"Soundwave superior... Tarn... most inferior."
— Soundwave, The Perfect Decepticon
This series is made out of Crazy Is Cool as our main heroes and villains are much more than they appear to be with the Power of Friendship and BFG.
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Chapter One
Episode 1 - Fractured
- Bumblebee saves Windblade by activating his powerful stingers, knocking Thundercracker to submission.
Episode 2 - Memory
- Nova Storm gets hit by a blast which looks like it ought to have hurt, knocking her and Thundercracker right off their feet. Her response to this is to immediately call someone higher up to let them know what happened before she's even stopped groaning, then taking off with TC to track the culprit down.
- Windblade's quick thinking in bringing part of a mountain down on the seekers to give her and Bee a chance to escape.
Episode 3 - Allspark
- The Autobots succesfully get the Allspark into the space bridge, free of Megatron's plans. Ten episodes later, however, it's revealed that without the Allspark, Cybertron started to die.
Episode 10 - Maccadam's
- In the opening space dogfight, Bumblebee launches himself out with a triple-barreled cannon, destroys Slipstream's ship, and returns back without a scratch.
- Maccadam, (implied to be one of the Thirteen), intimidating Megatron into retreat just by going into his alt-mode, something we never quite get to see in person but is implied to be an immense weapons platform that can barely fit in the bar with how many gun and ammo clip shadows stick off it. That's pretty awesome.
Episode 11 - Sabotage
- Bumblebee rejects the fake memories that Shockwave placed to brainwash him.
Episode 13 - Matrix of Leadership
- Optimus saving Prowl especially while dodging blaster fire from the Seekers.
- Optimus Prime vs Starscream.
Episode 14 - Siloed
- Windblade escaping Slipstream and her Seekers.
Episode 17 - Awaken Sleeping Giants
- Grimlock does a Fast Ball Special with Bumblebee to bring down Nova Storm.
- Thundercracker gets beaten by Teletraan X.
Episode 18 - Eruption
- Teletraan X's Big Damn Heroes when he activates the Ark's defense systems and saving the Ark.
- Optimus and the Autobots' awakening sceneOptimus Prime: Autobots! Roll Out!
Chapter Two - Power of the Spark
Episode 22 - Bring Me the Spark of Optimus Prime
- Lockdown and Clobber, of all cons, capturing Hot Rod and bringing him to Megatron.
- Hot Rod nicely escapes from the Decepticons' clutches.
- Cheetor revealing himself.
- Optimus Prime vs. Megatron in Allspark-powered armor.
- While Optimus and Megatron are fighting, Starscream steals the Allspark right under their noses.
- Shockwave's Xanatos Gambit: he knew Wheeljack would try to escape his clutches, so he intentionally left him with resources so, at the end, he gets what he wanted: Wheeljack's drone controller. That doesn't change how awesome Wheeljack is. He not only turn Shockwave's machines against him, he also manages to escape and save Windblade along the way. It's no wonder Shockwave needs Wheeljack. He's the smarter of the two.
Chapter Three - Bumblebee Cyberverse Adventures
Episodes 37 to 40 - Battle for Cybertron
- We must give the Decepticons credit where it is due. They've beaten the Autobots to Cybertron by using the real Spacebridge from episode 31. Now, they've basically conquered Cybertron offscreen. And to top it all off, Shockwave invented the new laser snare cannon which obliterates the Ark by trapping the ship in a grid and dicing it!
- The Decepticons revel in their victory...until Teletraan-X and the Autobots reveal themselves. How did they make it? Optimus had already anticipated the Decepticons' trap and orders all of his comrades to abandon ship. So all the Decepticons blew up was the empty Ark. That is how to think ahead.
- The entire final battle for Cybertron. 'Nuff said.
- Windblade finally avenges Slipstream by trapping Bludgeon in Unspace with additional help from Wheeljack.
- Cheetor sacrifices his spark in order to stop Shockwave from corrupting the Allspark. Also counts as a Tearjerking moment.
- Having enough of Megatron's scrap in the effort to revive Cybertron, Optimus marches forward in a chaotic battle. He took down Soundwave and Skybyte when they try to stop him without flinching. Do not mess with him, as the Cons learned the hard way.
- Finally, as Megatron angrily charges towards Optimus over Cybertron's revitalization, the latter sends him flying into the now-feral Scraplets, giving the Decepticon leader a most crushing defeat. At long last, the Autobots have won the war! Oh, and Optimus prompts Shadow Striker to stop fighting without resorting to force... and it works.
The Quintesson Invasion
- Too many to list, but we'll put some here.
- We don't see it, but Perceptor managed to break out of the Spark-draining parade loop all on his own.
- The whole invasion fails thanks to Perceptor's escape and Hot Rod being stuck in toxic Energon long enough for the Quintessons to not notice him, allowing him to make the first step to defeat the invaders.
Episode 62 - The Other One
- The Autobots and Decepticons are surrounded by the bigger, more powerful Perfect Decepticons from another universe. They opt to fight them all. They don't really do much damage until Optimus and Megatron channel their multiversal energy into their troops.
- Megatron uses Astrotrain's secret weapon to blast a few troops into Unspace. Seems like Astrotrain's work has served him well.
- Optimus and the Other One clashing via a Beam-O-War with their Matrixes. And then there's Windblade in the alternate Matrix who serves as a Spanner in the Works for the Other One, shortcircuiting his Matrix from within and allowing Optimus to win. Astrotrain is left impressed when he returns to see the Other One down, allowing him to take him into the Multiverse and carry out his "big plans for him".Astrotrain: Look at him. He's nearly deactivated. Nice job, Prime.
Chapter Four - Movies
The Immobilizers
- Grimlock, in his biggest role yet.
- Once Volcanicus finally gets their act together, the Dinobot combiner is an absolute juggernaut; Once the Mercenaries lose their primary advantage (i.e. the time blaster), the bandits get their asses collectively whupped as Volcanicus unleashes the power of the beasts.
- The Dino vs. Dino fight, which ultimately ends in Trypticon's defeat.
- Tarn making his televised appearance and his Wounded Gazelle Gambit was a nice touch. His Shut Up, Kirk! moment to Optimus when the latter called him out after fighting the other Perfect Decepticons also counts.Optimus: Tarn, by using the Cortex Helm to force these soldiers to fight me, you are no better than those Megatron rose up against.Tarn: That's fine.
- At first, it seems like Shadowstriker would follow through with Tarn's orders of executing both Bumblebee and Thunderhowl. However, she instead shoots their bonds and tells them to escape, letting herself be captured.
- Lockdown did not hesitate to come to the rescue of Clobber and several characters and then join the Autobots in the Valley of Repugnus.
- If you pay attention closely, you could see Shadowstriker realizing that Soundwave is tricking Tarn by using Shockwave instead of Megatron in why he's following the Perfect Decepticon and quickly plays along.
- Just as it seems like the Autobots are outmatched (even with their teleportation technology courtesy of Wheeljack), Shadowstriker steps out from the crowd and declares that the peace treaty between the Autobots and Decepticons will still be upheld. Considering that most Decepticons would attempt to start a conflict in post-war Transformers media, it's quite awesome that they would rather coexist alongside the Autobots than get themselves into another war. The cherry on top is Soundwave dropping the loyal façade and turning a gun against Tarn.Shadowstriker: "Decepticons attack!?" Who're you to tell us what to do? I've talked with my fellow Decepticons, and we all agree: the treaty between us and the Autobots stands. Get off our planet, Tarn.
- Hot Rod saying, "Autobots, roll out!" before leading everyone to battle alongside Shadowstriker is this after seeing him grow as a leader in the previous season.
- Hot Rod being the last to fall to the Perfect Decepticons. It takes Tarn’s Teleport Spam No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to finally beat him. This enrages Soundwave, leading to…
- Soundwave's Heroic Sacrifice. He used the Cortex Helm briefly to get the other Perfect Decepticons to stop fighting his comrades, only for Tarn to knock it away from him. However, just as the villainous manipulator dons it again, Soundwave reveals he still has its power and executes the biggest sound blast ever to wipe him out. Sadly, it kills him as well, but it also ensures the Perfect Decepticons are finally freed from ever being controlled again.
