Transformers Cyberverse TV Series

*Transformers: Cyberverse* is a *Transformers* cartoon. The series started airing its first season on September 1, 2018, with each season aired as "Chapters", while Chapter Two: Power of the Spark began airing on September 7, 2019 and Chapter Three: Bumblebee - Cyberverse Adventures began airing on March 15, 2020. Each episode is only 11 minutes long, unlike previous *Transformers* shows which all had the ordinary 22-minute runtime. It is developed by Boulder Media, and it aired on Cartoon Network. The series focuses on the adventures of Bumblebee; having damaged his memory chips, he and Windblade must recover his missing memories in order to help him remember his mission on Earth. Unfortunately, the Decepticons are after them and their friends.

This is yet another Continuity Reboot of the franchise, due to the characters using the evergreen designs introduced in 2017, with nothing to suggest that the series is a follow up to *Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)*. On October 6, 2020, it was announced that two Transformers Cyberverse TV movies are currently in production.

### **Trivia:**

* A Freeze-Frame Bonus in the Season 2 premiere reveals that the series' modern day segments take place in 2007.
* Kup serves as the narrator for the final episodes of the Quintesson Arc, "The End of the Universe."
* Nova Storm, one of the "Rainmakers" from the original seekers, was colored bright yellow. In addition to the Gender Flip noted below, in *Cyberverse*, she's purple-colored.
* This time around Cosmic Rust infects not just Transformers but spreads over all metal and can disintegrate an entire planet in a few hours.
* Crystal City in the G1 cartoon was hailed as Cybertron's most beautiful city and home to the planet's greatest scientific minds but in the episode "Thunderhowl" it's a straight up Eldritch Location that creates hostile reflections of whoever enters before trapping them in a crystalline prison.
* While Acid Storm and Nova Storm, both members of the Rainmaker trio in G1, made an appearance in the show, the third member, Ion Storm, is completely absent.
* Bumblebee's memories are recovered out of order, noticeable in that Bumblebee cannot talk in some periods and others he can due to losing his voice and having it repaired later on in the timeline.
* Most episodes, particularly the flashback episodes, impart some life lesson at the end.
* After *Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)*, Bumblebee is the main character again, but is younger and less mature than even his *Transformers: Prime* self.
* While lighter than Aligned on the whole, this show is darker than the mainline shows that immediately preceded it.
* Promotional art depicts Transformers with four-fingered hands. The show and toys, however, have 5 fingered hands.
* Megatron was a champion gladiator before founding the Decepticons.
* Slipstream is the leader of the seekers this time, being co-leaders with Starscream. Back in *Animated*, she managed to convince the other Starscream clones to turn against him.
* Optimus and Megatron used to be friends, just like in the Aligned continuity.
* The cortical psychic patch from *Transformers: Prime* returns as a way to explore memories.
* After the "Battle for Cybertron" premiere, Teletraan X is given much less screentime.