The BEST episodes of Transformers: Animated
Every episode of Transformers: Animated ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Transformers: Animated!
The evil Decepticons have appeared in Detroit. With the all powerful Allspark, Megatron can use it to turn all of Earth's robots into Decepticons. However, Optimus Prime and his Autobots arrive and plan to stop Megatron and his evil plan in Transformers Animated.
#1 - TransWarped (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/14/2009
As Sari and Professor Sumdac deal with the fallout of the shocking discovery, the Autobots try to contact Cybertron to warn them of the traitor Longarm in their midst. Meanwhile, Megatron inadvertently stumbles upon a new plan to conquer Cybertron, where an increasingly desperate Longarm/Shockwave tries to cover his tracks.
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#2 - Decepticon Air
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/2/2009
The Space Bridge on Earth is finished. Meanwhile, the Elite Guard ship holding most of the Decepticon prisoners heads straight into an ominous space storm. The space storm reactivates Swindle who frees the Decepticon prisoners and takes over the ship. Optimus Prime identifies the "Broken Lance" code from Sentinel Prime and uses the Space Bridge to transwarp to the ship.
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#3 - Along Came a Spider
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/16/2008
It's Halloween and Sari introduces the Autobots to Earth's costume-and-candy traditions. However, the entire affair brings up bad memories for Optimus, who is haunted by the ghosts of his past, specifically when he and his fellow bots, the cocky and arrogant Sentinel Prime and power-mimicking Elita One were looking for a crashed Decepticon ship loaded with energon cubes. When Sari takes Bumblebee and Bulkhead trick or treating, the spider-like Decepticon Blackarachnia shows up and targets Sari's key. She wants the key to get rid of her organic half that she got when she was on an organic planet infested with giant spiders. The spider's venom somehow mutated her Cybertronian systems, making her 'a freak'. After seeing how Sari's key can heal Autobots, she wants to use it to purge her organic half. However, her body can't survive without her organic half now and as a result of using the key, she nearly kills off all organic matter in the entire city (which includes herself and Sari). Optimus gets the key away from her and Blackarachnia escapes, alone once again.
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#4 - TransWarped (3)
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/14/2009
As Sari and Professor Sumdac deal with the fallout of the shocking discovery, the Autobots try to contact Cybertron to warn them of the traitor Longarm in their midst. Meanwhile, Megatron inadvertently stumbles upon a new plan to conquer Cybertron, where an increasingly desperate Longarm & Shockwave tries to cover his tracks.
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#5 - This is Why I Hate Machines
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/9/2009
Ratchet activates Bulkhead's Space Bridge, which ends up sucking Captain Fanzone into it with Ratchet following him. They both end up on Cybertron around the time Sentinel Prime has declared a lockdown. Omega Supreme has arrived on Cybertron with Megatron, Starscream's head, and Lugnut. Thus, Shockwave (still possessing Ultra Magnus' hammer) attempts to get Omega Supreme's access codes from Arcee herself instead of Ratchet to reprogram Omega Supreme. In the end, Ratchet caught Ultra Magnus' hammer, Jazz joins Optimus Prime's team, and Arcee was shown to have her memory back.
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#8 - Megatron Rising (2)
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/5/2008
Now that Megatron's body is rebuilt and designed to blend in on Earth, Optimus Prime, Prowl, and Bulkhead battle valiantly against him only to get brutally beaten. Then after punching Starscream, Megatron uses Sari's key to lead Lugnut and Blitzwing to Dinobot Island, unaware that Blackarachnia has beaten them to it.
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#9 - Human Error (1)
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/18/2009
On Christmas Eve, Optimus Prime patrols the city in search of Soundwave. With Porter C. Powell selling Soundwave action figures, Optimus is paranoid that the real Soundwave is out there. When the Autobots drift off to sleep, they awake as full fledged humans. Now they must figure out what happened to them while dealing with a Decepticon onslaught.
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#12 - The Thrill of the Hunt
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/19/2008
Ratchet thinks back to the time when he served in the Cybertronian War as a field medic. During the fighting, he was sent to rescue an Intelligence agent named Arcee who was injured during the fighting. The intelligence codes she possesses could turn the war in the Decepticons favor. For that reason, Megatron sends the the bounty hunter-for-hire Lockdown, to capture her, snagging Ratchet in the process. Back in the present, Lockdown has resurfaced and uses Ratchet's EMP generator to capture Optimus Prime. Recruited by Blitzwing and Lugnut to locate the Autobots who destroyed Megatron, Lockdown is revealed to be just a bounty hunter who doesn't care about the Decepticon's cause and just does it for the 'upgrades' he can get. Ratchet also reveals that the EMP generator Lockdown stole from him, which he used to repair injuries, doesn't work on the one bot it was designed for, namely him! But Ratchet also despises Lockdown for turning a medical tool into a weapon, and forcing him to use the generator to wipe out Arcee's memory so that the Decepticons wouldn't get hold of her security codes. But as a result, she wiped out every other memory she ever had, even of Ratchet and herself. Lockdown is apparently destroyed when his ship crashes into a bridge and Ratchet reveals to Prime that his encounter with Lockdown and Arcee is one of the reasons he is the way he is.
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#13 - Sound and Fury
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/23/2008
Megatron creates Soundwave, a robot in the form of a toy robot for Isaac to give to Sari for her birthday. Bulkhead is the only one who finds the toy to be a bad thing and finds out that the toy is evil. Unknown to Sari, the more she uses her key on Soundwave, the more he will evolve into a bigger robot.
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#15 - TransWarped (1)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/14/2009
In the aftermath of the battle at the mine, Sari and her father’s relationship takes a strange turn; the Autobots have their work cut out for them trying to contact Cybertron; and Megatron and Starscream find a new opportunity.
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#16 - Megatron Rising (1)
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/29/2008
When Starscream, Blitzwing, and Lugnut begin their invasion upon Earth, Optimus Prime demands that Sari hand over her key. This causes her to run away only for her to end up captured by Dark Black Arachnia. Optimus begins to doubt his leadership when Megatron begins his next stage to have his body rebuilt.
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#17 - Lost and Found
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/1/2008
When Megatron's two deadliest warriors, the split-personality Blitzwing and the strong, obsessively loyal Lugnut arrive on Earth looking for their leader Megatron, the pair tear up the city of Detroit. Optimus Prime and the Autobots battle the highly destructive Decepticons, only to get beaten back by their seemingly endless arsenal of weapons. Megatron, seeing that Lugnut is the most loyal, manages to make contact Lugnut and orders him to go an obtain Sari's key. With the key they can locate the Allspark and with that Megatron will be able to return to power. Optimus decides to use Sari's key to repair their ship so that they can get off the planet and lure the Decepticons away from them. But Sari doesn't want them to go and stubbornly refuses to help them, even to the point of sabotaging their ship. However, the Allspark reveals that if Megatron gets the Allspark, he will destroy everyone and everything in the universe. While Optimus and the Autobots battle Blitzwing and Lugnut, Ratchet and Sari reactive their ships weapons system and blast the pair into scrap.
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#22 - Nanosec
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/9/2008
To obtain Destronium to help rebuild his body, Megatron bails a fleet-footed thief named Nino Sexton out of jail and gives him Isaac Sumdac's experimental super-speed suit to obtain the Destronium for him. Since the Destronium is highly unstable it needs to be transported quickly from the research lab to Megatron directly. Megatron uses Sumdac's private bank account to make Sexton do the job. Having arrested Nino Sexton before, the Autobots are shocked to learn that he now has super speed powers, which makes Bumblebee upset that Nanosec, Sexton's new name, is faster than him. Even with a pair of experimental rocket boosters created by Sumdac, Bumblebee is unable to truly catch Nanosec. However, the Autobots make two startling discoveries: 1-Nanosec's new speed suit is making him age rapidly, and 2-their constant movements are destabilizing the Destronium which will cause it to explode and take out half of Detroit. The Autobots use their combined talents (Bulkhead's battering arm, Prowl's jump boosters and Bumlebee's rocket boosters) to launch Bumblebee into the upper atmosphere where he hurls the Destronium away before it explodes.
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#23 - Blast From the Past
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/12/2008
Megatron has just made himself known to Isaac Sumdac and tricks the inventor into thinking that he is an Autobot. He then helps him in reprogramming some robotic dinosaurs after Bulkhead accidentally destroys them at a robotic theme park. While Sumdac tries to rebuild them, Prowl teaches Bulkhead how to 'think and move'. Behind Isaac's back, Megatron upgrades these Dinobots Grimlock (a Tyrannosaurus), Snarl (a Triceratops) and Swoop (a Pteranodon) to become his new attack drones. But during their 'rampage', both Ratchet and Bumblebee try to use an electromagnetic attack to disable them. However, Sari's key gets pulled into the mix, which gives the Dinobots a small semblance of 'a spark'. Megatron tricks' them into attacking the Autobots, which forces the Cybertronian heroes to battle them. It is during this fight that Bulkhead proves to be exactly what the Autobots need to stop the Dinobots, his muscle more than a match for the Dinobots muscle. Sumdac thinks it would be better to dismantle the Dinobots, and Prime agrees, but Prowl, who senses a life force inside them, and Bulkhead take the Dinobots to an island in the middle of Lake Erie where they can exist peacefully.
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#24 - Survival of the Fittest
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/8/2008
When Sari gets kidnapped by the Dinobots, Prowl and Bulkhead go to the island to find out what is going on. Captain Fanzone goes after them, suspicious of their reactions to this situation. It is on the island that, after teaming up, the trio encounter the Dinobots, who attack them. Prowl is naturally confused at this, until he discovers that they all have acid burns on their bodies. Worse, it is the work of Prometheus Black (AKA the acid-shooting Meltdown) who has forced the Dinobots to become his watchdogs, and wants to use Sari as part of his experiments to create a transforming human. His previous experiments having failed, Meltdown thinks that a still-growing human, as opposed to an adult, will have better results, and chooses Sari because he hates Sumdac. Bulkhead is injured by Meltdown and Prowl and Fanzone team up to fight Meltdown's mutant freaks (the mammal-like one was his lawyer). They take out Meltdown by wrapping him in a non-corrosive containment suit and, after the Dinobots take out Meltdown's mutants, return to the city, leaving the Dinobots on their island.
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