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With their home world depleted of energy due to the war, the Autobots leave on their ship to find a new planet with energy sources. The Decepticons follow in a ship of their own. The ensuing battle led to them crashing on Earth. Millions of years later (in [[Present Day|1984]]), both factions wake up, resuming their war on our world.
 
''The Transformers'' was the first ''[[Transformers]]'' cartoon, part of the ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' franchise. It premiered in 1984. The writing and distribution of the series was handled by both Marvel productions and Sunbow Productions. Animation was done by [[Toei Animation]] and a few other studios, including [[AKOM]], some [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unknown_Filipino_animation_studio Philippines-based studio], possibly Tokyo Movie Shinsha (now called [[TMS Entertainment]]) and several feeder studios;<ref>[[Sei Young]], [[Dai Won]], Sam Young and [[Trans Arts]], all of whom did stuff along the effect of Photography, Finalization, special effects and Inking & painting</ref>; all uncredited. AKOM's animation was generally worse than Toei's.
 
The show ran for three whole seasons, plus season 4, which was just a three-part episode, "The Rebirth". The Japanese version branched off into a different continuity right after the end of the third season, replacing "The Rebirth" with ''[[Transformers Headmasters]]''.
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** Arguably Galvatron and Zarak in season 4.
* [[Back from the Dead]]: Optimus Prime, twice. {{spoiler|Starscream regained his body after spending some time as a ghost}}.
* [[BLAMNon Sequitur Episode]]: Quite a bunch, most notably 'Carnage in C Minor', 'The Core', and the absolutely terrible B.O.T.
* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: Unicron's origin as presented in the cartoon, being built by an alien scientist, was completely ignored in subsequent ''Transformers'' fiction.
* [[Captain Crash]]: While not remarked upon in show, Cosmos is rarely in an episode without crashing into ''something''. One of the few times he got through an episode without it, it seems like Optimus is [[Tempting Fate]] by sending him out into space a third time in a day.
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* [[Noble Demon]]: Quite surprisingly, a few Decepticons, the supposed "bad guys of a 1980's children's cartoon" have shown to be capable of honor and even compassion, most notably Skyfire, Blitzwing and Cyclonus.
* [[Not So Different]]: The Aerialbots (except Silverbolt) and {{spoiler|Optimus Prime}} in their admiration of Megatron and the Decepticons. Though [[Broken Pedestal|they do come around]].
* [[Off-Model]]: While the animation in the series was generally unimpressive, some episodes were worse than others, animation-wise. Worst offenders include ''S.O.S. Dinobots'', ''The Ultimate Doom: Part Three'', ''Heavy Metal War'', ''A Plague of Insecticons'', ''Child's Play'', ''Kremzeek'', ''B.O.T.'', and almost all of AKOM's .<ref> ''The Five Faces of Darkness'' and ''Carnage In C-Minor'' especially</ref>.
* [[The Original Series]]: The original ''television series''. The comic book was released a bit earlier.
* [[Pokémon-Speak]]: In a rare [[Older Than They Think]] example, Kremzeek.
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