Outta the Frying Pan

Transformers Prime: Invasion of the Quintessons is a computer animated children's television series produced by Hasbro Studios and animated by Polygon Pictures. It is based on the Transformers toy and entertainment franchise originally created in the 1980s by Hasbro out of Takara's robot toys. The Autobots face a new enemy Galvatron and his army and are desperate for new leader.

Autobots
The Autobots are a group of good Cybertronians that had fought against the Decepticons in the Cybertronian War.

Main Autobots

 * Vector Prime (voiced by William Shatner)- An upcoming character. The appointed guardian of time and space. Though recorded history pegs him as 25 million years old, he has identified himself as 9 billion years old, making the clockwork-covered Transformer one of the 13 original Transformers. Despite his age, Vector Prime is very powerful.


 * Ratchet (voiced by Jeffrey Combs)- Ratchet is a veteran Autobot medic who transforms into a white and red ambulance.


 * Arcee (voiced by Sumalee Montano)- Arcee is a courageous female Autobot who transforms into a blue motorcycle.


 * Bulkhead (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson)- Bulkhead is an Autobot warrior who transforms into a green SUV, and is based on the Transformers: Animated character of the same name. Before the war, Bulkhead was a construction worker, and when the war began he joined the original Wreckers.


 * Bumblebee (voiced by Will Friedle)-Bumblebee is a young Autobot scout-turned-warrior who transforms into a yellow and black sports car called an "Urbana 500" (a fictional make and model) that is based on his Chevrolet Camaro vehicle form in the live-action films. Bumblebee is the Autobot guardian for Rafael Esquivel, who was the only human character in the series able to understand his alternative speech patterns. For most of the series, Bumblebee is unable to speak properly, because Megatron tore out his voice box in an interrogation attempt during the war when he was captured at Tiger Pax. So he is forced to communicate through a series of electronic sound effects. His voice is restored by the Decepticon-built Omega Lock in the series' final episode.


 * Wheeljack (voiced by James Horan)- Wheeljack is Bulkhead's best friend from the days of the war, a former Wrecker, and the pilot of a star ship called the Jack-Hammer (Renamed "Star-Hammer" in the series' toy line).


 * Smokescreen (voiced by Nolan North)- Smokescreen is a young, impulsive and inexperienced Autobot who joins Team Prime in the series' second season, having found his way to Earth after escaping from a Decepticon prison ship.


 * Ultra Magnus (voiced by Michael Ironside)- Ultra Magnus was a high-ranking lieutenant during the war for Cybertron, and also led an Autobot commando unit called the Wreckers. He serves as Optimus Prime's second-in-command. He is a strict and methodical commander who sticks closely to military protocol and becomes aggravated when others fail to respect his chain of command, therefore he disliked leading the Wreckers because many of their members were anarchic and reckless.


 * Knockout (voiced by Daran Norris)-Knock Out is a Decepticon turned Autobot physician who transforms into a red sports car loosely resembling an Aston Martin DBS V12. He is extremely vain and narcissistic, taking great pride in his appearance, becoming enraged whenever his vehicle form's paint job is damaged in any way, and rarely showing consideration for his patients or medical work in general. Knock Out became a member of Team Prime following his defection.


 * Metroplex (voiced by Alan Young)- an upcoming character. A calm, quiet and intelligent being, like all Gigantions he is immense in size and strength. He is tasked with forever building cities on his homeworld, and then immediately abandoning them as a way to forever look to their peaceful future and avoid the past, which was wartorn and violent.

Decepticons
The Decepticons are a group of evil Cybertronians that fought against the Autobots in the Cybertronian War. Lead by Galvatron (the upgraded version of Megatron) and sub-commanded by Scourge the Decepticons are treacherous, war mongering, and selfish.

Main Decpticons

 * Galvatron (voiced by Leonard Nimoy)- An upcoming character. Megatron was captured and will memory erased by The Quintessons and will be heavily reconstructed and given a new voice like last time the tyrannical leader of the Decepticons, and will the warship Nemesis. He can now transform into a purple and silver Cybertronian jet.


 * Cyclonus (voice by Steve Blum)- An upcoming character. After the Predacons left Starscream was left for dead after the events of "Predacons Rising" he was rebuilt by the Quintessons as a genuinely loyal and competent second-in-command is a near impossibility and will also has brains and will transform into a cyan fighter jet resembling an F-16 Fighting Falcon.


 * Scourge (voiced by Tony Todd)- An upcoming character. Megatron stepped in and killed Dreadwing in when he is about to kill Starscream for bringing back Skyquake as a Terrorcon season two of Prime. Dreadwing is modified as Scourge, the implacable tracker and leader of his own cadré of huntsmen, the deadly Sweeps.


 * Soundwave (voiced by Frank Welker)- Soundwave is an expert spy and hacker who transforms into a blue UAV drone aircraft resembling an MQ-9 Reaper.


 * Shockwave (voiced by David Sobolov) - Shockwave is an emotionless Decepticon scientist, Megatron's first lieutenant on scientific endeavors, and the creator of the Predacons. His robot mode design is largely based on the Generation 1 version of Shockwave, and he transforms into a purple Cybertronian tank.

Vehicons
The Vehicons are a legion of identical Decepticon foot soldiers that make up the bulk of Megatron's army. Some transform into sports cars resembling the EcoJet Concept, and others (sometimes referred to as "Seekers") transform into Cybertronain fighter jets, and they generally share a uniform color scheme of black and purple, while a squadron of Seekers led by Starscream have a different color scheme of white and grey. Vehicons are adaptable to several different situations. Unlike the Vehicons from Transformers: Beast Machines, they are not mindless and are shown to have individual personalities. When the war is over, most vehicons apparently join the Autobots, or are held prisoner on the Nemesis.

Each of the Vehicons is split into different classes:
 * Ground Force Vehicons - The type of Vehicons that transform into cars and do ground attacks. They're vehicle modes have only been seen and will be seen again.
 * Air Force Vehicons - The type of Vehicons that transform into jets and do aerial attacks. Unlike the Ground Force Vehicons, these Vehicons use their vehicle modes much more often, arguably more than they're robot modes.


 * Seekers - A silver and black repaint of the jet Vehicons under Starscream's command. Like Jet Vehicon these ones also specialize in air attacks unlike the other aerial specialists, only seem to respond to Starscream's commands.


 * Decepticon Miners - The mining class of the Vehicons that mine for Energon. They are not often seen and are not very capable fighters like the other Vehicons.


 * The Sweeps-Upcoming characters. Visually indistinguishable from Scourge himself, although Sweeps do not necessarily have identical voices they communicate through a series of electronic sound effects.

Predacons
The Predacons are a race of ancient Cybertronian dragons (parallel to Earth's dinosaurs) long extinct. With Shockwave using their fossil remains, he created an army of Predacon clones. One such batch of Predacon clones were sent to Earth to fight the Autobots positioned there and remained on the planet to await further instructions. However, the Predacons ended up fossilized over time while indirectly being the source of creatures in Earth's various mythologies. In present day, the Decepticons have been searching the world for Predacon fossils, so that Shockwave could recreate a Predacon army. However their single Predacon Predaking becomes intelligent and transforms, prompting Megatron to destroy the clones and cause Predaking's betrayal.


 * Predaking (voiced by Peter Mensah)- Predaking is the leader of the Predacons. He transforms into a black and orange mechanical dragon that resembles depictions of that in European folklore.


 * Darksteel (voiced by Steven Blum) - One of the two new Predacons that appeared in Predacons Rising. Darksteel turns into a blue, gray, and orange Ursagryph (a hybrid of a falcon and a bear that was called by its name by Lenny Panzica at the 2013 American International Toy Fair). He was cloned by Starscream and Shockwave and was planned to be a part of new Predacon army to be used against Autobots.


 * Skylynx (voiced by Nolan North) - One of the two new Predacons that appeared in Predacons Rising. Skylynx transforms into a red, white, and black mechanical dragon. He was cloned by Starscream and Shockwave and was planned to be a part of new Predacon army to be used against Autobots. But after Predaking defeated him and Darksteel in a fight, they swore allegiance to him.

Quintessons
The Quintessons are a bizarre and ancient race of mechanoids, whose origins are unknown and their history and crafty actions are bound up with the history of the Transformers, and connections with Primus and Unicron. They prefer subterfuge, scheming, and advanced technology over brute force,


 * Alpha Quintesson (voiced by Ian McDiarmid) - An upcoming character Alpha Quintesson or Alpha Q for short is a mysterious manipulator, the supreme leader of the Quintessons with tentacles spread wide and will be the creator of Galvatron, Scourge, Cyclonus and, The Sweeps.

Main Humans

 * Jack Darby (voiced by Josh Keaton)- Jackson Aiden "Jack" Darby is a now 19-year-old high school student. He is brought into the Autobot-Decepticon conflict after accidentally getting caught in a fight between Arcee and two Vehicons.
 * Miko Nakadai (voiced by Tania Gunadi) - Miko Nakadai is a 18-year-old foreign exchange student from Tokyo, Japan. She is loud and reckless, often following the Autobots into dangerous situations without thinking and showing little regard for her own safety.
 * Raf Esquivel (voiced by Andy Pessoa) - Rafael Jorge Gonzales "Raf" Esquivel is a highly intelligent yet shy 15-year-old boy (which Miko mistook his age only to learn he has a growth problem) who has an extensive knowledge of computers and machinery.
 * PJ DeBlois (voiced by John Boyega) - An upcoming character. Peirre Jean DeBlois is
 * Anna Rogue Marie (voiced by Meghan Black of X-Men: Evolution)- An upcoming. Anna Marie or Rogue is a reclusive, paranoid goth who also gets involved with Autobots.
 * Special Agent William "Bill" Fowler (voiced by Ernie Hudson) - William Fowler is a government agent and former US Army Ranger who serves as a liaison between the Autobots and the United States government.
 * June Darby (voiced by Markie Post) - June is Jack's mother who works as an emergency room nurse.