Transformers: Exodus - The Official History of the War for Cybertron
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Transformers: Exodus – The Official History of the War for Cybertron is a fantasy
-adventure novel
by Alexander C. Irvine
. Transformers: Exodus - The Official History of the War for Cybertron revolves around the Transformers
and the origin of the war and experiences prior to it. It was believed to be a possible prequel to Transformers: Prime
as noted in the book Transformers Vault and verified as such in the Transformers: Prime
episode One Shall Rise part 3, which references the entire book as part of a flashback into the way the war between the Autobots and Decepticons began. Exodus explores the backgrounds of Optimus Prime and Megatron within the Prime universe, showing how they came to be the leaders of their respective factions. The book also delves more heavily into the mythology of other well known aspects of the Transformers characters and locations, such as Alpha Trion
and The Fallen, whose original name is revealed in this story for the first time as Megatronus Prime.
Understanding that the social hierarchy instills tensions that must be relieved somehow, the High Council turns a blind eye to the proliferation of underground gladiatorial combat. Over these brutal deathmatches, the laborer caste rallies around a charismatic and seemingly unstoppable iconic figure who, acting beyond his natural station, has taken a name—and not just any name, but that of one of the original 13 Transformers, the powerful and sinister Megatronus. In the cheers of his adoring fans, this name gets shortened to Megatron.
Orion Pax, a data clerk who feels dissatisfied with Cybertron's caste system, is assigned to eavesdrop on Megatron's political speeches and file them appropriately for the High Council's knowledge. Megatron's stated goals of a free Cybertron, with each individual determining his own path in life, is highly appealing to Orion. Confused, Orion turns for guidance to his supervisor and mentor, Alpha Trion
who is the only one of the Original 13 alive and the fact is unaware to all Cybertronians. As the scribe of past, present, and future, Alpha Trion knows that some great destiny awaits both Megatron and Orion Pax, but does not know what it is. Speaking cryptically to his colleague, Alpha Trion encourages Orion Pax to monitor this new upstart.
Orion makes contact with Megatron's fledgling organization, in the process enjoying his little tastes of breaking rules and acting beyond the normal limits of his station. The two find broad agreement in the need for a new form of Cybertronian government, though Megatron favors confrontation and revolution, whereas Orion hopes to inspire the masses to change the system from within. The two also engage in nonstop verbal sparring and (would-be) witty repartee. Megatron's team includes the intelligent Soundwave
and his army of Minicons, and mad scientist Shockwave
.
When Orion vocally defends Megatron in a dispute on the Cybertronian datanet, he resigns as being part of the organization and is soon viewed as just as much a revolutionary. As their movement gains power, it also grows more violent: Saboteurs professing allegiance to Megatron commit multiple bombings across the planet, including destroying the Six Lasers Over Cybertron amusement park. Megatron repeatedly (and seemingly quite earnestly) swears not to know who committed these crimes and disavows them. But he cannot hide his own involvement in the kidnapping of Sentinel Prime
—carried out with cooperation from Sentinel's own Seeker bodyguards.
One of Sentinel's bodyguards is Starscream
, who is disgusted by Sentinel's show of cowardice during the kidnapping but still resents the upending of his past secure position due to Megatron's actions. He flirts with joining Megatron's forces, but also makes sure to dispatch all his loyal Seekers to Trypticon
Station—a floating strategic asset bearing a powerful secret that he understands and that Megatron, for the moment, does not.
In the hopes of preventing all-out war, Alpha Trion helps Orion and Megatron secure an audience before the High Council in order to plead their case. The Council members are hostile from the start to any notion of change and view Megatron as nothing but a criminal. For his part, Megatron continues to disown most (but not all) of the violence being committed in his name but continues to call for the total removal of the caste system, including the Council itself. His words feed on the resentment of the underclasses in his audience, and he accepts a term his followers have coined—"Decepticon". When it is Orion's turn to speak, by contrast, he makes a more noble appeal to the broader spectrum of society. He points out that earlier generations of Cybertronians would never have been able to repel the ancient invasion of the Quintessons if they had been constrained by such a caste system. He proclaims their fuller potential as a race if each individual were to be acknowledged as an autonomous robot, using the ancient contraction "Autobot" as an expression of that ideal. High Council member Halogen at last speaks, and he grants that the two radicals might have a point, and that Cybertronian society might have become too static and stratified for its own good. Recognizing the depth of the crisis that their world faces, Halogen asserts that what they need is new visionary leadership to guide a social rebirth—and on that note, the Council proclaims Orion Pax to now be Optimus Prime, the new leader of all Cybertron, with his first mission being the retrieval of the long lost Matrix of Leadership.
Megatron is irate at the elevation of his former colleague, believing it to have been a set-up from Orion all along. He kills Halogen at once, but as both sides marshal for war, Optimus is at least able to convince Megatron, in perhaps a final gesture of respect for civilization, not to commit further violence within the Council halls. Instead, the two sides retreat and the High Council members Contrail and Ratbat align with Megatron's Decepticons.
The war that follows is brutal and largely one-sided. The Autobots retain control of Iacon, as well as Kalis and the key asset of its underground fusion reactor that powers their war effort; the Decepticons take over practically the rest of the planet. Autobot special teams such as The Wreckers (led by the mighty, hammer-bearing warrior Ultra Magnus) manage to hold their own against hulking Decepticon combiners such as Devastator. Some battle sites, such as Praxus, are so thoroughly devastated that the dead can never be counted and no one will ever know who won. Out of desperation, the Autobots launch the AllSpark into space to keep Megatron from gaining control of the source of Transformer life. It is in that battle that Bumblebee has his vocal abilities destroyed by Decepticon forces.
Seeking a new advantage, Megatron orders Starscream to give him access to the secret of Trypticon Station: its stockpile of Dark Energon, the power-enhancing evil essence of Unicron himself. Megatron's "darkened" Decepticons now have a combat edge necessary to overwhelm the struggling Autobots. To accelerate the process, Megatron seeks control of the Plasma Energy Chamber, which would allow him to use his Dark Energon supplies to turn the energon core of Cybertron into an unlimited font of the foul substance—permanently empowering his own forces while starving the Autobots to death. But in order to activate the Plasma Energy Chamber, he needs to acquire the Code Keys of Justice and Power. He eventually acquires both—one of them was stored inside Sentinel Prime's chest, and Megatron resolved that problem by defeating the former leader in combat and hacking him apart.
Before Megatron can fully activate the Plasma Energy Chamber, Teletraan-1 reactivates Cybertron's long-disused ultimate guardian, Omega Supreme
. Just by transforming from city mode to rocket ship mode, Omega nearly crushes Megatron and the Decepticons to death, and after a successful takeoff, it almost seems like he will be able to fly the Plasma Energy Chamber to safety. But Starscream and his Seekers manage to shoot down the colossal craft, and at the crater of its impact, neither the Autobots nor even Omega Supreme's robot mode can prove to be a match for a Dark Energon-empowered Megatron. Omega Supreme is defeated, and Megatron acquires the Plasma Energy Chamber. Autobot Medical Officer Ratchet
manages to save Omega's life, but nothing can stop Megatron from corrupting the core of Cybertron.
Autobot Prowl
detected a transmission from Sentinel Prime and he, Optimus and Jazz
go to Kaon to save him. They defeat the Decepticon forces guarding him, but the trio bring him back to Iacon, deceased. Before Sentinel dies, he tells Optimus to save the core. Optimus, Bumblebee and Jetfire
then struggle their way to the core, avoiding infection by Dark Energon along the way. Once at the core, Bumblebee manages to extract the Plasma Energy Chamber, and Optimus receives a mental communication from the core itself. Now that the source of Dark Energon contamination has been removed, the core will eventually be able to heal itself, but it will take centuries, and during that time, the core will not be able to generate enough Energon to sustain the full Cybertronian population. Cybertronian citizens will either have to abandon the planet until it heals, or risk starvation. To show him not to lose hope, the core bestows upon Optimus Prime the Matrix of Leadership.
Seeing that the planet will soon be uninhabitable, Optimus orders the exodus of the Autobot fleet, but most of the ships are shot down by Trypticon Station. One Autobot vessel, the Eight Track, is able to link up to Trypticon Station and force it to crash, whereupon the station transforms into a bipedal reptilian monster and goes on a rampage.
Alpha Trion grows ever more despairing for the planet he has tended for unimaginable millennia, and he puts into place a radical plan: the construction of the largest spaceship in Cybertronian history, the Ark, on which most of the Autobots may escape. Ultra Magnus, his Wreckers, and a rebuilt Omega Supreme volunteer to stay behind and see to what little territory the Autobots still hold. Despite Optimus's strong wishes, Alpha Trion refuses to leave Cybertron and declares the time has come for his old friend truly to make his own command decisions without the advice from a bygone era.
As most of the Autobots flee the planet aboard the Ark, Megatron commands Trypticon to transform into a Nemesis-class supercruiser in which he and most of the Decepticons will give pursuit. Megatron leaves Shockwave behind as dictator of the dying planet, with orders that he is to have exterminated all remaining Autobots by the time Megatron returns. With the Nemesis in hot pursuit, the Ark makes for the only possible avenue of survival: the last intact spacebridge, for which there is no guarantee the artifact will even function, as none alive know how to use it. But as the two giant spaceships get within range of the spacebridge, it does indeed activate and teleport them...somewhere.
Aboard the Ark, in a strange and uncharted sea of stars and with no Decepticons in sight, Prowl informs Optimus Prime that he has picked up the energy signature of the AllSpark and their adventure in space begins.
Fantasy literature
Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, literature has composed the majority of fantasy works. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music, painting, and other...
-adventure novel
Adventure novel
The adventure novel is a genre of novels that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme.-History:...
by Alexander C. Irvine
Alexander C. Irvine
Alexander C. Irvine is an American fantasist and science fiction writer. Many of his works have appeared under the simpler moniker "Alex Irvine."-Biography:Irvine was born on March 22, 1969...
. Transformers: Exodus - The Official History of the War for Cybertron revolves around the Transformers
Transformers
A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling.Transformer may also refer to:* ASUS Eee Pad Transformer, an Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet computer manufacturer by Asus...
and the origin of the war and experiences prior to it. It was believed to be a possible prequel to Transformers: Prime
Transformers: Prime
Transformers: Prime, also known as Transformers: Prime –The Animated Series, is an American computer-animated television series based on the Transformers toy franchise by Hasbro. It airs on the The Hub in the United States...
as noted in the book Transformers Vault and verified as such in the Transformers: Prime
Transformers: Prime
Transformers: Prime, also known as Transformers: Prime –The Animated Series, is an American computer-animated television series based on the Transformers toy franchise by Hasbro. It airs on the The Hub in the United States...
episode One Shall Rise part 3, which references the entire book as part of a flashback into the way the war between the Autobots and Decepticons began. Exodus explores the backgrounds of Optimus Prime and Megatron within the Prime universe, showing how they came to be the leaders of their respective factions. The book also delves more heavily into the mythology of other well known aspects of the Transformers characters and locations, such as Alpha Trion
Alpha Trion
Alpha Trion is a fictional character in the various Transformers universes. Alpha Trion is one of the Thirteen Primes, thus all his portrayals are considered to be the same individual. He is generally depicted as an ancient mechanoid with a link to Optimus Prime...
and The Fallen, whose original name is revealed in this story for the first time as Megatronus Prime.
Synopsis
Cybertron's once-mighty civilization is in a period of stasis and decadence. The bygone ages of space exploration and building relations with other forms of life are all but forgotten, the Space Bridges having all gone offline through sabotage or millennia of neglect. The architecture of ancient cities such as Iacon display a boldness and dynamism absent from modern structures and, indeed, from most of Cybertronian life. As soon as every Cybertronian citizen emerges from the Well of All Sparks (in which resides the AllSpark itself, the device that creates them) they are assigned to a caste and guild from which they may never deviate throughout their lifetimes—and even this process has lost its grandeur over many eons, with the newly sparked no longer expected to make a death-defying run through the primordial monsters' den of Underworld. There is no opportunity for change or personal growth. Some are born to lead, others are civil servants, and those of the lowest castes—manual laborers in the underground mines and factories—don't even have names.Understanding that the social hierarchy instills tensions that must be relieved somehow, the High Council turns a blind eye to the proliferation of underground gladiatorial combat. Over these brutal deathmatches, the laborer caste rallies around a charismatic and seemingly unstoppable iconic figure who, acting beyond his natural station, has taken a name—and not just any name, but that of one of the original 13 Transformers, the powerful and sinister Megatronus. In the cheers of his adoring fans, this name gets shortened to Megatron.
Orion Pax, a data clerk who feels dissatisfied with Cybertron's caste system, is assigned to eavesdrop on Megatron's political speeches and file them appropriately for the High Council's knowledge. Megatron's stated goals of a free Cybertron, with each individual determining his own path in life, is highly appealing to Orion. Confused, Orion turns for guidance to his supervisor and mentor, Alpha Trion
Alpha Trion
Alpha Trion is a fictional character in the various Transformers universes. Alpha Trion is one of the Thirteen Primes, thus all his portrayals are considered to be the same individual. He is generally depicted as an ancient mechanoid with a link to Optimus Prime...
who is the only one of the Original 13 alive and the fact is unaware to all Cybertronians. As the scribe of past, present, and future, Alpha Trion knows that some great destiny awaits both Megatron and Orion Pax, but does not know what it is. Speaking cryptically to his colleague, Alpha Trion encourages Orion Pax to monitor this new upstart.
Orion makes contact with Megatron's fledgling organization, in the process enjoying his little tastes of breaking rules and acting beyond the normal limits of his station. The two find broad agreement in the need for a new form of Cybertronian government, though Megatron favors confrontation and revolution, whereas Orion hopes to inspire the masses to change the system from within. The two also engage in nonstop verbal sparring and (would-be) witty repartee. Megatron's team includes the intelligent Soundwave
Soundwave (Transformers)
Soundwave is the name of several characters in the various series Transformers series. His most famous disguise is that of a microcassette recorder and has an iconic voice done by a vocoder.-Transformers: Generation 1:...
and his army of Minicons, and mad scientist Shockwave
Shockwave (Transformers)
Shockwave is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers series. Throughout his incarnations, he is usually distinguished by a laser cannon in lieu of one of his hands and his distinctive face, which is featureless save a single robotic eye...
.
When Orion vocally defends Megatron in a dispute on the Cybertronian datanet, he resigns as being part of the organization and is soon viewed as just as much a revolutionary. As their movement gains power, it also grows more violent: Saboteurs professing allegiance to Megatron commit multiple bombings across the planet, including destroying the Six Lasers Over Cybertron amusement park. Megatron repeatedly (and seemingly quite earnestly) swears not to know who committed these crimes and disavows them. But he cannot hide his own involvement in the kidnapping of Sentinel Prime
Sentinel Prime
Sentinel Prime is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers series. First mention of Sentinel Prime was in issue #65 of the US Marvel Comics Transformers series, where he was mentioned to hold the Autobot Matrix of Leadership before Optimus Prime. Sentinel Prime has since...
—carried out with cooperation from Sentinel's own Seeker bodyguards.
One of Sentinel's bodyguards is Starscream
Starscream (Transformers)
Starscream is a fictional character in the Transformers franchise. He is one of the most prolific characters in the Transformers fictional work, appearing in almost all incarnations of the story. Starscream is usually portrayed with the same characterization...
, who is disgusted by Sentinel's show of cowardice during the kidnapping but still resents the upending of his past secure position due to Megatron's actions. He flirts with joining Megatron's forces, but also makes sure to dispatch all his loyal Seekers to Trypticon
Trypticon
Trypticon is a fictional character in the Transformers toyline.-Transformers: Generation 1:Trypticon is the Decepticons' principal command base. He has three modes: a city, a mobile battle station, and a Tyrannosaurus rex. In each mode, he has a variety of weapons...
Station—a floating strategic asset bearing a powerful secret that he understands and that Megatron, for the moment, does not.
In the hopes of preventing all-out war, Alpha Trion helps Orion and Megatron secure an audience before the High Council in order to plead their case. The Council members are hostile from the start to any notion of change and view Megatron as nothing but a criminal. For his part, Megatron continues to disown most (but not all) of the violence being committed in his name but continues to call for the total removal of the caste system, including the Council itself. His words feed on the resentment of the underclasses in his audience, and he accepts a term his followers have coined—"Decepticon". When it is Orion's turn to speak, by contrast, he makes a more noble appeal to the broader spectrum of society. He points out that earlier generations of Cybertronians would never have been able to repel the ancient invasion of the Quintessons if they had been constrained by such a caste system. He proclaims their fuller potential as a race if each individual were to be acknowledged as an autonomous robot, using the ancient contraction "Autobot" as an expression of that ideal. High Council member Halogen at last speaks, and he grants that the two radicals might have a point, and that Cybertronian society might have become too static and stratified for its own good. Recognizing the depth of the crisis that their world faces, Halogen asserts that what they need is new visionary leadership to guide a social rebirth—and on that note, the Council proclaims Orion Pax to now be Optimus Prime, the new leader of all Cybertron, with his first mission being the retrieval of the long lost Matrix of Leadership.
Megatron is irate at the elevation of his former colleague, believing it to have been a set-up from Orion all along. He kills Halogen at once, but as both sides marshal for war, Optimus is at least able to convince Megatron, in perhaps a final gesture of respect for civilization, not to commit further violence within the Council halls. Instead, the two sides retreat and the High Council members Contrail and Ratbat align with Megatron's Decepticons.
The war that follows is brutal and largely one-sided. The Autobots retain control of Iacon, as well as Kalis and the key asset of its underground fusion reactor that powers their war effort; the Decepticons take over practically the rest of the planet. Autobot special teams such as The Wreckers (led by the mighty, hammer-bearing warrior Ultra Magnus) manage to hold their own against hulking Decepticon combiners such as Devastator. Some battle sites, such as Praxus, are so thoroughly devastated that the dead can never be counted and no one will ever know who won. Out of desperation, the Autobots launch the AllSpark into space to keep Megatron from gaining control of the source of Transformer life. It is in that battle that Bumblebee has his vocal abilities destroyed by Decepticon forces.
Seeking a new advantage, Megatron orders Starscream to give him access to the secret of Trypticon Station: its stockpile of Dark Energon, the power-enhancing evil essence of Unicron himself. Megatron's "darkened" Decepticons now have a combat edge necessary to overwhelm the struggling Autobots. To accelerate the process, Megatron seeks control of the Plasma Energy Chamber, which would allow him to use his Dark Energon supplies to turn the energon core of Cybertron into an unlimited font of the foul substance—permanently empowering his own forces while starving the Autobots to death. But in order to activate the Plasma Energy Chamber, he needs to acquire the Code Keys of Justice and Power. He eventually acquires both—one of them was stored inside Sentinel Prime's chest, and Megatron resolved that problem by defeating the former leader in combat and hacking him apart.
Before Megatron can fully activate the Plasma Energy Chamber, Teletraan-1 reactivates Cybertron's long-disused ultimate guardian, Omega Supreme
Omega Supreme
Omega Supreme is the name of a fictional character from the Transformers franchise. He is always an Autobot and is often depicted as a gigantic transformer with vast strength and/or overwhelming firepower.-Transformers: Generation 1:...
. Just by transforming from city mode to rocket ship mode, Omega nearly crushes Megatron and the Decepticons to death, and after a successful takeoff, it almost seems like he will be able to fly the Plasma Energy Chamber to safety. But Starscream and his Seekers manage to shoot down the colossal craft, and at the crater of its impact, neither the Autobots nor even Omega Supreme's robot mode can prove to be a match for a Dark Energon-empowered Megatron. Omega Supreme is defeated, and Megatron acquires the Plasma Energy Chamber. Autobot Medical Officer Ratchet
Ratchet (Transformers)
Ratchet is the name of several characters in the Transformers universes. According to the original creator of the Transformers names, Bob Budiansky, Ratchet was named after the character of Nurse Ratched from the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The name Ratchet is almost always portrayed as...
manages to save Omega's life, but nothing can stop Megatron from corrupting the core of Cybertron.
Autobot Prowl
Prowl (Transformers)
Prowl is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers series. "Prowl" is one of the most re-used American names in the assorted Transformers series, and its use has become almost synonymous with Autobots who possess a police car alternate mode...
detected a transmission from Sentinel Prime and he, Optimus and Jazz
Jazz (Transformers)
Jazz is the name of a fictional character from the various Transformers universes. He is usually portrayed as a music loving robot and talks with a slang accent. He is also a good friend of Optimus Prime's...
go to Kaon to save him. They defeat the Decepticon forces guarding him, but the trio bring him back to Iacon, deceased. Before Sentinel dies, he tells Optimus to save the core. Optimus, Bumblebee and Jetfire
Jetfire
Jetfire is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers universes. He is nearly always depicted as an Autobot with jet or space shuttle alternate mode.-Transformers: Generation 1:...
then struggle their way to the core, avoiding infection by Dark Energon along the way. Once at the core, Bumblebee manages to extract the Plasma Energy Chamber, and Optimus receives a mental communication from the core itself. Now that the source of Dark Energon contamination has been removed, the core will eventually be able to heal itself, but it will take centuries, and during that time, the core will not be able to generate enough Energon to sustain the full Cybertronian population. Cybertronian citizens will either have to abandon the planet until it heals, or risk starvation. To show him not to lose hope, the core bestows upon Optimus Prime the Matrix of Leadership.
Seeing that the planet will soon be uninhabitable, Optimus orders the exodus of the Autobot fleet, but most of the ships are shot down by Trypticon Station. One Autobot vessel, the Eight Track, is able to link up to Trypticon Station and force it to crash, whereupon the station transforms into a bipedal reptilian monster and goes on a rampage.
Alpha Trion grows ever more despairing for the planet he has tended for unimaginable millennia, and he puts into place a radical plan: the construction of the largest spaceship in Cybertronian history, the Ark, on which most of the Autobots may escape. Ultra Magnus, his Wreckers, and a rebuilt Omega Supreme volunteer to stay behind and see to what little territory the Autobots still hold. Despite Optimus's strong wishes, Alpha Trion refuses to leave Cybertron and declares the time has come for his old friend truly to make his own command decisions without the advice from a bygone era.
As most of the Autobots flee the planet aboard the Ark, Megatron commands Trypticon to transform into a Nemesis-class supercruiser in which he and most of the Decepticons will give pursuit. Megatron leaves Shockwave behind as dictator of the dying planet, with orders that he is to have exterminated all remaining Autobots by the time Megatron returns. With the Nemesis in hot pursuit, the Ark makes for the only possible avenue of survival: the last intact spacebridge, for which there is no guarantee the artifact will even function, as none alive know how to use it. But as the two giant spaceships get within range of the spacebridge, it does indeed activate and teleport them...somewhere.
Aboard the Ark, in a strange and uncharted sea of stars and with no Decepticons in sight, Prowl informs Optimus Prime that he has picked up the energy signature of the AllSpark and their adventure in space begins.
Autobots
- PrimePrime (Transformers)Prime is a title in Transformers fiction, the designation given to the leader of the Autobots and bearer of the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. The Japanese equivalent of Prime is Convoy, sometimes explained in Western Transformers folklore as an honorific nickname given to Autobots who possess the...
- Thirteen PrimesOriginal thirteen TransformersIn the fictional Transformers universe, there were Thirteen Primes created by the Transformer deity Primus before he went on to create the rest of the Transformers race...
- Alpha TrionAlpha TrionAlpha Trion is a fictional character in the various Transformers universes. Alpha Trion is one of the Thirteen Primes, thus all his portrayals are considered to be the same individual. He is generally depicted as an ancient mechanoid with a link to Optimus Prime...
- Alpha Trion
- Sentinel PrimeSentinel PrimeSentinel Prime is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers series. First mention of Sentinel Prime was in issue #65 of the US Marvel Comics Transformers series, where he was mentioned to hold the Autobot Matrix of Leadership before Optimus Prime. Sentinel Prime has since...
- Orion Pax/Optimus PrimeOptimus PrimeOptimus Prime is a fictional character from the Transformers franchise. Prime is the leader of the autobots, a faction of transforming robots from the planet Cybertron. The autobots are constantly waging war against a rival faction of transforming robots called Decepticons...
- Thirteen Primes
- JazzJazz (Transformers)Jazz is the name of a fictional character from the various Transformers universes. He is usually portrayed as a music loving robot and talks with a slang accent. He is also a good friend of Optimus Prime's...
- ProwlProwl (Transformers)Prowl is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers series. "Prowl" is one of the most re-used American names in the assorted Transformers series, and its use has become almost synonymous with Autobots who possess a police car alternate mode...
- IronhideIronhideIronhide is the name of several different fictional characters in the Transformers universes. According to the original creator of the Transformers names, Bob Budiansky, Ironhide was named after the television series Ironside.-Transformers: Generation 1:...
- RatchetRatchet (Transformers)Ratchet is the name of several characters in the Transformers universes. According to the original creator of the Transformers names, Bob Budiansky, Ratchet was named after the character of Nurse Ratched from the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The name Ratchet is almost always portrayed as...
- Sideswipe
- BumblebeeBumblebee (Transformers)Bumblebee is the name of several fictional characters from the various Transformers universes. In most incarnations, Bumblebee is a small, yellow Autobot with the altmode of a compact car.- Transformers: Generation 1 :...
- Revo
- CliffjumperCliffjumperCliffjumper is the name of several characters from the Transformers line of toys. His name is usually associated with an Autobot whose toys are often red repaints of Bumblebee toys.- Transformers: Generation 1 :...
- AerialbotsAerialbotsThe Aerialbots are a group of Autobots that transform into aircraft and combine to form the giant robot Superion. They were introduced into the Transformers toyline in 1985 and sold as a Superion gift set, and then sold separately in 1986 in most department stores...
- JetfireJetfireJetfire is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers universes. He is nearly always depicted as an Autobot with jet or space shuttle alternate mode.-Transformers: Generation 1:...
- Jetfire
- WreckersWreckers (Transformers)The Wreckers are a sub-team of Autobots in the fictional Transformers universe, functioning essentially as a commando unit. They are not derived from the Transformers toyline but rather are the creation of Marvel UK writer Simon Furman, who introduces the Wreckers in the story arc Target:2006...
- Ultra MagnusUltra MagnusUltra Magnus is the name of several fictional characters from the various Transformers storylines.-Transformers: Generation 1:The greatest Transformer of them all. A commander could want no finer a soldier than Ultra Magnus...
- SpringerSpringer (Transformers)Springer is the name of several fictional characters from the various Transformers universes. For trademark reasons, many toys of the character are named Autobot Springer.-Transformers: Generation 1:...
- Ultra Magnus
- Autobot Combiners
- ProtectobotsProtectobotsThe Protectobots are a fictional emergency, search and rescue team of five Autobots in the Transformers toyline. They transform into civilian service and emergency vehicles and combine to form the combiner Defensor...
/Defensor
- Protectobots
- Omega SupremeOmega SupremeOmega Supreme is the name of a fictional character from the Transformers franchise. He is always an Autobot and is often depicted as a gigantic transformer with vast strength and/or overwhelming firepower.-Transformers: Generation 1:...
Decepticons
- Megatronus/Megatron
- ShockwaveShockwave (Transformers)Shockwave is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers series. Throughout his incarnations, he is usually distinguished by a laser cannon in lieu of one of his hands and his distinctive face, which is featureless save a single robotic eye...
- SoundwaveSoundwave (Transformers)Soundwave is the name of several characters in the various series Transformers series. His most famous disguise is that of a microcassette recorder and has an iconic voice done by a vocoder.-Transformers: Generation 1:...
- Minicons
- RatbatRatbatRatbat is the name of several fictional characters who appeared in various Transformers universes.-Transformers: Generation 1:As is the case with many Transformers characters, the various continuities in which Ratbat has appeared have portrayed him widely differently in terms of size, personality,...
- Deployers
- RumbleRumble (Transformers)Rumble is a fictional character in the Transformers universes. In order to trademark the name, Hasbro referred to the Alternators character as Decepticon Rumble.-Transformers: Generation 1:...
- RavageRavage (Transformers)Ravage is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers universes. Due to the inability to trademark the common word "ravage", he is sometimes called Battle Ravage, Command Ravage or Tripredacus Agent...
- LaserbeakLaserbeakLaserbeak is the name given to several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. He is almost always a mechanical bird, and is partnered with Soundwave.-Transformers: Generation 1:...
- FrenzyFrenzy (Transformers)Frenzy is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. Wired Magazine once nominated him as one 12 most ridiculous Transformers of all time.-Transformers: Generation 1:...
- Rumble
- Ratbat
- SeekersSeekers (Transformers)Seekers is a term in the Transformers universe usually used to describe certain Decepticon warriors with jet transformations. For the character named Seeker see Seeker .-Origin of the term:...
- StarscreamStarscream (Transformers)Starscream is a fictional character in the Transformers franchise. He is one of the most prolific characters in the Transformers fictional work, appearing in almost all incarnations of the story. Starscream is usually portrayed with the same characterization...
- SkywarpSkywarpSkywarp is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers toy line. He is usually depicted as a black or purple Decepticon jet with teleportation powers.-Transformers: Generation 1:...
- ThundercrackerThundercrackerThundercracker is the name given to multiple fictional characters in the Transformers universes. Thundercracker is almost always depicted as a blue color Decepticon who turns into a jet fighter.-Transformers: Generation 1:...
- Contrail
- Hotlink
- Autoclave
- Nacelle
- Bitstream
- Starscream
- Catalycon
- BarricadeBarricade (Transformers)Barricade is the name of four fictional characters in the various Transformers universes.-Transformers: Generation 1:Barricade first featured in 1990 as part of a Decepticon race track patrol team, his vehicle mode being a Formula One racing car....
- Lugnut
- Drixco
- BlackoutBlackout (Transformers)Blackout is the name of several different fictional characters in the various Transformers universes.-Transformers: Generation 1:Blackout was one of a team of two Micromaster Combiners. They came with a Gepard air defense vehicle that could transform to a base...
- Decepticon Combiners
- CombaticonsCombaticonsThe Combaticons are a group of Decepticon military vehicles in the assorted fictional universes of the Transformers.- Transformers: Generation 1 :...
/Bruticus Maximus- OnslaughtOnslaught (Transformers)Onslaught is the name of two fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. Both are leaders of the Combaticons who turn into missile launching vehicles.-Transformers: Generation 1:...
- Onslaught
- ConstructiconsConstructiconsright|thumb|Scavenger, Bonecrusher, Longhaul, Scrapper & Mixmaster - five of the original six Constructicons The Constructicons are a group of fictional characters from the various Transformers continuities...
/DevastatorDevastator (Transformers)Devastator is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. For legal-political reasons, Hasbro now adds a modifier to the character's name on newer toy packages, such as Constructicon Devastator....
- Combaticons
- TrypticonTrypticonTrypticon is a fictional character in the Transformers toyline.-Transformers: Generation 1:Trypticon is the Decepticons' principal command base. He has three modes: a city, a mobile battle station, and a Tyrannosaurus rex. In each mode, he has a variety of weapons...
Others
- Combiners
- InsecticonsInsecticonsInsecticons is the name given to a sub-group of fictional characters in the Transformers Universes, referred to as Insectrons in the Japanese version. The name was also used for several fictional characters in the Transformers Universes...
- Insecticons
- High Council of Cybertron
- Halogen: Longest serving member of the High Council.
- Gauntlet: The militia magistrate for the High Council.
- Drivetrain: Patriarch of the Constructicons.
- Guilds of Cybertron
- Sigil: More elderly and run-down than his long-time friend Halogen.
- Chromatron
- Hydrau
- ArmorhideArmorhideArmorhide is the name of several fictional characters from various Transformers universes.-Transformers: Robots in Disguise:Dangar is sometimes also spelled 'Danger'. Armorhide's animated appearance in the TV series is based on the Takara version...
- Lightning Strike Coalition
- Bumper
- Fastback