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** Two that pertain to the movie: Several of the animators, prior or after, were employees of (among others) StudioDEEN, Creator/{{Madhouse}} and Creator/StudioPierrot. Whereas Unicron was designed by Hiroyuki Hataike and Takehiko Ito, two men who would go on to help create ''OutlawStar''.

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** Two that pertain to the movie: Several of the animators, prior or after, were film's key animators were, at the time of production, employees of (among others) StudioDEEN, Creator/{{Bebow}}, Creator/{{Madhouse}} and Creator/StudioPierrot. Creator/{{Sunrise}}. Whereas Unicron was originally designed by Hiroyuki Hataike and Takehiko Ito, two men Hataike, who would go on to help create ''OutlawStar''.''Manga/OutlawStar''.

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* TheOtherDarrin: Several characters went through this; most noticeably with series voice director Wally Burr, who voiced Ratchet (''Masquerade''), Thundercracker (''War Dawn'') and Jazz (''Kremzeek'') in different episodes when their normal actors (Don Messick, John Stephenson and Scatman Crothers respectively) were unavailable, and it showed. Onslaught also switched from S. Marc Jordan to SteveBulen by "The Rebirth".

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* TheOtherDarrin: Several characters went through this; most noticeably with series voice Voice director Wally Burr, who voiced Ratchet (''Masquerade''), Burr substituted as Thundercracker (''War Dawn'') and Jazz (''Kremzeek'') in different episodes when their normal actors (Don Messick, for John Stephenson in "War Dawn", and Scatman Crothers respectively) as Ratchet for Don Messick in "Masquerade".
** After the death of Roger C. Carmel, Jack Angel took over as Cyclonus.
* TheOtherMarty: Ted Schwartz was originally intended to be Judd Nelson's replacement as Rodimus Prime's voice after TransformersTheMovie, and he still has a few lines (in the recap of part 2 and one line in part 3) that weren't dubbed over by Dick Gauthier in "Five Faces of Darkness".
* RecycledScript: "Microbots" has a similar scene to the ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 TMNT]]'' episode "Shreddered and Splintered". Both episodes
were unavailable, and it showed. Onslaught also switched from S. Marc Jordan to SteveBulen written by "The Rebirth".David Wise.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The reason female Transformers didn't appear from the very start. Budiansky was ready, willing and able, but the Hasbro execs thought there shouldn't be girls among "toys for boys" in a comic book "for boys". (Human female characters were obviously exempt from this reasoning).

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* ExecutiveMeddling: The reason female Transformers didn't appear from the very start. Budiansky was ready, willing and able, able (Ratchet was even a candidate for an early female character), but the Hasbro execs thought there shouldn't be girls among "toys for boys" in a comic book "for boys". (Human female characters were obviously exempt from this reasoning).
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* CreatorBreakdown: Writer Bob Budiansky suffered from stress due to trying to constantly shove in new toys, which led to him leaving the comic. He has since said that he has no intention of working on ''Transformers'' again, though that doesn't mean he wouldn't say "no" if Hasbro asked him. His only post-Marvel ''Transformers'' work was IDW's faithful adaptation of the animated movie, which was less stress-inducing for obvious reasons.

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* CreatorBreakdown: Writer Bob Budiansky (see above) suffered from stress due to trying to constantly shove in new toys, which led to him leaving the comic. He has since said that he has no intention of working on ''Transformers'' again, though that doesn't mean he wouldn't say "no" if Hasbro asked him. His only post-Marvel ''Transformers'' work was IDW's faithful adaptation of the animated movie, which was less stress-inducing for obvious reasons.
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* ArtistDisillusionment: Bob Budiansky, who has lost all interest in the series even several decades after he left it. According to post-''Transformers'' interviews, while he initially approached the project with complete enthusiasm,[[note]]He even wrote the "Tech-Spec" bios for the toys[[/note]] ExecutiveMeddling and the need to feature new toys sapped at his enthusiasm. It doesn't help that [[FanDumb his tenure was derided by some fans]] who consider his stories more juvenile than those of Simon Furman -- a point that Budiansky agrees with, as [[ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars he was targeting his stories for prepubescent boys.]]
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The reason female Transformers didn't appear from the very start. Budiansky was ready, willing and able, but the Hasbro execs thought there shouldn't be girls among "toys for boys" in a comic book "for boys". (Human female characters were obviously exempt from this reasoning).
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* HeAlsoDid: [[AeonFlux Peter]] [[ReignTheConqueror Chung]] served as a storyboard artist for the first two seasons and the movie.

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* HeAlsoDid: [[AeonFlux [[WesternAnimation/AeonFlux Peter]] [[ReignTheConqueror Chung]] served as a storyboard artist for the first two seasons and the movie.
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* SequelGap: After 21 years the comic is finally getting a proper, epic conclusion with ''Regeneration One''.
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** Specific examples include: PeterCullen, FrankWelker, ChrisLatta, MichaelBell, DonMessick, GreggBerger, CoreyBurton, DanGilvesan, NeilRoss, SusanBlu, RobPaulsen, JimCummings and CaseyKasem.

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** Specific examples include: PeterCullen, FrankWelker, ChrisLatta, MichaelBell, DonMessick, GreggBerger, CoreyBurton, DanGilvesan, NeilRoss, SusanBlu, RobPaulsen, JimCummings Creator/PeterCullen, Creator/FrankWelker, Chris Latta, Creator/MichaelBell, Creator/DonMessick, Creator/GreggBerger, Creator/CoreyBurton, Dan Gilvesan, Neil Ross, Susan Blu, Creator/RobPaulsen, Creator/JimCummings and CaseyKasem.Creator/CaseyKasem.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Several characters went through this; most noticeably with series voice director Wally Burr, who voiced [[hottip:Ratchet: ''Masquerade'']], [[hottip:Thundercracker: ''War Dawn'']] and [[hottip:Jazz: ''Kremzeek'']] in different episodes when their normal actors[[hottip:*: Don Messick, John Stephenson and Scatman Crothers respectively]] were unavailable, and it showed. Onslaught also switched from S. Marc Jordan to SteveBulen by "The Rebirth".
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In "War Dawn," Ariel was supposed to die along with Dion. However, members of production realized that since she was Orion Pax's LoveInterest, she could simply be rebuilt as Elita One. (This, by the way, is why fans propose Dion was also rebuilt into someone Optimus would know.)
** Octane's role in "Starscream's Ghost" was originally intended for Blitzwing, who was banished from the Decepticons in the "Five Faces of Darkness" five-parter. Blitzwing was replaced by Octane to promote Octane's [[MerchandiseDriven newer toy]].

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* TheOtherDarrin: Several characters went through this; most noticeably with series voice director Wally Burr, who voiced [[hottip:Ratchet: ''Masquerade'']], [[hottip:Thundercracker: ''War Dawn'']] Ratchet (''Masquerade''), Thundercracker (''War Dawn'') and [[hottip:Jazz: ''Kremzeek'']] Jazz (''Kremzeek'') in different episodes when their normal actors[[hottip:*: Don actors (Don Messick, John Stephenson and Scatman Crothers respectively]] respectively) were unavailable, and it showed. Onslaught also switched from S. Marc Jordan to SteveBulen by "The Rebirth".
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In "War Dawn," Ariel was supposed to die along with Dion. However, members of production realized that since she was Orion Pax's LoveInterest, she could simply be rebuilt as Elita One. (This, by the way, is why fans propose Dion was also rebuilt into someone Optimus would know.)
** Octane's role in "Starscream's Ghost" was originally intended for Blitzwing, who was banished from the Decepticons in the "Five Faces of Darkness" five-parter. Blitzwing was replaced by Octane to promote Octane's [[MerchandiseDriven newer toy]].toy]].

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** Two that pertain to the movie: Several of the animators, prior or after, were employees of (among others) StudioDEEN, Creator/{{Madhouse}} and Creator/StudioPierrot. Whereas Unicron was designed by Hiroyuki Hataike and Takehiko Ito, two men who would go on to help create ''OutlawStar''

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** Two that pertain to the movie: Several of the animators, prior or after, were employees of (among others) StudioDEEN, Creator/{{Madhouse}} and Creator/StudioPierrot. Whereas Unicron was designed by Hiroyuki Hataike and Takehiko Ito, two men who would go on to help create ''OutlawStar'' ''OutlawStar''.
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* HeAlsoDid: [[AeonFlux Peter]] [[ReignTheConqueror Chung]] served as a storyboard artist for the first two seasons.

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* HeAlsoDid: [[AeonFlux Peter]] [[ReignTheConqueror Chung]] served as a storyboard artist for the first two seasons.seasons and the movie.



** One that pertains to the movie: Several of the animators, prior or after, were employees of (among others) StudioDEEN, Creator/{{Madhouse}} and Creator/StudioPierrot.

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** One Two that pertains pertain to the movie: Several of the animators, prior or after, were employees of (among others) StudioDEEN, Creator/{{Madhouse}} and Creator/StudioPierrot.Creator/StudioPierrot. Whereas Unicron was designed by Hiroyuki Hataike and Takehiko Ito, two men who would go on to help create ''OutlawStar''
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In "War Dawn," Ariel was supposed to die along with Dion. However, members of production realized that since she was Orion Pax's LoveInterest, she could simply be rebuilt as Elita One. (This, by the way, is why fans propose Dion was also rebuilt into someone Optimus would know.)

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In "War Dawn," Ariel was supposed to die along with Dion. However, members of production realized that since she was Orion Pax's LoveInterest, she could simply be rebuilt as Elita One. (This, by the way, is why fans propose Dion was also rebuilt into someone Optimus would know.))
** Octane's role in "Starscream's Ghost" was originally intended for Blitzwing, who was banished from the Decepticons in the "Five Faces of Darkness" five-parter. Blitzwing was replaced by Octane to promote Octane's [[MerchandiseDriven newer toy]].

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* CreatorBreakdown: Writer Bob Budiansky sufferred from stress due to trying to constantly shove in new toys, which led to him leaving the comic. He has since said that he has no intention of working on ''Transformers'' again, though that doesn't mean he wouldn't say "no" if Hasbro asked him.

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* CreatorBreakdown: Writer Bob Budiansky sufferred suffered from stress due to trying to constantly shove in new toys, which led to him leaving the comic. He has since said that he has no intention of working on ''Transformers'' again, though that doesn't mean he wouldn't say "no" if Hasbro asked him.
him. His only post-Marvel ''Transformers'' work was IDW's faithful adaptation of the animated movie, which was less stress-inducing for obvious reasons.



* TheOtherDarrin: Several characters went through this; most noticeably with series voice director Wally Burr, who voiced [[hottip:Ratchet: ''Masquerade'']], [[hottip:Thundercracker: ''War Dawn'']] and [[hottip:Jazz: ''Kremzeek'']] in different episodes when their normal actors[[hottip:*: Don Messick, John Stephenson and Scatman Crothers respectively]] were unavailable, and it showed. Onslaught also switched from S. Marc Jordan to SteveBulen by "The Rebirth".

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* TheOtherDarrin: Several characters went through this; most noticeably with series voice director Wally Burr, who voiced [[hottip:Ratchet: ''Masquerade'']], [[hottip:Thundercracker: ''War Dawn'']] and [[hottip:Jazz: ''Kremzeek'']] in different episodes when their normal actors[[hottip:*: Don Messick, John Stephenson and Scatman Crothers respectively]] were unavailable, and it showed. Onslaught also switched from S. Marc Jordan to SteveBulen by "The Rebirth".Rebirth".
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In "War Dawn," Ariel was supposed to die along with Dion. However, members of production realized that since she was Orion Pax's LoveInterest, she could simply be rebuilt as Elita One. (This, by the way, is why fans propose Dion was also rebuilt into someone Optimus would know.)
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**Specific examples include: PeterCullen, FrankWelker, ChrisLatta, MichaelBell, DonMessick, GreggBerger, CoreyBurton, DanGilvesan, NeilRoss, SusanBlu, RobPaulsen, JimCummings and CaseyKasem.
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** One that pertains to the movie: Several of the animators, prior or after, were employees of (among others) StudioDEEN, {{Madhouse}} and StudioPierrot.

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** One that pertains to the movie: Several of the animators, prior or after, were employees of (among others) StudioDEEN, {{Madhouse}} Creator/{{Madhouse}} and StudioPierrot.Creator/StudioPierrot.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Several characters went through this; most noticeably with series voice director Wally Burr, who voiced [[hottip:Ratchet: ''Masquerade'']], [[hottip:Thundercracker: ''War Dawn'']] and [[hottip:Jazz: ''Kremzeek'']] in different episodes when their normal actors[[hottip:*: Don Messick, John Stephenson and Scatman Crothers respectively]] were unavailable, and it showed. Onslaught also switched from S. Marc Jordan to SteveBulen by ''The Rebirth''.

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* TheOtherDarrin: Several characters went through this; most noticeably with series voice director Wally Burr, who voiced [[hottip:Ratchet: ''Masquerade'']], [[hottip:Thundercracker: ''War Dawn'']] and [[hottip:Jazz: ''Kremzeek'']] in different episodes when their normal actors[[hottip:*: Don Messick, John Stephenson and Scatman Crothers respectively]] were unavailable, and it showed. Onslaught also switched from S. Marc Jordan to SteveBulen by ''The Rebirth''."The Rebirth".
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* DuelingShows: with ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots".

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* DuelingShows: with ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots".''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots''.
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** One that pertains to the movie: Several of the animators, prior or after, were employees of (among others)- StudioDEEN, {{Madhouse}} and StudioPierrot.

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** One that pertains to the movie: Several of the animators, prior or after, were employees of (among others)- others) StudioDEEN, {{Madhouse}} and StudioPierrot.
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* DuelingShows: with ''ChallengeOfTheGobots".

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* DuelingShows: with ''ChallengeOfTheGobots".''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots".



* TheOtherDarrin: Several characters went through this; most noticeably with series voice director Wally Burr, who voiced [[hottip:Ratchet: ''Masquerade'']], [[hottip:Thundercracker: ''War Dawn'']] and [[hottip:Jazz: ''Kremzeek'']] in different episodes when their normal actors[[hottip:*: Don Messick, John Stephenson and Scatman Crothers respectively]] were unavailable, and it showed. Onslaught also switched from S. Marc Jordan to SteveBulen by ''The Rebirth''.

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* TheOtherDarrin: Several characters went through this; most noticeably with series voice director Wally Burr, who voiced [[hottip:Ratchet: ''Masquerade'']], [[hottip:Thundercracker: ''War Dawn'']] and [[hottip:Jazz: ''Kremzeek'']] in different episodes when their normal actors[[hottip:*: Don Messick, John Stephenson and Scatman Crothers respectively]] were unavailable, and it showed. Onslaught also switched from S. Marc Jordan to SteveBulen by ''The Rebirth''.
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** One that pertains to the movie: Several of the animators, prior or after, were employees of (among others)- StudioDEEN, {{Madhouse}} and StudioPierrot.
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** [[StarDriver Shinji]] [[{{Megazone23}} Ara]][[{{Appleseed}} maki]] also did several character designs and created Perceptor.

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** [[StarDriver Shinji]] [[{{Megazone23}} Ara]][[{{Appleseed}} maki]] also did several character designs designs[[note]] Soundwave, his Cassettes and Reflector, to be specific.[[/note]] and created Perceptor.
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* HeAlsoDid: [[AeonFlux Peter]] [[ReignTheConqueror Chung]] served as a storyboard artist for the first two seasons.
** [[StarDriver Shinji]] [[{{Megazone23}} Ara]][[{{Appleseed}} maki]] also did several character designs and created Perceptor.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Between the show and [[TransformersTheMovie the movie]], there's a lot of well-known names. [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:English_voice_actors This would later apply to every following series]].

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* HeyItsThatVoice: Between the show and [[TransformersTheMovie the movie]], there's a lot of well-known names.names, some more-so than others. [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:English_voice_actors This would later apply to every following series]].
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Between the show and [[TransformersTheMovie the movie]], there's a lot of well-known names. [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:English_voice_actors This would later apply to every following series]].
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* CreatorBreakdown: Budiansky sufferred from stress due to trying to constantly shove in new toys, which led to him leaving the comic. He has since said that he has no intention of working on ''Transformers'' again, though that doesn't mean he wouldn't say "no" if Hasbro asked him.

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* CreatorBreakdown: Writer Bob Budiansky sufferred from stress due to trying to constantly shove in new toys, which led to him leaving the comic. He has since said that he has no intention of working on ''Transformers'' again, though that doesn't mean he wouldn't say "no" if Hasbro asked him.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Several characters went through this; most noticeably with series voice director Wally Burr, who voiced [[hottip:Ratchet: ''Masquerade'']], [[hottip:Thundercracker: ''War Dawn'']] and [[hottip:Jazz: ''Kremzeek'']] in different episodes when their normal actors[[hottip:*: Don Messick, John Stephenson and Scatman Crothers respectively]] were unavailable, and it showed. Onslaught also switched from S. Marc Jordan to SteveBulen by ''The Rebirth''.
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* {{Jossed}}: {{Fanon}} assumed that the character Dion from the episode "War Dawn" survived the attack on storage yard 67 and was rebuilt into someone important (Ultra Magnus being the most popular choice), seeing as his best friend, Orion Pax was rebuilt as Optimus Prime. In 2010, Hasbro flat out stated that [[http://www.tfviews.com/news/main/hasbro-q-and-a/1024 Dion was never rebuilt into anybody else]] and had not even survived. Also, The ''TransformersWingsOfHonor'' continuity had Dion survive the attack, but he was still called Dion.
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!![[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers The G1 Cartoon]]
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!![[ComicBook/TheTransformers The Marvel Comics]]
* CreatorBreakdown: Budiansky sufferred from stress due to trying to constantly shove in new toys, which led to him leaving the comic. He has since said that he has no intention of working on ''Transformers'' again, though that doesn't mean he wouldn't say "no" if Hasbro asked him.

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