Transformers: Animated
TV Show • 2007 •
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Transformers Animated is an Japanese/American animated television series based on the Transformers toy line. The series debuted on Cartoon Network on December 26, 2007, and has been shown on NickToons in the UK since February 2008. It is produced by Cartoon Network Studios and animated by The Answer Studio, MOOK DLE., and Studio 4°C . The series has 42 episodes across three seasons. The European Jetix began to air the series on September 10, 2008. The series began its broadcast in Japan on April 3, 2010, on both TV Aichi and TV Tokyo. The Japanese version of the cartoon was slightly rewritten to tie into Michael Bay's Transformers trilogy.
The show's continuity is separate from any other previous Transformers series, despite using footage from the first series in its first episode as a historical film. Despite being a Cartoon Network original series, the show was aired on Nicktoons in the UK, Jetix/Disney XD in the rest of Europe and finally, back in the states on The Hub in high definition.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Not necessarily depicted too badly, more cartoonishly, but theres instances in one or 2 episodes characters allude to sari no longer caring for her dog like robot companion
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Is there decapitation?
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does it help to know that the decapitation is not fatal?
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Abuse
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The main child character, Sari, has to live with the Transformers at one point and they struggle to accommodate her.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Prof. Sumdac is gaslit for nearly the entire first season into helping megatron
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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The Constructicons drink oil, an analogue for beer, and convince one of the main heroes to drink with them. The Constructicons are primarily motivated by their search for more oil.
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There are a few episodes dedicated to preventing characters from abusing mods, which are analogous to drugs (turbo-boosters to go faster, armor plating). The villain Lockdown is obsessed with them.
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A Transformer who has empathy for organic creatures accidentally destroys a bird's nest, and we see the broken eggs on the ground.
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Are there spiders?
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The spiders that turned elita 1 into blackarachnia are shown
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Are there bugs?
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There are spiders and wasps
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Obviously there's no actual sexual assault because it's a kid's show, but the episode "Black Friday" has a torture scene involving a female character that feels reminiscent of it.
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Is someone restrained?
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Optimus frequently gets caught in his own grapplers.
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Bodily Harm
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Is there body horror?
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In a way—Blackarachnia hates her body and how her body is a mix of organic and Transformer and constantly tries to get rid of the organic side
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Does a head get squashed?
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In the first episode of the third season, a Transformer gets their entire body squished into a metal cube.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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A few of the robot characters are stylized with tooth gaps or chipped teeth but nothing gets damaged or knocked out onscreen
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Is there cannibalism?
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Not shown but there's like one or two lines that imply Blitzwing cannibalizes other transformers
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Is someone crushed to death?
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It is confirmed outside of the show that he survived, but Blurr is crushed into a cube and never seen again.
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Is there amputation?
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Lockdown steals other transformers' body parts, Blitzwing tears off Ratchet's arm to get Sari's key, and the way the Headmaster units work can be best described as "humorous decapitation". No gore and not at all graphic.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Sari asks Bumblebee if she'll be able to breathe when they're underwater, but no problems arise from it.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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A transformer does fall off a building and die, but is almost immediately revived
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Is someone tortured?
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Among other cases, two new members are literally branded by Megatron as a way of inducting them into the Decepticons
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Children
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Death
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Prowl dies to restore the AllSpark with his own spark.
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Disability
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Family
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Is someone kidnapped?
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A human character is held hostage in the Decepticon base for the duration of Season 2
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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A musical robot meant as a child's present is somewhat damaged, but is repaired almost instantly.
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Fear
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Are there ghosts?
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The spirit of a deceased character plucks one of the heroes out of danger in the series finale.
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Is someone possessed?
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There is an episode where two characters are taken over by Space Barnacles, which turn them into zombies.
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Gross
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Bulkhead is seen rushing to the bathroom in Human Error (it makes sense in context) but fortunately he makes it in time
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Does someone spit?
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Captain Fanzone dangles a loogie over Rattletrap while he and Ratchet interrogate him
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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One of the main characters, Prowl, turns into a police motorcycle and his human appearance in the episode Human Error is a policeman. Captain Fanzone, a human cop character, is also often shown working with the heroes.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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There are a few situations where characters are placed in the care of Ratchet, though this is treated more mechanically for the most part.
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Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Blitzwing is an antagonistic character with multiple personalities who is portrayed as violent and "crazy"
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Ratchet has leftover trauma from the Great War, often flashing back to failing to save Arcee from getting amnesia.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Blackarachnia's feelings toward her technoorganic form could be interpreted as such
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Blitzwing (see entry for "is a mentally ill person violent")
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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In Season 3, a character is trapped in an enclosure that grows smaller and smaller.
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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The opening sequence contains flashing, and every episode contains some sort of flashing effect, usually during fight scenes.
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Pregnancy
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Is there childbirth?
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A minor character goes into labor (see "are there babies or unborn children") but nothing graphic is shown and we don't see the actual birth
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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There are babies and children as background characters (Optimus even asks Sari where babies come from at one point) and there's a plot point involving escorting a pregnant woman to the hospital in one episode (played for comedy)
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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Bulkhead’s size is made fun of
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In the series premier, the Transformers have never encountered a human before and mistakenly call Sari "it," though they are quickly corrected.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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One of the villains has a multiple personality disorder and occasionally comments are made at his expense
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Does an LGBT person die?
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one could argue that all transformers deaths are lgbtq+ as they, throughout the franchise are genderless, panromantic asexual beings, but in TFA there are no openly queer characters so it's not a 'bury your gays' situation
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Is there hate speech?
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The Decepticons' propaganda is featured in one episode as voiceover during a humorous montage.
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Does the black guy die first?
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SPOILER: None of the black or black-coded characters die
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Relationships
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Mixmaster and Scrapper lust after a red sports car upon coming to life. It's all played for laughs since they're meant to evoke the stereotypical construction worker.
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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In addition, the show was cancelled, leaving it without it's intended ending.
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Vehicular
Does a plane crash?
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The character Starscream occasionally crashes while in plane mode, but usually picks himself back up. Other Decepticons who have plane modes can also find themselves falling to the ground.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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yup. they turn into cars, motorcycles, etc. please be warned of sirens too.
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Does a car crash?
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Bulkhead, one of the Transformers, often bumps into things and breaks them. As he is a car himself, and one of the stronger characters, he doesn't usually have any pain in response.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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if you count cars hitting each other then both cars are technically people, yes
if you only count cars hitting humans, no
if you only count cars hitting humans, no
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Violence
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Is there gun violence?
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Mostly like, sci-fi laser guns or military planes firing missiles
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