You may notice the different faction sigil on Soundblaster’s chest. And just as it was detailed in her original series debut, she stays behind to keep fighting on Cybertron at the end of Siege. They are typically concerned with such things as conquering Cybertron, defeating the Autobots, amassing large quantities of energon, obtain the powers of the AllSpark, developing powerful weaponry, and beating people up. Leader of the Decepticons, who rose up against the corrupt government of Cybertron. This alphabet has been seen on countless bits of merchandise since, including Siege toy packaging. Known as the Decepticons, they follow Megatron, their powerful and ruthless leader. Optimus successfully throw the AllSpark into the Space Bridge. Has been around since the '80. Yet Barricade never showed up in any Transformers media — until now. Blaster and Soundwave jumped up into the air and simultaneously punched each other in each other’s chests, and then they exploded, which is not exactly the most dignified way to go, but it happened. Maybe the next chapter, EarthRise, features a nonzero amount of Energon cubes in mud?). Years later, they’d be given names: Sunstorm, Hotlink, Bitstream, and Nacelle, respectively. Impactor was paired with Mirage against two other pairs, and they won the poll. Tempted as I am to match these unnamed guys up with the original cartoon pilot’s Welcoming Committee to satisfy George Lucas’ maxim, “it’s like poetry, it rhymes,” the pattern of colors better correlates with another trio of Seekers: The ones from a Target exclusive three-pack of War for Cybertron - Siege toys, which include the yellow Nova Storm, the blue Ion Storm, and the green Acid Storm. He also has a toy in Walmart’s exclusive toyline based on the Netflix series, and we see his distinctive purple-and-more-purple coloration in episode 2 and beyond. The Transformers are engaged in total civil war with one another. He, along with Ultra Magnus, studied under the late Alpha Trion. By the end of season 1, most of the Autobots have left Cybertron, leaving only Elita-1 and her group to keep up the fight against the Decepticon dominion. That Impactor, before he was a Wrecker, was a friend of Megatron before the war. Animated series set in the world of battling Autobots and Decepticons. Indeed, Spinister is a bisexual icon. That changes when he is chosen to be the keeper of Alpha Trion's secret protocols. Megatron seems reluctant to torture Magnus to get the information he needs, turning away while Shockwave is electrocuting him. We could call him “Grand Cog” to match Grand Maximus, if we like. Two portable versions were released for the Nintendo DS, one featuring an Autobot campaign, the other a Decepticon campaign. She gets swarmed and dismembered by the Sparkless. An unaligned Energon scavenger who works for whoever pays. As Optimus and the other Autobots get inside the Ark, Elita chooses to remain on Cybertron and lead the resistance against the Decepticons. He is mortally wounded while shielding Ratchet from Starscream. It may be that most of the audience is playing Transformers: War for Cybertron on X-Box 360, and may not share networks with the PC version. So far in the Transformers: War for Cybertron – Siege Netflix series, Optimus hasn’t yet exhibited the ability to use his truck trailer or Energon axe.. Optimus Prime’s voice actor in the majority of Transformers incarnations is the iconic Peter Cullen, who has been the voice behind Prime since the original series’ inception in 1984. While in robot form characters can also collect different weapons, reminiscent of those found in first-person sho… Most of them aren’t anybody. Peppered throughout the series is Cybertronian language. Megatron later kills Magnus himself once he finds out he was lied to. The original 1984 cartoon pilot gave us a murderous rainbow of even more Seekers. Games Movies TV Video. This cartoon had to make Cybertron feel populated while having limited character models, and so we see dozens of Sideswipes and Hounds and Ironhides in other hues as either crowd filler or corpses. Skytread is better known as Flywheels, but “Flywheels” isn’t a name Hasbro could secure the trademark for. The Siege subline launched in 2018, followed by Earthrise in … F. J. DeSanto would return as showrunner while George Krstic, Gavin Hignight and Brandon M. Eastonjoined as writers. Get to it! Optimus' brother-in-arms who also studied under Alpha Trion. Hotlink, the purple one, definitely shows up consistently later in Siege. Don’t expect to find out many tasty secrets, though! Now in black instead of blue, Soundblaster has been a popular redeco of Soundwave since. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is the spiritual successor to 2010's "War for Cybertron", and depicts the climax of the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, culminating in the destruction of the Transformer homeworld of Cybertron. There were 28 characters in the original 1984 Transformers lineup, and 11 of them were differently hued twins of another toy. Barricade’s look here is inspired by a piece of art by Transformers artist Guido Guidi, who years ago drew a “G1-ized” Barricade using G1 Smokescreen’s look. A failed clone of Soundwave who went on to become a criminal. Nope! Check out an entire wiki for Transformers: War for Cybertron: Earthrise over at Transformers: War for Cybertron: Earthrise Wiki.Find a dedicated community, comprehensive plot summaries, and more! The first way is to wait for it to recharge, which can either take quite a while (like with Ammo Beacon or be rather quick (like with Dash ). He also equates Bumblebee's (initial) refusal to pick a side to cowardice, which disgusts Megatron. Transformers: War for Cybertron is a third-person shooter video game developed by High Moon Studios and published by Activision.It was released in North America on June 22, 2010 and in PAL regions on June 25, 2010 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. Impactor is in this cartoon solely because he was voted for! Megatron seems affable with Shamble and is initially reluctant to divert Sector 12's power to Project Nemesis. DISCOVER KINGDOM: Worlds collide when the Maximals and Predacons join the fight, coming together with the Autobots and Decepticons in an epic battle that will alter their destiny forever 3.5-INCH CORE CLASS SCALE: This collectible figure stands at the new Core Class scale and depicts the scheming Decepticon second-in-command, Starscream! Overview. Buzzsaw is also the only 1984 Decepticon to not get a toy in tandem with the release of Siege! Instead of being the leader of the ruthless Wreckers, he’s still fighting for the working class as a Decepticon. The dome-shaped structure in the middle also brings to mind the precisely-named Decepticon Headquarters staffed by Shockwave featured throughout the original cartoon. There were cardboard Barricades hanging from every Target, Walmart, and Toys”R”Us for a year. The Autobots are hanging out, meanwhile, in the Ark, their newly-constructed spaceship in which they eventually hope to escape Cybertron and its stupid endless war. Most versions of Ultra Magnus live to see the end of the war. The Chosen One: He bears the Matrix of Leadership as confirmed in Earthrise. Robotic in nature, each Transformer has the ability to transform from their robot mode to an alternate form, usually a vehicle, such as a tank or jet. In homage to this opening scene, War For Cybertron - Siege opens in a similar way, with Wheeljack and Bumblebee on the run from a multicolored gaggle of Seekers (and Jetfire). A character from the original G1 cartoon Transformers at last making his video game appearance as an end boss in Transformers War for Cybertron. Some might remind us of existing characters in Transformers, but considering the context, that dark blue Sideswipe probably isn’t the black Sideswipe redeco Deep Cover. Transformers: War for Cybertron: Earthrise is an American action sci-fi and fantasy anime series. And when war broke out, he initially took the proletariat Decepticons’ side against the bourgeoisie ruling class. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. In the 1985 cartoon episode “The Secret of Omega Supreme,” we learn that Omega Supreme was a member of the legendary Guardian Robots long before the war. Spinister’s two Targetmaster partners aren’t featured in this, but his pink, purple, and blue glory is! Meanwhile Laserbeak is, canonically, a coward. Elita One and the Female Autobots weren’t the only new characters introduced in the 1980s episode “The Search for Alpha Trion.” Surprise: another was Alpha Trion. A close friend of Optimus' and one of the higher-ranking Autobots. Sometimes Soundblaster is depicted as a different guy, a clone of Soundwave, and that’s the path War for Cybertron - Siege has taken. The show’s Soundblaster lives alone with an army of darkly-colored Impactors, and also Buzzsaw. (Get ready for Spoiler Pack 2 in a few months, which also includes the same Play-Doh and Energon, according to its contents listing. War for Cybertron is set on the planet Cybertron, prior to the Transformers' contact with the planet Earth. Hanging conspicuously behind scenes with Megatron within Decepticon headquarters is a mural depicting a caped Megatron running his sword through somebody. When Megatron attacked Starscream's station, Jetfire confronted him during a lull in the fighting, noting he did not want to fight and that Dark Energonwas too dangerous to use, Jetfire himself having seen what it can do. Transformers lose their color when they die, and Ultra Magnus dies. The Decepticons are the antagonists of the series. Barricade doesn't care and Shamble is shoved into the chamber to his death. [Ed. Transformers: War For Cybertron is an animated series produced by Hasbro and Rooster Teeth, with animation by Polygon Pictures, based on the War for Cybertron Trilogy franchise. The show goes belly-deep into Transformers lore. Transformers Generations War for Cybertron Galactic Odyssey Collection Dominus Criminal Pursuit 2-Pack. A female Autobot who accompanies Bumblebee on his mission to Soundblaster's underground market. He's the leader of the Autobot military. Making them vulnerable to a Decepticon all-out assault. Each Cybertronian letter is a one-for-one substitute for a letter in English, so it’s possible to translate these bits of language when they pop up on the screen. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TransformersWarForCybertronTrilogy. Eventually revealed to be Optimus Prime’s sort-of dad, Alpha Trion was the patriarch of the Autobots. The chief technology expert of the Autobots. Chromia and Moonracer weren’t recolors of each other then (and Moonracer has her own toy distinct from Chromia’s in 2018’s Power of the Primes toyline, with its own head and everything) but I guess if you’re destined to be zombie chow, you don’t get a lot of hours spent building you in CGI. Shamble being the first Decepticon we are shown having their spark harvested. Now here’s a real mystery: Walmart released an exclusive line of toys based specifically on this Netflix series, and the big granddaddy of them all was a $50 “Spoiler Pack,” which was boxed up opaquely with no window showing the contents. I mean, if he is, then there are, like, six Deep Covers in Cybertron. War for Cybertron - Siege is littered (sometimes literally) with character models in different colors. Transformers are classified in to four main categories, Leader, Soldier, Scientist, and Scout. There’s a tan Cog that’s in the credits as “Comms Officer.”. This calls back to Megatron’s pre-Decepticon origins as a miner-turned gladiator. Not everyone gets that kind of security! Uses Ultra Magnus' corpse, as well as it strings it up in his lab, to relay a virus to the same Autobot processors that received the Alpha Trion protocols that effectively causes the Autobot's defenses to suffer total system failures. Since Barricade is a police officer and the rando Barricade is purple, I’ve unofficially dubbed him/them Perpwalk. A member of the Decepticons who is the leader of the Combaticons. I have no idea what much of the Spoiler Pack’s contents have to do with the Siege cartoon, or how they would have spoiled me on its content! A purple Barricade also shows up a lot. Two at once in a prominent crowd scene, even! Maybe this represents him ... being half dead? He is much smaller in Earthrise compared to Siege, Then the Wrath face slices off the other faces and is decided on having Optimus and his crew dead. Buzzsaw is, as always, a gold condor to Laserbeak’s red. Omega Supreme shows up later by himself, bursting up through the ground like a confused Kool-Aid Man. The most generic Decepticon grunt, as usual. Some of us spend decades figuring ourselves out. Transformers: War for Cybertron: Siege is an American action sci-fi and fantasy anime series. The Mercenaries are a new group of unaffiliated folks that we’ll see more of in Siege’s sequel, EarthRise, and to which membership has been retroactively applied to Soundblaster here. Ultra Magnus is indeed in the Netflix cartoon, but he doesn’t ever feature as a half-gray version of himself. The Transformers: War for Cybertron CG series serves as a tie-in to Hasbro's multi-year toy line of the same name. A group of evil Transformers form a splinter group separate from the main faction. Worlds collide when the Maximals and Predacons join the fight, coming together with the Autobots and Decepticons in an epic battle that will alter their destiny forever. Autobots don’t get any more upper class than Mirage, who’s an old money Turbofox hunter, and Siege is quick to emphasize their class-based differences. The Coneheads bail out after Deseeus takes control of Doubledealer. Palling around with Barricade is Spinister, who was a “double” Targetmaster from 1988. Maybe Megatron is just really proud of that one time he vanquished a [squints] hornless Bumblebee? If the network is shared, then that number is even more pathetic. One of many Guardians, and the one who finally decides to take action after spending much of the war neutral. OK, there’s a gray gradient Ultra Magnus inside the opaque packaging. We see these Guardians in Siege, but only through a misty haze, so we don’t get to see if the other non-Omega Supreme members are their usual blue coloring. In 1987, the Japanese Headmasters anime killed Soundwave. This was news at the time to Cyclonus, who was very concerned that a jet was about to crash into a tank. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. note: This post contains major spoilers for Transformers: War for Cybertron - Siege.]. All these questions (except the last one) are answered in this spoiler-riffic blast through all six episodes of War for Cybertron’s first chapter.