The Autobots are one of the primary factions in the Transformers mythos. They usually find themselves defending both their own race and other species against the Decepticons and upholding justice and freedom throughout the galaxy. They are considered the "good guys" in most, but not in all Transformers media.
A generally heroic, honourable group, the Autobots tend to be dedicated to peace, and feel a need to protect other races from the Decepticons. As a result, they are usually Transformers who change into non-combat oriented alternate modes such as domestic vehicles, cars, trucks, or rescue vehicles. This is not always the case, however, as their ranks certainly contain ne'er-do-wells, malcontents, and unsavoury types, and the necessities of war have led many to adopt more combat-oriented alternate forms. While the Autobots have usually found themselves outnumbered by the Decepticons, they have always had the home-field advantage, having not only the humans' military support, but also having more places on Earth to fall back on, while the Decepticons are entirely unwelcome on Earth.
Key concepts that repeat throughout most continuities are the use of the name Prime (or a variation thereof) to denote Autobot leadership, and the existence of an artifact of great life-giving power, usually referred to as a "Matrix", traditionally held by their leader.
Generation 1[]
Marvel Comics[]
According to the first Transformers comic series, the term 'Autobot' was synonymous with the entire Cybertronian race since the first of their kind were created by Primus. When Primus had achieved his ideal level of population, a mechanism triggered and memory of the budding process was wiped from the Transformers' minds. The word 'Autobot' would cease being a necessary synonym eons later with the advent of the Great War, when the Decepticons arose and attempted to conquer the planet. From then on, 'Autobot' referred to the faction opposing the Decepticons.
Though the Decepticons held the advantage for a long time in the war, a young warrior known as Optimus Prime would rise from amongst the Autobots' ranks; his tactics and strategies would allow the Autobots to hold off the Decepticons' advance until the war drew to a stalemate, with both sides struggling to cope with dwindling supplies of energon, the Transformers' basic fuel. As well as fuel exhaustion, another problem arose that threatened all of Cybertron: the planet was drifting towards an asteroid field which would result in untold destruction. The conflict was put on hold while the Autobots focused efforts on dealing with the asteroid crisis, diverting all resources towards constructing the Ark: a heavily-armed starship carrying enough firepower to blast a clear path for Cybertron to pass through the asteroid field.
The Ark succeeded in clearing a path through the asteroids, but exhausted its power reserves in the process. The Decepticons - who had followed the Ark in their own ship, the Nemesis - ambushed the Autobots and attacked. While the two ships were linked via the Nemesis' tractor beams, they were both caught in the gravitational field of the nearby planet Earth and dragged down. The Ark, with both Autobots and Decepticons aboard, crashed into the side of a volcanic mountain and its occupants were rendered offline, remaining inert for the next four million years.
In 1984, a volcanic eruption caused the Ark's computer system to reactivate, sending out reconnaissance probes to scan the surrounding environment. Upon scanning various human vehicles, the computer applied these vehicular forms to the inactive Transformers as it repaired and re-energized them, bringing them out of stasis-lock. With the revival of both Decepticons and Autobots, the war resumed on Earth, but the Autobots would dedicate themselves to protecting the planet's human inhabitants.
While Optimus Prime's forces were busy fighting on Earth, the war on Cybertron continued to slog along, but the Autobot forces there had grown tired of the endless fighting. Following the lead of Fortress Maximus, these Autobots left Cybertron and sought to make a peaceful new life for themselves on the planet Nebulos. However, the war followed them and soon Nebulos became just another battlefield with the planet's natives also being dragged into the conflict. Ultimately, Fortress Maximus and his group abandoned Nebulos and sought to join with Optimus Prime's crew on Earth. When they arrived, however, they found that Grimlock had assumed leadership after Optimus had been killed in battle.
Grimlock and Maximus attempted to establish a single Autobot leader with trial by combat, but were interrupted by a devastating Decepticon attack. The upside of it all was that they ended up putting their differences aside and Optimus Prime was soon reborn to take up leadership of the Earth-based forces once again.
Not long after, a dimensional transporter accident led to the rediscovery and accidental disturbance of Primus deep in the centre of Cybertron. The Autobots learned that their ancient myths about Primus were the truth, and Unicron was now coming for them. Since the Creation Matrix had been lost and corrupted, Optimus Prime offered the Autobots' unconditional surrender to the Decepticons in the hopes that this would lead the two factions to stand together against the coming threat. It did, and the Matrix was retrieved and purified in time to stop Unicron. Both Optimus Prime and Emirate Xaaron were killed in the battle, and Grimlock ascended to Autobot leadership again, this time over all Autobots.
The alliance with the Decepticons would be short lived. Cybertron appeared to be destroying itself and the Decepticons betrayed the Autobots, leaving them to die with their world. Grimlock's leadership led to the Autobots escaping that trap, and walking right into a different one. Thankfully, the awakening of the Last Autobot saved Cybertron and led to the rebirth of Optimus Prime, who reclaimed Autobot leadership and beat the Decepticons once and for all.
The Transformers (Cartoon series and movie)[]
In the original Transformers cartoon show that coincided with the release of the first toy line, the Autobots were depicted as a resistance movement fighting to protect their homeworld of Cybertron from Decepticon domination. The fighting between the two factions lasted for millennia, devastating Cybertron and exhausting the planet's resources. To ensure their survival, the Autobots left their world aboard the Ark, a starship that would allow them to seek out new energy sources across the cosmos. However, the Decepticons would pursue the Ark in their own ship, the Nemesis. A battle between the two ships would occur as they approached a primitive Earth, ending with both vessels being dragged down by the planet's gravitational field. The Nemesis would be lost while the Ark - with both Autobots and Decepticons aboard - would crash into the side of a volcanic mountain.
In 1984, four million years after the crash, a volcanic eruption would jumpstart the Ark's computer system, Teletraan-1. Using an automated reconnaissance drone, it scanned a variety of human vehicles as it repaired and revived the inactive Autobots and Decepticons. The Autobots would be able to disguise themselves as civilian vehicles in order to better blend in with human civilization. As the war began anew, the Autobots took it upon themselves to protect humanity and prevent the Decepticons from plundering Earth's resources. They would also enlist aid from a number of human allies, working together for sake of Earth's defence.
The Autobot/Decepticon war would continue for several more years with battles being fought on Earth, Cybertron and a number of other worlds. The Autobots would eventually reclaim their homeworld following a climactic battle with the planet-consuming Unicron, which left the Decepticon forces broken and scattered.
Dreamwave Comics[]
Beginning in 2002 and continuing until the publisher's bankruptcy in 2005, the Dreamwave G1 continuity introduced a number of new characters and concepts to the Transformers franchise. Like in previous iterations, the Autobots were a resistance movement fighting to protect Cybertron from conquest by the Decepticons, but the war would eventually spill out into the wider galaxy and both factions would find themselves using Earth as their battlefield. The Dreamwave series offered insight into the early days of the Great Cybertronian War, Optimus Prime's elevation to Autobot leader and hints towards a sinister past before the war.
War for Cybertron Trilogy[]
In this CG-animated Netflix series, the Autobots and Decepticons continue battling for control of Cybertron, which has fallen into ruin after centuries of endless war. This story depicts Bumblebee as being neutral before Optimus Prime convinces him into joining the Autobot cause, after which he aids the Autobots in locating and obtaining the legendary AllSpark, the source of all life on Cybertron. The Autobots attempt to flee the planet with the AllSpark to keep it out of Megatron's hands, but the Decepticons pursue the Ark aboard their own ship, the Nemesis.
As well as being pursued by Decepticons, the Autobots must also contend with a group of mercenaries contracted by the Quintesson Deseeus. While Deseeus later betrays the mercenaries and allows the Autobots to continue their journey, he contacts Megatron and tells him where the Ark his headed. Following a united battle against Scorponok aboard the derelict Nebulon Station, an explosion opens up a rift to the Dead Universe where the Ark crew encounter Sky Lynx, who aids Optimus in opening a new rift leading to Earth. As the Ark heads into the rift, the Nemesis pursues and both ships are heavily damaged in the ensuing exchange of fire.
Both the Autobots and Decepticons fall through the rift and crash-land on a primitive Earth, soon discovering that they aren't the only Transformers on the planet. The Autobots encounter a faction known as the Maximals led by Optimus Prime's descendant, Optimus Primal, though the two groups' meeting is initially a hostile one. The Autobots and Maximals eventually set their differences aside and join forces to battle the Decepticons and Predacons for the AllSpark and the Matrix of Leadership which Megatron had previously stolen. When the AllSpark is retrieved and brought to the Ark, the Autobot starship is brought to life by the relic and transforms into a colossal robot, giving the Autobots the upper hand against their enemies. By the end of the conflict, the Decepticons and Predacons are all defeated and captured.
Using an ancient spacebridge network, the Ark returns to Cybertron, only to find the planet lifeless and frozen over. Upon arrival, Megatron is freed by his alternate-future self Galvatron, whom he had previously met in the Dead Universe. Together, they join forces with Nemesis Prime, a corrupt future incarnation of Optimus. Despite the villainous trio's efforts, the Autobots are able to return the AllSpark to its rightful place, beginning the thawing of Cybertron. The spirits of many long-dead Cybertronians appear and teleport Nemesis and Galvatron away, bringing an end to the war at long last. The Transformer factions manage to reconcile their differences and agree to leave one another alone as they begin the slow process of rebuilding Cybertron.
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Robots In Disguise[]
In this 2001 reboot of the Transformers franchise, the Autobots were the primary race on Cybertron, having emerged victorious in a long-running civil war against the Predacons. However, when it was discovered that the Predacons had set their sights on Earth, the Autobots were forced to migrate there in order to protect the planet and prevent their enemies from acquiring a series of Cybertronian relics.
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The Unicron Trilogy[]
Armada[]
In the Transformers: Armada series, the Autobots were a peacekeeping organization that had been fighting to protect Cybertron from the Decepticons for millions of years. The war was fought not only for resources or territory, but for control of another Transformers faction known as Mini-Cons which could greatly enhance the powers and abilities of any Transformers they Powerlinxed with. The Mini-Cons did not wish to participate in the conflict at all, and so Optimus Prime helped them construct the starship Exodus to allow them to flee from Cybertron.
In 2010, a signal was received from the Exodus, which had landed on the planet Earth. Optimus Prime then led his inner circle to Earth in order to recover the Mini-Cons, but the Decepticons followed in order to seize the Mini-Cons' power for themselves. A series of conflicts took place on Earth over the Mini-Cons, with the Autobots eventually reclaiming them all. When they returned to Cybertron, however, they found it under attack by the monstrous Unicron. The Autobots and Decepticons were forced to join forces to fight Unicron, who was defeated after Galvatron sacrificed himself. In his last act, he ordered the remaining Decepticons to cooperate with the Autobots.
Energon[]
For ten years, the Autobots and Decepticons continued to work side by side, although there was the occasional dissenter among the Decepticon ranks. However, Cybertron was once again threatened by Unicron, or so it appeared. In reality, Megatron's spark had survived the previous battle with Unicron and now resided within his remains, using them to build an army of Terrorcons to plunder energon from Cybertron so that he could fully revive himself. When news of Megatron's survival reached Cybertron, the Decepticons rose up against the Autobots.
Having been joined to Unicron for so long had given Megatron a taste of godhood; he had no more interest in amassing a galaxy-spanning army of troops. Countless Decepticons died in the resulting battles, with Megatron more than willing to sacrifice them without a thought to attain ultimate power for himself. As the "Powerlinx Battles" - as they came to be called - came to their climax, Megatron found that his actions and thoughts were being influenced and controlled by the dark spark of Unicron. Unwilling to let Unicron stand in his way, Megatron ultimately sacrificed himself again and seemingly destroyed Unicron's spark by plunging himself into a newly formed energon sun created by Primus.
Cybertron[]
Another ten years after Energon, the energon sun created by Primus was gone, collapsed into the Unicron Singularity, a giant black hole threatening to devour all of existence. Faced with Cybertron's destruction, the Autobots evacuated the populace to Earth. As the evacuation began, Vector Prime approached Autobot High Command and told them that only the Cyber Planet Keys and the Omega Lock could close the black hole.
Unwilling to so readily dive back into mysticism, the Autobots continued to explore technological means of collapsing the black hole, such as a gravitron grid but were ultimately forced to follow Vector Prime's plan. The search for the Cyber Keys led them to Velocitron, and the Jungle Planet. After acquiring the Cyber Keys of both colonies, and Earth's, the Autobots brought the three Keys and the Omega Lock to the core of Cybertron, using the Matrix of Leadership as a substitute for the missing Key, and triggered Primus' transformation to robot mode. The god informed the Autobots that the fourth key, on the planet Gigantion, had been dragged into another universe. With the Ogygia, the Autobots travelled to the lost colony.
Though the Autobots managed to claim the last Key, Galvatron managed to claim the Lock and the Keys, stranding the Autobots in the other reality, the Autobots only managing to return home, at the moment that they'd left, through Vector Prime's sacrifice. With Galvatron threatening the universe with total event collapse, the Autobots found reinforcements from the whole of their species. When Primus managed to reclaim his full power, he sealed the black hole. In the new era of peace, the Autobots embarked on a new era of colonization, in honour of their ancestors' dream.
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IDW Publishings[]
Following the collapse of Dreamwave, the rights for Transformers publications was acquired by IDW Publishings. The new series would incorporate previous concepts from past Transformers media and the majority of character designs would be taken from Generation 1, though characters from other Transformers series would also be included, as well as a large number of all-new characters. The IDW continuity would last from 2005 to 2018, though other stories set outside of the regular continuity would continue to be published until the rights to the property were acquired by Skybound Entertainment in 2022.
In the IDW continuity, the Autobots started out as the police force of Cybertron's corrupt ruling council. When Megatron instigated a full-scale uprising, the Autobots initially acted to defend the Senate, but as the civil war dragged on and the planet fell to ruin, Optimus Prime and his forces would also rise up against the Senate. However, this didn't resolve the conflict as Megatron began pushing for the conquest of other planets, leading to the war spilling out and engulfing other worlds.
Over the course of the comic series, the Autobots would fight to protect Earth from the Decepticons, though they were also met with distrust and fear by most of humanity, especially following a brief Decepticon occupation in which many humans were slaughtered. Eventually, the war would conclude with the Autobots' victory and the resettlement of Cybertron, though this would lead to a whole new series of political and environmental complications. After the war's conclusion, most of Cybertron was left uninhabitable and civil unrest was rife as both Autobots and Decepticons struggled to set aside old hatreds. Most astonishing of all, Megatron would abandon the Decepticon cause and become an Autobot, joining the crew of the Lost Light as they sought out the ancient Knights of Cybertron.
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Live-action films[]
In the live-action film series directed by Michael Bay (affectionately referred to as the Bayverse), the term "Autobot" is used as shorthand for "autonomous robotic organism", which is a blanket term for Transformers in general. Yet, at the same time, the term still represents a major faction of Transformers. While continuity between the films and supporting media is often disjointed, it is confirmed that the Autobots were Cybertron's second great civilization following the Dynasty of Primes. They had established a peaceful yet powerful empire that endured for millennia until Megatron built up his army of Decepticons with the intention of using the power of the AllSpark to conquer the universe. The Autobots rallied behind Optimus Prime in order to protect the AllSpark, but the ensuing war left Cybertron ravaged and barely able to sustain life. In order to prevent Megatron from abusing its power, the Autobots cast the AllSpark into deep space.
With Cybertron depleted of energon, both Autobots and Decepticons scattered across the galaxy in order to find the AllSpark so that their world could be revitalized. This eventually brought both factions to Earth, where the AllSpark had fallen and had been discovered by humans. In 2007, Optimus Prime and his Autobots would ally themselves with a young man called Sam Witwicky who's great-grandfather had discovered Megatron buried in the Arctic Circle over a century prior. Sam possessed his ancestor's old glasses which were imprinted with the AllSpark's coordinates, allowing the Autobots to locate it. The relic was in the possession of a government agency called Sector 7, who also held Megatron's body in stasis within their headquarters at Hoover Dam. With the cube located, the Autobots and Decepticons once more began fighting over it. Megatron awoke from stasis and attempted to take the AllSpark. Sam, however, destroyed the cube by colliding it with the Decepticon leader's spark, burning it out and killing him.
With the AllSpark gone, the Autobots had no choice but to make Earth their home. The U.S. government allowed the Autobots to reside on American soil in exchange for their assistance in removing any remaining Decepticons from the planet. For the next few years, Optimus and his team would work as part of NEST, a taskforce intended to keep Earth safe from potential alien threats. However, this alliance would collapse in 2011 following the Decepticons' occupation of Chicago, during which many human lives were lost and the city was largely destroyed. Since then, the Autobots have been met with as much fear and hatred as the Decepticons.
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Transformers: Animated[]
In the Transformers: Animated cartoon series and related media, the Autobots first emerged as a sub-faction of the ruling Protectobots approximately 750 million years ago in the aftermath of the Third Cybertronian War. Though scientifically gifted, the Autobots were primarily a race of artisans. Historically, Autobots did not fly.
Eclipsing their predecessors in prominence, the Autobots advocated for an Age of Expansion, expanding the influence of their species beyond the Hadeen System, colonizing the larger galaxy and founding the Autobot Commonwealth. The Autobots acted as the scientific arm of this expansion, being protected by the Destrons when their empire-building came into border skirmishes with the Quintesson Pan Galactic Co-Prosperity Sphere. Though the Cybertronian race triumphed in these conflicts, tensions arose as the Destrons came to feel that they had done too much work for too little reward while the Autobots had grown rich on their sacrifices. The Destrons eventually evolved into the Decepticons, whose tensions with the Autobots increased.
30 million years ago, PC Magnus oversaw the construction of Fortress Maximus, headquarters of the Cybertron Elite Guard. 18 million years later, his successor Ultra Magnus passed the Decepticon Registration Act, sparking the Great War. The Autobot invention of space bridges quickly cut off the early Decepticon expansion before the Decepticons began a bombing campaign, demanding that the Autobots turn over the AllSpark. In response, the Autobots threw the AllSpark into a space bridge, ensuring that no one would find it.
As the war continued, the Autobots enacted Project Omega, creating the Omega Sentinels as twelve large-scale living weapons. Armed with these giants, the Autobots won ground against the Decepticon fleet, crippling their foes in the Ambush of Floron III. The Autobots later enacted a "planet-hopping" campaign that freed all of the captured colonies, ending in the Battle of Omnitron.
The Great War later came to a close in the Battle for Iacon, the Autobots triumphing thanks to the sacrifice of the Omega Sentinels. The war's end saw the signing of the Tyrest Accord, granting the Decepticons amnesty in exchange for exile from the Autobot Commonwealth. Autobot victory in the Great War was later credited to their space bridges, Project Omega, and removing the AllSpark from the combat theater. Military equipment and hardware was subsequently decommissioned. Bereft of the AllSpark, the Autobots turned to Vector Sigma for new sparks. Though military training was available for the new generation of Autobots, most would grow up without ever having seen a Decepticon.
When rumours spread throughout the galaxy that Megatron still lived, the Decepticon Uprisings began, the fringes of Autobot society coming under attack. In response, Ultra Magnus ordered the Ministry of Science to study the schematics of the captured Starscream. Managing to extract the coding needed for flight, the scientists applied it to Jetfire and Jetstorm, creating the first flight-capable Autobots and prototypes for a future group of Aerialbots.
After Head of Intelligence Longarm Prime was discovered to be the Decepticon spy Shockwave, he attacked and crippled Ultra Magnus. His second in command, Sentinel Prime, took command and instituted a police state in Autobot society, locking down public venues and potentially subversive gathering places. The Autobots eventually took Megatron prisoner when Optimus Prime's team captured the warlord, though they had to contend with Decepticon loyalists trying to free their master.
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Shattered Glass[]
In the Shattered Glass multiverse, the Autobots are a villainous faction of Transformers hellbent on universal conquest, much like the Decepticons of other continuities.
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Aligned continuity[]
In the history of the Aligned Transformers universe, the Autobots began as a political movement intended to abolish Cybertron's outdated functionist caste system. Data analyst Orion Pax coined the term from an old philosophical phrase found on the DataNet which promoted the aspects of change and self-determination, fundamental aspects of Transformer society that had been stifled under the functionist system.
At the time Pax presented his case to the High Council, the Decepticon movement had already begun and was using armed force to try and bring about political change. Councillor Halogen became convinced that the Autobots' political stance would be the way forward, and so appointed Orion as the new Prime. However, Orion's friend Megatron was present at the proceedings and took Pax's promotion to Prime as a personal insult. Lashing out, Megatron assassinated Halogen and declared that the Decepticons would continue fighting for their freedom. Thus began the Great Cybertronian War, during which the Autobots struggled to hold ground as Megatron's forces vastly outnumbered theirs. Eventually, Cybertron was rendered uninhabitable and the Autobots were forced to evacuate and scatter across the universe to ensure their survival.
War for Cybertron (Video game series)[]
The War for Cybertron saga consists of the video games Transformers: War for Cybertron, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark. Taking place at the height of the Great War, these titles depict the Autobots battling for survival against the onslaught of the Decepticons. With resources having been largely depleted, Cybertron has begun shutting down, thus the Autobots attempt to leave the planet in the Ark in order to find new sources of energy.
Transformers: Prime[]
By the 2010's, a small number of Autobots led by Optimus Prime had taken refuge on Earth. These Autobots - affectionately referred to as Team Prime - would form an alliance with the United States government, agreeing to keep their existence a secret from human society in exchange for a home and base of operations to continue the fight against the Decepticons. With the aid of the military agency Unit:E, Team Prime established their homebase in an abandoned missile silo in Nevada.
During their time on Earth, Team Prime had to contend with a number of threats. This included not only the Decepticons, but also scraplet infestations, the human terrorist group MECH and even Unicron, whose dark spark made up the core of the Earth itself. Through many trials, tribulations and losses, the Autobots would finally win the war after thwarting Megatron's plan to cyberform Earth with the Omega Lock. Megatron was killed during that battle and the Autobots then commandeered his ship, Nemesis, to return to Cybertron and begin rebuilding.
The task of rebuilding Cybertron proved to be a daunting one as the planet was incapable of producing new sparks without the AllSpark, which had been jettisoned into space long ago. Optimus and Wheeljack left Cybertron in order to find the relic, but whilst they were gone, Unicron had returned in possession of Megatron's body. The Autobots made an uneasy alliance with Predaking in order to thwart Unicron, managing to hold him at bay until Optimus returned. In order to defeat Unicron, Optimus was forced to empower himself by merging the AllSpark with the Matrix of Leadership. While Unicron was ultimately defeated, the only way Cybertron's core could be reignited was if Optimus plunged into the core himself, reviving Cybertron at the apparent cost of his own life.
Transformers: Robots in Disguise[]
In a few short years following Cybertron's revival, the planet came under the rule of a new High Council. However, this ruling body was quietly usurped by the Decepticon Cyclonus, who established his own council that worked toward dismantling the Autobots through surreptitious means rather than outright warfare. As this was happening, the prison ship Alchemor was ferrying a large number of Decepticon criminals back to Cybertron for trial, but suffered a severe engine malfunction as it was passing by Earth and crash-landed, leading to many of the prisoners escaping.
When the Alchemor sent a distress signal to Cybertron requesting assistance, Bumblebee - former member of Team Prime - answered the call, bringing with him Cadet Strongarm, ne'er-do-well Sideswipe and the Dinobot Grimlock. While these 'bots had been brought together by happenstance, they proved to be a formidable team and eventually managed to wrangle up all of the escaped Decepticons. When they returned to Cybertron, however, they found themselves labelled as outlaws and were hunted by the Cybertronian Police. It would not be long, fortunately, before the Bee Team exposed Cyclonus and his fraudulent council, halting their plans to rebuild the Decepticon Empire.
Transformers: Rescue Bots[]
In this animated series, a group of inexperienced Autobots known as Rescue Bots arrive on Earth in response to a call from Optimus Prime. However, seeing that the Rescue Bots aren't ready for combat against the Decepticons, Prime instead stations them in the technologically advanced town of Griffin Rock, Maine located on an island off the east coast of America. There they must work undercover, posing as ordinary robots used as rescue vehicles by the island's "family of heroes", the Burns family.
The Rescue Bots must learn to work together, both with each other and their human partners, to help the people of Griffin Rock. Life on the island is far from ordinary—with the town a voluntary test-bed for new and advanced technology, the rescue team regularly has to cope with disasters and mishaps caused by previously untested technology. Though the Decepticon empire has yet to touch the island, it has its own villains: the devilishly-cunning Doctor Morocco makes life difficult with his MorBots and other hostile tech; Machiavellian business owner Madeline Pynch is primarily motivated by greed, particularly for the gold she knows lies beneath the island; and the hacker/thief twins Myles and Evan who are adept at using the town's technology to steal from the townsfolk. Occasionally when things get really tough, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, or Sideswipe will visit to lend a hand.
Rescue Bots Academy[]
School is in session and Griffin Rock's heroes Heatwave, Chase, Blades and Boulder are back and ready to train a new batch of recruits at the Rescue Bots Academy, a highly advanced training facility located at a top-secret base. With encouragement from Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Grimlock, the new recruits learn the power of team building through simulated and real-life rescue missions that highlight the importance of heroism, teamwork, and most importantly, friendship.
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Transformers: Cyberverse[]
In this 2018 animated series, the Autobots were originally the ruling faction of Cybertron before the outbreak of the Great War. When the Decepticons rose up to conquer the planet and claim the AllSpark, the Autobots hastily launched it into space to keep it out of Megatron's clutches. Optimus Prime came to decide that this action was a mistake and assembled a crew of Autobots aboard the Ark to go and find the AllSpark.
The journey took much longer than expected however, leading the Ark crew to go into stasis. While the Ark located the AllSpark, it crashed on Earth, cutting off the crew from their comrades on Cybertron, now reduced to a small resistance movement. After the Cybertron Autobots had located the AllSpark on Earth, they sent Windblade to Earth to find it where she reunited with an amnesiac Bumblebee. After locating Teletraan-X, and Grimlock, the group managed to located the Ark just as the Decepticon fleet arrived. After decades of warring on Earth, the Autobots located the AllSpark and allied with its guardian Cheetor. After procuring the AllSpark, the Autobots left Earth for home, short cutting via a space bridge after a distress call came in from Chromia. Arriving home and unable to raise Chromia, Optimus suspected a trap. Abandoning ship, the Autobot army met its Decepticon counterpart in the war's final battle, emerging victorious when the AllSpark was returned to the core.
The peace would prove short-lived as the Quintessons invaded Cybertron and began draining the populace's sparks. The Loop Once the populace had been freed, the Autobots and Decepticons worked together to repulse the invaders, before each claiming one hemisphere of the planet. When it became apparent that Megatron was arming the Decepticons for another invasion, the Autobots sent a strike team into Decepticon territory only to be surrounded by Decepticon supersoldiers. The invaders were revealed to be the advance guard of another version of Megatron who had won the Great War and killed his own kind. After Megatron X had disabled his primary counterpart and been disabled, the war was considered properly over, the Autobots and Decepticons accepting co-existence, officiating the peace with the Treaty of the Wall.
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Hasbro Cinematic Universe[]
While all of the live-action Transformers are considered to be part of the so-called "Hasbro Cinematic Universe", the events shown in the films Bumblebee and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, conflict greatly with the already-disjointed history of the Bayverse timeline. As such, RoboWiki does not recognise the first five live-action Transformers films as being part of the continuity established in Bumblebee, which is hereby considered to be the first instalment of the Hasbro Cinematic Universe.
In this continuity, the Autobots are once again portrayed as a resistance movement fighting to protect Cybertron from Decepticon conquest. However, with Cybertron being brought to ruin by the never-ending conflict, many Autobots have fled the planet, either to find new energy sources or to establish fallback positions. Autobot scout Bumblebee finds his way to Earth in 1987, although he is followed by a group of Decepticons. With assistance from a small number of humans, Bumblebee defeats his pursuers and summons Optimus Prime to Earth where they hope to build a new home whilst keeping their presence secret from humanity.
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Transformers: EarthSpark[]
This CG-animated series is set in the 2020's, fifteen years after the Cybertronian civil war has come to an end. While the series focuses primarily on the Earthborn Transformers known as Terrans, the Autobots are deeply involved with the development and protection of the young Terrans and the human family that has adopted them. The Autobots work closely with the human military organization G.H.O.S.T., trying to keep the Earth safe from any rogue Decepticons that do not accept the current peace treaty. Taking a page out of the IDW comic series, this show also depicts Megatron as an Autobot, having learned from his mistakes as Decepticon leader and working with Optimus Prime to make amends, despite not fully trusting G.H.O.S.T..
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