TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on ENERGON

[@RDPendleton]

I always liked TFWikis explanation of energon "It's like if chocolate coins had a valid exhance rate."

[@ls_rus4666]

LOL

[@Lemuel928]

Dark Chocolates are Eternal!

[@ls_rus4666]

@@Lemuel928 Megatron: DAAAAARK CHOCOLATE!

[@jhonnoilcringeincarnato8593]

@@ls_rus4666 transformers 3: dark of the chocolate

[@jhonnoilcringeincarnato8593]

Transformers chocolate

[@CidGaius]

Ah, energon, the cause of and solution too, all of life’s problems.

[@blueraccoon1088]

I understood that refrence

[@KodyCrimson]

Wiser words were never spoken by Homer Prime.

[@docbaker3333]

To some it is the very Blood of Primus, to others it is the stuff that Fuels life and society on Cybertron and for most bots... It's space booze.

[@myriadmediamusings]

KodyCrimson Eh I wouldn’t trust Homer Prime when it comes to stuff about Transformers. Now on the other hand, if Homer Prime was talking about Trans-Clown-O-Morphs...

[@valmid5069]

LOL! Megatron and his army had a hangover in one G1 episode

[@KHFMcAwesome]

No lie: The second he said “pooed out by aliens” my wireless headphones disconnected! It’s like they were saying “Nope! We’re done!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ShadowWingTronix]

The story was about both sides examining the aliens because it was odd to them as well. It turned out to be a trick by the Quintessons so the creatures could study them for the Quints.

[@aliastheabnormal]

Where do you think spice from Dune comes from? It's worm shit.

[@FrostSoul-qs6kq]

Peace keeper headphone decepticon is in denial ...

[@PoppinDan]

Lol😂

[@NelsonFilmsStudio]

aliastheabnormal sand worm crap that is basically weed.

[@empressofvibes]

I was pretty sure that, in the comics, Earth's energon resources must have been destroyed by a cosmically-powered Starscream.

[@fxgjolteon4781]

Carbon hahaha yes

[@CCharmanderK]

Someone needs to make a Transformers: The Basics drinking game. Obviously, when someone gets offlined by a cosmically-powered Starscream, you finish your drink.

[@ChrisMcFeely]

Of course, you realise you'd only have taken one drink in the last three months. 😉

[@nohrianscum9791]

@@ChrisMcFeely I think we need a Basics on the Cosmically Powered Starscream story and his body count

[@DevinGates]

Dangit!

[@Grimlock1979]

He who controls the Energon, controls the universe.

[@myriadmediamusings]

The Energon extends sparks. The Energon expands brain modules. The Energon is vital to Space Bridges.

[@mattalbenze4434]

I loved that episode! It was one of the funniest things I have ever seen!

[@CheemsofRegret]

The energon must flow.

[@TheRezro]

@@mattalbenze4434 It is also accurate...

[@isaiahp.4609]

Rango reference?

[@myriadmediamusings]

Ah yes Energon. The major element at the heart of the Cybertronian war, the most frustrating resource to obtain and keep in the Earth Wars mobile game, and the English namesake of the absolute worst Transformers show of all time. In all seriousness, the analogy of the real world energy crisis at the time was something I admit Transformers wouldn’t do. Admittedly, this original reason the Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons tends to be forgotten today by most people, so this vid is a good reminder at where the brand started and how its real world paralel showed the franchise was more than meets the eye.

[@gigaherzi]

Only well animated part by the show’s standards was the final battle between colossal galvatron and optimus prime on the jungle planet.

[@ShimadaHideo]

I like earth wars it's super hard to keep in earth wars

[@CreatureCal]

motorway the autobot I put my energon storage in the back as well as my base. It protects my supply.

[@genyakozlov1316]

Sad to see attacks on Transformers Energon still haven't ceased. Oh well, I will always be here to defend one my second favourite TF show. (Number one is Armada. Three is Cyberverse. Four is Supergod Masterforce.) Expect me to make a video about the quality of Superlink (Energon) by 2025 if I won't forget. There is yet to be such thing as a bad Transformers show.

[@neptuneplaneptune3367]

No. Energon may be not all that great but i still find it MILES better than Robots in Disguise...the Cartoon not the Anime.

[@Elemento0420]

G1 Megatron: Drunkticons, drink up and tumble down!

[@alternative7586]

I think some kids back then knew what happened afterwards. They got drunk. So drunk infact, Megatron had to to dirty work himself. This is a valuable life lesson: Never drink too much (energon)

[@thesymbiotenation.4552]

That type of energon is known as Higrade Energon, it's their version of alcohol...

[@lukedelameter7961]

Err’body in the club get tipsy!

[@shenglongisback4688]

@@lukedelameter7961 lol i forgot about that song

[@soundblaster1987reviews]

You forgot to mention the comedic scene in the G1 cartoon where the Decepticons used Energon cubes like alcohol, even getting drunk from it...

[@martl8615]

It was in the video. He also said beveridge a lot.

[@twistedgaming9185]

There's also the 11th episode of The Headmasters, where Hardhead gets drunk and treats everyone to karaoke (he sings the closing theme of this anime), while Wheelie intoxicates himself on energon wine and faints. Shout! Factory refers to the alcohol reference as "energon goodie"... but the energon wine remained.

[@elijahblechman8633]

It's more like getting loopy on too mutch oxygen

[@ProfessM]

You always got to carry some Energon snacks on you. It is key to getting the universal greeting to work.

[@DFloyd84]

I imagine Cybertronians use "Blood of Primus" as a curse.

[@JoshJenrayAK47]

I am willing to accept this

[@bryanmanuel4945]

Wouldn't it be "Blood of Unicron" or a "Son of Unicron"?

[@autobotstarscream765]

I can imagine Cybertronian televangelists chanting stuff like "Plead the blood of Primus! Drink the blood of Primus! Wash yourself in the blood of Primus!" in impassioned, bombastic sermons.

[@matthew_natividad]

The power of primus compels you!

[@kendradupree1094]

@@bryanmanuel4945 i'm borrowing those and given the phrase "talking out of your tailpipe" and "glitch spawned scrap heap" and "a rear wheel forward idea"

[@waynenation4875]

I love how each different Energon has a special ability. regular blue Energon: the thing every transformer uses dark Energon: revives the dead red energon: super speed toxin energon: poison Synthetic energon: basically steroids.

[@BennyLlama39]

Synthetic energon could also be seen as their version of Red Bull or Monster. 😀

[@ratbat1072]

Normal energon is also alcohol

[@sarasullivan2188]

And then you have the unholy fusion of synthetic energon and dark energon that turns Cybertronians into vampiric Terracon ghouls.

[@fearglitchdragon7237]

@@sarasullivan2188 he forgot to mention that

[@_V.Va_]

I just got flashbacks to where Prime Ratchet was being a dick hocked up of S. Energon.

[@sdpinoy78]

In Transformers Prime, Shockwave also developed a stable version of Synthetic energon that was yellow. He made so much that they were able to re-energize Cybertron and repair Bubmblebee's voicebox.

[@matthewdennis2911]

That yellow stuff was Cyber Nucleic Acid (CNA) basically their form of DNA. When mixed with a complete form of Synthetic Energon it creates Cyber Matter.

[@WolfKang1]

Simply one of the best ongoing series available on KZbin. Another informative and engaging episode.

[@concept5631]

Agreed

[@elitegamer21005]

The best use of Energon was when the cons got Drunk

[@fearglitchdragon7237]

If they ever have the decepticons get drunk/high on energon again it would be so funny

[@hero-bo7qc]

EnErGoN, I lIkE EnErGoN

[@mithmoonwalker]

every decpticon in that scene: [u9bcfdgsqý “nh8cf9giresj ntvrh cmtf89gifbi97h jmft8jry evbtxywfhmj,vckl ;#

[@legosisterandbrotherminecr1339]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@legosisterandbrotherminecr1339]

@waspinator predacon hi wasponator weres megatron

[@thesymbiotenation.4552]

And this is why we consider the Energon of the Aligned continuity as the definitive form of energon....

[@todddavis2041]

I had never thought of Energon as the basic building block of Cybertronian life in terms of the physical body and the spark! I knew it was important! I always love learning more about Transformers and you Chris are the best at it!

[@abdalrrahim]

Well there's also transformiume but that deserves it's own video .

[@rafaelzuniga4989]

I literally hear dark energon in WFC Megatron’s voice lol

[@TheWorldsBiggestFan89]

No One: Not even a single Insecticon: Megatron in G1: Hey everyone LET'S GET DRUNK!!!!

[@mikeddh2018]

I only came to the comments section to see if this was gonna be mentioned. 😂 The funny thing is that when G1 Transformers was released on dvd they cut those scenes out. I guess the producers thought it was ok in the 1980's to have drunk villains in cartoons.

[@ChrisMcFeely]

There's one scene, it's in "Microbots," and it wasn't cut for DVD.

[@ShadowWingTronix]

They weren't drunk, they overenergized. Sure it has the same effect but one doesn't expose kids to overuse of alcohol because of course being so passed out you don't notice someone climbing into your shoulder would immediate make little Tommy an alcoholic.

[@charlesshoffner4201]

That episode made me realize how much of a lightweight Rumble was.

[@Delfromteamrad]

@@ShadowWingTronix I say they were drunk because i can

[@c.castro4630]

I like the Transformers mythology: There are no cannons, it evolves continually. That's why is more interesting than other franchises.

[@adambozek9807]

Thank you very much for covering this topic Chris. I've always found fictional energies, metals, chemicals, and all other things of the sort fascinating to me in works of fiction, same with the real stuff in our world, and how these things are acquired and made are interesting to me as well, for both fictional and real world. So thank you very much again for this video on covering Energon, my man, thank you very much again.

[@TFfangeek]

Energon, the life line of the Transformers franchise.

[@wolfgang6442]

Indeed!

[@TheSheepWielder]

I like to think you're talking about the particular franchise here Mainly because that's hilarious

[@russianarmy-rh2wi]

Lol

[@abcabrera1121]

I thought that was merchandise

[@jesseincognito.]

The Fuel of war

[@joyd7530]

1:27 can we all just give the credit to that adorable animation :) 😊

[@Man_Aslume]

*batteries are acidc* 1:27 babies

[@smeltstarverse7306]

Hey, at least it wasn't characterized by Bob Budiansky and offlined by a Cosmically Powered Starscream

[@171QA]

I was a bit confused as why Energon wasn’t involved that much in TFA. They focused more on oil as something the Autobot and Decepticons fueled on.

[@bumblebricks3669]

For me, that was great.

[@TMF979Resurge]

Maybe Energon was more fuel for ships and power grids there

[@justnoob8141]

I think it’s more or less processed and raw

[@directorscarlett1932]

I've had my fingers crossed for ages in the hopes that Botbots would make it into a Basics episode. I can die happy now

[@reynaldipangestu259]

I'm personally hoping for a Legends manga Basics episode.

[@Lemuel928]

It started with a food war about Retrobots vs Radicons..Hamborgumus Prime from McDonald’s leads the charge.

[@concept5631]

Hope life is going well for you

[@Cyclownus]

No one: WFC Megatron: *DARK ENERGON*

[@ejhproductions1]

Dark Scream No one: Prime Megatron: THE BLOOD OF UNICRON!

[@purgeblue]

ejhproductions1 TFP Starscream: I’m a fool, pulls out dark energon Knockout: DARK ENERGON!? You are more than a fool Starscream

[@skybite]

I like to think that Energon cube taste like green grapes during fall season

[@theStridingRebel]

It probably tastes like ingesting batteries

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@theStridingRebel Not to Transformers... :3

[@autobotstarscream765]

Then maybe Hypergon tastes like red grapes? :1

[@skybite]

@@autobotstarscream765 what is that?

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@skybite The Red Energon. :1

[@kevinp.h157]

How does energon taste like? Also, Will there be a basics on transformers romances episode on Valentine’s Day?

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

In "Transformers, the basics on Biology," he lists the transformers' senses and they don't include taste.

[@Lemuel928]

Like eating fusion candy.

[@Lemuel928]

Almond Butter and Honey Sandwiches..

[@Lemuel928]

Dark Chocolate Cinnamon S’mores.

[@cidion7726]

Chicken.

[@xero1048]

I always wanted to see a star saber made from the different types of energon such as red, toxic, and synthetic.

[@CreatureCal]

Energon: The universal energy

[@seatspud]

Ellen's Energon Adventure! Now at Epcot!

[@reynaldipangestu259]

@@seatspud We need to enjoy it while I last before the Stark Industries retheming in 2021!

[@liamwilliams1794]

Dont know why but never really thought of the war over energon as a parody of real life wars. Quite a smart idea if you think about it

[@Thundertron55]

Love how you're using more content from the War for Cybertron games. Hope we can get a Basics episode on the Aligned Continuity.

[@Kusanagikaiser999]

Really cool video, I didn't knew the origin of the Energon was a metaphor for the energy crisis in the 80, the more you know XD.

[@solusluxanima7607]

I love all your videos, but your lore coverage on energon is my fav.

[@layawatts6337]

This was great!The symbolism really hit me, and very mature for a children's cartoon. p.s. could you pls do the basics on hot rod/rodimus.

[@sevastiangonzalez1686]

I got a idea for the new brand of Energon. Here me out: Energon Sparkling! This kind of Energon is the super booster for all Transformers needed for battle. It makes you stronger and still in control, unlike Synthetic Energon. It boosts your speed than Red Energon. It can power up your weapons with the sparkling finish. Sparkling Energon is the light of hope for all Autobots, and that light is from Primus.

[@SpySecretSquirrel]

I'll always love how Energon was shown in G1. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that to some it was the same as alcohol and that made some scenes incredibly hilarious to me in the future

[@Mech45pro]

Note that synthetic energon is actually yellow when fully completed but ratchet only had half of the formula so it was colored green and unstable hints why it was green

[@mylesfestG1]

In G1, I made a theory that the rainbow compressed cubes were the fuel source for Spacecrafts and Weapons and the Pinkish cubes are the food and drink for Transformers themselves

[@AlmostAnimixers]

Wow, never expected a real life history lesson. These videos never cease to surprise me.

[@ShinoSarna]

Episode idea: politics/philosophy of Autobots and Decepticons

[@luisadiamante6984]

Megatron Beast Wars: Yessssss

[@iBeamer]

One of the few topics that can highlight Transformers: Energon in a positive light. 😁

[@Bludvarg]

The longer this video goes on, the more Engergon resembles Kryptonite, right down to different variations giving different powers.

[@rvaldrich]

Good lord, buddy, this was an amazing video! All your work has been stellar but this was an excellent cut above. Nice work!

[@Stan-ce4oz]

1:27-1:35 *Energon* is used for: ● Food ● Drink ● Energy ● Fuel ● Blood ● Medicine ● Weapon ● Ammunition ● Energy ● Currency ● Basic molecular building block of both the living metal and spark of cybertronian body and life All in one

[@warpstarrogue3554]

For those wondering why dark energon in the WFC video game couldn’t perform necromancy and just damage machines, it’s most likely that it was an experiment with the normal fuel and not actually the blood of Unicron. Think of it as synth en but more destructive.

[@SakaDeeJay89]

Simply fascinating. Especially someone not familiar with the comics and all the off shoot directions taken by different production companies. Really enjoying this," The Basics" content. Had no clue of all these energons besides the one from the different Transformers series. Very cool!

[@Jetblast01]

Fascinating topic when you see how each series has it's own take on Energon.

[@blackout_ct1013]

Man your videos are so well made and just so enjoyable!! It's a shame you don't have more subscribers, I wish more people liked transformers and could enjoy all your content!! Anyway, thanks for making these very helpful, informative, and enjoyable videos for us!! 😁

[@DESTRAKON]

I had no idea about the energon matrices being personal generators in bwii and rid, you learn something new everyday

[@Grimlock108]

Wow, that was both fun, and enlightening

[@bustybonnie6700]

WOW! So enjoyable! I think this is my favorite one so far.

[@DeamonChocobo]

A little surprised you didn't bring up Angolmois Energy from the Japanese Beast Wars cartoon as a footnote for Dark Energon, but other than that another great episode. Definitely something I look forward to each week.

[@ChrisMcFeely]

That's cause I've always planned to do a dedicated Dark Energon ep where I'll go into it. It'd be a bit of a digression here in an ep that didn't have room for one.

[@evandavid2816]

Cue Ratbat and/or Mindwipe in Bela Lugosi-style accent: 'The Energon is the Life, Mr McFeely...!!!'

[@rugalheidbernstein9944]

Could you do a basics on Death's Head.

[@twistedgaming9185]

He's no longer part of Transformers (it's the reason why they made Lockdown).

[@melvinshine9841]

It was always ironic to me that Energon is scarce (on Earth, anyway) in Transformers series set in the present, but the stuff was everywhere on prehistoric Earth. Now that I think about it, I wonder if anything ever gave an explanation for where all the Energon went from Beast Wars to the G1 series.

[@themostbritishpersonalive868]

Drank it

[@matthewreynoso6904]

I like all the different variations of Energon in the aligned continuity. Particularly my two favorites: Dark Energon and Synthetic Energon!

[@MrDoctorVK]

This vid is quite good "What is Energon 101" to some fans that would like to know about. While Cybertronians feed for energon, have noticed that they can also take raw oil what was showed in TF Animated.

[@originaluddite]

Even in the original cartoon, some could. Certainly, the Insecticons were adapted to converting pretty much anything into energy for themselves.

[@MrDoctorVK]

@@originaluddite That's very true, in G1; Insecticons were able to eat anything what they converted to energy, faintly recalling that was it in one episode that Decepticons even used them to harvest energy.

[@diegos7337]

I loved this episode! I didn´t know the Botbots were made by a blast of Energon! Thanks!

[@_marxono_9815]

WfC Megatron:DARK ENERGON DARK ENERGON DARK ENERGON DARK ENERGON

[@ls_rus4666]

Is there a compilation?

[@stephen2624]

Megatron: Wolf of Kaon.

[@waverod9275]

@@ls_rus4666 Thew Adams did a compilation of all WfC mentions of Dark Energon at the end of his review of WfC toys.

[@waverod9275]

Prime Ratchet: Daaaaaaaark Energon.

[@GhaniKeSawah]

Dark Energon = the transformers equivalent of drugs

[@tevinhoward4419]

The energon by primus come in every types the light blue contains health some are at the mines, the green is the synthetic gives more energy knockout reproduced the compound it contains sort of effects on it when shockwave made them stabilized for the omega lock the red energon contains a blast the dark energon contains the blood of unicron it reanimated the dead creating undead terricons leading to Megatron on the conquest.

[@sonicguyver7445]

I always liked the idea that energon was just a way of converting and storing energy. I thought it was an interesting idea in "Atantis, Arise" when Megatron made an alliance with Sub-Atlantica. They had highly advanced shield technology but it demanded so much power they had to say close to the thermal vents that gave them energy. It was Megatron's introducing them to energon that allowed them to leave the sea floor since they could now carry all the energy they needed.

[@Evan_doodlearts]

energon is like their version of beer just watch cyberverse

[@mikeddh2018]

Watch G1. It's definitely stronger than beer.

[@GhaniKeSawah]

And wine

[@bry_o]

I wish you mentioned idw’s Innermost Energon concept, but love your Basic series!

[@jeffreyseamons5514]

That opening fact was Awesome!

[@sacredterrador5611]

I’m surprised that all the energon wasn’t destroyed by a cosmically powered Starscream.

[@TMF979Resurge]

It's technically what he absorbed from the UnderBase in the first place

[@HORRIOR1]

Dark Energon is just rebranded Angolmois Energy. Change my mind.

[@ChrisMcFeely]

Yeah, Dark Energon will definitely get its own video in the future for a deeper look, that'll include Angolmois and other iterations of "Unicron energy"!

[@twistedgaming9185]

The Prime staff stated it was a coincidence. And who watches Beast Wars II again?

[@ls_rus4666]

@@twistedgaming9185 me

[@ShadowWingTronix]

@@ls_rus4666 Me too. Actually I've only gotten to the early episodes and the movie. I need to finish the series.

[@JustinWahlne]

@@ChrisMcFeely Ah-ha. I was wondering why you didn't mention Angolmois.

[@karda009]

And people say they miss when transformers wasnt ‘so political’

[@joeblaster8770]

All the best Sci-fi is political.

[@barzalonerboyy]

But wasn’t the political jargon the worst part of the Star Wars prequels?

[@nohrianscum9791]

@@barzalonerboyy as uninteresting as it was in the macro sense, it clearly had some value since people will still quote Padme's thunderous applause line in reference to world events.

[@barzalonerboyy]

“The ability to speak does not make you intelligent”

[@barzalonerboyy]

Nor does it make me intelligent for that matter

[@magatetus]

Thundercracker: "This stuff the greatest!"

[@kennethclemons3415]

Energon... wondering how does it taste for Autobots/Decepticons as similar to humans that so important to fight for the energy. Is it addictive as coffee, intoxicating like alcohol, life substaining like water, nutritional properties like milk, a novelty drink like soda, resourceful substance like gas or fossil fuel... perhaps all of the above, which is why the Autobots and Decepticons will fight for this valuable energy like the Imlusion energy source from the Gears of Wars series.. great topic and video.👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@ChrisMcFeely]

All of the above, I think, definitely!

[@GhaniKeSawah]

I just pretend like it tastes like wine Because of Cyberverse Grimlock

[@jonpower9728]

Harness your energon, Or you're ener-gone!

[@Man_Aslume]

Bro, why did you kill him He was only 7

[@vonalations]

Oh yeah! The power source that makes you drunk.

[@Mystic2760]

Tiny detail you missed about Synth-En - green was the color of the *incomplete*, unrefined formula, while the perfected formula gives it a yellow color, and fundamentally works like normal Energon, simply being artificial in origin, as seen in the Beast Hunters season of Transformers Prime

[@Girard1020]

They didn’t reminisce about when Synthetic Energon & Dark Energon combined together makes a plague of Transfomers that are like those Vampire Reapers from “Blade 2: Bloodhunt”

[@TommyandTheGuineaPigCollective]

Awesome subject.... lol I cracked up when they did a rerelease of the Insecticons complete with energon cubes.

[@열가지-r2l]

It shows great discernment in his choice of scenes.

[@mistermann4163]

That was pretty interesting, though i'm surprised that the Matrix of Leadership wasn't mentioned as well. When i saw it in the G1 movie, i always thought it was a bomb of sorts since it was intended to kill Unicron. Then later on assumed that it was a ultra compressed shard of unrefined Energon (since it is made in the center of a planet after all) with it being protected in a metal container which gives the user a small boost of it's power as well as the right to be called a prime since it was made by Primus himself.

[@RoTenken]

Energon: The Ultimate Plot Device. Also: There's a very glaring omission in your Basics line...which I enjoy very much.... Where in Primus' gyroscopic stabilizers are the Triple Changers?!? And why Drift in Age of Extinction, despite having a Bugatti and Helicopter form, isn't one?!?!?!

[@joshuahadams]

The Primes’ Star Harvesters from Revenge of the Fallen, too. Whether or not to harvest the sun was the thing that split the Cybertronians in the first place. Most of the Primes didn’t want to after first contact with humans, but Megatronus tried to steal the Matrix of Leadership to power it on anyway. Things went shit, the Primes sealed away the Matrix with their own bodies, and Megatronus became known as The Fallen. He would later go on to mentor Megatron. By the time of the movie, he was ancient, living on the Nemesis, a massive hulking ghost ship. Later on in the movie, with Sentinel Prime missing and Optimus Prime dead, The Fallen felt he could take Earth and finally activate the Star Harvester to power the starving Decepticon hatchlings aboard the Nemesis.

[@kingpeesant8826]

Thanks for the birthday present of energon information

[@CapLP-yt7hd]

Fun Fact: Lightspeed has an allergic reaction to energon.

[@ls_rus4666]

LOL

[@reynaldipangestu259]

How can you get allergic to your own blood?!

[@kevincarballo1]

That's like being allergic to water.

[@themostbritishpersonalive868]

@@kevincarballo1 i don't know what to tell you but umm humans can be allergic to water

[@GhaniKeSawah]

@@themostbritishpersonalive868 question how do said people survive?

[@warlordsquerk5338]

I didn't know there were THAT many types of energon! Interesting, nice video :)

[@SilverStreak9841uoattob]

I wonder if Blurr ever had red energon, could he enter the speed force?🤔

[@matthew_natividad]

Hope he doesn’t disrupt the timeline

[@donkeykong6426]

8:07 *why isnt there toys of those things* ?!!?!? they are cool admit it

[@waverod9275]

There's some version of the Insecticons that had some. Not sure which, but I think it was a Takara release.

[@Killugon12]

10:11Red Energon, I like to try that stuff if Starscream Haven't BLOW UP!

[@ChargeJN]

1980s: Let’s convert this new alien energy into some fuel we can safely intake! 2020s: Oi lads! Let’s rev it to Mccy A’s to get DRUNK on some GOD *PISS*

[@decimation9780]

I wasn’t around for G1 Transformers. So I know a bit about the various types of Energon shown in more modern Transformers media. Oh and Dark Energon, which can create Energon Zombies when mixed with Synthetic Energon.

[@TheRezro]

Unusually large concentration of Energon on Earth, among many is one of proves that legendary battle between Primus and Unicorn did happen in Solar system.

[@justnoob8141]

I like how Energon in G1 went from “We will take all of your oil because we’re evil so why not!” to “We’re running low on food and drink” to “Spare change, please?”

[@ZimMan2]

You know a transformers video is gonna be good when it opens with a recap of the 1970’s energy crisis.

[@brianfitzgerald8945]

Great idea for a basics video!

[@kadenbabcock7777]

If you don't mind me asking Mr. McFeely, why not do an episode on all of the diseases in Transformers?

[@allhailme8457]

I’d like to add the mention of Nucleon which some transformers used out of desperation as a fuel source and made them stronger but lose their ability to transform. Also Energon makes you drunk in some forms. We got to see drunk transforming robots in the 80’s!

[@enderdrone6432]

I like the new background in the beginning

[@ehrgeiz0]

In that Season 2 episode you referenced (Megatron's Master Plan part 1) as showing the Autobots making energeon, those Autobots were actually the Decepticons in disguise. Another Season 2 episode (The Search for Alpha Trion) shows Autobots stealing energeon cubes from the Decepticons for their own use, implying that they need it too. In the Season 3 episode Thief in the Night, Perceptors analyzed those energeon cubes left behind by one of Trypticons thefts and found them to be a Decepticon formula, implying that it's a universal fuel but the Decepticons manufacture it differently.

[@ChrisMcFeely]

Yes, that's the irksome part - the Autobots' use of energon is only *talked* about (in episodes such as "Sea Change" and "Masquerade"), never animated. Had to make do with the "Master Plan" clip to illustrate the point!

[@shawerful5209]

Make The Basics of Space bridge. Please

[@SilverHakai]

Well, that was insightful. Nicely done!

[@Reepicheep-1]

"...bringing to life all the various products in a shopping mall." Oh yeah?? We've had That since the 80s, too. McDonalds even had a couple batches of transforming Food!

[@austinmartinez8541]

I like that I found this video that came out 4 years ago currently in Oct 2024 when it also says it has 444k views. Very nice.

[@vazk-thret]

I always imagined that when humans in the transformers universe started getting into space we'd start digging up Dark-Energon. Even better if we don't realize its Unicrons blood and we're just like "huh, neat"