become a full-fledged Transformer.
A protoform quickly develops into a new Transformer after accepting a spark; though the specifics are rarely elaborated upon, this process is generally understood to be very fast, occurring in a matter of days, hours, or even minutes, depending on the continuity.
In Transformer society at large, "protoform" is often used as a shorthand equivalency for childhood or infancy, and Transformers are frequently said to have been "forged" as a Cybertronian synonym for "born". In other circumstances, a Spark may bypass the protoform stage entirely, and is implanted into a pre-constructed Transformer body; after this infusion, the new Transformer simply springs to life.
Still other continuities have established that Transformers are capable of " budding ", a mitosis -like process in which a Transformer sacrifices some of its own essence to create a new protoform. The Transformers of the live-action movie series appear to be the exception to this rule; multiple Transformer characters have alluded to possessing fathers and mothers the implications of these statements have never been explored , while in this continuity new Transformers begin as feral " hatchlings ", who spend their early days nourishing themselves in egg sac-like "pods" of energon.
Certainly this seems to point towards the Transformers having some kind of familial relationships, though how exactly these tie into that universe's overarching mythology of the AllSpark and the " Creators " is something of a mystery. The heartless bastards. This was shown midway through the season and most of these new characters were new Autobot cars and mini-vehicles taken from the Diaclone and Micro Change line of Takara Toys. There would be a gap between the second and third season in order to put out Transformers: The Movie that came out on August 8, It takes place in the year , twenty years after the events of season 2.
The movie did a few things; it leads to the death of certain characters in order to clear away all the discontinued products from and and it introduced a new cast of characters for the toy release. Besides the death and violence, it even had some cursing and would lead to the death of Optimus Prime. Not only that they kill him off like 23 minutes into the damn movie.
The makers of the movie had no idea the impact they would have on a generation of kids as they were just trying to get some new toys out for Christmas. The basic premise is that the Decepticons have conquered Cybertron while the Autobots hold up on nearby moons. The Decepticons travel to earth and attack Autobot City killing even more.
Optimus returns with the Dinobots and he and Megatron have it out leading to the death of Optimus Prime. Starscream disposes of the wounded Megatron in space while the planet-sized Unicron voiced by Orson Welles in his last role rolls through the galaxy.
Unicron can eat other planets and offers Megatron a new body if he destroys the matrix which has the ability to destroy Unicron. And he kills Starscream. The power of the matrix then destroys Unicron. Honestly, this movie is pretty good. I bought it on Blu -ray and the animation is pretty elite. I never saw it till later on as a kid and had no idea I was watching a minute commercial.
And in their last roles not only Orson Welles but Scatman Crothers. Apparently, Orson Welles had no idea what the hell he was even making. Or not but we can finish this up together. In the coming years, they would release season 3 which picks up where the movie left off. The Autobots are now in control of Cybertron and Galvatron still leads the Decepticons.
It also features the return of Starscream. This series is a little more creative with interconnectiong storylines and arcs that connect a lot of the shows.
There would be a season 4 in November and this would bring the series to a close. The toys have always been going pretty strong. Not long after the movie, a few new lines were brought out such as the Headmasters and Targetmasters. There was also the Pretenders and Powermasters which featured a new version of Optimus Prime. Thanks, bastards….
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