Heavy Metal War (15 Dec. 1984)
"Transformers" Heavy Metal War (original title)

Megatron challenges Optimus to a battle in which the loser and his team are exiled from Earth forever.

Director:

John Walker

Writer:

Donald F. Glut

Stars:

Michael Bell, Gregg Berger, Arthur Burghardt

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Michael Bell	...	Scrapper / Construction Worker (voice)
Gregg Berger	...	Grimlock / Long Haul (voice)
Arthur Burghardt	...	Devastator (voice)
Corey Burton	...	Spike Witwicky / Construction Foreman (voice)
Peter Cullen	...	Optimus Prime / Ironhide / Halonix Maximus - Hound's Hologram (voice)
Michael Horton	...	Chip Chase (voice)
Casey Kasem	...	Cliffjumper (voice)
Chris Latta	...	Starscream / Wheeljack / Sparkplug Witwicky (voice)
Don Messick	...	Ratchet / Scavenger (voice)
Hal Rayle	...	Snarl (voice)
Neil Ross	...	Hook / Slag / Bonecrusher (voice)
John Stephenson	...	Huffer (voice)
Frank Welker	...	Megatron / Mixmaster / Ravage / Sludge / Skywarp (voice)

Storyline

The Constructicons attack a construction site and steal energy machine parts needed for Megatron's current scheme. With this done, Megatron challenges Optimus Prime for a duel according to Cybertron law: the leaders of the opposing armies engage in one-on-one battle, without additional reinforcement, and the loser must exile himself and his army to deep space for eternity. Optimus, confident that he can beat Megatron under these terms, agrees. The Constructicons assemble the stolen components into power-transfer machine, which Megatron uses to obtain the powers of all the other Decepticons - against the combat rules. To ensure that the Autobots will not discover the cheat, Megatron sends the Constructicons to the Autobots' headquarters, so they will destroy Teletraan 1 while the Autobots are watching the battle. During the battle, Optimus fights valiantly, but multi-powered Megatron has the upper hand from the beginning. It seems Megatron's plot succeeds, but he forgot one important ...

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Genres:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Details

Release Date:

15 December 1984 (USA)

Company Credits

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Goofs

When the Constructicons reached the underground lava lake, Scrapper called Scavenger "Scrounge".

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Quotes

[as Megatron approaches the Autobots' headquarters, Ironhide's sensors warn of his presence]
Ironhide: Huh? Those signals spell trouble, and I'm talkin' Decepticons!
Sparkplug Witwicky: Can you make out how many, Spike?
Spike Witwicky: Looks like just one, Dad.
[Megatron appears in sight]
Spike Witwicky: One's one too many when it's Megatron!

User Reviews

"Nothing defeats the Devastator! Nothing!"

Heavy Metal War is one of the best episodes from the original Transformers series. It has a great battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron, and also is the first episode to feature the Constructicons.

Megatron challenges Optimus Prime to a one of one battle with the loser being forced to leave Earth forever. To help ensure his chances of winning, Megatron uses the power chip rectafiers from all the other Decepticons to gain their powers and become more powerful. Megatron also sends the Constructicons to destroy Teletran 1 so that his cheating will not be detected.

This is a great episode. The battle between Megatron and Prime is interesting. I always wondered how the Autobots could not suspect anything unusual as Megatron is using abilities that he never used before.

The main reason for this episode standing out is that it is the first to feature the Constructicons. The Constructicons are truly one of the best groups of Transformers ever. They get to do quite a lot in this episode and seeing them merge together to make Devastator is awesome.

Also the Dinobots get to appear again. They make any episode better in my opinion.

So overall this is one of the best Transformers episodes out there. One of the best from season 1 and one that I highly recommend.