Transformers: Animated
TV Show • 2007 •
ReportTransformers 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.
This tv show contains 30 potentially triggering events.
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Unanswered Triggers
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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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Abuse
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Fever_dreams
Prof. Sumdac is gaslit for nearly the entire first season into helping megatron
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ConsueloHigdon
The main child character, Sari, has to live with the Transformers at one point and they struggle to accommodate her.
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Addiction
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ConsueloHigdon
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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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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ConsueloHigdon
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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Animal
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ConsueloHigdon
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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Fever_dreams
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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Assault
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Is someone restrained?
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mistersandman
Optimus frequently gets caught in his own grapplers.
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SiobhanRay
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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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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SiobhanRay
Sari asks Bumblebee if she'll be able to breathe when they're underwater, but no problems arise from it.
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Is there cannibalism?
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SiobhanRay
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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mistersandman
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 body horror?
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Naksuss
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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Is there amputation?
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SiobhanRay
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 a head get squashed?
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ConsueloHigdon
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 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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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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Children
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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andymoo
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E13
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 a child's toy destroyed?
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HereToHaveFun
A musical robot meant as a child's present is somewhat damaged, but is repaired almost instantly.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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ConsueloHigdon
A human character is held hostage in the Decepticon base for the duration of Season 2
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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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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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SiobhanRay
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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S3
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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ConsueloHigdon
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
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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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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Blitzwing (see entry for "is a mentally ill person violent")
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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SiobhanRay
Blackarachnia's feelings toward her technoorganic form could be interpreted as such
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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ConsueloHigdon
In Season 3, a character is trapped in an enclosure that grows smaller and smaller.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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andymoo
Ratchet has leftover trauma from the Great War, often flashing back to failing to save Arcee from getting amnesia.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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mistersandman
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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Are there babies or unborn children?
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SiobhanRay
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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Is there childbirth?
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SiobhanRay
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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Prejudice
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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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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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Does an LGBT person die?
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Fever_dreams
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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Are there fat jokes?
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Naksuss
Bulkhead’s size is made fun of
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Is there hate speech?
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ConsueloHigdon
The Decepticons' propaganda is featured in one episode as voiceover during a humorous montage.
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Sex
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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andymoo
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E6
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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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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SiobhanRay
The ending is mostly happy but one of the (presumably-adult robot) characters from the main cast sacrifices themselves to ensure their victory
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Fever_dreams
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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ConsueloHigdon
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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Does a plane crash?
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ConsueloHigdon
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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Is someone hit by a car?
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JustHereToComment
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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SiobhanRay
Mostly like, sci-fi laser guns or military planes firing missiles
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