A Plague of Insecticons | Transformers: Generation 1 | Season 1 | E16 | Hasbro Pulse 

And without Cyber-steroids to boot!

He didn't do it. The Matrix did😁

Just shows how strong Prime really was 👍🏾 😉

He probably holds back his power all the time and this is him after super saiyan level 1. In many episodes he tells Ironhide to let the decepticons go when they retreat rather than pursuing them. That indicates he probably holds back his true strength in fights too imo. He only uses a tiny amount to not accidentally murder his rival faction. Optimus is secretly a super robot.

Not even a boat it’s cargo ship that weights 100x more then a boat 😭

Nice 👍

I cosplay as him a lot.

I had Kickback when I was a kid. Wish I still did

That voice though... though

​@@jeremykrause153freaking cool!!! 😃🥇

All the Insecticons sound like they're on helium. Or need a throat lozenge.

I think I see an animation error in this scene

Cap

Given how mouthy and disrespectful Starscream is, I don't blame Megaton for being angry much of the time. Wanting to seize power is one thing but Starscream needs to chill out and learn when to pick his battles.

StarSCREAM

I imagine your mood would improve if someone didn’t keep second guessing and undermining every decision you make.

@@jeremytung1632 Yeah, I don't blame Megatron for being pissed off at Starscream all the time. Starscream REALLY needs to word his criticism better and not be so jerky about it.

I saw that scene when I see your comment

18:12 Actually.

I think this is true for all of these seasons unfortunately, these playlists are only sorted by air date rather than production order. I was made aware these were out of order when Jetfire, Snarl and Swoop had their introduction episodes AFTER they’d appeared, I was,, mildly confused myself lol

@@gore4332 Strangely they fixed the last four episodes of season 2 to to present the Combaticons in order of story appearance(as they aired out of order and the Combaticons appeared before their debut story)

I did notice this. Not knowing the correct order, though, I am just watching them in the order here.

@@IndyGibb That’s what I’m doing as well

It’s also 1985 and not 1984. The latter is when the concept is copyrighted.

wow he even put down his fusion cannon.

@@XTRABIG Carrying that fusion cannon is a pain. And it causes Megatron list slightly to the right as he walks.

Him throwing a cube at starscream seemed more casual lol

What about when Megs (and the other Decepticons) got drunk off energon? As he said then "Those were the days!"

@@AnimeNut101 That was the day I took up booze. I wanted to be like Megatron.

🤣😂😂😂

Yes XD

Yes and I couldn't stop laughing.

Booby needs idiot or moron

It used to mean imbecile

Shrapnel's voice was my favorite. I love how he repeats the last word he says. "Insecticons transform...transform! Attack...attack!" 😄

Shrapnel's voice was great!! "Kickback your meal is escaping... Escaping"

Love Shrapnel! I actually cosplay as him too…… too.

FUCK yeah. Skrapnel's voice is iconic. This episode is badass, and freakin ACTION-PACKED. It's got everything: Megatron's evil laugh [several times], that cool shot of him leaning on the wall with his arms crossed, chillin with his fusion canon off, Skyfire and Wheeljack being awesome, Prime ramming thru walls, lightning, flaming oil tanker used as a weapon, hilarious 1980's foreign stereotypes, the list goes on and on and on.....Hell, the one-liner at the end isn't even too corny

I love how robotic the insecticons voices are, if you know what I mean, mean.

I agree. Just imagine the strength of the Dinobots combined with the cunning of the Insecticons.

However the stubbornness of the Dinobots alone would cause the team to crumble

Even just seeing them as rivals, like implied by the box art, would have been cool in the cartoon.

I mean, to be fair, when this cartoon gave them the ability to multiply themselves into hundreds, it’s not hard to see why most TF stories nowadays would depict them as such. I agree Shrapnel, Bombshell and Kickback would definitely benefit from being brought back to a starting role, but it’s not hard to see why newer TF media would have them be massive drone armies.

Would be fun if they make the Insecticons themselves leaders of there own respective drones like in Beast machines with the Vehicons

@@slappybio1686 Yeah, the G1 formula made more sense..

The main threat of insecticons is they represent the "plague of locusts" in biblical apocalyptic times. The fact that they have swarms that can eat all your energon and there is nothing you can do about it is what makes them so scary. (ie they symbolise coming starvation and famine for all when resources are taken away)

@@tannerprice2018 Just Hardshell, not Bombshell, it sounds better.

Same here.

When u were younger? I u were born under 30 years after this show making u around 10 years old meaning that theres 1% change that u saw this when u were younger and that 1% being that u had it as a dvd wait did u have a dvd wait did dvds exist when this came? Did u have the vhs or dvd for this? Edit i dont think they actually made vhsbtapes out of tv series back then when this was made so ur gonna have to explain

@@spardo91101 well im 15 and this is all watched when i was younger lmao had it on dvds

@@ebks now im confused even more since dvds came out in 1997 an this series came out 1984-1987 (?) The dvds came out 10 years later

@@spardo91101 yes I had the DVD’s for this show. My dad bought me like the whole collection of episodes compiled on these DVD’s and I would watch them on repeat.

Whose kids do you have?

That's what I'm doing with my son right now

@@dougc190 How's He taking'em so far?

@@1bridge11 None whatsoever.

@@noahpartic7586 he likes him a lot we just finished season 1, and he's bugging me for season 2 but I told him next week over the weekend. So far he likes Optimus prime and Brawn.... I'm concerned about showing him the movie though... At least for me and my brother that ended our transformer obsession we never cared or watched season 3 or 4.

Kickback: .....kicks things?

He can also leap huge distances, making him by far the fastest of the Insecticons, able to get into and out of locations quickly. Plus he can fly quicker and further than the other two. Bombshell can only fly for 5.7 miles before he has to refuel, whereas Kickback has a range of 100 miles. The Insecticons each have unique abilities suited to their functions. Shrapnel and Bombshell are both warriors, whereas Kickback is a spy.

​​@@Rocket1377WOW! That's actually pretty cool!! 😅

The clone thing is something the animated series pulled out of their asses. There is nothing in their toy bios or the comic books series where they can clone themselves. I’m not sure where that came from. Maybe just a shameless attempt to sell more toys?

@@luizantoniosouza2767 Check out his bio and you will see what a dangerous and loathsome character kickback was The animated series never explored/fleshed out his character properly “Friend is another word for fool." Profile: Kickback is as charming a guy as you'll ever meet - but it is a charm rooted in an uncommonly cruel cleverness. The singular purpose of any friendship that this Insecticon begins is to dig up embarrassing facts about the other robot or person so that Kickback can influence his "friend" into doing his bidding. Humans are particularly susceptible to his seductive talents, but even Autobots have been known to succumb. The only thing Kickback enjoys more than recruiting these unwilling double agents is destroying them after he's exhausted their usefulness.

What's even funnier, is how he just says "CATCH" like it was a beach ball and throws that behemoth with little to no sound effects.

I guess Starscream must've been put on a Decepticon Time-out for a couple of episodes.

@@usamazahid3882 Or might have been shut down for a day.

Dayum

Why the hell are these in zhe wrong order then?

22:43

LOL he went back to the decepticons

I thought it was Thundercracker or Skywarp accidentally made to be Starscream

Bob Budiansky from Marvel Comics did a great job at creating a lot of cool names for The Transformers. 👍🏼

Lol good point. I like how Megatron actually seemed to have a soft spot for Laserbeak.

@@jeremykrause9443 Unlike some of his other warriors, Laserbeak never fails him.

Soundwave and his cassettes barely failed megs Rumble was one of megs favorites

@@jeremykrause9443 When you watch through the first season there's so many times Laserbeak would just land on Megatrons shoulder for fun, Megatron never had an issue. All the tapedecks were valued members of the team. Rumble used to give Hound problems every episode lol

@@chrisedwards3214 Rumble always cracked me up. Such a mouthy little punk

“I knew we should have sprayed the crops!”

@@HunterTheHero "The monsturrs are back! Rrrrrru-u-unnnnnnn!"

he was holding onto bumblebee

Soundwave called, he said "hold my energon cube"

Me too...too

And he’s a short tough guy. So yeah, kinda.

He doesn't heal quickly, but like Wolverine, he is a short tough guy. (Also, like Wolverine, Optimus and Prowl, worry that he's reckless in action and might hurt someone.)

@@Quintesson05 Yes but being tough means he isn't easy to hurt, so perhaps Optimus underestimates him just because he is small? Fact is small guys need to PROVE that they are badasses to that is probably why he rushes forward to show off that he isn't weak. Short people have always had it tough so they got to flex harder and that shows in how he is the "charge forward" guy.

Brawn's small so I guess he feels like he has something to prove plus he has the toughness to back up his feisty attitude.

​@@girlgarde He is the muscular dwarf archetype in all the fantasy RPG games. Probably not quick enough to effortlessly dodge a shot from a canon, (too slow) or strong enough to take that hit without feeling it (Ironhide - basically the "tank" or Paladin of the G1 cartoon crew with Ratchet being the medic/healer), but can hit you really hard if you let him get in a good clean shot. Which I think would not be easy for him against the quicker guys given his short size. After they introduced Grimlock the 'strong guy' or muscle man member of the team was handed over to him and his dinobots. It cost them however because Grimlock is dumb so it's like having the Thing replaced with The incredible Hulk - you lose some IQ points for being 'big plus strong'. Usually dumb people are hard to control and command them properly due to the power they wield which prevents them actually caring about what happens to the team or listening. So maybe that was not good because it's like trying to control a monster.

The nest time to be alive. We are part of the generation that saw everything evolve

Yup. It's the faraday cage effect that protects you inside the car.

Well, technically the G1 era that occurred prior to Beast Wars is said to be a combination of both the Sunbow cartoon and the Marvel comics. So it's hard to say if during Beast Wars the Insecticons were supposed to be somewhere on Earth trying to adapt, or back on Cybertron serving under Straxus. But either way, the Insecticons were the forerunners to the Predacons and the Dinobots were the forerunners to the Maximals, as the first Transformers with beast modes in the franchise. The Pretenders and Micromasters were forerunners to both groups as well. The Pretenders were the first to have bio-organic disguises, and the Micromasters were the first to have smaller bodies to conserve on energy.

Beast Wars...smh

Late to comment, but Beast modes aren't what differentiated Maximals and Predacons from Autobots and Decepticons. Maximals and Precdocons were upgraded successors to Autobots and Decepticons, that prioritised energy efficiency over size and power.

Beast Wars isn't canon to G1

@@damo9961 And yet the BW cartoon not only makes references and callbacks to G1, but also returning characters like Starscream’s Ghost, Unicron, Teletraan-1, the dormant bodies of Prowl, Megatron, Soundwave and Optimus Prime himself, and the whole plot of Season 3 revolving around the Maximals trying to guard the Autobot Ark trapped in the volcano, said by Blackarachnia to erupt in the year 1984. As well as Beast Machines not only bringing back the Hate Plague from the final episode of G1 Season 3, but also the Key to Vector Sigma, and G1 body-types showing up throughout the series. Even implying that Vector Sigma from G1 evolved into the Oracle Supercomputer that reformatted the Maximals.

And swatted Sunstreaker like a fly.

I've noticed that too.

Most likely a kid rhino thing whose DVDs this is taken from. They often used unfinished prints (due to the newer ones being of to poor quality) when they released the series and many such errors exist on them.

Yeah, also check at 02:57 is that just a decal they have on the door? Old animation is hilarious

@@AnhDonoiNo, I think it was an animation glitch, I think the door closed way too fast when Spike finished waving goodbye, and as a result we get that beautiful scene.

I think of it like how Beast Wars portrayed their respective escape pods. That they came packaged with alternate mode scanners. Not to mention the Autobots and Decepticons were both on the ARK rather than the Nemesis when they crashed into Earth. But it's safe to say the Nemesis probably also had an alternate mode scanner as well.

ur thinkin waaay too hard about this...

@@unplugged123 Nah I'm just making fun speculations.

All of the known Nemesis Decepticons boarded the Autobots' _Ark_ to wipe them out. When the Ark was pulled into Earth's gravitational field and/or Optimus Prime crashed the ship (in order to keep the Decepticons from discovering Autobot secrets), The tethered Nemesis was pulled down too, making it crash... somewhere else. (According to Beast Wars' final episodes, Tarantulas and the Predacons found it, attempted to use it against the downed Ark, and upon losing control, had it crash in a new location.) Nevertheless, a human archeology team discovered the crashed Nemesis in Latin America.

@@Quintesson05 Given how the Ark was in the Pacific Northwest and Beast Wars Megatron brought the Nemesis there only for it to go down after the final battle of the war, it makes me wonder how it got to South America?

No doubt he was taunting Starscream in the process and making him blow a gasket for kicks like he always does.

You... you _didn't_ work in a coalmine, factory or oil rig as a child during the 80s? Huh. I've never heard of such a thing.

I'm wondering whether that suggestion of Wheeljack's could be the origin of Spike's exosuit that we see much later.

A good one, hopefully

Agreed.

@@ItsAdamMC Yeah, the dub I watched as a kid seemed good...but when u rewatch it as an adult, OMG the voice acting was bad

By Hasbro-Allspark? Maybe.

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Yeh I noticed that g1 had quite a lot of animation errors there quite funny sometimes

@@notapeopleperson9390 Yes, like two versions of Starscream in season one is one of many 😂

@@AndyKirtland11 or where iron hide tranforms into vehicle mode then is some how is robot mode next shot not to mention he was supposed to be transforming into robot mode

That's a new one. Wasn't in the original broadcast. Rhino used incomplete broadcast masters and filled the gaps with some bodgy takes. Most of those new errors were fixed in the Shout Factory release.

Him & Prowl have the same voice actor

Thanx, I didn't know that.

@@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 Michael Bell, who also does Scrapper, Bombshell(!), Swoop, Dr Fujyama, and (if you have watched Rebirth) you will recognise him immediately as Brainstorm

Ah a fellow English man

@@ondururagittandeska2004 Nope. To the left.

@@mroctober3657 Whales?

Bali has many Australian tourist visitors

Probably met waspinator