Bumblebee: But we're repair 'bots! We're not programmed for this kind of action! Optimus Prime: Debuting in December 2007 with a three-episode-long 'pilot movie', Animated, despite being an, was created to ride the popularity of the 2007 film and, as a result, borrows several aspects of the film. Despite severe fan reactions to the character designs and animation style, the show's story and scripting (and a healthy respect to the saga as a whole) have won over many converts in short order. A group of maintenance Autobots (,,, and ) discover the coveted Transformer artifact called 'The ' and, in escaping pursuit from the Decepticons, land on Earth in Detroit. Waking up in, they befriend Sari Sumdac, 7-year-old daughter of Professor Isaac Sumdac, and work to maintain friendly relations with the public. However, the Decepticons aren't far behind.

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One of the things that separate this show from its predecessors is the animation style, which is fluid, simplistic and very organic-looking. While some are still unhappy with the look, the simple style makes animation easier and gave some really stylistic action scenes; you can become accustomed to it surprisingly quickly. Another distinction is the way the Decepticons are used. They are big and powerful enemies, and the protagonists are maintenance workers (In fact, most of their weapons are re-purposed tools); even one 'Con requires the entire small Autobot team to work together just to contain him. Most of the time, is planning some sort of to avoid detection while still furthering his plans. He is dangerous, but the Decepticons as a whole are a scattered group; Megatron doesn't want to deal with the entire Autobot Elite Guard before he's ready.

Additionally, the Decepticons mostly consider themselves freedom fighters against a corrupt and unfair caste system with the Autobots firmly at the top; while predjudice has its part in Cybertronian society, the truth is they are more like the IRA. To maintain the Decepticons as serious enemies, humans comprise the bulk of the Autobots' enemies for the first two seasons. Some are joke villains who are only petty thieves, but others are legitimate threats to the Autobots. Other unique features of the show are that the Transformers are very well-known among the community, and there is a noticeable lack of. The humans are unhappy with the collateral damage, and the Autobots maintain their good graces by repairing the city. (After all, they are construction workers.) The show lasted three seasons and although somewhat cut short on production plans (they were hoping for a fourth season) the last episode was written to serve as a respectable, concluding the overall. Hasbro partnered with Discovery Communications to launch the Hub, the home of the next Transformers series,.

However, the series got a brief revival/continuation via the Official Fanclub and its imprint, with an exclusive toyset designed by the series' art director and a comic penned by the series' main writer, and said writer has expressed a desire to continue Season 4 via comics if any publisher is willing. In addition, the Hub itself aired reruns of the series prior to its rebranding as. This Show Provides Examples of: •: The Decepticons set up a hidden base in one.

It also features prominently in the episode 'Nature Calls'. •: Detroit has quite a few of these due to robots replacing human workers. • And being, well, Detroit. They reference the auto industry, with some easy extrapolations to the demise thereof, in the first episode. • The main Autobots lives in one.

Not that it bothers them. •: Afterburn, in the Titan Magazine adaptation. In two consecutive issues, he leaves Optimus and Bumblebee holding the, respectively. Turns out he is a, whom Megatron •: Strangely subverted with the American opening. Played straight with the Japanese opening. •: • Waspinator. In he was pretty much the biggest in the history of Transformers.

In this series, as Wasp he was one of the Autobot Academy's most promising candidates (despite being an overall ), before spending years in imprisonment drove him paranoid and crazy. When Blackarachnia transformed him into Waspinator, he reached levels of sinister. In the original G1 cartoon, nobody feared Megatron. Rather, they just considered him to be the bad guy. He is also the subject of goofy outward monologues that only make his followers quake in fear. This show depicts Megatron as a discount Dracula/Vlad the Impaler; a one man army, feared by everyone who knows who he is, and rarely any of his enemies walk away.

• Starscream, of sorts. In G1, anyone could pick a fight with Starscream, and they very rarely lost. He is a transparent strategist with poor fighting skills, and his silver tongue is his only positive. In this version, Starscream rarely shows signs of cunning, and only uses his brute strength to defeat his enemies.

In the first episode, it takes at least five Autobots to defend Detroit against his constant attacks, and at a later point, he incapacitates Ultra Magnus. Starscream is half of what Megatron is regardless, but if it takes half of a race just to arrest him, Starscream has earned his right to be his second-in-command. •: showed a character named Primal Major, whose backstory makes it clear that he's meant to be this continuity's, but with the name changed. •: Animated Waspinator is much scarier and more villainous than the Waspinator in Beast Wars, who spent a lot of his time being blasted to bits by other robots. •: The rank of Prime. In most continuities it designates the Supreme Commander of the Autobots.

Here it's a military rank that's held by at least three major characters and is second to Ultra Magnus, Magnus being the rank the denotes the big kahuna this time around. •: Cosmos is one of the smartest characters spoken about in the, and yet he is one of the most adorable characters in the entire roster. • •: Most of the Autobots have their moments of being likable nebbishs, such as Bulkhead, Blurr, and Wreck-Gar. •: Happens frequently. Bumblebee and Sentinel Prime in particular are poster boys for this trope. •: Megatron is very polite and well-spoken for being the fearsome leader of the Decepticons.

•: Megatron developed Soundwave to evolve with uses of Sari's key into a new body, but Soundwave unexpectedly became sentient unto himself (though still useful to Megatron's plans). And then there's stuff like Professor Sumdac's malfunctioning police robots, and the nanobots in the pilot, and. • One must wonder how Sumdac stays in business if 3/4 of his machines go haywire.

On the other hand, owning the patents on the fundamental building blocks of the robot technology that forms the backbone of modern society probably helps. • Subverted somewhat with Wreck-Gar, who is pretty much a very impressionable child with ADD.

•; Used by Optimus, complete with to. •: Briefly by Optimus in 'Where Is Thy Sting.' •: Bulkhead winds up with a museum show in one episode, although his 'masterpiece' was an accident. Amazing Spider Man Theme Music Download. •: Megatron's head and hand land in Paw Paw, Michigan, though they end up in Detroit. •: Every Cybertronian in the series speaks English, even in scenes taking place before they first encountered humanity. •: Quite literally: Sari (half-alien herself) and Bumblebee use the Key to pirate Master Disaster's illegal street races.

•: Eventually taken to near absurd lengths with the main crew. Despite being a lowly maintenance crew, they have A cadet who was on track for the Elite Guard, a vet from the Great War who is bonded to the Autobot's greatest weapon (which happens to be their ship), the most skilled spacebridge engineer in the Autobot ranks, and one of the most skilled Cyberninjas around). Really, everyone but Bumblebee is considered near top of their field, and this is before they •: Blackarachnia and Optimus Prime.

However, most of the time she does it, she's trying to. •: • The Starscream clones are only ever referred to by their personalities (or gender), but their toys are named after the Seekers: Coward Starscream = 'Skywarp,' Sycophant Starscream = 'Sunstorm,' Egomaniac Starscream = 'Thundercracker'. This is because if they gave them proper names in the credits, they would have had to pay Tom Kenny for four more characters.

And while he didn't get a toy until long after these three, the Liar Starscream's name was given as 'Ramjet' in the Allspark Almanac. • A lot of information about the Animated universe not established in the show is given in the Allspark Almanac books. • The first installment of The Allspark Almanac reveals intense amounts of detail (and about the show, the setting and the characters). • The Allspark Almanac II contains lots of hints of what happened after the series, more detail about life on Cybertron (including how protoforms are developed), and more behind-the-scenes information about the show itself. • The Complete Allspark Almanac contains all the information of the previous two books (with some minor revisions) as well as The Allspark Addendum and approximately ten pages of new content. • The six-issue miniseries 'The Arrival' shows events that happened between or during certain episodes of the show. The events of the first issue take place concurrently with the events of the three-part premiere episode 'Transform and Roll Out', while the events of issues 2-5 take place sometime between the episodes 'Total Meltdown' and 'The Thrill of the Hunt', with the sixth and final issue explaining the backstory of Jetfire and Jetstorm.

•: The Dinobots and the main team of Autobots have a relationship that is adversarial at best. •: The Japanese version used a different / theme than the American version. •: Implied by Meltdown, whose mutant bat monster used to be his lawyer. On a similar note, the shark monster was his stockbroker. •: Sari's Allspark Key for the first two seasons.

•: Most episodes have one of the Autobots learning an important lesson, such as Bumblebee learning the importance of stillness and stealth in 'Home is Where the Spark Is'. •: 'Human Error' takes place during Christmas and has the Autobots get in an epic battle with Soundwave. •: • Swindle's fate at the end of S.U.V.

— to be cut into pieces and sold off. ('Five Servos of Doom' reveals that Swindle is, and he gets freed in 'Decepticon Air'.) • Blurr ended up crushed into a cube while still active. He doesn't recover from this until the events of the script reading The Return of Blurr. •: In 'Survival of the Fittest', Prowl and Captain Fanzone fight Meltdown's mutated minions while trying to save Sari from his experiments. Fanzone throws one particularly impressive punch with a yell of 'And that's for Sari!' •: Grimlock, complete with thorn in his foot for those who might miss the connection.

•: The Dinobots, as usual. Soundwave's pets combine this with, and then there's Steeljaw and Zaur on Cybertron. Blackarachnia and Waspinator fall into the 'actually-part-organic' category. •: From the same folk who worked on, and. And of course, the overseas, and note as well as (who went uncredited) are Japanese-based animation houses. •: The human villains Nanosec and Headmaster both make their debuts in the respective episodes 'Nanosec' and 'Headmaster'.

•: Starts in the beginning of the third season with Blurr, and never looks back. •: Ratchet's two old friends from the Great War — Arcee and Omega Supreme — are revealed to be closely connected, plotwise, in the third season.

•: Mixmaster cannot defeat He is not worthy! He is inferior! And his stinks! •: While he's got less appearances than in the original series, Shockwave manages to do much more notable things in this series. •: • The portrayal of the Autobot Elite Guard as arrogant and corrupt, and the Decepticons as fighting for their freedom (though. • The 'Punch of Kill Everything' made it into the canon comics (though sadly not the show itself), and shows up in to boot (as both a Leader-class killstreak reward and a Soldier-class melee upgrade). •: Rock Lords (or at least the animalistic space-born ones) can form smaller versions of themselves if shattered.

Black Angus Rotisserie Manual Meat here. •: 'Omega Formation' is used against Blitzwing in 'Sari, No-One's Home'. It doesn't end well. •: Done absolutely literally in 'Human Error'. And it was •: Wreck-Gar's, which was inspired. •: The maintenance Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, chose regular everyday vehicles as a means to disguise themselves in the city. What does Sentinel Prime choose as alternate modes to avoid getting noticed?

A massive combat-grade missile truck for Ultra Magnus, and a snow plow (in summer) for himself! Bumblebee: No one's gonna notice that! • What's clever is that when Sentinel first came to Earth, there was a snow-storm, he didn't stand out and his alt mode was very useful. But when he comes back the next time, it's a blistering summer. He's just far too stubborn to scan something more suitable. •: With bonus: Megatron and Optimus Prime.

'Well, you're the last bot I'd expect to come to my rescue.' When Optimus says he isn't, Megatron then grabs Optimus and uses him as a shield. •: Ratchet is the oldest of the main Autobots and still good at kicking skidplate. •: Captain Fanzone is a very capable ally to the Autobots even though he's just a human. Survival of the Fittest should be simple enough.

•: Swindle's 'personal storage dimension' and Wreck-Gar's backpack, which contains (quite literally) everything and the kitchen sink. The former has a justification, the latter runs on. •: And one sister •: The most literal version is Prowl and Fanzone in 'Survival of the Fittest,' but the trope is frequently used as, on the whole, one Decepticon is more dangerous than three Autobots. •: Starscream comes close to betraying Megatron and usurping his position as Decepticon leader several times (most notably in the pilot). •: Optimus manages to pull one off in 'Decepticon Air,' in a near-perfect to.

•: Lugnut's near-religious fanatical devotion to Megatron. •: Bulkhead's Halloween costume in 'Along Came a Spider'. Because of how big he is, he has to use a fumigation tent. •: Starscream, true to type, likes to plan out monologues and speeches.

Don't interrupt him when he gives them, 'kay? • 'You interrupted my SPEEEEECH!!' •: In Autoboot Camp, at Boot Camp, Longarm was one of two 'bots that treated Bumblebee with any degree of decency. Then we find out his true identity by the end of the episode. •: Huge guns are the weapons owned by Megatron, Swindle, and Shockwave. •: As usual, Megatron serves as the main villain of the series. •: While Megatron was the overall Big Bad of the series, the writers wanted to minimize his appearance to further emphasize the threat he posed.

In addition to Megatron and the Decepticons loyal to him, we had rogue Decepticons like Starscream, Lockdown, Blackarachnia and Swindle, or semi-affiliated ones like Soundwave, running around causing problems, and various human enemies. Among the humans, and were chief among the Autobots human antagonists. •: All of the Autobots are protective towards Sari.

•: Ultra Magnus is the highest Autobot authority and is actually honest and compassionate unlike Sentinel Prime. •: • Done by Sari when she is informed that the Autobots have decided to leave Earth in 'Lost and Found'. • Bulkhead screams 'No' when he wakes up and finds his body stolen in 'Headmaster'.

• Ratchet does it in the second season finale in response to Omega Supreme sacrificing himself to destroy Megatron's space bridge. •: The aim of Prometheus Black's company, Biotech Unbound, before things. •: Sumdac Tower is shaped like a giant spark plug, and thus is narrower at the bottom than it is near the top. •: This series is less than its predecessors. The Decepticons are more a cross between terrorists and freedom fighters - while civilian Autobots are normal, Cybertron's rather militaristic government is run by Autobots, for Autobots, and shows signs of corruption and extreme predjudice. •: Played with in the first season finale. Megatron mentions how appropriate it is to have Starscream with him as he takes his revenge on the one responsible for his 50 years as a head.

He then aims at Optimus, only to turn around and slag Starscream, who actually was responsible for it but didn't think Megatron knew. •: Jetstorm and vehicle-mode Safeguard. Optimus whips up a tornado with the Magnus Hammer. •: In a, Bumblebee and Bulkhead go through basic training. •: Captain Fanzone, no doubt. The man ( somehow) has a rotary dial cell phone, of a size that marks it as outdated by today's standards, among other things. • Fanzone's when getting befuddled by anything more complex than that?

'This is why I hate machines.' ' •: Lockdown's main business is to hunt down Autobots for the Decepticons. •: Optimus looks to be in dire need of some after Sari explains where little organics come from in the series premiere. •: Sari in Season 2. First her dad goes missing, then her dad's company gets taken out of her control by who reveals with the subtlety of a brick that she doesn't exist in any form of legal documentation. If it weren't for the Autobots helping her cope over all of this, Sari could very easily have upon the instead of.

•: Sentinel's ordeal in Return of the Headmaster. It doesn't stick. •: 'Sound and Fury' begins with Bulkhead and Sari doing a fist bump, which somehow hurts Bulkhead's hand even though he's made of metal. Later in the episode, they do another fist bump, which hurts Sari's hand this time. •: The Autobots gladly welcome whatever odds are against them. •: Optimus Prime, of all people.

He's still haunted by his failure to save Elita-1. •: Oddly, two of the smartest (in terms of technology) cast members: see. •: If you get annoyed at Sentinel Prime, just wait five minutes and something nasty will happen to him.

Usually it's related to Earth's weather/inhabitants/road structure, but he's also, been humiliated in front of his comrades, screamed like a little girl when encountering organics, failed at driving in the rain, and been wrong in pretty much every arrogant assertion he's made. • From season 2 onward, Starscream also becomes a Butt Monkey in this series. It starts with the infamous with Megatron killing him over and over again (with the allspark fragment on his head being the only thing keeping him alive). All of his plans always fail and in the finale in which may be his Crowning Moment of Butt Monkery, his clones (with one heavily implied to represent his self-loathing) betray him for Megatron. He spends the majority of season three as a disembodied head trapped with Megatron aboard Omega Supreme, and just when he fnally gets a new body, And in the finale, The allspark fragment that was keeping him alive is pulled out, thus killing him (although he would have been revived by Slipstream in a scene that was cut for time). And if you count the comic adaptation, he gets humiliated and blackmailed by Professor Princess. One can't help but feel a bit sorry for him.

• Tutor Bot, as well. He's every bit as flamboyant as his G1 counterpart, but has the hots for Botanica according to the AllSpark Almanac books. •: Inverted by Ramjet, the Liar Starscream, who literally always says the opposite of the truth, -style. •: • Oil Slick was never intended to be in the show (in fact, he was originally just a sketch someone made in their free time), and was kept to the toyline and the comics. He's since been introduced in the cartoon in a brief but memorable scene.

Roughly the same deal with Soundwave's guitar creatures. • Inverted with Prowl's samurai armor sidecar; it was created for the show but Hasbro liked the design so much they made a toy version, and Prowl eventually got the armor permanently. • Played more straight with Lugnut, Lockdown, and Slipstream.

Slipstream's a character in (albeit for multiplayer only); Lockdown got for the toyline, then was repurposed and used as the basis for a; and appeared in two G1-based comics, took place during (and, as the TFWiki points out, probably freaked out when Starscream threw Megatron out of Astrotrain). • The various versions of The AllSpark Almanac added characters from other versions of the franchise, including later installments, as seen with. The Complete AllSpark Almanac has added, The incarnation of Strongarm, and even. The Complete AllSpark Almanac is also one of the many pieces of Transformers fiction that incorporated the (the source universe of said versions of Knock Out and RiD!Strongarm) into the larger Transformers multiverse. •: Lockdown's space poncho and Alpha Trion's traditional cape. Red Alert's design makes her look like she's wearing a labcoat, but at least that's clearly a part of her alt mode.

•: The Autobots (Optimus' team, that is). They're far more superhero-esque than they usually are, and seeing as their protectorate is Detroit, former automobile capital of the world and (in the series) current robot manufacturing capital of the world, they seem to fit this trope quite nicely. •: • Played straight and averted. The first time Meltdown escapes, he apparently does so without the Detroit Police. The second time, however, he's stuck in a specially-designed cell not even he can melt through and it takes the Dinobots (following Blackarachnia's orders) to get him out. The lower-grade supervillains like the Angry Archer seem to have an easier time of it: Fanzone even in the Almanac.

• The Decepticons seem to escape with frightening frequency on the ELITE GUARD ship •: Bulkhead tries to warn Sari about Soundwave, but she's just not listening. •: The human characters have surprisingly diverse appearances, as do many of the Autobots and Decepticons. •: Captain Fanzone, ' This is why I hate machines' ().

• How could one not mention 'Transform and Roll Out'? Or the even cooler evil variant, 'Transform and Rise Up'? •: Sentinel receives one in 'Return of the Headmaster' when a cat spooks him during the investigation of a Decepticon report fabricated by Henry Masterson. •: Starscream, especially in the first season finale: 'You interrupted MY SPEEEEEEEEEEECH!'

•: 'Human Error' takes place during Christmas. •: Captain Fanzone's car always gets trashed. •: Wreck-Gar and Random Blitzwing. To quote the latter after being sent flying in 'A Bridge Too Close'. Let's all dance around the maypole! •: Lugnut and Shockwave. When they finally meet, it takes them about ten minutes to start fighting over which of them is the most loyal to Megatron.

• Thanks partly to Starscream manipulating the (rather dense) Lugnut.and because Megatron wanted Lugnut to be at his most loyal. •: The Autobots are bright, primary colors (sans Bulkhead and Prowl) while the Decepticons are muted or secondary colors like gray, purple and green. Dead Cybertronians become a distinct darkish grey, in homage to G1 Optimus Prime's death in.

•:, a comic-only human supervillain, uses experimental Sumdac weapons in her heels (she's also a kickboxer). Blackarachnia, for some reason, only gained high-heels after becoming part-organic. Sari sort-of lampshades this in Bee in the City by asking who designs a robot with high heels: Flareup doesn't know either, but when she finds him. •: Three: One is simply a somewhat-fail-y one is an original series of stories published by Titan Magazines and only available in the U.K.

(There's also one Animated story in the main Transformers Comic written by Simon Furman), and one is a (most definitely ) series called, written by the show's head writer, Marty Isenberg, which both tells new stories and. •: • Any Transformer becomes this against their will when the Headmaster gets his hands on them. • Also, in the comics and Season 3, Jetfire and Jetstorm, who merge -style into Safeguard. •: • The show's version of Blackarachnia is a composite of Blackarachnia from and and 's Elita One. Not to mention her design features certain elements of all of her appearances throughout Beast Wars/Beast Machines. • Megatron is a combination of, his ' ◊' appearance from the Japanese 'Return of Convoy', and his larger and more vicious in design, but with a little dash of.

A long time ago, far away on the planet of Cybertron, a war is being waged between the noble Autobots (led by the wise Optimus Prime) and the devious Decepticons (commanded by the dreaded Megatron) for control over the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possesses it. The Autobots managed to smuggle the Allspark off the planet, but Megatron blasts off in search of it. He eventually tracks it to the planet of Earth (circa 1850), but his reckless desire for power sends him right into the Arctic Ocean, and the sheer cold forces him into a paralyzed state.

His body is later found by Captain Archibald Witwicky, but before going into a comatose state Megatron uses the last of his energy to engrave into the Captain's glasses a map showing the location of the Allspark, and to send a transmission to Cybertron. Megatron is then carried away aboard the Captain's ship. A century later, Captain Witwicky's grandson Sam Witwicky (nicknamed Spike by his friends). Quotes [ first lines]: Before time began, there was the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That is how our race was born. For a time, we lived in harmony.

But like all great power, some wanted it for good, others for evil. And so began the war. A war that ravaged our planet until it was consumed by death, and the Cube was lost to the far reaches of space. We scattered across the galaxy, hoping to find it and rebuild our home.

For those of you who are not fans of Michael Bay: for starters, do not watch this movie. It's really as simple as that. But, I've read some of the negative comments on this film, and it baffles me to read that all this film consists of is hot girls, hot action, and not the greatest acting. Come on, guys.

This is a Michael Bay film, and let me emphasize the words MICHAEL BAY. When I think about him, I think about entertainment, and entertainment only, because that is what his films are about. With films like this, I don't go in expecting some great story, with amazing dialogue. This movie is not academy award worthy, nor should it be. This is an action film, that's what it's meant to be, and when it comes to action films, Bay knows how to deliver. Again, the storyline could be better, and Megan Fox could use some acting lessons, but like I said, when you watch these movies, you should watch them for entertainment.

So, if you know what this film delivers, and you don't like Michael Bay, then by all means, skip this movie. But, if you do end up watching this movie, and say that it's nothing but a bunch of clanging metal and hot girls, well then, welcome to the world of Michael Bay.

I saw it in theatres back in 2007, I went with an open mind, and I enjoyed it.