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Megatron challenges Optimus Prime to a one on one battle to end the war.


Heavy Metal War (Japanese title: "The Laws of Planet Seibertron" (サイバートロン 惑星 の 法則) (Saibātoron Wakusei No Hōritsu)
Russian Tv dub title (6th channel): "Война тяжелого металла" (A Russian translation of the original English title) is an episode from Transformers G1, it is the sixteenth/final episode of season 1, the sixteenth episode of The Transformers series and is the sixteenth episode in the overall G1 Era of the Transformers series.

Summary[]

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Silly Megs, tricks are for kids!

A busy construction site is attacked by a team of driver-less construction vehicles, and several components are stolen. The vehicles reveal their identities as Transformers before also revealing to the site's workers that they're Decepticons as evident by the group's leader announcing that they will now return to their master, Megatron. They return to a 'temporary base' (temporary only for this episode) and are revealed to be the newly-assembled Constructicons - this revealing is ruined by the group's leader's orders to transform upon the successful theft of the parts also mentioning the name of this group before Megatron reveals more information about them...

Megatron: Scrapper, report.
Scrapper: All present (and/or) accounted for, noble leader:

The components they stole are to be used by the 'cons as parts to a machine that will allow Megatron to absorb the power chip rectifiers from his warriors: a strength transference machine.

While the final preparations are completed on the machine, Megatron flies to Autobot headquarters and makes Optimus Prime an offer he can't refuse: a one-on-one battle with the winner staying on Earth to do as he pleases, and the loser and his army exiling themselves to deep space - Prime, confident in his own abilities, accepts the challenge and therefore sets the match.

Megsheavymetalwar

Fear me, for I have the power of... poo gas!!

Knowing that Prime would be unable to resist a chance to honorably end their conflict, Megatron returns to the strength transference machine-housing temporary base and uses the newly-accomplished machine to gain the special powers of all of his warriors:

...and so on. Knowing that Megatron would now be unbeatable, Starscream voices concerns that the Autobot computer Teletraan I would be able to detect what Megatron has made the decision to do - anticipating this before Starscream's mentioning, Megatron dispatches the Constructicons to destroy it as quickly as possible before the Autobots return to base after the battle.

The two armies arrive at the battle site, and the contest begins. Megatron unleashes a barrage of powers (while Starscream gives a running commentary), and Prime is outclassed at every step. Not knowing that he has been deceived, Prime concedes the fight and comments that he underestimated Megatron. The shocked Autobots begin the trek back to base, and the Decepticons follow to make sure they keep their end of the agreement.

Heavy Metal War Devastator

Not Brawl.

Meanwhile, the Constructicons have nearly tunneled their way into the Ark - Teletraan I, sensing the imminent danger, activates the Dinobots, who respond by starting to pound on the Constructicons, opening up a lava channel in the process. With the battle not going in the Constructicons' favor despite the situation being six Decepticons vs five Dinobots (the Dinobots, despite having only five members against the entire Constructicon team, being powerful against them regardless of this out-number simply by bearing more individual strength than what the Constructicons' members individually have), the Decepticons' new builders pull out one last trick: combination into the six-piece super-warrior known as Devastator. The returning Autobots see the battle, but are unable to help as they must stay true to the law. Inside the Ark, the Autobots are wondering how Megatron was successful in winning the contest - Chip does: he has had Teletraan I do a scan on Prime's damages, and the 'bots learn for themselves through this that Megatron used deception and have clearly cheated, and so rush outside to help the Dinobots, now free to not keep their end of the agreement if this unfair play by Megatron is going to be the case.

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You'd think Starscream would be used to this, but no...

Distracted by one of Hound's holograms, today's being an even bigger Autobot, Devastator is shot by Optimus Prime into his components who are driven by heavy Dinobot strength and firepower into falling into the lava - the other Decepticons are soon subjected to the same fate via non-subgroup Autobot firepower. There is much rejoicing.

...Until Megatron rises from the lava, vowing that the Decepticons "shall rise again!".

Notable quotes[]

Leading human construction worker [Upon seeing the coming of six more construction vehicles]: Hey, I didn't send for more equipment! Did you hear me me? I said... [Realizes that...] I... There's no-body driving...
Scrapper: Right! No-one drives us, stupid human - we are the Constructicons - we drive ourselves!

—The audience, and a generic group of human builders, are introduced to the Constructicons


Starscream: Forgive me, but I believe your boast sounds vaguely familiar.
Megatron: We failed before through no fault of mine.

Starscream, after hearing another of Megatron's promises to destroy the Autobots - whose fault is it then?


"Let's see how he likes my new shockblast cannon! [...Which explodes in his hands] Uhh... hnh... that's a shock, all right."

—One of Wheeljack's inventions fails. And by the way, 'shock' - get it? 'Shock'!


Starscream: But I need my power chip rectifier. Besides, the Cybertron Code of Combat requires each warrior to fight as he is, without additional reinforcement - you wouldn't want to cheat, would you, Megatron?
Megatron: I will win by any means! At any cost! Even if it means terminating you, Starscream!
Starscream: I was only raising a legal point... [Places his power chip rectifier into the strength transference machine's exchange furnace]
Megatron: I am not concerned with technicalities - only victory interests me!

Starscream and Megatron with Megatron not realizing that what he said is what he SHOULD do to a guy who betrays him five times a week anyway. After all, its not like Starscream would ever off him in a moment of weakness.


Chip: Doesn't this remind you of the gladiatorial combats in ancient Rome?
Ironhide: Maybe it would if I knew what you were talkin' about.
Chip: It's Earth history, Ironhide - skip it!

Chip and Ironhide on the duel between Optimus and Megatron - Ironhide really needs to get some historical education more often.


Scrapper: There's Teletraan I - for Megatron - DESTROY IT!
Grimlock: No destroy Teletraan I - Dinobots destroy you!

Grimlock after hearing the Constructicons' plans to destroy Teletraan I.


Sludge: Sludge not see these Decepticons before.
Snarl: Not see again either. Because we dinomite them to pieces!
Slag: Dinobots no fool around!
Grimlock: Right! Dinobots, TRANSFORM!
[Sludge starts things off with a trench before Slag, through his fiery breath, 'ignites' the intensity of the battle's now-escalating mood with some help from the trench]
Hook: It's bad news, Scrapper - they've drawn out the heavy artillery.
[Snarl's tail-spikes blast Scrapper's shoulder]
Scrapper: [Snarl's tail-spikes blast Scrapper's shoulder] Then it's time we did the same... only heavier... Constructicons, Transform - 'phase 1'! [The Dinobots watch on...] Now... Transform - 'phase 2'!

Dinobots vs. Constructicons enters its 'heavy artillery' stage.


"Prepare to meet your doom.... Nothing can withstand the might of... DEVASTATOR!"

Devastator's first words, and he is addressing those words to the Dinobots.


Devastator: Nothing defeats the Devastator - NOTHING!
???: 'Nothing', little one? Ha ha ha! What would you say about me? HAHAHAHAHA!
Optimus Prime: Now, before he realizes what is happening... [Devastator, via good marksmanship skills, is broken]

Devastator and a "Giant Autobot". And Optimus Prime has done us the favor of having the Decepticons be forced to buy themselves a new Devastator figure


[Hound reveals the truth about the Autobot who is far more bigger than Devastator...]
Megatron: The giant Autobot was a holographic illusion - it wasn't real!
Optimus Prime: No, but we are!

—Ahh... so the giant Autobot was really a hologram-style make-believe friend. How interesting. Oh, and... Megatron, fiction-disliking leader of the Decepticons


Optimus Prime: It is ended.
Spike: Is it really over, Optimus? I mean, have we seen the end of this war? Forever?
Optimus Prime: Who can say, Spike? In this vast universe, is anything truly forever?

Optimus Prime and Spike, with a question that is quickly answered, at least for the audience


"Uhhh... We shall rise... AGAIN."

Megatron, floating in lava, gives us all a heads up that although season 1 is coming to a close, the story is not really coming to an end for definite

Stats[]

Writer: Donald F. Glut

Original air date: Saturday December 15, 1984

Featured characters[]

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Humans


Notes[]

Technical/animation glitches[]

  • The Rhino DVD version of this episode is full of animation errors that do not appear in the original broadcast version or prior home video releases (as a result of incomplete film masters being used for the DVD), as well as crude attempts made by Rhino to fix some of these errors - some of these are aesthetic complaints, such as when the Rhino DVD portrays the power-chip smelter as a featureless rectangular smear, lacking all the light effects and animation that should be present. Other new errors actually confuse the plot—perhaps most notably, when Rhino DVD Optimus Prime hurls a boulder at Megatron, Megatron now does not use Skywarp's teleportation ability to get out of the way, and the boulder flies straight through him with nobody seeming to care, including Megatron himself. Meanwhile, as the Constructicons are tunneling underground towards the Autobot base, the Rhino DVD visuals occasionally show them driving aboveground with a clear blue sky. But, uhhh, hey, that silver DVD case sure is shiny and pretty!
  • When Long Haul transforms to give Megatron the energy disk, it appears out of nowhere in the back of his alt mode. Hammerspace?
  • When Megatron descends to speak to the Autobots, and at two points during the duel with Optimus Prime, he is colored dark gray.
  • During this confrontation, Cliffjumper runs up and uses his glass gas on Megatron. However, he is coloured like Bumblebee.
  • When Megatron laughs maniacally after being infused with the power of the other Decepticons, his head is disproportionately small, and his Decepticon insignia moves independently of his body.
  • In the Rhino DVD version, when the Constructicons move out to dig the passage to the Autobot headquarters, Mixmaster is constantly moving a bit back and forth while driving, as if the animation frames are not ordered properly.
  • During the duel between Optimus Prime and Megatron, where are the Autobots seen in the background sitting, in midair?
  • In the Rhino DVD version, when Skywarp boasts that Megatron acquired the power of teleportation from him, he is colored like Starscream, who is seen sitting right next to him - has Starscream got the power to create doubles of himself.
  • When the Autobots cheer inside their headquarters, Bumblebee's insignia is missing.
  • When the Constructicons transform to dig a tunnel into the control room of the Ark, Scrapper's head is colored yellow.
  • When Huffer is towing Optimus's trailer, at one point he is an orange-colored Optimus Prime.
  • When the Autobots transform to robot mode for the war, Ironhide transforms from robot mode to vehicle mode. Wasn't it the other way round?
  • From the first time the Constructicons combine, Devastator has his correct "visor" eyes. But he has humanoid eyes briefly, when he makes his initial boast to the Dinobots.

Continuity errors[]

  • This episode gives the first of three contradictory origins for the Constructions, though this is the easiest one to explain as Megatron could have been referring to the rebuilding of the Constructicons, and not their actual construction.
  • The building site that the Constructicons raid is a power plant. One of the construction workers states that it will be able to provide our whole planet with limitless energy, begging the question of why the Decepticons didn't raid such a powerful energy source for energon.
  • When the Autobots arrive for the duel, Ironhide is in vehicle mode along with the others when Optimus orders them to transform. In the very next scene, Ironhide is in humanoid mode and he transforms to vehicle mode. Immediately after that, the other Autobots transform to robot mode and Ironhide is shown in robot mode again without transforming back.
  • Ironhide is apparently able to detect the Decepticons by himself, without relying on Teletraan I - apparently Ironhide must be equipped with a portable detector. However, in "The Ultimate Doom, Part 1", the Autobots were unable to detect the approaching Decepticons with Teletraan I sabotaged.
  • When the Constructicons are tunneling, Scrapper refers to Scavenger as "Scrounge".
  • Optimus Prime takes out Devastator with a single shot from his laser rifle, something rather at odds with the later portrayal of combiners as nigh-invulnerable.
  • It's a bit strange that Starscream of all mechs should be concerned with legalities and suggest that Megatron try to fight honorably... but there is a touch of sarcasm when he says "You wouldn't want to cheat, would you, Megatron?"
  • So the Decepticons couldn't FLY out of the lava when they fell in?

Transformers references[]

  • This episode introduces the Constructicons and their combiner alias - Devastator.
  • This episode is also the "source" of the aborted "Lava Bath Safety" deco for the original Megatron toy.
  • As the Autobots and Decepticons spectate for the fight, Soundwave is seen petting Ravage. Awwww...

Miscellaneous trivia[]

  • During Teletraan I's montage of the sources of Megatron's acquired powers, the descriptions for the individual Decepticons are verbatim quotes from the Transformers Series Bible's "Decepticon Rolecall" page, albeit including several lost-in-translation typographical errors ("Decepticon Lider", "Decepticon Commicator", "Sky Warp") - the most notable of those is Rumble (misspelled as "Runble") being identified as a "red robot". Furthermore, the seemingly random numbers listed on those screens are actually Hasbro's product codes for the respective toys. Interestingly enough, Reflector is given a product number, even though he was never released at mass retail. However, the renditions of the Decepticons are not the official model sheets for those characters, but rather all-new drawings.
  • Apparently, the Autobots couldn't hear Starscream talking about the power-chips while Optimus Prime and Megatron were fighting. And they actually had to have Teletraan I scan Optimus's damaged parts to determined that Megatron had cheated. With the war lasting for as long as it has, you think the Autobots would know which powers go with which Decepticons, wouldn't you?
  • Optimus Prime shot a laser blast out of his hand.
  • Judging by where Optimus Prime shoots him, Devastator's weak point seems to be his lower area.
  • Apparently, being called Decepticons makes them completely trustworthy as this episode teaches us.

Real-world references[]

  • None yet identified.

External links[]

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