Decepticon Army

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"Deception Army" "Decepticon Army" バラバラ, デストロン quân đoàn() (Barabara, Destron Gundan) "Scattered, the Destron Army"
Production company	TV Tokyo,NAS
Airdate	12 November2004(Japanese) February 11,2005(Canada) May 23,2005 (USA)
Writer	Akira Okeya
Director	Naoki Ōhira
Animation studio	Actas,Studio A-CAT(3D)
Continuity	Unicron Trilogy

Kicker searches for his family below Cybertron, while Galvatron and a damaged Optimus square off on the planet's surface.

Contents 1Synopsis 2Featured characters 3Quotes 4Notes 4.1Lost in translation 4.2Pain count 4.3Animation and technical errors 4.4Real-world references 4.5Trivia 4.6Foreign localization 5Home video releases

Synopsis

Aspace bridgedisgorgesRodimusandLandmine,carrying the injuredJetfire.Rodimus has Landmine take Jetfire to sick bay atOcean City,while he heads back through the space bridge.

The gas-coveredCybertroncontinues moving through space. On its surface,Six Shotis still trying to take outOptimus Primewith theenergon grid.After sendingSuperion Maximusahead to reachKicker,Optimus finds himself under attack fromGalvatronandStarscream.Galvatron goes toHyper Modeto attack, but Six Shot finally nails Optimus with a blast from the energon grid, sending Optimus crashing to the surface in flames. Galvatron is predictably furious at the interference; he sendsScorponokandConstructicon Maximusto search for the fallen Autobot leader.

The Omega Train roars through a station full ofTerrorcons,its passengers blasting them as they go. Kicker calls for a halt at the next station, figuring the Decepticons are waiting for them. He hasHot Shotcontact Optimus, knowing full well that this will give away their position.

Optimus lies damaged and separated fromWing Saber.He tells Hot Shot and the rest to carry on with their mission.Omegadecides to go to him, but when Kicker points out that Optimus mentioned a leg wound, he has Omega hold up.

Thefive nameless construction vehiclesthat make up Constructicon Maximus are digging through the rubble, searching for Optimus, as Galvatron watches.

Kicker sends Omega ahead to an industrial complex, there to take something to Optimus. He figures it's about time they did some looking after their leader, instead of the usual vice versa.

Ironhideleadshis troopsthrough Cybertron's tunnel, arriving at a firefight at the medical complex. The four troops move in. Ironhide wins the day with his "turbo blast attack", which involves spinning his head around at dizzying speed while firing randomly.

While watching the monitors, Six Shot gets another rebuke from Galvatron, and promises not to doanything.Period. He shuts off his monitors, and says that he quits.

In the medical center, Bulkhead seems fully recovered, enough to scare the other patients and prompt a reproach from anurse-bot.Bulkhead replies by pulling out a paper fan.DownshiftandProwlask Ironhide for updates from the surface, prompting Ironhide to tell them toshut up and listenwhile pumping his fist in triumph, which in turn causes his fanboys to come kneel at his feet.

Omega Supreme arrives somewhere, and says he can sense Kicker's presence.

Galvatron finally digs out Optimus. Optimus nearly has to take a blast meant for Wing Saber, but Superion Maximus arrives in time to save him, and challenges Galvatron. His firepower is ineffective, but before Galvatron can counter, Prime'sdrone squadarrives and attacks, followed by Omega Supreme. Prime links up with his drones and bashes Galvatron around.

Kicker and Hot Shot are almost to their destination.

Omega lends some firepower to Superion Maximus. Galvatron manages to exploit Optimus's injuries, and summons a fleet of Terrorcons.

Kicker finally finds his family's chamber... and it's empty. Spilled food and scattered possessions indicate a hasty exit. Kicker suspects they're hiding in The Core.

Galvatron tells Optimus that it's all over, but Ironhide arrives and challenges him.Bulkheadarrives to lend a hand, followed by Prowl and Downshift. Lots of people shoot. Nobody gets hurts much. The Omnicons restore Optimus and Wing Saber, who promptly combine.

Optimus and Galvatron make a big explosion, and Galvatron comes out the loser. He's still laughing, though, and orders Six Shot to deploy the energon gas. He gets only silence in response.Snow CatandDemolishor,still climbing down the shaft toward theSuper Energon chamberwithDr. Jones,are equally unresponsive. Galvatron and Starscream fly off to deal with Six Shot, leaving Scorponok in charge of the battle.

Kicker finally findsSallyandhis mom,and a reunion ensues. It only takes him a second to realize that Dr. Jones andRadare both absent.

Dr. Jones' captors make a rough landing at the bottom of the Super Energon shaft, leaving Dr. Jones with some nasty back pain. Snow Cat and Demolishor run off to rejoin Galvatron and get powered up, leaving Dr. Jones with a golden opportunity to get away.

Galvatron gives Six Shot a thrashing for ignoring him. But Starscream reports that they're locked out of the energon grid; Six Shot laughs and laughs, as Galvatron needs him to control the planet.

Demolishor and Snow Cat prepare to take a dip in the Super Energon pool, but a giant looming shadow bursts out of it. Amid their screams,Alpha Qwonders what they saw, and wonders what the Autobots will do as Cybertron prepares to exit the space bridge.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

"May I have your attention? As the train approaches the station, please remain behind the white line at all times, and GET READY TO EAT LEAD, FREAKS!"

—Arceespeaks from theOmega Trainover the loudspeaker to the Terrorcons

"You and me! Got that, Galvatron?"
"Why not? I'm an equal-opportunity destroyer of Autobots."

—Superion MaximusandGalvatron

"I hope you have health insurance, Prime!"

—Galvatron

Notes

Lost in translation

• As Rodimus prepares to re-enter the space bridge, the dub has him say that he hopes Optimus "can punch a hole to get us out", which... makes no sense at all. Punch a hole inwhat?Get out ofwhat?The original line is Rodimus saying that he's sure they gave Optimus the opening he needed.
• The dub strangely parses Kicker's request for Omega Supreme to stop as "shut it down". Although an uncommon phrase from real railroading, more likely this is another ofEnergon's famous errors.
• When Hot Shot says that contacting Optimus will give away their position, dub Kicker cockily says "exactly!", as if he's planning a trap or something. InSuper Link,he just replies that the enemy already knows where they are.
• In the middle of Kicker's comments about Optimus's stubborn selflessness, the dub omits a key line about how Kicker once hated him. Without it, the rest of the speech kinda falls apart.
• The scene in the medical center is botched by the dub. InSuper Link,during the brief cut to the outside of the building, one of the nurses cries out in shock—ha ha, Bulkhead groped her! The dub paves it over, having the nurse say that Bulkhead is scaring the other patients....with his strangely animated bobbing, apparently.
• Ironhide's "Shut up and listen" should be "shut up and follow me", hence the pumped-up fist of triumph and the fanboys rallying to him.
• Omega Supreme doesn't "sense Kicker's presence" in the industrial complex; he just says that Kicker's wish has been carried out.
• Primus isn't in this episode, but the dub still replaces a mention of his name with "the core".
• Dub Starscream advises Galvatron "give back complete control to Six Shot". He's supposed to advise him totakecontrol backfromSix Shot.
• Demolishor and Snow Cat aren't "going back to Galvatron" to get powered up; it's a dub insertion.

Pain count

• "Uh?": 12
• Stock footage: 6
• Let's do it: 2
• You're mine: 1

Animation and technical errors

• The nameless construction vehicle that serves as Constructicon Maximus's torsorolls without actually moving its treads.

Real-world references

• As the Omega Train rolls through, Arcee makes station announcements over a PA system, warning passengers to stay behind the white line (and to prepare to eat lead), and wishing the commuters a pleasant day—not!

• As The Omega Force Gun fires, we can hear the classicStar Warsblaster sound.

Trivia

• The episode's nonsensical broadcast title is semi-derived from theSuper Linktitle, "Scattered, the Destron Army", referring to Galvatron's inability to summon his troops to help him out... which was kind of a stretch to begin with. Evidently, they intended to just call it "Decepticon Army", and typo'd it.For thefourthtime.Like "Improsoned Inferno", however, it was corrected for the DVD release.
• The dub keeps the originalSuper Linktheme song-based background music as Optimus and Wing Saber combine, rather than replacing it with the normal music (based onEnergon'stheme song.)
• As in the last episode, Omega's combined train mode has his battleship half attached to the back of his train half. This is not possible with the toy but the two halves can combine the other way round, with the train's cab slotting into the battleship's engine compartment to create a "Cybertronian Armored Super Train".
• Prime and Galvatron's faces both get the hand-drawn upgrade in the following fight scene.
• Optimus introduces his "Meteor Attack Mode", which involves his drones spinning around him and Wing Saber amid lots of flying energy. Man, didn't we leave this sort of nonsense behind inthe eighties?

Foreign localization

Italian

• Title:"L'armata dei Decepticon"(" The Decepticon Army ")

• Rodimus never says that he hopes Optimus "can punch a hole to get us out".
• Arcee's line: "I hope you're having a pleasent day... not!" is changed to "We ask you to fasten your seatbelts... oh!". That final "oh!" makes the scene... weird.
• Starscream's line about "give back complete control to Six Shot" and the one about Demolishor and Snow Cat "going back to Galvatron" are corrected.
• "Meteor Attack Mode" is translated as "Attacco Meteoritico" ( "Meteorites Attack" ), despite it involving meteors, not meteorites.

Home video releases

DVD

2005 —Transformer: Super Link— Volume 012 (Interchannel) — Japanese audio only.
2008 —Transformers: Energon— The Ultimate Collection (Paramount)
2014 —Transformers: Energon— The Complete Series (Shout! Factory)