# Transformers

    For the electrical device, see transformer.
Transformers is an entertainment franchise produced by American Hasbro and Japanese Takara Tomy toy companies. Initially a line of transforming toys rebranded from Takara's Diaclone and Microman toylines, the franchise began in 1984 with the Transformers toy line, and centers on factions of transforming alien robots (often the Autobots and the Decepticons) in an endless struggle for dominance or eventual peace. In its decades-long history, the franchise has expanded to encompass comic books, animation, video games and films.

## In film and television
### Television series
#### Transformers: Generation 1

* The Transformers (TV series), a 1984–1987 American animated television series
** The Transformers: The Movie, a 1986 animated film associated with the series
* Transformers: The Headmasters, a 1987–1988 Japanese anime television series
* Transformers: Super-God Masterforce, a 1988–1989 Japanese anime television series
* Transformers: Victory, a 1989 Japanese anime television series
* Transformers: Zone, a 1990 Japanese one-shot OVA
* Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy

#### Transformers: Generation 2

* Transformers: Generation 2, a 1992–1995 animated television series rebroadcasting of Transformers: Generation 1 with a new computer-generated main title sequence, computer-generated scene transitions, and other small changes

#### Beast Era

* Beast Wars: Transformers, a 1996–1999 Canadian CG animated television series
* Beast Wars II: Super Life-Form Transformers, a 1998–1999 Japanese anime television series
** Beast Wars II: Lio Convoy's Close Call!, a 1998 Japanese film based on the Beast Wars II anime series
* Super Life-Form Transformers: Beast Wars Neo, a 1999 Japanese animated television series
* Beast Machines: Transformers, a 1999–2000 animated television series

#### Transformers: Robots in Disguise

* Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2000 TV series), a 2000-2001 Japanese anime television series

#### Unicron Trilogy

* Transformers: Armada, a 2002–2003 animated television series
* Transformers: Energon, a 2004-2005 Japanese CG animated television series
* Transformers: Cybertron, a 2005–2006 Japanese animated television series

#### Transformers: Animated

* Transformers: Animated, a 2007–2010 Japanese/American animated television series

#### Aligned Continuity

* Transformers: Prime, a 2011–2014 American computer-animated television series
** Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising, a 2013 American computer animated action adventure television film that concludes the Transformers: Prime television series
* Transformers: Rescue Bots, a 2012–2015 animated television series
* Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 TV series), a 2015–2018 American animated television series

### Transformers film series

* Transformers (film), a 2007 live-action film
* Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, a 2009 sequel and second installment
** Transformers: Cyber Missions, a 2010 computer animated web series produced to supplement the live-action film series
* Transformers 3: Dark Side of the Moon, a 2011 sequel and third installment of the series
* Transformers 4: Age of Extinction, a 2014 sequel and fourth installment of the series
* Transformers 5: The Last Knight, a 2017 sequel and fifth installment of the series
* Bumblebee (film), a 2018 installment and a spin-off
* Transformers 6: Rise of Unicron, a 2020 sequel and sixth instalment of the series
* Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
* Transformers One

### Cyberverse

* Transformers: Cyberverse

### Earthspark

* Transformers: EarthSpark

## In video games

* Transformers: The Game, a 2007 video game based on the 2007 live-action movie
* Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (video game), a 2009 video game based on the 2009 live-action movie
* Transformers: War for Cybertron, a 2010 video game
* Transformers 3: Dark Side of the Moon (video game), a 2011 video game based on the 2011 live-action movie
* Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, a 2012 video game

## In literature
### Comics

* Transformers (comics), a 1984–1991 and 1993 Marvel Comics, 2002–2004 Dreamwave Productions, 2005–present IDW Publishing comic book series
* Transformers: The War Within, a 2002–2003 Dreamwave Productions series of comic book mini-series
* Transformers (film comic series), a 2007–2011 IDW Publishing comic book series associated with the live-action film series

### Novels

* Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday, a 2007 science fiction novel by Alan Dean Foster and a prequel to the 2007 live-action film
* Transformers: The Veiled Threat, a 2009 science fiction novel by Alan Dean Foster set in between the 2007 and 2009 live-action films
* Transformers: Exodus, a 2010 science fiction adventure novel by Alexander C. Irvine
* Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Junior Novel, a 2011 adaptation by Michael Kelly of the 2011 live-action film
* Transformers: Exiles, a 2011 science fiction adventure novel by Alexander C. Irvine and sequel to Transformers: Exodus
* Transformers: The Covenant of Primus, a 2013 fantasy novel by Justina Robson
* Transformers: Retribution, a 2014 science fiction adventure novel by David J. Williams and Mark S. Williams, and sequel to Transformers: Exiles

## See also

* Last words in Transformers media
* Challenge of the GoBots, a 1984–1985 American animated television series depicting an alternate universe in the Transformers franchise
** GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords, a 1986 animated film associated with the series

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