This is a list of robotic characters from the television, video game, and comic-book series Transformers Animated.

[edit] Autobots

Unlike in other series, Optimus Prime and his unit are not the leaders of the Autobots - instead, they are a rag-tag group of drop-outs and flunkies, working cleanup on out-of-the-way space bridges. This is also the second Transformers series (the first being Beast Machines) wherein a strict separation is made in the type of weaponry used by either side. While the Decepticons are a military and use traditional weapons, the Autobots were created as a labor force, and use their tools as makeshift weapons.^[1] Along with this, most Decepticons have a flying form, while it is rare for an Autobot to have one. There are only a few exceptions to these trends - the Dinobots' weapons have no non-violent use, Omega Supreme and the toy for Ultra Magnus are the only Autobots to have guns, and Swoop, Safeguard, and Omega Supreme all have aerial forms.

The Autobot hierarchy is based around the "Elite Guard", which includes both an officer's academy and a boot camp. In this series, "Prime" is used to refer to an officer's rank within the Elite Guard that has no special attachment to the Matrix or Allspark, and does not imply leadership over the Autobots. Instead, the term "Magnus" is used for the highest rank within the Elite Guard, possibly equal to that of "Supreme Commander".

• Optimus Prime (David Kaye)^[2]: The rookie de-facto leader of the Autobots on Earth, transforms into a futuristic fire truck, and wields a rocket-powered Energon axe, as well as grappling hooks, bolas, and a fire-dousing foam. Like the 2007 movie Prime, and Cybertron Optimus Prime, he has a retractable mouthplate for battle mode purposes. He washed out of Autobot Academy^[3], and is a little green about being a leader. At the end of the series, he convinces Ratchet to build him a jetpack, which was designed to homage God Ginrai.^[4]
• Bumblebee (Bumper Robinson)^[5]: The youngest member of the group, ever eager and enthusiastic, occasionally to the point of overconfidence. He has a retractable battle mask and transforms into a yellow car similar to his Transformers Classics version. His best friends are Bulkhead and the human Sari, having been the first Autobot to meet her after saving her upon being reawakened,^[3], continuing the tradition of Bumblebee being the designated human "guardian" figure. Priding himself on his speed, he occasionally sports turbo boosters, and produces electric stingers from his hands. He also proved to be too much of a big city bot, as shown in "Nature Calls"; and he is very sensitive about his size, as shown in "Total Meltdown", but learns to appreciate his other qualities. While in boot camp he aimed to get into the Elite Guard, he was constantly harassed by the other soldiers, and in an attempt to root out a traitor in the ranks, he and Bulkhead ended up embarrassing his captain in several incidents. Though he managed to catch the alleged traitor, Wasp, he took responsibility for the incidents to save Bulkhead, and ended up destroying his chances of getting into the Elite Guard, and his stingers were downgraded. This awful outcome to his attempts to work with his team-mates is what drove him to act own his own so much. In season 3, when fighting the Megatron-controlled Omega Supreme, Ratchet has Bumblebee's stingers returned to normal.
• Bulkhead (Bill Fagerbakke)^[6]: Bulkhead is a gentle giant of an Autobot who transforms into a Green SWAT truck. Despite his size and intimidating appearance, he is the most laid-back and unassuming Autobot in personality and demeanor and quite intelligent. Wielding two wrecking balls concealed in his hands, he is also the team's demolition specialist, a job to which he is somewhat suited due to his natural clumsiness. In Return of the Headmaster, he did hypothesize that Sari was a robot. In the episode 'A Bridge Too Close, Part 1' it was revealed that Bulkhead is the greatest expert on space bridge technology in all of Cybertron.
• Prowl (Jeff Bennett)^[7]: A lone wolf ninja-style Autobot, and a master of the Cybertronian art of Circuit-Su, who initially rejects teamwork and prefers to act on his own. However, he gradually learns to co-operate with and respect his Autobot teammates, although his individualist approach to both combat and life in general remains a slight source of friction between himself and his more outgoing comrades. Prowl was originally a draft-dodger during the Great War and was brought to Yoketron's dojo as punishment, where he was trained in the way of the ninja-bot. When Yoketron was killed, he made it his mission to fulfill Yoketron's vision. Prowl is fascinated by organic life, and enjoys spending time in nature. He has a sharp, caustic sense of humor and often makes jokes at others' expense, though with no real malice. His alt-mode is a futuristic Motorcycle ^[3], and in battle he relies on shurikens that double up as stabbing weapons, as well as a diversionary hologram generator. Prowl is also very quick and agile, and utilizes his acrobatic skills in battle. Like the G1 character Hound, his vehicle mode has an open cockpit, so he sometimes projects a holographic "driver" onto his seat, to blend in with traffic better. When hunting Starscream with Lockdown, Prowl used a samurai-styled armor which doubled as a sidecar in his vehicle mode, but he gave it up when he decided he didn't want to be like Lockdown. However, when Lockdown returned, this time with the helmet he stole from their mentor Yoketron, Prowl was able to master the armor, and decided to keep it in order to honor Yoketron's memory. In the episode Endgame Part 2, Prowl sacrificed his spark to stop the self destruct of the 2nd Starscream Supreme and died a hero's death.
• Ratchet (Corey Burton)^[8]: A seasoned Autobot medic and veteran of the war against the Decepticons. Gruff, protective and occasionally weary of the relative youngsters he is stationed with, his personality is very similar to that of G1 Kup. He is originally very short-tempered and grumpy, but he eventually learns to be patient and tolerate his fellow Autobots and the humans, and develops a friendship with Sari. As usual, he transforms into an Ambulance,^[3], and fights using a multi-purpose electro-magnetic field generator. He was formerly equipped with an EMP projector which was stolen during the great war while trying to help Arcee. In the episode "Thrill of the Hunt", he stole it back from Lockdown.
• Omega Supreme (Kevin Michael Richardson in Season 2,^[9] Phil LaMarr in Season 3)^[10]): The robot form of the Autobot's spaceship, and a (generally) deceased comrade of Ratchet's. In "Transform and Roll Out", Optimus Prime fails to activate the ship's "Omega Defence System" (due to a safety measure to conserve Energon), likely a trigger for his transformation. He was built as a secret weapon of the Autobots, and Ratchet was used to mentor him, as his processors were not complex enough to guide himself. He revealed his identity in the season two finale, in which he is able to fight off the Decepticons using a huge array of weapons and attacks, but sacrificed himself to destroy Megatron's space bridge. He comes out of the transwarp near Megatron and Starscream, who pretend to surrender to him in order to infiltrate his systems and take him over. While the Earth-bound Autobot's are able to remove Megatron from Omega's body, they are unable to remove Starscream before he activates the transwarp drive. However, they are able to plant a device that randomizes the teleportation before Starscream escapes.
• Rodimus Prime (Judd Nelson)^[11]: The leader of a band of Autobots appearing in the Season 3 premere "Transwarped". His name was originally to be used for Sentinel Prime, but Hasbro disliked the name being applied to a character with Sentinel's unlikeable personality. Rodimus uses a bow and energy arrows in combat. His team tries to prevent Strika's Team Chaar from taking a space bridge, but they are all taken out by the Decepticons, with Rodimus being incapacitated by Oil Slick's Cosmic Rust. He later reappears to cheer Optimus Prime when he returns with the Decepticon prisoners. His toy will use his former rank name "Rodimus Minor".
• Hotshot (Bill Fagerbakke)^[6]: A member of Rodimus Minor's crew.^[12] Bumblebee was originally going to go by this name until it was changed to bank on recognition from the live-action film, which is why Bumblebee acts like Armada Hot Shot, and not Generation 1 Bumblebee. Hotshot was designed by Irineo Maramba.^[13] Hot Shot is equipped with welding torches which also double as flamethrowers, much like Hot Shot from Robots in Disguise. He was injured in battle against Team Chaar, but later reappears to cheer Sentinel when he returns with the Decepticon prisoners.
• Red Alert (Tara Strong)^[14]: A member of Rodimus Minor's crew.^[12] Red Alert was originally planned as a member of the core cast of Autobots, until she was replaced by Ratchet to bank on recognition from the live-action film. Red Alert assisted Wheeljack and Perceptor in creating Jetstorm and Jetfire, handling the data merge of the Decepticon code and Autobot shells. She later reappears to cheer Sentinel when he returns with the Decepticon prisoners.
• Ironhide (Corey Burton)^[8]: A member of Rodimus Minor's crew, in charge of security. He is a "country bot" with the ability to transform his exterior into a super dense, invulnerable alloy. His alt-mode is a hunky Cybertronian futuristic minibus. He was protoformed in a small rural prefecture, and is often amazed over the smallest things. While he is generally jovial, his pranks can get crude.^[15] Ironhide first appears in "Mission Accomplished", in which he is briefly seen reporting to Ultra Magnus about a Decepticon uprising. He appears again as a young cadet in "Autoboot Camp", alongside Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Wasp, and Longarm. In Cartoon Network's Transformers Animated mini-game, he was mistakenly listed as a Decepticon, leading to speculation that he was the Decepticon spy mentioned by Megatron.
• Brawn: A member of Rodimus Minor's crew.^[12] Brawn was designed by Irineo Maramba.^[13] Though one of the shortest Autobots, he is also one of the strongest. In the fight against Team Chaar, he was able to do some damage before being taken out, and he later reappears to cheer Sentinel when he returns with the Decepticon prisoners.
• Wreck-Gar ("Weird Al" Yankovic)^[16]: Created from a pile of junk by an Allspark fragment in the episode "Garbage in, Garbage out". Wreck-Gar was confused about who and what he was, and got his name from the Angry Archer. With the help of Ratchet, he realized he could be anything he wanted, and ended up saving Detroit from malfunctioning nanobots though seemingly at the cost of his own life. He reappears in the episode, Human Error part 2, to help Sari as a "Substitute Autobot" when Soundwave takes out Optimus and his team, and is able to hold his own against Soundwave and a brainwashed Optimus Prime until Soundwave is able to focus on him. While the other two Substitute Autobots, Scrapper and Snarl, return to Dinobot Island after the battle, Wreck-Gar remains in the city to clean up and celebrate Christmas. His main power is the ability to pull virtually anything from the garbage bin on his back, from tools and spools, to Autobot and Decepticon symbols to place on his chest.
• Alpha Trion (Phil LaMarr)^[10]: An Autobot who first appears in the season 3 premiere, "Transwarped". He is the head of the civilian guilds which constitute the non-military portion of the Autobot High Council.^[17]
• Rattletrap (Tom Kenny): An Autobot who makes a living in forgery, selling false ID to Shockwave and later giving a faulty one to Ratchet after being subjected to a good cop-bad cop routine revolving around his fear of organics.

[edit] Elite Guard

• Ultra Magnus (Jeff Bennett)^[7]: Autobot Supreme Commander and member of the Cybertron Elite Guard. He and the Cybertron Elite Guard came to Earth to look for the Allspark. After a fragment of the Allspark was found, Ultra Magnus started to believe Optimus Prime's story. Later, when Shockwave's identity was about to be exposed, he brutally attacked Ultra Magnus and took the Magnus Hammer. On Earth, he transforms into a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck and wields a hammer capable of calling down lightning. He is also one of the melee-bots honored by a bust in Yoketron's dojo.
• Sentinel Prime (Townsend Coleman)^[18]: A hot-headed and swaggering Autobot Officer and member of the Cybertron Elite Guard, who shares a mutual enmity with Optimus Prime, stemming from a botched joint expedition in the past. He despises robots who are of a lower rank than him. He wields an Energon shield and lance. His Cybertronian alt-mode is a truck. On Earth, he takes the disguise of a snowplow truck. Along with having a problem with Optimus, he also has a fear of organics.^[19] It was later revealed in "Autoboot Camp" that he was a drill instructor and went by Sentinel Minor during Bumblebee's flashback. When Sentinel, Jazz, Jetfire, and Jetstorm return to Earth to hunt down Wasp, they end up staying to hunt down the Earth-based Decepticons. In "Five Servos of Doom", it is revealed that Sentinel was secretly dealing with Lockdown to capture them. After Blackarachnia and Waspinator disappear, Sentinel Prime returns to Cybertron with the captured Decepticons to become the new Magnus, and though the Decepticons break free, Optimus and the Elite Guard are able to subdue all but Lugnut and Swindle, who escape.
• Jazz (Phil LaMarr)^[10]: An Autobot with a sports car alt-mode. He is the second-in-command of the Cybertron Elite Guard and a skilled ninja-bot, trained by Yoketron and honored by a bust in his dojo. Jazz is fascinated with Earth's culture and is the most easy-going member of the Elite Guard. In the third season, he returns to Earth with Sentinel and the Jet twins to hunt down Wasp, and they end up staying to hunt down Decepticons. Jazz later leaves Sentinel to join up with Optimus' group.
• Blurr (John Moschitta, Jr.)^[20]: A member of Cybertron Intelligence who first appears as mysterious blue racing car that can best Bumblebee in speed even with his turbo boosters. It is suspected to be a Decepticon by Bumblebee, but is found to be actually controlled by Master Disaster with an All-Spark fragment remote control to fix his races. At the time, it was not known whether there was a driver driving the car, but when the Blue Racer was free from Master Disaster’s control, it helped stop Blitzwing’s pursuit of Bumblebee and Sari. In "A Bridge Too Close" Pt. 1, Blurr takes on his robot form for the first time when it came to rescuing Bulkhead. Upon this discovery by Bumblebee and the other Autobots on Earth, Blurr reveals himself to be a member of the Cybertron Elite Guard's who was sent to keep an eye on them and monitor Megatron's activities. He was eventually sucked into the Decepticon spacebridge with Skywarp and Thundercracker (two of Starscream's clones). He immediately races to Cybertron to inform Longarm of the Decepticon spy on Cybertron, but is crushed into a cube and disposed of when it turns out Longarm (see Shockwave) was that spy. However, he did not actually die.
• Jetfire (Tom Kenny)^[21] and Jetstorm (Phil LaMarr)^[10]: Twin Elite Guard Junior Officers that were originally twin Energon refiners until a accident which resulted in them being injured and chosen to be reconstructed with Decepticon flight data. They possess power over fire and storm, and can combine in both robot and vehicle mode into Safeguard. In vehicle mode, they take the form of Cybertronian space-fighters, and in combined vehicle mode they resemble an X-wing fighter from Star Wars. The two are enthusiastic young fighters, but do tend to rush into things. They come to Earth with Sentinel Prime and Jazz to hunt down Wasp, and despite being initially confused for Decepticons, they work with Optimus' team to hunt down the Earth-based Decepticons before escorting the prisoners to Cybertron.
• Warpath (David Kaye)^[2]: Warpath is an agent of the Elite Guard first seen during "Five Servos of Doom". He served during the Great War, and has an intense dislike not only for Decepticons, but even for Autobots who don't give their all in the fighting. He is responsible for bringing the deserter Prowl to Yoketron's dojo. He later appears to cheer Sentinel when he returns with the Decepticon prisoners.

[edit] Dinobots

Originally animatronic dinosaurs from a local Dino-Drive theme park, the Dinobots were repaired by Professor Sumdac with "assistance" from Megatron, who in truth was intending to create a drone army, and had given them upgrades such as fire-breath. However, Sari's key affected the Dinobots during their initial rampage, giving them sparks and minds of their own. Though no longer able to dominate them, Megatron tricked them into attacking the Autobots. They reappeared in "Survival of the Fittest", in which Meltdown forced them to capture Sari for his experiments, had a small cameo in "Megatron Rising", when Prowl went to them to request assistance against Megatron, and again in "The Elite Guard", where they attacked Sentinel Prime for trespassing on their island, only to be frightened off by Ultra Magnus. They are prominent characters in "Black Friday", in which they become servants of Blackarachnia after rescuing her from the lake, and constantly fought for her attention. They continue as her servants in "Predacons Rising", but do not appear after the Transwarp blast caused when Waspinator's unstable frame goes critical. Fortunately they survive the explosion and are still living on the island as seen in "Human Error" Pt. 2. The Dinobots are:

• Grimlock (David Kaye)^[2]: Leader of the Dinobots, transforms into a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and wields a sword engulfed in flames. He is the only member of the Dinobots who can speak and he is almost as powerful as Megatron
• Snarl: Transforms into a Triceratops and wields a club engulfed in flames. Though he was initially going to be named after the Generation 1 Triceratops Dinobot, Slag, he was renamed when Hasbro learned that the word was an obscenity in the U.K. This was noted in an episode by Scrapper, who took him in as a 'pet', wanting to originally name him Slag, but figured the Dinobot would be offended by the word. Despite that, the word has been used throughout the series.
• Swoop: Transforms into a Pterodactyl, wields a ball and chain engulfed in flames and is the only Dinobot who doesn't receive his name in the series (Grimlock got his name from Megatron, while Snarl got his name from Scrapper).

[edit] Cybertron Intelligence

Cybertron Intelligence is the Autobot's intelligence gathering body, and is headquartered in "The Metroplex". Those members of the Autobot Academy that show particular skill as intelligence agents get moved to Cybertron Intelligence with the head of the organization attaining the rank of Prime.

• Highbrow (David Kaye)^[2]: An Autobot for Season 3 who appears in the season premiere, "Transwarped". He was head of Autobot Intel during the Great War^[22], and worked with Mainframe on recovering the Project Omega access codes from the comatose Arcee. He "mysteriously vanished" after the Great War, and was replaced by Longarm.^[23]
• Arcee (Susan Blu)^[24]: An Autobot intelligence officer. She appears during Ratchet's flashbacks in "The Thrill of the Hunt", in which it is revealed that Ratchet was sent to protect her and the access codes in her memory from the Decepticons, but while he was fighting with Lockdown an overloaded EMP blast from Ratchet's tool completely wiped her memory. It is revealed in "Transwarped" that the codes she held were needed for the Autobots' "Project Omega", and that she was intended to be his mentor, due to her role as a former teacher.
• Blurr: See Elite Guard.
• Cliffjumper^[25] (David Kaye)^[2]: A red Autobot with a look similar to Bumblebee, but with a thicker head and longer horns. He appeared in "Autoboot Camp" as Sentinel's friend and later took Wasp to jail. He reappeared in "Transwarped" as an intelligence officer working under Longarm Prime. With Longarm (Shockwave) gone, Cliffjumper serves in his place on the Autobot Council.

[edit] Autobot Ministry of Science

• Mainframe^[26]: A member of the Ministry of Science. Like his G1 counterpart, he is unable to transform, though Wyatt has said that if he did, it would be into a Cray-type supercomputer.^[27] He was included in the show because Wyatt received the toy at BotCon 2008.^[28] He was trying to operate on Arcee when Ratchet arrived, and later reappears to cheer Sentinel when he returns with the Decepticon prisoners.
• Perceptor^[29] (Plaintalk): Along with Wheeljack, Perceptor oversaw the project which created Jetfire and Jetstorm, as well as Omega Supreme. Unlike his G1 counterpart, this Perceptor wears glasses and speaks with an emotionless voice created using PlainTalk. This is due to him removing his personality from his programming in order to store more information.
• Wheeljack^[29]: Along with Perceptor, Wheeljack oversaw the project which created Jetfire and Jetstorm. Unlike his G1 counterpart, this Wheeljack has what looks like facial hair, causing him to resemble Jamie Hyneman from "Mythbusters".

[edit] Cyber-Ninja Corps

The Cyber-Ninja Corps are a mysterious organization which serve the Autobots. During the Great War, they were responsible for guarding a large cache of Protoforms, which would be used if Omega Supreme failed in his purpose. Their master, Yoketron, operated a dojo where the Corps trained, which contained a hall of busts honoring the Corps, as well as well-protected vault containing the Protoforms.

• Yoketron (George Takei)^[30]: Yoketron is a wise old Autobot responsible for training ninja-bots, but more importantly, protecting the Autobot's cache of protoforms, which would have been used if Project Omega had failed. He trained Prowl in the ways of the ninja, and hoped to have Prowl become his replacement. However, his traitorous student Lockdown betrayed him, killing him and stealing most of the protoforms for the Decepticons. Prowl attempted to revive him by transferring his spark to a protoform, but Yoketron chastised him for not accepting fate. Unlike most other Transformers in this season, he is not based on a prior character, but is an original design named for Takara's lead designer, Hideaki Yoke.^[31] While he never transforms during the show, Wyatt has said that his alternate form is a Cybertronian race car.^[32]

[edit] Decepticons

The Decepticons in Animated are much more specialized than in other series. They were conceived as a military^[1], primarily as an air force, and most official Decepticons have a uniform shade of purple in their design. However, the Decepticons suffered a defeat in the Great War several millennia before the series, and so most of the Decepticon forces are spread across the Galaxy. Because a Decepticon is, one-on-one, much stronger than an Autobot, they were defeated due to the Autobots use of the space bridges and possession of the Allspark. Due to this, most of the Decepticons plans during the series revolve around gaining control of these artifacts. A special feature of the Decepticons in this series is that for the first half of it, rarely show up as antagonists and require the entire Autobot team to work together to stop even a single one. Human crooks take the Decepticons place as the antagonists of most episodes.

Though the Decepticons are supposed to be more militaristic than the Autobots, no mention is made of any specific hierarchy, besides Megatron being at its top. The Decepticon ranks also "include" many bounty hunters, war-profiteers, and Autobot traitors.

With the series have ended, there are a total of 16 uncaputred Decpticons. There are eight on Earth and eight in space.

• Megatron (Corey Burton)^[8]: The cold, calculating, and manipulative leader of the Decepticons, who transforms into a Cybertronian Fusion Jet Fighter, and later a tiltrotor gunship similar to a V-22 Osprey. Megatron's presence in the show is, at least to begin with, relatively marginal, after a skirmish with the Autobots over the Allspark in the pilot episode leaves him all but destroyed. His disembodied head, however, is recovered and sustained by the inventor Isaac Sumdac in his private lab, where, through subtle manipulation of Sumdac and his technology, Megatron is able to persist covertly with his schemes, all the while working towards the creation of a new body of his own, until his old body was recovered and Sari's key allowed Megatron to be fully revived. In keeping with tradition, Megatron's primary weapon remains his arm-mounted fusion cannon; however, he now also wields twin swords, which in his Earth mode transform from his rotors. After building a malfunctioning space bridge, he was sucked into deep space with Omega Supreme and Starscream's head, and he managed to take over Omega Supreme's body and return to Earth, before the Autobots could remove him from control. He was still onboard Omega when Starscream took over and they transwarped back into deep space, and had retaken control of the ship by the time they ran into Lugnut in space.
• Shockwave (Corey Burton)^[8]: A shape-shifting Decepticon who posed as Longarm Prime. He is the loyal Second in Command of the Decepticons. He seemingly orchestrated Wasp's imprisonment and recent breakout. As of "Transwarped", the Earth-bound Autobots now know that Shockwave is the Decepticon spy, and are working frantically to assemble equipment to warn Cybertron. Shockwave nearly kills Blurr when Blurr arrives to expose him, and later demands that all communications from Earth go through him at an Autobot council meeting. When Sentinel and Jazz arrive on Earth to hunt Wasp, Shockwave knows his cover is blown. He brutally attacks Ultra Magnus and steals his Magnus Hammer, losing it though he acquired Acree as he rejoins Megatron's group. His alt-mode is that of a Cybertronian tank. As Longarm, his alt-mode is that of a Cybertronian crane.
• Blitzwing (Bumper Robinson)^[5]: One of Megatron's loyal troops, Blitzwing is an unstable, teutonically-accented Triple Changer (Tank, Jet, Robot) with a new spin— a split personality and changing faces to match his personalities. His personalities define his powers, and includes a cold, calculating face with ice beams; a belligerent, aggressive face that deals in threats and flame-blasts, and finally, a crazed Jack-o-Lantern-esque face - almost child-like in its psychotic exuberance - which utilizes laser pellet blasts (though, in the episode "Sari, No One's Home", he showed that he was able to use all three of his attacks while his insane face was in control). The conflict of these personalities is the source of much comic relief throughout the show. They are represented by a spinning face gimmick on the toy as well as in the show, similar to past Transformers characters the Quintessons and Alpha Q, as well as the He-Man character Man-E-Faces.^[3] Blitzwing is eventually captured by Lockdown and sold to Sentinel Prime, and is taken to Cybertron to be imprisoned. Though he and the other captured Decepticons break free, Optimus and the Elite Guard are able to recapture all of them except Lugnut, and Blitzwing is later seen being paraded through Cybertron.
• Lugnut (David Kaye)^[2]: A hulking brute of a Decepticon whose immense physical strength is matched only by his near-fanatical devotion to Megatron and his cause. Lugnut has missiles for hands, and the alt-mode of a futuristic bomber jet. Until the episode "Megatron Rising Part 1", he was the only Decepticon that Megatron had made contact with upon arrival. He, along with Blitzwing was defeated in their battle to stop Omega Supreme, but he managed to escape and was soon being chased down by the Autobots. Though they managed to cuff him, they had to leave to help Bulkhead, and the Liar Starscream freed him. He is later captured by Lockdown and sold to Sentinel Prime, and is taken to Cybertron to be imprisoned. He and the other captured Decepticons break free, but he is sent careening through space in a battle with Optimus and the Elite Guard, eventually colliding with the Megatron-controlled Omega Supreme.
• Starscream (Tom Kenny)^[21]: Much in the spirit of his G1 counterpart, Starscream is a sarcastic, treacherous and two-faced usurper, who serves as second-in-command to Megatron and seeks to take his place. He transforms into a harrier jet, armed with his signature null-rays. He was badly hurt in "Megatron Rising" by Megatron, who had learned of Starscream's treachery. He has since become immortal due to a piece of the Allspark embedded in his head. He ended up in the custody of the Elite Guard, but escapes. He is then shown to have made many clones of himself that fooled the Autobots, the Decepticons, and Lockdown. He and his clones later attacked the Decepticon's base only for Starscream to be beheaded upon the discovery of the Allspark fragment in his head and later used to power Megatron's space bridge. His head and Megatron were eventually sucked into the Decepticon Space Bridge where both of them argued after being sucked in. When he and Megatron boarded Omega Supreme, Megatron used him to power and control the sleeping behemoth, and Starscream was later able to wrest control from both Megatron and the Autobots. As a head, Starscream is able to fire powerful laser blasts.
• Blackarachnia (Cree Summer)^[33]: Her alt-mode is a black and purple techno-organic spider ^[3]. Though she was originally a member of Megatron's main unit, she has not been in contact with them since the first episode. In keeping with her hybrid nature, her arsenal combines organic venom-tipped paralyzing fangs which still possess her robotic ability to temporarily download and mimic the abilities of others. Though a skilled fighter, she also enjoys using her seductive nature to manipulate other Transformers, much like the original Blackarachnia. Once a promising young Autobot Academy recruit named Elita-1, a former friend of Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime until a horrific event led to her becoming a techno-organic being with a hatred for Autobots and a desire to return to normal by any means necessary. She attempted to use Sari's key to fix this, but this failed. Left on Dinobot Island, she was able to enchant the Dinobots, who acted like pets around her. She had them break Meltdown out of prison to help her remove her organic half, but he tried to remove her technological side instead. Optimus Prime and the Dinobots managed to stop him, but she did not abandon her plans to remove her organic half, and sent Swoop to capture the runaway Wasp. She convinced him to become technorganic like her, but when he overheard how she was only using him, he was enraged. Adding to that, his transformation was unstable, and he exploded in a transwarp wave. Waspinator and Blackarachnia were transported to a jungle in Africa.
• Lockdown (Lance Henriksen)^[34]: He was an Autobot formerly honored by a bust in Yoketron's dojo, but was disgraced when he betrayed his master and delivered the precious Protoforms to the Decepticons. He is deeply mercenary and a cruely sardonic rogue bounty hunter-for-hire who aids the Decepticons in return for spare parts to upgrade himself. His alt-mode is a muscle-car combination of a 1980s style black Corvette and 1960s Cougar hybrid design with a Supercharger, and wields a vast arsenal of weapons and upgrades stolen from past victims. Ratchet fought him during the Cybertronian War in order to protect Arcee, which resulted in the loss of her memory, and again when Lockdown captured Optimus Prime. Lockdown returns when Megatron offers a bounty on Starscream's head, working with Prowl to capture him, and is hired by Sentinel Prime in season 3 to capture the Earth-based Decepticons.
• Soundwave (Jeff Bennett)^[7]: A cold, emotionless Decepticon who desires the overthrow of all humanity at the hands of machines, who he holds as being logically superior. He has the same heavily mechanized monotone voice as the original G1 version, and works with his servant meachnoids Laserbeak and Ratbat.^[35] Though he eventually takes the alt-mode of a vehicle similar to a Scion xB, he was originally designed by Megatron to be disguised as a musical toy, and as such, his powers are based around sound and music generators, which enable him to control and manipulate other machines. Though Bulkhead dismantled him, Soundwave survived as a miniature media player, and was eventually able to reconstitute himself. He brainwashed Optimus' team into fighting for him using Ratbat's abilities, but Sari, Scrapper, Snarl, and Wreck-Gar were able to break his control over the other Autobots.
• Swindle (Fred Willard)^[36]: An intergalactic arms dealer, he is armed with a cannon on his right arm, as well as a force-field generator. He came to earth and allied himself with the Society of Ultimate Villainy, stringing them along to get his hands on an Allspark fragment, which he used to power a weapon that froze all machinery in Detroit. He ended up frozen in vehicle mode after Bumblebee deflected a chronal energy attack back at him. He was left to be sold at an impound lot, and Sentinel Prime later paid to have him transferred to the Elite Guard ship's holding cells. While being taken to Cybertron to be imprisoned, he is reanimated by an interstellar electrical storm, and he frees the other Decepticons. However, instead of watching over the captured Elite Guard, he wanders off to loot the ship, and eventually flies off in an escape ship.
• Waspinator (Tom Kenny)^[21]: A former Autobot known as Wasp who was seemingly framed as a double agent by Shockwave (posing as Longarm). He was built from the same protoform mold as Bumblebee, but hates him because he believes Bumblebee is responsible for framing him for being a Decepticon spy. He escaped from prison, and set out for Earth to get revenge on Bumblebee. Wasp returned in "Where Is Thy Sting?", attempting to switch places with Bumblebee, but was foiled. Though his name had been cleared when Shockwave revealed himself, he ran away, but was caught by Swoop and taken to Dinobot Island for Blackarachnia to operate on. She turned him into a technorganic like herself in order to find a way to reverse her own transformation. In his new technorganic wasp form, he was much stronger, but the transformation was unstable and he exploded in a transwarp blast which transported him and Blackarachnia to a jungle in Africa. Waspinator's former alt-mode was originally a green sports car that is identical to that of Bumblebee's.
• Afterburn: A Decepticon drone posing as a Special Ops agent of the Elite Guard, Afterburn only appears in the non-canon Titan UK comics, and is introduced in the issue Burnout.^[37]. He was sent to Earth by Ultra Magnus to learn from Optimus's team, in order to use that knowledge to succeed in other battles. He arrived while the Autobots were losing against Quake-Maker, and was able to rally the team. His personality is almost too "perfect", and in the issue Divebomb, it was revealed that he was actually one of many mindless drones built by Megatron to spy on Optimus' team. He was then destroyed by Megatron as a show of cruelty.

[edit] Starscream Clones

Starscream created clones of himself that he powered with some part of the Allspark in his head. While these clones don't have names in the cartoon, they are all designed after Generation 1 Seekers, a fact mirrored by the names given to their toys.^[38] Among the clones are:

• Dirge^[39]: A clone of Starscream who embodies his greed; he is never content, and is always hungering for more power, fuel, and altitude. He does not appear in the show, but has appeared as a recolor of Activators-class Starscream in cyan and yellow shades.
• Skywarp^[40] (Tom Kenny)^[21]: A clone of Starscream who embodies his cowardice; he is afraid of practically everything, even though he's quite powerful. During the battle over Megatron's space bridge, he fell into the Space Bridge with Thundercracker and Blurr, who were wrapped in cement with him. Blurr convinced Thundercracker to destroy the cement, and he was last seen floating away still trapped in his stasis cuffs.
• Sunstorm^[41] (Tom Kenny)^[21]: A clone of Starscream who embodies his sycophancy; he constantly flatters and praises everyone around him, even his enemies. After Starscream's defeat in "A Bridge Too Close Part 2", he eventually chooses to ally himself with Megatron before being taken down by Omega Supreme. He is later captured by Lockdown and sold to Sentinel Prime, and is taken to Cybertron to be imprisoned. Though he and the other captured Decepticons break free, Optimus and the Elite Guard are able to recapture all of them except Lugnut, and Sunstorm is later seen being paraded through Cybertron. When he was first released by Swindle, he was given a helmet resembling his G1 block-head to "help tell the clones apart".
• Thundercracker^[42] (Tom Kenny)^[21]: A clone of Starscream who embodies his egomania; he is always boasting and extolling his own virtues, even while losing. During the battle over Megatron's space bridge, he fell into the Space Bridge with Skywarp and Blurr, who were wrapped in cement with him. Blurr convinced him to destroy the cement, and he was last seen chasing Blurr and flying away after getting hit by him in the face.
• Ramjet [1] (Tom Kenny)^[21]: A clone of Starscream who embodies his dishonesty; he is always spouting lies, ones that are the exact opposite of what he means, even when it contradicts something he said seconds ago. He sides with Megatron after Starscream's defeat before being kicked away by Omega Supreme in the battle over Megatron's space bridge. He later reappears to free the captured Lugnut while the Autobots are elsewhere, and though Sentinel Prime hires Lockdown to capture him, he is able to pay Lockdown enough Energon to get him to switch targets. However, he is captured by Optimus Prime in the ensuing battle, and is taken to Cybertron to be imprisoned. Though he and the other captured Decepticons break free, Optimus and the Elite Guard are able to recapture all of them except Lugnut, and the Liar Starscream is later seen being paraded through Cybertron. When he was first released by Swindle, he was given a helmet resembling his G1 cone-head to "help tell the clones apart".
• Slipstream (Tara Strong)^[14]: The fifth and final clone of Starscream, she embodies an aspect of his personality that has never been stated (and that she prefers not to talk about). She is constantly insulting Starscream and can instantly find an opponent's weakness. She instantly sides with Megatron after Starscream is defeated and leads the attack on Omega Supreme. Being the only Starscream clone left on Earth, she kept a low profile except when she attacked Optimus under the impression that he was Starscream. According to Derrick J. Wyatt, her color scheme is based on Overlord.^[43]

Prior to the creation of these clones, Starscream created two decoy clones when Megatron placed a bounty on his head in the episode "A Fistful of Energon". The first clone, an exact duplicate of Starscream (but with light purple colors), displayed his cowardly personality and was captured by Lockdown. The second clone, who had similar colors to that of Sunstorm, attempted to plot a scheme with the Autobots before being locked in stasis cuffs by them. Both clones were brought into an abandoned warehouse where the Autobots and the Decepticons were about to battle each other until they realized that the clones were rigged with explosive devices. As the Decepticons fled, Prowl successfully disposed of the clones by launching them in the sky with his first Samurai armor.

According to Derrick J. Wyatt, there were also two Starscream clones that had color homages to Dirge and Thrust. While Dirge's was used for a toy, Thrust's has yet to be shown.

[edit] Constructicons

First appearing in the episode "Rise of the Constructicons", the Constructicons are Construction vehicles brought to life by stray Allspark energy. The Constructicons have the mentality and behavior of stereotypical construction workers, with deep Brooklyn accents, a great appreciation for attractive chassies, and a passion for guzzling motor oil. Initially the first two, Mixmaster and Scrapper, befriend Bulkhead, but they are hired by Megatron after his Decepticons trick the two into helping them steal supplies for Megatron's spacebridge. After an explosion caused by Bulkhead, the two lose their memories of these events. They return in "Sari, No One's Home", following a spilt trail of oil to the Autobot's base, but are eventually scared off by Sari and run into Blitzwing, who offers them Decepticon oil to come back to the Decepticon base. In "A Bridge Too Close", the two are branded with the Decepticon symbol, gaining new color schemes resembling that of the traditional Constructicon. Both of them were buried in the carbon mines after refusing to leave, shouting that they had to "save the oil". In "Three's A Crowd", they are revealed to have survived, and have taken up temporary residence in an Auto Factory. Bulkhead convinces them to help repair Sumdac Tower, but while there they discover a new Constructicon, Dirt Boss, who takes control of their group and directs them to steal the city's oil supply. They are last seen being transwarped into the lake, along with an exploding oil tank which they had lit. As of "Human Error, Part 2", Mixmaster and Dirt Boss's wereabouts are unknown, while Scrapper is seen residing on Dinobot Island. The Constructicons are:

• Dirt Boss (John Mariano)^[44]: He transforms into a forklift. He was created when an Allspark fragment fused a forklift and Headmaster unit together after they fell down the tower. He was soon discovered by Bulkhead and the Constructicons, and quickly establishes himself as the Constructicon's boss, although he was ironically the last one to be created. He is able to control other Transformers (and machines) by firing a special screw into their heads, a remnant of his Headmaster origin. Unlike the other two Constructicons, he began life as a Decepticon, and does not have the laid-back, oil-obsessed mentality of the other two Constructicons.
• Mixmaster (Jeff Bennett)^[7]: He transforms into a futuristic cross between a bulldozer and cement mixer; he got his name after Scrapper told him his mixing barrel had the words Mix Master. He has the ability to spray acid from his stomach, a smokescreen from the mixing barrel on his back, and cement and acid from the miniature mixing barrels in his hands.
• Scrapper (Tom Kenny)^[21]: He transforms into a futuristic excavator. He got his name after reading a sign that read "Scrap", but Mixmaster told him that it was too short so it was changed to "Scrapper". He has the ability to activate drill weapons, located in his hands. Unlike his G1 counterpart, Scrapper does not lead the Constructicons.

[edit] Team Chaar

A strike force led by Strika, Team Chaar were among the various Decepticon groups that began a campaign to capture a space bridge. Though they succeeded in taking one, the group is ordered to fall back by Megatron who called off the mission. Their fates are unknown, so they along with Thundercracker, Skywarp, and Swindle are the remained uncaptured Decepticons in space.

• Strika (Tara Strong)^[14]: Strika is the leader of Team Chaar^[45] , and closely resembles her Beast Machines counterpart. Her inclusion in the show was said to be "another personal Transformers life goal" by Wyatt.^[46]
• Oil Slick (Phil LaMarr)^[10]: A member of Strika's crew. Originally a toy-only character, he is a master at vehicular combat, as well as chemical weapons like his Cosmic Rust that weaken the opponent both physically and mentally. Oil Slick was initially an original Eric Siebenaler design not intended to appear on the show, but during Botcon '08 the cartoon crew said that they would have worked him in if they knew about it. He first appeared in issue #3 of The Arrival in which he posed as a victim of a chemical attack that he is revealed to have caused.
• Blackout (Bumper Robinson)^[5]: A member of Strika's crew.^[12] He is one of the largest Transformers, and is famous for defeating many Omega Sentinel's during the Great War. He has the ability to generate EMP pulses by stomping the ground, which he can use to blackout or reactivate nearby electronics.
• Spittor: A member of Strika's crew.^[12] His design is based on Don Figueroa's pre-beast form for Beast Wars Spittor.^[46] He has the ability to coat enemies in an explosive goo by pulling them into his mouth and spitting them out.
• Cyclonus: A member of Strika's crew who can transform into a Cybertronian jet.^[12] Cyclonus wields a pair of blades that can sabotage any organic or robot.^[13]

[edit] Other Transformers

• Sari Sumdac (Tara Strong): At first thought to be human, Sari Sumdac was revealed in Transwarped to be part Cybertronian, a techno-organic.

[edit] Earth Robots

This is a list of known robots on Earth:

• Sparkplug: Sparkplug is Sari Sumdac's robot dog given to her by Dr. Isaac Sumdac, her father, for her 7th birthday. After Isaac ended up in the clutches of Megatron, it is currently in the possession of Porter C. Powell and was last seen outfitted with Henry Masterson's Headmaster program.
• Tutor Bot (Tom Kenny)^[21]: A robot who is in charge of taking care of and educating Sari Sumdac. After Isaac ended up in the clutches of Megatron, he is currently in the possession of Porter C. Powell and was last seen outfitted with Henry Masterson's Headmaster program.
• Security Bots (David Kaye)^[2]: Robots used by the Detroit Police Department. They appear in several episodes, usually chasing villains. Usually the villain eludes the robots, as the Security-Bot is neither agile, nor particularly smart.
• Pocket-Bots: Small, insect-like robots designed by Isaac Sumdac. Sumdac was initially unable to get them to work, but Megatron was easily able to take control of one and use it to hunt for the Allspark.
• Receptionist Bot (Tara Strong)^[14]: These robots work as receptionists in Sumdac Tower.
• Burger-Bot (Tom Kenny)^[21]: These robots are designed to serve food at a chain of "burger-bot" fast food restaurants.
• Condiment Bot (Jeff Bennett)^[7]: These robots are designed to various condiments and napkins.
• News Bots (David Kaye and Townsend Coleman)^[2][18]: They are an assortment of robots of the news who are equipped with four arms (one arm has a camera, the second arm has a microphone, the third arm has a pencil or pen and the final arm has a notebook). They report the news in several episodes.
• Trashbots: These robots simply roll around and collect garbage. They were also used for dancing.
• Microbots: They eat anything that isn't an organic. They were meant to fight disease in episode 1 until a bug infused with it went out of control and was defeated by the Autobots. In episode Garbage In Garbage Out, they were upgraded to eat anything that isn't an organic as Porter C. Powell's alternate solution to Detroit's garbage crisis.

[edit] See also

• List of organics in Transformers Animated

[edit] References