List of Transformers: Prime characters

Transformers: Prime is a computer animated children's television series produced by Hasbro Studios and animated by Polygon Pictures. It is based on the Transformers toy and entertainment franchise originally created in the 1980s by Hasbro out of Takara's robot toys. Most fictions in the franchise are about a race of giant, sentient robots that come from the fictional planet Cybertron and are able to change their appearance into cars, planes and other machinery. Like most pieces of Transformers fiction, Transformers: Prime focuses on the conflict between two warring factions of Transformer robots, the heroic Autobots led by Optimus Prime and the villainous Decepticons led by Megatron, who have brought their conflict to Earth and are fighting over deposits of Energon (the substance Transformers consume as fuel), as well as ancient relics and weaponry from Cybertron's past. The following is a list of characters that appear in the series.

Autobots

The Autobots are a group of good Cybertronians that had fought against the Decepticons in the Cybertronian War. The Autobot cast from the beginning remains the same, with the exception of occasional guest stars, for two thirds of the series until the Autobot's numbers begin to increase. Among the known Autobots are:

Main Autobots

Minor Autobots

Decepticons

The Decepticons are a group of evil Cybertronians that fought against the Autobots in the Cybertronian War. Lead by Megatron and sub-commanded by Starscream the Decepticons are treacherous, warmongering, and power-hungry. Whereas Autobots are the same 5 Autobots for two-thirds of the series, the Decepticons are ever changing with troops being killed at the hands of either Autobots or their own kind or betraying their own kind. Among the Decepticons are several sub-groups such as Vehicons, Insecticons, Terrorcons and Predacons. Among the known Decepticons are:

Main Decepticons

Minor Decepticons

Vehicons

The Vehicons are a legion of identical Decepticon foot soldiers that make up the bulk of Megatron's army. Some transform into sports cars resembling the EcoJet Concept, and others (sometimes referred to as "Seekers") transform into Cybertronain fighter jets, and they generally share a uniform color scheme of black and purple, while a squadron of Seekers led by Starscream have a different color scheme of white and grey. Vehicons are adaptable to several different situations. Unlike the Vehicons from Transformers: Beast Machines, they are not mindless and are shown to have individual personalities. When the war is over, most vehicons apparently join the Autobots, or are held prisoner on the Nemesis.[1]

Each of the Vehicons is split into different classes:

Insecticons

The Insecticons are a race of Decepticons that transform into giant, mechanical insects bound by a single mind. The generic Insecticon soldiers serve as the alternative foot soldiers for the Decepticons. Every Insecticon that appears in the series shares a uniform alternate mode: a giant insect resembling a male Hercules beetle with a black, silver and teal color scheme. The Insecticons in this series are much more feral and primitive than their Generation 1 namesakes, and while some are capable of speech and rational thought, the majority behave like predatory animals and react violently to the sight of anything they recognize as an Autobot. Though all Inscticons are loyal to Megatron, they are more loyal to Airachnid as she can directly control them.

Predacons

The Predacons are a race of ancient Cybertronian dragons (parallel to Earth's dinosaurs) long extinct. With Shockwave using their fossil remains, he created an army of Predacon clones. One such batch of Predacon clones were sent to Earth to fight the Autobots positioned there and remained on the planet to await further instructions. However, the Predacons ended up fossilized over time while indirectly being the source of creatures in Earth's various mythologies. In present day, the Decepticons have been searching the world for Predacon fossils, so that Shockwave could recreate a Predacon army. However their single Predacon Predaking becomes intelligent and transforms, prompting Megatron to destroy the clones and cause Predaking's betrayal. In the TV Movie Predacons Rising Two more Predacons named Skylynx and Darksteel are created while Unicron raises an army of un-dead Terrorcon transformed Predacons. At the climax of the series Predacons proved easily stronger than Decepticons, but were capable of peacefully co-existing alongside the Autobots unlike Decepticons.

Humans

Main Humans

M.E.C.H.

M.E.C.H. (the meaning of the acronym is unknown) was a terrorist organization that focused on utilizing advanced machinery to start a Newer World Order. In their first appearance in "Convoy", M.E.C.H. attempted to steal a powerful nuclear device, but are stopped by the Autobots. They then primarily focus on the capture and dissection of any Transformer they can find so they can research their inner workings and create an army of their own Transformers as part of "Project: Chimera".

Minor Humans

Other Cybertronians

These Cybertronians do not fit in the category of the Autobots, the Decepticons, and their subgroups:

References

  1. "Vehicons / Decepticon Troopers on TFW2005". Transformers World 2005.
  2. "EXCLUSIVE Red Carpet Interviews with Cast & Creative Team of TRANSFORMERS PRIME: BEAST HUNTERS". Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  3. "June on TFW2005". Transformers World 2005. Retrieved July 26, 2011.