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Optimus will die in Predacon Rising and Smokescreen will become Rodimus
The trailer mention the possible "end of the age of Primes", Galvatron and Unicron are around so this is clearly going to be in the same vein as Transformers the movie.- The former confirmed, the later jossed.
Thunderwing (from the game) is going to appear on the show.
He'll probably show up during season 3, he may even play a key role. Most likely having a similar (though not exactly the same) origin to his game counterpart. Optimus will die.
Again.- And then revive. Again.
- WMG pages are for THEORIES, not facts.
After Optimus dies he will be revived with Dark Energon, and then have to fight against the zombifying effects of it.
Megatron already wants to kill and then revive Optimus as a zombie. But being Prime he will be able to resist Megatron's control over zombies, at least until the other Autobots find a way to counter Dark Energon. Perhaps they will discover Light Energon, the blood of Primus?- As of “One Shall Fall,” it seems normal Energon is going to play the role of “Light Energon.” Fitting, considering the Exodus novel states that it’s a physical emanation of Primus anyway
Knockout will try to frame Soundwave
If the way Knockout looked at him at the end of Triage is any indication, Knockout's is just itching for a way to to get rid of Megatron's "favorite". He probably knows better than to confront Soundwave directly-we all know how that worked out for Airachnid- so he'll look for a way to discredit him instead.Soo, he'll do some thorough snooping/analyzing with Soundwave's computer and discover the virus Raf implanted. He'll then try to spin things in a way so that it looks like Soundwave was INTENTIONALLY sending info to the Autobots (which given Megatron's recent state of paranoia, has a good chance of succeeding). Megatron then might 1) kill Soundwave in a fit of rage or 2) try to kill him, but Soundwave escapes.- In the case of the latter, the rest of the episode/ arch will probably involve Soundwave trying to clear his name, and even going as far as kidnapping Raf to do so. Which I think would be really cool, because, despite their hugely different personalities, Raf and Soundwaves have a lot of similarities to each other and I feel like the writers should explore this some more.
- Also: expect Megatron to be driven crazy with paranoia after all this, because if he can't even trust Soundwave, he can't trust anyone.
- Alternatively, Megatron is crazy, but not stupid, and he'll see through the ruse. Knock out may or may not have to flee for his life at that point.
Megatron will become Galvatron as a result from absorbing the Dark Energon.
This would make for one terrific Chekhov's Gun, he takes the energon into his body, claims believes he can hear Unicron, and has presumably gotten some kind of power boost. When he is killed off (either during a season finale or a possible betrayal by Star Scream), instead of reviving as a zombie, Megatron will instead mutate/evolve/reincarnate as Galvatron.- Well everyone thinks he died when the space bridge exploded. But Ratchet mentioned the possibility of Ground/Space Bridges "snapping" which could send them anywhere, which likely happened to Megatron. He could "coincidentally" end up where Unicron is and be reformatted into Galvatron by him.
- It's too early in the series. I suspect he'll slowly be corrupted by the Dark Energon over the course of several seasons, until it finally culminates in drastic changes to his body, the complete destruction of his old personality, and direct commands from Unicron himself.
- Correction Unicron turns him into Galvatron in the "Predacon Rising" film.
Miko is going to get badly injured
Just look at how she's acting; there is no way she is going to be able to maintain that level of enthusiasm and seriousness without suffering majorly for it.- As a corollary, Jack will rejoin the Nakama after she gets injured, promising to protect her.
- The corollary is Jossed. Jack came back after Arcee said she was starting to miss him.
- Additionally, she'll be augmented with cyborg replacement limbs afterward... Which will just encourage her to keep being a suicidal idiot during confrontations.
- Alternately, Jack or even Raf will be injured because of her, causing her to take the situation more seriously.
- This could lead to Jack's mom being let in on the Masquerade; Jack would have to be rushed to the hospital, and those injuries would have to be accounted for somehow. He gets the aforementioned replacement limbs, and his mom would naturally want to know where they came from.
- Jossed. June's in on the Masquerade, but it's because she almost got killed, not Jack. And none of it had to do with Miko.
- This could lead to Jack's mom being let in on the Masquerade; Jack would have to be rushed to the hospital, and those injuries would have to be accounted for somehow. He gets the aforementioned replacement limbs, and his mom would naturally want to know where they came from.
There will be at least one Autobot flyer amongst the new Autobots that eventually arrive.
One of the biggest disadvantages the Autobots have against the Decepticons so far in the series is that pretty much all of the important ones fly, so they have a tendency to turn tail and leave the Autobots behind grumbling to themselves. Wheeljack bringing back one of the flyers would give the Autobots an invaluable asset. Because of name recognition, it'd probably be Jetfire.- Confirmed, and the flyer is none other than Optimus Prime himself. Optimus 2.0 if you wanna get technical.
Dinobot will appear sometime during this series.
He was fan-voted into the Transformers Hall Of Fame which would make any new toys of him an instant seller. Of course he would have to be retooled into a Decepticon turned Autobot which could ruin the character forever, but it would be worth it to add some more awesome to the series.- Alternately, there will be another plot concerning Cybertronian artifacts being found in Africa. A certain raptor's immortal spark flickers back to life when he's unearthed and a new generation of Transfans are introduced to Dinobot 2.
- Alternatively again, an entire team of Maximals will appear. They shall be Dinobot, Leobreaker, Cheetor, Rhinox, and Silverbolt. It'll be lead by a new bearer of the gorilla alt mode named Cogimus Prime. They will have a combined alt mode known as King Cog. And the Predacons will consist of Scourge, Scorponok, Terrorsaur, Tarantulas, a clone of Dinobot, and a badass Distaff Counterpart of Waspinator named Waspinatrix. Eventually, the Predacons will have a schism over whether to help the Maximals and Autobots against Unicron. Scourge, the Dinobot clone, and Scorponok are the ones who help the Autobots.
- Don't think Dinobot will appear, however, I do get some very Dinobot-y vibes coming from Dreadwing. Or is it just me?
- Alternatively again, an entire team of Maximals will appear. They shall be Dinobot, Leobreaker, Cheetor, Rhinox, and Silverbolt. It'll be lead by a new bearer of the gorilla alt mode named Cogimus Prime. They will have a combined alt mode known as King Cog. And the Predacons will consist of Scourge, Scorponok, Terrorsaur, Tarantulas, a clone of Dinobot, and a badass Distaff Counterpart of Waspinator named Waspinatrix. Eventually, the Predacons will have a schism over whether to help the Maximals and Autobots against Unicron. Scourge, the Dinobot clone, and Scorponok are the ones who help the Autobots.
- The series was supposed to have a Heel–Face Turn akin to Dinobot (I believe), but with the new Beast Hunters aka Season 3 with Predaking as the leader of the Predacons we may get the return of everyone's favorite Velociraptor.
- Looks like the Heel–Face Turn will be Dreadwing. As for the Beast 'bots, remember that Word of God has confirmed Grimlock will be appearing at some point. - ~~~~
A later plot device will be Cliffjumper's body.
He'll either come back to life somehow or at the very least his body will be important in some way later. Because otherwise he had no importance in the series.- Since Starscream went rogue in Partners, he might use Cliff's body (Or what's left of it)to do what he did in G1 and make the Combaticons.
Dark Energon will be central to the plot.
It's a pretty logical inference to make, given the prominence of the material in War for Cybertron and Exodus, both of which are said to be prequels to Prime. Also, the Hubworld site gives a tantalizing hint about Megatron wielding a "rare element" that grants him "control over life itself". Furthermore, the information about the show's premiere not only mentions this "element" once more, but says that the first episode is called "Darkness Rising". Perhaps he even intends to infect Earth's core with it the same way he did with Cybertron's...- Seems so
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- Seems so
Sierra will learn of the Autobots and Decepticons.
She was curious that Jack was never around after school. Even though she was taken back at the thought he had a motorcycle girlfriend, she becomes too anxious to just ignore the fact that he's involved in something. There will be more manually held weapons as the series goes on.
In Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the characters had more weapons that didn't come from their bodies, such as swords, guns, and even a shield. There have been two characters thus far who have held manual weapons in this series (Wheeljack and Skyquake), so the quotient may increase.- They'll certainly have a use for the synthetic energon that way.
- With the appearance of the Star Saber and Dark Star Saber, this is at least partially confirmed.
Unicron will come back online eventually.
Come on, there's no real way they'd shut him down for real so early. Seems too strong a character to be permanently repressed that way.- I say they're going to save him for whenever they need a big-time villain, or another reason to get some of the bad guys to work with the Autobots.
- He appears to be the Big Bad of the new movie coming out in October.
Airachnid will be accidentally freed, ironically by either Jack or Arcee.
And Miko will lampshade on how ironic it is.- Seems unlikely now that the Decepticons have her stasis pod.
- She is freed accidentally, by Cylas. Go figure.
At the end of the series, the Decepticons will be defeated by none other than... Miko, Jack, and Raf
- I FULLY SUPPORT THIS!
- That would be delicious, delicious Irony. Especially given the Decepticon attitude towards our race.
- They wouldn't use any mech's or stuff, they'd be able to defeat them because of how "puny" and "tiny" they are! Their tiny hoo-man size gives them the advantage of sneaking on the Nemesis and going inside the cracks and destroying it from the inside out while the Autobots keep the Decepticons busy!
- IRONY TIME! Only one of the Decepticons was defeated by the kids. The most clever, competent, savvy, dangerous of all the Decepticons...Soundwave.
The concept of "What it means to be a Prime" will be used as a Coming of Age Story.
As early as Season 3, the concept of "What it means to be a Prime" will be heavily focused on. While Optimus Prime is obviously the end-result of what a Prime is, the focus will be the development of an Autobot becoming a Prime. There will be two candidates: Sentinel Major (a descendant of the Sentinel line of the Autobots including the previous Sentinel Zeta Prime) and Hot Rod. All season long the show will focus on what one has but the other lacks (Sentinel more experienced, yet arrogant and - to use a better term - a bit of a jerk. Hot Rod inexperienced, yet more compassionate and humble. Not sure if he even wants to become a Prime.) This will culminate in a five-part season finale with Optimus' death (For real this time) with Sentinel, believing that he's "the obvious choice" as Prime's successor, tries to take the Matrix of Leadership, but it has no effect (or at worst, corrupts him,) emphasizing why it is only given to those who are worthy). The Matrix will be then given to Hot Rod, on whom it works, transforming him into Rodimus Prime. This perceived "lack of respect" will drive Sentinel mad, causing him to desperately absorb Dark Energon, corrupting him. The next season (Or final episode, if not renewed for a fourth season) will have the Autobots, with Rodimus as their new leader, not only focusing on the Decepticons but a now-rogue Sentinel, who has since dubbed himself Nemesis Prime.- Or maybe Smokescreen?
There will be an Autobots-somehow-turn-into-humans episode(s)
It's practically a tradition for Transformers. Also, there will be more Ship Tease between June Darby and Optimus while he is human and *ahem* compatible with her.- Would Optimus even go for that? He seems like he'd be completely oblivious to any romantic possibilities. Although the one-sided flirting (and Jack's subsequent embarrassment-related aneurysm) would be hilarious.
Knockout will end up like Starscream.
It's bound to happen, considering all the stuff he lost in "Tunnel Vision". Either Megatron badly scraps him (but keeps him alive), or he ends up just running away in fear. He'll end up working along side with Starscream for vengeance against the Autobots.- Jossed, for the moment.
MECH will construct this continuity's Menasor.
Realizing that Breakdown's body isn't a strong enough body for Silas, they build the other Stunticons to form Menasor. Also, this could be the final version of Project: Chimera, since Nemesis Prime was the prototype. I mean look at the name Chimera, what would be better name for a project to create a Combining Mecha? And because the others could just be drones, it gets around the "shared consciousness makes the big robot dumb" problem.- Jossed
Knock Out will defect and join Starscream.
Let's look at the "evidence" shall we?- Knock Out has allied with Starscream before, up to the point where, if not for the Autobots, Megatron would likely have died in sickbay, or still be vegetative.
- Knock Out is getting the Starscream treatment from Megatron - prove your usefulness or end up in the scrapheap.
- Knock Out gets the gets the task of fixing Soundwave's visor, which is only fractured, as opposed to himself who stopped a train with his face.. he would REALLY rather go and get his own finish repaired and his wheel replaced.
- Joining the Autobots is a no-go. They're the cause of said damaged paintjob.
- Starscream needs someone to perform the T-cog insertion, seeing how he lacks the nerves to do it himself (Don't blame him, self surgery is fearsome for a lot of people.)
- What would spark said defection? How about Starscream showing up in nigh-invulnerable armor?
- Why would Starscream accept aid, being nigh-invulnerable and all? well... he's short on energon... and guess who possesses a sample of Synthetic Energon to analyze and produce?
- Jossed.
- Though Megatron learned that he made a deal with Starscream to shut off his life-support in return for being his second-in-command.
Optimus will die during Season 2.
- This will prevent the rest of the season turning into a chain of relic hunts. Or, it will turn out that Soundwave was aware of the virus and sent some complete BS to the Autobots.
- Jossed
We will see a Shattered Glass episode at some point.
Or at least a world that's similar to Shattered Glass, but treating it more like in that one Justice League film, the Autobots and Decepticons will look entirely different, sound entirely different, overall being very different people from their normal counterparts.- Perhaps for the second season finale? Pulled off correctly, a Mirror Universe story could top the Unicron arc of season 1's outro. Plus there would be hundreds, if not thousands of people who would stay up till ungodly hours just to watch Good!Optimus and Bad!Optimus duking it out.
- It'll probably be called Shattered Mirror.
- A good Unicron will pop up and give the Autobots critical information on stopping evil Unicron. Or we get an awesome battle in the center of the two Unicrons minds.
- The problem with that is the fact that Unicron, Primus, and the Thirteen are all the same beings in alternate universes — they just either hop between them or manifest in them simultaneously. We've actually already seen a Shattered Glass Primus and he's still the same guy. It's All There in the Manual.
- A good Unicron will pop up and give the Autobots critical information on stopping evil Unicron. Or we get an awesome battle in the center of the two Unicrons minds.
- Maybe Mirror!Megatron and Mirror!Starscream will come to the Prime verse looking for help in defeating Mirror!Optimus?
Unicron has not "Transcended" physical existence
He has escaped it. In The Beginning, remember, he and Primus were both immaterial forms of energy beyond full mortal comprehension; he only became a planet when Primus tricked him into getting trapped in an asteroid which he's been building up ever since, eating planets the slow, physical way because the physical form Primus trapped him in has been a Power Limiter. Now, after being wounded without being banished from the timeline like he usually is, he's had enough time to escape that imprisonment, and has returned to his full power, from before Primus sealed him away. And Primus is still sealed AND in a healing coma. The Star Seekers (from the novel) will come to Earth.
And of course, Captain Thundertron will be leading them. The recent reveal of him having a toy in the Prime toyline may be evidence of a future appearance. Furthermore, he and his crew will mark the first appearance of non-Insecticon beast mode Transformers in the show. Season 2 finale and hook for Season 3.
Season 2 final, Optimus and Unicron team up to stop an out of control power tripping-over powered Megatron and a dark energon zombie Primus in order to save Earth (Unicron). Team up is caused by the kids talking to Unicron and convincing him to help (they play the "you're our daddy" card better then Optimus did). Megatron wins, Optimus is near death. Autobots use the space bridge to evacuate Earth. Unicron transforms and starts owning the hell out of Primus, Unicron then cures Primus by removing the dark energon. Primus and Unicron revive Optimus. Megatron is destroyed but season three teaser shows him being rebuilt or reanimated as Galvatron. Unicron becomes Earth again and Primus (as Cybertron) goes back into stasis on the outskirts of our solar system.- Among ... other things, why would Unicron cure Primus if he had the chance to destroy him?
- This also goes against the policy of Anyone Can Die and Killed Off for Real. Unicron does not care for humanity.
- Maybe we will grow on him eventually, I mean by an evil god perspective think about it; Humanity is a army capable of reproducing at an alarming rate, we have an ungodly amount of ingenuity, and we are in vast enough numbers (not to mention small enough) to take down a Transformer given enough prep time. For Unicron its the perfect army, with a few upgrades, to utterly devastate Cybertron and the Transformer race.
- Maybe change it to Primus being killed and Optimus being almost killed, then we'll talk. Though the idea of Unicron going good sounds off it would still be badass.
- And how would you evacuate 6-7 billion people through a single portal roughly the size of the Lincoln Tunnel? And where would they evacuate to?
- This also goes against the policy of Anyone Can Die and Killed Off for Real. Unicron does not care for humanity.
- Unicron's spark chamber maybe?
- ... would hold the population of, oh, Hoboken. Maybe.
- Ever stuffed a turkey...yeah like that. Now apply on planetary scale.
- Ever seen a war refugee camp...yeah like that. Now apply on planetary scale.
- ... would hold the population of, oh, Hoboken. Maybe.
- Leaving aside all other considerations, I can't imagine the show's creators going for the "destroy Earth" angle. As dark as this show gets, that's one line I just don't see them crossing.
- Unicron's more likely to cause Third Impact and turn everyone into dark energon for fuel
- What if Unicron's spark is our equivalent to a Well Of Allsparks? And there is a Allsoul (our version of the Allspark)? When the Decepticons finally go do invade a lot of people will die (offscreen) what if the sheer number of human souls returning to Unicron's spark temporarily makes him "good" just long enough to use his powers to revive several dead Cybertronians in new techno organic bodies. Those Transformers will be the Dinobots.
- Alternatively that many people dyeing has the same effect mass genocide on Cybertron would on Primus, it hurts Unicron badly enough to warrant making Megatron his new target and giving Prime the edge he needs. After that its back to square one and Unicron will target Prime again, but with an extra bit of caution not to kill humanity just yet until he figures out how to get around the whole "Creator Agony" thing.
The virus in Triage will come back to haunt the Autobots
.So Ratchet uploaded a virus into Laserbeak, which got transferred to Soundwave, and now the Autobots have the full Iacon archives. Somehow it just seems set to backfire on them; perhaps the Cons will use it to figure out the location of the Autobot base by looking where the files were downloaded to?- Maybe Soundwave is aware of the virus, and is actually setting up a Xanatos Gambit in which he utilizes Optimus' knowledge of Iacon to break the code and find the relics before the Autobots do.
- Given Soundwave's Pragmatic Villainy, that second idea seems very likely
Animal alt-form Transformers (that are not Insecticons) will appear.
- Bantor, a fuzor, will be one of them.
- Battle Unicorn will be another.
- Dinobots?
- Predaking has been annonced.
Combiners will appear.
- For the Decepticons:
- Devastator.
- For the Autobots:
- Defensor.
Triple-Shifters will appear.
They would have a hard time blending in most of the time. Minicons (other than Laserbeak) will appear.
Either the ones that powerlinx or the ones who turn into weapons or both. Head/Target/Powermasters will appear.
Junkions will appear.
Wrek-Gar will be one of them, still holding a grudge for the destruction of planet Junkion.- Miko might take a liking into these guys. Until she starting to realize they're just too strange.
Velocitronians will appear.
- Knock Out may be one due to his love of racing.
- Override and Blurr could show up at one point.
Blitzwing and Lugnut will appear.
- Blitzwing was one epic Ensemble Dark Horse. Ditto for Lugnut. The producers may add them just for popularity alone, and the Decepticons could use a bit of a boost. Plus, it would be hilarious how the other characters react to the sudden appearance of a totally-off-his-rocker Split Personality, Laughably Evil triple-changer and a Megatron fanboy who kicks aft and won't stop proclaiming how GLORIOUS the Decepticon leader is - plenty of Funny and Awesome opportunities in their debut alone.
Starscream will use the Apex Armor
to fight Megatron one-on-one. There is an epic Enemy Mine situation in the works, everyone but MECH against Airachnid and her Insecticon army.
A rogue Decepticon who's backstabbed Starscream, killed Arcee's partner, as well as Knock Out's partner and Bulkhead's Arch-Enemy, denying the latter closure, schemed against Megatron, and could, at any time, start hunting humans for sport out of sheer boredom? Backed with an army of Elite Mooks — which a single one of nearly gave Megatron a run for his money? When she resurfaces, she'll officially be in everyone's crosshairs... with good reason.- Hmmmm... depending on what happens between then and now, MECH could well be in on it. Unless the MECH storyline turns out to be a huge distraction from Airachnid's activities.
- Jossed
Knock Out will exact vengeance upon Airachnid.
It seems fitting that the partner of the Decepticon she offed should get a shot at her. In order to preserve his villain cred, however, as well as to humourously snub the fangirls, he'll say that the reason he wants her dead is not because he misses his "friend", but rather, because she didn't let him salvage the remains.- Perhaps he and Arcee team up to get some payback.
- Knock Out has purely pragmatic reasons to be mad at Airachnid for killing Breakdown. After all, if he needs any heavy lifting done now, he has to get Dreadwing to do it. Good luck with that.
- She got lose at one point, but Soundwave got to her before Knock Out could take a crack at her.
Skyquake as a zombie will confront Dreadwing
And one will kill the other.- Or Skyquake will show some sentience.
- One problem: Zombie!Skyquake is trapped in that weird alt-dimension thing. The 'Cons don't know he's there, and the Autobots aren't likely to try and get him out.
- He'll show up, somehow, the bridges might cross streams again, so it would be easy to set up a scenario. I find it unlikely that they'll forget about him completely.
- Conversely, he'll only partially cross the dimension, becoming a !Zombie Ghost!
- He'll show up, somehow, the bridges might cross streams again, so it would be easy to set up a scenario. I find it unlikely that they'll forget about him completely.
- Dreadwing now knows what happend to his brother. Wether that means Zombie!Skyquake will show up again is still a possibility.
- Jossed
Bulkhead will die in the Season 2 finale
Bulkhead was in pretty bad shape come the end of Toxicity. Ratchet will fix most of the damage but Bulkhead won't want to be a burden so he won't mention that he's still in agonizing pain. Come the 2-Part season finale Bulkhead (a la Dinobot) will die during a heroic charge that will be fundamental in the Autobots winning the battle. Wheeljack will permanently join Team Prime and Miko will get her Character Development.- Jossed
- It seems "hinted" that he would be killed off. But as of now, that of actually happening is pretty slim.
- Jossed
Bulkhead will become Ultra Magnus.
After "Toxicity", Bulkhead seems to be dying, so they need to act fast. Fowler has the body of Nemesis Prime brought in (which the government has given a red, white, and blue paint job for some reason) and Ratchet moves Bulkhead's spark from his dying body into Nemesis's. Some identity issues and a chat with Miko later, he becomes Ultra Magnus.- The Aligned continuity already has an Ultra Magnus from the video games. But TF Prime uses Broad Strokes a lot, so it's still possible.
- Ratchet could use the spark extractor for this never before tried procedure in a last ditch effort to save Bulkhead's life.
- The red, white, and blue paint job could be (as stated in the Fowler = Ultra Magnus theory) because the government had other plans for Nemesis Prime's body.
- It doesn't seem likely that Bulkhead would become Ultra Magnus — not only does the actual Magnus already exist in aligned continuity, but he also happens to be leader of the Wreckers. It would just be too weird for Bulkhead to somehow become his own boss. Besides, the art on Ultra Magnus' upcoming toys looks far more convincing than Ironhide's, so it's possible there's an actual show appearance for him somewhere in the pipeline. His bio indicates he's his own bot, as well.
- It seems likely he'll show up. When "Orion Pax" pulled up the (altered) data on Optimus Prime, the diagram we saw looked just like the Prime Ultra Magnus figure. Now, a traditionally-animated series could throw that in as an Easter Egg (see every Cybertron scene in TFA) but CGI models are not cheap, so you don't make a new one from scratch (not an alteration of an existing one) for a cute two-second Shout-Out. They made Magnus 'cause they're gonna use Magnus.
- Totally Jossed, Ultra Magnus himself appears in season 3.
Silas will become a Headmaster.
Jossed— if anything, he was more like a Powermaster when he became CYLAS, though his being dead now renders it a moot point. What will happen when Airachnid escapes?
She's alive, so we all know it's going to happen sooner or later.- She'll try to kill someone, probably Jack and the kids, or Arcee. Perhaps they'll send her through the Ground-bridge and off into space.
- Looks like even the Decepticons prefer to keep her on ice, not very well liked is she?
- She did escape thanks to Cylas, and now she's stuck on one of Cybertron's moons.
What will "Patch" reveal?
- The episode "Patch" is named after the Cortical Psychic Patch used to plug Megatron's mind into Starscream's (with Knockout performing the procedure, so he's out of the wall). Will it be a clipshow like "Grill", except with the bad-guys? Will we get to see some flashbacks to before the war? Perhaps an Image Spot of Starscream ruling Cybertron. The promo suggests that Dreadwing will try to stop the alliance, will he try to surface Starscreams ambitions when he is in the mind, or will he try to off Starscream while he sleeps?
- Starscream will also get a dance number. Go watch the trailer.
- He does, and it is glorious. Most of the episode was a clipshow for Starscream, and Dreadwing's main contribution was finding out his brother's fate and preventing Knockout from unplugging the patch.
The Plot for Transformers Prime: Beast Hunter aka Season 3
- It has already been confirmed that Predaking was the giant monster in the season 3 trailer and that he's going to lead the Predacons. This could go two way: 1.) is a combiner team and 2.) is we get a team tributes from some of our favorite Beast Wars Preds.
- If the first route is taken, we get the Predacons from G1's team and maybe Predaking is actually their combiner form or maybe is their leader.
- If route two is taken then after we introduced to our team of Preds and their leader, then maybe the Autobots build their own team in defense called the Maximals.
- If this route is taken, perhaps Predaking is just the first of a team and we are introduced to him for a couple episodes and then Shockwave builds another. The Autobots manage to build their own Beast-mode transformer (Primal? Rhinox? Rattrap? Airazor- because they have no fliers and one femme? Etc.?) called a Maximal and continues on until we have to small teams.
- And you know Dinobot joins the Maximals because if he didn't the creators would be slaughtered.
- Another possibility is that the transformers begin reformatting themselves after the success Predaking has.
- Another option is that THE Dinobots arrive.
- Already long since confirmed by Word of God, at least for Grimlock.
- Predaking as a combiner was jossed at New York Comic Con. He's not a combiner, but he is huge.
If Optimus survives, he'll reforge the Omega Keys and Omega Lock with the Forge of Solus Prime
Considering what that thing can do, maybe fixing the Omega Lock is one of them. However, to allow for dramatic tension, the Forge may have been damaged and they need to fix it.- He tells this to Smokescreen, but indicates that a new Prime will be needed to restore the Omega Lock.
Alternatively, if Optimus is truly dead...
As above, but Ratchet attaches Optimus' arm (extremely unwillingly) to someone else to pull of the same trick Megatron did.- Jossed
BOTH Optimus and Wheeljack are fine.
An interview which aired just after Triage had James Horan saying he was in Season 3. Also, Optimus never dies anyway, but he may be rebuilt into his Beast Hunters toy form.- Half confirmed, Optimus was found mortally wounded by Smokescreen. But Wheeljack seems to be alright.
- Fully confirmed by the end of "Rebellion".
Season 3 Optimus will actually be Fowler piloting Nemesis Prime.
Fowler knows the bots enough to be competent in fooling them if he makes himself a recluse, or stay in hiding until the Autobots really do need him to for motivation or a Big Damn Heroes moment (want I'm personally expecting). He'll get caught out once the Decepticons realize "Optimus" is being controlled remotely. The upgrades are military based. This way, we'll get Optimus' classic revival and keep Peter Cullen, while also keeping Optimus dead and developing Fowler as a character some more.- Jossed
Airachnid will return in season 3
She seems to be a popular character, and the explosion of the Autobot base could easily have damaged the mechanism keeping her in stasis. Plus, it's been confirmed that season 3 is the last season, so it would be a good time for Arcee to kill her and get closure.- Confirmed, but shes still stuck in her stasis pod. The Decepticons seem to prefer her that way.
Next Season
So far we have:- Megatron dead.
- Soundwave is in the Shadowzone.
- Shockwave, Starscream and Predaking are somewhere on Cybertron.
So, what might happen here is...
- Megatron's body will be found by Unicron and be turned into Galvatron.
- Soundwave will follow Galavatron around in Shadowzone and get pulled out of said zone.
- Galavatron will be nuts.
- Shockwave will lead what's left of the Decepticons.
- Cybertrons repair will activate hidden protoforms, some will turn Decepticon, few will turn Autobot,
- And it will make Dinobots appear.
- Of all things listed, Unicron does revive Megatron, but he's not given a new name. Soundwave was not freed from the Shadowzone. Megatron, ironically enough does not go crazy once he's free of Unicron. Megatron has dissolved the Decepticons, so Shockwave obviously can't take command of them. No protoforms were found, and no Dinobots appeared during the film either.
