The Transformers

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In Brief

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The movie.

Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons.

Detailed Information

The first entry in the Transformers franchise and by far the most famous. It is no surprise that the G1 cartoon (originally created to advertise some toys Hasbro acquired from the Japanese toy company Takara) is the version of Transformers that is most often used in poop. Though the G1 universe is much broader and has continued to the present day in some form, includes other series such as the comics, some Japanese-only anime, and the Beast era, this article will mainly discuss the original American cartoon.

It revolves around these robots in disguise, see? And they turn into stuff like dinosaurs and vehicles. Cool, right? Definitely more than meets the eye. They came from the planet Cybertron but due to a fuel shortage had to make a trip only for the Autobots to be ambushed by their enemies, the Decepticons, crash-landing on Earth four million years later and deciding, "Eh, why not. Let's stay here!" and continuing their war on Earth.

That's the basic plot of the first two seasons. Then there's the movie, infamous for killing off a bunch of characters while introducing new ones (despite this, it is universally beloved by the fanbase), the third season, in which we get strange adventures in outer space with a new cast of toys to sell characters, and the fourth season (which is really three episodes) is pretty much a big advertisement for the 1987 assortment.

Yep.

Media Information

• Type of Source: Cartoon, comics, toyline
• Creators: Hasbro, Takara (toys), Sunbow (cartoon), Marvel, Dreamwave, IDW (comics)
• Dates: 1984-1987 (cartoon), 1984-1992 (line in general)
• Country of Origin: USA (concepts), Japan (toys, animation), Korea (animation), Philippines (animation)

Characters

Autobots

• Optimus Prime/Orion Pax - The heroic Autobot leader and by far the most famous character.
• Bumblebee/Goldbug - Kid-appeal character. Rebuilt into Goldbug near the end of the series.
• Jazz - Cool guy.
• Dinobots - A group of rowdy, none-too-bright Autobots. Members are the arrogant Grimlock, hostile Slag, stupid Sludge, quiet Snarl, and friendly Swoop.
• Ironhide - Tough old guy.
• Ratchet - Snarky, fun-loving medic.
• Prowl - Logical bot of few words.
• Wheeljack - Mad scientist who invents stuff.
• Cliffjumper - Has a Napoleon complex. Voiced by Casey Kasem.
• Brawn - Macho man who does his shopping at Victoria's Secret.
• Sideswipe - Loves a good fight.
• Sunstreaker - Sideswipe's gay brother.
• Jetfire - Starscream's former colleague; known as "Skyfire" in the cartoon.
• Perceptor - Genius who becomes a microscope. BOOOORING.
• Blaster - Loves Earth culture, music in particular.
• Powerglide - An egotistical, sexist plane.
• Aerialbots - THE AERIALBOTS ARE TAKING THEIR SHOTS / SILVERBOLT'S BLASTIN' COMBATICONS! THEY CAN ALL BE CHANGED, BE REARRANGED / TO FORM THE SUPER ROBOT, SUPERION!
• Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime - Brash kid promoted to leader.
• Arcee - Pink girl.
• Ultra Magnus - Second-in-command.
• Blurr - Blurr-is-the-Autobot-who-talks-really-fast-and-because-he-talks-so-fast-it-is-often-hard-to-understand-him-and-in-order-to-sound-incomprehensible-Blurr-who-talks-fast-repeats-a-lot-of-the-fast-stuff-he-says-and-it's-really-annoying.
• Springer - One of the Autobot Triple Changers. Chivalrous, changes to a car and helicopter.
• Wreck-Gar - An Autobot from the planet Junk. He talks TV, good show my mate. Batteries not included.
• Kup - "When I was your age, sonny..."
• Wheelie - Wheelie's the one who everyone hates. It's because he rhymes to his mates.
• Alpha Trion - Mystical Autobot elder, and Prime's father.

Decepticons

• Megatron/Galvatron - The villain of the piece and Decepticon leader.
• Starscream - Hates Megatron's guts and wants to usurp him.
• Soundwave - Megatron's mysterious spy. Turns into a cassette player even in 2005.
• Shockwave - Cybertron's guardian.
• Seekers - Recolours of Starscream, who is himself a Seeker, albeit the only one with an actual personality. The Seekers include Thundercracker, Skywarp, Dirge, Ramjet, and Thrust.
• Mini-Cassettes - Soundwave's minions. The Mini-Cassettes are Frenzy, Rumble, Ravage, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Ratbat, Overkill, and Slugfest.
• Triple Changers - The Decepticon Triple Changers are Astrotrain, Blitzwing, and Octane.
• Insecticons - Kickback, Bombshell, and Shrapnel, Shrapnel. A Decepticon subgroup; they transform into insects, insects.
• Constructicons - Scrapper, Bonecrusher, Hook, Mixmaster, Long Haul, and Scavenger merge into the colossal Devastator.
• Combaticons - THE COMBATICONS ARE WARRING! ONSLAUGHT IS ROARING! HE IS ONE METAMORPHIN' DUDICUS! THEY ALL COMBINE AND KICK SUPERION'S BEHIND / AS THE BIG BAD BATTLING BRUTICUS!
• Scourge - Built by Unicron from Thundercracker's corpse.
• Cyclonus - Galvatron's second-in-command.
• Trypticon - A city that turns into a dinosaur. It doesn't get more '80s awesome than this.
• Scorponok - One of the Headmasters. Scorponok is a city that changes into a robot and a scorpion. In the Marvel comic, he became Decepticon leader.

Aliens

• Quintessons - Five-faced squids that created the Transformers.
• Sharkticons - Plump, none-too-bright shark robots.
• Junkions - Transforming robots made of garbage. They talk TV.
• Lithonians - An extinct race of Transformers that got eaten by...
• Unicron - The Transformers' equivalent of Satan. He (you guessed it!) transforms... into a planet!

Humans

• Spike Witwicky - Token human. He laughs, he learns, he loves.
• Carly - Spike's girlfriend.
• Daniel Witwicky - Spike and Carly's offspring. Daniel's an annoying kid who hangs out with Wheelie all the time.
• Sparkplug Witwicky - Spike's dad. He's a mechanic; he knows what he's doing.
• Chip Chase - Spike's best friend. He's in a wheelchair.
• Marissa Faireborn - Member of the Earth Defense Command. Her father is Flint from G.I. Joe.

TOO. MANY. OTHERS.

Episodes

There are 98 episodes of the original show, plus a movie:

• Season 1 has 16 episodes
• Season 2 has 49 episodes
• Season 3 has 30 episodes
• Season 4 consists solely of a three-part episode.

"Season 5" also exists, but it's just reruns of old episodes bookended by clips of Powermaster Optimus Prime (the greatest leader of his time!) telling stories to some kid named Tommy Kennedy. And it's really, really hard to find.

Usage

The G1 cartoon is by far the version of Transformers most frequently seen in poop. Other sources from the G1 franchise have been used as well.

Often Used By

• rakninja
• guysafari
• Sobmic

Sometimes Used By

• NinjaCoachZ
• Maxinsc

Further information

• Some fans are obsessed with G1 to the point of outright rejecting anything else. They're known as "GEEWUN" fans.
• In Japan, the Robots in Disguise show is part of G1. However, the English version of Robots in Disguise is its own universe! Crazy, huh?
• The show is actually called "The Transformers", but nobody remembers "the".
• The G1 versions of Optimus Prime and Megatron appeared in the GameCube fighting game DreamMix TV: World Fighters, which also included Solid Snake, Simon Belmont and Bomberman (among others) in its playable roster.
• Vince DiCola, who composed the score for The Transformers: The Movie, also worked on the score for Rocky IV. In fact, the song used for representing Unicron was also used for representing Ivan Drago, who was Rocky's enemy at the time.
• Was once parodied by Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. The result was a huge wankfest for Transformer nerds everywhere, who declared the show "the greatest anime ever".

Main Source for Poopers

• ZIP files containing a number of G1 toy commercials
• Various G1 episodes

Oh, right, and there's YouTube too.

External Links

• More information on G1 as a whole, from the TFwiki.