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Note: In any Japanese Continuity the names have been changed to their english equivalent. However it is important to note Autobots are referred to as "Cybertrons" and Decepticons are "Destrons". Also Optimus Prime is known as "Convoy" in Japan. This will become more important during the Beast Wars.
TransFormers: Generation 1
Cartoon
i. “Five Faces of Darkness” of Season outlines the beginnings of the Autobots/Decepticons and Cybertron.
ii. “Forever is a Long Time Coming” outlines origins of Alpha Trion.
iii. Episode “War Dawn” of Season 2 acts as a prequal, birth of Optimus Prime (note: it is somewhat inconsistent with “Five Faces of Darkness”
(1) War Within comic series volume 1 seems to fit between here and the pilot. It ignores "War Dawn".
1. Fight Super Robot Life (Seasons 1 and 2 of Transformers) - 65 episodes
a. Transformers: Generation 1. The show that started it all. Although there are some disparities between the Pilot of "More than Meets the Eye" and the series the was continued from it, the first two seasons are rather consistent. The show featured a storyline laid down by Bob Budinski and Jim Shooter of Marvel Comics. In it Optimus Prime, leader of the couragous Autobots, flees Cybertron to escape the horrors of war. Megatron follows thinking they have found a new fuel source. The battle that ensues sends both the Nemesis and Ark crashing to earth, not to be reawakened until millions of years later.
i. “More Than Meets the Eye” is the three part pilot which picks up many centuries after “War Dawn”.
ii. “Ultimate Doom” marks the first return to Cybertron
iii. “Dinobot Island” features the Series 2 Transformers, with the exception of Skyfire, Shockwave, the Insecticons, Dinobots, and Constructicons who all made their appearances already.
iv. While “The Key to Vector Sigma” and “Revenge of Bruticus” introduce the 3rd series combiners, they do not appear in the movie as it was made during “Dinobot Island”.
b. Scramble City (Japanese: fits roughly between the movie and the end of Season 2): Can be Downloaded for free at TFCOG.net. It is an episode featuring a crossover between the Series 1 and 2 and Series 3 characters. Ultra Magnus, Metroplex, Trypticon and the combiner teams of series 3 are introduced. It seems to ignore a vast portion of Season 2.
2. Transformers the Movie
a. Transformers the Movie or TFTM as it has become known was the first theatrical released movie featuring the Transformers. The Movie ignores and or retcons vast portions of Seasons 1 and 2. In the movie we are informed it is the year 2005 and the Autobots have been forced onto outlying moons of Cybertron by the Decepticons. Sparkplug appears to have died, and Spike has married Carly who both have raised a son named Daniel. The Autobot forces have also been bolstered by the introduction of Autobot City somewhere in Tennessee (later retconned).
i. Death of Unicron
ii. Optimus dies, Rodimus becomes leader
3. Transformers 2010 (Season 3 of Transformers) - 29 episodes
a. Five Faces of Darkness movie ignores the continuity of Scramble City, introducing Metroplex and Trypticon for the first time. The series is the first to take place mostly on Cybertron, and focuses on the Autobots interaction with surrounding space instead of simply humanity. The Autobots and Decepticons are also officially treated as an army waring over a planet rather than a dispersed subset waring on a foreign world. Rodimus Prime and Ultra Magnus take the reigns from Optimus, who is now dead. Although most characters from the 1st and 2nd years exist, they are skirted in favor of the series 3 characters.
i. This season migrates and repopulates Cybertron, a large number of the residents coming from Paradron in “Fight or Flee”. Most notably Sandstorm.
ii. Optimus makes his return in “Dark Awakening”
iii. Starscream makes his return in “Ghost in the Machine” and regains his body in “Starscream’s Ghost”.
iv. “Return of Optimus Prime”, a two parter, returns Optimus to leadership and ignores the events of “Dark Awakenings”.
v. Season ends with “Rebirth”, also called the 4th Season. It is a three parter featuring the Headmasters and other 4th series characters.
4. Transformers: Headmasters (G1 season 4: Only airs in Japan and UK) - 35 episodes
a. Ignores events of “Rebirth”. It features the Headmasters, Monsterbots, Counterpunch/Punch, Sixshot, Scorponok and Fortress Maximus among others. Covers all of the series 4 characters. Leadership of both the Autobots and Decepticons passes through several hands during the show. Although it starts with Optimus and Galvatron as "Return of Optimus Prime" left it.
i. Optimus Prime merges with Vector Sigma, dying, in the third Episode.
ii. Blaster and Soundwave both die in the second to be reformated as Twincast and Soundblaster respectively.
iii. Galvatron “dies”
iv. Scorponok, or “Lord Zarak”, takes the mantle of leadership.
v. Cybertron is destroyed completely, Rodimus, Kup and Blur quit the Autobots leaving Fortress Maximus in charge.
vi. Galvatron returns only to “die” yet again. He does not ever return.
vii. Ultra Magnus dies in battle with Sixshot.
viii. The Targetmasters appear towards the end.
ix. Fortress Maximus kills Scorponok ending the Great War.
5. Tranformers: Masterforce (G1 season 5: Only airs in Japan and UK) - 47 episodes
a. Masterforce picks up after Headmasters somewhere in the not too distant future. Chromedome gives Metalhawk, an ancient Transformer Pretender, headmaster technology. In this series the humans are the Transformers, and the robots are Transectors; lifeless forms with the humans control and pilot. The Pretenders themselves are Autobots who have taken human forms, but indeed are sentient robots unlike the Transectors that are the Headmaster Juniors and Powermasters.
i. The show features a young Ginrai, also known as Powermaster Prime or Apex Prime, as an up and coming Autobot leader. Not Optimus Prime.
ii. Metalhawk is a Pretender, Autobots who took the form of humans sometime in between the crashing of the Ark and the Autobots re-awakening.
iii. The show features the tracking down and elisting (by both factions) of the Headmaster Juniors and Powermasters.
iv. The show culminates with the arrival of Grand Maximus, a Pretender Headmaster Fortress, and his show down with the shows mastermind; Black Zarak.
6. Transformers: Victory (G1 season 6: Only airs in Japan and UK) - 44 episodes
a. Victory picks up after Masterforce in the not too distant future. Star Saber has become the Autobots earth defense commander, while Apex Prime becomes leader of the Autobots. The show introduces Planet Micro as a new homeworld for the Transformers. It is suggested that Rodimus may have found this homeworld while he left Fortress Maximus in charge. This is further evidenced by Hot Rod's appearance as a micromaster in Battlestars.
i. The series features Deathsaurus as the leader of the Decepticons and both the Breastmasters and Dinoforce as his minions.
ii. Star Saber is a brainmaster like three of his unit members. Other Autobots include the Landcross, Micromasters (from planet Micro) and Galaxy Shuttle.
iii. Apex Prime is killed late in the season, his body is remade into Victory Leo. His mantle is passed to Star Saber who becomes Supreme Commander.
iv. The show ends with the death of Deathsaurus, along with the rest of the Decepticons.
7. Transformers: Zone (G1 “season” 7: Only airs in Japan) - 1 episode
a. Zone features the Micromasters, most prominently Countdown. It features the apparent death of Star Saber (who turns out perfectly fine). The “movie” has the micromasters fighting the demigods of the great Decepticon generals, Piranacon, Devestator, Bruticus, Menasor, Zarak, Trypticon and Overlord. Dai Atlas becomes Autobot Earth leader.
Transformers Battlestars - Never created series featuring the return of the original Megatron and Optimus Prime (as Super Megatron and Star Convoy) - One pamplet/comic
BEAST WARS
8. Transformers: Beast Wars (“G1 season” 8) - 26 episodes
a. Picks up somewhere after Zone/the US comic/ or the end of Season 3 – it’s never quiet clear. It’s also important to note that until Beast Wars Metals it’s not even clear what, if any, connection the show has to G1. The Transformers are obviously smaller and more "human" than previous Transformers as they require some form of sleep, have male/female relations, but it is quiet clear they are from Cybertron.
i. It picks up with a crew of Maximals and Predacons (who are descended from Autobots and Decepticons) as they crash land on an alien world with two moons that has earth bound species inhabiting it. It is thought to be an experimental planet for aliens known as the Vok.
ii. The season ends with one of the moons being destroyed, Primal’s “death” and a weird shockwave which renders the energon rich planet more inhabitable for the Transformers (who originally adopted Beast forms to avoid status lock)
9. Transformers: Beast Wars II (“G1 season” 8.1: Only airs in Japan) - 43 episodes + Movie
a. Never quiet clear on where it fits, but seems to happen simultaneously to American Beast Wars.
i. Features yet another Optimus(possibly a brother of some sort) who transforms into a Lion. He is known as Lio Convoy.
ii. Features Galvatron as the villainous leader of the Decepticons. He is in search of the Anglomois energy.
iii. Series ends with Galvatron’s death.
iv. Series contains an additional movie featuring the American Optimus Primal.
10. Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (“G1 season” 8.2: Only airs in Japan) - 35 episodes.
a. Never quiet clear on where it fits, but seems to happen simultaneously with Beast Wars II and I. – Some place it post Beast Wars I and II.
i. Features a council of “Primes” and an Optimus known as Big Convoy (the One Robot Army) training upstart new recruits.
ii. Magmatron is the main villain, dies at the end.
iii. Galvatron lifeless shell is inhabited with the Anglomois energy towards the series conclusion. This is done with help from the Blendtrons. The energy turns out to be, in fact, the spirit of Unicron. Lio Convoy and Big Convoy team up and defeat him.
11. Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (“G1 season” 9) - 26 episodes.
a. Takes place directly after the end of Season 8. Features a new Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Rattrap, Megatron, and Tarantulus in Transmetal bodies. It is also revealed early on that the Beast Wars is taking place on Earth in the past.
i. Features most famously “The Agenda”, a three parter in which Megatron enacts his final revenge by killing Optimus Prime in the past on the Ark.
ii. The Maximals set up base in the Ark after saving Prime from near death. Primal merges with Prime’s spark and becomes Optimal Optimus. The notion of “Spark” is introduced more fully.
iii. Megatron unearths the Nemesis towards the end and uses it against both the Maximals and his own dimwitted troops. We also find out Tarantulus is a descendent of Unicron and has been spying of the Predacons for the Tripredicus Council.
iv. Ends with Megatron’s “defeat” and begin taken back to Cybertron to await council and sentencing...or so we think.
12. Transformers: Beast Machines (“G1 season” 10) - 26 episodes.
a. Takes place some undisclosed amount of time after Beast Wars. Features a Cybertron fully decimated and controlled by Beast Wars Megatron. He attempts to rid it “of the Organic”
i. The show re-addresses old G1 elements such as [the Key to] Vector Sigma, the Matrix, the Hate Plague, the Great Wars, Primus, the Oracle, and the Plasma Energy Chamber.
ii. The show features, what some feel, was a very “tree hugging” Optimus Primal. The shows producers who were kept from watching Beast Wars as reference during production (although were familiar).
iii. The show featured Vehicons, drones with Transformer sparks that have been “brainwashed” by Megatron.
iv. The show concludes G1 fully with a return to the organic. Optimus and Megatron both finally die in battle. Optimus says their constant struggle between Prime and Megatron is what destroyed Cybertron to begin with. With their final destruction they bring a new “green age” to Cybertron.
13. Purposed Transtech Series to take place after – Never realized.
t: Note: In any Japanese Continuity the names have been changed to their english equivalent. However it is important to note Autobots are referred to as "Cybertrons" and Decepticons are "Destrons". Also Optimus Prime is known as "Convoy" in Japan. This will become more important during the Beast Wars.
TransFormers: Generation 1
Cartoon
i. “Five Faces of Darkness” of Season outlines the beginnings of the Autobots/Decepticons and Cybertron.
ii. “Forever is a Long Time Coming” outlines origins of Alpha Trion.
iii. Episode “War Dawn” of Season 2 acts as a prequal, birth of Optimus Prime (note: it is somewhat inconsistent with “Five Faces of Darkness”
(1) War Within comic series volume 1 seems to fit between here and the pilot. It ignores "War Dawn".
1. Fight Super Robot Life (Seasons 1 and 2 of Transformers) - 65 episodes
a. Transformers: Generation 1. The show that started it all. Although there are some disparities between the Pilot of "More than Meets the Eye" and the series the was continued from it, the first two seasons are rather consistent. The show featured a storyline laid down by Bob Budinski and Jim Shooter of Marvel Comics. In it Optimus Prime, leader of the couragous Autobots, flees Cybertron to escape the horrors of war. Megatron follows thinking they have found a new fuel source. The battle that ensues sends both the Nemesis and Ark crashing to earth, not to be reawakened until millions of years later.
i. “More Than Meets the Eye” is the three part pilot which picks up many centuries after “War Dawn”.
ii. “Ultimate Doom” marks the first return to Cybertron
iii. “Dinobot Island” features the Series 2 Transformers, with the exception of Skyfire, Shockwave, the Insecticons, Dinobots, and Constructicons who all made their appearances already.
iv. While “The Key to Vector Sigma” and “Revenge of Bruticus” introduce the 3rd series combiners, they do not appear in the movie as it was made during “Dinobot Island”.
b. Scramble City (Japanese: fits roughly between the movie and the end of Season 2): Can be Downloaded for free at TFCOG.net. It is an episode featuring a crossover between the Series 1 and 2 and Series 3 characters. Ultra Magnus, Metroplex, Trypticon and the combiner teams of series 3 are introduced. It seems to ignore a vast portion of Season 2.
2. Transformers the Movie
a. Transformers the Movie or TFTM as it has become known was the first theatrical released movie featuring the Transformers. The Movie ignores and or retcons vast portions of Seasons 1 and 2. In the movie we are informed it is the year 2005 and the Autobots have been forced onto outlying moons of Cybertron by the Decepticons. Sparkplug appears to have died, and Spike has married Carly who both have raised a son named Daniel. The Autobot forces have also been bolstered by the introduction of Autobot City somewhere in Tennessee (later retconned).
i. Death of Unicron
ii. Optimus dies, Rodimus becomes leader
3. Transformers 2010 (Season 3 of Transformers) - 29 episodes
a. Five Faces of Darkness movie ignores the continuity of Scramble City, introducing Metroplex and Trypticon for the first time. The series is the first to take place mostly on Cybertron, and focuses on the Autobots interaction with surrounding space instead of simply humanity. The Autobots and Decepticons are also officially treated as an army waring over a planet rather than a dispersed subset waring on a foreign world. Rodimus Prime and Ultra Magnus take the reigns from Optimus, who is now dead. Although most characters from the 1st and 2nd years exist, they are skirted in favor of the series 3 characters.
i. This season migrates and repopulates Cybertron, a large number of the residents coming from Paradron in “Fight or Flee”. Most notably Sandstorm.
ii. Optimus makes his return in “Dark Awakening”
iii. Starscream makes his return in “Ghost in the Machine” and regains his body in “Starscream’s Ghost”.
iv. “Return of Optimus Prime”, a two parter, returns Optimus to leadership and ignores the events of “Dark Awakenings”.
v. Season ends with “Rebirth”, also called the 4th Season. It is a three parter featuring the Headmasters and other 4th series characters.
4. Transformers: Headmasters (G1 season 4: Only airs in Japan and UK) - 35 episodes
a. Ignores events of “Rebirth”. It features the Headmasters, Monsterbots, Counterpunch/Punch, Sixshot, Scorponok and Fortress Maximus among others. Covers all of the series 4 characters. Leadership of both the Autobots and Decepticons passes through several hands during the show. Although it starts with Optimus and Galvatron as "Return of Optimus Prime" left it.
i. Optimus Prime merges with Vector Sigma, dying, in the third Episode.
ii. Blaster and Soundwave both die in the second to be reformated as Twincast and Soundblaster respectively.
iii. Galvatron “dies”
iv. Scorponok, or “Lord Zarak”, takes the mantle of leadership.
v. Cybertron is destroyed completely, Rodimus, Kup and Blur quit the Autobots leaving Fortress Maximus in charge.
vi. Galvatron returns only to “die” yet again. He does not ever return.
vii. Ultra Magnus dies in battle with Sixshot.
viii. The Targetmasters appear towards the end.
ix. Fortress Maximus kills Scorponok ending the Great War.
5. Tranformers: Masterforce (G1 season 5: Only airs in Japan and UK) - 47 episodes
a. Masterforce picks up after Headmasters somewhere in the not too distant future. Chromedome gives Metalhawk, an ancient Transformer Pretender, headmaster technology. In this series the humans are the Transformers, and the robots are Transectors; lifeless forms with the humans control and pilot. The Pretenders themselves are Autobots who have taken human forms, but indeed are sentient robots unlike the Transectors that are the Headmaster Juniors and Powermasters.
i. The show features a young Ginrai, also known as Powermaster Prime or Apex Prime, as an up and coming Autobot leader. Not Optimus Prime.
ii. Metalhawk is a Pretender, Autobots who took the form of humans sometime in between the crashing of the Ark and the Autobots re-awakening.
iii. The show features the tracking down and elisting (by both factions) of the Headmaster Juniors and Powermasters.
iv. The show culminates with the arrival of Grand Maximus, a Pretender Headmaster Fortress, and his show down with the shows mastermind; Black Zarak.
6. Transformers: Victory (G1 season 6: Only airs in Japan and UK) - 44 episodes
a. Victory picks up after Masterforce in the not too distant future. Star Saber has become the Autobots earth defense commander, while Apex Prime becomes leader of the Autobots. The show introduces Planet Micro as a new homeworld for the Transformers. It is suggested that Rodimus may have found this homeworld while he left Fortress Maximus in charge. This is further evidenced by Hot Rod's appearance as a micromaster in Battlestars.
i. The series features Deathsaurus as the leader of the Decepticons and both the Breastmasters and Dinoforce as his minions.
ii. Star Saber is a brainmaster like three of his unit members. Other Autobots include the Landcross, Micromasters (from planet Micro) and Galaxy Shuttle.
iii. Apex Prime is killed late in the season, his body is remade into Victory Leo. His mantle is passed to Star Saber who becomes Supreme Commander.
iv. The show ends with the death of Deathsaurus, along with the rest of the Decepticons.
7. Transformers: Zone (G1 “season” 7: Only airs in Japan) - 1 episode
a. Zone features the Micromasters, most prominently Countdown. It features the apparent death of Star Saber (who turns out perfectly fine). The “movie” has the micromasters fighting the demigods of the great Decepticon generals, Piranacon, Devestator, Bruticus, Menasor, Zarak, Trypticon and Overlord. Dai Atlas becomes Autobot Earth leader.
Transformers Battlestars - Never created series featuring the return of the original Megatron and Optimus Prime (as Super Megatron and Star Convoy) - One pamplet/comic
BEAST WARS
8. Transformers: Beast Wars (“G1 season” 8) - 26 episodes
a. Picks up somewhere after Zone/the US comic/ or the end of Season 3 – it’s never quiet clear. It’s also important to note that until Beast Wars Metals it’s not even clear what, if any, connection the show has to G1. The Transformers are obviously smaller and more "human" than previous Transformers as they require some form of sleep, have male/female relations, but it is quiet clear they are from Cybertron.
i. It picks up with a crew of Maximals and Predacons (who are descended from Autobots and Decepticons) as they crash land on an alien world with two moons that has earth bound species inhabiting it. It is thought to be an experimental planet for aliens known as the Vok.
ii. The season ends with one of the moons being destroyed, Primal’s “death” and a weird shockwave which renders the energon rich planet more inhabitable for the Transformers (who originally adopted Beast forms to avoid status lock)
9. Transformers: Beast Wars II (“G1 season” 8.1: Only airs in Japan) - 43 episodes + Movie
a. Never quiet clear on where it fits, but seems to happen simultaneously to American Beast Wars.
i. Features yet another Optimus(possibly a brother of some sort) who transforms into a Lion. He is known as Lio Convoy.
ii. Features Galvatron as the villainous leader of the Decepticons. He is in search of the Anglomois energy.
iii. Series ends with Galvatron’s death.
iv. Series contains an additional movie featuring the American Optimus Primal.
10. Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (“G1 season” 8.2: Only airs in Japan) - 35 episodes.
a. Never quiet clear on where it fits, but seems to happen simultaneously with Beast Wars II and I. – Some place it post Beast Wars I and II.
i. Features a council of “Primes” and an Optimus known as Big Convoy (the One Robot Army) training upstart new recruits.
ii. Magmatron is the main villain, dies at the end.
iii. Galvatron lifeless shell is inhabited with the Anglomois energy towards the series conclusion. This is done with help from the Blendtrons. The energy turns out to be, in fact, the spirit of Unicron. Lio Convoy and Big Convoy team up and defeat him.
11. Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (“G1 season” 9) - 26 episodes.
a. Takes place directly after the end of Season 8. Features a new Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Rattrap, Megatron, and Tarantulus in Transmetal bodies. It is also revealed early on that the Beast Wars is taking place on Earth in the past.
i. Features most famously “The Agenda”, a three parter in which Megatron enacts his final revenge by killing Optimus Prime in the past on the Ark.
ii. The Maximals set up base in the Ark after saving Prime from near death. Primal merges with Prime’s spark and becomes Optimal Optimus. The notion of “Spark” is introduced more fully.
iii. Megatron unearths the Nemesis towards the end and uses it against both the Maximals and his own dimwitted troops. We also find out Tarantulus is a descendent of Unicron and has been spying of the Predacons for the Tripredicus Council.
iv. Ends with Megatron’s “defeat” and begin taken back to Cybertron to await council and sentencing...or so we think.
12. Transformers: Beast Machines (“G1 season” 10) - 26 episodes.
a. Takes place some undisclosed amount of time after Beast Wars. Features a Cybertron fully decimated and controlled by Beast Wars Megatron. He attempts to rid it “of the Organic”
i. The show re-addresses old G1 elements such as [the Key to] Vector Sigma, the Matrix, the Hate Plague, the Great Wars, Primus, the Oracle, and the Plasma Energy Chamber.
ii. The show features, what some feel, was a very “tree hugging” Optimus Primal. The shows producers who were kept from watching Beast Wars as reference during production (although were familiar).
iii. The show featured Vehicons, drones with Transformer sparks that have been “brainwashed” by Megatron.
iv. The show concludes G1 fully with a return to the organic. Optimus and Megatron both finally die in battle. Optimus says their constant struggle between Prime and Megatron is what destroyed Cybertron to begin with. With their final destruction they bring a new “green age” to Cybertron.
13. Purposed Transtech Series to take place after – Never realized.
