Beast Wars: Transformers

After the blast, several robots get metal bodies, the Transmetals, and faulty stasis pods produce the Fuzors, two-animal hybrids like Silverbolt and Quickstrike. Rhinox restores Optimus's spark, and he comes back with a flight mode. The Predacons figure out the planet is prehistoric Earth and that changing the past could change the future. Megatron attacks the valley where humanity's ancestors live, and Dinobot dies defending them. Ravage, a former Decepticon, arrives to arrest Megatron but switches sides. In the finale, Blackarachnia and Silverbolt find the Ark, the original Transformers' crashed ship. Megatron gets inside, shoots the dormant Optimus Prime and creates a time storm that wipes the Maximals out of existence.

1. ReferenceThe planet is Earth

   In “Coming of the Fuzors, Part 1” (S2, ep. 2), Waspinator works out that the planet is prehistoric Earth and that the disks hold information about the future.

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2. ReferenceDinobot's sacrifice

   In “Code of Hero” (S2, ep. 9), Dinobot gives his life to destroy the Golden Disk and defend the valley of humanity's ancestors.

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3. CameoRavage, a G1 Decepticon

   In “The Agenda, Part 1” (S2, ep. 11), Ravage, a former Decepticon, arrives to arrest Megatron.

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4. ReferenceThe Ark from the 1984 show

   At the end of the season, Blackarachnia and Silverbolt find the Ark, the original show's Autobot and Decepticon ship, crashed on the planet.

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