The sequel to and the second installment of the, Transformers Energon ( Transformers Superlink in Japan) was concerned with the search for energon, the source of both Cybertronian factions' power. Although previous series had followed the integral plot of Autobots and Decepticons searching for energy, Energon was quite heavily obsessed with it.The show begins with Cybertronians living on Earth with humans and on the lookout for more energy. Although Megatron is supposedly dead and the Decepticons and Autobots are allies, an undercurrent of shakiness pervades the Autobot cities. Meanwhile, deep inside all that remains of, the planet-sized Transformer, sits Alpha Q, prince of an ancient planet that was eaten by Unicron in ages past. Alpha Q plans to re-activate Unicron to recreate his own planet (Unicron can do that in Energon) and so sends out Terrorcons to find energy to power Unicron. They immediately head for Earth, and while the Autobots and Decepticons battle the Terrorcons, an old enemy lurks in the distance. The series-wide gimmick was 'energon stars', little translucent plastic things that slotted into holes on the Transformers.

The star acted as a magnifying glass, revealing a faction sigil at the bottom of the hole.In addition, most of the Autobots took the form of, which the show called. In most cases, one robot formed the head, arms, and torso, while a second formed the legs and abdomen in a manner reminiscent of ' Multiforce. In-story, it was explained that this made the combined bots.One episode, 'Distribution,' was meant to commemorate the 500th episode of Transformers. However, it was aired as a special in Japan, non-canon to the actual plot.Unfortunately, the anime series received intense flak from Transformers fandom for its (following rules worsened it even further), renders of the Transformers that rarely emoted beyond, excess, and the fact that the US dub was so rushed. The copies of the episodes that aired in the states weren't even finished, and a major episode plot-wise was skipped, replaced by the non-canon special at a completely absurd moment in the series.

The sequel to Transformers Armada and the second installment of the Unicron Trilogy, Transformers Energon ( Transformers Superlink in Japan) was concerned with the search for energon, the source of both Cybertronian factions' power. Although previous series had followed the integral plot. The Transformers square off: Jetfire vs. Scorponok, Inferno and Hot Shot vs. Tidal Wave; Demolishor vs. Ironhide; Optimus Prime vs. Megatron taunts Prime that Unicron's revival is already underway. Alpha Q and Starscream observe the Terrorcons returning from Unicron's body, loaded with energon for Unicron's revival.

The point being, that if you want to watch the show in a coherent form, seek out the complete animation-wise Japanese version of Superlink with subtitles. However, the original is not considered to be Shakespeare-class, either, with poor pacing, much padding, character development introduced then suddenly dropped, and a lot of focus on toy gimmicks that don't actually make the bots any stronger. But, as TF Wiki puts it, '.' Dreamwave Comics began publishing an adaptation as a direct sequel to their Armada comic, which like the Energon comic, was more or less a re-imagining of the series rather than a strict adaptation (for one thing's Unicron's ranks include four Transformers from, which were never in the animated series). Unfortunately, Dreamwave's numerous legal issues, which eventually led to the company's own dissolution stopped the comic from ever being completed.Followed by.As of September 2018, can now be seen 7 days a week on.This show provides examples of:.: It makes perfect sense that Megatron would order Kicker's live capture upon finding out that he has the unique ability to detect Energon. Kicker avoids capture, and they never make another attempt at kidnapping him. This isn't an issue in the comic book adaptation, where the Decepticons make multiple attempts at grabbing him and even succeed at more than one point.: Much like, Six Shot frequently shifts between openly insulting and defying Galvatron, to snivelling desperately before him, usually when the latter decides to handle their desputes in a more physical manner.

Kicker: Don't argue with me!/This is MY planet, MY rules!/I don't care what you think!/DO IT!.: Optimus Prime when combined with Wing Saber. 'Meteor Attack Mode' consists of him firing a Chest Blaster at the same time as his normal beams, which absorbs them to create a massive stream of plasma.: Shockblast attempts to overthrow Megatron, who is quite amused when he later needs to be rescued from the Autobots. Sixshot also attempts to assassinate him later in the series, complete with a lengthy.

It ends as expected for him.: Scorponok attempt to silence a reviving Megatron by stabbing his spark chamber with his own sword. Instead, Megatron comes alive just fine, with a new body, and proceeds to batter the living daylights out of Scorponok, tearing him apart so badly, he gets robotic swollen cheeks.: Mirage in the Japanese version, Superlink. In Energon this is, somewhat obviously , edited out.

This may also be. Mirage isn't such a bad guy, he's just a huge Megatron fanboy with a crush.: Sixshot. Granted he wasn't exactly loyal to begin with, but a good few beatings ensured he wanted Galvatron dead as much as he did Optimus.: A bizarrely small-scale example: certain characters in the series were originally designed to be separate entities, but then got repurposed into upgraded versions of old characters, despite often looking nothing like the originals. Demolishor has been confirmed as one; he was originally supposed to be Long Haul. Snow Cat, Mirage, and Roadblock are also often speculated to be in this category, and Roadblock's toy bio even.: It's a lot, but here's the list from Japanese to English:. Grand Convoy is (of course) Optimus Prime. Skyfire is Jetfire.

In an ironic twist, his G1 counterpart started out as Skyfire. Roadbuster is Ironhide. Note Ironhide was ironically Demolisher's Japanese name, before Demolisher himself was upgraded to Irontread. Hot Shot is still Hot Shot. In the Japanese dub, however, he started by the name Hot Rod in the series' predecessor before he became Hot Shot we know here. Inferno/Inferno V (upgraded form) note The V stands for Volt in his Japanese name.

Is Inferno/Roadblock (upgraded form). Rodimus Convoy is simply Rodimus. Landmine is still Landmine. Ariel is Arcee. Fitting that her appearance strongly resembles her G1 counterpart.

Note In the G1 series, Ariel was the former identity of Elita-1, the love interest of G1 Optimus Prime. Blastarm is Strongarm. Airglide is Skyblast. Signal Flare is still named as such. Sprung is Bulkhead.

Wheeljack is Downshift. Unfortunately he and fellow Autobot Cliffjumper tend to switch with each other's names in the English dub. Overdrive is Cliffjumper. Unfortunately he and fellow Autobot Downshift tend to switch with each other's names in the English dub. Red Alert is Prowl. Omega Supreme keeps his name. Wing Dagger/Wing Saber (upgraded form) is as he is.

is Scorponok. Interestingly, this even mirrors his G1 counterpart. Galvatron/Galvatron G is Megatron/Galvatron, because Megatron is a more recognizable name. Ironhide/Irontread (upgraded form) is Demolisher. He's still Demolisher in the English dub, in which both his memories and intelligence were highly degraded.

Sandstorm/Snowstorm (upgraded form) is Cyclonus/Snow Cat (upgraded form). Shockwave/Shockfleet (upgraded form) is Tidal Wave/Mirage (upgraded form). Nightscream is Starscream. In the Japanese dub, Nightscream and Starscream are separate characters. Laserwave is Shockblast.

Naturally, Laserwave was the Japanese name for G1 Shockwave, whereas Shockwave is also the Japanese name for Tidal Wave. Six Shot retains the name. Buildron note Buildron was the Japanese name of the G1 Constructicons., Bruticus, and Superion are respectively Constructicon Maximus, Bruticus Maximus, and Superion Maximus.: Tidal Wave.: The most common word for filling in the blanks where the dialogue doesn't fit the mouth-flaps is a lobotomized-sounding 'uuuuh?' Also, the poor CGI allows for few expressions beyond 'mouth sorta open.'

. Energon, along with the Dreamwave comics coming out at the same time (Pat Lee's range is also limited to mouth open vs. Mouth closed) were responsible for the 'dull surprise' meme migrating to the Transformers franchise.: Megatron and Optimus Prime.: Most of the Decepticons (particularly Tidal Wave) despise Shockblast due to his, and towards his comrades, and lack of respect towards their leader.

His first mission ends disastrously after the others turn on him, enraged after he attacks Tidal Wave. Even more with Demolisher, who can't decide what's wrong or right.

He, however, shows sympathy for the humans, as he protests,. Megatron does not argue.: Megatron does this a lot. Granted he is also saved by it when Sixshot attacks him in a coup, only to stall the final blow to mock him long enough for Scorponok to intervene.: After being repeatedly pointed out the penalties for making plans against Galvatron's orders (in both a verbal and physical manner) decides to follow this through to a tee, refusing to supply any assistance whatsoever to the Decepticons unless a usually rather irate Galvatron gave him his approval.

Taken to extremes in a heated dispute over setting the Energon towers to a dangerously high level. Eventually a frustrated Six Shot submits and deliberately lets them overload, almost destroying the planet.

Six Shot:.: Tidal Wave ditches the Autobots at the first news Megatron survived, Cyclonus leaves when he spies Megatron's sword being wielded by Scorponok, and Demolishor betrays the Autobots when he sees Megatron alive and well, but cautiously. After his brush with death and subsequent rebirth, Megatron wipes out the morality in Demolishor, and this reduces him to a gibbering moron blindly following Megatron. Starscream becomes Megatron's right hand after being hit with a dose of to break Alpha Q's control over him, but Megatron has ulterior knowledge not to restore Starscream's memory or risk another and an insubordinate soldier.: Optimus.: Misha for the most part, safely on the ship's control deck for the majority of the show (and then conveniently sent back to Cybertron just prior to the mission it is destroyed).: A lot of Autobots are introduced in the series, and only so many get actual individual spotlight.

Some of the complex characters get reformatted into flat characters as well.: Alpha Q, after he dies. Possibly he's watching the show from Quintesson heaven.

Or hell.: Rodimus's team and Scorponok.: Alpha Q and Rodimus's team.: In the Dreamwave continuity, Rhinox, Airazor, Cheetor and Terrorsaur.: Tidal Wave! His upgraded form Mirage too, albeit less consistently.: Is it Shockwave or Tidal Wave? Mika or Misha? And just who is Cliffjumper?

Also, Armada's habit of occasionally referring to people or things by their Japanese names (which have not been used in the show previously) continues. Basically, the dub is so bad, hardcore Transformers fans will cry afoul and inevitably bellow 'Ruined Forever.' About, hero.: Curiously, despite being the first series to really bring in homage characters and designs, Energon follows through on almost none of them aside from their appearances. Wheeljack (well, Downshift) goes from a to a reckless youngster. Shockwave (along with getting a 'blast' added on) goes from cold and logical to unstable and violent.

Inferno jumps from hotheaded hero to, and gets 'upgraded' into a design that was once a totally different character. Even Rodimus and Scorponok, despite having similar 'secondary leader' functions, have very little in common with their old selves. It's even been admitted behind the scenes that many of the designs the show used were originally intended to be separate characters - for instance, Demolishor's dump truck design was supposed to be a new guy, likely a version of Long Haul - which could explain why so many of them were so off the mark.: To an extent, there are usually over a dozen Autobots consistantly throughout the show's run compared to what is usually less than half that amount of Decepticons. The Decepticons cannot use Powerlink, the main premise of the show (despite being able to in Armada) and the large majority. By the finale, only two Decepticons are suggested to have survived, while every single Autobot that was previously killed. Oh, and of course the Autobots have.: Revealed to be the reason Scorponok serves Megatron.: In the episode 'Kicker Beware' Megatron notices that Kicker has the power to sense energon, and thinks that this might be of use to him.

He sends his Dcepticons to go kidnap him.: Kicker, albeit with a lot more heavy enthasis on the part than the usual Transformers protagonist.:, Kicker.: Ironhide.: The real Scorponok, Alpha Quintesson, Shockblast, Team Ironhide, Six Shot, Construction Maximus, Bruticus Maximus, the imitation Scorponok, Unicron, Galvatron, and presumably, Starscream and Mirage.: Tons. Here's the whole list:. Any time a Transformer gets a combination spark or learns to Powerlink. Some are unique. Episode 13: Cyclonus begs Megatron for repairs after a battle when he really doesn't need them. To shut him up, Megatron hooks Cyclonus up to Energon cables and they reconstruct him into Snowcat.

Though this might be considered a downgrade, because though he gets a rarely-utilized freeze ray, he loses his aerial capabilities and arguably, no longer a cackling loon, but a yodeling one. Demolishor is destroyed in Episode 15, then promptly brought back in a seemingly tougher body. In reality, he looks less threatening.

He's not a badass battle tank anymore- he's a blasted dump truck who hoots like an ape and pounds his chest, because Megatron stripped his sense of right and wrong away, reducing him to a simpleton. Wing Dagger and Tidal Wave are crushed under an Energon Tower. Tidal Wave is crippled, but Wing Dagger is dead. In episode 24, Tidal Wave returns as the smaller and 'smarter' Mirage. Oh, and he no longer combines with Megatron, but lusts for him. Next episode, Rad finishes rebuilding Wing Dagger and Primus revives him as Wing Saber. Wing Saber becomes Optimus Prime's new combining battle armor with two modes.

Constant Energon supply to Unicron finally restores his body and gives him a brand new armor color scheme. Then he gets the outer layer of his armored exterior shredded off by an energon implosion and spends ten more episodes resurrecting back to par.

His head, however, takes a while longer to revive- Alpha Q keeps it in his possession until Megatron takes it by force and kills him. Megatron's repeated brainwashing leads to Inferno's death, but his spark is rescued, and he's rebuilt and modified into Roadblock- not much different than before. Optimus Prime and Omega Supreme learn their combination sparks are compatible and combine into Optimus Supreme. Shockblast absorbs Unicron's power and doubles in size, but turns into an. It doesn't end well. Landmine, Cliffjumper, Hot Shot, Ironhide, and Jetfire are given new armor by Primus (really recolors) and Optimus Supreme grows to Unicron's size. He then kills Unicron and the super-sizing power crops up every now and then.

Unicron survives as just a spark. Megatron discovers the Super Energon and uses it to first become Galvatron, then an ever-growing giant, then planetary size, eventually on par with Unicron's might. Starscream also gets an upgrade- though Galvatron forces him to enter the Super Energon as a test of loyalty. Galvatron and Optimus Prime the crap out of their power. But it turns out all Transformers have the primal nature of Unicron inside them, and it takes over.

Both bots try to overcome this madness, where they keep one-upping each other in size, and the most egregious example? Prime somehow manifests the equivalent of Omega Supreme's armor, and his little Prime Force drones are equipped just for added good measure, without combining with Omega Supreme. Galvatron accidentally lets the disembodied spark of Unicron steal his body and reaches his ultimate size. Unicron takes over and plans his rampage anew. Primus's spark itself decides to absorb the Super Energon and become a massive star, which fully ignites into a new sun for Alpha Q's planets after Galvatron regains control and plows into it to destroy Unicron.

one series later, it collapses into a black hole and Galvatron and Starscream come back to life even stronger, further bonded to Unicron's powers. The Ultimate Powerlink formed by the Autobots uniting sparks with Optimus Prime in the.: Well, it is. With energon weaponry, Brute Modes, combination, and a few lingering Mini-cons, we may have a record for most toy gimmicks in one series.: Megatron uses this to brainwash Starscream and Scorponok into being loyal to him, and attempts to do it to Inferno.: The series has a metric buttload of powerups, but they were almost never used in a way that would give the user an advantage. Even transformation itself, with characters who turn into cars running on foot in the majority of type situations. Also, combining usually served only to halve the number of troops in a straight firefight. Optimus' tended to be activated and then not used, as he continued firing with the same gun he has in his normal mode.

Also also, energon weapons tended to run out of power after being fired two or three times.: TAKE A WILD GUESS!.: Transformers has long preferred 'offline' or 'slagged' to 'dead' when it actually happens (or could happen) to someone, but only Energon tries to pretend that dead characters are actually still alive - making you wonder where the hell any given character whose death was smoothed over is if we didn't see it directly. Ironhide's fanboy trio are 'down.' And Ironhide leaves them behind?

This is not the only such example. Additionally, when Demolishor dies, what was a in the Japanese version becomes. Ironhide screaming at everyone to 'GET IN THE SHIP!' And he isn't even fazed when Demolishor forces him aside to rescue Megatron.

Keeps spouting stock phrase lines from a rotten apple dub!. The Nekomimis are robot catgirl maids.: The first thing Megatron does when he revives is dish one of these out to Scorponok for trying to kill him.: spends the majority of his appearance getting smashed against his own control panel.

When he finally plots a coup, he nearly dissassembles his master with his laser blast (keeping in mind the legendary Decepticons could not even dent his armor at full power). Of course, then and gets the boot. A big, BIG boot.: The team tend to find treatment from Kicker to be rather funny.: Hot Shot, Rad, Alexis, and Carlos.: The 2D animation for the humans was not much better than the CGI it often accompanied. With characters either developing strange proportions, or just looking incredibly sloppy due to sub-standard outsourcing.: Surprisingly, Alexis and Carlos fade away into the background and eventually disappear from the storyline until the final episode of the US dub of Cybertron. Also- ALL Mini-Cons except the ones who create the Energon Saber- and even they rarely show up outside weapon form. That includes the, Street Action Team, High Wire, Sureshock and Grindor, who form Perceptor- they become mindless transport for Kicker- not participating in combat whatsoever.

Heck, Perceptor now.: Sixshot is portrayed as such: due to his own vendetta against Optimus Prime, he frequently goes against Galvatron's orders to target the Autobots. Repeated disobeying of orders, almost killing his own side in the process or just butting into Galvatron's made him the constant target of violent lambastings and tantrums from his. Sure enough, this pattern slowly embittered Sixshot into, sabotaging and blackmailing Galvatron with Cybertron's artillery to force him to deal with things his way, and eventually attacking and almost killing him, deeming the commander an interference to his own troops. Galvatron escaped and underwent an, making sure to crush Sixshot first thing before dealing with the Autobots.: Sixshot, of his older brother Shockblast. Also, the trio of Ironhide fanboys, of each other. Also, Cyclonus is sporting a new black color scheme, while Demolishor has borrowed, apparently, becoming green and purple. Tidal Wave gets a new paintjob when he's fried by touching raw energon.

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Obviously, this is.: Kicker and Misha usually wear skin-tight spacesuits. No, the fact that they're teenagers does not count.: Unicron.: A few Cybertronians have them.: Snowcat (formerly Cyclonus), Mirage (formerly Tidal Wave), and Demolishor (who doesn't get a new name. Tough luck, pal.).: As in Armada, generic, unnamed Autobots in the larger battles tend to get blown to shreds like they're made of Kleenex. Nobody seems to care. On the other side, Terrocons are nothing but cannon fodder, barely getting even speaking lines. By the end of the series.

The Decepticons aren't much better.: In the episode titles. 'Improsoned Inferno'?

Jesus Christ. And those are the two that weren't corrected for the DVD release. 'A Tale of Two Heroes' and 'Decepticon Army' originally aired as 'A Tale Of Two Heros' and 'Deception Army.' Also, while spelled right, 'Ironhide Team' is about Team Ironhide.: Kicker's buck kicking of Ironhide earns him a from his new team of fanboys., even after they meet their demise.: 'Solar system,' 'Galaxy,' and 'Universe' are used in ways that make you wonder if the dubbers knew what any of those words mean. Rushed translation explains lines not matching Superlink, but it doesn't explain 'We warped into another galaxy on the outer reaches of the solar system!'

Or 'I could annihilate the Decepticons by deploying the energon grid. But then I run the risk of destroying the entire universe, because it's loaded with raw energon!' No, that could never happen. At all.).: In the third episode, Tidal Wave's foolish mistake to touch a raw Energon star laying on a battlefield etches lightning-shaped scars onto his body. However, this is only shown in the Japanese version- the rushed American doody dub and its incomplete craptacular CGI doesn't actually show this happening- it just fills in the unfinished patch with stock footage and the scars are demoted to a.: Shockblast and later Six Shot. In the ultimate form of irony, Starscream turns undyingly loyal to Megatron.: Compared to most other instances of this trope, these ones are horrible animation-wise (See Conspicuous CG above).: Cyclonus (later Snowcat), Demolishor (later ), and Tidal Wave (later Mirage).: When he was a child, once found himself adrift in space without any support, only to land on a dark, isolated asteroid, where his father radioed him and told him to search it for energon by himself while the Autobots were looking for him.

This apparently wasn't anything new. His father never got him any help for this, and it really shows.: Though it's rather late in, Kicker's treatment of Ironhide is a lot softer in the final arc.: Four episodes had misspelled titles in the dub - ' (which should be 'Scorponok'), ', ', and ' (the latter two were corrected on the DVD release). In fact, the third one of these provides the trope image.: Six Shot makes a personal vendetta against Optimus Prime for supposedly killing Shockblast. However, since he stays at his control booth to monitor missions leaving only once to attack fellow Decepticons Galvatron and Scorponok, Prime seemingly has no idea of Six Shot's revenge or even his existence whatsoever. It's a side effect from being Galvatron's chew toy whenever he disobeys him.: Sixshot allies with Megatron to get revenge on Optimus Prime for killing his brother Shockblast. In reality, he was killed by Megatron himself. Poetically, so is he.'

From Transformers Wiki

The Autobots and humans work to complete an energon tower defense grid for Earth before the Decepticons can find out about it.

Synopsis

Dr. Jones arrives at Ocean City to push for and oversee his energon tower project, to Kicker's surprise. The project gets underway with Earth Federation backing and massive work crews both human and Transformer. Kicker notes that it's the biggest project 'since building Armed City'.

Alexis reports to Dr. Jones about incoming supplies, and recalls the terror of Unicron. She offers to help get more personnel, but Dr. Jones says that it's not necessary. By re-using existing structures, they expect the project to take about a week.

Sally and Miranda Jones return to Ocean City, wondering if Dr. Jones and Kicker will get along this time. Kicker is worrying to Optimus Prime about a possible attack during the construction, when Dr. Jones comes looking for him, annoying him by calling him 'Junior'. Kicker turns him down for lunch and leaves with Misha.

On Mars, Cyclonus is bored as the energon scavenging operations drag on, but Megatron promises him action soon. Soon, the time comes to return to Unicron. Apt sangam tamil fonts. Megatron vows to create a new mobile fortress, and does so. Within Unicron, Megatron has his sword recreated into a more powerful weapon. Demolishor is thrown slightly for a loop by when Megatron questions him about Ocean City; Megatron then orders the Decepticons to attack while Prime is stationed there. Alpha Q observes the Decepticons leaving Unicron aboard the mobile fortress, and figures it's the perfect chance to steal back the energon, dispatching Terrorcons.

Kicker has traveled with Misha to Jungle City, anxious to get away from his dad. He detects an incoming attack. Ocean City braces for attack.

The Autobots and the automated defenses hold off the Terrorcons, but Megatron emerges from the sea and attacks Optimus Prime with his new sword. Demolishor winds up facing off with Ironhide, and hesitates till he's goaded into action by Megatron.

Ironhide breaks off from the battle to pursue Scorponok. Dr. Jones leaves a shelter in the middle of the fight to go help, with Sally following. Ironhide contacts Kicker, who ignores him. Sally follows up, telling him that their dad is injured.

The Transformers square off: Jetfire vs. Scorponok, Inferno and Hot Shot vs. Tidal Wave; Demolishor vs. Ironhide; Optimus Prime vs. Megatron. Megatron taunts Prime that Unicron's revival is already underway.

Alpha Q and Starscream observe the Terrorcons returning from Unicron's body, loaded with energon for Unicron's revival.

Kicker arrives in the middle of the battle aboard Skyblast and gives some tactical help to the Autobots. Scorponok attacks him, but suddenly a huge tower begins to arise from Ocean City. It sends a beam into the sky, enhanced by a team of Signal Flares. Something huge emerges from the sky—the energon tower! It lands and connects with the energon tower, glowing red with energy. The pulses begin destroying the Terrorcons, and Megatron orders a retreat. Dr. Jones emerges, alive and well, and rejoicing in the energy pulses washing over the city.

Kicker yells at Sally for lying about their dad being injured; she counters that it was the only way to get him to return. Dr. Jones explains his 'energon shockwave assault' to the Autobots. Prime worries that, having seen the energon tower, Megatron will be back soon.

Megatron angrily wonders how the Autobots built the tower without him finding out. And Alpha Q observes as Unicron's head flickers with new energy; it won't be long now.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

'Let's just hope they're getting some R and R or something, till we get the tower up.'
'That's a good idea! Hook 'em up with some kind of vacation package would ya?' (Laughs joyfully)

—Alexis and Dr. Jones, who always seems to find humor in everything anyone says.

'Demolishor! I understand Optimus Prime is stationed in your old home town.'
'Yes, I mean — it's more or less the same place.'
'Inarticulate as always.'
'Forgive me, sir; it's just, I spent a lot of time away, so even though I come from there—'
'Never mind!'

—Megatron isn't going to let Demolishor have an easy time.

'What is this monstrosity?'
'Big. BIG!'

—Megatron and Tidal Wave, who gets right to the point

'Uhhh.. translation, anybody?'

—Ironhide watches the Energon cartoon the energon tower descend.

'What is this stuff, anyway?'
'It's the awesome power of energon! Amazing.'

—Hot Shot and Optimus Prime want you to buy those toys!

Notes

Lost in translation

A huge number of backgrounds were not finished for the dub version of this episode. Most of the time, an adequate substitute was used (in fact it's not clear why some of them even needed to be changed), but in a couple of places it makes the story less clear.

• Super Link and Energon use different opening shots of Ocean City, and again when Sally and her mom arrive.
• The dub takes an idle thought by Kicker about how 'each of the armed cities' will have its own energon tower, and turns it into the wildly nonsensical statement that 'this was the biggest project since the construction of Armed City'.
• Immediately after, Kicker's impressed thought that 'I never would have thought of that' gets dub-mutilated into a scornful 'I don't know what these people are thinking'.
• In the dub, the cables that attach Megatron to Unicron are missing their color. Super Link also adds some glow effects to the cables as they power up, and likewise to Megatron's eyes.
• The dub makes Megatron's dialog while creating the new mobile fortress somewhat at odds with the animation. He proclaims 'we WILL create a new fortress', only for it to happen just a second later; he then orders the Terrorcons to 'seek out what will be your new home', as if it wasn't right there in front of them. In Super Link, he simply orders Unicron to create the fortress, then tells the Terrorcons that it is their home now.
• Demolishor's statement that he's spent a lot of time away (quoted above) was originally a statement that Optimus Prime often leaves Ocean City, and might not be there.
• Super Link features full coloration on the demonic faces that briefly appear around Megatron's sword. They also glow green before exploding. In the dub, they're simply shaded blue.
• Alpha Q's 'no one here but us!' is, of course, a dub flub, since Alpha Q isn't in Unicron's body.
• Super Link features new establishing shots of Jungle City, scrolling through cliffs and showing the tower under construciton. Energon recycles some still shots of the ancient pyramids instead.
• Kicker's thought 'you don't know the half of it' is purely a dub addition.
• Still more unfinished/changed backgrounds as Dr. Jones leaves the shelter, and Sally arrives in the control room.
• Scorponok's 'poison claw' line, rather inexplicably said in reference to his tail, was original just a line about some 'poison'.
• The Signal Flares' bizarre cry of 'SOREEEE!' (a nonsense word said for emphasis of action) as they bring in the tower is changed to a simple and more Western-palatable 'Fire!' for the dub.
• More unfinished animation: the bottom of the descending energon tower looks like a fuzzy moon in the dub. Super Link replaces this with a darkened orb.
• Energon lacks any animation to show the suborbital top of the tower activating. In Super Link, a different background painting is used, with red energon pulses.

Pain count

• 'Uh?': 12
• Stock footage: 2
• Energon is great: 2

Animation and technical errors

• The top of the energon tower is missing when it first powers up.
• Now it's Mee-sha.

Continuity errors

• How did the Decepticons manage to get so close to Ocean City without being detected?
• Just where Scorponok is going, and why it's so important, is never quite made clear.
• Demolishor cuts off Ironhide's pursuit of Scorponok, but for some reason it's not actually shown on camera.
• Why is Ironhide contacting Kicker?
• Sally isn't shown leaving the shelter; we don't realize she's done so till she arrives in the control center.

Trivia

• Apart from the conversation between Dr. Jones and Alexis, this episode's dialog actually flows pretty well.
• Scorponok is really enjoying the battle, laughing madly through the whole thing.
• Megatron upgrades his Energon Sword.
• The Energon Blaster makes a brief reappearance.
• Autobot generics are seen holding dual wield weapons that not all are side arms. The generic bots don't get slagged for once.
• In some scenes where Kicker is riding Skyblast in vehicle mode, he is drawn by hand.

Home video releases

DVD

2004 — Transformer: Super Link — Volume 003 (Interchannel) — Japanese audio only.
2008 — Transformers: Energon — The Ultimate Collection (Paramount)
2014 — Transformers: Energon — The Complete Series (Shout! Factory)