History Trivia / TransformersEnergon

* NamesTheSame: Kicker's real name is Brad Jones. Not to be confused with [[Creator/BradJones the guy who reviews exploitation films]].

* CreatorsPest: Creator/BradSwaile, the voice actor for Kicker, admitted later on that he hated Kicker.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The US dub is suspected of being pushed by Creator/CartoonNetwork into rush delivery territory.
* MissingEpisode: "Return, Our Scorponok!" was never translated or broadcast in America. This changes the audience perception of [[spoiler:Scorponok]] entirely, as it is revealed that [[spoiler: he is not actually Alpha Q's servant from before the planet's destruction, but a Decepticon with FakeMemories. The real Scorponok died when Planet Q exploded]].
** The loss of an episode that both explained a lot of things and was a major turning point in the series rendered a ''lot'' of events meaningless or confusing. No one's sure why it was left out.
* NamesTheSame: Kicker's real name is Brad Jones. Not to be confused with [[Creator/BradJones the guy who reviews exploitation films]].
* OldShame: For many of the actors, but Brad Swaile (the voice for [[TheScrappy Kicker]]) in particular.
* TheOtherDarrin: For the dub of episode 14, Megatron was voiced by Richard Newman ([[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Rhinox]]) as opposed to [[Creator/DavidKaye his usual voice actor]].
* PopCultureUrbanLegends: It's a popular rumor that Starscream in the original Japanese version is a clone (probably stemming from how he is renamed to "Nightscream" only in Japan) and that the dub changed him to the same character as his ''Armada'' self. In actuality, even the original dialogue refers to "Nightscream" as one of Megatron's past soldiers and Alpha Q just gives him a new name, meaning he's a revived Starscream there too.
* ScheduleSlip: So bad that the US adaption got '''''incomplete sequences missing animation.'''''
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Was shoved into an early morning timeslot whenever it aired on Cartoon Network, because its unfinished animation wasn't up to broadcast standards.
* VoiceActingForTwo: Very common in the Japanese dub.

*** Not extensive in the English dub, however.

** Snow Cat, Roadblock, Mirage and Demolishor's dump truck form were intended to be all-new characters by Hasbro. It's pretty likely that Demolishor was supposed to be a new version of Long Haul, while Mirage was originally a SmallNameBigEgo (Snow Cat's original concept remains unknown). This was also the case with a number of redecoes and retools over the line's course, most notably changing Roadblock (intended as a new character and an homage to G1 Grapple) into an upgrade for Inferno - Roadblock's toy bio even still refers to him as if he were a new character. The same thing also happened with the toys that would become Landmine and Cliffjumper's new forms in the anime, with the former becoming Landquake (and repurposed as Landmine's mostly {{Pacifist}} brother) and the latter a {{Pun}}-making homage to G1 Beachcomber.

** Snow Cat, Roadblock, Mirage and Demolishor's dump truck form were intended to be all-new characters by Hasbro. It's pretty likely that Demolishor was supposed to be a new version of Long Haul, while Mirage was originally a SmallNameBigEgo. This was also the case with a number of redecoes and retools over the line's course, most notably changing Roadblock (intended as a new character and an homage to G1 Grapple) into an upgrade for Inferno - Roadblock's toy bio even still refers to him as if he were a new character. The same thing also happened with the toys that would become Landmine and Cliffjumper's new forms in the anime, with the former becoming Landquake (and repurposed as Landmine's mostly {{Pacifist}} brother) and the latter a {{Pun}}-making homage to G1 Beachcomber.

* FanNickname: The Energon Optimus Prime toy is often referred to as Fatimus.

** Snow Cat, Roadblock, Mirage and Demolishor's dump truck form were intended to be all-new characters by Hasbro. It's pretty likely that Demolishor was supposed to be a new version of Long Haul, while Mirage was originally a SmallNameBigEgo. This was also the case with a number of redecoes and retools over the line's course, most notably changing Roadblock (intended as a new character and an homage to G1 Grapple) into an upgrade for Inferno - Roadblock's toy bio even still refers to him as if he were a new character. The same thing also happened with the toys that would become Landmine and Cliffjumper's new forms in the anime, with the former becoming Landquake (and repurposed as Landmine's mostly [[ThePacifist pacifist]] brother) and the latter a {{Pun}}-making homage to G1 Beachcomber.

** Snow Cat, Roadblock, Mirage and Demolishor's dump truck form were intended to be all-new characters by Hasbro. It's pretty likely that Demolishor was supposed to be a new version of Long Haul, while Mirage was originally a SmallNameBigEgo. This was also the case with a number of redecoes and retools over the line's course, most notably changing Roadblock (intended as a new character and an homage to G1 Grapple) into an upgrade for Inferno - Roadblock's toy bio even still refers to him as if he were a new character. The same thing also happened with the toys that would become Landmine and Cliffjumper's new forms in the anime, with the former becoming Landquake (and repurposed as Landmine's brother) and the latter a {{Pun}}-making homage to G1 Beachcomber.

** The Omnicons were originally thought up as evolved Mini-Cons.

*** Meanwhile, the show writers' idea for Alpha Q was that he would turn out to be a little girl, the princess of Planet Q.

** Snow Cat, Roadblock, Mirage and Demolishor's dump truck form were intended to be all-new characters by Hasbro. It's pretty likely that Demolishor was supposed to be a new version of Long Haul. This was also the case with a number of redecoes and retools over the line's course, most notably changing Roadblock (intended as a new character and an homage to G1 Grapple) into an upgrade for Inferno - Roadblock's toy bio even still refers to him as if he were a new character. The same thing also happened with the toys that would become Landmine and Cliffjumper's new forms in the anime, with the former becoming Landquake (and repurposed as Landmine's brother) and the latter a homage to G1 Beachcomber.

** Snow Cat, Roadblock, Mirage and Demolishor's dump truck form were intended to be all-new characters by Hasbro. It's pretty likely that Demolishor was supposed to be a new version of Long Haul. This was also the case with a number of redecoes and retools over the line's course, most notably changing Roadblock (intended as a new character and an homage to G1 Grapple) into an upgrade for Inferno - Roadblock's toy bio even still refers to him as if he were a new character.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The US dub is suspected of being pushed by Creator/CartoonNetwork into rush delivery territory. This was around the time Jamie Kellner "ransacked" the programming blocks. And where, pray tell, does that man hail from? '''[[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment FOUR KIDS ENTERTAINMENT.]]'''

** Snow Cat, Roadblock, Mirage and Demolishor's dump truck form were intended to be all-new characters by Hasbro.

** Creator/MasumiAsano as Ariel, Miranda, and Sally
** Creator/NobutoshiCanna as Inferno, Laserwave, and Sixshot.