The essential episodes of Transformers: Animated
Watch these 25 in order and you've got Transformers: Animated — each pick states its reason.
- 01
The Autobots find the Allspark and the Decepticons try to seize it.
- 02
The Autobots find that their new base on Earth is already inhabited.
- 03
A bioengineering genius experiments with some of Bumblebee's hydraulic fluid.
- 04
Megatron reprograms Professor Sumdac's animatronic dinosaurs, turning them into Dinobots.
- 05
Ratchet's old enemy, the bounty hunter Lockdown, resurfaces.
- 06
Bumblebee springs into action when Megatron unleashes a speed demon and sends it on a crime spree.
- 07
Blackarachnia confronts Bumblebee and Bulkhead as they are celebrating their first Halloween.
- 08
Bulkhead is suspicious of the musical robot player Sari receives as a birthday gift.
- 09
Blitzwing and Lugnut come to Earth to help Megatron get the Allspark.
- 10
When Sari mysteriously disappears, Prowl and Bulkhead go searching for her on Dinobot Island.
- 11
A disgruntled former employee tries to use an Autobot to destroy the city in a bid for revenge.
- 12
Starscream, Lugnut and Blitzwing invade Earth; Optimus Prime makes Sari turn over her Allspark key.
- 13
The Autobots must rally to prevent the AllSpark from falling into the clutches of the Decepticons.
- 14
Optimus Prime and his band of Autobots are taken off the job when the Cybertron Elite Guard, led by Ultra Magnus, comes to Earth looking for the AllSpark.
- 15
Optimus teams up with Sentinel Prime in order to defeat the Headmaster.
- 16
Unaware of the Decepticon activity, the Elite Guard take Optimus Prime and the Autobots back to Cybertron.
- 17
The AllSpark creates a new Autobot out of pieces of garbage.
- 18
Bumblebee competes against the Decepticons in an underground racing competition.
- 19
When the AllSpark turns construction vehicles into Autobots, Bulkhead becomes fast friends. However, the Decepticons have other plans in mind.
- 20
Prowl and a mysterious Decepticon bounty hunter go after Starscream.
- 21
SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy
The second-rate villains of Detroit team up to beat the Autobots.
- 22
While chasing an Autobot traitor, Bumblebee thinks back on the time he spent with Bulkhead in the Autobot Boot Camp.
- 23
Unlikely matchups! It's Optimus Prime and Dinobot Grimlock vs. Blackarachnia and Meltdown.
- 24
Sari has to defend the Autobot home base from invading Constructicons.
- 25
Prowl and Optimus Prime are on the defensive when Lugnut's clones attack Detroit.
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