Unicron Trilogy Main Character Index
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This is the page for characters in the Unicron Trilogy who appear in Transformers: Energon.

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Autobots

Optimus Prime

Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (JP), Gary Chalk (EN) (All series), Luis Miguel Pérez (LA SP) (All series)

Big Badass Rig: Transforms into a car transporter this time around.
Big Good: Carrying on his role from Armada, he's still the leader of the Autobots and still the primary force for good in the setting.
Dub Name Change: Maintains the name Optimus Prime throughout all 3 english dubs, but receives a new name in each Japanese iteration of the three series, going from Convoy to Grand Convoy to Galaxy Convoy.
Look What I Can Do Now!: He can powerlinx with more or less the entire Autobot army, forming Optimus Supreme to fight a revived and very, very pissed off Unicron.
Super Mode: Optimus Prime: SUPER MODE!!! Formed by Prime and a set of four smaller vehicles. His Powerlinx form also, formed with Wing Saber (who has two different combinations with Prime: Flight Mode and Attack Mode) and Omega Supreme.

Hot Shot

Voiced by: Brent Miller (EN), Kosuke Toriumi (Energon), Ezequiel Serrano (LA SP)

Dub Name Change: He shares the same name between Energon and Superlink, but his Micron Legend name is Hot Rod (no connection to the G1 character, who's called Hot Rodimus in Japan), and his Galaxy Force name is Exillion with his Cybertron Defense form getting renamed to Exigeyser. Strangely, Superlink makes no acknowledgements whatsoever that Hot Rod and Hot Shot are even the same character.

Ironhide

Voiced by: Matt Hill (EN), Mitsuo Iwata (JP), Héctor Indriago (LA SP)

Adaptational Wimp: In most incarnations, Ironhide is a Southern-Fried Private who is a longtime friend of Optimus Prime and often one of his lieutenants. Energon recasts him as a Naïve Newcomer who had the misfortune of being partnered with Kicker.
Butt-Monkey: Klutzy rookie, frequently repremended by his peers and often subordinate to Kicker and thus the most constant victim to his nasty attitude.
Character Development: Ironhide's long-running feud with Scorponok is, sadly, the only character arc in this show that sees itself to any real conclusion.
Dub Name Change: Ironhide is known as Roadbuster in Superlink. This name change also affects his upgraded form. With him being known as Energon Ironhide in well....Energon, and known as Wild Roadbuster in Superlink.
Kid-Appeal Character: Despite his massive bulk and decidedly not-Yellow colors, he's quickly established as the show's Bumblebee role, as Hot Shot has since grown out of it from the previous show.
This Loser Is You

Jetfire

Voiced by: Scott Mcneil (EN), Nobuyuki Hiyama (Energon), Alex Orozco (LA SP)

Cold Ham: Seems to have mellowed out from the Large Ham he was in Armada.
Cool Starship: Same as Armada, he becomes a space shuttle.
Dub Name Change: Superlink changes his name to Skyfire, the name G1 Jetfire had in the cartoon because distancing him from his original toy to let Takara air the episodes he was in made him barely advertise his intended toy anymore. Similar to Hot Shot, "Superlink" makes no effort to establish Jetfire from "Micron Legend" and Skyfire as the same character.

Inferno

Inferno / Roadblock

^Roadblock

Voiced by: Michael Daingerfield (EN), Nobutoshi Canna (JP), Johnny Torres (LA SP)

Back from the Dead: Of a sort. After he hurled himself into the Energon star, Jetfire was able to recover his spark. He was reborn as Roadblock episodes later.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Courtesy of Megatron in Improsoned — I mean, Imprisoned Inferno. While he puts up a good fight, this lasts for three episodes until he hurls himself into the sun in Farewell Inferno.
Composite Character: As far as Hasbro's bios are concerned, Inferno and Roadblock are two separate characters. In the anime, Roadblock is an upgraded Inferno.
Dub Name Change: His upgraded form is simply known as Inferno Volt in Japan.
Expy: He visually evokes G1 Inferno. His upgrade, Roadblock evokes G1 Grapple, who himself shared a mold/animation model with Inferno.
Friendly Sniper: His long water cannon for his fire truck form can act as a sniper weapon mounter on his right arm.
Heroic Willpower: He struggles to keep himself from turning into Deception after “Imprisoning Inferno”. He manages to successfully resist in “Jungle Planet”.
Nice Guy: He's a very patient and pleasant fellow.
Save the Villain: His final moments as Inferno is saving Starscream from being destroyed with him in the Energon star.

Wing Dagger

Wing Dagger / Wing Saber

Wing Saber

Voiced by: Colin Murdock (Energon) & Peter Kelamis (Cybertron) (EN), Koji Yusa (Energon) & Takayasu Usui (Cybertron) (JP), Rolman Bastidas (LA SP)

Anti-Hero: By Cybertron, he's of the "rebels against authority" variety.
Combining Mecha: Can fuse with Optimus Prime for Sonic Wing Mode.^note
Composite Character: Design-wise, he uses elements of Star Saber and Predaking.
Dub Name Change: His Cybertron version is named after Zone character Sonic Bomber in Japan.
Expy: In Energon, he visually evokes Star Saber from Transformers: Victory.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Initially in Cybertron, though he mellows out soon enough.
Took a Level in Jerkass: Between Energon and Cybertron, he fell out with Optimus Prime regarding the life of a stranded astronaut and took off into space. When he first appears in Cybertron, he and the other Autobots clash. He gets better as the series progresses.

Omega Supreme

Voiced by: Scott McNeil (EN), Kenta Miyake (JP)

The Big Guy
Detachment Combat: Can split himself in two vehicles: One half is a construction vehicle with a huge claw; the other is a warship. His head is also a smaller robot, in reminiscence of Headmasters from G1. Can also combine with Optimus to become Optimus Supreme.^noteOmega Convoy in the Japanese dub
Terse Talker: Averted with this Omega Supreme.

Rodimus

Voiced by: Paul Dobson (EN), Ryōtarō Okiayu (JP), Rubén Leon (LA SP)

Dub Name Change: Called Rodimus Convoy in Japan.
Expy: Of G1 Rodimus Prime; only difference is that this version of Rodimus was never born as Hot Rod to begin with.
My Greatest Failure: He blames himself for failing to save Alpha Q’s planet when Unicron attacked. His efforts to revive Unicron are an attempt to restore the planet as atonement to Alpha Q.

Prowl

Voiced by: Alistair Abell (EN), Makoto Yasumura (JP), Luis Miguel Pérez (LA SP)

Dub Name Change: His Japanese version is named Red Alert. No connection to the paranoid Autobot Medic, who is called Alert in Japan, or the "Armada" Red Alert, who was named Ratchet in Japan.
You Don't Look Like You: In stark contrast to most depictions, this Prowl bears no semblance to a police vehicle, transforming into an indy racecar instead.

Landmine

Voiced by: Ward Perry (Energon) & Paul Dobson (Cybertron) (EN), Kenta Miyake (Energon) & Tomoyuki Shimura (Cybertron) (JP), Walter Véliz (LA SP)

Beware the Nice Ones
Breakout Character: He plays a minor role in Energon whilst under the command of Rodimus. In Cybertron, he's part of Optimus's team and has a lot more prominence.
Bruiser with a Soft Center
Dub Name Change: Landmine is named "Guardshell" in Galaxy Force, being initially concepted as an entirely new character.
Nice Guy
Overshadowed by Awesome
Took A Level In Bad Ass

Bulkhead

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Voiced by: French Tickner (EN), Nobuo Tobita (JP), Armando Volcanes (LA SP)

Cool Old Guy: He’s an old Autobot and is still a competent fighter. He can be an oddball, but his loyalty to the Autobots never falters.
Dub Name Change: He is called Sprung in Japan, Springer's Japanese name.
Early-Installment Weirdness: He is the only pre-Animated version of Bulkhead, and is very distinct from the later mold.
Expy: Of Springer, who he is a variant of in Japan.

Downshift

Voiced by: Ty Olsson (EN), Makoto Yasumura (JP), José Mendez (LA SP)

Dub Name Change: He is Wheeljack in Japan, as the name was not already taken there (Armada Wheeljack is instead called Rampage).
Expy: He visually evokes G1 Wheeljack. Superlink naturally changed his name to "Wheeljack" since the Armada one was named "Rampage" in the Japanese version of that show.

Cliffjumper

Voiced by: Doron Bell, Jr. (EN), Katsuyuki Konishi (JP)

Dub Name Change: Called Overdrive in Japan.
Gratuitous English: Has a habit of saying "Check it out, yo!" in the Japanese dub.

Arcee

Voiced by: Sharon Alexander (EN), Mayumi Asano (JP), Rebeca Aponte (LA SP)

Dub Name Change: As Sureshock was called Arcee in Japan, this Arcee is called Ariel (Elita One's original form) over there.
The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female Omnicon. The show explains this as her being a rallying symbol for the Omnicons to focus on. ... yeah. The comics mercifully just have her there.
Verbal Tic: In the comics, like all the Omnicons, she prefaces sentences with "crz" or other similar sounding noises.

Signal Flare

Voiced by: Michael Dobson (EN), Nobuo Tobita (JP)

Skyblast

Voiced by: Terry Klassen (EN), Jin Yamanoi (JP)

Cool Plane: Turns into a cybertronic jet.
Dub Name Change: Known as Airglide in Japan.
Those Two Guys: With Strongarm.
Token Flyer: The only Omnicon with a flying alt mode.

Strongarm

Voiced by: Scott McNeil (EN), Makoto Aoki (JP)

Dub Name Change: Known as Blastarm in Japan.
Those Two Guys: With Skyblast

Superion Maximus

Voiced by: Paul Dobson (EN), Isshin Chiba (JP)

Combining Mecha: Has elements of Hive Mind; His toys depict his components as separate Aeiralbots, but in the series, all of the are one Autobot with several bodies.
Detachment Combat: Has the ability to fuse and infuse.
Dub Name Change: A minor case; He lacks the Maximus suffix in Japan.

Decepticons

Megatron

Armada Megatron

^{Armada Galvatron}

Voiced by: Junichi Endo (JP), David Kaye (EN), Framk Maneiro (LA SP)

Leader of the Decepticons, who's looking to resume his conquest now that he's been revived.

Bad Boss: He is a pretty straight-up violent sociopath who will attack, reformat, or kill those who remotely defy him (though he occasionally shows genuine care for loyal followers).
Big Bad: The main villain the Autobots must defeat, with his constant plots to hijack the power of Unicron for his own ends. [[spoiler:Although by the end, he's once again been hijacked by Unicron.
Big Bad Ensemble: He's initially competing not only with the Autobots, but Alpha Q as well. It doesn't take too long though for Megatron to assert himself as the bigger threat.
Blade Below the Shoulder: His left hand is more like a claw surrounding a compartment that hides his trench knife. It is only seen near the end of Armada, but it does massive damage when it finally shows up.
Cool Plane: His main alt-mode is that of a plane.
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: It was his death that once again stopped Unicron.
Dub Name Change: He never changed his name to Galvatron in Micron Legend and stayed Megatron the whole way through, with the trade-off of naming him Galvatron during all of Superlink.
Dying as Yourself: In the finale, he manages to break from Unicron's control as Optimus prepares to ensure the death of both of them and commits suicide to ensure Unicron can never control him again.
Faux Affably Evil: Any air of politeness to him is just an act; he is all about himself and has no respect for anyone else.
Final Boss: After Unicron is successfully defeated, Galvatron becomes the final opponent for Armada, and his death seals Unicron's defeat at the end of the series.
Flanderization: His Armada self was cruel, but still had some noble qualities about him. Here though, he's become much worse and is now just your average power hungry Evil Overlord with more or less no explanation why.
Graceful Loser: Despite being far eviler in Energon, he willingly takes his own life to destroy Unicron.
Hair-Trigger Temper: By far one of the most volatile incarnations of Megatron, with his minions often the brunt of his violent tantrums.
Mythology Gag: His initial design is based on Generation 1 Galvatron, which comes full circle when he becomes Galvatron again and takes on the classic color scheme.
One-Man Army: The comic version manages to lay waste to four armies worth of Terrorcons in a matter of minutes.
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Optimus Prime is his to destroy. Sixshot, in particular, suffered ruthless dismissal for trying to dispose of Optimus himself throughout Energon, a disposition that did not remotely waver when Sixshot half slagged Galvatron to do so.
Sixshot: *charges and aims laser at Galvatron* Optimus Prime will be mine!
Galvatron: NEVER!!!
Pragmatic Villainy: After indirectly killing Scorponok, he decides to revive him (albeit rebooted as loyal to him), assessing that the Terracons loyalty to him will help keep them under control and ensure retrieving energon.
Purple Is Powerful: His Galvatron form, acquired by a dunk in Super Energon, is purple like original flavor Galvatron.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In the Energon comics. Ten years of pent-up anger get spent in the space of a few minutes.
Tank Goodness: Here he has an Arm Cannon/Blade Below the Shoulder that resembles his original tank form.
Team Dad: A horrible abusive dad, but a dad nonetheless. This changes after Armada.
Took a Level in Jerkass: His Noble Demon and Affably Evil traits mysteriously vanish with no explanation, and he becomes even more ruthless than he already was.
Villainous Valor: His death is him dying on his terms. He breaks free from Unicron's control as Optimus is trying to sacrifice himself to ensure Unicron's destruction so that he can take his own life to ensure Unicron will never control him.
Villain Teleportation: Dreamwave's Energon comics have Megatron rebuild himself with a fancy teleportation ability that can take him across interstellar distances in seconds. It does come with the drawback of soaking up a lot of energy, though.

Starscream

Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita (JP) (Energon), Michael Dobson (EN), Luis Carreño (LA SP)

Megatron's poorly-treated second in command; he loathed Megatron because of the sheer mistreatment and contempt Megatron often piled onto him. Megatron always seemed to expect too much from him.

Adaptation Name Change: In the original Japanese edit of Energon, he gets renamed Nightscream. The dub has him keep the name Starscream in all of his appearances.
Back from the Dead: He dies at the end of Armada and Energon, but returns not long after each time.
Came Back Wrong: In the Energon comic, he comes back as an energon ghost... and completely insane to boot. In the show, his revived form has no memory of his past self.
Co-Dragons: He shares the role of Megatron's top lieutenant with Shockblast, although he's the much more loyal one.
The Dragon: Returns to this role under Megatron.
Dub Name Change: His new body in Energon gives him the rename Nightscream. Contrary to popular belief, "Nightscream" is not a new character who resembles Starscream and is still made clear as his reborn (but amnesiac) form.
Heroic Sacrifice: At the end of Energon, when he follows his master into the giant energon sun.
Teleportation: Has this power throughout Energon.

Shockblast

Voiced by: Brian Drummond (EN), Nobutoshi Canna (JP), Carlos Vitale (LA SP)

Adaptational Name Change: He is very clearly meant to be Shockwave, but Hasbro, at the time, didn't have the trademark for that name, and would've been sued to hell and back if they used it. They eventually did get the trademark back, though, and all future incarnations of Shockwave have been named Shockwave.
Adaptational Personality Change: He is far more Ax-Crazy than the standard Shockwave, who tends to be either cold and logical or a Yes-Man.
Arch-Enemy: Oddly of another Decepticon, Tidal Wave/Mirage. This hatred was unexplained in the dub, though in the original, Tidal Wave had already experienced Shockblast's abusive command.
Ax-Crazy: Easily one of the most brutal Decepticons in the trilogy, whereas some of them looked comical, this guy has an on-screen body count that rapidly grows and is always gruesome.
Bad Boss:
- Instantly made a high rank Decepticon upon his release, and instantly made Megatron look reasonable. Came to an end after his betrayal, after which he was allowed back to the team, but as last in command.
- Even prior to his promotion, he shot a Decepticon grunt who was trying to rescue him, for no reason other than his own amusement.
Big Bad Wannabe: He tries deposing his boss multiple times, and in his final attempt tries to harness the power of Unicron, an actual god. Unfortunately for him, he's not competent enough to pull this off.
The Brute: His role largely consisted of leading troops on the front lines and wrecking things. He wasn't inherently stupid, but otherwise fits the role well.
Co-Dragons: Initially one to Megatron alongside Starscream. He is demoted after he first betrays Megatron, however.
Dub Name Change: Called Laserwave in Japan, Shockwave's Japanese name.
Dude in Distress: A rare villainous example after being captured by Wing Saber following his first coup. Megatron left him at the Autobots' mercy at first, knowing he would soon beg to rejoin the Decepticons.
Even Evil Can Be Loved: His brother, Six Shot, did genuinely love him despite his being a sociopathic murderer and war criminal. For his part, Shockblast never mentioned him once, let alone bothered to break him out of prison (although given the inconsistency of the dub and writing, it's not clear if this was deliberate). In the non-canon special, the one time they interact, it is implied this is because Shockblast, true to nature, barely cared about him.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Tidal Wave loathes Shockblast, and it didn't take long for the other Decepticons to understand why. His attempts to betray Megatron didn't make him any more popular.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Shockblast suffers from very poor discipline and impulse control, leading to him outright attempting to murder his own teammate in a fight.
Hate Sink: A loathsome sadist who'll even turn on his own side for amusement or his own gain, there's little to like here.
Laughing Mad: After he tries to take control of Unicron, he starts laughing more frequently and insanely as he goes on a rampage to destroy Optimus and Omega Supreme.
Lost in Translation:
- Tidal Wave has an unexplained past with Shockblast in the dub. In the Japanese version it is explained he used to be part of the same armada, only to attack his squad following a successful mission simply because there were no Autobots left to destroy.
- Shockblast's characterisation also harks much closer to G1 Shockwave in Japan, where the dub of the original series rewrote his personality entirely to be more volatile and manic. In English, he's pretty much the total opposite.
Miles Gloriosus: Downplayed Trope. He's a powerful combatant, but his leadership skills are abysmal and he's nowhere near Megatron in competence. He also comes to regret trying to take over Unicron.
Mythology Gag: His death at the literal hands of Unicron resembles his G1 counterpart's fate in an early script for that continuity's film. It's unclear if this was deliberate.
Playing Both Sides: He attempts this by trying to lure Rodimus and his honour guard into Megatron's throne room so they'll finish him off. It doesn't work, so he attempts to just kill Megatron himself.
Remember the New Guy?: In the dub for Tidal Wave, though even in the original, Megatron is implied to have a weary unexplained past with him.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: After betraying Megatron and sucking in Unicron's lifeblood, Shockblast is overwhelmed by Unicron's evil-radiated Energon. A deranged and power-mad Shockblast lands on Blizzard Planet. After Megatron senses where he is, Megatron retaliates by smashing Unicron's fist down on him and Shockblast is crushed into smithereens, while his power-infused spark transfers to Megatron and drives him mad with power in return.
Sadist: Nothing makes him happier than frying Autobots as painfully as possible. He'll suffice with some of his own comrades though.
The Sociopath: A low functioning example. He has highly superficial charm, extremely poor impulse control, a sadistic streak and no loyalty towards anyone but himself.
The Starscream: Tried to usurp Unicron from Megatron thrice over. All three cases ended disastrously.
Ungrateful Bastard: A Decepticon force is sent to break him out of jail, and one trooper makes it there to rescue him. Shockblast then breaks himself free and shoots the bot in the chest.
With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: After stealing Megatron's control over Unicron, the power was too much for him to handle, overloading his body and sending him on an Ax-Crazy rampage.

Demolishor

Voiced by: Koji Yusa (Japanese), Alvin Sanders (English), Dale Wilson (Union, mistakenly), unknown voice actor ("Scorpinok", "Starscream the Mysterious Mercenary" only), Doron Bell Jr. ( "Distribution", "The Omega Train", "Decepticon Army" and "Ironhide Team") Guillermo Martinez (Latin American Spanish)

Demolishor is extremely strong and acts very seriously at all times. He is wholly devoted to Megatron and the Decepticon cause, unquestionably following orders at every turn.

The Brute: No longer one of Megatron's top lieutenants, and is essentially just another muscle he can call on.
Came Back Wrong: When he gets revived in his dump truck body, all of his memories stay in his old body.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Saves Megatron numerous times, but the first time he does in Energon, much tragedy ensues.
Dub Name Change: His dump truck body is called Irontread.
Heroic Sacrifice: In Energon, he saves Megatron's life at the cost of his old body getting wrecked. He gets very poorly repaid for this.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In Energon, he saves Megatron's life and gets his old body wrecked. Rather than repair him and leave it there, Megatron transplants him into a body he doesn't want to be in and tampers with his memory.
Took a Level in Dumbass: After his body gets destroyed, he is rebuilt into a far dumber ape-like format with little of his memories, usually playing an incompetent comic relief role alongside Snowcat.
Undying Loyalty: Played primarily straight to Megatron, but the writers do subvert it at the end. When Galvatron hurls himself into the sun to stop Unicron and Starscream and Mirage follow, he and Snowcat don't bother to do the same.
Unskilled, but Strong: Demolishor is clumsy and widely seen as an idiot but he's one of Megatron's strongest minions, serving as a contrast to Starscream's Weak, but Skilled. This is shown in episode 03 where the two get into a fight with the latter using his speed and flight to pound him into the ground after which the former grabs Starscream's leg and swings him to the ground. As Demolishor straddles him to deal another blow, Starscream whips out his sword, winning the fight.
Villainous Friend Ship: Gets along especially well with Cyclonus here, owing to the fact that there are still tensions between Autobots and Decepticons at the start.

Cyclonus/Snowcat

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^Snowcat

Voiced by: Isshin Chiba (Japanese), Don Brown (English), Renzo Jiménez (Latin American Spanish)

Cyclonus has a very "trigger-happy" personality, laughing and cackling as he fires his weapons almost entirely at random on the battlefield.

Ax-Crazy: Though it comes across as more annoying than genuinely frightening.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite being cowardly and crazy, he's efficient when it comes to combat... usually.
Butt-Monkey: A lot of bad stuff happens to him. Sometimes he deserves it.
Dub Name Change: His original Japanese name in Micron Legend is Sandstorm, after a G1 Triple Changer who could also turn into a helicopter. Snow Cat is called Snowstorm in Japan.
Evil Laugh: Has a mad cackle until Megatron changes him into Snowcat.
For the Evulz: Seems to have almost zero sense of camaraderie and an even smaller grasp of right and wrong.
In Name Only: Becomes less of a case when he's reformatted into Snowcat, making him effectively an entirely different now from his original namesake.
The Hyena: Although when he becomes Snowcat, he yodels.
Leeroy Jenkins: There's no strategy for him beyond wildly shooting at things.
Shout-Out: His reformatting and new name in Energon are taken from a vehicle from G.I. Joe.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He unwittingly tells Sixshot that Optimus Prime killed Shockblast, assuming "Who else?". Sixshot's persistent vendetta with Optimus arguably causes as many headaches for the Decepticons than if he had known Megatron was the real culprit.
Wild Card: His allegiance is best-described as "Whoever lets him shoot the most things." After having worked with the Autobots between Armada and Energon due to having nothing better to do, it takes all of one sentence to convince him to immediately turn on the people he's worked alongside for years.

Tidal Wave/Mirage

Tidal Wave

Mirage

Voiced by: Jin Yamanoi (Japanese) Doug Parker (English), Armando Volcanes (Latin American Spanish)

Dub Name Change: Mirage is known as Shockfleet in Japan.
Even Evil Has Standards:
- When he sees the Terracons attacking Cybertron, he still fights to defend the planet despite feeling a lack of purpose in life due to Megatron's death.
- He despises Shockblast, having watched him kill members of their unit after no more Autobots were left to fight.
Evil Sounds Deep: He's a giant Decepticon. What did you expect?
Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: His recolored form is also much smaller, making him a little taller than Cyclonus. Yeah...
Undying Loyalty: Upon being offered a chance to revive his leader by Scorponok, Tidal Wave eagerly accepts. He along with Starscream follows Galvatron into the sun to stop Unicron at the end. This quality may come across as oddly amusing, considering his VA voiced the treacherous (and much higher-pitched) Terrorsaur.
Vocal Evolution: Tidal Wave's voice becomes deeper and more guttural in Energon than it was in Armada.
Your Size May Vary: Subverted. Compared to Armada, his size stays more consistent in Energon where he's once again only slightly taller than the average Cybertronian.

Six Shot

Voiced by: Terry Klassen (EN), Nobutoshi Canna (JP)

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: In true Starscream fashion, as often as he sneered back at Galvatron, he quickly resorted to simpering whenever conflict turned physical.
Blackmail: Since he was the only Decepticon who knew how to control Cybertron's network, he soon knew he could hold out on Decepticon artillery whenever Galvatron kicked him around one time too many.
Boss's Unfavorite Employee: Though Shockblast and Starscream come very close throughout the Unicron era, Sixshot, despite his very short tenure, barely lasted an episode without provoking Galvatron's violent temper, due to his persistent interfering with his rivalry with Prime and compromising his general Control Freak approach to leadership, even blackmailing him on occasion. After an attempted coup where Sixshot blasted Galvatron to near pieces, he healed and immediately destroyed Sixshot, swearing hellfire if he ever had to deal with a Decepticon that insolent again.
Bullying the Dragon: True to any G1 Starscream Expy, Sixshot ceaselessly pushed every single Berserk Button of his brutish, control (and Optimus Prime) obsessed leader Galvatron. Pretty much every time ended with the expected beating.
The Chew Toy: Got hurled into one of his own monitors nearly Once an Episode for conniving behind Galvatron's back.
The Dog Bites Back: As his abuse continued, Sixshot started more and more openly insulting and disobeying Galvatron, even endangering their defences deliberately in demand of appreciation. This culminated in him throwing a coup and coming much closer to destroying the Decepticon leader than any other Transformer in the series.
Dramatic Irony: Despite never figuring out Galvatron was the real murderer of Shockblast, he and Sixshot end up hating each other to mutually murderous levels anyway.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He is clearly loyal to his brother Shockblast and swears eternal vengeance on Prime for his death — unaware that it was Megatron/Galavtron who betrayed and murderered Shockblast.
Evil Gloating: A rare Evil Versus Evil example. Sixshot actually had the perfect opportunity to kill a wounded Galvatron, though savours the reversed roles a bit too long, giving Scorponok time to make the save.
Exact Words: After one too many punishments from Galvatron for disobedience, Sixshot started trolling the Decepticon leader like this. Don't interfere against Prime? He won't act then, even when Galvatron wants assistance. Set the Energon grid to too high a level? He'll set all the way up and leave the planet to implode.
Sixshot: *snide* Why I'm only following your orders, sir! I'm only trying to please you, oh mighty commander!
Faux Affably Evil: Six Shot is much calmer than Shockblast, though is conniving and back-stabbing to go with it.
How About a Smile?: After too much abuse, Sixshot demonstrated his control over Galvatron's forces and started pulling this. In one instance Starscream, aware the furious commander wouldn't budge, had to beg in Galvatron's place just to save their operation.
It's Personal: His initial reason for going after Optimus Prime is because he believed the Autobot leader killed his older brother.
Motive Decay: Downplayed. He still wanted to destroy Prime by the end, but it was his even greater hatred for his Bad Boss that blatantly galvanised his decision to destroy and usurp him to do so.
Non-Action Guy: Only went into combat in two episodes, one of which was out of continuity, the other was exclusively against his own team. In his defence, he half turned Galvatron to slag when pushed enough.
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: To Optimus Prime, which causes a teeny bit of conflict between him and Galvatron to say the least.
Overzealous Underling: He quickly gets on Galvatron's bad side by disobeying commands to try and defeat Optimus Prime. Expectedly after a few lambastings for this, Sixshot deems his own commander an interference and starts blackmailing or outright trying to kill him so he can deal with Prime alone.
Remember the New Guy?: Shockblast never mentions having a brother, let alone tries to break him out of Cybertron prison. Not that this is unlike Shockblast however.
Right Hand Versus Left Hand: Most of both his and Galvatron's attempts against Prime were ruined by the other's interference, wanting the honour of destroying him themselves. Along with both having an ultimately murderous hatred for the other anyway.
Small Name, Big Ego: Likes to remind everyone that he’s called Six Shot with little prompting (this is a result of a joke Lost in Translation, wherein everyone would call him “Otouto”.) It’s even his Last Words.
Galvatron: You’re finished!
Six Shot: No I’m Six Shot, don’t you remember?
The Starscream: After one too many beatings from Galvatron over dealing with Optimus, Sixshot decides to take over the Decepticons so he can handle things uninterrupted. Sixshot injures and nearly kills Galvatron, though he escapes and heals in Super Energon and deals with Sixshot promptly...
Stronger Than They Look: Despite being a constant punching bag for Galvatron and rarely entering combat himself, the first time he retaliated against his commander, he proved a deadly and efficient sniper, clipping his wings with one blast of his cannon and brutally injuring him with a couple more, leaving the otherwise unmatchable Decepticon helpless until Scorponok saved him. After a short fight, Scorponok too was quickly downed by Sixshot.
Strong Family Resemblance: He resembles his brother Shockblast in design, but his colors are yellow and red instead of purple and green.
Unknown Rival: Despite his suicidal determination to destroy Optimus Prime in revenge, the two never met in person. Poetically, he ended up having a much more personal rivalry with Galvatron, Shockblast's real killer.

Constructicon Maximus

Voiced by: Down Brown (EN), Nobuo Tobita (JP)

Combining Mecha: Has elements of Hive Mind and Detachment Combat like Superion Maximus.
Dub Name Change: As Devastator's Japanese name had already been used by Armada Scavenger, Constructicon Maximus' Japanese version is called Buildron, the Japanese name for the Constructicons. Why the English version couldn't be called Devastator since the name was available isn't clear.

Bruticus Maximus

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Voiced by: Trevor Devall (EN), Makoto Yasumura (JP)

Combining Mecha: Similar with Constructicon Maximus and Superion Maximus, he has elements of Hive Mind and Detachment Combat.
Dub Name Change: Minor, but he lacks the Maximus suffix in Japan.

Others

Alpha Q

Alpha Quintesson

Voiced by: Trevor Devall (EN), Yuichi Nagashima (JP)

Adaptational Villainy: The comics completely change his backstory, and have him as your typical Quintesson schemer, hoping to take over Cybertron.
The Chessmaster: Comic version, who has spent centuries making his mysterious plan. He tries to be this at the start of the anime, but Megatron quickly hijacks his plan.
Face Death with Dignity: Alpha Q chooses to not run away when Unicron’s restored body makes its way to the head. He sends Kicker to a planet so that he can say farewell to his human friend.
The Maker: Alpha Q becomes a godlike entity and begins creating planets with Energon cores. He becomes quite protective of the planets and is devastated when Megatron has Scorponok destroy them.
"Shaggy Dog" Story: Zigzagged between dubs. Superlink has Alpha Quintesson succeed in resurrecting his home planet along with the other ones Unicron devoured with the aid of the Autobots. Unfortunately, Energon skips the episode in which this happens and the subsequent episode is re-dubbed to remove references to its events, meaning it never occurred in the English dub. In either case, Alpha-Q is killed.
- The premise of Cybertron takes it up to eleven. The planets he worked so hard to restore are once again obliterated by the Unicron Singularity. Poor guy can't win, really.
Vocal Dissonance: The Japanese version has his true voice be that of a little girl. However…
Voice of the Legion: The dub goes with this for his true voice. Justified as “the combined spirits of those who were lost in the destruction of Planet Q”.

Scorponok

Voiced by: Colin Murdock (EN), Yasunori Matsutani (JP), Luis Lugo (LA SP)

Adaptational Villainy: The comic version is more of a straight up brutal Decepticon, compared to the tragic Noble Demon he is in the anime.
Bad Boss: Comic Scorponok is an utter jerkass toward Tidal Wave, repeatedly threatening him, and eventually beating him senseless for failing a mission.
Benevolent Boss: In contrast, he is this to his Terracon army in the anime.
The Brute: Both versions of Scorponok prefer tearing through enemy fortifications and killing everyone they find. The comic's version in particular doesn't think that highly of Megatron's ideas about "subtlety".
Came Back Wrong: In Cybertron’s side material, he resurrects as a feral berserker due to the black hole’s effect on his body.
Dub Name Change: Called MegaZarak in Japan, G1 Scorponok's Japanese name.
Expy: Of the original Scorponok.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Comic version gets Megatron's sword through the Spark, rendering him Deader than Dead.
More than Mind Control: Played with in the anime. Megatron revived Scorponok's husk, though reformatted him to be loyal to him. He regained his memories after seeing the deceased Alpha Q, though without a master, he decides to continue serving Megatron anyway out of gratitude for reviving him.
Pet the Dog: The animated rendition, even as a Decepticon, remained a Benevolent Boss to his Terracons, who shown Undying Loyalty in return.
Undying Loyalty:
- To Megatron post-reformating in the anime.
- Both he and his Terracon army reflect this towards each other as well, Megatron revived him specifically so he could keep the latter under the control. When the Terracons went berserk from a Super Energon boost, they broke from their rampage to heal Scorponok from serious injuries.

Minor Terrorcons

Battle Ravage

Expy: Of Ravage

Cruellock

Expy: Of Dinobot. It's why he's a sword wielding raptor.

Divebomb

Insecticon

Humans

Kicker

Brad "Kicker" Jones

The series' human sidekick. Has the ability to detect Energon deposits. And thoroughly unlikeable.

Abusive Parents: A plot point that was never really addressed in the series. Kicker's father was extremely negligent in regards to his son's emotional well-being, using him as a tool to hunt down energon without regard for the effect such treatment and experiences would have on Kicker's state of mind. His mother wasn't much better since she pretty much allowed her husband to treat their son in such a manner without any protest. Furthermore, any attempts by Kicker to express his feelings on the matter are treated by both the show and the other characters as him being a drama queen instead of an emotionally damaged young man.
Adaptational Personality Change: The comics rendition has a vastly less abrasive personality.
Berserk Button: More than one can count.
- Do not threaten Misha.
Childhood Friend Romance: With Misha.
Control Freak: Whenever something does not go his way, Kicker is sure to throw a fit like a baby.
Easily Forgiven: No matter how much of jerk he is, his friends always think of him as a loyal ally and friend. They even think his abuse of Ironhide is actually funny.
Freudian Excuse: While it doesn't totally excuse his behavior, Kicker did not have an easy childhood. Upon discovering Kicker's reactivity to Energon, his own father effectively used him as an Energon fishing rod, throwing Kicker into incredibly dangerous situations as a child in hopes of finding more Energon. Kicker was often left with little-to-no assistance, being stuck on barren planets and deep space, and other hostile areas just for the sake of his father's research. He was constantly dragged from world to world with no time to settle down or have normal social interactions with people his own age for much of his life and is generally treated as a tool more than a person. All of his major life choices were effectively made for him as he had no say about what his father made him do. Is it any wonder that he's so abrasive and controlling?
Jerkass: "Brash", "obnoxious" and "angsty" are words that describe Kicker pretty well. Every once in while, Kicker proves himself not to be a complete asshole, but these moments of decency are overshadowed by longer, more consistent periods of insufferable selfishness.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When he’s not being rude to his robotic allies, Kicker proves he has a softer side. He wishes his family to be safe as they’re being evacuated from Earth and he worries about his girlfriend’s safety when she stays behind. There are also some times where he shows concern for Optimus’s team if they’re in danger. Also, despite rejecting his father’s attempts to spend time with him, he returned to Ocean City when his sister claimed their father was injured in an attack led by Megatron.
Meaningful Name: Got his name because he kicks Ironhide. A lot!
Spider-Sense: His hair will briefly glow if there’s Energon nearby. In addition to searching for Energon hotspots, he can also detect when danger is afoot.
Tagalong Kid: As usual, he exists to see the Autobot-Decepticon war from a human perspective.
Took a Level in Kindness: After Ironhide's idolising squad took illy to Kicker's treatment of him, he wisely backed off. Even after they were destroyed however, Kicker remained softer towards Ironhide out of sympathy for the rest of the series.

Misha

Misha Miramond

The series' other human sidekick. She is Kicker's girlfriend and a gifted energon scientist.

Bridge Bunny: Of the Miranda II.
Childhood Friend Romance: It’s implied she and Kicker have known each other since they were little kids.
Cooldown Hug: To Alpha Q
Parental Abandonment: Both her parents died when she was very young.
She's Not My Girlfriend: Kicker claims this in one episode; it’s a lie of course.
Supreme Chef: She's hinted to be the one who cooks Kicker's meals.
Tagalong Kid: Same as Kicker.

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