One Shall Rise, Part 2
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 One shall stand, one shall...also stand. | ||||||
| "One Shall Rise, Part 2" | ||||||
| Season | 1 | |||||
| No. in season | 25 | |||||
| Production company | Hasbro Studios | |||||
| Airdate | October 3, 2011 (Singapore) October 8, 2011 (USA) | |||||
| Written by | Marsha Griffin | |||||
| Directed by | Shaunt Nigoghossian | |||||
| Animation studio | Polygon Pictures | |||||
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The Autobots team up with a surprising ally to save the Earth.
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Synopsis
Optimus Prime is battling a small army of Unicrons made from mountain rocks. Team Prime wishes to back him up, but Optimus belays the order, for as Prime, he is the one Unicron is after. Team Prime, against his orders, decide to reinforce him anyway, and Arcee, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead arrive to the area by GroundBridge. Optimus is angry that they disobeyed him, but Arcee reminds him that since he is Unicron's target, he should retreat back to base. Optimus tells them that Unicron can find him anywhere, so even if he hid at the base, it would only be a matter of time before the Chaos Bringer located him. Bulkhead then asks him to let them take the lead, which he allows after Ratchet's insistence. They fight the stone simulacra until a giant Unicron rises from the ground and comes close to killing Optimus, only to be felled when several blasts knock its head off. Megatron reveals himself to have fired those shots.
After Optimus and Megatron engage in their usual archnemesis banter, Megatron reveals the reason he's there: He wants to team up with the Autobots to destroy Unicron. The Autobots question this truce, but Megatron assures them that he is the only one who can lead them to Unicron and that Optimus, the last Prime, is the only one who can defeat him. Optimus deduces that since Unicron is at the center of the planet, they will have to GroundBridge to the Earth's core, much to Ratchet's dismay. This also means that they will need to GroundBridge Megatron to the base.
Back on the Nemesis, Airachnid tells Soundwave that it Megatron's protracted absence indicates he has abandoned them, and that they should begin looking at a future without him.
Listening back at base, Jack wonders if they can't just transport Unicron out of the core, but Raf and Ratchet tell him that he is the Earth's core, so any such act could bring the destruction they're trying to avoid. Optimus agrees and believes that the only way to destroy Unicron is for him to unleash the full power of the Matrix of Leadership onto Unicron's spark. Ratchet explains to Fowler and Jack that the Matrix is the combined power of all the Primes and that it exists within Optimus Prime himself.
Before they can discuss any further, another giant Unicron rises from the ground. Optimus calls for a GroundBridge, and Megatron stays behind to distract Unicron while the Autobots go back to their headquarters. They argue about the details of Megatron coming to base and finally decide to bridge him there. Jack wonders what will happen to Optimus when he unleashes the power of the Matrix; Optimus does not give him a direct answer but tells them that he is willing to do what is needed and that the rest of the Autobots will carry on. Optimus then calls in Megatron, and the Decepticon finishes off Unicron's rock giant and transports to the Autobot base. After Megatron banters with the Autobots and the humans, everything is set for them to leave. But before they go, Optimus meets privately with Jack to express how impressed he is with how much Jack has grown since they first met. Optimus entrusts him with the key that he claims controls the GroundBridge operations until he returns.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
"Optimus! Have you uncovered any further sign of Unicron's emergence?"
"Unicron is power incarnate, and you, the last of the Primes, shall perish!"
"I take that as a yes."
- —Ratchet finds out that Unicron has awakened.
"It is rather ironic, considering our last encounter. If memory serves, you were desperately attempting to extinguish my spark."
"That option remains very much in play."
"I would expect nothing less!"
- —Megatron and Optimus talk about the good times.
"Aligning with the lesser of two evils is still siding with evil!"
- —Ratchet objecting to Megatron's proposed truce.
"Do we have time for a scavenger hunt?"
(GroundBridge opens up next to Bulkhead, Arcee, and Bumblebee)
"Wait. We're opening up a direct path into our base with Megatron standing right there?!"
"And seriously, he's gonna risk his own spark to save us?"
"(Laughter) Hardly my nature!"
- —Arcee and Bulkhead doubt Megatron's motives, which he finds amusing.
"It appears our leader has abandoned us while this world erupts in chaos. I believe we must consider the possibility of a future without Megatron."
- —Airachnid fills the quota for scheming in Starscream's absence.
"So this is where the magic happens. Quaint."
- —Megatron enters the Autobot base.
"You double-cross ANYONE, MINE is the face you'll never forget! NEVER!!!"
- —Melodramatic Miko mindlessly menaces Megatron. Meaningful, maybe?
Notes
Continuity notes
- Ratchet comments that making a GroundBridge happen in space and a moving train is hard enough, recalling "Darkness Rising, Part 5" and "Convoy".
- Megatron still remembers Jack's face from "Rock Bottom", though he has yet to "share the details of [their] little conversation" with Optimus, as he claimed he would.
- Raf hasn't forgotten what Megatron did to him in "One Shall Fall". Neither has Megatron, for that matter, who comments on how resilient humans are.
- Miko complains that she is the only one out of the three kids to have not seen Megatron before this episode. And once again, she displays her complete and utter lack of fear and rational thought by threatening Megatron to his face.
- Optimus being impressed with Jack's growth is similar to what Ratchet said about Jack back in "One Shall Fall".
Transformers references
- The Matrix of Leadership can harm Unicron, echoing The Transformers: The Movie. (This time around, however, they actually bother to explain tiny details like "how" and "why".)
- Arcee mentions how Megatron's actions in the war destroyed Cybertron. Whilst this may be true across other continuities to varying degrees, in the Aligned continuity family, Megatron is specifically the one who corrupted the Core with Dark Energon, causing the planet to shut down and become uninhabitable.
Real-world references
- Miko calls Megatron "King 'Con".
- Megatron claiming he can lead the Autobots into "the very heart of his darkness" is likely a reference to Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness.
- The idea of the Autobots and Megatron descending into the Earth's core to confront Unicron bears similarities to the archetypal Descent to the Underworld, present throughout various mythologies. Additionally, Megatron's role of leading the Autobots to Unicron can be compared to the various guides in said stories, an example being the Sibyl who guided Aeneas through the Underworld in The Aeneid.
- With that in mind, Unicron being in Earth's core echoes the portrayal of Lucifer in Dante's Inferno, who was located in the lowest circle of Hell, deep within the Earth.
Errors
- When Raf runs out to confront Megatron in the Autobot base, Arcee puts herself between the humans and the Decepticon leader to keep the humans from harm. However, when Jack and the rest are walking back a few screen cuts later, we see Megatron behind Jack, but no Arcee standing between them.
- When Megatron enters the Autobot Base, his comment suggests that he hasn't been inside before. While he may not have been there in his own body, he spent a considerable amount of time there while inside Bumblebee's head during the events of "Out of His Head".
- The Autobots exit the GroundBridge into Unicron in the opposite order that they enter it in.
- When Unicron's head is suddenly destroyed, Ratchet asks what happened. Megatron then answers "I happened," as if he could hear Ratchet through Arcee's commlink frequency, even though it's an isolated signal that only she (or the Autobots in general) should be able to hear.
- One major sound mixing blunder exclusive to the Hungarian dubbed version of the episode, which surprisingly no one in the studio caught, is a permanent echo-effect layered on top of the entire audio track. This makes it really difficult to understand what's being said. Also, around the middle of the episode, and in the middle of Ratchet's ramblings, the sound randomly goes mute for several seconds. All reruns on Cartoon Network (which is the channel that carries the show in most of Eastern Europe) had these issues, but they were corrected for later syndicated re-airings.
Trivia
- This episode aired in Singapore on October 3, 2011, ahead of its American showing.
- As in previous episodes, Megatron makes no effort to ascertain Starscream's fate despite believing that the Autobots captured him back in "Partners". Considering he is in the Autobot base in this episode, one would think he'd at least be curious where they're keeping him. However, "Orion Pax, Part 1" does imply that Megatron had already realized that Starscream had jumped ship by this point.
Foreign localization
Brazilian
French
- Title: "L'Offre de Megatron" ("Megatron's Offer")
- Original airdate: ?
German
Hungarian
- Title: "Egyikünk állva marad, 2. rész" ("One of Us Remains Standing, Part 2")
- Original airdate: 10 February 2012
Indonesian
- Title: "Satu Harus Bertahan: Kedatangan Kegelapan" ("One Shall Stand: The Coming of Darkness")
- Original airdate: 3 October 2012
Italian
- Title: "Il risveglio - Seconda parte" ("The Awakening - Part Two"), "Uno di loro ascenderà - Parte 2" ("One of them will ascend - Part 2", 2017 airing)
- Original airdate: 18 December 2011
Japanese
- Title: "Ryōyū Henkei! Saikyō Konbi Tanjō" (両雄変形!最強コンビ誕生, "Rivals Transformation! Birth of the Strongest Combination")
- Original airdate: 22 September 2012
Korean
- Title: "Lideosip ui Maeteurikseu" (리더십의 매트릭스, "Matrix of Leadership")
- Original airdate: 21 November 2011
Polish
Spanish (Spain)
Home video releases
- DVD
2012 — Transformers Prime — Season One (Shout! Factory)
2012 — Transformers Prime — Season One Collection (Madman Entertainment)
2012 — Transformers Prime — One Shall Stand (Shout! Factory)
2012 — Transformers Prime — Volume 5: One Shall Fall, One Shall Rise (Madman Entertainment)
2012 — Transformers Prime — Folge 6: Die Prophezeiung (EDEL:kids) — English and German audio.
2012 — Transformers Prime — Staffel 1 - Das Bündnis (EDEL:kids) — English and German audio.
2013 — Transformers Prime — Vol. 13 (Avex Trax) — Japanese audio only.
2013 — Transformers Prime — Vol. 5: One Shall Stand (Universal Pictures IT) — English, Italian, Dutch, French and Spanish audio.
2014 — Transformers Prime — Saison 1 Vol. 5: Un seul vaincra (Universal Pictures France) — English, French, Italian, Dutch and Spanish audio.
2014 — Transformers Prime — Saison 1: L'intégrale (Universal Pictures France) — English, French, Italian, Dutch and Spanish audio.
2014 — Transformers Prime — Season One: One Shall Stand (Universal Pictures UK)
2015 — Transformers Prime — Season One (Universal Pictures UK)
- Blu-ray
2012 — Transformers Prime — Season One (Shout! Factory)
2012 — Transformers Prime — Season One Collection (Madman Entertainment)
2012 — Transformers Prime — Staffel 1 - Das Bündnis (EDEL:kids) — English and German audio.
