The Killing Jar



Generation One >  Season 3

Ultra Magnus, Cyclonus, Marissa Fairborne, and Wreck-Gar are captured by a Quintesson scientist for experiments, but are sucked into a more dangerous problem - a black hole.

Detailed synopsis
A Quintesson scientist wanted to do a detailed analysis on the Transformers and their allies. They chose Ultra Magnus, Cyclonus, Marissa Fairborne, and Wreck-Gar as the typical specimens of their group, abducted them one by one, and placed each in a cage. The Quints placed them in experiments, i.e., situations where their reactions are hypothesized and the studied. Eventually an escape attempt was started and suddenly stopped – nobody noticed that the ship was being sucked into a black hole, not even the automatic alarms of the ship! The ship was then pulled into the black hole, which was really some entrance to a negative universe where everybody changed their colours (imagine Cyclonus in yellow). They all end up working together to fix the ship and return themselves back into their own universe.

Stats
Original airdate: September 15, 1986

Written by: Michael Charles Hill & Joey Kurihara Piedra

Featured characters
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Notable quotes
“This Ultra Magnus is a soldier first and foremost.”

“This Decepticon and the Autobot are one of a kind. But he is good and one is evil. But to me, that is no difference at all.”

“As an Autobot, this Junkion should have reacted as I predicted. Remarkable.”

“Violence is always the humans’ way of solving problems.”

- Quintesson scientist

Ultra Magnus: “We wouldn’t be in this situation at all…” Cyclonus: “… if you had not captured us.” Ultra Magnus: “Cyclonus, I can finish my own thoughts. I don’t need you to do it for me.” Cyclonus: “Maybe the thoughts was not yours to begin with, Ultra Magnus.”

Other Notes

 * Although he was not named, Marissa’s father has the same voice actor and sound the same as G.I. Joe’s Flint, all pointing out to the suspicions that Marissa is Flint’s daughter (See [article on Flint).


 * Quintesson guards have alternate modes, just like the sharkticons - something crocodile-like but with arms and legs.

Animation and/or technical glitches

 * The triple changer Broadside was the illusion that the Quintessons used to trick Cyclonus, which is really weird since Broadside is an Autobot.


 * In a previous scene, Wreck-Gar had used his hand as some sort of a rocket to free Marissa, meaning that he should have only one hand by then. In the next two scenes, we see him having both his hand even though the other one was not returned to him. Finally, we see him picking up and putting back his lost hand.

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Miscellaneous trivia

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Keywords
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Black hole, experiments