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"The Other One"
Season	3
No. in season	26
Production company	Allspark Animation
Airdate	February 26, 2020 (UK) June 7, 2020 (USA)
Writer	Randolph Heard
Director	Jean Texier
Animation studio	Boulder Media Studio
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The Autobots and Decepticons confront The Other One, a more powerful and tyrannical version of Megatron from another universe.

Synopsis

Within Megatron's Matrix of Leadership, Windblade reaches the pillars that bear the names of the Thirteen Primes. From one of these pillars emerges Optimus Prime, explaining her status as a psychic shard. But much to the cityspeaker's surprise, he insists that he is not the Optimus that she knows and serves with. Seeing her confusion, Optimus gives her one simple order: destroy the Matrix.

Within Croaton, Optimus recognizes the soldiers surrounding them as the "perfect Decepticons" that Megatron had dreamed of creating. Bumblebee points out that it has been impossible for the tyrant have created them without manipulating the Allspark. Megatron confirms the scout's skepticism, proclaiming that the soldiers, everything he dreamed of, were created by "the Other One." The soldiers' stillness is revealed to be the result of them waiting for their master, whose impending arrival causes Astrotrain to flee. This shakes everyone out of their shock with Sky-Byte and Thunderhowl leading the charge into battle. Unfortunately, the soldiers are too powerful to be bested by standard weapons, forcing Optimus and Megatron to channel their multiverse energy and atomize the invaders. Though Optimus reiterates that the alternate Matrix must be destroyed, Megatron insists that both it and its local counterpart must be combined to fell the Other One.

Before the debate can continue, a second wave teleports in, Megatron contemptuously blasting them all away to unspace. Just as Megatron lowers his guard, a teleport flare appears behind him, from which steps forth the Other One, a towering black-armored alternate version of Megatron. Swatting away his smaller counterpart's weapon, Megatron X fatally wounds the primary Megatron and sends him flying back towards the assembled Transformers. Alpha Strike attempts to avenge her master only for her artillery to be deflected and fired back at her by the invader. As Megatron X observes the Autobots and Shadow Striker, Soundwave demands to know who he is, prompting the warlord to tell his tale.

When Optimus Prime refused to join the Decepticons, Megatron realized that his old friend would forever oppose him and fired a point blank round from his fusion cannon, fatally wounding the newly minted Prime, and then stole the Matrix. In this reality, the Great War was quickly won by the Decepticons before Megatron used the Allspark to create his perfect race of Decepticon warriors. Years later, when the Quintessons sought to invade Cybertron, Megatron destroyed their ship with a laser snare, salvaging their multiversal technology from its wreckage.

Suitably cowed, the Decepticons bow to Megatron X only for him to laugh them off before he telekinetically reclaims his Matrix, felling his counterpart in the process. Before he can bond with the talisman once again, Bumblebee steals it and races for the border. Dodging several supersoldiers, the scout reaches the border but cannot breach the now hemisphere-encompassing shield. Circling for a gap to fly through, he is downed by Megatron X. Though the tyrant commends Bumblebee's effort, the arrival of Optimus causes him to reassess his priorities. Optimus instantly unleashes the power of the Matrix on the invader. Initially caught off-guard by the attack, Megatron X quickly retaliates with a blast of his own, his beam steadily overcoming Optimus'.

Within Megatron X's Matrix, Windblade, pressed on by the ghost of the alternate Optimus, unleashes her sword on the psychic pillars of the Primes, short-circuiting the talisman in the physical world and allowing Optimus to overcome his foe, immobilizing him. Getting up, Bumblebee collects Windblade's fragment as it rises from the broken tyrant's chest. As Optimus ponders what to do with Megatron X, Astrotrain arrives. Thanking the confused Optimus for his heroics, Astrotrain seizes the prone form of his old master and opens another portal into the multiverse where he intends to keep Megatron X trapped forever as revenge for his cruelty against him.

Under the light of the rising sun, Ratchet presents the healed Windblade to the Autobots, to everyone's hearty delight.

Featured characters

Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

Notes

Continuity notes

• The alternate Optimus Prime within Megatron X's Matrix mentions only meeting Windblade once at Maccadam's, which was depicted in the first flashback of "Maccadam's."
• The Tarn-esque supersoldiers from the previous episode are revealed to be Megatron's race of perfect Decepticons that he intended to have Vector Sigma and the Allspark create back in "Megatron Is My Hero."
  • However, Bumblebee and Megatron are quick to point out that they are not his creations, given how Vector Sigma was destroyed and the Allspark was returned to its rightful place in the Well of the Allspark in "Battle For Cybertron IV".
• "The Other One", first mentioned in "Enemy Line", is revealed to be none other than a more ruthless alternate Megatron from the same dimension as Astrotrain and the Insecticons.
• Megatron X's timeline diverged during the third flashback of "Megatron Is My Hero", which also reveals that those events took place after Megatron killed the High Council and Optimus received the Matrix of Leadership in the eponymous episode.
  • In hindsight, it reveals that Optimus split from Megatron because he murdered the council.
• Upon seeing Shadow Striker, Megatron X comments that she looks like one of Shockwave's experiments, referencing her reconstruction by ol' one eye in "Shadowstriker".
• Megatron X defeated his reality's version of the Quintessons with a laser snare, the device that Shockwave used to destroy the Ark back in "Battle For Cybertron I."
• Dead End is once again using his battle mask from "Enemy Line".

Transformers references

• Prima and Micronus are namedropped, being confirmed on-screen to be among this universe's version of the Thirteen.
• Megatron dying words quote Optimus Prime's famous line from The Transformers: The Movie: "One shall stand, one shall fall."

Real-world references

• TBA

Other trivia

• According to Mae Catt, the Cyberverse crew wanted to invert the longstanding tradition of killing Optimus by instead killing off the primary Megatron. However, they kind of enjoyed the ambiguity of his fate in the finished episode, rather than offering a definitive answer, though the subsequent season would make his demise much more clear.^[1]
• In an interesting blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, Soundwave and Shadow Striker can be seen celebrating Windblade's revival alongside the Autobots. According to Catt, their cameos were added in the episode by the animation team, as they were not in the script.^[2]
  • The fact that Soundwave and Shadow Striker are on the Autobot half of Cybertron without causing trouble suggests that Megatron's request for the split control of the planet was repealed following his death.
• The season ends with Perceptor still being blind. Guess he prefers seeing the unconventional way.

Animation and technical errors

• During the altered flashback from "Megatron Is My Hero", Bumblebee has an Autobot symbol after Optimus Prime is fatally shot, despite not being one in the original scene. As this is an alternate universe, it is entirely possible Bumblebee joined the Autobots prior to that moment, though it is likely an error.
• Later in the flashback, Megatron X's universe's Shadow Striker is seen in her post-accident model, when it is said Megatron X's acts like she never got into said accident while interacting with the primary Shadow Striker.
• When the Decepticons kneel before Megatron X, pledging their loyalty, in the next shot Wildwheel is missing his poncho.
• When Windblade begins destroying Megatron's Matrix, she gains her wings in one shot and they disappear for the rest of the scene.
• Just before Astrotrain returns, Megatron X is missing his Decepticon emblem.

Foreign localization

Portuguese

• Title: "O Outro" ("The Other One")
• Original airdate: October 14, 2021

Home video releases

• TBA

References