In Beast Wars, G1 Megatron’s face is reflected in the disk as he’s encoding a message in it while in deep space. We also see (Generation One) Megatron’s face reflected in the disk, which is a sly callback to a flashback scene from the original Beast Wars cartoon!
It should say, y’know, “Sounds of Earth” there, but instead there’s what looks like pixelated Cybertronian letters. Note: the Voyager “Sounds of Earth” Golden Record (known in Transformers circles as the Golden Disk) as seen in Kingdom has some pretty low-res English on it. Would you believe … from one of the two Voyager probes? It’s crazy, we know!īut here when we see Galvatron being yanked back to his own time period from his point of view, there’s a Voyager probe floating in space right there. The last chapter of War for Cybertron left viewers wondering how Galvatron obtained the Voyager Golden Record that he was trying to pass off to Megatron. Are we all done with the ’80s now? Can we march on to the acoustic guitar covers and plaid? The Golden Disk’s B-side hits I guess this is what happens when Ultra Magnus dies. This Netflix cartoon saw me coming and put a bunch of hard-to-discern folks who definitely shouldn’t be here behind layers of static, and I am definitely jumping through its hoops. In fact, as this clip flickers around, we get a clearer shot at the robot on the left, and … are those horns on that head? Is it Bumblebee? He isn’t supposed to be there! Nobody except Arcee is supposed to be there! The guy next to him may be Prowl? The guy in the upper left that sort of looks like he has Hot Rod’s spoiler wings on his back? That’s probably Wheeljack. None of these characters (other than Arcee) are the ones present in The Transformers: The Movie, are they? Is this not drawn art? Are these existing character models? The one that looks like Perceptor isn’t he’s got a pointy missile launcher on his shoulder, not a microscope. It is at this exact point that your brain becomes that Wee-Bey Reaction GIF from The Wire.
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Isn’t this pleasantly just like the original scene? There’s Perceptor, there’s Arcee, there’s … wait, is that Ultra Magnus? Ultra Magnus is dead in this Netflix cartoon! He died in Siege! What’s he doing there? Image: Sunbow ProductionsĪs we all know, there were only six Autobots (plus Daniel Witwicky) present at Optimus Prime’s The Transformers: The Movie death, with Springer off having better things to do than watch Prime die. See, this is where stuff starts our brains spinning. We see Optimus Prime on his deathbed, plucked almost directly from The Transformers: The Movie. We see Menasor! (He’s the combined form of the Stunticons, who do not appear in this trilogy.) Image: Netflix Well, why is anything important? Because it happened before, OK? When we were five years old. Even the first Michael Bay movie put Transformers on a dam. We see Megatron with a flail and Optimus Prime with an axe fighting on top of Sherman Dam, because that’s an original cartoon scene so important that they even did that scene in the original comics. We see Optimus Prime kneeling down to talk to Spike Witwicky and Spike’s father, Sparkplug. I’d say it could also be Buster Witwicky from the comic (the shirt does look kinda pink), but let’s not kid ourselves. Image: Netflixįirst we see Bumblebee talking with Spike Witwicky, the Autobots’ human friend from the original cartoon. This is wrong! It’s so wrong that even Optimus Prime’s Matrix-less chassis starts throwing a fit and showing him images of the way things were supposed to be.
In a major departure from most Generation One Transformers retellings, Optimus Prime, Megatron, and their double crew of warring robots actually survive their double crash on prehistoric Earth! They just get up off the floor easy as they please, rather than taking a four million year nap. So let’s talk about the Beast Wars-inspired Transformers: War for Cybertron: Kingdom. But for this chapter we’re out for fresh blood: the ’90s!Īs we traversed Kingdom’s six episodes, we asked the tough questions: “Who’s that?” “Where are we?” “Why are we floating in space like this?” “At what point did this clearly stop pretending to be in any previous continuity whatsoever?” “So, like, Blackarachnia’s like super gay, right?” We’re back, and we’ve made it to Transformers: War for Cybertron - Kingdom, the third and final chapter of the Netflix-exclusive Transformers cartoon! The first two chapters, Siege and Earthrise, allowed us to dig up and examine the frequently exhumed corpse of ’80s pop culture.
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