Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5

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How can he possibly resist the diabolical urge to pull the lever that could erase his very existence?
"Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5"
Production code	700-90
Season	3
No. in season	5
Production company	Sunbow Productions
Airdate	September 19, 1986
Written by	Flint Dille
Animation studio	AKOM
Continuity	Generation 1 cartoon continuity
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With Earth and Cybertron under joint Decepticon-Quintesson assault, the Autobots raise a last stand against their old enemies... and the race which created them.

Synopsis

Galvatron, can he join my armada?

The Decepticons open a sortie against the Autobots on Cybertron, and the initial attack took out the whole defense system. Ultra Magnus tells the others to go, while he holds them off. Rodimus Prime says that Magnus's courage will be remembered. Unsaid is the possibility that there will be no one to remember it. From their ship, the Quintessons calculate that it will take less than a day to completely defeat the Autobots. After all, they've given Galvatron something worth fighting for...

On Earth, the new Decepticon battle station heads for Autobot headquarters. Pipes and Warpath lead a counter offensive, but their efforts are stymied when the station transforms into Trypticon. Warpath orders Teletraan I to activate the defense systems, but Trypticon causes the volcano to collapse on the ship, destroying it. With his task there complete, Trypticon heads to his next target: Autobot City.

Know that there are five Predacons. The other guys are posers!

On Io, Sky Lynx hurries to rescue Wheelie, Blurr, and Marissa Faireborn from certain death from the natives. However, the Predacons arrive to steal the Transformation Cog intended for Metroplex. Initially, the Predacons turn out to be all bark with no bite. However, they merge into Predaking, and manage to disorient Wheelie, Blurr, and Faireborn. However, Sky Lynx attacks Predaking, and causes him to separate. Sky Lynx orders the others to board him, and Wheelie discovers the cog.

Meanwhile, Galvatron orders Blitzwing to give a status report to the Quintessons. However, Blitzwing overhears that the Quintessons don't have the Decepticon Matrix. What's worse, they want the Sharkticons to pull a large switch which will deactivate the Transformers all over the galaxy. Blitzwing tries to tell Galvatron, but the psychotic Decepticon leader merely beats him. Blitzwing realizes that there is one other option... side with the Autobots to stop the Quintessons.

Godzilla vs. Megazord!

On Earth, Trypticon has arrived at Autobot City, but Wheelie is able to get the cog to Pipes, who installs it in Metroplex. Coming online, Metroplex and Trypticon throw down. Their battle extends into another city (which everyone manages to evacuate from). Finally, Metroplex manages to overwhelm Trypticon, and throws Trypticon a great distance, where he lands in the ocean and sinks.

On Cybertron, Blitzwing, Rodimus Prime, and Spike Witwicky manage to stop the Sharkticons, but Galvatron, thinking the switch is the key to the Decepticon Matrix, pulls it. With the Transformers offline, the Quintessons land on Cybertron. As the Quintessons enjoy how great it is to be home, Spike grabs Rodimus' weapon, and destroys the lever. Reactivating, an incredibly angry Galvatron begins chasing the Quintessons, who manage to escape. Galvatron then prepares to fight Rodimus, but Blitzwing pulls his weapon on Galvatron, telling him that this has to end. Galvatron banishes Blitzwing from the Decepticons, and orders the Decepticons to retreat.

Optimus would have given a more rousing speech.

Rodimus notes that the battle is over for now, but the Autobot leader also notes that the Transformers may well have met their greatest enemies...

Featured Characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

"Why do you not flee? Did our last encounter teach you nothing?"
"Not cowardice, certainly."

— Galvatron and Ultra Magnus meet for the first time after the movie.

"Olé, sucker!"

—Wheelie the bullfighter!

Sky Lynx: "If that is the worst the Predacons can do, we have little to fear from..."
[the Predacons combine into Predaking]
Marissa Faireborn: "You don't suffer from... overconfidence or anything?"
Predaking: "He does! But, he will suffer more at the hands of Predaking!"

— Predaking makes his entrance

"Mighty Galvatron... there is no Decepticon Matrix!"
[smacks him away] "Tell it to the Autobots!"

—Blitzwing gets some inspiration from Galvatron.

"Faster, Pipes, faster faster faster faster faster! You gotta work faster because if you don't Trypticon's gonna stomp us and that's why we're gonna get..."
"Blurr... shut up!"

—Blurr annoys Pipes.

"This planet's not big enough for the both of us."
"Me crush Metroplex!"

—Metroplex, the gung-ho cowboy, meets Trypticon, the ravaging dinosaur.

"ENOUGH! This battle ends now, or I shall write its conclusion!"
"You will never be welcome in the ranks of the Decepticons again!"
"Sometimes it's better to be known for one's enemies."

—Blitzwing is officially done with your scrud, Galvatron.

"We Transformers have looked into the face of our creators... and seen the face of an enemy."

—Rodimus Prime

Season 5

Prime's mohawk has many practical functions you never knew about.

Tommy and Powermaster Optimus Prime meet in the barren wasteland and Tommy wants to know why Optimus is late again. Optimus explains that Darkwing and Dreadwind slowed him down, but not to worry, he "demolished them". However, the whole sector is currently on alert, just in case they come back. Despite all this danger, Tommy asks Prime to finish the story...

In the end, Tommy is thrilled to hear that it took a human to ultimately save the day. Optimus says that the Autobots owe the humans their lives and Tommy volunteers to help him out next time there are any Decepticons to fight. Suddenly, Prime's flashing red emergency mohawk beacon goes off: The Decepticons are back! Optimus tells Tommy to get ready for battle and Tommy begins to renege on his offer to help fight. Prime accuses Tommy of being frightened which spurs the youth into declaring "let's do it!" Together, they blast off into space to meet the Decepticons in deadliest combat.

Notes

Production information

• Miniseries outline revised: 18th February 1986 (edited by Steve Gerber)
• Voice actor call sheet prepared: 6th May 1986
• Dialogue recording session: 16th May 1986

Continuity notes

• The large switch was located at "coordinates omega-zero-one" within Cybertron. The Quintesson's emergency escape pod was on "level 14".
• Pipes cites the late Optimus Prime and quotes his catchphrase, "Transform and roll out!"
• Gadgets and powers:
  • Bumblebee is shown with a rooftop cannon in vehicle mode during the first attack run on Trypticon. The weapon appears to be based on that of Outback.
• Galvatron makes reference to his last meeting with Ultra Magnus, on the planet Junkion.
• This episode is the first and only appearance of Tailgate. Swerve would later reappear briefly in "Forever Is a Long Time Coming".
• The Predacons make their debut (excepting an anomalous appearance by Tantrum in Part 1). They are either newly created, or have not been encountered by the Autobots before, as neither Blaster nor Sky Lynx are familiar with them. There's no indication of their origin; a Quintesson simply states that "We shall see how your Sky Lynx fares against... the Predacons." The team then arrives on Io in balls of fire.
  • An origin for the Predacons' sudden arrival, as well as their affiliation with the Quintessons, was provided by TV Magazine in their Transformers 2010 story pages. Evidently, the Predacons were built by the Quintessons during their alliance with the Decepticons.
  • There's also an easy-to-miss gag there - the Quintessons intercept Blaster's statement that Sky Lynx is on his way to Io, and presumably pass it along to the Predacons. The egotistical Sky Lynx expresses surprise when the Predacons actually show up, saying they must not have received "Blaster's warning", that presumably being the intercepted transmission about Sky Lynx himself!
• Teletraan I would apparently survive destruction, in Japanese continuity, anyway. It would appear one final time in The Headmasters episode "Daniel Faces His Biggest Crisis Ever!!".

Real-world references

• Star Wars sound effects:
  • Laserbeak and Thrust emerge from Trypticon's chest with the sound of the Millennium Falcon's engine burst.
  • Luke's X-wing crashing on Dagobah can be heard as the Sweeps and Cyclonus spin into each other.
• It must be more than coincidence that the force attacking the city-scale Trypticon is made up entirely of characters from the Mini Vehicle range (plugging the new Decepticon's playset potential).

Animation and technical errors

The worst part is, somebody in charge looked at all this and said, "Great job! AKOM, we're giving you the rest of Season 3!"

Hey look, it's a G1 version of Airlift Andy.

• During the recap, Galvatron's "Very well, Junkions" line is not flanged.
• AKOM episode. Wrong color models. Colored mouths. You know the drill:
  • Rodimus and Galvatron are both consistently colored using outdated color models; Rodimus's shoulder indentations are red instead of white, his pelvis-windshield details are white instead of light burgundy, while Galvatron has pale purple "underpants." Rodimus's gun is back to being the same odd blue/gray combo he had in Part 2; AKOM usually colors it red, though it should be black. It's also missing its "wings" when Spike borrows it.
  • Blurr's mouth is blue. Almost everyone else, shockingly enough, has the normal grayish-black.
  • Soundwave has a white backpack (visible as Sky Lynx flattens him.)
• The generic Decepticon army:
  • In the opening pan, the entire Decepticon army seems to be made up of randomly recoloured Sweeps and Cyclonuses. Among the more visible examples are Sweeps colored like Breakdown and Wildrider.
  • As Magnus turns to open fire, the foreshortening of his arm is bizarrely misdrawn.
  • As Galvatron continues to descend and fire, an extra Cyclonus appears in Dirge's colors, alongside the actual Cyclonus.
    • A Dirge-colored Cyclonus strafes Cybertron after the first commercial break.
• Coloring errors:
  • Rodimus's spoiler ridge is colored yellow instead of orange as Kup laments the loss of the defense system.
  • Scrapper's faceplate changes from grey to red as he listens to Bonecrusher.
  • "We have no choice but to make our stand here" - one of Bumblebee's horns is drawn and colored as though it was part of Swerve's leg, which is behind it.
  • In the second shot of Warpath's team of Mini Vehicles outside Autobot Headquarters, Beachcomber is colored like Wildrider.
  • As the Autobots watch Trypticon walk off, Warpath's back is grey rather than red.
  • Ultra Magnus punches Ramjet, who spirals out of control. When he hits a wall and explodes, he's colored like Dirge. The error is particularly visible since Dirge himself gets the same punch-and-explode treatment a second later.
  • The Autobot firing next to Perceptor and Slingshot appears to be Sandstorm's character model in the color scheme of First Aid. He definitely shouldn't be there, as he's not introduced in-story until "Fight or Flee", but at least the miscoloration gives him an "out"!
  • As he delivers the "Meet your fate valiantly, Autobots!" line, Perceptor's Autobot logo is all grey rather than just a grey outline.
  • As Blaster despairs over Sky Lynx's absence, his helmet is white instead of red.
  • Headstrong's beast mode head has a huge swath of black on it in two different shots.
  • As Blurr throws the cog, Thrust flies past in Laserbeak's colors. This was probably intended to be Laserbeak himself, since Thrust just got swatted.
    

    

    Maybe Cyclonus was Skywarp. Or a clone.
  • When Wheelie faces off against the big line of Decepticon troops, all three Insecticons are present, including two Shrapnels. Bombshell's eyes aren't colored in. Blast Off and Swindle are also in the lineup, despite appearing on Cybertron at the start of the attack there.
    • When Sky Lynx jumps over/through the lined up Decepticons, the second Shrapnel is replaced by Soundwave.
  • The late Ratchet is among the Autobots cheering Metroplex's victory, in Blaster's colors. Alongside him are Cliffjumper in Jazz's colors, what may be Ironhide in white and black, Sunstreaker in Bumblebee colors, and somebody colored like Blast Off.
  • Springer and Arcee are shown among the frozen Autobots on Earth, despite being on Cybertron. Sludge is shown in the same shot in Grimlock's colors (and possibly with Grimlock's head.)
  • As the Quintessons venture onto Cybertron, a frozen Sweep is shown with red (pink?) wings.
  • A second later, the Quintessons walk past a frozen Rewind (or Eject), drawn at the size of an ordinary Transformer and colored like Jazz.
  • Blitzwing's helmet is missing its yellow bits as he starts off after Galvatron and the fleeing Quintessons.
• Springer changes places between shots, going from Magnus's right to directly behind him (and back again when the first shot is recycled.)
• The click sound of the button pushed by the Quintesson to activate his monitor doesn't coincide with the actual push of the button.
• The Quintessons' view of Earth initially shows partly cloudy skies... then Trypticon just appears out of nowhere against the same sky. We'll be kind and not count this monitor view under "Improbable Viewpoints".
• Warpath neither moves his faceplate nor flashes his cheek blinkers when he speaks.

• From shot to shot, Swerve's head goes from pink helmet and visor, to pink helmet and blue visor, to red helmet and blue visor.
• Swerve disappears after the initial shot of the Autobot ambush, and is replaced by Beachcomber.

• An establishing shot of Metroplex shows him sitting in the desert all by himself, without Autobot City anywhere in sight. He also has Scamper sitting in his "garage", drawn to toy-based scale... which means he'd be a hundred foot long car.
• Sky Lynx flies behind a smooth, featureless reddish celestial body. If it's supposed to be Io, it's waaaaaay too small, not more than a couple hundred feet across. In fact it's too small to be a regular round body.
• Io has changed colors; an establishing shot shows it to be red instead of the gray it was last time. Of course, the real Io actually is red.
• In the first shot of Blurr, Wheelie, and Marissa fighting the lightpoles, none of them is standing on Io's surface; they're floating several feet above it.
• Also, Marissa's ship is intact, but it was blown up in the previous episode.
• Improbable viewpoints:
  • How does Blaster get an eye-level view of Marissa fighting on Io?
• Sudden starry night:
  • The view of Trypticon smoking and damaged is set against a starry night sky, despite the scene occurring during the daytime.
  • When Wheelie loses the transforming cog, three of the next four shots are shown against a blue sky with clouds, rather than the night sky of Io.
  • Night sky is shown behind Marissa as she orders Blurr to "stop babbling"...
    • And again behind Blurr as he prepares for his "lateral"...
      • And again behind the cog as Wheelie throws it to Sky Lynx...
        • And again behind Sky Lynx as he flattens the Decepticon lineup...
• Once again, the animation fails to convey that the lightpoles are an actual threat.
• Powerglide gets a descending-pitch transformation sound as he changes to his plane mode and takes off. Launching aerial Transformers normally get the rising-pitch version.
• The Constructicons watching Trypticon on the hill are much larger than they should be.
• Five Autobots drive toward Trypticon, but the next shot shows only three getting kicked away.
• Pipes and Swerve seem to be firing lasers right out of their windshields.
• As Trypticon approaches Autobot Headquarters, the ship only has two engines sticking out rather than three.
• The sound effect for the shot that Trypticon fires at the camera lags behind the shot itself.

• Cyclonus and his Armada:
  • Four Cyclonuses are shown strafing Cybertron after the first commercial break.
  • The next shot shows two Cyclonuses.
  • While retreating from Cybertron, there are five Cyclonuses flying with Galvatron.
• When Galvatron transforms to fire on Ultra Magnus, his arm cannon flies off screen, and a new one comes out of his head to take its place in cannon mode. (Again!)
• Magnus and Galvatron's voices are muffled as if they were speaking by radio, even though there's no reason for them to do so. Dirge and Ramjet suffer from a similar though less obvious effect in the same scene.
• Bumblebee and Powerglide are briefly visible fighting alongside Perceptor against the Sweeps on Cybertron, despite being on Earth at the time.
• Blitzwing's voice isn't properly flanged as he acknowledges Galvatron's command to report to the Quintessons.
• Throughout the episode, the area around Blitzwing's Decepticon symbol changes. Sometimes it has lines above and below it, sometimes only above, sometimes none. Sometimes red, sometimes purple.
• In the establishing shot before Sky Lynx arrives, Marissa and the 'bots aren't even trying to fight off the lightpoles! Incidentally, Io's gone back to being gray.
• Sky Lynx's first transformation sequence lacks any transformation sound.
• The squawks that Sky Lynx lets loose after transforming are not by his voice actor! (The whole animal noise shtick for him would be dropped after this episode.)
• The Predacons get some bizarre use of the transformation noise. It plays as they emerge from the balls of fire that carried them to Io (a means of transport that they never used again.)
• Headstrong and Tantrum arrive carrying their guns, but a second later they charge into battle with their swords. They then proceed not to use either weapon.
• Sky Lynx's transporter section transforms to lynx mode, but is back in transporter mode when Blurr and Marissa run away from it.
• Blurr lacks a transformation noise as he changes modes to cross the canyon.
• Predaking gets the transformation sound every time he moves.
• Sky Lynx's transporter section lacks the transformation sound as it converts to lynx mode again. Apparently, Predaking sucked up all the transformation noises from the whole scene.
• When Predaking fires his foot weapons, a laser emerges. The weapon's effect, however, is shown as a windstorm.
• Sky Lynx's combining sequence is a little messed up; his lynx legs are shown unfolding, but since his lower half was already in lynx mode, they should be unfolded already.
• Predaking's head is on backwards as Sky Lynx wraps his tail around it.
• As Trypticon approaches Autobot City, the city is shown in a barren desert. It had previously been shown to be located in a lush mountain valley, and is shown that way again at the end of the episode.
• Slingshot is seen running about in Autobot City as it transforms, even though he was last seen on Cybertron with Perceptor.
• Scrapper's mouthplate continues moving even as Mixmaster gives the order to fire. (And why is Mixmaster giving the orders, anyway?)
• As the Autobots exit Sky Lynx, the transforming cog is shown as a large gear wheel, instead of an orb-shaped device. Sky Lynx's windows aren't colored in, either.
• As the Constructicons try to tackle Wheelie, they're shown on a metal floor, despite the preceding and following shots being shown in the desert. Motormaster likewise goes from desert to metal floor as he accidentally tackles Bonecrusher.
• Sky Lynx clearly throws the cog horizontally, yet it somehow arcs so high that Trypticon can't catch it. As Trypticon lunges for the cog, it's the size of his fist—the same fist that easily held Outback earlier in the episode.
• When the Autobots are celebrating the safety of the transformation cog after the little game of catch with the Decepticons, two Constructicons and Frenzy appear to be seen "raising the roof" along with them. The "Constructicons" are in fact Beachcomber colored like Long Haul and Groove colored like Scrapper, while "Frenzy" is really the Eject/Rewind character model in Frenzy's colors. Slingshot shows up again, too, alongside a Streetwise colored like Dead End.
• Metroplex is back in city mode as Trypticon prepares to stomp him.
• The hand that topples Trypticon does not come from the actual location where Metroplex's arms are stored in city mode.
• When Metroplex transforms, Autobot City is nowhere in sight.
• Metroplex's single line is delivered in a different voice than that of his later appearances.
• Who knew Trypticon was so aerodynamic? After Metroplex throws him, he falls up in the second shot of him sailing over the landscape.
• The large switch stops glowing after the Sharkticons arrive.
• For some reason, a view of Cybertron is used as an establishing shot for Earth.

• Blitzwing is shown with a purple Autobot insignia while being offered membership in their ranks by Rodimus Prime.
• The energy beams of the fleeing Quintessons don't line up with their bodies.
• Rodimus's gun disappears after Spike shoots the switch, but several shots later Rodimus suddenly has it again.
• As the Quintessons blast off in the escape pod, we see a group of generic Transformers who look a lot like those seen in Rodimus's flashback during the previous episode!
• Mixmaster and Scrapper are seen on Cybertron as the Quintessons escape, despite the Constructicons being on Earth.
• Sky Lynx is far too small as he and the others watch Rodimus on screen.
• Although both the Kid Rhino and Shout! Factory versions of this episode contain the correct unique opening titles for the story (one of only two parts of "Five Faces of Darkness" on DVD that do), the Shout! version incorrectly uses the soundtrack to the standard season three opening as now found on the broadcast masters to all five parts.

Continuity errors

• The opening pan over Cybertron shows it with two moons, even though Unicron ostensibly devoured both of Cybertron's moons during The Transformers: The Movie. One moon appears again as the Quintessons make their battle projection.
• Superhuman Spike:
  • Survives a blast that trashes the room he's in and sends his Autobot friends flying.
  • Has amazingly little trouble hoisting Rodimus's gun onto his shoulder.
• Powerglide notes that Trypticon has "another transform," but at this point he's only seen it in the battle platform mode.
• So if everyone actually retreated to Level 2, per Rodimus's order, then who are all those Decepticons firing at? How long would it take them to gang up and overpower Magnus, if he's really the only one left?
• The answer comes a moment later, when Perceptor and company are seen to have ignored that order.

• Dirge and Ramjet both appear to explode rather fatally after Magnus punches them. Both will nevertheless show up alive and well in later episodes. Considering they were already seen eaten by Unicron in the Movie, this is not so surprising.
• Despite the absence of the transforming cog, both Autobot City and Metroplex are showing transforming to their respective battle station modes. Apparently, Metroplex only needs the cog to change into robot mode.
• Most of the battle on Cybertron is shown happening on the surface, with no ceilings and blue night skies, despite Rodimus's order to retreat below ground. Yet Blitzwing still flies underground to report to Galvatron.
• Most of the Constructicons' appearances shows that Scrapper leads the team, so why the hell is Mixmaster giving the orders?
• There appears to be a human city quite close to Autobot city, but previously in the Movie, there were no signs or suggestions of a human city being nearby. In addition, this poses the question of why the Autobots or humans built their cities so near to each other despite the fact that Autobot City is often under attack by Decepticons.
• The Quintessons' wariness over the humans, previously touched upon in Part 2 and Part 4, appears to have been well-founded, as Spike single-handedly foils their plan. Considering the nature of their endgame and that they were aware of the Autobots' "association with these humans," it begs the question of why the master manipulators never factored human intervention - and kill switch immunity - into their schemes. On the other hand, it's not clear why Spike waited for the Quintessons to land and make their way "deep into Cybertron" before destroying the switch. Unless it was just his way of making a particularly showy point to both Galvatron and the Quintessons.

Trivia

• Just from the episode alone, it's impossible to tell who the line "It'll be passing above us soon" is being spoken by, as it doesn't correspond to any of the known voices of the Autobots present. This just left Swerve and Tailgate as possible candidates for the line (since neither was ever seen to speak any other lines, it could have been either of them). The episode's script would later confirm that the line belonged to Tailgate, and was delivered by the eternally overlooked Ted Schwartz.
• Scrapper's first line was written as the inexplicably Brooklyn-esque "Wot's da point? We're supoifluous" in the dialogue script. Actor Michael Bell delivered it as normal.
• This episode is the last appearance of the volcano, Autobot Headquarters, and Teletraan I. The computer would be replaced later in the season by Teletraan II.

Foreign localization

French

• Title: "Les cinq visages du mal, partie 5" ("The Fives Faces of Evil, Part 5")
• Original airdate: ?

• This episode is one of those that has never been released on DVD in French.
• Concerning the European French dub:

• The narrator mistakenly calls Marissa Fairborne "Marissa Fairnborne".
• Sky Lynx is called "Salvatron" in this episode. This name will most likely never be used again in the series.
• Despite being regularly named in previous seasons, Teletraan-1 is called "Command post" in this episode.
• For some reason, Rodimus Prime speaks extremely loudly for his ending speech.
• The final line "We Transformers have looked into the face of our creators, and seen the face of our enemy" was translated in a weird way: "We have managed to look our enemies in the face, and more importantly, our creator". In addition, it sounds like there is only one creator.
• Missing lines:

• The entirety of Powerglide's lines are absent. He fights in silence.
• Dirge and Ramjet's lines are missing as they attack the Autobots.
• The dialogue between the spinning Sweeps and Cyclonus are absent.
• Several lines from Sky Lynx are missing as he fights.
• Marissa's line "You don't suffer from overconfidence or anything?" is absent.

• Dodged names:

• The Quintessons do not name the Sharkticons.
• When launching the transformation cog, the Autobots simply says "On you!" or "Attention!" instead of naming each other.
• Galvatron's line "Blitzwing! What are you doing here?" is dubbed by "What? What are you doing here with them?".

German

• Title: "Die fünf Gesichter der Finsternis, Teil 5" ("The five Faces of Darkness, Part 5")
• Original airdate: ?

Italian

• Title (first dub): "I cinque volti del male, Parte 5" ("The Five Faces of Evil, Part 5")
• Original airdate: ?

• Blurr says "meteorites" instead of "meteors".

• Title (second dub): "Le cinque facce dell'oscurità, Parte 5" ("The Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5")
• Original airdate: ?

Japanese

• Title: クインテッサ星人の陰謀 (Quintessa Seijin no Inbō, "Conspiracy of the Quintessons")
• Original airdate: December 12, 1986

• Part 3 of the Transformers 2010 story pages published in TV Magazine crafts an origin to explain the sudden existence of the Predacons in this episode. According to the story page, the Predacons were built by the Quintessons during their brief alliance with the Decepticons to aid their allies in battle.
• When Pipes's name caption appears onscreen, though the narrator correctly refers to him as "Pipes", the caption misspells his name as パイプ (Paipu "Pipe") instead of パイプス (Paipusu "Pipes").

Mandarin

• Title: "Wǔmiànguài (5)" (五面怪 (五), "Five-Faced Monsters (5)")
• Original airdate: ?

Brazilian Portuguese

• Title: "A Desforra, Quinta Parte" ("The Rematch, Fifth Part")
• Original airdate: ?

Home video releases

VHS

1990 — The Transformers — Five Faces of Darkness (Family Home Entertainment)

LaserDisc

1990 — The Transformers — Five Faces of Darkness (Family Home Entertainment)
1999 — The Transformers: 2010 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only.

DVD

2001 — The Transformers: 2010 — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only.
2002 — Transformers — Five Faces of Darkness: Parts 1-5 (Sony Wonder)
2003 — The Original Transformers — Season 3 Part 1 (Rhino Entertainment)
2003 — The Original Transformers — Season 3 Part 1: Vol. 1 (Rhino Entertainment)
2004 — Transformers — Season 3 and Season 4 (Metrodome)
2004 — Transformers — Collection 4: Series 3.1 (Madman Entertainment)
2006 — Transformers — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome)
2007 — The Transformers — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)
2009 — Transformers — Season's Three & Four [sic] (Metrodome)
2009 — The Transformers — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment)
2009 — The Transformers — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory)
2010 — The Transformers — Seasons Three & Four: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)
2011 — The Transformers — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory)
2014 — The Transformers — Seasons Three & Four: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)
2014 — Transformers — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

External links

• Episode Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle
• Miniseries outline, covering parts 3 to 5
• Full episode script