Transformers Re-Animated

Transformers Re-Animated is an animated television series based on the Transformers toy line. It was produced by Cartoon Network Studios and animated by The Answer Studio, MOOK DLE., and Studio 4 °C. The series debuted on Cartoon Network on February 20, 2021. The show's continuity is separate from any other previous Transformers series, despite using footage from the first series (The Transformers) in its first episode as a historical film, and having many references to other Transformers continuities.

Plot
The series began with a three-part pilot called "Transform and Roll Out!". Stellar-cycles (years) after the Autobots won the great war for Cybertron against the Decepticons, an Autobot exploration crew led by Optimus Prime and consisting of Ratchet, Bulkhead, Prowl, Jazz, Ironhide, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, Hound, Mirage, Wheeljack, and Bumblebee discover the legendary Allspark buried on an asteroid. The Autobots take the Allspark back to their ship, but are soon confronted by a crew of Decepticons led by the notorious warlord Megatron and consisting of Blitzwing, Lugnut, Lockdown, Soundwave, Knock Out, Breakdown,  Airachnid, Oil Slick, Thundercracker, Skywarp, Barricade, and Starscream. Megatron attacks the Autobot ship and tries to retrieve the Allspark, but when an explosive planted on Megatron by the treacherous Starscream detonates, the ship crashes on Earth. The Autobots go into stasis to survive the crash, while the scattered remains of Megatron are discovered by a human scientist named Isaac Sumdac. Fifty years later, Professor. Issac Sumdac is the CEO of a robotics company known as Sumdac Systems, which is based in Charter City. Optimus Prime and the Autobots awaken from stasis and defend the people of Detroit from a monster, resulting in them becoming local celebrities. They befriend Professor Sumdac's Teenage daughter Sari and her friends Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy, who teaches them about Earth customs, The Autobots settle into their new home and learn about Earth culture and customs, all of the while defending Detroit from various threats. Megatron's disembodied head, which has been in Professor Sumdac's laboratory since the ship crashed, comes back online and manipulates Sumdac into building him a new body, pretending that he is an Autobot.

Autobots
The Autobots are the main protagonists of the series. Many Autobots on Cybertron are employed with a military force called the Autobot Elite Guard, with the main leader holding the title of "Magnus" and high-ranking lieutenants holding the title of "Prime". The main cast of Autobots in the series are a team of Exploration Bots  led by Optimus Prime, who discover the Allspark (the legendary source of all life on Cybertron) hidden on an asteroid. The majority of Autobots in Transformers: Animated transform into non-military terrestrial vehicles and carry non-projectile weaponry such as swords, shields, shurikens, stingers, nunchucks, axes, etc. Many Autobots in this series do not possess the capability of flight, except for Jetfire and Jetstorm, their combined form Safeguard, Omega Supreme and all other Omega Sentinels, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Prowl, Swoop, and  others.

Main Autobots
Optimus Prime: the leader of the Earth-based Autobots and transforms into a red and blue fire truck. He is noble, compassionate and chivalrous, but often doubts his own leadership skills. His weaponry includes a battle axe, retractable grappling hooks and an arm-mounted cannon that shoots fire-dousing foam, and in the series' third season Prof. Sumdac builds Optimus a jet-pack, enabling him to fly, also getting arm gauntlets and shoulder cannons. voiced by David Kaye.

Jazz: a laid-back member of Optimus Prime's team. Jazz is a trained Cybertronian ninja, and wields a pair of Nunchaku in battle. He is more advanced than Prowl, though he is still impressed by Prowl's competency. His overall personality reflects that of his Generation 1 incarnation and he's quite open-minded when it concerns humans and their culture.Jazz is the second-in-command of The Team who transforms into a white and blue sports car. voiced by Phil LaMarr

Ironhide: an Autobot security officer who transforms into a red 4X4 pick-up truck and has the unique ability to change his exterior body armor into a dense, near-indestructible alloy, in a similar fashion to the Marvel Comics superhero Colossus. He is depicted as a likable, fun-loving young Autobot, whose jokes tend to get a little crude. voiced by Corey Burton.

Ratchet: an elderly Autobot medic and veteran of the war against the Decepticons. He is grouchy and short-tempered, often having little patience with his younger teammates and initially being hostile towards humans, but he becomes calmer and more tolerant as the series progresses. Ratchet transforms into a white and red ambulance, and is armed with retractable, wrist-mounted magnets that generate electro-magnetic blasts. voiced by Corey Burton.

Prowl: a reclusive Autobot ninja who transforms into a black and gold Police motorcycle and is trained in the Cybertronian martial art of Circuit-Su. He is fascinated by organic life, and enjoys spending time around plants and animals on Earth. Prowl's weaponry included a pair of shurikenstored in the wheels of his motorcycle mode, and in the third season he acquires a suit of samurai armour that transforms into a sidecar and features retractable swords, after he finds out Lockdown was the one who murdered Yoketron and took almost all of the protoforms for the Decepticons. voiced by Jeff Bennett.

Bulkhead: a large and powerful Autobot who transforms into a green SWAT armoured truck and wields two wrecking balls that are stored in his arms. Despite his size and intimidating appearance, he is a gentle, intelligent and passive Autobot, but can often be clumsy and hot-headed. Ironically (or at least from the Decepticons point of view), he is the most knowledgeable Autobot when it comes to Space Bridges. He's best friends with the Autobots Bumblebee and Ironhide. voiced by Bill Fagerbakke

Bumblebee: the youngest member of Optimus Prime's team. He transforms into a yellow sports hot hatch car and is armed with two electric "stingers" that are stored in his arms. Although they're not shown to be as effective against Decepticons, until they were upgraded at Season 3. He is impulsive, self-confident and takes great pride in his speed, but he also tends to be reckless, hyperactive and obnoxious. He's best friends with the Autobot Bulkhead, and Sari Sumdac. voiced by Bumper Robinson

Sideswipe:  once a promising racer who was wanted in half of Cybertron's racing circuits, but his reckless nature cost him his career. He eventually joined the Autobots Exploration team to try and redeem himself. Incompetent and sometimes lazy, he often risks missions, even the lives of his own teammates, all for the sake of his boredom but he has also proven his loyalty to the team and he makes up for mistakes he makes with his speed and agility, Sideswipe is armed with arm-mounted Cybertanium swords. He transforms into a red street racing-ready sports car. voiced by Darren Criss

Sunstreaker: the twin brother of Sideswipe, who considered himself the most handsome Autobot of them all. He was described as the ultimate egotist, being notoriously difficult to work with and pair up with anyone else besides Sideswipe, and described himself as the most beautiful thing ever and Cybertron's greatest warrior. He was also a cold, ruthless and effective fighter who would do anything to win. He is armed with two  small wrist crossbow that shoots laser beams. He transforms into a Yellow street racing-ready sports car. voiced by Charlie Schlatter.

Hound: a young Autobot scout-turned-warrior who transforms into a 4X4 military jeep, Hound is known for his love of the planet Earth, his tracking skills, and the ability to project highly realistic holograms. He secretly wishes to be human. He is armed with a drill-type weapon. voiced by Nolan North.

Mirage: an Autobot  intelligence agent who transforms into a Ligier JS11-Ford Formula One racer, along with his ability to turn invisible. He also wields two wrist blades that can be detached onto a length of cable. he was an outspoken critic of Ultra Magnus' polices millions of stellar cycles ago which leaves his fellow Autobots finding it hard to trust him – a problem not helped by the fact that Mirage can rarely hide that he is often unwilling to fight directly, or his contempt for the "commoners" he is now forced to interact with. He has no lost love for Earth, and would happily return to his old life on Cybertron if he could. voiced by Bill Fagerbakke.

Wheeljack:  a scientist working with the Autobot Ministry of Science and a member of the Science Guild. Skilled at solving engineering issues he is frequently paired for special projects with the scientific wonderbot Perceptor. Perceptor, if he had any emotions, would raise an eyebrow at the willingness Wheeljack has to injure himself in the name of scientific progress. Wheeljack's cohort has enumerated his injuries at 16,342. That he's aware of. Wheeljack has experimented on his own body-frame so many times that Perceptor estimates that less than 15.71976% of his original bodyframe remains unaltered. He is armed with  the "Falcon Spear", a large pole-arm he can wield with both hands. He transforms into a white, green and red sports car resembling a Lancia Fenomenon Stratos. voiced by William Salyers.

Elite Guard
Ultra Magnus:  the supreme commander of the Autobots and leader of the Autobot Elite Guard. He transforms into a blue and white Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck, and wields the Magnus Hammer, an enormous hammer passed down to each new Magnus and capable of summoning lightning. Ultra Magnus was trained in learning how to use melee weapons by Yoketron. voiced by Jeff Bennett

Sentinel Prime: Ultra Magnus's second in command and Optimus Prime's former friend and rival. He transforms into a blue and orange pick-up truck fitted with a snowplough, and is armed with a lance and shield that can project force-fields. Sentinel is hot-headed, stubborn, and arrogant, often rushing into situations without thinking and acting rudely towards Optimus and his team. voiced by Townsend Coleman

Rodimus Prime:  the second-in-command of a Cybertron Elite Guard team under Sentinel Prime. He wields a bow and arrows, his vehicle mode is a red, orange and gold sports car. voiced by Judd Nelson.

Hot Shot: a pyrotechnician armed with welding torches that double as flame-throwers. his vehicle mode is a sports car. voiced by Bill Fagerbakke

Red Alert: a medic who transforms into an ambulance van She is one of the top surgeons on Cybertron, but she has a brusque bedside manner. Her left hand tool (which is identical to Armada Red Alert's) can be used for a variety of functions, including making hard light constructs. voiced by Tara Strong.

Brawn: a short and stocky, yet incredibly strong Autobot who transforms into a Land Rover Series III 4x4, Cobra Flight Pod. He is also very grumpy. voiced by Corey Burton

Blurr: an Elite Guard intelligence agent who transforms into a light blue race car. He is extremely fast in both vehicle and robot modes, and also speaks quickly, so much so that others often find it difficult to understand what he is saying. voiced by John Moschitta, Jr.

Jetfire and Jetstorm:  twin Autobots who transform into Cybertronain fighter jets (being the result of an experiment to create flight-capable Autobots upon obtaining the data on Starscream) and combine into a larger robot named Safeguard. Jetfire is orange, white and yellow, and has fire-based powers, while Jetstorm is blue and has wind-based powers. Both twins are naive, hyperactive, and speak in stereotypical Russian accents. voiced by Tom Kenny and Phil LaMarr

Warpath: A member of the Cybertronian Elite Guard. He's got a rather surly, confrontational attitude, and a big gun. In his chest. He also has a tendency to take the law into his own hands, and has been reprimanded numerous times for being a bit too rough with the prisoners in his care. Warpath transforms into a red Tank. He is the only Autobot featured in the series to transform into a military vehicle. voiced by David Kaye.

The Dinobots
The Dinobots are three Transformers that transform into mechanical dinosaurs. They were originally animatronic dinosaur props at a theme park, but were accidentally brought to life and given the ability to transform by the Allspark. They were also tricked by Megatron into hating the Autobots. The Dinobots rarely become involved in the conflict between the Autobots and Decepticons, preferring instead to live peacefully on a remote island.

Members
Grimlock: the largest and most aggressive Dinobot, as well as the only one capable of speech; however, he speaks in the third person, and his sentences aren't any better than a toddler's. He transforms into a grey, red and gold mechanical Tyrannosaurus that breathes fire, and he wields a flaming sword in robot mode. voiced by David Kaye.

Swoop: Swoop transforms into a grey, red and gold mechanical Pteranodon and wields a flaming flail. He never speaks, and is the only Dinobot in the series not to be openly referred to by name.

Snarl: Snarl transforms into a grey and red mechanical Triceratops and wields a flaming club. He is based on the Generation 1 Dinobot Slag, and was renamed for the series and toy-line because the word "Slag" is an offensive term in countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia.

Other Autobots
Omega Supreme: an enormous robot who transforms into the spaceship of Optimus Prime's team. He was the result of "Project: Omega", an Autobot experiment to create a living weapon of mass destruction that could defeat the Decepticons. Because Omega Supreme's processors were not advanced enough to guide himself, Ratchet was assigned to be his guardian. During the war, he was badly injured and close to death and following Ratchet's instructions, transforms to his spaceship form before he is deactivated. Omega remained dormant in the form of the team's ship after the war, but re-activates and transforms again in the season 2 finale to fight off the Decepticons on Earth, but was sucked into a groundbridge that transports him (along with Megatron and Starscream) into space. The Decepticons gained control of him in the third season, but at the end of the season, the Autobots retrieved him and he again helps them fight the Decepticons. voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.

Arcee: an intelligence officer for Cybertron Intelligence and former teacher. During the war, access codes to activate Omega Supreme were stored in Arcee's memory to keep them safe from the Decepticons, but after an electro-magnetic blast from Ratchet's EMP generator accidentally erased most of her memory, Ratchet extracted the codes and stored them in his own head.

Elita One: Optimus Prime's girlfriend and an Autobot scientist in the Autobot Ministry of Science. voiced by Sumalee Montano

Wreck-Gar: an absent-minded robot made of junk and scrap metal who was brought to life by an Allspark fragment. He transforms into a garbage truck and carries a large bin full of junk on his back. voiced by "Weird Al" Yankovic

Alpha Trion: a member of the Autobot High Council and the head of the Guilds Domesticus (which is in charge of the Autobot military). voiced by Phil LaMarr

Cliffjumper: Cliffjumper makes several minor appearances throughout the series' second and third season. He has a similar body design to Bumblebee, but is red and has a differently shaped face and longer horns. Cliffjumper is  the new head of Cybertron Intelligence and gained a seat on the Autobot High Council. voiced by David Kaye

Highbrow: An Autobot who was the head of Cybertronian Intelligence during the Great War. voiced by David Kaye impersonating Terry-Thomas

Perceptor: a high-ranking Autobot scientist in the Autobot Ministry of Science. He oversaw both Project: Omega and the experiment that created Jetfire and Jetstorm. He transforms into a Cybertronain SUV that can convert into a research station with a large microscope. His voice is not performed by a real actor, but an electronic synthesizer on PlainTalk. This is an homage to the electronic voice synthesizer Stephen Hawking uses.

Rattletrap: a cowardly Autobot forger who steals important information to sell on. voiced by Tom Kenny

Yoketron: an Autobot martial arts master who taught martial arts to aspiring cyber-ninjas for the Cyber Ninja Corps. He mentored Jazz, Lockdown, Prowl, Heavy Load, and Road Rocket in martial arts, Ultra Magnus, Springer, Dai Atlas, Drift, and Star Saber in melee weapon using, Sky Garry, Devcon, Star Upper, Tap-Out, and Kick-Off in boxing, and Roadhandler, Grandus, Motorarm, and Powerhug in wrestling. During the war, he protected a cache of Protoforms (blank Transformer bodies without sparks) in his dojo, with the Autobots planning to use these Protoforms in the event Project: Omega failed to defeat the Decepticons. The treacherous Lockdown murdered Yoketron and stole most of the Protoforms for the Decepticons. voiced by George Takei

Autotroopers: the Autobot's police force that safeguard the streets of Cybertron.

Botanica: a skilled botanist, a member of the Autobot High Council, and (formerly) a mover and shaker in the Cybertronian social scene.

Decepticons
The Decepticons are the primary antagonists of the series. Despite being a military force, unlike the Autobot Elite Guard they have no clear hierarchy, Megatron is the sole leader and every other Decepticon is his inferior. The majority of Decepticons transform into military vehicles, mainly aircraft, and carry projectile weaponry such as guns, cannons and missile launchers. The Decepticons in this series are shown to be bigger, stronger, and more powerful than the Autobots. It takes a group of Autobots to defeat one lone Decepticon, but Optimus Prime is the first Autobot shown to defeat Megatron alone.

Main Decepticons
Megatron: the ruthless, manipulative and tyrannical leader of the Decepticons, and the main antagonist of the series. He transforms into a grey helicopter gunship, and is armed with two swords (which form the rotor blades of his helicopter form) and a large fusion cannon. In the pilot episode "Transform and Roll Out! Part 1", an explosive planted by Starscream tries to destroy Megatron, and his remains fall to Earth, where they are discovered by Isaac Sumadc. His disembodied head remains in Sumdac's laboratory for fifty years, until energy from the Allspark accidentally brings him back to life. After discovering that he can control machines, he serves as Sumdac Tower's supercomputer for the first season. Megatron then tricks Sumdac into thinking he is an Autobot (and later admitting that he had hated doing that everytime) and manipulates him into building a new body for him, which is completed in the two-part "Megatron Rising". voiced by Corey Burton.

Starscream: Decepticon Second-in-command and First Lieutenant, Starscream transforms into a red and silver harrier jet, and like most incarnations of the character he is a scheming traitor whose main goal in life is to overthrow Megatron as the Decepticon leader. In the pilot episode "Transform and Roll Out!, Part 1" Starscream attempts to kill Megatron by planting an explosive on his back. He is later defeated by Optimus Prime using energy waves from the Allspark when it opened in "Transform and Roll Out!, Part 3". When Megatron returns in his upgraded body in the two-part "Megatron Rising", he kills Starscream for his treason. A scattered shard of the Allspark later brings Starscream back to life in "Mission Accomplished", essentially making him immortal. voiced by Tom Kenny

Blitzwing: a triple-changer, able to transform into two different vehicle modes, a fighter jet and an assault tank. He also has a split personality represented by three different faces which spin around in a similar fashion to the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe character Man-E-Faces. They include a red face who is always angry, a blue face who is calm, rational and hardly ever expresses emotion, and a black face who is comically insane. All three of Blitzwing's faces speak in a stereotypical German accent with the angry face having similar speech patterns to Arnold Schwarzenegger. voiced by Bumper Robinson

Oil Slick: a talented chemist specializing in weaponized compounds, Oil Slick uses chemical weapons such as acids, toxins and poisons, and specialises in vehicular combat (attacking a foe while they are in vehicle mode). He transforms into a green low-riding motorcycle decorated with a ram skull in place of the headlight. voiced by Phil LaMarr

Lugnut: a large, hulking Decepticon who transforms into a purple military bomber plane and has immense physical strength. He is extremely loyal to Megatron, agreeing with everything he says and regarding any Decepticon who questions or doubts him as a traitor. He is shown to be enemies with the Autobot Bulkhead. Lugnut was defeated by Bulkhead using his wreaking ball to cancel his "Punch Of Kill Everything" in "Megatron Rising, Part 2". voiced by David Kaye.

Thundercracker: a prisoner of circumstance, forced into a life of military service by his far more combative brothers Starscream and Skywarp. While he has no particular love for humans or Autobots, neither does he believe in the destructive Decepticon agenda. Nevertheless, Thundercracker's no idiot - he's well aware that inaction or insubordination will result in a one-way ticket to the scrap heap, so he does the bare minimum required for him to stay in favor with Megatron and keep from drawing the ire of his teammates. He'll follow direct orders to a T, but left to his own devices he would not revel in death and destruction like his comrades. If he came face to face with an Autobot, he wouldn't engage, and he'd have no qualms about sabotaging his own faction if he knew he could get away with it. At the end of the day, Thundercracker would rather be reading about Cybertronian history than making it. Due to his indifferent nature, Thundercracker is viewed as little more than an average-at-best soldier by his peers, though his extensive knowledge of military history has lent the Decepticons a tactical advantage on occasion. In addition to his jet mode's powerful GAU-8/A Avenger rotary cannon, he can equip an array of air-to-air and air-to-surface weaponry, a favorite being AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles. Thundercracker draws his name from the two immense taser weapons that fire from his chest in robot mode. Each consists of a jet-propelled magnetic clamp attached to a cable through which tens of thousands of volts of electricity are discharged. This weapon is not designed to be fatal to targets, but rather to incapacitate the subject until it can be captured or destroyed through other means. He transforms into a  A-10 Thunderbolt II. voiced by Steve Blum.

Skywarp: A true prankster at heart, Skywarp enjoys nothing more than sowing discord among Autobots and Decepticons alike. Fortunately, being sly and sneaky is quite conducive to his role as the Decepticons’ stealth infiltrator. In the hands of someone with more dedication than he, Skywarp’s teleportation abilities would be truly deadly, but he’s more interested in quietly materializing behind someone just to push them down a flight of stairs. As cocky and arrogant as his older “brother” Starscream, Skywarp is always smarmy and sarcastic, and in battle loves to make cheesy one-liners at every possible opportunity. Just about the only thing that makes him take is job seriously is a bruised ego. Skywarp is outfitted with an experimental miniature Transwarp drive developed by Shockwave Like the much larger versions installed on interstellar starships, the device is able to “teleport” its user instantaneously by warping space-time. Due to its size, however, Skywarp’s Transwarp drive only has a range of a few hundred meters, as opposed to the light-years-spanning range of larger ships. Skywarp is also armed with a pair of shoulder-deployed particle beams and back-mounted jump jets, which allows him to fly in both modes. He transforms into a F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter. voiced by Kevin Pollak

Soundwave: the spy master of the Decepticons. Soundwave is obsessed with the pursuit of knowledge. So much so, in fact, that he removed the emotion circuits of his processor to free up more space for pure data storage, leaving him with a detached, monotone vocal synthesizer. In order to aid him in his research, Soundwave constructed three autonomous drones – Rumble, Ravage and Laserbeak – to act as independent scouts to gather data on the Decepticons’ environment and opponents. When Soundwave’s drones return to him, they link into the robot’s mainframe and upload all the intelligence they have gathered, adding it to Soundwave’s own consciousness. Soundwave’s largest flaw stems from his largest asset, his lack of emotion. Whereas emotion does not have an effect on his efficiency, the lack of it frequently gets in the way of his decision-making and his ability to interact with most of his teammates. Megatron  favors Soundwave for his no-nonsense attitude, a fact which annoys the fiercely loyal but stupid Lugnut to no end. Soundwave also acts as the Decepticons’ main channel of communications. Soundwave transforms into a Oshkosh HEMTT M985 w/ communications array. voiced by Jeff Bennett.

Knock Out: a Decepticon medic, who transforms into a red sports car loosely resembling an Aston Martin One-77. Extremely vain, narcissistic and quite sarcastic, he takes great pride in his appearance, and becomes enraged whenever his vehicle form's paint job is damaged in any way. Although he often compliments himself for his skills as a medic, he rarely shows consideration for his patients. Knock Out also has a good relationship with Breakdown, his partner and assistant. voiced by Daran Norris

Breakdown: a powerful and brutish Decepticon warrior, who transforms into a blue, heavily armored military truck resembling an Oshkosh Sandcat equipped with a missile turret on the roof. He shares a long rivalry with Ironhide, and is also Knock Out's partner and assistant. voiced by Adam Baldwin

Airachnid: a devious female Decepticon, She transforms into a black helicopter resembling an RAH-66 Comanche, but while she is in robot mode, the helicopter's rotors unfold and extend into long legs akin to those of a spider. She can also shoot spider webs from her wrists, produce a highly corrosive acid and telepathically control Insecticons. voiced by Gina Torres.

Lockdown: a ruthless Decepticon  bounty hunter who is aligned with neither the Autobots or Decepticons, even though he wears an Autobot symbol. He often aids the Decepticons in return for spare parts to further upgrade himself. He trained in Cybertronian martial arts at Yoketron's dojo during the war, but betrays and murders Yoketron to steal the cache of Protoforms he was guarding. Lockdown transforms into a black, green and silver muscle car, and wields a vast arsenal of weaponry stolen from past victims. voiced by Lance Henriksen.

Barricade: a Decepticon scout who transforms into a Saleen S281E police car, He appears to be the rival of Sideswipe, as he has a need for speed. He mainly elongates his arms to reveal spinning spikes known as the blade wheels in his hands and uses them as close-combat striking weapons. He also has a long chain with a wheel on the end that reveals a set of cybertanium blades which form a large blade wheel. voiced by Troy Baker.

Predacons
Razorclaw:  The leader of the Predacons. He transforms into a lion. Razorclaw forms the head, massive torso & thighs of Predaking. Razorclaw despises the unnecessary expenditure of energy and resources. He is preternaturally patient, always waiting for the best moment to strike.

Divebomb:  He transforms into an eagle. Divebomb forms the left arm of Predaking and his wings also become Predaking's wings. He is a loner by nature. Divebomb only combines with his teammates when he has no other option. On his own, he amuses himself by destroying objects from the air for the sheer joy of it.

Headstrong: He transforms into an Indian rhinoceros. Headstrong forms the right lower leg of Predaking. He is unbelievably stubborn and does not take advice from anyone. However, Headstrong is probably the weakest of the team and extremely insecure about it.

Rampage: He transforms into a tiger. Rampage forms the right arm of Predaking. He is a little more than a raging psychopath, in a constant state of anger that leaves even the other Predacons afraid of him. Thankfully, there is one way of keeping Rampage under control for he is easily distracted by mindless television entertainment.

Tantrum: He transforms into a bull. Tantrum forms the left lower leg of Predaking. Tantrum is the fueler of the Predacons, always using brute force to see things through, even when it is not called for. In reality, he has severe anger problems and releases his anger by destroying anything unlucky enough to get in his way.

Constructicons
Mixmaster and Scrapper:  a pair of construction vehicles that were brought to life and made into Transformers by a scattered fragment of the Allspark. Mixmaster transforms into a cement mixer truck, while Scrapper transforms into an excavator. Both are dim-witted, addicted to motor oil, and speak in stereotypical Brooklyn accents. When they are first activated, Bulkhead befriends them, but Megatron later manipulates them into joining the Decepticons and building a space bridge. voiced by Jeff Bennett and Tom Kenny

Dirt Boss: Dirt Boss is accidentally created when an Allspark fragment fuses a forklift with Henry Masterson's Headmaster unit. He is short-tempered, bossy, and has a small device in his forehead that he can send out to attach to other Transformers, giving him direct control over their motor functions. voiced by John Mariano

Team Chaar
Strika: a large female Decepticon and the leader of Team Chaar. She transforms into a magenta and gold Cybertronian armored truck, and is based on the Beast Machines character of the same name. voiced by Tara Strong

Blackout: a colossal Decepticon with the ability to generate electromagnetic pulses by stomping the ground, which cause nearby machinery to deactivate. He transforms into a Cybertronian spaceship, and the action figure depicts his Earth vehicle mode (which never appears in the series) as a helicopter. voiced by Bumper Robinson

Mindwipe: a Decepticon hypnotist. He also claims to be able to communicate with the spirits of long-departed Decepticons, though few take his claims seriously.

Cyclonus: a skilled Decepticon warrior who wields two swords and transforms into a purple Cybertronian fighter jet. He claims he's from the future where a Decepticon named Galvatron leads the Decepticons.

Spittor: Spittor transforms into an all-terrain walking vehicle that resembles a frog and the "mouth" of this form contains several tentacle-like cables and a foul-smelling, explosive slime.

Other Decepticons
Swindle: a greedy and manipulative arms dealer whose sole motivation is making a profit from valuable items he acquires, often resorting to theft and trickery to get what he wants. He transforms into a tan brown and purple military SUV, and is armed with a large arm-mounted cannon. voiced by Fred Willard

Slipstream: a female Starscream clone with an aggressive and sarcastic personality, and has complete disdain towards the original Starscream. Her color scheme is purple, teal and silver. voiced by Tara Strong

Scrash: an Air General under Megatron's command.

Straxus:  Lord High Governor of the Decepticon colony planet Lucifer

Shockwave: a Decepticon spy and double-agent who poses as an Autobot named Longarm Prime with his mission being to sabotage Autobot Elite Guard operations on Cybertron. As Longarm Prime, Shockwave transforms into a construction crane, and when out of his disguise his vehicle mode is a tank. In both forms, he has the unique ability to stretch his arms and legs to great lengths, which is why his Autobot form was dubbed "Longarm". His natural color scheme is purple and black, but while in his disguise he changes his colors to grey, teal and black. voiced by Corey Burton

Scalpel:  equal parts medic, engineer, and butcher. While he is not as skilled as his Autobot counterpart Perceptor, he makes up for it with a complete lack of ethics. Scalpel excels at taking things apart, whether they be Autobot, organic, or even his fellow Decepticons.

Laserbeak: one of Soundwave's flying minions. He transforms from an electric guitar to a black and red robot resembling an eagle.

Ratbat: one of Soundwave's flying minions. He transforms from a keytar to a purple and black robot resembling a bat.

Motormaster: The leader of the Stunticons who transforms into a silver and purple tanker truck and also froms the torso of Menasor. voiced by Travis Willingham

Heatseeker: A Stunticon whose wild and crazed personality is based off Wildrider, the resident insane Stunticon in most Transformers series. He can shoot guided missiles, and transforms into an SUV whose color scheme is based off Offroad, Wildrider's present-day replacement from the "Combiner Wars" toy line. voiced by Mikey Kelley

Dragstrip: The self-proclaimed second-in-command of the Stunticons who can use nitro boosts, and transforms into a yellow and purple futuristic sports car. voiced by Maurice LaMarche

Wildbreak:  A nervous and cowardly Stunticon based off Breakdown, the cowardly Stunticon in most Transformers series. He can create friction waves, and shares the same body-type as his partner Dragstrip but in a color scheme also based off Breakdown. voiced by Dave Wittenberg

Slashmark: A Stunticon based off Dead End, the gloomy Stunticon in most Transformers series. He can summon energy rings, and shares the same body-type as Heatseeker, but in a color scheme based off Breakdown that differs from Wildbreak's. voiced by David Kaye

Humans
Professor Isaac Sumdac: father of Sari Sumdac. He is a good-natured but a bit of scatter-brained scientist who designs and tests robots at Sumdac Tower. He is incredibly slow on the uptake where Megatron is able to keep him satisfied with flimsy excuses, and when Bulkhead is ordering him around in a transparent attempt to keep him safe from Dirt Boss, even winking and explaining himself in private, Isaac still takes his cruel behavior as genuine. Fifty years ago, Isaac found Megatron after he crashed onto Earth. It is through studying Megatron that many of Sumdac's technologies are introduced. He is convinced by Megatron (who until now had been inactive and silent) to keep his existence from his "friends" (the Autobots) a secret until Megatron can get a new body built unaware of the true origins and motivations of the Decepticon leader. While he did not like that Megatron added the fire-breathing capability to the Dinobots without telling him about it first, he was sympathetic in understanding that Megatron was simply experimenting with the Earth technology in order to make a new body for himself. But when he learned about the Decepticon's true origins, he was horrified and began to regret what he was doing. voiced by Tom Kenny.

Sari Sumdac: the teenage daughter of Prof. Isaac Sumdac, and a close friend and ally of Optimus Prime's team. She is curious, excitable and adventurous, and has heightened technological intelligence. She;s best friends with the Autobots Bulkhead and  Bumblebee. voiced by Tara Strong

Applejack:  A Friend of sari who works on her family's farm. She is also best friends with the Autobot Ironhide. Voiced by Ashleigh Ball

Twilight Sparkle: a curious student at Canterlot High School. She is an intelligent, dutiful, and accomplished scholar with an avid love of learning and a studied prowess in one or more areas of science. Voiced by Tara Strong

Fluttershy: a Canterlot High student who is a volunteer worker at the local animal shelter. she is "defined by her shy sweetness; soft, whispery voice; and tender, nurturing nature", Fluttershy exhibits a more authoritative personality that emerges whenever a friend or animal is harmed in some way, in contrast to her normally fearful and submissive self. Voiced by Andrea Libman

Pinkie Pie: An eccentric and friendly Canterlot High student. Pinkie is a source of much of the series' humor, and several of the show's "wacky gags" are kept exclusive to her. Voiced by Andrea Libman

Rainbow Dash: A student/star athlete at Canterlot High, stated to be the captain of every sports team the school has. Voiced by Ashleigh Ball

Rarity: A Canterlot High student and a talented seamstress, a ladylike fashionista who speaks with a Mid-Atlantic accent  Despite her vain and melodramatic tendencies, she has a generous spirit and strives to create dresses that capture their wearers' inner beauty. Voiced by Tabitha St. Germain.

Principal Celestia: The principal of Canterlot High. Voiced by Nicole Oliver

Vice Principal Luna: The vice principal of Canterlot High, she is Celestia's younger sister. Voiced by Tabitha St. Germain

Apple Bloom: the sassy younger sister of Applejack and Big McIntosh. voiced by Michelle Creber.

Scootaloo: She idolizes Rainbow Dash as an older sister figure, often trying to imitate Rainbow Dash's "too cool" attitude and athletic skill. voiced by Madeleine Peters

Sweetie Belle: She has "a blossoming talent for singing", and strives to become a fashion designer and gain the approval of her older sister, Rarity. voiced by Claire Corlett

Captain Fanzone: The Captain of the Charter City  Police Department who dislikes new, advanced machines, including the Autobots in general. He is in charge of the Charter City police force. His on-duty vehicle is a yellow sports hatchback, which was scanned by Bumblebee for his Earth mode. he is shown to be in charge of deciding which tech the police department will use, and has had problems with both Prometheus Black's bio-tech and Isaac Sumdac's robots. His catchphrase, usually uttered when a machine malfunctions on him, is, "This is why I hate machines!" Despite his dislike for machines he has a somewhat friendly working relationship with the Autobots. He officially aids the Autobots (and Sari) in protecting Charter City, (directly or indirectly) as a law enforcer. He is usually on hand to arrest the various supercriminals defeated by the Autobots. voiced by Jeff Bennett

Flash Sentry: a Canterlot High student who takes a romantic interest in Twilight Sparkle. He's best friends with the Autobot Optimus Prime. voiced by Vincent Tong

Humans Villains
Aaron A. Archer/The Angry Archer: a Robin Hood-styled human villain who uses a bow and arrows (with the arrows being somewhat similar to Green Arrow's trick arrows) to commit crimes. voiced by Jeff Bennett

Nino Sexton/Nanosec:  a petty crook who Megatron drafted to help him acquire Destronium to recreate his body. The reward was all the money from Dr. Sumdac's private account. He provided Sexton with Sumdac's experimental speed suit, which enables the user to speed-skate at blurring speeds. However, overuse of the suit's abilities results in Sexton's body displaying symptoms of old age (as if he was speeding through time). Only a recently upgraded Bumblebee (with Sari’s help) could match Nanosec's speed, tricking the crook into chasing after him until he completely aged to a weak old man. Captain Fanzone then took him into custody. voiced by Brian Posehn

Prometheus Black/Meltdown: a biotechnology engineer who attempts to replace robots on the Charter City police department with humans with bio-amplification tech, with Porter C. Powell supplying the test subjects. After Cyrus Rhodes went wild upon his attack on Bumblebee, Black's funding was cut by Powell for not even the prisons will lend him any more test subjects. He soon developed acidic powers after augmenting Bumblebee's hydraulic fluid with his steroids in his research to find a means to penetrate Cybertronium alloys, accidentally breathing in the vapors when the now-acidic liquid spills over his lab. He could melt through practically anything, while donning an anti-melting suit to control his abilities. With his new-found abilities, Meltdown attempted to kill Isaac Sumdac for his outdoing of him. Only by Ratchet containing him in a magnetic field was he stopped from assassinating Sumdac. voiced by Peter Stormare

Cyrus "the Colossus" Rhodes: A small old man with gray hair and former wrestler, he uses the biotech steroid pistons provided by Prometheus Black to stimulate the steroids injected in his body and grow in size and strength. Sharing the same ideology as Black, Cyrus first appeared in "Total Meltdown" to grapple with Bumblebee to show the superiority of Black's research. However, Cyrus went on a berserker rampage as a result before Prowl took out his steroid pistons. However, Meltdown rebuilt the pistons to withstand Cybertronium metal (of which Prowl's weapons are made off) and recruited Cyrus to prevent any interference as he went after Sumdac. But once it was revealed that loud sounds are his weakness, the Autobots used this to their advantage to defeat him. voiced by Corey Burton.

Meltdown's Experiments: two hybrid creature that were created by Meltdown in order to make transforming humans. The bat-headed hybrid used to be Prometheus Black's lawyer. The sea creature hybrid (which had a shark-like head, octopus tentacles, and a crab claw) used to be Prometheus Black's stockbroker.

Professor Princess: A villain who appears during the episode "Sound and Fury". Her appearance is that of a young girl riding on a model horse called Powdered Sugar (who is similar to a My Little Pony doll), and she uses toy-themed weaponry. Her only motivation so far seems to be the destruction of violent toys and games. She was defeated by Bulkhead (whom she believed was a giant toy) who decapitated Powdered Sugar. voiced by Kath Soucie

Henry Masterson/Headmaster:  an ex-employee of Sumdac who was fired for his Headmaster exosuit being a potential war machine which Sumdac Systems doesn't make. He has an intelligent but arrogant personality, and has a habit of using netspeak. Masterson seems to enjoy the destruction he causes. Using Bulkhead's body, Headmaster held the city hostage to promote his invention by taking over the power plant, but was forced to abandon the body when he's at a disadvantage. Though the day was saved, the Headmaster escaped when he activated his "back-up systems" and changed into a small robot (similar to the original Headmasters). voiced by Alexander Polinsky

Master Disaster: A host and organizer of a pay per view television show named Speed Demon in the episode "Velocity". He invited racers to race in an illegal underground racing circuit for his pirate broadcast and earned his money through the audiences. He possessed an Allspark fragment remote control that enabled him to control the cars to fix the races but solely used it to control a blue color racing car Bumblebee deemed "Blue Racer" to do his dirty work. During the scuffle between the Autobots and the Decepticons, Master Disaster was arrested by Captain Fanzone and his illegal racing ring was shut down. voiced by Bill Fagerbakke

Slo-Mo: . Her costume is Roaring Twenties-themed and she speaks with a Chicago accent that goes with that era. A former worker in a clock factory, She discovered a piece of the Allspark imbedded in a timepiece, which had the power to slow down and reverse time around anything and anyone she used it on. She gathered together the criminals of Detroit to form a crime syndicate. It was revealed at the time that she used her timepiece on Nanosec's speed-suit to restore him to his rightful age (on a related note, she does have an interest to him). voiced by Tara Strong

Circuit-Stream: An expert computer hacker who can phase through walls and control any electronic equipment. He is accompanied by his pet gecko Brutus. voiced by James Arnold Taylor

The Freak Sisters: A pair of Twin sister criminals who wear helmets with tentacles in means of transportation and ammunition in favor of their crimes. voiced by Grey Griffin

Jack Kinland / Smokestack: A gangster who becomes a smoke-induced criminal. He can solidify and transform into a cloud of smoke. voiced by Clancy Brown

Dr. Sarah Kamen / Quick Charge: The Former CEO of Harkness General energy company. She gains electricity powers that she can skate on and tries to put Sumdac out of business. voiced by Yvette Nicole Brown

Porter C. Powell: Chairman of the Board of Sumdac Systems, CEO of Powell Motorworks, publisher of the Charter city Press... and also a major financier of Biotech Unbound, one of Sumdac's chief rivals. This should not be a great shock: As an arch-capitalist of the sleazy, profit-at-any-price type, Powell is not above working with the villainous or demented to make big bucks. voiced by Bumper Robinson

Colonel Quint Quarry: a big-game hunter who owned his own private island called Quarry Safariland where he held illegal safaris for hunting wildlife. Colonel Quarry has a wide array of gadgetry and vehicles at his command including the Heli-Jet (a helicopter with jet engines), a jeep equipped with net-launchers and camouflage features, and Q-Drones. voiced by Jim Cummings

Crossroads: a mad scientist and supervillain who wants to prove that any robot could be used as a weapon in the right hands.

Other Humans
Mayor Augustus Edsel: The Mayor of Charter City

Miss Adrias:  Adrias works as Mayor Edsel's press secretary and does the talking for him. voiced by Tara Strong

Miya Kimanyan: A local news reporter based in Charter City.

Trixie Lulamoon: the school bully of Canterlot High School. voiced by Kathleen Barr

Micro Chips: a Canterlot High School student

Sandalwood: a Canterlot High School student

Photo Finish: the school photographer.

Snails: Trixie's henchman.

Snips: Trixie's henchman. 

Miss Cheerilee: Works as a teacher at Canterlot High School and possibly as the librarian

Granny Smith: Works as the lunch lady in the Canterlot High Schoolcafeteria. Also teaches a home-ec class.

Big Mac:  the older brother of Applejack and Apple Bloom, and a member of the Apple family.

Locations
Charter City: It is the main setting of the show and is where the Autobots live and fight crime.

Sumdac Tower: The largest tower in Charter City where Isaac Sumdac designs and tests his robot creations, which was also the resting place of Megatron's severed head before he was revived. Its appearance is that of a giant spark plug.

Abandoned Automobile Plant: The current headquarters of the Autobots. According to Sari, Isaac acquired the plant from a merger several years ago, and he was not aware of the plant itself being part of the merger.

Canterlot High School: a high school located in Charter City. Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna are in charge of the school.

Dino Drive: A theme park in 22nd-century Charter City that features displays of animatronic Dinosaurs, namely the Dinobots before the events of the episode, Blast from the Past.

Burger Bot: A fast food restaurant frequented by Sari and, later on, the Autobots. The restaurant's name is a parody of Burger King with the emphasis of it being run by robots. Unfortunately, it got destroyed by the Headmaster when he was battling Optimus in Starscream's body.

Tigatron Stadium: The city's baseball stadium where Prowl faces Lockdown in the episode "Five Servos of Doom". The stadium is a parody of the Beast Wars character Tigatron.

Dinobot Island: Small isolated island in middle of the ocean where the Dinobots are living. It is also the location of Meltdown's laboratory.

Carbon Mines: The site far from Charter City where Megatron's body ended up. During Season 2, Megatron uses it as his base of operation because the carbon protects him and his forces from detection.

Orion: the Autobots' ship, Orion, crippled by the Decepticon's attack and crash-landed in The Ocean. Its main computer system has a female-voiced persona known as Teletraan I, which is the same name of the Autobot computer system in Generation 1 (G1). it was revealed to be the vehicle form of Omega Supreme.

The Nemesis, the Decepticons' Warship: Megatron's flagship, which dwarfs the Autobot ship in size and carried the stolen protoforms. On the verge of destruction, it was abandoned by all of the Decepticons except Starscream. He managed to survive and pilot its remains for fifty years until he eventually homed in on the Allspark on Earth. The ship later crash-landed on the moon.

The Steelhaven, the Cybertron Elite Guard's Ship: It is similar to the ship of Optimus Prime's crew, such as both being Omega Supremes, but this one is larger and light blue in color, Ultra Magnus and his team landed with this ship in Charter City There is a special prison module for the captive Decepticons in this ship. Ultra Magnus had put Starscream in this module when the latter had been arrested by Optimus Prime on Earth; but during the trip to Cybertron, Starscream managed to break out of prison.

Cybertron: the home planet of the Transformers.

The Metroplex: The Autobots' central headquarters on Cybertron, and the chambers to the Autobot High Council.

Fortress Maximus: the Elite Guard's base on Cybertron.

Sweet Shoppe: a local café that is located somewhere in the street corner of the city. It is operated by Mr. and Mrs. Cake.

Carousel Boutique: a boutique that serves as Rarity's home and workplace, in which she makes dresses for customers and friends.