History Trivia / TransformersAnimated

** Season 4 was also going to make Sentinel Prime a villain. [[Film/{{Transformers}} Funny one should mention that]].

*** In the Addendum at the back of the Collectors club issues has even more. Blot's chemical shells look like Metroids. And the Evil Sari of an Alternate universe has a sketchbook where she doodles a pony named [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dark]].

*** One of the ysterious Prisoners in Trypticon prison is [[SouthPark: Man bear Pig]]
*** In the Addendum at the back of the Collectors club issues has even more. Blot's chemical shells look like Metroids. And the Evil Sari of an Alternate universe has a sketchbook where she doodles a pony named [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic: Rainbow Dark]].

** Roadhandler is one of Yoketron's old pupils, and was trained in the art of wrestling - this is a reference to the G1 Roadhandler's stint as a professional wrestler in the G1 comics.

** PeterStormare is Meltdown.

** DavidKaye is Optimus Prime, Lugnut, Warpath, Grimlock, and Cliffjumper.

** CoreyBurton is Megatron, Shockwave (as mentioned above), Sparkplug Witwicky, Spike Witwicky, and Ratchet.

** TaraStrong is Sari, Slo-mo, Carly Witwicky, Strika, and Slipstream.

** They brought back several of the same voice actors who worked on G1 to reprise their characters. Most notably CoreyBurton playing Shockwave and Spike Witwicky; but also John Moshitta as Blurr, Susan Blu as Arcee and even ''Judd freaking Nelson'' for Rodimus Prime's few lines in ''[=TransWarped=]''.

** PhilLamarr is Jazz and Oil Slick.
** CoreyBurton is Megatron, Shockwave (as mentioned above), Spike Witwicky, and Ratchet.

** TomKenny is Starscream, Wasp, and Professor Isaac Sumdac.
** Bill Fagerbakke ([[{{Gargoyles}} Broadway]] and [[SpongebobSquarepants Patrick Star]]) is Bulkhead and Hotshot.
** JeffBennett is Prowl, Soundwave, Fanzone, Jetstorm, Angry Archer, and Ultra Magnus.

* FakeRussian - Jetfire and Jetstorm.
** Also, Strika, though its hard to tell, since she's only had a few lines.
* HeyItsThatVoice - Two words: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu09u6mu--g Starbob Screampants]].
** Quite a few others from {{Nickelodeon}} shows. [[SpongebobSquarepants Broadhead Star]]. Professor [[{{Rugrats}} Lil]]. Sari [[TheFairlyOddparents Turner]].
** Not to mention Optimus Prime has voiced four different series: Megatron, ''[[WesternAnimation/BeastWars yeeee]][[VerbalTic ssss]]'', ''[[MegaManNTWarrior Protoman.EXE]]'', '''and''' ''[[{{Inuyasha}} Sessho-freaking-maru]]''.
*** And the announcer for those Enzyte commercials. [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bee_in_the_City Not going there.]]
*** And [[XMenEvolution Professor Charles Xavier]].
** In general, about half the cast of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' are in there, somewhere. Bulkhead/Broadway, Prowl/Owen Burnett and Blackarachnia/Hyena.
** They brought back several of the same voice actors who worked on G1 to reprise their characters. Most notably Corey Burton playing Shockwave and Spike Witwicky; but also John Moshitta as Blurr, Susan Blu as Arcee and even ''Judd freaking Nelson'' for Rodimus Prime's three or four lines in ''[=TransWarped=]''.
** Can't forget [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic "Weird" Al Yankovic]] as Wreck-Gar.
** George Takei has also shown up, as Prowl's cyberninja master, no less.
** There's also Lance Henriksen as Lockdown.
** And let's not forget [[TheTick Townsend Coleman]] as Sentinel.

** [[{{Futurama}} Hermes]] as Jazz.

** Season 4 was also going to make Sentinel Prime a villain. But then we ended up getting [[TransformersDarkoftheMoon a different evil Sentinel...]]

** They brought back several of the same voice actors who worked on G1 to reprise their characters. Most notably Corey Burton playing Shockwave and Spike Witwicky; but also John Moshitta as Blurr, Susan Blu as Arcee and even ''Judd freaking Nelson'' for Rodimus Prime's three or four lines in ''[=TransWarped=]''.
** Can't forget [[WeirdAlYankovic "Weird" Al Yankovic]] as Wreck-Gar.

*** Tigatron Stadium - a nod to the WesternAnimation/BeastWars character, and to the late, great Tiger Stadium.

** The first we see the Autobots is they're job was repairing space bridges, which is sort of a ShoutOut to TransformersCybertron to which Optimus Primes plan was to build new space bridges.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen - Hot Shot and Red Alert were meant to be part of the main cast, but were replaced by Bumblebee and Ratchet due to the live-action movies. Rodimus was first choice for the 'jerkass on the Elite Guard' character, but this was apparently nixed by Hasbro.

** The Japanese version will feature NorioWakamoto as Megatron

** Italian dub: Optimus Prime is [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman Batman]], Prowl is [[DragonBall Vegeta]], Grimlock is [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Dinobot]], Swindle is [[SaintSeiya Pegasus Seiya]], Bumblebee is [[OnePiece Rufy]], Starscream and Blitzwing are [[KeroroGunso Kururu and Tamama]] and Ultra Magnus is [[KirbyRightBackAtYa King Dedede]]. And there's more.

** Taken to extremes by the ''[=AllSpark=] Almanac'', which manages shout outs to TF fandom memes, obscure characters (as in 'only appeared in a spin-off racing track set in 1984' obscure), and a metric ton of other stuff. That's not even getting into the non-Transformers stuff that gets namechecked. There's a map of the galaxy in the second ''Allspark Almanac'' featuring planets like [[{{He-ManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse}} Eternia]], [[PrinceOfSpace Krankor]], and [[SouthPark Marklar]], among ''dozens'' of other refs on those two pages alone.

** How has no one mentioned [[{{Futurama}} Hermes]] as Jazz?

** Italian dub: Optimus Prime is [[TheBatman Batman]], Prowl is [[DragonBall Vegeta]], Grimlock is [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Dinobot]], Swindle is [[SaintSeiya Pegasus Seiya]], Bumblebee is [[OnePiece Rufy]], Starscream and Blitzwing are [[KeroroGunso Kururu and Tamama]] and Ultra Magnus is [[KirbyRightBackAtYa King Dedede]]. And there's more.

** Not to mention Optimus Prime has voiced four different series: Megatron, ''[[BeastWars yeeee]][[VerbalTic ssss]]'', ''[[MegaManNTWarrior Protoman.EXE]]'', '''and''' ''[[{{Inuyasha}} Sessho-freaking-maru]]''.

** Italian dub: Optimus Prime is [[TheBatman Batman]], Prowl is [[DragonBall Vegeta]], Grimlock is [[TransformersBeastWars Dinobot]], Swindle is [[SaintSeiya Pegasus Seiya]], Bumblebee is [[OnePiece Rufy]], Starscream and Blitzwing are [[KeroroGunso Kururu and Tamama]] and Ultra Magnus is [[KirbyRightBackAtYa King Dedede]]. And there's more.

** Some of them go ''double'' meta. Starscream's clones have color schemes similar to the Seekers of G1, but are also a sly dig at the [[PaletteSwap repaints of Starscream]] that constituted the Seekers. The triceratops Dinobot in G1 was named Slag (which became an UnusualEuphemism in BeastWars and later in this show) and this one is called Snarl. In the show Scrapper claims to have tried naming him Slag first.

** Some of the returning voice actors are fairly obvious (Corey Burton reprising Shockwave, Susan Blu reprising Arcee, Judd Nelson reprising Rodimus Prime), but there's a more subtle one with David Kaye voicing Grimlock. David Kaye voicing a Transformer with a T-Rex as its alt-mode seems rather familiar... [[BeastWars yeeeeeeesss...]]

** Several for BeastWars:
*** Tigatron Stadium - a nod to the BeastWars character, and to the late, great Tiger Stadium.

** The second Allspark Almanac goes in depth about what Season 4 would have been like - and it sounds like it would have been the best thing in the world, too. No, we aren't going to give the details, get the book yourself.

** In general, about half the cast of ''{{Gargoyles}}'' are in there, somewhere. Bulkhead/Broadway, Prowl/Owen Burnett and Blackarachnia/Hyena.

** Several for BeastWars:
*** Tigatron Stadium - a nod to the BeastWars character, and to the late, great Tiger Stadium.
*** Blackarachnia, Wasp(inator) and Rattletrap. At the end of ''Predacons Rising'', Blackarachnia is dumped in front of a gorilla, a cheetah, a rhino and a rat. The way she says "You've got to be kidding," almost makes it sound like she's breaking the fourth wall.

** Taken to extremes by the ''[=AllSpark=] Almanac'', which manages shout outs to TF fandom memes, obscure characters (as in 'only appeared in a spin-off racing track set in 1984' obscure), and a metric ton of other stuff. That's not even getting into the non-Transformers stuff that gets namechecked. There's a map of the galaxy in the second ''Allspark Almanac'' featuring planets like [[HeMan Eternia]], [[PrinceOfSpace Krankor]], and [[SouthPark Marklar]], among ''dozens'' of other refs on those two pages alone.

** In the ''Allspark Almanac II'', Huffer and Pipes' character bios (as written by one another) both hint at their G1 counterparts' quirks - Pipes says Huffer loves Cybertron and he hopes he never has to find out how he would feel about being anywhere else, while Huffer says Pipes needs a hobby and has to get out in the galaxy; G1 Huffer was a constant bellyacher who hated life on Earth, and G1 Pipes was fascinated by Earth culture and technology who had an extensive KitschCollection of Earth knicknacks.