The Transformers (2024)

The Transformers is an action animated television series, targeted for teenagers and adults. Based on the IDW Comics series of the same name written by various veteran writers like Simon Furman, John Barber, James Robert and Ryan Ottley, the series adapts stories from of the The Transformers IDW comics that ran from 2005 to 2018.

The series is proposed to be released in 2023 or 2024 in time for the transformers 40th anniversary franchise and it will premiere on Dreamworks Video.

Autobots from Season 1 to 5
Optimus Prime (Formally Orion Pax, and became a security guard under the command of Sentinel Prime, becomes the leader following Sentinel's Death)

Bumblebee

Jazz (Second Lieutant

Ratchet

Sunstreaker

Prowl

Trailbreaker

Ironhide

Wheeljack

Autobot Earth Sub groups Seasons 2 to 5
Hot Rod

Hardhead

Nightbeat

Sideswipe

Warpath

Mirage

Hound

Brawn

Hoist

Beachcomber

Tracks

Cliffjumper

Autobots in space
Omega Supreme (A former member of the Guardians of Cybertron, and often serve as the earth teams transport)

Jetfire (A scientist for the autobots on certain sister planets)

Over-Run (A guard at Garrius 9)

Clocker (A guard at Garrius 9)

Getaway (Formally a racer at Veloitron but becomes a guard at Garrius 9)

Goldbug (Member of the autobot Exploration team)

Lancer

Searchlight

Wideload

Gears

Huffer

Fortress Maximus (The warden and head commander of Garrius 9, and is a headmaster)

Elite Guard
Ultra Magnus

Brainstorm

Hotshot

Flak

Dogfight

Skids

Downshift

Silverstreak

Dinobots/Dynobots (Are original members of the Autobot group instead of being creating by the autobots like in the original cartoon)
Grimlock (gets arrested and goes to Garrius 9)

Slug (Becomes new leader)

Snarl

Swoop (Second in Command)

Sludge (Dies by saving Grimlock)

The Wreckers
Springer (Current leader and hates Prowl for unknown reasons)

Kup (Former leader and became mentally manufactured on a crystal planet)

Impactor(Original Leader and long time friends with Megatron)

Bulkhead (Demolition Expert)

Sandstorm (Triple Changer)

Warpath

Roadbuster (Transport for ground Wrecker units)

Perceptor (The head scientist of Polyhex on cybertron, does surgery on his eye and becomes a sniper for the Wreckers)

Ironfist (Weapons Expert and was digonased with a uncurbable condition in season 4)

Twintwist (Brother of Topspin who is deceased)

Arcee (A former civilian who was experimented by Shockwave during the war and is a cold blooded assassin)

Decepticons from season 1 to 5
Megatron

Starscream

Skywarp

Thundercracker

Runamack

Runabout

Reflector

Soundwave

Blitzwing

Astrotrain

Blackout

Needlenose

Hardshell

Shrapnel

Kickback

Acid Storm

Sunstorm

Barricade

Combaticons
Onslaught

Blastoff

Vortex

Swindle

Brawl

Dreadwing

Stunticons/Menasor
Motormaster

Offroad

Breakdown

Dead End

Dragstrip

Constructicons/Devastator (shows up in season 4 or 5)
Scrapper

Bonecrusher

Long Haul

Hook

Mixmaster

Scavenger

Decepticons in solo episodes
Octone

Gnaw

Grindcore

Straxus

Horri-Bull

Ramjet

Weird Wolf

Mindwipe

Decepticons in Space
Bludgeon

Shockwave

Sixshot

Overlord

Tarn

Turmoil

Lockdown

Kaon

Spinister

Development
Development of the series began in 2019 to 2021, where Hasbro has decided to make this series the first to be more darker and expressive, following the success of various other comic book shows like Invinicble, The Boys, The Walking Dead and Watchmen and others, the series will air around the mid 2020s.

The first four seasons will adapt several of the series phase 1's original comic book titles like, Infiltration, Escalation, Devastation, Maximum Dinobots, Megatron Origin, All Hail Megatron, Spotlight series, and The Transformers series (2009), that all were released from 2005 to 2011. Currently it is unknown if the writers or producers want to move beyond into modern well received titles such as More than Meets the Eye, Robots In Disguise, Combiner Wars, Titans Return, that existed in the 2010s.

However around 2022, the developers confirmed there are plans to adapt, Dark Cybertron, Revelation, and Unicron within the series but to serve as the seasonal finales, or even follow up movies. Recently writers have stated they want to implement the Combiner Wars story into a season as a way to bring Devastator, Menasor or Superion within the series although it is unknown if Monconstructor a non affiliated combiner will brought into the series.

It was confirmed that Megatron Origin and Stormbringer will be adapted into 50 or 60 minute films, along with Maximum Dinobots.

Around 2023, the creators had came to hasbro and it has been decided to make additional spinoffs to the IDW series, to not just fill the gaps with several seasons of the current show but to explore various storylines, characters.

Several of the creators admitted if they can get to a fourth or fifth season, if no cancellation is set, they wanted to make one of the seasons loosely based on the All Hail Megatron comic story that was released in 2008. The story featured a story of the decepticons finally winning and ruling the United States with an iron hand. The art was similar to the original transformer cartoon, although there are some changes to it they like to explore, such as showing the origins to combiners, exploring the matrix, and more of the decepticons massacring various cities, a different way for the decepticons to win rather than have decepticons take the human ally of the autobots in the comic, as well as killing off some decepticons, because one of the producers admitted that most of the decepticons that weren't Megatron, Soundwave, Seekers and Constructicons didn't have more major purposes in comic stories, but they are not sure if most of the changes will get past the censorship.

This also may include The Transformers 2009, because one particular story featured several of the autobot and decepticon teams serving as allies with several different miltary countries.

The writers also admitted several characters such as Arcee, Sunstreaker, Horribull, Ironhide, may be toned down, but following some themes in Transformers Earthspark, Arcee's gender change storyline may proceed but albeit several changes.