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In fact, as this clip flickers around, we get a clearer shot at the robot on the left, and вЂ¦ are those horns on that head? Is it Bumblebee? He isnвЂ™t supposed to be there! Nobody except Arcee is supposed to be there! The guy next to him may be Prowl? The guy in the upper left that sort of looks like he has Hot RodвЂ™s spoiler wings on his back? ThatвЂ™s probably Wheeljack. None of these characters (other than Arcee) are the ones present in The Transformers: The Movie, are they? Is this not drawn art? Are these existing character models? The one that looks like Perceptor isnвЂ™t heвЂ™s got a pointy missile launcher on his shoulder, not a microscope. It is at this exact point that your brain becomes that Wee-Bey Reaction GIF from The Wire.

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IsnвЂ™t this pleasantly just like the original scene? ThereвЂ™s Perceptor, thereвЂ™s Arcee, thereвЂ™s вЂ¦ wait, is that Ultra Magnus? Ultra Magnus is dead in this Netflix cartoon! He died in Siege! WhatвЂ™s he doing there? Image: Sunbow ProductionsДЄs we all know, there were only six Autobots (plus Daniel Witwicky) present at Optimus PrimeвЂ™s The Transformers: The Movie death, with Springer off having better things to do than watch Prime die. See, this is where stuff starts our brains spinning. We see Optimus Prime on his deathbed, plucked almost directly from The Transformers: The Movie. We see Menasor! (HeвЂ™s the combined form of the Stunticons, who do not appear in this trilogy.) Image: Netflix

Well, why is anything important? Because it happened before, OK? When we were five years old. Even the first Michael Bay movie put Transformers on a dam. We see Megatron with a flail and Optimus Prime with an axe fighting on top of Sherman Dam, because thatвЂ™s an original cartoon scene so important that they even did that scene in the original comics. We see Optimus Prime kneeling down to talk to Spike Witwicky and SpikeвЂ™s father, Sparkplug. IвЂ™d say it could also be Buster Witwicky from the comic (the shirt does look kinda pink), but letвЂ™s not kid ourselves. Image: NetflixДЇirst we see Bumblebee talking with Spike Witwicky, the AutobotsвЂ™ human friend from the original cartoon. This is wrong! ItвЂ™s so wrong that even Optimus PrimeвЂ™s Matrix-less chassis starts throwing a fit and showing him images of the way things were supposed to be.

In a major departure from most Generation One Transformers retellings, Optimus Prime, Megatron, and their double crew of warring robots actually survive their double crash on prehistoric Earth! They just get up off the floor easy as they please, rather than taking a four million year nap. So letвЂ™s talk about the Beast Wars-inspired Transformers: War for Cybertron: Kingdom.

But for this chapter weвЂ™re out for fresh blood: the вЂ™90s!ДЄs we traversed KingdomвЂ™s six episodes, we asked the tough questions: вЂњWhoвЂ™s that?вЂќ вЂњWhere are we?вЂќ вЂњWhy are we floating in space like this?вЂќ вЂњAt what point did this clearly stop pretending to be in any previous continuity whatsoever?вЂќ вЂњSo, like, BlackarachniaвЂ™s like super gay, right?вЂќ WeвЂ™re back, and weвЂ™ve made it to Transformers: War for Cybertron - Kingdom, the third and final chapter of the Netflix-exclusive Transformers cartoon! The first two chapters, Siege and Earthrise, allowed us to dig up and examine the frequently exhumed corpse of вЂ™80s pop culture.