Transformers

Transformers is a Japanese-American action-adventure science-fantasy comedy superhero television series based on Hasbro's "Transformers" which should premiere on Cartoon Network.

Opening Narration
"Hailing from Cybertron, here come the Autobots, a quintet of giant robot champions fighting for good over evil. Their ongoing mission, to defend planet Earth from the deadly Decepticon Empire: Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots—strong, vigilant, and fearless as a lion, guiding his four noble warriors under his command; Ratchet, second-in-command—a crafty medic with a big brain that brings the team together; Arcee—flies like a dove, but strikes like a falcon, hence a match for the brute force on the team; Grimlock, a former Dinobot—a wisecracking navigator who pilots the amazing starship, the Ark, and laughs at danger; and Bumblebee—a small but brave little tyke, and the youngest member of them all. These are the adventures of the autonomous robotic organisms from the planet of Cybertron. Autobots, transform and roll out!"

- Garry Chalk

Setting and Plot Summary
Four million years ago, Cybertron was a peaceful planet, but when Megatron was elected supreme ruler of Cybertron, half of the planet's inhabitants protest against his rule which escalated into a civil war in an effort to overthrow him and his rule.

During the war on Cybertron between the heroic Autobot Resistance and imperial Decepticon Empire, Zeta Prime, former supreme ruler of Cybertron, decides to throw the Allspark through a space bridge to an unknown location. The Allspark holds all Cybertronian life and possesses vast powers that must not fall in the hands of the Decepticons. Eventually, it becomes clear that Cybertron is slowly dying without the Allspark due to the destabilization from mining of the planet's core. Optimus Prime, the founding father of the Autobot Resistance, along with Ratchet, Arcee, Grimlock, and Bumblebee, are soon forced to evacuate on their scout ship, the Ark before Cybertron explodes, making them the sole survivors of the biggest massacre in Cybertronian history.

While exploring the universe to find a place to colonize, the Autobots manage to find the Allspark hidden in its temple. The Autobots take the Allspark back to their ship to resurrect their home, but are soon confronted by the Decepticons over it, sending everyone crash-landing into Earth where they remain entombed and offline for four million years. Eventually awakening in the present, the Decepticons manage to slip away with the Allspark in their hands to find Energon in order to regenerate it, capturing and using Professor Isaac Sumdac, an automotive service and clean energy company CEO, as leverage to complete their mission, while the Autobots team up with his daughter, Sarah "Sari" Sumdac, vowing to safely recover him and the Allspark from Megatron's clutches.

As the Autobots settle into their new home at Sari's Lighthouse, the Sumdac Systems' first headquarters located on Sumdac Island in Brighton Falls, CA, and learn about Earth culture and customs, they eventually gain five more members, including Cliffjumper, Jetfire, Drift, High Tide, and Ultra Magnus. Meanwhile, the Decepticons gain five more members, including Shadow Striker, Bludgeon, Blitzwing, Sky-Byte, and Shockwave.

By the end of the first season, Professor Sumdac is ultimately rescued and he resumes his role as CEO of Sumdac Systems while he and his daughter assume control of each of the company's two headquarters separately, helping the Autobots in their duties to defend Earth. By the end of the series, the Allspark was ultimately destroyed, and the Decepticons are sent to Graviton Prison, a maximum-security holding facility located in the mouth of the Black Hole, where they will rot for the rest of their days, while the Autobots remain on Earth as their true home which they will learn to love and share along with the human race for all eternity.

Webisodes
Each of the webisodes was focused on one of the characters, and set during the early parts of the first season, ranging from episodes 4 to 6.

Autobot Resistance
Following the death of Zeta Prime, supreme leader of all Cybertronians, the Autobot Resistance, led by Optimus Prime, is a stateless interstellar coalition of republican dissidents, revolutionary factions and anti-imperialist clandestine cell systems in a resistance movement against the imperialist Decepticon Empire. The Autobots' goal is to avenge the Republic of Cybertron to ensure freedom to all Cybertronians.

Decepticon Empire
The Decepticon Empire is ​​​a fascist monarchy that replaced the Republic of Cybertron and ushered galactic civilization into a new age. An oppressive, autocratic regime with a complicated bureaucracy, the Decepticon Empire seeks to ensure singular rule over every state and civilization on Cybertron.The Decepticon Empire is described and portrayed as an arrogant and brutal dictatorship, one based on nationalization, state terrorism, xenophobia, enslavement and genocide of non-Decepticons (such as Autobots), power projection, threat of lethal force, and, above all else, constant fear.