Carnage in C-Minor

Generation One >  Season 3

Several Autobots and Decepticons find themselves battling over a planet who civilization completely revolves around music, and whose inhabitants are capable of using sound as a powerful weapon.

Detailed synopsis


Eurhythma, a planet whose culture is based entirely on music, is threatened by a comet. Zebop Skandana joins fellow Eurythmans Allegra and Basso Profundo to use their combined harmonic weapon to destroy the comet, inadvertently shooting down a number of Autobots and Decepticons.

After Galvatron and Soundwave collapse a bridge on Ultra Magnus, Blaster and Broadside, Zebop joins a number of other citizens to revive the Autobots. He then leads them to Allegra's retreat, where they find that Galvatron has beaten them there and swayed Allegra to their side. When Soundwave uses Allegra's third of the harmony against them, Zebop counters with his own third, which Soundwave then records and combines with Allegra's, plunging Zebop and the Autobots into a chasm. As the Autobots pull themselves up, Galvatron turns on Allegra, prompting Zebop to run onto the battlefield to save her. While he is successful, he is accidentally crushed by Blaster and Soundwave in the process, but is harmonically revived by a tearful Allegra soon after.

Returning to the capital city, the Autobots discover the fallen forms of Perceptor and the Protectobots, who Zebop, Allegra, and Basso heal. The three returned to Earth with the Autobots, where Galvatron and Soundwave were overwhelming Metroplex with the stolen harmony. The trio of aliens countered it with anti-sound, giving Blaster enough time to erase the harmony from Soundwave's tapes. With the battle concluded, Zebop returns to his world with the others, vowing to live in harmony.

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Written by: Buzz Dixon

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Animation and/or technical glitches

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Continutity errors

 * In one infamous scene, Brawn shows up not only alive and well, but fighting for the Decepticons.



Transformers references

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Real-world references

 * The Eurhythman characters' names are all music-related puns.

Miscellaneous trivia

 * Carnage in C-Minor is widely regarded by fans as the worst episode of the G1 cartoon (and one of the worst episodes of any TF series to date) due to the sheer volume of animation errors, and the glaringly obvious nature of many of the individual errors.
 * This was one of several episodes subjected to Mystery Science Theater 3000-style mocking at a BotCon 1999 panel.

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