After Galvatron’s scheme to infect the Autobots with anti-electrons only succeeds in making Grimlock super-intelligent, both sides head to Unicron’s brain to recover/destroy a new source of them.
Tropes
- All Planets Are Earthlike: Cybertron has ponds full of fish.
- The Bus Came Back: Accompanying the Skuxxoid in his mission is Slizardo from "The Gambler".
- Combining Mecha: Abominus and Computron debut here, the former being new guys we have to remember, and the latter being created by a super intelligent Grimlock.
- "Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome: Grimlock soon discovers that Intelligence Equals Isolation when he can no longer connect with the other Dinobots.
- The Immune: The anti-electrons have no effect on Grimlock, presumably due to his being built on Earth.
- Impossible Genius: A temporarily super-intelligent Grimlock makes a fully sentient combiner team using components from inside Unicron’s brain and an intelligence transferring helmet seemingly out of nowhere. All in a few minutes.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Grimlock asserts that while he is Nosecone’s father, he’d prefer they treat each other like comrades in arms.
- Overly Narrow Superlative: When Grimlock calls himself the smartest Dinobot, Perceptor reluctantly admits that this is unfortunately true.
- Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Unicron briefly reawakens to menace the intruders in his brain, but Strafe makes short work of him.
- Power Incontinence: Exposure to anti-electrons causes malfunctions in Autobots, such as Cosmos crashing, Rodimus transforming into Hot Rod’s vehicle mode and Kup losing the ability to speak.
- Put on a Bus: Rodimus notes that Omega Supreme is on a mission in space, preventing him from playing a role.
- Status Quo Is God: Grimlock ends up giving up his newfound intellect to Computron, returning to the simple life of fishing with the Dinobots.
- Uncertain Doom: Unicron might have been finally Killed Off for Real in this episode, as by his next and final appearance, he has turned gray and doesn't speak.
- Vocal Evolution: Due to Roger C. Carmel’s inconsistency with voices, Unicron now sounds like a drunk version of John Colicos’ Apocalypse.
