The WORST episodes of Transformers: Animated

Every episode of Transformers: Animated ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.

Last Updated: 2/24/2024Network: Cartoon NetworkStatus: Ended
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A Bridge Too Close (1)
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5.21
34 votes

#1 - A Bridge Too Close (1)

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/5/2008

Megatron captures Bulkhead in order to take over Cybertron.

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Return of the Headmaster
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5.38
8 votes

#2 - Return of the Headmaster

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/26/2008

Optimus teams up with Sentinel Prime in order to defeat the Headmaster.

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Sari, No One's Home
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5.63
8 votes

#3 - Sari, No One's Home

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/28/2008

Sari has to defend the Autobot home base from invading Constructicons.

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A Bridge Too Close (2)
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5.88
8 votes

#4 - A Bridge Too Close (2)

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/5/2008

The Final Battle! It's Optimus Prime and the Autobots against Megatron and the Decepticons in a fate to save both Earth and Cybertron.

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Endgame (1)
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6.00
8 votes

#5 - Endgame (1)

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/16/2009

The Autobots race to find an advantage over Megatron's control of Omega Supreme.

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Predacons Rising
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6.43
7 votes

#6 - Predacons Rising

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/11/2009

The Autobots and the Elite Guard pursue Wasp for their own agenda. However, Blackarachnia has Swoop capture Wasp in her latest attempt to rid herself of her organic half. This experiment goes awry and turns Wasp into Waspinator.

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Velocity
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6.44
32 votes

#7 - Velocity

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/17/2008

Bumblebee competes against the Decepticons in an underground racing competition.

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Three's a Crowd
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6.67
9 votes

#8 - Three's a Crowd

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/21/2009

Bulkhead and Isaac Sumdac try to rebuild the Space Bridge that Megatron had built. When Bulkhead convinces the Constructicons to help out, a combination of a forklift, a Headmaster unit and an Allspark fragment gives birth to Dirt Boss. Meanwhile, the others track down any remaining Decepticons and run into Lugnut.

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Five Servos of Doom
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6.91
33 votes

#9 - Five Servos of Doom

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/4/2009

Sentinel Prime has incredible success capturing fugitive Decepticons, leading Prowl to suspect he's getting help.

Nature Calls
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7.02
59 votes

#10 - Nature Calls

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/22/2008

While camping in the woods, Prowl, Bumblebee, and Sari end up discovering Cybertronian energy readings in the forest. It gets worse when they have a run-in with parasitic Space Barnacles, that have apparently taken over the Cybertronian body of their thought-to-have-been deceased enemy Megatron, and end up taking over Prowl and Bumblebee. Sari uses hot water to destroy the space barnacles, but Isaac Sumdac finds the body and takes it back to his lab to rebuild it.

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Total Meltdown
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7.18
147 votes

#11 - Total Meltdown

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/9/2008

After having his funding cut by Porter C. Powell after Cyrus "The Colossus" Rhodes goes berserk during a demonstration, Prometheus Black experiments with the fluid leaked by Bumblebee which results in Prometheus becoming Meltdown. With his new melting powers, he vows to eliminate Isaac Sumdac.

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Transform and Roll Out (3)
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7.57
100 votes

#12 - Transform and Roll Out (3)

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/26/2007

The Autobots must save Detroit from Starscream, when he kidnaps Bumblebee, Fanzone and Isaac Sumdac for ransom to get the AllSpark

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Transform and Roll Out (1)
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7.57
141 votes

#13 - Transform and Roll Out (1)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/26/2007

The Autobots and their leader, Optimus Prime, find the AllSpark and crash land on earth. While on earth, they meet the human Sari and fight the evil Decepticons.

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Human Error (2)
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7.63
8 votes

#14 - Human Error (2)

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/25/2009

It turns out that Soundwave has trapped the Autobots in a virtual reality intending to brainwashing them to his way of thinking. Now, Sari must free them before Soundwave completely turns them into Decepticons. She ends up gaining unlikely allies in Snarl, Scrapper, and Wreck-Gar.

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Garbage In, Garbage Out
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7.78
60 votes

#15 - Garbage In, Garbage Out

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/10/2008

The AllSpark creates a new Autobot out of pieces of garbage.

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The Elite Guard
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7.79
66 votes

#16 - The Elite Guard

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/12/2008

Optimus Prime and his band of Autobots are taken off the job when the Cybertron Elite Guard, led by Ultra Magnus, comes to Earth looking for the AllSpark.

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Headmaster
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7.86
86 votes

#17 - Headmaster

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/15/2008

Henry Masterson, creator of the Headmaster exo-suits, is fired by Isaac who states that Sumdac Systems doesn't make weapons of war even when it's exo-suit makes one of Isaac's robot models unstable. To take revenge on Isaac, Henry becomes Headmaster and plans his revenge by taking over Bulkhead's body. The Headmaster eventually succeeds in taking over Bulkhead's body, and fights the Autobots using it and weapons built into the Headmaster unit. He also causes the city's generator-core to overload, threatening to destroy the city. By the time the Autobots defeat Headmaster and knock the Headmaster unit off Bulkhead, the overload is at the point where the only way to stop it is to manually push the containment-grid back into position. However, nobody can survive the conditions inside the core, so it's essentially a suicide mission. At first, Optimus plans to do it himself, but Bulkhead has the idea of creating a new robot to do it. The Autobots create a patchwork robot in time, and Sari animates it with her key. The robot succeeds, and its melted, damaged, inanimate remains are put on display.

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SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy
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7.86
59 votes

#18 - SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/7/2008

The second-rate villains of Detroit team up to beat the Autobots.

Blast From the Past
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7.93
117 votes

#19 - 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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Survival of the Fittest
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7.93
86 votes

#20 - 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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Nanosec
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7.93
87 votes

#21 - 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.

Rise of the Constructicons
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8.00
58 votes

#22 - Rise of the Constructicons

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/24/2008

When the AllSpark turns construction vehicles into Autobots, Bulkhead becomes fast friends. However, the Decepticons have other plans in mind.

Mission Accomplished
star
8.00
60 votes

#23 - Mission Accomplished

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/3/2008

Unaware of the Decepticon activity, the Elite Guard take Optimus Prime and the Autobots back to Cybertron.

Home Is Where the Spark Is
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8.01
95 votes

#24 - Home Is Where the Spark Is

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/5/2008

Optimus Prime and the Autobots set up base at an old auto-parts shop. Meanwhile, Megatron's head comes back online and takes control of several robots to attack the Autobots and reclaim the AllSpark.

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A Fistful of Energon
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8.02
59 votes

#25 - A Fistful of Energon

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/31/2008

Prowl and a mysterious Decepticon bounty hunter go after Starscream.