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This article is about the character from the Transformers franchise. For the 2018 film, see Bumblebee (film).

Bumblebee is a fictional robot character appearing in the many continuities in the Transformers franchise. The character is a member of the Autobots, a group of sentient self-configuring modular extraterrestrial robotic lifeforms.

In the original toyline and animated series, Bumblebee is a small yellow Chevrolet Camaro. In the live action movies, he has appeared as vehicles inspired by the Chevrolet American muscle cars – with the live-action film versions being a yellow Camaro with black racing stripes. The original vehicle-mode design was based on a classic European Type 1 Volkswagen Beetle.^[1] The character is named after the bumblebee, a black-and-yellow striped insect which inspired his paint scheme. Bumblebee is a fan-favorite character and he appears in most of the series and later becomes the main protagonist in Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Bumblebee, and Transformers: Cyberverse. Bumblebee has also taken the form of a 1977 second generation Camaro, later appearing as fifth generation Camaro in the 2018 film, Bumblebee.

Transformers: Generation 1[edit]

Bumblebee (known as Abejorro in Mexico, Bumble in Japan, Moscardo in Portugal, Űrdongó in Hungary, Maggiolino in Italy) is the «little brother» of the heroic Autobots and a mascot, constantly striving to prove himself in the eyes of the other robots—especially his leader, Optimus Prime. This often causes him to take risks that put him in danger. Portrayed as a smart aleck, he is a capable and reliable messenger and spy, his small size allowing him to go places that his larger commanders cannot. He is highly fuel-efficient, has great visual acuity, is particularly adaptable to undersea environments and transforms into a Saturn yellow Volkswagen Beetle. He was later reconstructed into a stronger, more mature form as Goldbug.

Reception[edit]

At BotCon 2010, Hasbro named Bumblebee as one of the first five robot inductees in the Transformers Hall of Fame.^[2]

Animated series[edit]

The Transformers[edit]

Bumblebee was the second character to appear in the original Transformers animated series, while on a mission to recover a small clutch of energy conductors with Wheeljack. Bumblebee is subsequently among the Transformers aboard the Ark, which crash landed on Earth, causing the Transformers within to be trapped in stasis for 4 million years. Awakening in 1984, Bumblebee helps Ironhide quell a raging river and uses his small size to help the human ally, Sparkplug Witwicky plant explosives in the midst of a Decepticon mining operation.

Bumblebee later befriends Sparkplug’s son, Spike, but on their first adventure together they are both kidnapped by the Decepticons and Bumblebee’s memory chip was altered as he unintentionally lured the other Autobots into a trap. Bumblebee recovered in time to help his fellow Autobots stop the Decepticons from sending Spike to Cybertron. After their first adventure, Bumblebee and Spike became best friends for life as they both realized that they make a good team.

On one of their missions, Bumblebee and Spike were injured from an attack by the Decepticons at a rocket base. Bumblebee was repaired by Ratchet while Spike was being fixed at the hospital, but his mind ended up being transferred into the robot body of Autobot X, created by Sparkplug, so the doctors at the hospital can operate on his real one. When Spike left the base as there was a side effect of the mind transfer, Bumblebee left afterwards to go look for his best friend, but his radio transmitters were not fixed yet. After finding Spike, Bumblebee tries to get his pal to come to his senses but fails when Spike believed that he was tricking him. Bumblebee sees the Decepticons arriving at their location and overhears Megatron telling lies to Spike, then leaving to go get Optimus Prime and the rest of his Autobot friends for help, who were helping with repairs at the rocket base they were battling at before. After arriving at the rocket base, Bumblebee tells Optimus that Megatron is manipulating Spike and that he was believing him. Bumblebee was asked to lead the way of their location by Optimus, who feared that the Decepticons would find out about Spike’s messed up mind and would take advantage of the situation, so they can help their friend. Arriving where Spike was, Bumblebee and Prime try to talk some sense into him. It did not work as they hoped it would, but they were both relieved when he did when Sparkplug was endangered. After the Decepticons left, Bumblebee gave his best friend a high five when he returned to his real body when it got all fixed up.

Bumblebee’s next adventure would occur when he accompanied Spike and Sparkplug with Jazz to test out his new speakers but decided to head to headquarters so they wouldn’t have to deal with his loud music. When Bumblebee returned to the headquarters, he saw nobody but Bluestreak there and that Teletraan One was damaged. He then was dragged to the recharging chamber by Bluestreak, due to Megatron putting a personality destabilizer in their recharging chamber to turn all the Autobots evil. However, Bumblebee was saved when Jazz, Spike and Sparkplug arrived back just in time as Jazz knocked Bluestreak out for a while. After Sparkplug fixed Teletraan One, he, Bumblebee, Jazz and Spike learn about what happened. With Bumblebee and Jazz being the only ones who were not affected from the personality destabilizer, Bumblebee decided to stop his comrades when he hears about Optimus Prime, Brawn and Prowl attacking an Air Force jet base with Spike accompanying him. Once they arrived, Bumblebee tried a few times to get through to Optimus but to no success. Bumblebee was relieved that his friends were free from the Decepticons’ control, after Sparkplug invented Attitude exchanger to counteract the personality destabilizer effects, except for Prime. Bumblebee took the last one, as there was no other ones left, as he wanted to make one final attempted to get Optimus back to his senses. Bumblebee tells Prime that he is not evil, and he believes in him, then encourages him to fight off Megatron’s control also to not give in. Bumblebee quickly put the Attitude exchanger on Optimus, who heard his voice, which freed him from Decepticon control. Bumblebee was given a hug by Prime for not giving up on him and for saving him. After stopping the Decepticons, Bumblebee was thanked again by Optimus Prime, who also thanked everyone for their help, for what he did for him. Bumblebee with Spike gave Ratchet and Sparkplug tools as they needed to fix the Air Force jets the Autobots destroyed while under Megatron’s control.

Bumblebee later befriended a girl named Carly, who admired the Autobots. While testing out one of Wheeljack’s inventions, Bumblebee fought the Decepticons as they wanted to steal it which they succeed in doing. After the battle, Bumblebee and Spike went looking for Carly, who left base to help them as she believed it was her fault that the Decepticons got the invention because of her due to being there when they were testing it. Bumblebee and Spike found Carly with Ironhide, who was the one who rescued her from the Decepticons, then left but they didn’t get very far when they saw that their friend wasn’t behind them. Transforming back into robot mode, Bumblebee wondering what was going on then saw that Ironhide was immobilized. After the rest of the Autobots showed up, Bumblebee, along with Spike and Carly hid, and all agreed that they had to do something. Bumblebee signaled Jazz to do his sound and light show which distracted the Decepticons so Carly can reverse the process of Wheeljack’s invention. After the battle is won, Bumblebee encourages Spike to ask Carly out knowing that they have feelings for each other.

By 2005, the Decepticons had conquered Cybertron, forcing Bumblebee and Spike to operate on Moonbase Two, one of Cybertron’s moons. When the planet-eating Transformer Unicron began devouring the moons, Bumblebee and Spike set their moon to self-destruct and attempted to escape in their shuttle, but to no avail. Spike’s son Daniel later rescues Bumblebee, Spike, Jazz and Cliffjumper from being cast into a smelting pit inside Unicron’s digestive system. Bumblebee and the others then escape before Unicron explodes due to the power of Matrix of Leadership.

When the body of the deceased Optimus Prime is recovered from space by a pair of Transformer-hating human scientists who intend to use it to lure the Autobots into a trap, Bumblebee is part of the rescue team led by Rodimus Prime to recover it. Entering the lab, some of the Transformers are exposed to rage-inducing alien spores that could infect them with the Hate Plague, which causes them to run wild. Although Bumblebee avoids infection, he is seriously damaged by the infected rampaging Superion. A member of the alien race called the Quintessons subsequently repair and restore Optimus Prime to life, so he can stop the Hate Plague and repair Bumblebee. The little Autobot was so severely damaged that he required an entire reconstruction and is rebuilt as a Throttlebot. In his new, shiny body, he comments that he has gone beyond just being plain old Bumblebee, and is now a «gold bug», prompting Optimus Prime to redub him Goldbug. Goldbug travels with Optimus Prime to the Decepticon planet of Chaar in order to secure a heat-resistant alloy that can protect him from the plague, only to be infected on the mission and later cured when Prime uses the power of the Matrix of Leadership to purge the plague. Because of an animation error, Bumblebee appears in a wide shot in a celebration with Goldbug where he was seen jumping and cheering during the series’ final episode.

Bumblebee and Optimus Prime are the only Autobots to appear all of the seasons, especially the first and final episode of the cartoon. Bumblebee appears in the final episode as an animation error, but it counts that he is a major character who appeared. Bumblebee reappears in Generation 2: Redux, a Botcon magazine which is set after the events of the final episode as Goldbug battling the Decepticons in Switzerland along with Jazz, Sideswipe, Beachcomber and Seaspray and became Bumblebee once again in his G2 color by the power of Forestonite.

Transformers: The Headmasters[edit]

In Transformers: The Headmasters, Goldbug and the other Throttlebots were on Cybertron when Vector Sigma began to destabilize as a consequence of Optimus Prime releasing the Matrix’s energy to cure the Hate Plague the previous year. The Decepticons soon invaded the planet in an attempt to take control of the computer, and Goldbug and the Throttlebots joined Dinobots Grimlock and Slag in holding the line against them. Unfortunately, they were knocked unconscious by the hypnotic power of the new Decepticon Headmaster Mindwipe, but they had managed to delay the Decepticons long enough for the Autobot Headmasters to arrive and take up the fight.

The Throttlebots disappeared after this encounter, suggesting they might have been destroyed, but they eventually resurfaced months later as the Decepticons were carrying out their final plan to destroy the Earth. Goldbug and the Throttlebots teamed up with Fastlane and Cloudraker to investigate the emergence of a «Death Tower» in Santiago, Chile, only to find Predaking there waiting for them. Naturally, the small ‘bots were no match for the powerful combiner, but they fought bravely, clinging onto his limbs before being hurled aside. Luckily, the Autobot Targetmasters arrived in time to bail them out and take Predaking down. This is also because of the budget cut that happened in the middle of the movie.

Books[edit]

Ballantine Books[edit]

Bumblebee was featured in the 1985 Find Your Fate Junior books Dinobots Strike Back by Casey Todd and Battle Drive by Barbara Siegel and Scott Siegel.

Kid Stuff Records & Tapes[edit]

Bumblebee was featured in the 1985 audio and book adventure Satellite of Doom publishing by Kid Stuff Records & Tapes.

Modern Publishing[edit]

Bumblebee was featured in the 1993 Transformers: Generation 2 coloring book Decepticon Madness by Bud Simpson.^[3]

Comics[edit]

Bumblebee has appeared in numerous comic books and related media printed by various publishers.

3H Enterprises[edit]

Bumblebee appeared in the voice actor play performed at BotCon 2004, in which a device built by Rhinox to stop Unicron from pulling victims from other dimensions inadvertently transports an Autobot shuttle under Bumblebee’s command into the middle of a battle between Rattrap, Silverbolt, and Waspinator and a team of Unicron’s agents. Bumblebee’s shuttle is able to scoop up Rattrap and company when their ship is destroyed. After saving more of Unicron’s victims from the Decepticons, Bumblebee’s team returns to their own time.

Condor Verlag[edit]

In a story called «By their Blasters you shall know them …!» from Transformers Comic-Magazin issue #12 by German comic publisher Condor Verlag Optimus Prime instructs Backstreet, Bumblebee and Ruckus on how to identify Autobots from Decepticons in battle using the Ark’s computer. Pretender Bumblebee is one of those he displays to the Autobots.^[4]

Devil’s Due Publishing[edit]

In Devil’s Due’s first G.I. Joe vs. The Transformers crossover, the evil terrorist organization Cobra are the first to uncover the Ark and the Transformers slumbering within it, capturing and reformatting a large number of them to use them as war machines. Bumblebee and Wheeljack are able to avoid this fate, contact the team created to respond to the threat of Cobra, G.I. Joe, and help to free their fellow Autobots. Unlike most Autobots, who had new alternate modes, Bumblebee and Wheeljack had their original Generation 1 alternate modes in this series.

In the second crossover, Bumblebee is among the Autobots sent back in time due to an accident with the spacebridge computer Teletran-3. As part of a small group transported to the 1970s, Bumblebee is reformatted as a small economy car (this time, resembling an AMC Pacer) before the teamed-up Joes and Cobras return all the Transformers to present-day Cybertron.

Bumblebee takes center stage in the third crossover series, as he, Grimlock, Arcee, and Perceptor are sent to Earth to aid G.I. Joe in removing the influence of Cybertronian technology on the planet. Sporting his original alternate mode again, he is shown to have something of a crush on Arcee. When Cobra attacks the base, the Autobots help repel the Cobra Battle Android Trooper armies. Journeying to Cybertron to stop Serpentor, the mismatched group is ambushed first by Cannibalizers, then by Serpentor, Piranacon, Predaking and the Stunticons, with Bumblebee being badly injured as he runs right into Predaking’s leg. He is then executed by Serpentor, who would later comment that Bumblebee’s death is the only thing that ever really made him feel emotion. Despite the character being notoriously difficult to kill, it seems his death is permanent, as Serpentor comments that he felt something leave him, most likely his spark. A statue to his memory was seen in the final issue. His death would continue to have repercussions, as seen in the fourth series, in which Prime insists on journeying to Earth personally rather than expose any of his troops to the same fate.

Dreamwave Productions[edit]

When Dreamwave Productions introduced their re-imagined version of Generation 1 continuity for the 21st Century, Bumblebee was present for the Autobots’ new adventures once again. The War Within, set in Cybertron’s past, chronicled Bumblebee’s early adventures in the Battle of Altihex and the defense of Iacon in the face of an attack by Shockwave.

When Optimus Prime and Megatron vanish in an early spacebridge experiment, causing the Autobots and Decepticons to splinter into smaller factions, Bumblebee remains with the Autobots under Prowl’s command.

As usual, Bumblebee is among the Transformers trapped in stasis aboard the crashed Ark who are reactivated on Earth in 1984. Although not depicted in fiction, the general events of the television series pilot seemed to take place in the Dreamwave continuity — with Bumblebee meeting and befriending Spike Witwicky.

Fun Publications[edit]

Classic Bumblebee was featured on the cover of Transformers Club Magazine #14.

In a possible future chronicled in the exclusive comic book available at BotCon 2005, Bumblebee featured as the espionage director of the Autobots. Having been on the trail of the Decepticon agent Flamewar for a long time, Bumblebee interrupts a communication between Flamewar and the Tripredacus Council and reveals that his agent, Ricochet, has installed a degenerative virus into Deathsaurus’s clone army. With Flamewar now exposed, Bumblebee points out that she was nothing more than a liability to the council, who blow her ship up.

Based on the Transformers Classics toy line, the Timelines 2007 story is set 15 years after the end of the Marvel Comics story (ignoring all events of the Marvel UK and Generation 2 comics). Megatron has survived the crash of the Ark on Earth, reformatted himself into a new form, and now leads Ramjet, Skywarp, Soundwave, Starscream, and the Constructicons. Optimus Prime has also returned to Earth commanding Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Grimlock, Jetfire, Mirage, and Rodimus (formerly Hot Rod).

In Crossing Over, when the Cybertronians Skyfall and Landquake arrive on Earth unexpectedly Megatron attempts to destroy them, but Optimus Prime and his Autobots are able to drive Megatron away.

Bumblebee appears in the story Generation 2: Redux in which he is among the reinforcements from Autobot City to respond to the Decepticon attack at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Once there, the Autobots are able to defeat the Decepticons, but during the fight the Autobots are exposed to refined Forestonite, which enhances and mutates Cybertronian systems. He gets enhanced to his Generation 2 form.^[5]

IDW Publishing[edit]

Fall of 2005 was the third re-launch for the Transformers comic series, this time under the management of IDW Publishing.

IDW’s core universe was introduced with the six-issue mini-series, The Transformers: Infiltration, making it clear that the company’s take on the Generation 1 universe was radically different. Bumblebee appears as a member of a small team of Autobots under the command of Prowl, operating in secret on Earth out of Ark-19. Still a Volkswagen Beetle, he (like the other Autobots) possesses the added ability to generate a «holo-matter» avatar of a young female to masquerade as a driver and to otherwise interact with humans. Working with Ratchet and a trio of young humans to search an abandoned Decepticon base, Bumblebee is able to take down Skywarp during a Decepticon attack, out-thinking the Decepticon and shooting him out of the sky despite his teleportation system. After Blitzwing and Skywarp bring the base down, Bumblebee helps save the humans, despite commenting previously that they would be acceptable losses. As Megatron then engages the traitorous Starscream in battle, Bumblebee does what he does best by spying on the fight; almost shot by the Battlechargers, he is saved by Prowl and Jazz. In the follow-up, The Transformers: Escalation, he is left to run the Ark-19 on his own.

Bumblebee was among the Autobots who opposed the Decepticons serving the elder gods in the IDW Publishing Infestation 2: Transformers comic.^[6]

TFcon comics[edit]

Bumblebee, voiced by Dan Gilvezan, appeared in the TFcon 2009 voice actor play Bee for, Bee now.^[7]

Bumblebee appears among the characters in Re-Unification, the 2010 TFCon voice actor play prelude comic.^[8]

Games[edit]

Bumblebee was one of eight playable characters in the 1986 Commodore 64 video game Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth.

The Classic toy line appeared in a simple Flash-based video game on the Hasbro web site called Transformers Battle Circuit. In this one-on-one fighting game, players press the right and left arrow keys to try to overpower their opponent. Playable characters include Rodimus, Bumblebee, Grimlock, Jetfire, Starscream, Astrotrain, Trypticon, and Menasor. Optimus Prime and Megatron each appear as the boss the player must defeat to win the game.^[9]

Bumblebee appears in the 2003 video game Transformers, voiced by Jack Merluzzi.^[10]

Bumblebee is one of the light-blue robots in the 2010 card game Monopoly Deal Transformers.

Other merchandise[edit]

Popular Bumblebee-specific merchandise includes shirts and costumes based on the character.^[11]

Other media[edit]

A parody of the Generation 1 Transformers was aired in the December 23, 2008, episode of Frank TV, called «Frank the Halls». In the story, Optimus Prime and his Autobots (Bumblebee, Jazz, and Wheeljack) battle Megatron and his Decepticons (Soundwave and Starscream) when Optimus runs out of gas. Optimus becomes enraged at the price of gas, steals the fuel from the annoying hybrid Autobot Prius Maximus, then joins the Decepticons in destroying the city.^[12]

Bumblebee appears in the Robot Chicken episode «Junk in the Trunk». In the segment he is in, he is whipped by a towel used by Grimlock in the locker room and later appears at Optimus’s bedside before he dies of prostate cancer.

Maggie Simpson appeared as Bumblebee in one episode’s opening sequence to The Simpsons alongside the rest of the Simpson family rendered as Autobots.

Transformers: Generation 2[edit]

Bumblebee is a clone of the original Bumblebee.

Fun Publications[edit]

In «Flash Forward, Part 3», Jhiaxus, seeking to create a new unified faction of Transformers, «borrowed» personality components, forestonite, Hi-Q, and blueprints from Quantum Laboratories. One of these Transformers was a clone of Bumblebee. Bumblebee, along with the other clones, were introduced to Pyro as a second generation of Transformers. In «Flash Forward, Part 5», Bumblebee and Mirage greeted a clone of Sideswipe, unaware the clone was actually the original Sideswipe. In A Flash Forward, Part 6, Bumblebee, Mirage, and Ironhide confronted the escaping Autobots, but Pyro convinced them to return to Earth with him.

Toys[edit]

• Generation 2 Go-Bot Bumblebee (1995)

A redeco of Go-Bot High Beam, transforming into a yellow sports car. He features through-axle construction for incredibly fast zipping on flat, smooth surfaces, and is compatible with many tracks and playsets from Hot Wheels and Matchbox. This figure was later repurposed as the second-generation Bumblebee. This mold was also used to make Robots in Disguise (2001) Crosswise and Nightracer.

Transformers: Armada[edit]

Bumblebee is the Japanese name of Perceptor in Transformers: Armada. The Mini-Con Sparkplug was also based on the original Bumblebee, while Hot Shot was in fact going to be named Bumblebee but had his name changed due to trademark reasons.

Toys[edit]

• Super Collection Figure Bumble (2003)

A PVC figurine was made for Perceptor/Bumble, part of the tenth act of Super Collection Figures made by Takara. There are two versions: one in cartoon colors and one in a silver color scheme.

Transformers: Energon[edit]

Bumblebee is a member of Rodimus’s crew from Transformers: Energon. He appears only in a flashback and looks exactly like his Generation 1 counterpart. Bumblebee was originally supposed to be one of the main characters of the «Unicron Trilogy» but was replaced by Hot Shot.

Animated Series[edit]

Led by Rodimus, the crew left Cybertron 8,000 years ago and created a new home world on the planet Omnitron.

Transformers (film series)[edit]

Bumblebee appears as one of the main Autobot characters in the live-action Transformers film series and the protagonist of his own film Bumblebee. He retains some elements from his Generation 1 design, such as the horn-like pieces in his head, which are articulated in the films. Bumblebee was given a different alternate mode from his original G1 incarnation; instead of a Volkswagen Beetle, he transforms into a rally yellow^[15] Chevrolet Camaro (the model year of which is upgraded in the first film). Director Michael Bay states in the special features of disc two of the first film’s DVD release, that the change of Bumblebee’s alternate mode was due to the fact that a Volkswagen Beetle reminded him of Herbie. Due to a battle injury, he is rendered effectively mute, and communicates through use of selected playback of radio and television signals. Though his original voice is restored at the end of the first Transformers film, he communicates solely through his radio in Revenge of the Fallen, Dark of the Moon and Age of Extinction. The biography for the Decepticon Hardtop figure states that he and Bumblebee are old rivals, and it was not Megatron who damaged Bumblebee’s vocal processor, but a shot from Hardtop’s gun. This is in almost direct opposition of the film’s prequel.

Bumblebee is voiced by Mark Ryan in the films, but he mostly speaks with the radio, having had his voice processor damaged (through his actual voice squeaks and whines laboriously throughout the film series). He also speaks the quotes from various television shows and movies, in a way similar to Wreck-Gar from the 1986 film and the season three of the G1 cartoon series. Screenwriter Roberto Orci explained that he regained his voice through the regenerative laser that Ratchet fires at his neck as they meet, and it eventually works by the end of the film, in which he agreed that this was not made clear.^[16] Another possibility could be that his voice is healed by AllSpark, but was not mentioned in the film. The producers said that they made him as mute, to show that his bond with Sam went beyond words.

Bay stated in an early interview that Bumblebee stands about 17.5 feet tall (5.33 m),^[17] but the official guide to the Transformers video game says he is 16 feet tall (4.88 m).

The vehicles used for Bumblebee, Ironhide, Jazz and Ratchet were put on display by General Motors at the 2007 Detroit River Walk Festival a little over a week before the U.S. release of the film.^[18]

In Hot Rod magazine’s Nov. 2006 issue, Bumblebee was a feature article. Originally a worn-out 1969 Camaro, producers settled on a 1977 model.^[19] It is painted yellow with black stripes, primer and rust patches, riveted hood scoop, Cragar SS wheels up front, Eric Vaughn Real Wheels in the back, marine-grade vinyl seats, and even an eight-track player. The Camaro Concept model was built using a 2005 Holden Monaro by Saleen, with the body built from the same GM R&D molds that were used in the original 2006 Camaro Concept (the Monaro and Camaro share the same Zeta platform). Bumblebee is armed with a plasma cannon that is capable of selective fire. The 1977 Camaro movie vehicle was sold on eBay with a winning bid of U.S. $40,100.01.

As a tribute to the original form of Bumblebee, a yellow Volkswagen Beetle appears next to him at the car dealership. Bumblebee damages the Beetle in order to ensure that Sam purchases him. He also has a bee-shaped air freshener attached to his rear-view mirror with the words «Bee-otch». The air freshener was the subject of a lawsuit for $850,000 due to its alleged resemblance to another design.^[20]

Since his conversion from 1977 Camaro to 2006 Camaro Concept, Bumblebee’s alternate mode continues to evolve throughout the film series.

Transformers (2007)[edit]

In Transformers, Bumblebee appears as a dilapidated 1977 Chevrolet Camaro who is appointed as guardian for Sam Witwicky because he owns the glasses of his great-grandfather and explorer, Archibald Witwicky, containing the coordinates showing the location of the AllSpark. After Sam and his father buy it, he comes to their house, only to drive away from them to summon other Autobots. After Sam sees a police car transform into Decepticon Barricade, Bumblebee rescues him and his love crush, Mikaela Banes. After fighting with Barricade and Frenzy, he soon transforms into a 2006 Camaro concept. He soon meets the Autobots and their leader Optimus Prime, revealing their history and Bumblebee having the damaged voice. They retrieve the glasses, but are soon captured by a secret government organization Sector 7. After going to Hoover Dam, the secret Sector 7 base, Bumblebee is released and participates in the battle against Decepticons and their leader, Megatron. Following the battle, he stays with Sam and Mikaela as a guardian and friend and also having apparently repaired his voice (although he still uses the radio in the sequels, suggesting that his voice was not repaired fully).

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)[edit]

In Revenge of the Fallen, he sports a different set of alloy wheels (in the first two films they are actually hubcaps made from composite to look like a set of wheel-disc brakes^[21]) and a custom front bumper. It also comes with a unique Chevrolet logo design with red outlines in it, and redesigned foglights.

In the film, he is still a guardian to Sam Witwicky, but the latter says to him that Sam doesn’t want protection and that he wants his own life and future. After the Decepticons lead by The Fallen put Sam in danger, Bumblebee is forced to rescue him. The revived Megatron and his comrades kill Optimus Prime; he, his comrade Autobots and human allies are trying to find a way to stop The Fallen. They soon discover the existence of Jetfire (a former Decepticon), who reveals the Matrix of Leadership, hidden in Egypt, as a key to revive Optimus Prime. After finding it, they rendezvous with other Autobots and the American NEST army to revive Optimus Prime. During the battle he kills Ravage. Optimus Prime is revived, then fights and kills The Fallen.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)[edit]

For Dark of the Moon (now a Camaro SS), his color changes from yellow to amber with thicker black stripes that run across his hood, roof and trunk. In addition, he has dark-colored rims and side mirrors, as well as a rear spoiler. Also in the film, he has a stealth battle mode in which he can use his weapons in car mode without fully transforming and still being able to seat a driver and passengers.^[22]

In the film, Bumblebee no longer lives with Sam, and goes on the missions with the Autobots and human allies to find other Decepticons around the world. Bumblebee once again reunites with Sam after the latter comes with Carly and two Autobots, Wheelie and Brains, to the army base. When Sentinel Prime betrays the Autobots, he goes to battle against the Decepticons. This battle is stopped when Sentinel Prime (in alliance with Megatron) declares an ultimatum to the American government to banish the Autobots from Earth in exchange for peace. Apparently banished and killed by the Decepticons, the Autobots emerge alive and participate in the battle in Chicago, destroying the space bridge to bring Cybertron to Earth and killing Sentinel and Megatron.

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)[edit]

In Age of Extinction, he transforms into a modified 1967 Chevrolet Camaro to avoid being hunted down by the mercenaries of Cemetery Wind. This design sports just a yellow front bumper and a rear spoiler and this vehicle is looking similar to the Dodge Hellcat.

As the Autobots storm the headquarters of KSI he scans a 2014 Camaro concept with an all-new look, with some major changes, now including a new front look with some advanced lamps including a dove black front bumper, black-long sideskirts, and new black rims. This time, there is only one stripe on the hood and a back license plate that says «900 STRA».

Five years after the battle in Chicago, Bumblebee and his surviving comrades are hiding in secrecy following the hunt by Cemetery Wind (a CIA rogue unit) and former Decepticon and bounty hunter Lockdown. He mostly doesn’t speak in the film, relies on radio communication, but is hinted that his voice box is healing. Following the battle in Hong Kong, he assumes the leadership after Optimus Prime leaves in space to search the mysterious Creators.

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)[edit]

In The Last Knight, he leads Autobots and displays the ability to separate and reassemble himself during the combat, as shown in fight against TRF soldiers to protect Cade Yeager. When Bumblebee comes in London, England, he is revealed by Sir Edmund Burton that he helped the United States Army Air Force to fight against the Nazis in World War II and transformed into a Mercedes-Benz 770, although Bumblebee doesn’t remember this event and his service, and it was retconned in his own movie. When Optimus Prime is brainwashed by Quintessa, Optimus fights on the ship with Bumblebee, the latter regaining his voice, enabling Optimus to remember him and his allies. Bumblebee participates in the final battle on Stonehenge to prevent Quintessa’s plans to bring Cybertron on Earth, in addition to kill Unicron on that planet as well. He and Optimus kill Quintessa, although she is revealed to be alive at the end of the film.

Bumblebee (2018)[edit]

Bumblebee is the main protagonist of the spin-off film of the same name. Designated as B-127, he first appears in Cybertron with comrades, including Optimus Prime. B-127 is forced to retreat and travel to Earth by Prime’s order after Decepticon battalion overwhelms them. Upon crash-landing on Earth in the forest, he is intercepted and hunted by Sector Seven forces, led by Jack Burns. Decepticon Seeker Blitzwing, arrives and captures B-127, demanding the location of his comrades. B-127 refuses and Blitzwing rips his voice synthesizer. Before he is executed, the B-127 jams Blitzwing’s own missile and directs in his chest, killing him. With his memory cells severely damaged, B-127 scans a yellow Volkswagen Beetle before entering stasis.

Teenage girl Charlie Watson finds B-127 in junkyard, and attempting to repair the vehicle unknowingly activates homing signal. Initially scared when discovering the car as an alien robot, they soon develop a friendship. She calls him Bumblebee having found a hive while cleaning him up. Two Decepticons, Shatter and Dropkick, already nearby on a moon of Saturn track it to Earth.

Working with Sector Seven, Shatter and Dropkick discover and capture Bumblebee. Tortured for information about his comrades, they discover a message from Optimus Prime about retreating from Cybertron and going to Earth with other Autobots. They in turn send the message to Decepticons to enable the invasion on Earth. After leaving him for dead, Charlie uses Sector Seven’s high voltage guns to revive him, restoring his memories. Trying to escape the Sector Seven forces as well, Bumblebee finally confronts and kills the two Decepticons and destroys the communication tower to prevent the message sent for other Decepticons and their invasion. Having saved Jack Burns from the Deceptions he stops chasing Bumblebee. After the battle, Bumblebee and Charlie say goodbye. Before driving off, he scans and transforms into a 1977 Camaro, and drive-off alongside the disguised Optimus Prime, to find more Autobots.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)[edit]

Bumblebee will return as one of the main protagonists in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, which is set in 1994 and a sequel to Bumblebee.

Miscellaneous[edit]

Transformers: Cyber Missions[edit]

Transformers: Cyber Missions is a CGI animated series created to supplement live-action series. In the series, Episode 1, Bumblebee and Ironhide are protecting NEST Command when two Decepticons, Soundwave and Bludgeon invade the area. Ironhide goes outside to deal with Bludgeon, while Soundwave ambushes Bumblebee from inside and is easily thrown down by him. He tries to fire a shot from his shoulder gun, but Soundwave redirects the acoustic energy back at him. Bumblebee deduces that he cannot deflect several rounds at once and begins rapidly firing, defeating him. Later in Episode 2, Bumblebee traps Soundwave in a magnetically sealed bubble.

Reception[edit]

Entertainment Weekly named Bumblebee as their seventh-favorite computer-generated character.^[23]

IDW Publishing[edit]

In Transformers: Defiance #1, back on ancient Cybertron, Bumblebee, and Cliffjumper are tasked to watch over the AllSpark at the temple at Simfur. In issue #3, Megatron learns that Optimus has broken into his room and sends Bumblebee, Camshaft, Cliffjumper, Jazz, Prowl, and Smokescreen to arrest Optimus Prime for treason. Optimus demands to speak directly to Megatron, but while en route to Megatron’s location, they are ambushed by Barricade, Brawl, Crankcase, Frenzy, Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker, under orders to kill them all. Smokescreen is able to cover Optimus and his group’s retreat in the confusion of an explosion. In issue #4, Arcee, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Jazz, and Smokescreen ambush Ironhide, who they believed works for Megatron, but Ironhide instead joins Optimus Prime’s Autobots. Arcee and Bumblebee later spy on the building of the Decepticon starship Nemesis.

The Transformers: Movie Prequel reveals that in the battle of Tyger Pax, Megatron’s forces attack, searching for the All Spark. Bumblebee’s squad (which includes Arcee) attempts to hold off the Decepticons, but are eventually overwhelmed. They are captured and tortured by Swindle, with Megatron intervening personally to torture Bumblebee for information. However, they refuse to speak long enough for Prime’s secret plan to take effect—launching the AllSpark into outer space. Megatron attempts to pursue it, but Bumblebee stops him. An enraged Megatron rips Bumblebee’s arms off and crushes his voice capacitor, promising to seize the AllSpark for himself eventually. Bumblebee recovers and is repaired, although his voice is damaged beyond repair. Bumblebee then volunteers to head into space to stop Megatron from acquiring the All Spark.

Eventually arriving on Mars in his protoform mode, Bumblebee then proceeds to Earth in 2003, his arrival tracked by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Upon landing in New York City, Bumblebee assumes the form of a beat-up Chevrolet Camaro, all the while avoiding the agents of the government organization known as Sector 7, who refer to him as NBE-2 (or Non-Biological Extraterrestrial 2). Bumblebee then downloads information on Captain Archibald Witwicky. Arriving at the asylum where he had once been incarcerated, he finds it now a dilapidated ruin. Damaged by a pursuing Barricade, he then finds AllSpark-like emissions somewhere in New Mexico—unaware it is a trap set by Sector 7. However, their plan to capture him is thwarted when Starscream, Barricade and Blackout arrive. As the Decepticons shoot Sector 7’s trap to pieces, Bumblebee escapes—unaware the Decepticons had let him go so that they could follow him and see what he knew about the All Spark. He is last seen in the series heading for Tranquility, Nevada—home of Captain Witwicky’s descendant Sam.

In the comic adaptation of the film, Bumblebee downloads information on the internet about the Concept Camaro car and took on its form instead of driving past in a tunnel, as seen in the film.

He also appears in the official movie sequel comic called The Reign of Starscream.^[24]

In Transformers: Alliance, the Autobots aid the human soldiers after the battle in Mission City, destroying the All Spark-powered machines that were created. After Ratchet finishes repairing Bumblebee’s legs, a trailer is obtained for Optimus Prime to carry the remains of Jazz. The Autobots then leave Mission City before the Sector 7 personnel arrive to claim the remains of the Decepticons. About a month later, Epps and Lennox contact Optimus Prime, Ratchet and Ironhide about aiding them in escorting the remains of the Decepticons to the naval yard. Unknowingly they are spied on by Barricade, who transmits the information to Starscream.

Bumblebee appears in Transformers: Tales of the Fallen #1, where Barricade kidnaps Sam in order to flush out Bumblebee and learn where the AllSpark fragment is. Bumblebee saves Sam and fights Barricade, who escapes in the process.

Bumblebee appears in Transformers: Nefarious #1, set months after the events of the 2009 film. Bumblebee, Breakaway, Jolt, Knock Out and Dune Runner are sent to investigate spark fragments detected at Kingdom Petrochemicals. Arriving first, Breakaway is warned by Soundwave to leave, but unwilling to give in, the Autobot is swiftly defeated. Bumblebee and his team fire on Soundwave, who escapes.

The drone calling itself Brains runs into Bumblebee and Sam Witwicky in Philadelphia.^[25]

Titan Magazines[edit]

Note: Events occurring in the alternate universe where Megatron won the battle of Mission City are in italics.

In «Twilight’s Last Gleaming Part 3», Bumblebee attempts to take on Megatron in the Sector 7 base. Meanwhile, Mikaela attempts to free Optimus Prime, but she is attacked by Frenzy.

Bumblebee appears in issue #17 of the Titan Transformers Magazine, in a story called «Return to Cybertron Part 1». In this story, he is among the Autobots that go to Cybertron.

Bumblebee returns in issue #22 of the Titan Transformers Magazine series in a story called «The Decepticon who Haunted Himself.»

Books[edit]

Bumblebee also appears in the prequel novel Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday. Here, it is revealed he could still communicate with the other Autobots via digital link. Bumblebee is part of Prime’s Autobot team searching for the All Spark, and is described as one of the Autobots’ best scouts. He is sent after the human vessel Ghost-1 (reverse-engineered from studies of Megatron) to make contact, but is ambushed and forced underground by Starscream. Encountering giant rock-chewing worms, he is saved by Optimus Prime. Heading into the atmosphere once again, he and Ratchet took on Barricade, but are unable to stop Starscream from destroying the human vessel.

Target Robo-Vision[edit]

According to his extended biography from the Target store-exclusive Robo-Vision web site, Hardtop came to Earth and discovered the Witwicky home before any of the other Decepticons, but was unable to attack the Witwickys because Bumblebee found him first and buried him under a hundred tons of rubble in the Rocky Mountains.

Video games[edit]

Bumblebee is a playable character, and is the most-used character in the Autobot campaign, where the character uses Bumblebee in nine missions in the Autobot campaign, out of the total 18. He is playable in both the old and new Camaro cars. Bumblebee also appears as a boss in the Decepticon campaign, with a radial blast attack.

Bumblebee is among the playable characters in the 2009 Revenge of the Fallen video game by Activision.^[26]

The film version of Bumblebee is playable in Hasbro’s Net Jet Transformers fighting game Transformers Battle Universe. Although other playable Transformers in the game have several incarnations featured, no other versions of Bumblebee are playable.

Bumblebee is among the characters who appear in the TRANSFORMERS CYBERVERSE Battle Builder Game.^[27]

Other media[edit]

Bumblebee is one of the Autobots featured in Transformers: The Ride 3D at Universal Studios theme parks. In the ride, Bumblebee disembodies Ravage while Evac escapes from the Decepticon attack on N.E.S.T. headquarters. Towards the end of the ride, Bumblebee saves Evac from falling off a building after Evac kills Megatron with the AllSpark shard.

Bumblebee appears in the episode of Robot Chicken called «Tell My Mom», voiced by Seth Green. Sam Witwicky finds Bumblebee in Bobby Bolivia’s used car lot and they go on an adventure, while Scooter is the only thing cheap in the lot. Bumblebee is portrayed as a fifth-generation Camaro.

During the final battle of the 2017 Power Rangers film, the Red Ranger, while piloting his T-Rex Zord, accidentally steps on a yellow Camaro of a similar model as the live-action Bumblebee. He throws the car at an army of Putties and shouts, «Sorry, Bumblebee!» as the car makes impact.

Transformers Animated[edit]

Bumblebee appears in the Transformers Animated series in 2008 as a yellow hot hatch undercover police car (scanned from a vehicle driven by Detroit Police Captain Fanzone). The character of Bumblebee in Animated is described as a hot-headed racing young Autobot who likes video games, making him more akin to Armada Hot Shot than the original Bumblebee. He does however retain the traditional warm-heartedness and human-friendly attitude of the original due to his friendship with Sari Sumdac and Bulkhead. Although considered childish and self-centered by many of his fellow Autobots, Bumblebee shows a loyal and caring side for his friends, and can be considered protective of Sari Sumdac, to the extent of blocking shots, blasts, and missiles from harming her. This was first shown in «Transform and Roll Out! Part 3» when he deflected a shot from Starscream that was aimed at Sari. The blast rendered him unconscious until Sari healed him with her Key. He is the kid-friendly character of the show.^[28]

Bumblebee has a retractable face plate he uses when he goes into combat and a retractable weapon (called «energy stingers») in both hands. He can use the wheels on his feet in robot mode as motorized roller blades.

Animated series[edit]

In the episode «Autoboot Camp», Bumblebee has flashbacks to his days as an Autobot trainee. During training, he met Bulkhead, Longarm, Ironhide, and Wasp. The group was under the command of Drill Sergeant Sentinel Minor, who gave Bumblebee his name (after calling him a «bumbler»). Bumblebee would often say or do the wrong thing, resulting in the entire platoon receiving Transformation push-ups as a result, which made him unpopular with Wasp and Ironhide. One day, Bumblebee heard someone communicating with Megatron. Believing the traitor to be Wasp, Bumblebee (with help from Longarm) discovered evidence in Wasp’s locker. For discovering the traitor, Sentinel was prepared to give Bumblebee Elite Guard membership. However, Bumblebee gave up that chance by taking the rap for Bulkhead, who had previously knocked a building onto Sentinel, and was about to be removed from training, joining his new friend as a Space Bridge technician. Bulkhead and Bumblebee were assigned to a Space Bridge repair ship under the command of Optimus Prime, along with Ratchet. Both he and Bulkhead were the first to encounter Prowl before he joins their group.

In the series finale, during a rescue mission to save Arcee, who was on the moon, Bumblebee manages to settle the score with Shockwave before he and Bulkhead put him under arrest. After the Autobots learn of Prowl’s ultimate sacrifice, they take the sparkless body of Prowl and the captured Megatron, Lugnut, and Shockwave to Cybertron. On their arrival home, they are greeted and cheered on by the other Autobots for their victory over the evil and malevolent leader of the Decepticons.

Fun Publications[edit]

Bumblebee appeared in the 2008 BotCon voice actor play Bee in the City, voiced by Bumper Robinson. In this story Professor Sumdac attempted to create a teleportation system to get the Autobots to Cybertron, but an interaction with Sari’s key ended up transporting Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Sari to Transtech Cybertron, where they met Flareup and his friends were detained by Shockwave while he was deemed not a threat. Bumblebee teamed up with transformer named «Joe» to help him and Flareup get their friends. But after Joe exposed himself as a Megatron and uses Sari’s key to create an army to begin a reign of terror, Bumblebee pointed out the world’s bureaucratic nature that resulted in a mutiny. Afterwards the Autobots and Sari returned to their own dimension.

IDW Publishing[edit]

Set shortly after the events of «Total Meltdown» is the Transformers: Animated comic issue #2 by IDW Publishing. In it, Bumblebee and Prowl apprehend the Angry Archer as the villain attempts to steal money from a used car salesman. In doing so, they reveal the holographic trickery of the Detroit superhero known as The Wraith. With the secret of his power revealed, The Wraith loses much of the respect he used to command in Detroit. The Wraith attempts to stop Cyrus «The Colossus» Rhodes from escaping prison, but is unable to fool the villain now that the secret is public, forcing the Autobots to stop Rhodes and making The Wraith look foolish. The Wraith then attempts to discredit Bumblebee at a college football game by trapping the Autobot with a car boot and using his holograms to make a fake Bumblebee attack the stadium. Bumblebee eventually escapes and the other Autobots help capture The Wraith before having him placed in a mental institution.

Games[edit]

Bumblebee is one of the five playable characters in the 2008 Transformers Animated video game for the Nintendo DS.^[29][30]

Transformers: Timelines (Shattered Glass)[edit]

In the Transformers: Timelines series, Goldbug is an evil alternate reality version of Bumblebee.^[31]

According to his official biography, Goldbug was once a young drifter known as Bumblebee. He survived on the streets of Polyhex with no real purpose. He became skilled at sneaking around, stealing, eavesdropping and blackmailing. He eagerly joined the Autobots in hopes of finding a place to belong and where his unsavory activities would be tolerated. When the war began, Bumblebee showed extreme bravery in battle and often sought ways to be noticed by command. In time, he worked his way up the ranks of the Autobots and when the Autobot Seeker Drench was destroyed, Bumblebee was offered an upgraded form and a new identity as Goldbug, to take his place.

Goldbug is paranoid that one of his fellow Autobots will betray him and try to take his place, as he did to his former superiors.

Reception[edit]

The Botcon 2008 set was chosen as the «Action Figure Digest Hot Pick.»^[32]

Fun Publications[edit]

Goldbug appears in the 2008 April Fool’s comic Shattered Expectations by Fun Publications.

Goldbug appears as a member of Optimus Prime’s forces in the Transformers: Timelines story «Shattered Glass.» Goldbug and Blurr report to Optimus Prime the rumors that Megatron is planning an attack. When the Decepticons attack the Ark launch site Blurr, Goldbug and Rodimus compete for who could destroy the most Decepticons, but thanks to Cliffjumper the Decepticon attack is successful.^[33]

Goldbug appears in the fiction Dungeons & Dinobots, a text-based story. He is among the Autobots who attack the Decepticons at the Arch-Ayr fuel dump. He is later sent to capture rogue Dinobots for the Autobots. He is part of the group that captures Swoop.^[34]

In Do Over Goldbug conspires with Rodimus to take over the Autobots. Together they steal the Ark, evicting any crew members who are loyal to Optimus Prime before blasting off to Earth. The Ark then crashes on Earth.^[35]

Goldbug is among the Autobots brought back online. He initially commands a small group of Autobots who find Rodimus. After losing a fight with Rodimus for leadership Goldbug participates in the attack on Burpleson Air Force Base.^[36]

Toys[edit]

• Timelines Deluxe Goldbug (2008)

Goldbug is a remold of Cybertron Hot Shot. He is redecoed yellow-and-black, and has a blue head remolded to look like the Generation 1 Goldbug toy.^[37] This toy is 14 centimetres (5.5 inches) long, while a real Chrysler ME 412 is 454 centimetres long (14.9 ft). This gives the toy a scale of 1:32. The robot mode would stand about 14 feet 11 inches (4.55 m).

Aligned continuity[edit]

Bumblebee is one of the main group of Autobots in the 2010 computer-animated series Transformers: Prime.^[38] Bumblebee is younger than most of the Autobots, and lost his voice box when he was captured by Megatron during the Great War. Bumblebee remains more playful than the other Autobots despite his lack of voice, and has come to rely on his speed as his most valuable asset in battle. Bumblebee is extremely similar to his movie counterpart, sharing the similar vehicle and robot forms, the same lack of voice, and his close relationship to a human boy. It is also revealed in the series finale episode «Deadlock» that Bumblebee’s mouth was covered by a face plate vaguely resembling that of Optimus Prime’s that helped him to create the alternative beeping noises he uses as his main form of communication throughout the series. Later in the series he changes his color scheme by reversing the colors, resembling Bumblebee’s original 1977 paint scheme in the 2014 Age of Extinction film.

Bumblebee returns as the central protagonist of the sequel series Transformers: Robots in Disguise, with Will Friedle reprising his role. Set five years after the events of Prime, Bumblebee becomes the leader of a group of Autobots that end up on Earth to fight a generation of Decepticons who have re-emerge on the planet after a prison ship crash, being previously put in stasis before the war was over. In later seasons this expands to battling old enemies from Prime, Stunticons, and the corruption of Cybertron itself.
A constant running gag throughout the first season is Bumblebee’s inability to come up with a decent command for his team to mobilize, in the vein of Optimus Prime’s famous order to «roll out». Bumblebee retains a similar vehicle mode as he did in Prime, now a 1992 Chevrolet Camaro. However, his robot mode has gone through a serious redesign. Notably retaking his original primarily yellow color scheme rather than the dominantly black one he took at the end of Prime.

Books[edit]

Bumblebee appears in the novels Transformers: Exodus and Transformers: Exiles.

Bumblebee losing his voice was the focus of the short story «Bumblebee at Tyger Pax» By Alex Irvine.^[39]

Video games[edit]

Bumblebee appears as a playable character in the 2010 video game Transformers: War for Cybertron. In the Autobot campaign, he is first seen racing across the war-torn streets of Iacon in search of Optimus. Upon rendezvousing with Optimus, he relays the message of Zeta Prime’s death at the hands of Megatron; after which, he joins Optimus and Ratchet in their resistance against the Decepticons on the planet. He later appears in the final level of the game, where Bumblebee teams up with Optimus and Ironhide to prevent the Decepticon Titan, Trypticon from destroying Iacon.

In Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, the sequel to War for Cybertron, players start as Bumblebee in the first level. He appears throughout the game as well.

Animated series[edit]

With the exception of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee is the only character to appear in all three TV shows set within the Aligned continuity, including Transformers: Rescue Bots and Transformers: Robots in Disguise. Frank Welker recorded actual words written for Bumblebee which were later replaced with sound effects.^[40] When Bumblebee regains his voice, it’s provided by actor Will Friedle.

Transformers: Prime (2010-2013)[edit]

Bumblebee appears in the pilot episode of the series responding too late to a call for help from Cliffjumper, who is captured by the Decepticons and killed. Bumblebee soon is assigned to be Raf Esquivel’s guardian, having grown close to the boy as he understands his language of beeps.^[41] In the «Operation: Bumblebee» two-parter, Bumblebee lost his transformation cog and its ability to have him transform before eventually retrieving the cog from human terrorist group M.E.C.H. and Starscream.

Bumblebee’s goal in the series is to be promoted to warrior class, as he first states in «Masters & Students». Optimus does not believe him to be worthy of promotion at such a young age. Nevertheless, Bumblebee shows he is still a capable warrior, since he is able to fight the likes of Breakdown and Shockwave. When questioned by Smokescreen in «Project Predacon», Bumblebee admits he is holding back so that he can one day be promoted to warrior class on Cybertron.

In «Deadlock», during the final battle aboard the Nemesis, Bumblebee tries to give Optimus Prime the Star Saber for him to fight Megatron, but is killed by the Decepticon. However, Bumblebee fell into the ship’s Omega Lock and exposure to the Cyber Matter powering it both revived him and restored his voice. As Megatron prepared to finish Optimus, Bumblebee used the Star Saber to stab him in his spark, killing him. Afterwards, once the Omega Lock restored Cybertron, Bumblebee gives Raf a goodbye before leaving for his home world where he is finally promoted to warrior class during the series finale Predacons Rising. However, things quickly turn for the worse when Unicron appears on Cybertron in Megatron’s body, and two new Predacons are cloned by Shockwave. With Optimus on a mission to retrieve the AllSpark, and Ultra Magnus having been severely wounded by the new Predacons, Bumblebee becomes Autobot leader at Ratchet’s encouragement as he leads them, the newly defected Knock Out and the three Predacons in making a stand against Unicron’s undead Predacon army at the Well of All Sparks, buying enough time for Optimus to return to defeat Unicron. Optimus reveals that he must sacrifice himself to restore the AllSpark to Cybertron’s core, and does not pass on leadership to any one person present, stating that leadership will now be earned through actions. Bumblebee promises to keep the peace on Cybertron to Optimus, implying Bumblebee to be the new leader of the Autobots, and by extension, Cybertron’s new age.

Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015-2017)[edit]

Bumblebee appears as the main protagonist of the sequel series Transformers: Robots in Disguise, with Will Friedle reprising his role. In the series, Bumblebee is called to Earth when a new generation of Decepticons re-emerges on the planet. After receiving a vision from Optimus Prime, Bumblebee travels to Earth via a spacebridge and discovers that a ship full of Decepticon criminals has crashed on Earth and its inmates have escaped. Initially believing that Optimus’ mission is intended for him alone, Bumblebee ends up with a team of ragtag Autobots, including a rebel bad boy bot named Sideswipe, a hyper active Mini-Con named Fixit, the bombastic ex-Decepticon and Dinobot Grimlock, and a female Elite Guard cadet named Strongarm, in order to combat the Decepticons. After befriending humans Denny Clay and his son Russell and fighting the Chompazoid Underbite, the group is greeted by the inexplicably corporeal Optimus. Unable to explain his return, Optimus expresses his confidence in Bumblebee and his new team before departing.

While leading the team, to recapture the escaped Decipticons, they come across Steeljaw, an escaped convict who has his own plan to lead the other escaped convicts. The Autobots would later receive a visit from Bumblebee’s old comrade Jazz, who informed Bumblebee that his actions in departing Cybertron had angered the high council. After helping apprehend a fugitive named Ped, Jazz volunteered to return to Cybertron and inform the council of what had taken place. The team then received another group of Cybertronian visitors, in the form of Autobot bounty hunter Drift, Decepticon bounty hunter Fracture, and their Mini-Con teammates. Both Cybertronians arrived to collect a bounty placed on Bumblebee by the High Council for his actions, but Drift was convinced of Bumblebee’s nobility after Bee saved his life. The team managed to defeat Fracture, and though his ship was lost they gained the use of his ground bridge.

After all of them but Grimlock and Fixit were given Decepticon Hunters, Bee and his team would then be forced to deal with Steeljaw’s gang again—now including Thunderhoof, Underbite, and Fracture and his Mini-Cons—as both pursued the Decepticon fugitive Clampdown. Bee’s team managed to capture all the Decepticons, but were forced to let them escape when Steeljaw broke free and set an unmanned garbage barge loose in the path of a riverboat.

Drift and his Mini-Cons would later return to Earth and subsequently join the team. The team continued to capture escaped convicts. Bumblebee was once again contacted by Optimus with further warnings, shortly before Steeljaw and his pack managed to briefly seize the scrapyard; however, the Autobots managed to recover their base. The team soon gained another new ally in the form of the Primus-chosen female Autobot warrior Windblade, who aided the team in securing the fugitives Razorpaw and Zizza before departing.

Unfortunately for Bumblebee and his team, the threat that Optimus had warned them of soon revealed itself as Megatronus, a disgraced member of the Thirteen. Having struck a deal with Steeljaw’s pack, Megatronus instructed them to construct several devices he needed, which they did after capturing Strongarm, Sideswipe, and the returning Windblade. Bumblebee led the remainder of his team against them, only for Optimus arrive shortly before Megatronus made his appearance. Deferring to his former commander, Bumblebee became more concerned with Optimus’ well-being and leadership than trusting in his own previous experiences. Fortunately, his team rallied behind him and gave him the courage to stand firm, which enabled them to capture Steeljaw’s Pack after the would-be Decepticon tyrant was ejected from the battle by Megatronus. The Autobots then fought to prevent Megatronus from destroying both Earth and Cybertron, and managed it after discovering the latent powers of Bumblebee, Sideswipe, and Strongarm’s Decepticon Hunters used in tandem and copying the sword form of Optimus’ Prime Decepticon Hunter. With Megatronus defeated and possibly eliminated, the Autobots departed for home, with Bumblebee at last finding his rallying cry: «Rev up and roll out!»

With Megatronus defeated and most of the Pack apprehended, Bumblebee questioned whether his fellow Autobots wished to remain with him on Earth. To a one they agreed, with Windblade and Optimus formally joining the team, though Optimus did so as Bumblebee’s equal rather than his superior. Turning their attention to Decepticon fugitives still scattered around the globe, Bumblebee decided to split his team by dispatching Drift, his Mini-Cons, and Windblade to seek out Decepticons in other locations while the rest of the team remained at the scrapyard. At their own insistence Optimus and Sideswipe joined the team, which ended up stranded in the Arctic after Optimus’ altered state damaged their Groundbridge. Unfortunately, the remainder of the team soon had to deal with another problem: Overload, a Decepticon who had previously infiltrated the Autobot ranks and caused Bumblebee to sustain serious injuries, greatly embittering the former scout.

Bumblebee became consumed with bringing Overload in, even after the Mini-Con fugitives Backtrack and Ransack were freed during their initial battle; the two Mini-Cons subsequently joined forces with Overload. Bee would continue to carry out his missions, though once he gained the ability to combine with his teammates, He became edgier on ethics during the Stunticon battles. He eventually realized that he tweaked a perfect formula for the worst, and resumed his usual command style for the rest of the show.

Transformers: Rescue Bots[edit]

Bumblebee appears in the episode «Bumblebee to the Rescue», where he helps the Rescue Bots, and their human partners investigate a fallen meteor. Optimus Prime briefly assigns Bumblebee to observe how the Rescue Bots and the Burns family work together. Cody and the rest of the Burns family are unable to understand Bumblebee and requires one of the Rescue Bots to translate. The Rescue Bot Blades also happens to be a big fan of Bumblebee (who is said to be a legendary scout and war hero by the Rescue Bots). When Heatwave, Boulder, and Chase are infected by a substance contained in the meteor, Bumblebee, Blades, and the Burns family work together to destroy the meteor and obtain a sample in a hope to find a cure. Bumblebee and Blades successfully destroy the meteor and retrieve the sample, but at the cost of being infected as well, but thankfully the Burnses use an analysis of the meteor sample Bumblebee found, They are able to find a cure in the Autobots database, curing Bumblebee and the Rescue Bots. At the end of the episode, Cody is revealed to have learned how to understand Bumblebee. Before leaving, Bumblebee asks the Burnses (with Cody acting as interpreter) if they can take a picture of him and Blades.

Bumblebee returns with Optimus Prime in «It’s a Bot Time» and «Bots to the Future», where they go back in time to save the Rescue Bots from Dr. Morocco. They return to an alternate present with Dr. Morocco ruling Griffin Rock. They fight Morbots, while the Rescue Bots go into the city. They find out they left Dilther behind, which is how the Morbot army exists. They go back in time to take him back to the present, which is then changed back to the regular timeline. Bumblebee later returned in «Odd Bot Out», where he was sent to search for a missing Cybertronian artifact on Griffin Rock while Optimus searched the nearby seafloor. To the dismay of his biggest fan Blades, Bumblebee teamed up with Dani, who was temporarily unable to pilot Blades due to her pilot’s license expiring.

He returned in the season 4 episode «Uninvited Guest», making a crash landing at the training center and helping contain a stowaway Energon Eater. Will Friedle reprised his role for the final time here, co-starring with his best friend Jason Marsden.

Rescue Bots Academy saw Bumblebee receive multiple mentions and pictorial cameos, until he was brought as a guest teacher in the episode «Bee Prepared», to the excitement of all the recruits, especially Wedge. Friedle had been dropped as Bumblebee’s voice actor for the series due to the series going non-union, having been replaced by Jeremy Levy, who uses an identical voice used for Cyberverse Bumblebee.

Kre-O Transformers[edit]

Bumblebee is an Autobot warrior, and is based on the Generation 1 version of the character.

Non-Fictional biography[edit]

‘Sup? I’m Bumblebee, and I’m just about the coolest KREON character you’ll ever meet. When I’m not punking the other AUTOBOTS, I like to spend my time cruising the freeway at top speed, hunting for the ultimate source of ENERGON.

Hobbies: Pranking PROWL and speeding!

Favorite Hangout: Anywhere there are lots of humans and loud music!

Big Plan: To form a block-rockin’ band. And also learn how to brick-surf.

Animated series[edit]

Kreon Bumblebee appeared in the animated shorts «Last Bot Standing»,^[42] «Bot Stars»,^[43] «My Ride is Better Than Your Ride»,^[44] «The Big Race»,^[45] «A Gift for Megatron»,^[46] «Megatron’s Revenge»,^[47] and «Quest for Energon, Part 1».^[48]

Games[edit]

Kre-O Bumblebee appears in the flash video game Kre-O Transformers Konquest. In this game Kreon Optimus Prime attempts to avoid bombs and collect parts to rebuild Kre-O Ratchet, Mirage, Prowl, and Bumblebee.^[49]

Angry Birds Transformers[edit]

In the tenth installment of the Angry Birds series, Angry Birds Transformers, Bumblebee appears. Here he is portrayed by Chuck (better known as Yellow Bird). Bumblebee/Chuck has four variations, one which is yellow with black stripes based on his pre-Age of Extinction look, one that is based on his Age of Extinction appearance, a similar one with blue highlights, meant to resemble Energon, and one inspired by the Bumblebee film. The first three resemble a Dodge Challenger in vehicle mode, while the fourth resembles a Volkswagen Beetle.

Transformers: Cyberverse[edit]

Bumblebee is one of the main characters of Transformers: Cyberverse as well as the initial protagonist for seasons 1 and 2 before sharing the role with Optimus Prime and Cheetor for season 2 and Hot Rod for season 3’s take on the Quintesson story arc.

See also[edit]

• Lists of Transformers characters
• Sakura Kasugano
• Transformers (sculptures), 10-foot (3 m) tall sculptures of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime in Washington, D.C.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• G1 Bumblebee on the Transformers Wiki

This article is about the character from the Transformers franchise. For the 2018 film, see Bumblebee (film).

Bumblebee is a fictional robot character appearing in the many continuities in the Transformers franchise. The character is a member of the Autobots, a group of sentient self-configuring modular extraterrestrial robotic lifeforms.

In the original toyline and animated series, Bumblebee is a small yellow Chevrolet Camaro. In the live action movies, he has appeared as vehicles inspired by the Chevrolet American muscle cars – with the live-action film versions being a yellow Camaro with black racing stripes. The original vehicle-mode design was based on a classic European Type 1 Volkswagen Beetle.^[1] The character is named after the bumblebee, a black-and-yellow striped insect which inspired his paint scheme. Bumblebee is a fan-favorite character and he appears in most of the series and later becomes the main protagonist in Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Bumblebee, and Transformers: Cyberverse. Bumblebee has also taken the form of a 1977 second generation Camaro, later appearing as fifth generation Camaro in the 2018 film, Bumblebee.

Transformers: Generation 1[edit]

Bumblebee (known as Abejorro in Mexico, Bumble in Japan, Moscardo in Portugal, Űrdongó in Hungary, Maggiolino in Italy) is the «little brother» of the heroic Autobots and a mascot, constantly striving to prove himself in the eyes of the other robots—especially his leader, Optimus Prime. This often causes him to take risks that put him in danger. Portrayed as a smart aleck, he is a capable and reliable messenger and spy, his small size allowing him to go places that his larger commanders cannot. He is highly fuel-efficient, has great visual acuity, is particularly adaptable to undersea environments and transforms into a Saturn yellow Volkswagen Beetle. He was later reconstructed into a stronger, more mature form as Goldbug.

Reception[edit]

At BotCon 2010, Hasbro named Bumblebee as one of the first five robot inductees in the Transformers Hall of Fame.^[2]

Animated series[edit]

The Transformers[edit]

Bumblebee was the second character to appear in the original Transformers animated series, while on a mission to recover a small clutch of energy conductors with Wheeljack. Bumblebee is subsequently among the Transformers aboard the Ark, which crash landed on Earth, causing the Transformers within to be trapped in stasis for 4 million years. Awakening in 1984, Bumblebee helps Ironhide quell a raging river and uses his small size to help the human ally, Sparkplug Witwicky plant explosives in the midst of a Decepticon mining operation.

Bumblebee later befriends Sparkplug’s son, Spike, but on their first adventure together they are both kidnapped by the Decepticons and Bumblebee’s memory chip was altered as he unintentionally lured the other Autobots into a trap. Bumblebee recovered in time to help his fellow Autobots stop the Decepticons from sending Spike to Cybertron. After their first adventure, Bumblebee and Spike became best friends for life as they both realized that they make a good team.

On one of their missions, Bumblebee and Spike were injured from an attack by the Decepticons at a rocket base. Bumblebee was repaired by Ratchet while Spike was being fixed at the hospital, but his mind ended up being transferred into the robot body of Autobot X, created by Sparkplug, so the doctors at the hospital can operate on his real one. When Spike left the base as there was a side effect of the mind transfer, Bumblebee left afterwards to go look for his best friend, but his radio transmitters were not fixed yet. After finding Spike, Bumblebee tries to get his pal to come to his senses but fails when Spike believed that he was tricking him. Bumblebee sees the Decepticons arriving at their location and overhears Megatron telling lies to Spike, then leaving to go get Optimus Prime and the rest of his Autobot friends for help, who were helping with repairs at the rocket base they were battling at before. After arriving at the rocket base, Bumblebee tells Optimus that Megatron is manipulating Spike and that he was believing him. Bumblebee was asked to lead the way of their location by Optimus, who feared that the Decepticons would find out about Spike’s messed up mind and would take advantage of the situation, so they can help their friend. Arriving where Spike was, Bumblebee and Prime try to talk some sense into him. It did not work as they hoped it would, but they were both relieved when he did when Sparkplug was endangered. After the Decepticons left, Bumblebee gave his best friend a high five when he returned to his real body when it got all fixed up.

Bumblebee’s next adventure would occur when he accompanied Spike and Sparkplug with Jazz to test out his new speakers but decided to head to headquarters so they wouldn’t have to deal with his loud music. When Bumblebee returned to the headquarters, he saw nobody but Bluestreak there and that Teletraan One was damaged. He then was dragged to the recharging chamber by Bluestreak, due to Megatron putting a personality destabilizer in their recharging chamber to turn all the Autobots evil. However, Bumblebee was saved when Jazz, Spike and Sparkplug arrived back just in time as Jazz knocked Bluestreak out for a while. After Sparkplug fixed Teletraan One, he, Bumblebee, Jazz and Spike learn about what happened. With Bumblebee and Jazz being the only ones who were not affected from the personality destabilizer, Bumblebee decided to stop his comrades when he hears about Optimus Prime, Brawn and Prowl attacking an Air Force jet base with Spike accompanying him. Once they arrived, Bumblebee tried a few times to get through to Optimus but to no success. Bumblebee was relieved that his friends were free from the Decepticons’ control, after Sparkplug invented Attitude exchanger to counteract the personality destabilizer effects, except for Prime. Bumblebee took the last one, as there was no other ones left, as he wanted to make one final attempted to get Optimus back to his senses. Bumblebee tells Prime that he is not evil, and he believes in him, then encourages him to fight off Megatron’s control also to not give in. Bumblebee quickly put the Attitude exchanger on Optimus, who heard his voice, which freed him from Decepticon control. Bumblebee was given a hug by Prime for not giving up on him and for saving him. After stopping the Decepticons, Bumblebee was thanked again by Optimus Prime, who also thanked everyone for their help, for what he did for him. Bumblebee with Spike gave Ratchet and Sparkplug tools as they needed to fix the Air Force jets the Autobots destroyed while under Megatron’s control.

Bumblebee later befriended a girl named Carly, who admired the Autobots. While testing out one of Wheeljack’s inventions, Bumblebee fought the Decepticons as they wanted to steal it which they succeed in doing. After the battle, Bumblebee and Spike went looking for Carly, who left base to help them as she believed it was her fault that the Decepticons got the invention because of her due to being there when they were testing it. Bumblebee and Spike found Carly with Ironhide, who was the one who rescued her from the Decepticons, then left but they didn’t get very far when they saw that their friend wasn’t behind them. Transforming back into robot mode, Bumblebee wondering what was going on then saw that Ironhide was immobilized. After the rest of the Autobots showed up, Bumblebee, along with Spike and Carly hid, and all agreed that they had to do something. Bumblebee signaled Jazz to do his sound and light show which distracted the Decepticons so Carly can reverse the process of Wheeljack’s invention. After the battle is won, Bumblebee encourages Spike to ask Carly out knowing that they have feelings for each other.

By 2005, the Decepticons had conquered Cybertron, forcing Bumblebee and Spike to operate on Moonbase Two, one of Cybertron’s moons. When the planet-eating Transformer Unicron began devouring the moons, Bumblebee and Spike set their moon to self-destruct and attempted to escape in their shuttle, but to no avail. Spike’s son Daniel later rescues Bumblebee, Spike, Jazz and Cliffjumper from being cast into a smelting pit inside Unicron’s digestive system. Bumblebee and the others then escape before Unicron explodes due to the power of Matrix of Leadership.

When the body of the deceased Optimus Prime is recovered from space by a pair of Transformer-hating human scientists who intend to use it to lure the Autobots into a trap, Bumblebee is part of the rescue team led by Rodimus Prime to recover it. Entering the lab, some of the Transformers are exposed to rage-inducing alien spores that could infect them with the Hate Plague, which causes them to run wild. Although Bumblebee avoids infection, he is seriously damaged by the infected rampaging Superion. A member of the alien race called the Quintessons subsequently repair and restore Optimus Prime to life, so he can stop the Hate Plague and repair Bumblebee. The little Autobot was so severely damaged that he required an entire reconstruction and is rebuilt as a Throttlebot. In his new, shiny body, he comments that he has gone beyond just being plain old Bumblebee, and is now a «gold bug», prompting Optimus Prime to redub him Goldbug. Goldbug travels with Optimus Prime to the Decepticon planet of Chaar in order to secure a heat-resistant alloy that can protect him from the plague, only to be infected on the mission and later cured when Prime uses the power of the Matrix of Leadership to purge the plague. Because of an animation error, Bumblebee appears in a wide shot in a celebration with Goldbug where he was seen jumping and cheering during the series’ final episode.

Bumblebee and Optimus Prime are the only Autobots to appear all of the seasons, especially the first and final episode of the cartoon. Bumblebee appears in the final episode as an animation error, but it counts that he is a major character who appeared. Bumblebee reappears in Generation 2: Redux, a Botcon magazine which is set after the events of the final episode as Goldbug battling the Decepticons in Switzerland along with Jazz, Sideswipe, Beachcomber and Seaspray and became Bumblebee once again in his G2 color by the power of Forestonite.

Transformers: The Headmasters[edit]

In Transformers: The Headmasters, Goldbug and the other Throttlebots were on Cybertron when Vector Sigma began to destabilize as a consequence of Optimus Prime releasing the Matrix’s energy to cure the Hate Plague the previous year. The Decepticons soon invaded the planet in an attempt to take control of the computer, and Goldbug and the Throttlebots joined Dinobots Grimlock and Slag in holding the line against them. Unfortunately, they were knocked unconscious by the hypnotic power of the new Decepticon Headmaster Mindwipe, but they had managed to delay the Decepticons long enough for the Autobot Headmasters to arrive and take up the fight.

The Throttlebots disappeared after this encounter, suggesting they might have been destroyed, but they eventually resurfaced months later as the Decepticons were carrying out their final plan to destroy the Earth. Goldbug and the Throttlebots teamed up with Fastlane and Cloudraker to investigate the emergence of a «Death Tower» in Santiago, Chile, only to find Predaking there waiting for them. Naturally, the small ‘bots were no match for the powerful combiner, but they fought bravely, clinging onto his limbs before being hurled aside. Luckily, the Autobot Targetmasters arrived in time to bail them out and take Predaking down. This is also because of the budget cut that happened in the middle of the movie.

Books[edit]

Ballantine Books[edit]

Bumblebee was featured in the 1985 Find Your Fate Junior books Dinobots Strike Back by Casey Todd and Battle Drive by Barbara Siegel and Scott Siegel.

Kid Stuff Records & Tapes[edit]

Bumblebee was featured in the 1985 audio and book adventure Satellite of Doom publishing by Kid Stuff Records & Tapes.

Modern Publishing[edit]

Bumblebee was featured in the 1993 Transformers: Generation 2 coloring book Decepticon Madness by Bud Simpson.^[3]

Comics[edit]

Bumblebee has appeared in numerous comic books and related media printed by various publishers.

3H Enterprises[edit]

Bumblebee appeared in the voice actor play performed at BotCon 2004, in which a device built by Rhinox to stop Unicron from pulling victims from other dimensions inadvertently transports an Autobot shuttle under Bumblebee’s command into the middle of a battle between Rattrap, Silverbolt, and Waspinator and a team of Unicron’s agents. Bumblebee’s shuttle is able to scoop up Rattrap and company when their ship is destroyed. After saving more of Unicron’s victims from the Decepticons, Bumblebee’s team returns to their own time.

Condor Verlag[edit]

In a story called «By their Blasters you shall know them …!» from Transformers Comic-Magazin issue #12 by German comic publisher Condor Verlag Optimus Prime instructs Backstreet, Bumblebee and Ruckus on how to identify Autobots from Decepticons in battle using the Ark’s computer. Pretender Bumblebee is one of those he displays to the Autobots.^[4]

Devil’s Due Publishing[edit]

In Devil’s Due’s first G.I. Joe vs. The Transformers crossover, the evil terrorist organization Cobra are the first to uncover the Ark and the Transformers slumbering within it, capturing and reformatting a large number of them to use them as war machines. Bumblebee and Wheeljack are able to avoid this fate, contact the team created to respond to the threat of Cobra, G.I. Joe, and help to free their fellow Autobots. Unlike most Autobots, who had new alternate modes, Bumblebee and Wheeljack had their original Generation 1 alternate modes in this series.

In the second crossover, Bumblebee is among the Autobots sent back in time due to an accident with the spacebridge computer Teletran-3. As part of a small group transported to the 1970s, Bumblebee is reformatted as a small economy car (this time, resembling an AMC Pacer) before the teamed-up Joes and Cobras return all the Transformers to present-day Cybertron.

Bumblebee takes center stage in the third crossover series, as he, Grimlock, Arcee, and Perceptor are sent to Earth to aid G.I. Joe in removing the influence of Cybertronian technology on the planet. Sporting his original alternate mode again, he is shown to have something of a crush on Arcee. When Cobra attacks the base, the Autobots help repel the Cobra Battle Android Trooper armies. Journeying to Cybertron to stop Serpentor, the mismatched group is ambushed first by Cannibalizers, then by Serpentor, Piranacon, Predaking and the Stunticons, with Bumblebee being badly injured as he runs right into Predaking’s leg. He is then executed by Serpentor, who would later comment that Bumblebee’s death is the only thing that ever really made him feel emotion. Despite the character being notoriously difficult to kill, it seems his death is permanent, as Serpentor comments that he felt something leave him, most likely his spark. A statue to his memory was seen in the final issue. His death would continue to have repercussions, as seen in the fourth series, in which Prime insists on journeying to Earth personally rather than expose any of his troops to the same fate.

Dreamwave Productions[edit]

When Dreamwave Productions introduced their re-imagined version of Generation 1 continuity for the 21st Century, Bumblebee was present for the Autobots’ new adventures once again. The War Within, set in Cybertron’s past, chronicled Bumblebee’s early adventures in the Battle of Altihex and the defense of Iacon in the face of an attack by Shockwave.

When Optimus Prime and Megatron vanish in an early spacebridge experiment, causing the Autobots and Decepticons to splinter into smaller factions, Bumblebee remains with the Autobots under Prowl’s command.

As usual, Bumblebee is among the Transformers trapped in stasis aboard the crashed Ark who are reactivated on Earth in 1984. Although not depicted in fiction, the general events of the television series pilot seemed to take place in the Dreamwave continuity — with Bumblebee meeting and befriending Spike Witwicky.

Fun Publications[edit]

Classic Bumblebee was featured on the cover of Transformers Club Magazine #14.

In a possible future chronicled in the exclusive comic book available at BotCon 2005, Bumblebee featured as the espionage director of the Autobots. Having been on the trail of the Decepticon agent Flamewar for a long time, Bumblebee interrupts a communication between Flamewar and the Tripredacus Council and reveals that his agent, Ricochet, has installed a degenerative virus into Deathsaurus’s clone army. With Flamewar now exposed, Bumblebee points out that she was nothing more than a liability to the council, who blow her ship up.

Based on the Transformers Classics toy line, the Timelines 2007 story is set 15 years after the end of the Marvel Comics story (ignoring all events of the Marvel UK and Generation 2 comics). Megatron has survived the crash of the Ark on Earth, reformatted himself into a new form, and now leads Ramjet, Skywarp, Soundwave, Starscream, and the Constructicons. Optimus Prime has also returned to Earth commanding Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Grimlock, Jetfire, Mirage, and Rodimus (formerly Hot Rod).

In Crossing Over, when the Cybertronians Skyfall and Landquake arrive on Earth unexpectedly Megatron attempts to destroy them, but Optimus Prime and his Autobots are able to drive Megatron away.

Bumblebee appears in the story Generation 2: Redux in which he is among the reinforcements from Autobot City to respond to the Decepticon attack at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Once there, the Autobots are able to defeat the Decepticons, but during the fight the Autobots are exposed to refined Forestonite, which enhances and mutates Cybertronian systems. He gets enhanced to his Generation 2 form.^[5]

IDW Publishing[edit]

Fall of 2005 was the third re-launch for the Transformers comic series, this time under the management of IDW Publishing.

IDW’s core universe was introduced with the six-issue mini-series, The Transformers: Infiltration, making it clear that the company’s take on the Generation 1 universe was radically different. Bumblebee appears as a member of a small team of Autobots under the command of Prowl, operating in secret on Earth out of Ark-19. Still a Volkswagen Beetle, he (like the other Autobots) possesses the added ability to generate a «holo-matter» avatar of a young female to masquerade as a driver and to otherwise interact with humans. Working with Ratchet and a trio of young humans to search an abandoned Decepticon base, Bumblebee is able to take down Skywarp during a Decepticon attack, out-thinking the Decepticon and shooting him out of the sky despite his teleportation system. After Blitzwing and Skywarp bring the base down, Bumblebee helps save the humans, despite commenting previously that they would be acceptable losses. As Megatron then engages the traitorous Starscream in battle, Bumblebee does what he does best by spying on the fight; almost shot by the Battlechargers, he is saved by Prowl and Jazz. In the follow-up, The Transformers: Escalation, he is left to run the Ark-19 on his own.

Bumblebee was among the Autobots who opposed the Decepticons serving the elder gods in the IDW Publishing Infestation 2: Transformers comic.^[6]

TFcon comics[edit]

Bumblebee, voiced by Dan Gilvezan, appeared in the TFcon 2009 voice actor play Bee for, Bee now.^[7]

Bumblebee appears among the characters in Re-Unification, the 2010 TFCon voice actor play prelude comic.^[8]

Games[edit]

Bumblebee was one of eight playable characters in the 1986 Commodore 64 video game Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth.

The Classic toy line appeared in a simple Flash-based video game on the Hasbro web site called Transformers Battle Circuit. In this one-on-one fighting game, players press the right and left arrow keys to try to overpower their opponent. Playable characters include Rodimus, Bumblebee, Grimlock, Jetfire, Starscream, Astrotrain, Trypticon, and Menasor. Optimus Prime and Megatron each appear as the boss the player must defeat to win the game.^[9]

Bumblebee appears in the 2003 video game Transformers, voiced by Jack Merluzzi.^[10]

Bumblebee is one of the light-blue robots in the 2010 card game Monopoly Deal Transformers.

Other merchandise[edit]

Popular Bumblebee-specific merchandise includes shirts and costumes based on the character.^[11]

Other media[edit]

A parody of the Generation 1 Transformers was aired in the December 23, 2008, episode of Frank TV, called «Frank the Halls». In the story, Optimus Prime and his Autobots (Bumblebee, Jazz, and Wheeljack) battle Megatron and his Decepticons (Soundwave and Starscream) when Optimus runs out of gas. Optimus becomes enraged at the price of gas, steals the fuel from the annoying hybrid Autobot Prius Maximus, then joins the Decepticons in destroying the city.^[12]

Bumblebee appears in the Robot Chicken episode «Junk in the Trunk». In the segment he is in, he is whipped by a towel used by Grimlock in the locker room and later appears at Optimus’s bedside before he dies of prostate cancer.

Maggie Simpson appeared as Bumblebee in one episode’s opening sequence to The Simpsons alongside the rest of the Simpson family rendered as Autobots.

Transformers: Generation 2[edit]

Bumblebee is a clone of the original Bumblebee.

Fun Publications[edit]

In «Flash Forward, Part 3», Jhiaxus, seeking to create a new unified faction of Transformers, «borrowed» personality components, forestonite, Hi-Q, and blueprints from Quantum Laboratories. One of these Transformers was a clone of Bumblebee. Bumblebee, along with the other clones, were introduced to Pyro as a second generation of Transformers. In «Flash Forward, Part 5», Bumblebee and Mirage greeted a clone of Sideswipe, unaware the clone was actually the original Sideswipe. In A Flash Forward, Part 6, Bumblebee, Mirage, and Ironhide confronted the escaping Autobots, but Pyro convinced them to return to Earth with him.

Toys[edit]

• Generation 2 Go-Bot Bumblebee (1995)

A redeco of Go-Bot High Beam, transforming into a yellow sports car. He features through-axle construction for incredibly fast zipping on flat, smooth surfaces, and is compatible with many tracks and playsets from Hot Wheels and Matchbox. This figure was later repurposed as the second-generation Bumblebee. This mold was also used to make Robots in Disguise (2001) Crosswise and Nightracer.

Transformers: Armada[edit]

Bumblebee is the Japanese name of Perceptor in Transformers: Armada. The Mini-Con Sparkplug was also based on the original Bumblebee, while Hot Shot was in fact going to be named Bumblebee but had his name changed due to trademark reasons.

Toys[edit]

• Super Collection Figure Bumble (2003)

A PVC figurine was made for Perceptor/Bumble, part of the tenth act of Super Collection Figures made by Takara. There are two versions: one in cartoon colors and one in a silver color scheme.

Transformers: Energon[edit]

Bumblebee is a member of Rodimus’s crew from Transformers: Energon. He appears only in a flashback and looks exactly like his Generation 1 counterpart. Bumblebee was originally supposed to be one of the main characters of the «Unicron Trilogy» but was replaced by Hot Shot.

Animated Series[edit]

Led by Rodimus, the crew left Cybertron 8,000 years ago and created a new home world on the planet Omnitron.

Transformers (film series)[edit]

Bumblebee appears as one of the main Autobot characters in the live-action Transformers film series and the protagonist of his own film Bumblebee. He retains some elements from his Generation 1 design, such as the horn-like pieces in his head, which are articulated in the films. Bumblebee was given a different alternate mode from his original G1 incarnation; instead of a Volkswagen Beetle, he transforms into a rally yellow^[15] Chevrolet Camaro (the model year of which is upgraded in the first film). Director Michael Bay states in the special features of disc two of the first film’s DVD release, that the change of Bumblebee’s alternate mode was due to the fact that a Volkswagen Beetle reminded him of Herbie. Due to a battle injury, he is rendered effectively mute, and communicates through use of selected playback of radio and television signals. Though his original voice is restored at the end of the first Transformers film, he communicates solely through his radio in Revenge of the Fallen, Dark of the Moon and Age of Extinction. The biography for the Decepticon Hardtop figure states that he and Bumblebee are old rivals, and it was not Megatron who damaged Bumblebee’s vocal processor, but a shot from Hardtop’s gun. This is in almost direct opposition of the film’s prequel.

Bumblebee is voiced by Mark Ryan in the films, but he mostly speaks with the radio, having had his voice processor damaged (through his actual voice squeaks and whines laboriously throughout the film series). He also speaks the quotes from various television shows and movies, in a way similar to Wreck-Gar from the 1986 film and the season three of the G1 cartoon series. Screenwriter Roberto Orci explained that he regained his voice through the regenerative laser that Ratchet fires at his neck as they meet, and it eventually works by the end of the film, in which he agreed that this was not made clear.^[16] Another possibility could be that his voice is healed by AllSpark, but was not mentioned in the film. The producers said that they made him as mute, to show that his bond with Sam went beyond words.

Bay stated in an early interview that Bumblebee stands about 17.5 feet tall (5.33 m),^[17] but the official guide to the Transformers video game says he is 16 feet tall (4.88 m).

The vehicles used for Bumblebee, Ironhide, Jazz and Ratchet were put on display by General Motors at the 2007 Detroit River Walk Festival a little over a week before the U.S. release of the film.^[18]

In Hot Rod magazine’s Nov. 2006 issue, Bumblebee was a feature article. Originally a worn-out 1969 Camaro, producers settled on a 1977 model.^[19] It is painted yellow with black stripes, primer and rust patches, riveted hood scoop, Cragar SS wheels up front, Eric Vaughn Real Wheels in the back, marine-grade vinyl seats, and even an eight-track player. The Camaro Concept model was built using a 2005 Holden Monaro by Saleen, with the body built from the same GM R&D molds that were used in the original 2006 Camaro Concept (the Monaro and Camaro share the same Zeta platform). Bumblebee is armed with a plasma cannon that is capable of selective fire. The 1977 Camaro movie vehicle was sold on eBay with a winning bid of U.S. $40,100.01.

As a tribute to the original form of Bumblebee, a yellow Volkswagen Beetle appears next to him at the car dealership. Bumblebee damages the Beetle in order to ensure that Sam purchases him. He also has a bee-shaped air freshener attached to his rear-view mirror with the words «Bee-otch». The air freshener was the subject of a lawsuit for $850,000 due to its alleged resemblance to another design.^[20]

Since his conversion from 1977 Camaro to 2006 Camaro Concept, Bumblebee’s alternate mode continues to evolve throughout the film series.

Transformers (2007)[edit]

In Transformers, Bumblebee appears as a dilapidated 1977 Chevrolet Camaro who is appointed as guardian for Sam Witwicky because he owns the glasses of his great-grandfather and explorer, Archibald Witwicky, containing the coordinates showing the location of the AllSpark. After Sam and his father buy it, he comes to their house, only to drive away from them to summon other Autobots. After Sam sees a police car transform into Decepticon Barricade, Bumblebee rescues him and his love crush, Mikaela Banes. After fighting with Barricade and Frenzy, he soon transforms into a 2006 Camaro concept. He soon meets the Autobots and their leader Optimus Prime, revealing their history and Bumblebee having the damaged voice. They retrieve the glasses, but are soon captured by a secret government organization Sector 7. After going to Hoover Dam, the secret Sector 7 base, Bumblebee is released and participates in the battle against Decepticons and their leader, Megatron. Following the battle, he stays with Sam and Mikaela as a guardian and friend and also having apparently repaired his voice (although he still uses the radio in the sequels, suggesting that his voice was not repaired fully).

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)[edit]

In Revenge of the Fallen, he sports a different set of alloy wheels (in the first two films they are actually hubcaps made from composite to look like a set of wheel-disc brakes^[21]) and a custom front bumper. It also comes with a unique Chevrolet logo design with red outlines in it, and redesigned foglights.

In the film, he is still a guardian to Sam Witwicky, but the latter says to him that Sam doesn’t want protection and that he wants his own life and future. After the Decepticons lead by The Fallen put Sam in danger, Bumblebee is forced to rescue him. The revived Megatron and his comrades kill Optimus Prime; he, his comrade Autobots and human allies are trying to find a way to stop The Fallen. They soon discover the existence of Jetfire (a former Decepticon), who reveals the Matrix of Leadership, hidden in Egypt, as a key to revive Optimus Prime. After finding it, they rendezvous with other Autobots and the American NEST army to revive Optimus Prime. During the battle he kills Ravage. Optimus Prime is revived, then fights and kills The Fallen.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)[edit]

For Dark of the Moon (now a Camaro SS), his color changes from yellow to amber with thicker black stripes that run across his hood, roof and trunk. In addition, he has dark-colored rims and side mirrors, as well as a rear spoiler. Also in the film, he has a stealth battle mode in which he can use his weapons in car mode without fully transforming and still being able to seat a driver and passengers.^[22]

In the film, Bumblebee no longer lives with Sam, and goes on the missions with the Autobots and human allies to find other Decepticons around the world. Bumblebee once again reunites with Sam after the latter comes with Carly and two Autobots, Wheelie and Brains, to the army base. When Sentinel Prime betrays the Autobots, he goes to battle against the Decepticons. This battle is stopped when Sentinel Prime (in alliance with Megatron) declares an ultimatum to the American government to banish the Autobots from Earth in exchange for peace. Apparently banished and killed by the Decepticons, the Autobots emerge alive and participate in the battle in Chicago, destroying the space bridge to bring Cybertron to Earth and killing Sentinel and Megatron.

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)[edit]

In Age of Extinction, he transforms into a modified 1967 Chevrolet Camaro to avoid being hunted down by the mercenaries of Cemetery Wind. This design sports just a yellow front bumper and a rear spoiler and this vehicle is looking similar to the Dodge Hellcat.

As the Autobots storm the headquarters of KSI he scans a 2014 Camaro concept with an all-new look, with some major changes, now including a new front look with some advanced lamps including a dove black front bumper, black-long sideskirts, and new black rims. This time, there is only one stripe on the hood and a back license plate that says «900 STRA».

Five years after the battle in Chicago, Bumblebee and his surviving comrades are hiding in secrecy following the hunt by Cemetery Wind (a CIA rogue unit) and former Decepticon and bounty hunter Lockdown. He mostly doesn’t speak in the film, relies on radio communication, but is hinted that his voice box is healing. Following the battle in Hong Kong, he assumes the leadership after Optimus Prime leaves in space to search the mysterious Creators.

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)[edit]

In The Last Knight, he leads Autobots and displays the ability to separate and reassemble himself during the combat, as shown in fight against TRF soldiers to protect Cade Yeager. When Bumblebee comes in London, England, he is revealed by Sir Edmund Burton that he helped the United States Army Air Force to fight against the Nazis in World War II and transformed into a Mercedes-Benz 770, although Bumblebee doesn’t remember this event and his service, and it was retconned in his own movie. When Optimus Prime is brainwashed by Quintessa, Optimus fights on the ship with Bumblebee, the latter regaining his voice, enabling Optimus to remember him and his allies. Bumblebee participates in the final battle on Stonehenge to prevent Quintessa’s plans to bring Cybertron on Earth, in addition to kill Unicron on that planet as well. He and Optimus kill Quintessa, although she is revealed to be alive at the end of the film.

Bumblebee (2018)[edit]

Bumblebee is the main protagonist of the spin-off film of the same name. Designated as B-127, he first appears in Cybertron with comrades, including Optimus Prime. B-127 is forced to retreat and travel to Earth by Prime’s order after Decepticon battalion overwhelms them. Upon crash-landing on Earth in the forest, he is intercepted and hunted by Sector Seven forces, led by Jack Burns. Decepticon Seeker Blitzwing, arrives and captures B-127, demanding the location of his comrades. B-127 refuses and Blitzwing rips his voice synthesizer. Before he is executed, the B-127 jams Blitzwing’s own missile and directs in his chest, killing him. With his memory cells severely damaged, B-127 scans a yellow Volkswagen Beetle before entering stasis.

Teenage girl Charlie Watson finds B-127 in junkyard, and attempting to repair the vehicle unknowingly activates homing signal. Initially scared when discovering the car as an alien robot, they soon develop a friendship. She calls him Bumblebee having found a hive while cleaning him up. Two Decepticons, Shatter and Dropkick, already nearby on a moon of Saturn track it to Earth.

Working with Sector Seven, Shatter and Dropkick discover and capture Bumblebee. Tortured for information about his comrades, they discover a message from Optimus Prime about retreating from Cybertron and going to Earth with other Autobots. They in turn send the message to Decepticons to enable the invasion on Earth. After leaving him for dead, Charlie uses Sector Seven’s high voltage guns to revive him, restoring his memories. Trying to escape the Sector Seven forces as well, Bumblebee finally confronts and kills the two Decepticons and destroys the communication tower to prevent the message sent for other Decepticons and their invasion. Having saved Jack Burns from the Deceptions he stops chasing Bumblebee. After the battle, Bumblebee and Charlie say goodbye. Before driving off, he scans and transforms into a 1977 Camaro, and drive-off alongside the disguised Optimus Prime, to find more Autobots.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)[edit]

Bumblebee will return as one of the main protagonists in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, which is set in 1994 and a sequel to Bumblebee.

Miscellaneous[edit]

Transformers: Cyber Missions[edit]

Transformers: Cyber Missions is a CGI animated series created to supplement live-action series. In the series, Episode 1, Bumblebee and Ironhide are protecting NEST Command when two Decepticons, Soundwave and Bludgeon invade the area. Ironhide goes outside to deal with Bludgeon, while Soundwave ambushes Bumblebee from inside and is easily thrown down by him. He tries to fire a shot from his shoulder gun, but Soundwave redirects the acoustic energy back at him. Bumblebee deduces that he cannot deflect several rounds at once and begins rapidly firing, defeating him. Later in Episode 2, Bumblebee traps Soundwave in a magnetically sealed bubble.

Reception[edit]

Entertainment Weekly named Bumblebee as their seventh-favorite computer-generated character.^[23]

IDW Publishing[edit]

In Transformers: Defiance #1, back on ancient Cybertron, Bumblebee, and Cliffjumper are tasked to watch over the AllSpark at the temple at Simfur. In issue #3, Megatron learns that Optimus has broken into his room and sends Bumblebee, Camshaft, Cliffjumper, Jazz, Prowl, and Smokescreen to arrest Optimus Prime for treason. Optimus demands to speak directly to Megatron, but while en route to Megatron’s location, they are ambushed by Barricade, Brawl, Crankcase, Frenzy, Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker, under orders to kill them all. Smokescreen is able to cover Optimus and his group’s retreat in the confusion of an explosion. In issue #4, Arcee, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Jazz, and Smokescreen ambush Ironhide, who they believed works for Megatron, but Ironhide instead joins Optimus Prime’s Autobots. Arcee and Bumblebee later spy on the building of the Decepticon starship Nemesis.

The Transformers: Movie Prequel reveals that in the battle of Tyger Pax, Megatron’s forces attack, searching for the All Spark. Bumblebee’s squad (which includes Arcee) attempts to hold off the Decepticons, but are eventually overwhelmed. They are captured and tortured by Swindle, with Megatron intervening personally to torture Bumblebee for information. However, they refuse to speak long enough for Prime’s secret plan to take effect—launching the AllSpark into outer space. Megatron attempts to pursue it, but Bumblebee stops him. An enraged Megatron rips Bumblebee’s arms off and crushes his voice capacitor, promising to seize the AllSpark for himself eventually. Bumblebee recovers and is repaired, although his voice is damaged beyond repair. Bumblebee then volunteers to head into space to stop Megatron from acquiring the All Spark.

Eventually arriving on Mars in his protoform mode, Bumblebee then proceeds to Earth in 2003, his arrival tracked by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Upon landing in New York City, Bumblebee assumes the form of a beat-up Chevrolet Camaro, all the while avoiding the agents of the government organization known as Sector 7, who refer to him as NBE-2 (or Non-Biological Extraterrestrial 2). Bumblebee then downloads information on Captain Archibald Witwicky. Arriving at the asylum where he had once been incarcerated, he finds it now a dilapidated ruin. Damaged by a pursuing Barricade, he then finds AllSpark-like emissions somewhere in New Mexico—unaware it is a trap set by Sector 7. However, their plan to capture him is thwarted when Starscream, Barricade and Blackout arrive. As the Decepticons shoot Sector 7’s trap to pieces, Bumblebee escapes—unaware the Decepticons had let him go so that they could follow him and see what he knew about the All Spark. He is last seen in the series heading for Tranquility, Nevada—home of Captain Witwicky’s descendant Sam.

In the comic adaptation of the film, Bumblebee downloads information on the internet about the Concept Camaro car and took on its form instead of driving past in a tunnel, as seen in the film.

He also appears in the official movie sequel comic called The Reign of Starscream.^[24]

In Transformers: Alliance, the Autobots aid the human soldiers after the battle in Mission City, destroying the All Spark-powered machines that were created. After Ratchet finishes repairing Bumblebee’s legs, a trailer is obtained for Optimus Prime to carry the remains of Jazz. The Autobots then leave Mission City before the Sector 7 personnel arrive to claim the remains of the Decepticons. About a month later, Epps and Lennox contact Optimus Prime, Ratchet and Ironhide about aiding them in escorting the remains of the Decepticons to the naval yard. Unknowingly they are spied on by Barricade, who transmits the information to Starscream.

Bumblebee appears in Transformers: Tales of the Fallen #1, where Barricade kidnaps Sam in order to flush out Bumblebee and learn where the AllSpark fragment is. Bumblebee saves Sam and fights Barricade, who escapes in the process.

Bumblebee appears in Transformers: Nefarious #1, set months after the events of the 2009 film. Bumblebee, Breakaway, Jolt, Knock Out and Dune Runner are sent to investigate spark fragments detected at Kingdom Petrochemicals. Arriving first, Breakaway is warned by Soundwave to leave, but unwilling to give in, the Autobot is swiftly defeated. Bumblebee and his team fire on Soundwave, who escapes.

The drone calling itself Brains runs into Bumblebee and Sam Witwicky in Philadelphia.^[25]

Titan Magazines[edit]

Note: Events occurring in the alternate universe where Megatron won the battle of Mission City are in italics.

In «Twilight’s Last Gleaming Part 3», Bumblebee attempts to take on Megatron in the Sector 7 base. Meanwhile, Mikaela attempts to free Optimus Prime, but she is attacked by Frenzy.

Bumblebee appears in issue #17 of the Titan Transformers Magazine, in a story called «Return to Cybertron Part 1». In this story, he is among the Autobots that go to Cybertron.

Bumblebee returns in issue #22 of the Titan Transformers Magazine series in a story called «The Decepticon who Haunted Himself.»

Books[edit]

Bumblebee also appears in the prequel novel Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday. Here, it is revealed he could still communicate with the other Autobots via digital link. Bumblebee is part of Prime’s Autobot team searching for the All Spark, and is described as one of the Autobots’ best scouts. He is sent after the human vessel Ghost-1 (reverse-engineered from studies of Megatron) to make contact, but is ambushed and forced underground by Starscream. Encountering giant rock-chewing worms, he is saved by Optimus Prime. Heading into the atmosphere once again, he and Ratchet took on Barricade, but are unable to stop Starscream from destroying the human vessel.

Target Robo-Vision[edit]

According to his extended biography from the Target store-exclusive Robo-Vision web site, Hardtop came to Earth and discovered the Witwicky home before any of the other Decepticons, but was unable to attack the Witwickys because Bumblebee found him first and buried him under a hundred tons of rubble in the Rocky Mountains.

Video games[edit]

Bumblebee is a playable character, and is the most-used character in the Autobot campaign, where the character uses Bumblebee in nine missions in the Autobot campaign, out of the total 18. He is playable in both the old and new Camaro cars. Bumblebee also appears as a boss in the Decepticon campaign, with a radial blast attack.

Bumblebee is among the playable characters in the 2009 Revenge of the Fallen video game by Activision.^[26]

The film version of Bumblebee is playable in Hasbro’s Net Jet Transformers fighting game Transformers Battle Universe. Although other playable Transformers in the game have several incarnations featured, no other versions of Bumblebee are playable.

Bumblebee is among the characters who appear in the TRANSFORMERS CYBERVERSE Battle Builder Game.^[27]

Other media[edit]

Bumblebee is one of the Autobots featured in Transformers: The Ride 3D at Universal Studios theme parks. In the ride, Bumblebee disembodies Ravage while Evac escapes from the Decepticon attack on N.E.S.T. headquarters. Towards the end of the ride, Bumblebee saves Evac from falling off a building after Evac kills Megatron with the AllSpark shard.

Bumblebee appears in the episode of Robot Chicken called «Tell My Mom», voiced by Seth Green. Sam Witwicky finds Bumblebee in Bobby Bolivia’s used car lot and they go on an adventure, while Scooter is the only thing cheap in the lot. Bumblebee is portrayed as a fifth-generation Camaro.

During the final battle of the 2017 Power Rangers film, the Red Ranger, while piloting his T-Rex Zord, accidentally steps on a yellow Camaro of a similar model as the live-action Bumblebee. He throws the car at an army of Putties and shouts, «Sorry, Bumblebee!» as the car makes impact.

Transformers Animated[edit]

Bumblebee appears in the Transformers Animated series in 2008 as a yellow hot hatch undercover police car (scanned from a vehicle driven by Detroit Police Captain Fanzone). The character of Bumblebee in Animated is described as a hot-headed racing young Autobot who likes video games, making him more akin to Armada Hot Shot than the original Bumblebee. He does however retain the traditional warm-heartedness and human-friendly attitude of the original due to his friendship with Sari Sumdac and Bulkhead. Although considered childish and self-centered by many of his fellow Autobots, Bumblebee shows a loyal and caring side for his friends, and can be considered protective of Sari Sumdac, to the extent of blocking shots, blasts, and missiles from harming her. This was first shown in «Transform and Roll Out! Part 3» when he deflected a shot from Starscream that was aimed at Sari. The blast rendered him unconscious until Sari healed him with her Key. He is the kid-friendly character of the show.^[28]

Bumblebee has a retractable face plate he uses when he goes into combat and a retractable weapon (called «energy stingers») in both hands. He can use the wheels on his feet in robot mode as motorized roller blades.

Animated series[edit]

In the episode «Autoboot Camp», Bumblebee has flashbacks to his days as an Autobot trainee. During training, he met Bulkhead, Longarm, Ironhide, and Wasp. The group was under the command of Drill Sergeant Sentinel Minor, who gave Bumblebee his name (after calling him a «bumbler»). Bumblebee would often say or do the wrong thing, resulting in the entire platoon receiving Transformation push-ups as a result, which made him unpopular with Wasp and Ironhide. One day, Bumblebee heard someone communicating with Megatron. Believing the traitor to be Wasp, Bumblebee (with help from Longarm) discovered evidence in Wasp’s locker. For discovering the traitor, Sentinel was prepared to give Bumblebee Elite Guard membership. However, Bumblebee gave up that chance by taking the rap for Bulkhead, who had previously knocked a building onto Sentinel, and was about to be removed from training, joining his new friend as a Space Bridge technician. Bulkhead and Bumblebee were assigned to a Space Bridge repair ship under the command of Optimus Prime, along with Ratchet. Both he and Bulkhead were the first to encounter Prowl before he joins their group.

In the series finale, during a rescue mission to save Arcee, who was on the moon, Bumblebee manages to settle the score with Shockwave before he and Bulkhead put him under arrest. After the Autobots learn of Prowl’s ultimate sacrifice, they take the sparkless body of Prowl and the captured Megatron, Lugnut, and Shockwave to Cybertron. On their arrival home, they are greeted and cheered on by the other Autobots for their victory over the evil and malevolent leader of the Decepticons.

Fun Publications[edit]

Bumblebee appeared in the 2008 BotCon voice actor play Bee in the City, voiced by Bumper Robinson. In this story Professor Sumdac attempted to create a teleportation system to get the Autobots to Cybertron, but an interaction with Sari’s key ended up transporting Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Sari to Transtech Cybertron, where they met Flareup and his friends were detained by Shockwave while he was deemed not a threat. Bumblebee teamed up with transformer named «Joe» to help him and Flareup get their friends. But after Joe exposed himself as a Megatron and uses Sari’s key to create an army to begin a reign of terror, Bumblebee pointed out the world’s bureaucratic nature that resulted in a mutiny. Afterwards the Autobots and Sari returned to their own dimension.

IDW Publishing[edit]

Set shortly after the events of «Total Meltdown» is the Transformers: Animated comic issue #2 by IDW Publishing. In it, Bumblebee and Prowl apprehend the Angry Archer as the villain attempts to steal money from a used car salesman. In doing so, they reveal the holographic trickery of the Detroit superhero known as The Wraith. With the secret of his power revealed, The Wraith loses much of the respect he used to command in Detroit. The Wraith attempts to stop Cyrus «The Colossus» Rhodes from escaping prison, but is unable to fool the villain now that the secret is public, forcing the Autobots to stop Rhodes and making The Wraith look foolish. The Wraith then attempts to discredit Bumblebee at a college football game by trapping the Autobot with a car boot and using his holograms to make a fake Bumblebee attack the stadium. Bumblebee eventually escapes and the other Autobots help capture The Wraith before having him placed in a mental institution.

Games[edit]

Bumblebee is one of the five playable characters in the 2008 Transformers Animated video game for the Nintendo DS.^[29][30]

Transformers: Timelines (Shattered Glass)[edit]

In the Transformers: Timelines series, Goldbug is an evil alternate reality version of Bumblebee.^[31]

According to his official biography, Goldbug was once a young drifter known as Bumblebee. He survived on the streets of Polyhex with no real purpose. He became skilled at sneaking around, stealing, eavesdropping and blackmailing. He eagerly joined the Autobots in hopes of finding a place to belong and where his unsavory activities would be tolerated. When the war began, Bumblebee showed extreme bravery in battle and often sought ways to be noticed by command. In time, he worked his way up the ranks of the Autobots and when the Autobot Seeker Drench was destroyed, Bumblebee was offered an upgraded form and a new identity as Goldbug, to take his place.

Goldbug is paranoid that one of his fellow Autobots will betray him and try to take his place, as he did to his former superiors.

Reception[edit]

The Botcon 2008 set was chosen as the «Action Figure Digest Hot Pick.»^[32]

Fun Publications[edit]

Goldbug appears in the 2008 April Fool’s comic Shattered Expectations by Fun Publications.

Goldbug appears as a member of Optimus Prime’s forces in the Transformers: Timelines story «Shattered Glass.» Goldbug and Blurr report to Optimus Prime the rumors that Megatron is planning an attack. When the Decepticons attack the Ark launch site Blurr, Goldbug and Rodimus compete for who could destroy the most Decepticons, but thanks to Cliffjumper the Decepticon attack is successful.^[33]

Goldbug appears in the fiction Dungeons & Dinobots, a text-based story. He is among the Autobots who attack the Decepticons at the Arch-Ayr fuel dump. He is later sent to capture rogue Dinobots for the Autobots. He is part of the group that captures Swoop.^[34]

In Do Over Goldbug conspires with Rodimus to take over the Autobots. Together they steal the Ark, evicting any crew members who are loyal to Optimus Prime before blasting off to Earth. The Ark then crashes on Earth.^[35]

Goldbug is among the Autobots brought back online. He initially commands a small group of Autobots who find Rodimus. After losing a fight with Rodimus for leadership Goldbug participates in the attack on Burpleson Air Force Base.^[36]

Toys[edit]

• Timelines Deluxe Goldbug (2008)

Goldbug is a remold of Cybertron Hot Shot. He is redecoed yellow-and-black, and has a blue head remolded to look like the Generation 1 Goldbug toy.^[37] This toy is 14 centimetres (5.5 inches) long, while a real Chrysler ME 412 is 454 centimetres long (14.9 ft). This gives the toy a scale of 1:32. The robot mode would stand about 14 feet 11 inches (4.55 m).

Aligned continuity[edit]

Bumblebee is one of the main group of Autobots in the 2010 computer-animated series Transformers: Prime.^[38] Bumblebee is younger than most of the Autobots, and lost his voice box when he was captured by Megatron during the Great War. Bumblebee remains more playful than the other Autobots despite his lack of voice, and has come to rely on his speed as his most valuable asset in battle. Bumblebee is extremely similar to his movie counterpart, sharing the similar vehicle and robot forms, the same lack of voice, and his close relationship to a human boy. It is also revealed in the series finale episode «Deadlock» that Bumblebee’s mouth was covered by a face plate vaguely resembling that of Optimus Prime’s that helped him to create the alternative beeping noises he uses as his main form of communication throughout the series. Later in the series he changes his color scheme by reversing the colors, resembling Bumblebee’s original 1977 paint scheme in the 2014 Age of Extinction film.

Bumblebee returns as the central protagonist of the sequel series Transformers: Robots in Disguise, with Will Friedle reprising his role. Set five years after the events of Prime, Bumblebee becomes the leader of a group of Autobots that end up on Earth to fight a generation of Decepticons who have re-emerge on the planet after a prison ship crash, being previously put in stasis before the war was over. In later seasons this expands to battling old enemies from Prime, Stunticons, and the corruption of Cybertron itself.
A constant running gag throughout the first season is Bumblebee’s inability to come up with a decent command for his team to mobilize, in the vein of Optimus Prime’s famous order to «roll out». Bumblebee retains a similar vehicle mode as he did in Prime, now a 1992 Chevrolet Camaro. However, his robot mode has gone through a serious redesign. Notably retaking his original primarily yellow color scheme rather than the dominantly black one he took at the end of Prime.

Books[edit]

Bumblebee appears in the novels Transformers: Exodus and Transformers: Exiles.

Bumblebee losing his voice was the focus of the short story «Bumblebee at Tyger Pax» By Alex Irvine.^[39]

Video games[edit]

Bumblebee appears as a playable character in the 2010 video game Transformers: War for Cybertron. In the Autobot campaign, he is first seen racing across the war-torn streets of Iacon in search of Optimus. Upon rendezvousing with Optimus, he relays the message of Zeta Prime’s death at the hands of Megatron; after which, he joins Optimus and Ratchet in their resistance against the Decepticons on the planet. He later appears in the final level of the game, where Bumblebee teams up with Optimus and Ironhide to prevent the Decepticon Titan, Trypticon from destroying Iacon.

In Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, the sequel to War for Cybertron, players start as Bumblebee in the first level. He appears throughout the game as well.

Animated series[edit]

With the exception of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee is the only character to appear in all three TV shows set within the Aligned continuity, including Transformers: Rescue Bots and Transformers: Robots in Disguise. Frank Welker recorded actual words written for Bumblebee which were later replaced with sound effects.^[40] When Bumblebee regains his voice, it’s provided by actor Will Friedle.

Transformers: Prime (2010-2013)[edit]

Bumblebee appears in the pilot episode of the series responding too late to a call for help from Cliffjumper, who is captured by the Decepticons and killed. Bumblebee soon is assigned to be Raf Esquivel’s guardian, having grown close to the boy as he understands his language of beeps.^[41] In the «Operation: Bumblebee» two-parter, Bumblebee lost his transformation cog and its ability to have him transform before eventually retrieving the cog from human terrorist group M.E.C.H. and Starscream.

Bumblebee’s goal in the series is to be promoted to warrior class, as he first states in «Masters & Students». Optimus does not believe him to be worthy of promotion at such a young age. Nevertheless, Bumblebee shows he is still a capable warrior, since he is able to fight the likes of Breakdown and Shockwave. When questioned by Smokescreen in «Project Predacon», Bumblebee admits he is holding back so that he can one day be promoted to warrior class on Cybertron.

In «Deadlock», during the final battle aboard the Nemesis, Bumblebee tries to give Optimus Prime the Star Saber for him to fight Megatron, but is killed by the Decepticon. However, Bumblebee fell into the ship’s Omega Lock and exposure to the Cyber Matter powering it both revived him and restored his voice. As Megatron prepared to finish Optimus, Bumblebee used the Star Saber to stab him in his spark, killing him. Afterwards, once the Omega Lock restored Cybertron, Bumblebee gives Raf a goodbye before leaving for his home world where he is finally promoted to warrior class during the series finale Predacons Rising. However, things quickly turn for the worse when Unicron appears on Cybertron in Megatron’s body, and two new Predacons are cloned by Shockwave. With Optimus on a mission to retrieve the AllSpark, and Ultra Magnus having been severely wounded by the new Predacons, Bumblebee becomes Autobot leader at Ratchet’s encouragement as he leads them, the newly defected Knock Out and the three Predacons in making a stand against Unicron’s undead Predacon army at the Well of All Sparks, buying enough time for Optimus to return to defeat Unicron. Optimus reveals that he must sacrifice himself to restore the AllSpark to Cybertron’s core, and does not pass on leadership to any one person present, stating that leadership will now be earned through actions. Bumblebee promises to keep the peace on Cybertron to Optimus, implying Bumblebee to be the new leader of the Autobots, and by extension, Cybertron’s new age.

Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015-2017)[edit]

Bumblebee appears as the main protagonist of the sequel series Transformers: Robots in Disguise, with Will Friedle reprising his role. In the series, Bumblebee is called to Earth when a new generation of Decepticons re-emerges on the planet. After receiving a vision from Optimus Prime, Bumblebee travels to Earth via a spacebridge and discovers that a ship full of Decepticon criminals has crashed on Earth and its inmates have escaped. Initially believing that Optimus’ mission is intended for him alone, Bumblebee ends up with a team of ragtag Autobots, including a rebel bad boy bot named Sideswipe, a hyper active Mini-Con named Fixit, the bombastic ex-Decepticon and Dinobot Grimlock, and a female Elite Guard cadet named Strongarm, in order to combat the Decepticons. After befriending humans Denny Clay and his son Russell and fighting the Chompazoid Underbite, the group is greeted by the inexplicably corporeal Optimus. Unable to explain his return, Optimus expresses his confidence in Bumblebee and his new team before departing.

While leading the team, to recapture the escaped Decipticons, they come across Steeljaw, an escaped convict who has his own plan to lead the other escaped convicts. The Autobots would later receive a visit from Bumblebee’s old comrade Jazz, who informed Bumblebee that his actions in departing Cybertron had angered the high council. After helping apprehend a fugitive named Ped, Jazz volunteered to return to Cybertron and inform the council of what had taken place. The team then received another group of Cybertronian visitors, in the form of Autobot bounty hunter Drift, Decepticon bounty hunter Fracture, and their Mini-Con teammates. Both Cybertronians arrived to collect a bounty placed on Bumblebee by the High Council for his actions, but Drift was convinced of Bumblebee’s nobility after Bee saved his life. The team managed to defeat Fracture, and though his ship was lost they gained the use of his ground bridge.

After all of them but Grimlock and Fixit were given Decepticon Hunters, Bee and his team would then be forced to deal with Steeljaw’s gang again—now including Thunderhoof, Underbite, and Fracture and his Mini-Cons—as both pursued the Decepticon fugitive Clampdown. Bee’s team managed to capture all the Decepticons, but were forced to let them escape when Steeljaw broke free and set an unmanned garbage barge loose in the path of a riverboat.

Drift and his Mini-Cons would later return to Earth and subsequently join the team. The team continued to capture escaped convicts. Bumblebee was once again contacted by Optimus with further warnings, shortly before Steeljaw and his pack managed to briefly seize the scrapyard; however, the Autobots managed to recover their base. The team soon gained another new ally in the form of the Primus-chosen female Autobot warrior Windblade, who aided the team in securing the fugitives Razorpaw and Zizza before departing.

Unfortunately for Bumblebee and his team, the threat that Optimus had warned them of soon revealed itself as Megatronus, a disgraced member of the Thirteen. Having struck a deal with Steeljaw’s pack, Megatronus instructed them to construct several devices he needed, which they did after capturing Strongarm, Sideswipe, and the returning Windblade. Bumblebee led the remainder of his team against them, only for Optimus arrive shortly before Megatronus made his appearance. Deferring to his former commander, Bumblebee became more concerned with Optimus’ well-being and leadership than trusting in his own previous experiences. Fortunately, his team rallied behind him and gave him the courage to stand firm, which enabled them to capture Steeljaw’s Pack after the would-be Decepticon tyrant was ejected from the battle by Megatronus. The Autobots then fought to prevent Megatronus from destroying both Earth and Cybertron, and managed it after discovering the latent powers of Bumblebee, Sideswipe, and Strongarm’s Decepticon Hunters used in tandem and copying the sword form of Optimus’ Prime Decepticon Hunter. With Megatronus defeated and possibly eliminated, the Autobots departed for home, with Bumblebee at last finding his rallying cry: «Rev up and roll out!»

With Megatronus defeated and most of the Pack apprehended, Bumblebee questioned whether his fellow Autobots wished to remain with him on Earth. To a one they agreed, with Windblade and Optimus formally joining the team, though Optimus did so as Bumblebee’s equal rather than his superior. Turning their attention to Decepticon fugitives still scattered around the globe, Bumblebee decided to split his team by dispatching Drift, his Mini-Cons, and Windblade to seek out Decepticons in other locations while the rest of the team remained at the scrapyard. At their own insistence Optimus and Sideswipe joined the team, which ended up stranded in the Arctic after Optimus’ altered state damaged their Groundbridge. Unfortunately, the remainder of the team soon had to deal with another problem: Overload, a Decepticon who had previously infiltrated the Autobot ranks and caused Bumblebee to sustain serious injuries, greatly embittering the former scout.

Bumblebee became consumed with bringing Overload in, even after the Mini-Con fugitives Backtrack and Ransack were freed during their initial battle; the two Mini-Cons subsequently joined forces with Overload. Bee would continue to carry out his missions, though once he gained the ability to combine with his teammates, He became edgier on ethics during the Stunticon battles. He eventually realized that he tweaked a perfect formula for the worst, and resumed his usual command style for the rest of the show.

Transformers: Rescue Bots[edit]

Bumblebee appears in the episode «Bumblebee to the Rescue», where he helps the Rescue Bots, and their human partners investigate a fallen meteor. Optimus Prime briefly assigns Bumblebee to observe how the Rescue Bots and the Burns family work together. Cody and the rest of the Burns family are unable to understand Bumblebee and requires one of the Rescue Bots to translate. The Rescue Bot Blades also happens to be a big fan of Bumblebee (who is said to be a legendary scout and war hero by the Rescue Bots). When Heatwave, Boulder, and Chase are infected by a substance contained in the meteor, Bumblebee, Blades, and the Burns family work together to destroy the meteor and obtain a sample in a hope to find a cure. Bumblebee and Blades successfully destroy the meteor and retrieve the sample, but at the cost of being infected as well, but thankfully the Burnses use an analysis of the meteor sample Bumblebee found, They are able to find a cure in the Autobots database, curing Bumblebee and the Rescue Bots. At the end of the episode, Cody is revealed to have learned how to understand Bumblebee. Before leaving, Bumblebee asks the Burnses (with Cody acting as interpreter) if they can take a picture of him and Blades.

Bumblebee returns with Optimus Prime in «It’s a Bot Time» and «Bots to the Future», where they go back in time to save the Rescue Bots from Dr. Morocco. They return to an alternate present with Dr. Morocco ruling Griffin Rock. They fight Morbots, while the Rescue Bots go into the city. They find out they left Dilther behind, which is how the Morbot army exists. They go back in time to take him back to the present, which is then changed back to the regular timeline. Bumblebee later returned in «Odd Bot Out», where he was sent to search for a missing Cybertronian artifact on Griffin Rock while Optimus searched the nearby seafloor. To the dismay of his biggest fan Blades, Bumblebee teamed up with Dani, who was temporarily unable to pilot Blades due to her pilot’s license expiring.

He returned in the season 4 episode «Uninvited Guest», making a crash landing at the training center and helping contain a stowaway Energon Eater. Will Friedle reprised his role for the final time here, co-starring with his best friend Jason Marsden.

Rescue Bots Academy saw Bumblebee receive multiple mentions and pictorial cameos, until he was brought as a guest teacher in the episode «Bee Prepared», to the excitement of all the recruits, especially Wedge. Friedle had been dropped as Bumblebee’s voice actor for the series due to the series going non-union, having been replaced by Jeremy Levy, who uses an identical voice used for Cyberverse Bumblebee.

Kre-O Transformers[edit]

Bumblebee is an Autobot warrior, and is based on the Generation 1 version of the character.

Non-Fictional biography[edit]

‘Sup? I’m Bumblebee, and I’m just about the coolest KREON character you’ll ever meet. When I’m not punking the other AUTOBOTS, I like to spend my time cruising the freeway at top speed, hunting for the ultimate source of ENERGON.

Hobbies: Pranking PROWL and speeding!

Favorite Hangout: Anywhere there are lots of humans and loud music!

Big Plan: To form a block-rockin’ band. And also learn how to brick-surf.

Animated series[edit]

Kreon Bumblebee appeared in the animated shorts «Last Bot Standing»,^[42] «Bot Stars»,^[43] «My Ride is Better Than Your Ride»,^[44] «The Big Race»,^[45] «A Gift for Megatron»,^[46] «Megatron’s Revenge»,^[47] and «Quest for Energon, Part 1».^[48]

Games[edit]

Kre-O Bumblebee appears in the flash video game Kre-O Transformers Konquest. In this game Kreon Optimus Prime attempts to avoid bombs and collect parts to rebuild Kre-O Ratchet, Mirage, Prowl, and Bumblebee.^[49]

Angry Birds Transformers[edit]

In the tenth installment of the Angry Birds series, Angry Birds Transformers, Bumblebee appears. Here he is portrayed by Chuck (better known as Yellow Bird). Bumblebee/Chuck has four variations, one which is yellow with black stripes based on his pre-Age of Extinction look, one that is based on his Age of Extinction appearance, a similar one with blue highlights, meant to resemble Energon, and one inspired by the Bumblebee film. The first three resemble a Dodge Challenger in vehicle mode, while the fourth resembles a Volkswagen Beetle.

Transformers: Cyberverse[edit]

Bumblebee is one of the main characters of Transformers: Cyberverse as well as the initial protagonist for seasons 1 and 2 before sharing the role with Optimus Prime and Cheetor for season 2 and Hot Rod for season 3’s take on the Quintesson story arc.

See also[edit]

• Lists of Transformers characters
• Sakura Kasugano
• Transformers (sculptures), 10-foot (3 m) tall sculptures of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime in Washington, D.C.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• G1 Bumblebee on the Transformers Wiki

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Bumblebee (stylized as BumbleBee and sometimes marketed as Transformers: Bumblebee)^[7][8][9] is a 2018 science fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line character of the same name. The film is the sixth installment in the Transformers film series. It was developed as both a spin-off and prequel. The film is directed by Travis Knight and written by Christina Hodson. It stars Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Ortiz, Jason Drucker, and Pamela Adlon, and features Dylan O’Brien (as the title character), Angela Bassett, Justin Theroux, and Peter Cullen in voice roles. It was Knight’s first live-action film,^[10] as well as the first film in the Transformers series not to be directed by Michael Bay, who instead acted as a producer. Principal photography on the film began on July 31, 2017, in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California.

Bumblebee premiered on December 3, 2018 in Berlin and was released in the United States on December 21. It received positive reviews, with critics praising its action sequences, Steinfeld’s performance, Knight’s direction, visuals, and the 1980s setting.^[11] The film was successful at the box office, albeit the lowest-grossing film of the franchise, grossing $468 million worldwide against a budget of $102-135 million. A sequel, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, is to be released on June 9, 2023.

Plot[edit]

On the planet, Cybertron, the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, are on the verge of losing their war against the Decepticons and prepare to evacuate the planet. Decepticon forces led by Starscream, Soundwave, and Shockwave intercept the Autobots during their evacuation, and Optimus sends Autobot scout B-127^[a] to Earth in an escape pod to set up a base of operations while he stays behind to fend off the Decepticons. B-127 reaches Earth and crash-lands in California, disrupting a training exercise by Sector 7, a secret government agency tasked with monitoring extraterrestrial activity on Earth. Colonel Jack Burns presumes B-127 to be hostile and orders his men to attack the Autobot. B-127 scans a Willys MB jeep and flees to a nearby mine, where he is ambushed by the Decepticon Blitzwing. When B-127 refuses to reveal Optimus’s whereabouts, Blitzwing tears out his voice box and damages his memory core, prompting B-127 to kill the Decepticon with one of his own missiles. B-127 scans a nearby 1967 yellow Volkswagen Beetle before collapsing from his injuries.

In 1987, teenager Charlene «Charlie» Watson, who is depressed by the death of her father and resentful of her mother Sally’s relationship with her new boyfriend Ronald, finds the Beetle in a local scrapyard owned by her friend Hank, who gives it to her as an 18th-birthday present. When trying to start it, Charlie unknowingly activates a homing signal that is detected by the Decepticons Shatter and Dropkick while they interrogate and kill Cliffjumper on one of Saturn’s moons. The two Decepticons head to Earth, acquire human-made vehicle forms, and encounter Sector 7; pretending to be peacekeepers, they persuade the agency to help them capture B-127, despite Burns’ objections.

While Charlie attempts to fix the Beetle, it transforms into B-127, whom she befriends and names «Bumblebee». She then unknowingly unlocks a message from Optimus urging Bumblebee to defend Earth, which restores some of his memories. They are discovered by Charlie’s neighbor Memo, who agrees to protect their secret, while Bumblebee learns to use his radio to communicate. While left alone one day, Bumblebee unintentionally destroys Charlie’s home and causes an energy spike that attracts Sector 7’s attention. When Sally blames Charlie for the havoc, Charlie finally expresses her pain over her father’s death and leaves with Bumblebee and Memo, only to be intercepted by Sector 7 and the Decepticons. Bumblebee is captured while Charlie and Memo are returned home.

Charlie convinces her brother Otis to cover for her and Memo as they follow Burns to the Sector 7 outpost where Bumblebee is being held. While torturing Bumblebee, Shatter and Dropkick accidentally activate a message from Optimus and learn that the Autobots are coming to Earth. Dropkick then kills Bumblebee and Dr. Powell, but not before the latter is able to alert Burns to the truth about the Decepticons.

Charlie electroshocks Bumblebee back to life, restoring his memories, and fends off Burns’ obstruction. After evading the military with the help of Memo and her family, Charlie and Bumblebee pursue the Decepticons, who are using a radio tower at a nearby harbor to contact their allies on Cybertron. Shatter shoots down Burns’ helicopter when he tries to intervene, but he is saved by Bumblebee. Bumblebee fights Dropkick and binds him with a chain, ripping him apart. Charlie deactivates the Decepticon beacon, only to be pursued by Shatter. Bumblebee destroys a dam wall, triggering a flood that causes a cargo ship to crush and destroy Shatter. Bumblebee and Charlie escape the army and later arrive on a cliff overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, where Charlie, realizing that Bumblebee has a greater purpose, says goodbye. Bumblebee takes on a new 1977 Chevrolet Camaro form and drives off, and Charlie reunites with her family and Memo.

Bumblebee reunites with Optimus, who successfully escaped Cybertron. He praises Bumblebee for keeping Earth safe as they watch more escape pods enter Earth’s atmosphere. Meanwhile, Charlie finishes repairing the Corvette she and her father were working on and takes the classic vehicle for a drive.

Cast[edit]

Humans[edit]

• Hailee Steinfeld as Charlie Watson, an 18-year-old girl and former competitive high diver who finds and befriends Bumblebee.
• John Cena as Jack Burns, a former U.S Army Colonel and agent of Sector 7.
• Jorge Lendeborg Jr. as Guillermo «Memo» Gutierrez, Charlie’s next-door neighbor who befriends Charlie and Bumblebee.
• John Ortiz as Dr. Powell, an agent of Sector 7.
• Jason Drucker as Otis Watson, Charlie’s younger brother.
• Pamela Adlon as Sally Watson, Charlie and Otis’s mother.
• Stephen Schneider as Ron, Sally’s fiancé and Charlie and Otis’s soon-to-be stepfather.
• Len Cariou as Uncle Hank, the owner of a junkyard where Charlie sources car parts.
• Glynn Turman as General Whalen, Burns’s superior at Sector 7.
• Gracie Dzienny as Tina Lark, Charlie’s mean-spirited classmate.
• Ricardo Hoyos as Tripp Summers, Charlie’s classmate and Tina’s boyfriend.
• Lenny Jacobson as Roy, a trailer park resident.
• Megyn Price as Amber, Roy’s girlfriend.

In addition, Nick Pilla plays Sector 7 agent Seymour Simmons, an older version of whom was portrayed by John Turturro in previous Transformers films.^[12] Fred Dryer plays Sheriff Lock, a sheriff who enters into a high-speed chase with Charlie, Memo, and Bumblebee, while Edwin Hodge plays Danny Bell, an agent of Sector 7. Tim Martin Gleason appears in flashback sequences as Charlie’s deceased father. Rachel Crow and Abby Quinn appear in deleted scenes as Charlie’s friends Liz and Brenda respectively.

Voices[edit]

Autobots[edit]

• Dylan O’Brien as Bumblebee/B-127^[a], a young Autobot scout who transforms first into an advanced yellow Cybertronian car, then a yellow 1942 Willys MB jeep, before switching for a rusty yellow 1967 Volkswagen Beetle, and eventually a yellow and black 1977 Chevrolet Camaro from the first film.^[13]
• Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobot resistance, who transforms into a 1987 Freightliner FLA semi truck.^[14]
• Grey Griffin as Arcee, an Autobot communications officer.^[15]
• Steve Blum as Wheeljack, an Autobot scientist.
• Andrew Morgado as Cliffjumper,^[16] one of Bumblebee’s fellow Autobot scouts who is executed by Dropkick on one of Saturn’s moons.
• Kirk Baily as Brawn, an Autobot commando.^[16]
• Dennis Singletary as Ratchet, an Autobot medic.^[16]

Decepticons[edit]

• Angela Bassett as Shatter, a Decepticon triple-changer who transforms into a red 1971 Plymouth Satellite and a Harrier jump jet.^[17]
• Justin Theroux as Dropkick, a Decepticon triple-changer who transforms into a blue 1974 AMC Javelin and a Bell AH-1 SuperCobra.^[17]
• David Sobolov as Blitzwing, a Decepticon seeker who transforms into a red and white McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and is responsible for damaging Bumblebee’s voice box and memory core.^[14][18]
• Jon Bailey as:
  • Shockwave, a Decepticon scientist who orders the destruction of the Autobot Tower.^[19]
  • Soundwave, the Decepticons’ communications officer, who leads the Decepticons in Megatron’s absence. Soundwave has a minion named Ravage that he houses in his chest.^[19][20]

Transformers who appear in non-speaking roles include Ironhide, an Autobot weapons specialist; Starscream, a Decepticon seeker and the second-in-command of the Decepticons; and Ravage, Soundwave’s minion who is housed in his chest. The Decepticon forces consist of numerous generic Decepticon seekers who transform into Cybertronian jets, many of whom use color schemes based on the pre-existing Transformers characters Skywarp, Thundercracker and Thrust.^[21]

Production[edit]

Development[edit]

On February 12, 2016, it was announced that the sixth film in the Transformers series, Transformers 6, was slated for release on June 8, 2018, and it was later revealed that the film would be an untitled spin-off, featuring Bumblebee.^[22] On November 11, 2016, Deadline reported that Paramount Pictures was moving forward with the project, with Christina Hodson announced as having written the script for the spin-off; Hodson was one of the female writers Paramount and Michael Bay had hired for the series’ «writers room.»^[23] Kelly Fremon Craig performed a rewrite of the script, but was ultimately not credited in the final product.^[24][25] Hodson said the film hadn’t changed much since her initial 2015 pitch, and 2016 first draft, with the key elements and broad emotion strokes all staying true, although she notes the film had gotten bigger and more fun, including the addition of visiting Cybertron.^[26] Hodson elaborated «Pretty early on, I knew I wanted to tell the story of two broken people who are healing each other. So the broken girl and the broken car kind of felt like a romantic notion.»^[27]

On March 2, 2017, Deadline reported that Travis Knight was set to direct the film.^[28] In May 2017, it was revealed that the film’s story would be set in the 1980s, and that it would feature fewer robots.^[29] In the same month, it was announced that the film’s title was then Transformers Universe: Bumblebee.^[30] It was Knight’s first live-action film,^[10] he compared working in live action to his previous work in stop motion, saying he treated scenes featuring the robots as if they were animated scenes, making extensive use of storyboards, breaking down the script and planning out all the details. The scene where Bumblebee explores Charlie’s home, he described as «trying to get familiar with this unfamiliar world, it was a lot kind of like Sorcerer’s Apprentice».^[26] Knight chose to set the film in the 1980s since it was the decade that the original Transformers TV series, of which he was a fan, was released.^[31] In spite of Knight’s direction differing from the previous films’ style, Bay never tried to force Knight to change the film’s more story-focused direction, instead supporting Knight during production.^[31] Knight also used many elements from the original TV series and the G1 version of the franchise in the film, including the characters’ original designs.^[31] Knight originally included Megatron when storyboarding the opening battle scenes on Cybertron but used other characters instead to keep continuity with Michael Bay’s Transformers.^[31]

Casting[edit]

In May 2017, it was reported that Hailee Steinfeld was in talks to be the lead in the film, and she confirmed her involvement later in June.^[32][33] On July 11, 2017, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. joined the cast as the male lead.^[34] On July 12, 2017, The Tracking Board reported that Rachel Crow had been cast as well, though she did not appear in the finished film.^[35] The following day, more core cast was announced, including Jason Drucker, Abby Quinn, Ricardo Hoyos and Gracie Dzienny, though Quinn ultimately did not appear in the film.^[36] On July 22, 2017, it was reported that Pamela Adlon had been cast to play Steinfeld’s character’s mother.^[37] On July 31, 2017, John Cena was added as a lead, with Kenneth Choi and Stephen Schneider set for supporting roles, though Choi did not appear in the final cut.^[38] On October 2, 2017, in an interview promoting the home media release of Transformers: The Last Knight, Peter Cullen revealed he would reprise his role of Optimus Prime in the film.^[39] On December 11, 2017, it was rumored that actor Martin Short had joined the film’s voice roster,^[40] though his scene was cut after test screenings.^[41] On May 31, 2018, Jess Harnell revealed he would reprise his role as the voice of Barricade from the 2007 film and The Last Knight, but the character did not appear in the final product.^[42]

On July 13, 2018, it was announced that Angela Bassett and Justin Theroux would be voicing a pair of new Decepticons, respectively called Shatter and Dropkick, the main antagonists of the film.^[43] On August 26, 2018, voice actor David Sobolov, who had previously voiced Depth Charge in Beast Wars: Transformers, Brawl in the 2007 video game, and Shockwave in Transformers: Prime, confirmed he would voice Blitzwing.^[44] On December 3, 2018, Lorenzo di Bonaventura revealed to IGN that Dylan O’Brien would voice Bumblebee.^[13] On December 9, 2018, about a week before the film’s release, voice actress Grey Griffin stated at a special fan screening that she is reprising her role as Arcee from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.^[15] On the same day, voice actor and long-time Transformers fan Jon Bailey also detailed that he voiced both Shockwave and Soundwave in the film, both of which were previously voiced by Frank Welker in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.^[20]

Filming[edit]

Principal photography on the film began on July 31, 2017, in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Vallejo, and Mare Island, California, and was scheduled to finish on November 16, 2017, under the working title Brighton Falls. Filming concluded six days ahead of schedule, on November 10, 2017.^[45][46][47] Scroggins Aviation Mockup & Effects was hired to supply the two Bell UH-1H Huey helicopters in the film. One Huey was used for motion base (gimbal) stage work at Long Beach, California studios and the other filming location was at Mare Island peninsula in Vallejo, California where Bumblebee catches the shot up Huey piloted by actor John Cena before crashing.^[48]

Later in November 2017, the film was revealed to have changed its title to Bumblebee: The Movie (later being called simply Bumblebee), as well as having wrapped up filming.^[49]

Visual effects[edit]

Visual effects for the film were provided by Industrial Light & Magic, Cantina Creative, and The Third Floor, with Jason Smith and Tony Lupoi serving as the main visual effects supervisors.^[50]

The special effects team built a life size model of Bumblebee for reference, and to help Hailee Steinfeld act against on set. They built a full size copy of Bumblebee’s head, chest and upper arms, with paint detail and light-up eyes.^[51][52]

Music[edit]

Soundtrack[edit]

Hailee Steinfeld’s single «Back to Life», from the soundtrack, was released on November 2, 2018.^[53] The soundtrack featured several songs from the 1980s, including «The Touch», which had featured heavily in the 1986 original cinematic Transformers movie, and was released on December 21, 2018.^[54]

Score[edit]

Dario Marianelli, who previously scored Knight’s Kubo and the Two Strings, provided the music score for the film,^[55] making this the first time Steve Jablonsky has not scored one of the films in the franchise. The score was released on December 21, 2018.^[56]

Release[edit]

Bumblebee was released in the United States on December 21, 2018, by Paramount Pictures. The film is available in 2D, RealD 3D,^[57][58] and IMAX 3D.^[59] The date had initially been set for June 8, 2018.^[38] The first trailer was released on June 5, 2018,^[60][18] and two new trailers, including an international trailer, on September 24, 2018.^[61] The international trailer showed that Bumblebee was disguised as an old [1941-45 military style Willys MB] before he became a Volkswagen Beetle.^[62]

On November 21, 2018, Paramount announced it would hold one-day previews for the film on Saturday, December 8, 2018, similar to the promotions Amazon Prime and Sony Pictures ran with the films, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, and to fellow December 2018 release, Aquaman.^[63]

Home media[edit]

Bumblebee was released on Digital HD on March 19, 2019, and was released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD on April 2, 2019.^[64] Bumblebee was also released on VHS on April 1, 2019, as a limited edition promotional item, but not for retail sale.^[65][66]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

Bumblebee grossed $127.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $340.8 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $468 million, against an estimated production budget of $135 million.^[5]

In the United States and Canada, Bumblebee was released alongside Aquaman, Welcome to Marwen, and Second Act, and was projected to gross $20–25 million in its opening weekend, and $35–40 million over its first five days.^[67] Prior to its release, the film made about $500,000 at 325 theaters from its December 8 screenings, an «impressive» average of $1,500 per venue.^[68] The film made $8.5 million on its first day, including $2.15 million from Thursday night previews (a total of $2.85 million including the early screenings). It went on to debut to $21 million, finishing third, behind Aquaman and Mary Poppins Returns. It then grossed $3.8 million on Monday and $8.9 million on Christmas Day, for a five-day total of $34.2 million.^[69] In its second weekend, the film made $20.5 million, dropping 5% and remaining in third, and then earned $12.8 million in its third weekend, finishing fifth.^[70][71]

Critical response[edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 91% based on 253 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website’s critical consensus read, «Bumblebee proves it’s possible to bring fun and a sense of wonder back to a bloated blockbuster franchise — and sets up its own slate of sequels in the bargain.»^[72] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 66 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating «generally favorable reviews».^[73] It is the highest-rated Transformers film on both websites.^[11][74] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of «A−» on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an 85% overall positive score and a 68% «definite recommend».^[69]

Liz Shannon Miller of IndieWire gave the film a «B+» and wrote, «…there are many scenes where giant robots fight each other, and in those scenes, you can actually see what’s happening. The Autobots and Decepticons toss each other around with slick judo-like moves and blast each other with abandon, and the cinematography and editing hold still long enough to let you enjoy each moment.»^[75] Peter Debruge of Variety called the film a «quieter, more character-driven Transformers origin story» and wrote that «Bumblebee is basically the movie that fans of the 1980s animated series wanted all along.»^[76] James Berardinelli of ReelViews writes «Surprisingly, Bumblebee is one of the best escapist films of the season» and «The movie works in large part because of the depth of Steinfeld’s performance. We haven’t seen such a well-realized character in any of the other Transformers movies.»^[77] Glenn Kenny of The New York Times said that the film is «springy yet coherent, not, like previous films in the series, a digital-image blender set on high», and praised Steinfeld’s in particular for her performance.^[78] Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly said that John Cena «does get a disproportionate share of the script’s best lines» and although the film is full of «sweet ’80s nostalgia» Greenblatt praises Knight for using it «in ways that feel both familiar and somehow fresh.»^[79]

Jesse Hassenger of The A.V. Club praised Hailee Steinfeld, saying, «her screen presence is the best thing about Bumblebee«. He compared the film to The Iron Giant, but while finding many improvements over other Transformers films, Hassenger called the film «disappointing in the end, because it’s still a careless stretch of blockbusting», giving it a «C+».^[80] Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com was critical of the lack of originality and noted the various tropes borrowed from the films of executive producer Steven Spielberg. Abrams did not think the film even succeeded on its own merits, and said: «There’s not only nothing new here, there’s nothing convincing either».^[81]

In March 2020 at GalaxyCon Richmond, Peter Cullen said that during production of the film, he was brought in to dub over a temp track by voice actor Jon Bailey for Optimus Prime due to the character being fully animated in a single day, and had to match Bailey’s delivery. As a result, he was disappointed at how his performance came across and the way he was treated.^[82]

Accolades[edit]

Bumblebee was nominated for the Razzie Redeemer Award at the 39th Golden Raspberry Awards,^[83] in the «Biggest Surprise of the Year» category at the 18th Annual Golden Schmoes Awards,^[84] and the category of «Best Song/Score — Trailer» at the 9th Hollywood Music in Media Awards.^[85] It was one of the 20 films among the 100 highest-grossing titles of 2018 to receive The ReFrame Stamp.^[86] Bumblebee was nominated in three categories for the 2019 Teen Choice Awards for «Choice Action Movie», «Choice Action Movie Actor — John Cena», and «Choice Action Movie Actress — Hailee Steinfeld».^[87] The film was also nominated for Best Science Fiction Film and Hailee Steinfeld for Best Supporting Actress at the Saturn Awards.^[88]

Sequels[edit]

In December 2018, when asked about the future of the Transformers franchise, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura stated that «another big Transformers movie» would be produced and that it would be «different than the ones that we’ve done before.» He avoided the term reboot and instead described the process as more of an «evolution», saying «There’s more freedom than I think we originally thought in terms of what we can do». After the success of Bumblebee, he acknowledged that the series will make some changes in tone and style, inspired by the film.^[91]

Director Travis Knight said his goal was to return to his animation studio Laika,^[92] though he acknowledged that he has a few ideas for a Bumblebee sequel.^[93] In January 2019, John Cena expressed interest in reprising his role in a sequel.^[94] Writer Christina Hodson said that «[she] knows where [she wants] to go with the next one.»^[27] In late January, a sequel was announced, due to the film’s international box office performance.^[95] In March 2019, di Bonaventura confirmed they were developing a script for a Bumblebee sequel.^[96]

By January 2020, it was officially announced that a sequel to Bumblebee was in development with a script written by Joby Harold.^[97] Later in November of the same year, Steven Caple Jr. was hired to serve as director on the project. Another script, based on the Beast Wars franchise and written by James Vanderbilt, was commissioned as well, with Hasbro to choose between which film they’d make.^[98] It was later declared to combine both Harold’s and Vanderbilt’s treatments together into one, with rewrites by Darnell Metayer and Josh Peters. In April 2021, Anthony Ramos was cast in one of the lead roles for the film. The project will be a joint-venture production between eOne and Paramount Pictures.^[99]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Bumblebee at IMDb
• Bumblebee at the TCM Movie Database

Bumblebee is an Autobot warrior and the former scout of Team Prime, as well as the former guardian of his human friend, Raf Esquivel, in Transformers: Prime. Bumblebee was a very important member of Optimus’s team during the Great War and was with Optimus for the longest out of any Autobot, excluding Ratchet. Bumblebee went with Optimus, Bulkhead and Ratchet to Earth in an attempt to stop the Decepticons from draining the planet’s energy and taking it over. At the end of the war, Bumblebee was the one to kill Megatron, the very same Transformer who took away his voice since the war. However, Megatron was revived by Unicron shortly after, who used his body as a vessel to attack Cybertron. With Optimus missing in action at the time and Ultra Magnus badly wounded, Bumblebee became temporary leader of the Autobots. Optimus returned and defeated Unicron with the help of his team. Before Optimus became one with Primus, Bumblebee promised Optimus that they will keep the peace in his memory before Optimus left. Optimus gave one last smile to them before going into the Core. When the Sparks burst from the Well, the team watched as the sparks fly out to bring life to their home again, including Optimus’s own spark.

Years after the war finished, Bumblebee became a high ranking police officer, but was still praised as a war hero, with a partner police cadet Strongarm, but he began to see visions of Optimus leading him back to Earth with Strongarm, street punk Sideswipe and Mini-Con Fixit where they discover a crashed Decepticon ship with numerous fugitives at large. A dinobot named Grimlock, who was a prisoner on the ship, teams up with them as well as humans Denny Clay and his son Russell. Bumblebee takes leadership in his new team to hunt down the Decepticon fugitives on Earth. On some occasions, Bumblebee would mess up on his battle cries, which would make his team laugh or not impressed. In Battlegrounds, Part 2, after Bumblebee and his team, along with a revived Optimus Prime, seemingly defeated Megatronus, Bumblebee found a phrase that impressed everyone.

Biography

Bumblebee was born as one of the last generation to be created from the Well of Allsparks after it had ceased producing life. During ‘The Great War’, Bumblebee joined the Autobots where he fought alongside Optimus Prime and several other comrades during the centuries-old skirmish.

At an unknown point, Bumblebee took part in an operation to track down Overload, a Decepticon spy whom had managed to destroy a selection of Autobot installations. Bumblebee attempted to apprehend him, tragically however he was brutally overpowered by the physically-superior Decepticon; however, Overload was eventually captured by his leader, Optimus and placed into stasis.

At some point during the war, Bumblebee was captured by Decepticon forces at Tyger Pax, upon where he was brutally interrogated by Megatron though the young scout valiantly refused to reveal any information which ultimately resulted in the Decepticon leader destroying his voice box  and was subsequently left to die. However Bumblebee was later discovered by Autobot troops and was evacuated to a triage facility where he was stabilized by a field medic Ratchet where he was able to communicate (via beeps and tones), though was unable to repair his voice box and thus was rendered mute.

After Arcee had been captured and interrogated by Arachnid, immediately after the death of Tailgate, Bumblebee, alongside Cliffjumper, managed to invade her personal lair and managed to save Arcee and escort her to safety.

After the near conclusion of the war which had ultimately reduced Cybertron to become uninhabitable, Bumblebee personally joined Team Prime alongside Optimus, Ratchet (and presumably where he met Bulkhead) and thus evacuated the planet via The Ark. Together they travelled across the galaxy for thousands of years until they eventually reached Earth.

Mini Series

Human allies

During a scout for Energon, Cliffjumper was placed in a difficult battle and taken to the Decepticon warship. Bumblebee was in a different timezone, and unable to arrive until after he was captured. Bumblebee met up with Arcee, Ratchet, Bulkhead and Optimus Prime and searched the area for any clues regarding Cliffjumper’s previous presence. However, Arcee was able to find one of his horns, indicating he had been killed during the battle. Bumblebee was present for the Autobots’ gathered mourning of their ally’s death. Arcee struck out on her own and wound up with a human, Jack Darby. During a chase between her and two Vehicons, Bumblebee interfered and charged at the two.
As he continued to aid Arcee, he was forced into robot mode when the Vehicons chose to fight them. During the battle, he met Raf Esquivel and ordered him to run alongside Jack, in an attempt to evacuate. Despite his and Arcee’s best efforts, the pair proved ineffective and were nearly defeated until the arrival of Bulkhead. Bumblebee went back to the Autobot base and told Optimus of his and Arcee’s antics, alongside the latter. After Optimus ordered their human allies to be brought to the Autobots’ base, Bumblebee went to retrieve Raf and brought him back.

Last signs of Cliffjumper

After taking the humans to the base, Bumblebee and Arcee went with Optimus and Bulkhead to find where Cliffjumper’s signal had popped up at. After arriving at the signal, Bumblebee and the others discovered an Energon mine taking place by the Decepticons. Bumblebee and the other Autobots held off the Decepticons while Arcee went to recover Cliffjumper, who’s body had been sliced in half by Megatron. After returning to the base and Arcee’s falling out, Bumblebee was the first one to be worried about her, immediately asking if she was okay.

Leaving with Arcee

Bumblebee spent time with Raf, discovering that he had excellent driving skills on Raf’s computer games. Bumblebee went with Arcee out on patrol and left Raf at the base with Bulkhead. After Bulkhead went off to go rescue Agent Fowler back from the Decepticons and was promptly joined by the humans, Bumblebee was forced to drive there.

Rescuing Fowler

The next day, Bumblebee discovered that he was a lot better than Raf at computer games, though Raf blamed it on Bumblebee’s greater experience in driving. When they reached the base, Optimus and Ratchet left on a mission, placing Arcee in charge. Arcee promptly went out on patrol, taking Bumblebee with her and leaving Bulkhead in charge. As they drove through the Nevada desert, Bulkhead reported that Fowler had been abducted by the Decepticons. When it turned out there was no one left at base to bridge them back, Arcee and Bumblebee were forced to drive there.

Bumblebee and Arcee arrived at the Decepticon ship in time to rescue Raf and Jack from a pair of Decepticons. They quickly located Bulkhead and Miko, also moving through the ship, but after it became obvious that the humans were in too much danger as they fought their way through the ship, the Autobots cleared out a room for them to hide out in. They eventually reached the brig where Fowler was being held, and Bumblebee and Bulkhead burst through the main door while Arcee slipped in through a top vent.A standoff ensued, until Fowler distracted Starscream long enough for the Autobots to start firing. Starscream thusly chased off, the Autobots took off with Fowler and rescued the kids on the way out.

Space Bridge battle

Once the Autobots had located the whereabouts of the Decepticon space bridge—Earth orbit—Optimus, Bulkhead, Arcee and Bumblebee used the GroundBridge to reach it. They were spotted by Megatron and Starscream, who sent a force of flying Decepticons to attack them. While they battled, Ratchet determined a way to destroy the space bridge, so Bumblebee, Arcee and Bulkhead went to implement the plan. They committed the necessary act of sabotage before Megatron fired on them. Bumblebee collected Arcee on his way to jumping into the GroundBridge and carried her back to base where she recovered enough to stand on her own.

Season 1

Skyquake

Bumblebee helped Raf with his science project, building a small replica of a volcano while they discussed how Bumblebee had not yet risen to the rank of Warrior. As Optimus pointed out, Bumblebee still had much to learn before he could reach that level. Optimus also noted the lifespan of Cybertronians are much longer than that of humans. Optimus subsequently picked Bumblebee to go on a mission to investigate Decepticon activity, but warned the smaller Autobot to hold back.

When Optimus came to blows with Skyquake, Bumblebee decided to disregard the earlier order and charged into battle. Though he was no match for Skyquake, he and Optimus led the Decepticon into a trap and seemed victorious, until Skyquake scanned Fowler’s jet. Bumblebee managed to end the fight by jumping onto Skyquake’s jet form and causing critical damage, jumping to Fowler’s jet as Skyquake crashed to the ground. After some repairs, Optimus commended Bumblebee on his performance.

Scraplets

Bulkhead and Bumblebee discovered a strange pod in the Arctic which they brought back to base. When the kids arrived at base, Bumblebee was keen to play some videogames with Raf, but he and Bulkhead were roped into helping Ratchet repair the GroundBridge, which broke shortly after Optimus and Arcee used it to go to the Arctic. The cause of the problem was revealed when Raf found a Scraplet, which started gnawing on Bumblebee’s arm. Raf killed it with a crowbar before it could do much more damage, but Bumblebee ended up having to search the base with Raf for more of the Scraplets. After finding quite a lot of Scraplets, they returned to the control room, where another mass of them overwhelmed Bumblebee, Bulkhead and Ratchet. Though the kids were able to get rid of the attacking Scraplets, Bumblebee was out of it for the rest of the incident, and ended up on a repair bed, being tended to by the kids.

Wheeljack

When Wheeljack landed on Earth, Bulkhead, Arcee and Bumblebee turned out to welcome him and arrived in time to see him trash some Vehicons. The Autobots celebrated their new friend’s arrival, and Bumblebee and Raf danced The Robot to Miko’s guitar playing. He also stood around a lot while Bulkhead proved that «Wheeljack» was a Decepticon spy and the real Wheeljack turned up. After everything was resolved, the Autobots had another party to welcome the real Wheeljack, and Bumblebee got to bust out some more dance moves. He and Arcee turned out with Bulkhead to see Wheeljack off when the Autobot returned to space.

First MECH encounter

Bumblebee took part in the Autobot convoy to transport Fowler’s Dynamic Nuclear Generation System across the US countryside. When MECH attacked them, he bashed into one of the cars they were using, flipping it over. The Autobots successfully passed the D.N.G.S. over to a train, but were shortly after confronted by a squadron of flying Vehicons, and were forced to return to their robot modes to fight. Bumblebee got to try out some boxing moves on a Vehicon, but while the Autobots were occupied, MECH made another attempt to obtain the D.N.G.S. which was foiled by Optimus.

When an Energon Harvester was located in a museum, the Autobots surrounded the building while the kids went in to steal it. Knock Out and Breakdown appeared at the front of the museum to attack Optimus, and as Breakdown charged at the museum, Bumblebee and Arcee attempted to stop him. Bumblebee was hit by a missile, sending him tumbling, and then by Arcee who’d just missed catching another missile. He, Arcee and Prime later attempted to track down the Decepticons before the Harvester could be used, but they ended up coming to Bulkhead’s rescue after he found and stopped the Decepticons himself.

Street racing

When Arcee refused to go street racing with Jack, Bumblebee was more receptive, though they asked Raf’s permission beforehand. Unfortunately also participating in the race was Knock Out, who started firing on Bumblebee. After calling base and letting them know what was up, Bumblebee used an oil slick to slow down Knock Out, and hid under a bridge. They would have escaped detection had another human, Vince, not confronted Jack about apparently pulling out of the race, and Vince was subsequently captured by Knock Out. After Arcee and Bulkhead arrived, the three Autobots pursued Knock Out to a storage facility, where Bumblebee and Bulkhead were ambushed by Breakdown. While Arcee chased Knock Out, Bumblebee held his strength against Breakdown before getting defeated, although Bulkhead came to Bumblebee’s rescue when he slammed Breakdown with a street lamp. Meanwhile, Knockout was stopped by Optimus, who rescued Vince before requiring some explanations later on.

Venture to Nemesis

During a mission to recover any living Autobots from a crash, Optimus Prime fell under the infection of Cybonic plague and was treated at the base by Ratchet. Bumblebee later was present at the Autobot base as Optimus laid infected. Alongside Arcee, Bumblebee went to retrieve a possible cure from the Nemesis, hoping information on it would be in its database. As Arcee scattered through the ship’s computer, Bumblebee spotted a comatose Megatron laying down. As the two stared at the unconscious Decepticon leader, Ratchet concluded that Megatron may know the cure and told the two to enter his brain through Cortical Psychic Patch. Though Arcee had mixed feelings, Bumblebee was more than willing to comply. As he entered his mind, Bumblebee encountered Megatron as he attacked and defeated an illusion of Optimus Prime.

After he defeated the Autobot, Megatron set his sights on Bumblebee. Knowing his own strength, Bumblebee did not try to attack the Decepticon. However, Bumblebee soon realized he was immune to his attacks as the commander struck him several times, only for Bumblebee to continue to phase through. After failing to eliminate the Autobot, Megatron realized that Bumblebee was not an illusion and started to question how he had entered his mind before concluding that he had usage of Cortical Psychic Patch. As Megatron questioned Bumblebee more, he told the Decepticon leader of his near-death experience as well as Optimus Prime’s current state of being. As Megatron laughed, Bumblebee began to convince him to help Optimus, citing that he would never be able to defeat his enemy and would only be able to kill illusions of him.

Megatron was more than willing to comply, showing Bumblebee a brief glimpse of the cure before taking it back and telling him to release him from his current state of being. However, Ratchet simply was able to get a screenshot of the cure and ordered Arcee to disconnect Bumblebee. As Bumblebee awoke from his conversation with Megatron, he and Arcee were spotted by Starscream. The two escaped and soon enough, were able to return to the Autobot base, but after Bumblebee brought time for Arcee to shoot Megatron’s condition when being exposed. Their mission successful, Optimus Prime was given the cure and fully healed. As the latter woke from his ordeal, Bumblebee was given a standing ovation by his fellow Autobots and their human allies.

Mind games

Bumblebee began to experience visions of Megatron, causing him to stop dead during a basketball game with Bulkhead. After Megatron forced him to crush one of Ratchet’s devices, Bumblebee told Ratchet about the visions, and Ratchet induced a power down to give Bumblebee’s mind time to recover. Bumblebee reactivated, under the control of Megatron, and, retrieving a piece of Dark Energon from an old battlefield, bridged to the Decepticon warship over the Arctic. Although Ratchet and Raf tried to stop him, even managing to get Bumblebee to reassert control for a few moments, Bumblebee successfully brought Megatron back online and transferred his mind back to his body. Free of Megatron’s influence, Bumblebee beat a hasty retreat with Ratchet and Raf. Later at base, Ratchet checked Bumblebee was completely free of Megatron, and the small Autobot thanked Raf for coming to help him.

GroundBridge mistake

After a Dark Energon signature was detected, Optimus took a team including Bumblebee to investigate. They instead found Starscream trying to resurrect Skyquake. During the ensuing conflict, the Autobots discovered their human friends had followed them to the battlefield, and the three kids were caught in a freak GroundBridge accident, causing them to disappear.The Autobots returned to base to try and locate their friends, but it wasn’t until Bumblebee suggested trying to ring the kids that they found Miko’s cellphone, and the kids were able to send a text to it. Ratchet subsequently engineered a portal to rescue the kids from the other dimension they’d become trapped in.

Attempt to rescue Breakdown

When Breakdown was captured by MECH, Bumblebee and the others were more than happy to leave them to it, but Optimus insisted that they rescue the Decepticon to avoid Cybertronian technology falling into MECH hands. The team arrived in Kamchatka Peninsula and Bumblebee spotted some vehicle tracks, but they opted to follow the energon signal Ratchet had detected instead. After they escaped the bomb that the trace led them to, the team tracked down Bulkhead in time to chase off Starscream and some Vehicons.

Arcee and Bumblebee were in the middle of a fight with some Vehicons when Arcee got a call informing her she had to be in Jack’s garage ASAP. After checking if Bumblebee could handle it, Arcee left. Evidently he was able to, as he was later in the Autobot base when Jack and Arcee turned up with June Darby.

Airachnid encounter

Bumblebee was part of the team that investigated the wreck of a crashed Decepticon ship and found Airachnid and Starscream. He guarded the bound Starscream while the others decided what to do with the Decepticon. Prime, Bulkhead and Bumblebee went to check out the rear half of the ship, crashed some distance away, and were ambushed by Airachnid who had found an experimental weapon named the Immobilizer. She froze Prime and Bulkhead, but Bumblebee managed to trick her by kicking up a dust cloud with his guns, and then pretending to be frozen after she fired the Immobilizer into it. Once she turned her back, he crept up and sucker punched her before blasting the Immobilizer. After she fled, Bumblebee went back to find Arcee, and interrupted her when she was about to offline Starscream. They returned the pieces of Immobilizer to base, along with Bulkhead and Optimus, and Ratchet was able to repair the device and unfreeze their comrades.

Bulkhead intelligence boost

Bumblebee accompanied Prime and Arcee as they tried to retrieve a Cybertronian data cylinder before the Decepticons did. Ultimately the Decepticons made off with the cylinder, and later Bumblebee listened as Ratchet told them the cylinder’s contents had ended up in Bulkhead’s brain, though the Autobots were excited to find that the equations being scrawled by Bulkhead were a set of formula for synthetic energon. Unfortunately it later turned out that the data was eating Bulkhead’s brain. Bumblebee and Arcee accompanied Optimus on an unsuccessful attempt to get the cylinder back from Megatron, and they ended up fighting a bunch of Vehicons. Later they came to Miko and Bulkhead’s aid to save the pair from Knock Out and Breakdown, and were present when Miko managed to rouse the comatose Bulkhead with her guitar.

During a mission to stop Knock Out and Breakdown who were transporting energon, Bumblebee, Prime and Bulkhead were separated from Arcee. They caught up to find that Ratchet had already finished off the Vehicons. Impressed by his new strength with the use of Synthetic Energon, Bumblebee and the others considered Ratchet to be their secret weapon against the Decepticons. While Ratchet trained with Bulkhead, he knocked his teammate out of the room and in front of Bumblebee and Arcee. Ratchet soon found himself telling Bulkhead that he was stronger than he used to be, before asking Bumblebee if he wanted to fight him as well. Bumblebee objected to the notion by putting his hands up as the Autobots soon detected another signal.

Ratchet opted to have Bumblebee remain at base while he and the others went for the signal. The mission resulted in a strain between Ratchet and the others due to his newfound ideals, prompting Optimus to tell him that he was confining him to base. As Bumblebee prepared a GroundBridge for him, Ratchet began to walk through before being followed by Bulkhead, who he knocked out of the way as he got out and drove off. The Autobots met Bumblebee at base, without Ratchet, who they could no longer detect. That all changed when Ratchet found himself on the floor after trying to duel Megatron. Bumblebee stayed at base again while the others went to get him and was happy to see him back.^[1]

Injured Raf

Bumblebee was taking Raf to play with Raf’s remote-control car when he was called on to join the battle at a military base. Unfortunately Megatron found them before he could drop Raf off, and Bumblebee was hit by a blast from Megatron’s cannon. Though Bumblebee himself was mostly unaffected, Raf was gravely injured. Bumblebee arrived at the battle and had to be restrained from attacking Megatron so he and Arcee could take Raf back to base. Bumblebee watched helplessly as Ratchet and June Darby tried to save the boy. At one point, the frustration became too much, and he knocked a chunk out of the wall with his fist, but Arcee talked him down, and eventually Ratchet worked out that an energon infusion would save Raf. Bumblebee gave some of his own energon for the procedure, which was ultimately successful.

Unicron rising

After the other Autobots saved Optimus from Megatron, Bumblebee bridged them back to base. June decided to take Raf to the hospital, and didn’t intend to bring him back, so Bumblebee had to sadly watch them drive from the base. When it transpired that the Dark Energon volcano was causing global disasters, he went to find June and Raf, and managed to save them from a tornado by grabbing the front end of their car. After he returned to base with them, the assembled Autobots and humans worked out that Unicron was at the center of the Earth. He and the other Autobots began investigating the sites of the earthquakes Unicron had generated.

Saving Prime

Though Optimus ordered the other Autobots to remain at base, Bumblebee, Arcee and Bulkhead joined him anyway. They fought increasingly larger stone Unicrons, until they encountered a huge one which Bumblebee thought might be the real thing but Prime told him wasn’t. He and Bulkhead zoomed behind it to try and blast it, but it knocked them both aside as if they were nothing. To their surprise, help came in the form of Megatron who blasted the giant before it could crush Prime, and offered to help them fight Unicron. When Optimus gave the trio the choice of whether to accompany him and Megatron to Earth’s core, Bumblebee opted to go for Raf’s sake. He, Arcee and Bulkhead greeted Megatron to the Autobot base by aiming their guns at him. Before long, they stepped through the GroundBridge once again, this time into Earth’s core.

Losing Optimus

As they made their way through Unicron’s internals, they encountered antibodies which aggressively attacked them. When during the fight Bulkhead almost fell to his doom, Bumblebee grabbed his arm and held him long enough for Optimus to help. He, Bulkhead and Arcee remained outside Unicron’s spark chamber to hold off the antibodies, but after Unicron’s defeat, they entered to find Optimus had lost his memory. Megatron blasted at them, knocking them to the floor. Bumblebee saw Optimus run towards the GroundBridge and Optimus paused to look at Bumblebee. Bumblebee was sad and beeped in sadness.

Optimus left and Megatron followed back to the warship.The trio had to GroundBridge back to base without their leader.

Season 2

Reemergence of Orion Pax

The Autobots puzzled over how to get their leader back but made little progress. When Fowler warned them of an attack on a military base, Bumblebee, Bulkhead and Arcee went to try and deal with it, but Knock Out and Breakdown succeeded in getting away with the power source they needed.

Bumblebee and the others fruitlessly searched for the space bridge until the breakthrough came in the form of information from Starscream. Using said information, the Autobots stormed the mine containing the space bridge and secured it so they could send Jack and Arcee through to Cybertron.

Ratchet, Bulkhead and Bumblebee monitored Jack’s progress from the Earth end of the space bridge. When Megatron arrived to take back control, Bumblebee was grabbed by the head and tossed aside. Luckily it all turned out, and Bumblebee and the others returned to base with Optimus Prime restored.

Bumblebee’s T-Cog

During a mission to retrieve a Cybertronian artifact, Bumblebee followed Megatron into the Decepticon GroundBridge and snatched the Spark Extractor right out of his hand. Responding to another signal, Bumblebee was ambushed by MECH, who took his T-cog. Unable to transform, he became more and more testy despite the attempts of Raf to cheer him up. Bumblebee finally talked Bulkhead into taking him along on on a mission to find another artifact, only for his lack of a T-cog to become a liability as he tried to chase Knock Out. The pursuit ended when Bumblebee plunged out-of-control off a cliff.

When he came around back at base, Optimus restricted him to base. After an attempt to transplant Ratchet’s T-cog into him was aborted, Bumblebee was pointed in the direction of the MECH base and opted to go on a one-bot assault. Though he floored Starscream and MECH in the process of getting the cog back, the vital component was blasted by Starscream. After some repair work by Ratchet, the T-cog was reinstalled in Bumblebee, and his ability to transform restored.

Wheeljack returns and Dreadwing’s arrival

Bumblebee and the others came to Wheeljack’s aid when he returned to Earth to battle Dreadwing. Loose Cannons Bumblebee was part of an Optimus-led mission to an abandoned energon mine in South America, where they found Megatron fighting an Insecticon. When the fight was finished, the Autobots surrounded the exhausted Megatron, but were prevented from finishing him off by the arrival of Dreadwing. Though they trashed a bunch of Vehicons, Megatron and Dreadwing escaped them.

The appearance of Nemesis Prime

When Fowler was attacked by a truck resembling Optimus, Bumblebee caught his car as it plunged from a bridge. Returning to base, they established the truck was a MECH-created clone of Optimus, and began searching for the MECH base. Bumblebee found the hideout, but after alerting the other Autobots, was knocked out by Nemesis Prime. Following Optimus’s defeat of MECH, the Autobots returned to base for repairs. Nemesis Prime Bumblebee went with Optimus and Arcee to investigate some activity and found Airachnid sending out a swarm of Insecticons. He and Optimus ended up having to fight a bunch of them and won. They got to return to base with Airachnid, whom Arcee had stasis-locked.

Hunt for Relics

After the Nemesis crashed, Bumblebee took part in an attack on it with the Spark Extractor, only to be put into stasis by its weapons. He recovered back at base when the kids disabled the ship. Flying Mind Bumblebee was sent to New York City with Arcee, Jack and Miko to look for one of the Iacon relics. In the subway, they ran into Knock Out and an Insecticon, the latter of which temporarily floored Bumblebee. He recovered in time to pursue Knock Out, catching up with the Decepticon and getting the relic back. The relic turned out to be a phase shifter, which saved Bumblebee from being hit by an out-of-control sweeper train. After they chased Knock Out off, Bumblebee and Arcee were introduced to Vogel.

Bulkhead’s near death experience/Smokescreen’s arrival

They returned to base to find Bulkhead critically injured after his mission, and Bumblebee and Arcee helped get the Wrecker to the medical bay. Hurt During Bulkhead’s recovery period, Bumblebee arrived back at base to find Miko was upset at her friend’s lack of progress. Out of the Past Bumblebee was part of Optimus’s team investigating a crashed escape pod when they encountered Smokescreen. When Raf discovered the presence of Red Energon on Earth, Optimus, Arcee and Bumblebee headed to a dock to retrieve it, only to run into Starscream and the Apex Armor. Bumblebee and Arcee attempted to scale the crane but were attacked by Starscream, and Smokescreen had to come to their rescue using the phase shifter.

End of MECH

When Fowler notified them that a Project Damocles satellite had been stolen by Breakdown and Silas, Optimus took a team including Bumblebee to a military base in the hope of securing the satellite control codes before the Decepticons could get them. Instead they found themselves facing both Decepticon troopers and the orbital death ray itself, controlled by Soundwave. The Human Factor During an energon hunt, Bumblebee tried to stop Smokescreen harassing a human, resulting in them both getting their picture on the net. Bumblebee later accompanied Optimus on a search for another Iacon relic, which turned out to be a Decepticon hoax, and helped secure the Star Saber.

The Omega Keys

He, Arcee and Bulkhead were happy when they learned they might soon be able to return Cybertron, but quickly realized there would be a downside in that they would have to leave their friends on Earth behind. Alpha/Omega Bumblebee was sent with Arcee to retrieve one of the keys, but they encountered Knock Out. Bumblebee was significantly damaged by the Resonance Blaster before the Decepticon got away with the key, and had to undergo repairs when they returned to base. After Smokescreen escaped the Nemesis with two of the keys, the Autobots received a message from Starscream offering a trade for the final key. Bumblebee guarded the base with Smokescreen and Arcee, but Starscream was able to steal their three keys anyway, thanks to his Red Energon.

As the Autobots equipped themselves to go to Cybertron, Bumblebee took the polarity gauntlet from storage. During their battle with the Decepticons, he used it to reclaim the Omega Keys. The Autobots subsequently found the Omega Lock, only for the Decepticons to unveil their trump card in the form of the three kids as hostages.
As the Autobots had a stare off with the Decepticons, Bumblebee was forced to hand over his Omega key in exchange for Raf. Bumblebee took the young human out of the hands of Soundwave.
As he did so, he happily assured Raf that he was safe as he looked through the glass at the former while walking back to the other Autobots. After Megatron gained all four of the Omega Keys, the Autobots were surrounded by several Vehicons.

After Optimus destroyed the Omega Lock to prevent Megatron destroying Earth, Bumblebee returned with the others to base, only to find that the Decepticons were attacking it. As he and the others prepared to face off, Optimus Prime concluded their only chance of survival being a tactical retreat. As the Decepticons continued to barrage the base, Bumblebee and Raf were GroundBridged away from the base to an unspecified location in the US mainland to avoid capture.

Season 3: Beast Hunters

On the run

Bumblebee and Raf roamed around the country as the two evaded recognition by a Vehicon. Following Raf’s approval, Bumblebee transformed into robot mode and looked to see if any Decepticons were near, hiding behind a tree while doing so. Raf concluded that while the two were nearly caught, Bumblebee’s recent change in paint job saved the two. Raf exclaimed that while he understood Optimus’s decision to separate the group to make them harder to find, he questioned how the two would be able to contact the others. While Bumblebee simply wanted the two to continue to head to Jasper, Rafael was reminded of Megatron’s fortress.^[2]

Finding Ratchet

Upon heading to Jasper and Raf was looking on the conspiracy website, he headed for Woodlands Park Junk Yard in search for Ratchet. Though meeting up with him, he and Raf could not persuade him on joining them to look for the Harbinger for a base of operations. Unable to get the Harbinger’s ship computers up and running, Ratchet came in and saved the day by assisting them in getting everything online and hacked the operating codes to get the GroundBridge up and running.

At the same time, he spotted a flag ship that belonged to Ultra Magnus, reuniting with the gang, minus Optimus and Smokescreen. He was complimented by Arcee and Bulkhead on his new color scheme, with Arcee saying that if she reversed her colors like he did, she would be pink. Bumblebee and the others were introduced to the commander’s weapon locker.^[3]

Rebellion

Bumblebee and Arcee were sent into Darkmount as the Stealth Team. Bumblebbe was equipped with a new gun and a forcefield, while Arcee had a laser device. The two killed all the Vehicons blocking their path only for more to come behind them. They were escorted outside and about to be executed only for a reborn Optimus Prime to arrive, save the Autobots and destroy Darkmount. Bumblebee was reunited with the all of Team Prime back at their new base where Agent Fowler praised them.

Beast Hunters

When the Decepticons began hunting for Predacon bones, Bumblebee, Smokescreen and Optimus went to Texas. Smokescreen asked Bumblebee if he might ever want to be a Prime, but Bumblebee said all he wanted was to have warrior rank and he would only take it on a restored Cybertron, despite having the credentials. Despite the trio fighting off the Vehicons, Soundwave and Shockwave they still lost one tiny piece of the Predacon bone to the Decepticons. The Autobots later stormed a mine hoping for Energon, unaware they were pawns in a plan that has Project Predacon to be terminated with Autobots to take the blame by the Decepticons.

Ratchet captured

Bumblebee took offense at the fact that Smokescreen said his broken voicebox was his signature as he still missed the sound of his voice. He took part in missions to stop the Decepticons from stealing Earth technology. The Autobots secured the last target, the Solaris Particle Collider, only for the Predacon to come and take it from them. When they returned to base, they learned Ratchet was taken by Soundwave. They launched a probe to find Ratchet, followed by Optimus. Though the probe was destroyed, Ratchet sent coordinates of his location and the Autobots stormed the Nemesis.

Final battle

Stealth Team was ordered to secure the rebuilt Omega Lock, but Smokescreen abandoned them to complete his own mission. Despite resistance from Starscream and his armada, the two made it to the control room and Smokescreen returned with the Star Saber. Bumblebee climbed down the Lock to give to Optimus, but as he jumped he was shot numerous times by Megatron. He fell into the Cybermatter below, which revived him, and his voice box as well.

In the meantime, Optimus began to lose his battle against the threat to society that Megatron had proved himself to be. While Megatron had his back turned, Bumblebee yelled out Megatron’s name with his restored voice. Shocked to hear the voice he thought to have ridden, Megatron turned around and Bumblebee used this opportunity to stab Megatron straight through his spark with the Star Saber and promised that Megatron will never rob anything from anyone, like his voice. With the warship under their command, the Autobots flew it to Cybertron to use the Omega Lock to restore Cybertron. When they packed up their stuff from Earth, Bumblebee shared a sad farewell with Raf who told him he didn’t have to say anything, which prompted Bumblebee to admit that he never did.

Predacons Rising

Bumblebee was promoted to «Warrior» by Optimus and a statue of Megatron was blown up in his honor. When Ultra Magnus was left in charge while Optimus went with Wheeljack to collect the AllSpark, Bumblebee spent his time in the Nemesis interrogating prisoners for the locations of Starscream and Shockwave. When Ultra Magnus was injured, Bumblebee deduced the Predacon responsible was a clone from Shockwave’s experiments. Bumblebee went with Smokescreen, Arcee and Bulkhead to try and get help from Predaking but failed and went to the original Darkmount. When they downloaded a map of Shockwave’s lab network they were greeted by the Unicron possessed Megatron. Despite his power they managed to escape. Bumblebee was desperate for Ultra Magnus’ leadership but Ratchet told him that in the past all the other Autobots had risen above their ranks for the greater good and Bumblebee had to as well. When they later pinpointed Unicron, due to Megatron’s life signal, they took the warship to fight. Starscream, Knock Out and the Vehicons tried to take the ship only for Knock Out to betray them and destroy the (needed) Immobilizer to prove his loyalty to the Autobots. When they fought the Terrocon-Predacons, aided by living Predacons, Smokescreen praised Bumblebee on his leadership skills and revealed, to Bumblebee’s shock, Smokescreen almost inherited the Matrix of Leadership. When the warship crashed, the Predacons defeated and victory seemingly Unicron’s, Optimus Prime returned and fought off Unicron. Bumblebee used the Polarity Gauntlet to briefly hold off Unicron before he lunged at Prime and the AllSpark. To the surprise of all the AllSpark was not in its container which sucked the Anti-Spark right out of Megatron. When Optimus had to sacrifice himself Bumblebee promised the Autobots would keep peace on Cybertron in his memory. As the sparks flew out of the well, the team gazed upon its glory and saw a red spark, possibly Optimus’ spark, shine out. 

Transformers: Robots in Disguise/Return to Earth

History

During the war on Cybertron, Bumblebee was involved with capturing the Decepticon named Overload. However, he ended up being badly injured by the Decepticon as a result. When Bumblebee first arrived on Earth, he frequently felt homesick for Cybertron as he revealed in Collect ‘Em All. He managed to overcome his grief by learning about and adopting various Earth customs. He also maintained a video diary (exercise video) for a time as shown in History Lessons. He learned more about Earth as he developed an interest in Earth cowboys (which he revealed his knowledge about cowboys in W.W.O.D.?), exercise videos, and the band Rear Axle.

Season 1

Years after the War, Bumblebee took role as a street cop when Cybertron was repopulated once again with Autobots. Bumblebee and his new crime partner Strongarm were chasing down Sideswipe on Cybertron. On their mission, Bumblebee began having visions of Optimus Prime, who pointed Bumblebee that Earth was in trouble. Bumblebee ordered Strongarm to take Sideswipe to the station while he investigates at the Cybertron History Museum. He breezed passed the Matronly Docent who greeted him and he soon came to the Space Bridge room. However, Strongarm followed Bumblebee with Sideswipe still handcuffed to her. Bumblebee convinced them to fix the Space Bridge while he distracts the two guards that were outside the room. The two guards were surprised to see Bumblebee but saw something was up to which Bumblebee had to disable them. Bumblebee was able to go to Earth with Strongarm and Sideswipe following him to the planet. Bumblebee blasted their cuffs and Sideswipe went off while Strongarm walked with Bumblebee to meet Fixit. Fixit explained that the Alchemor was destroyed in some odd explosion and released most of it prisoners. Bumblebee and Strongarm went to look for Sideswipe who already revealed himself to a human. Underbite chased all four of them back to Fixit where Bee ordered Fixit and Russell to hide behind a stasis pod. When Underbite escaped to go to the Scrapyard, Bumblebee asked Fixit what Underbite was.

After learning of Underbite and his motives, Bumblebee could not allow Russell to go off on his own to save his dad. Grimlock appeared besides them and quickly vanished to fight Underbite. Bumblebee and his team were tangled in Underbite and Grimlock’s little fight until Underbite got the upper hand on Grimlock, thus leaving him unconscious for a short time. When Grimlock woke up, Bumblebee did not want to put any of their lives in danger, though everyone and Grimlock convinced Bumblebee to help him take down Underbite from reaching Crown City. Bumblebee gave a poorly thought out battle cry before they left to stop Underbite. At the bridge to Crown City, Bumblebee and Strongarm used their new weapons on Underbite but their weapons stopped working. Bumblebee, Denny Clay, Grimlock and Strongarm tried their best to slow down Underbite on the bridge until Sideswipe and Russell arrived to distract Underbite. They lead Underbite to the quarry where Bee and his team tried to push Underbite into the quarry. Underbite was able to regain some strength and pushed them all back. Underbite grabbed on Denny’s car and Bumblebee ordered his team to fall back. Just as Bumblebee was about to stop Underbite, Optimus Prime grabs Underbite and tosses him into the quarry. Optimus saved Denny Clay in the process.

Bumblebee was surprised to see Optimus alive but questioned if it was true. Optimus informed Bumblebee that he was not certain and complimented Bumblebee about his team. He also gave Bumblebee and his team a speech about the forces on Earth and was certain they will accomplish great things. Optimus told Bumblebee that the universe has a plan for Optimus that even he does not know. He also tells Bumblebee he will prevail before vanishing. Bumblebee puts Grimlock on probation despite Strongarm wanting to follow protocol. Bumblebee talked to himself about not letting Optimus down and if he said it enough, he would believe it.

In Trust Exercises, Bumblebee, who was carried by Grimlock after their trust exercise, stopped Sideswipe and Strongarm from fighting. Bumblebee told them that they must learn to trust each other in order to work on recapturing the Decepticon fugitives. Bumblebee went with Grimlock to track down Hammerstrike who was attacking an oil tanker. While Grimlock was stuck at the bottom of the ocean, Bumblebee was left to fight Hammerstrike. While he proved the adversary, Bumblebee was dispatched and Hammerstrike told him to not pursue him. Bumblebee and Grimlock returned to the scrapyard where Fixit told Bumblebee where everyone was. Fixit also filled Bumblebee on Hammerstrike’s bio and motives. Bumblebee told Grimlock about taking there are steps to learning. At the oil refinery, Bumblebee and Grimlock break in and attack Hammerstrike. After Hammerstrike broke an oil pipe, the room was slippery for both Bumblebee and Grimlock while Hammerstrike used it as a way of moving faster. However, Bumblebee used his vehicle mode to push Hammerstrike into the barrel that Grimlock was holding. They successfully captured Hammerstrike and returned to base where Bumblebee praised Sideswipe and Strongarm for working together against Steeljaw.

In More than Meets the Eye, Bumblebee, Strongarm, Sideswipe, and Grimlock worked together in bringing down Bisk at a golf field. Later, they returned to the scrapyard where they placed Bisk in a stasis pod. Fixit was feeling left out of the action despite Bumblebee trying to boost his spirits. Later, the team went to an airfield to hunt for another Decepticon that was detected, which Bumblebee gave an unsatisfying battle cry. Bumblebee encountered Chop Shop and wasn’t expecting Chop Shop to split into component bugs that jumped on and zapped him. The team backed Bumblebee but Chop Shop’s components got the best of them before they escaped with the pieces they stool from the airfield. Back at the scrapyard, Bumblebee and his team discussed about Chop Shop, his motives, and allowed Fixit to join them on their next attempt in bringing Chop Shop down. However, this plan was nearly unsuccessful as Chop Shop was able to use Fixit as a replacement arm. The team eventually tracked Chop Shop to his hideout where he overpowered Sideswipe, Strongarm and was about to finish Bumblebee but Bumblebee was able to get Fixit to fight back Chop Shop. It worked as Bumblebee thanked Fixit before uppercutting Chop Shop through the tanker where the Decepticon was taken down by freezing oxygen that was stored. Back at the scrapyard, Bee congrats Fixit before going with the Autobots and Denny to see Russell win his first football game. They cheered and celebrated when Russell won for his team.

In W.W.O.D.?, Bumblebee broke up a fight between Sideswipe and Strongarm during a team meeting. Then he attempted to use Optimus Prime’s methods of leading on his team, to which left them to laugh as Sideswipe stated it was the worst Starscream impression. Bumblebee was puzzled by his statement about Starscream and later went with his team to the Crown City Museum to get a stasis pod containing Terrashock. As the team entered inside, Bumblebee tried to explain the concept of cowboys as they walked passed an exhibit about cowboys, which nobody understood and walked on. Bumblebee tried to act like Optimus several moments, which resulted in him failing to command his team. After Terrashock had taken Bumblebee outside of the museum in front of some humans, Denny and Russell helped Bumblebee not blow his cover by stating he was just a museum robot prop. They walked inside the museum when Bumblebee played to be defected by failing to answer Denny’s question about the density on Mercury. A vision of Optimus Prime appeared on a wall in the museum where Bumblebee spoke to Optimus about the current conflicts he is facing. When he explained to Optimus about trying to be like him, Optimus replied by stating Bumblebee was not him. Before Optimus could explain further, he disappeared from Bumblebee’s sight. Russell suggest to Bumblebee that Optimus wanted to explain that Bumblebee should lead as himself. As Bumblebee gazed at the cowboy exhibit, it gave him an idea that soon led him and his team to work together like cowboys in taking down Terrashock on a highway. They were successful and brought the unconscious Decepticon back to the scrapyard as they rode off into the sunset together, cowboy style.

In As the Kospego Commands!, Bumblebee saved Fixit from being nearly crushed by a falling stasis pod. He also discovers that Sideswipe tricked Fixit to avoid doing work, which he found the latter nearby listening to music. Bumblebee takes Sideswipe’s headphones off him and proceeds to scold him for taking advantage of his teammates, but Bumblebee actually listened to Sideswipe’s music on his headphones and dances to the rhythm. Although Bumblebee appeared to like the music, he still reminds Sideswipe to not take advantage of his teammates. When a group of strange humans who were dressed with strange attire entered the scrapyard, they asked Denny for a bunch of items, which included a generator, Bumblebee recognizes the items they requested and told Russell not to let Denny give them the generator. After Strongarm returns to the scrapyard with a Decepticon Hunter, Bumblebee believes that a Decepticon is tricking those humans into building a space bridge. While his team believes it would be a good thing to use the space bridge to go back to Cybertron, Bumblebee notes that the space bridge could be unstable and could result in a black hole that could destroy Earth. When Fixit identifies the Decepticon as Thunderhoof, Bumblebee and his team go to the Crown River Dam to guard its generator from the Decepticon’s human minions, which he also gave an unconvincing battle cry. Bumblebee leaves Sideswipe and Grimlock to guard the generator while he patrols the area with Strongarm. Later, Bumblebee and Strongarm find that Sideswipe left his post to listen to music. While Bumblebee reprimands Sideswipe, the trio hear Grimlock being confronted by someone over the comms. They go back to see that Grimlock was flattened and the generator was gone. Bumblebee blames Sideswipe for leaving his post and orders Strongarm to take Grimlock back to the scrapyard since Grimlock had forgotten that he can’t fly. Bumblebee and Sideswipe then head off to find that the humans were constructing a space bridge. Sideswipe comes up with a plan, which includes the pair disguising as legendary creatures called with some tree branches and fake names «Sideswingo and «Bumbeego» so that they could trick the humans into leaving from the site. It worked successfully, despite Bumblebee still having distrust in Sideswipe. As the two Autobots inspect the space bridge, Thunderhoof himself arrives and is unimpressed that his workers have been scared off. He offers to cut a deal with the pair and let them have some of his criminal empire if they help him return to Cybertron, but Bumblebee is naturally uncompromising, though Sideswipe actually seems to consider it a good idea. While Bumblebee fights the Decepticon, Sideswipe stands back, and when Thunderhoof has Bumblebee on the ground, Sideswipe announces he wants to help with the space bridge. He convinces Thunderhoof not to stomp Bumblebee and instead they fire up the space bridge, which seems to work until it turns an ominous purple color and start sucking things in. Thunderhoof decides to test it out by sending a reluctant Sideswipe through first, but Sideswipe uses the Decepticon Hunter as a mace, knocking Thunderhoof off balance and towards the space bridge. Thunderhoof stops himself on the threshold, but Bumblebee releases some girders which knock Thunderhoof in and he disappears. The two Autobots realize they can stop the black hole with an explosion and throw the generator into the space bridge. There’s an explosion, and the whole space bridge is history. The Autobots pick themselves up and Sideswipe has regained Bumblebee’s trust after they fist bumped each other. They also wondered what had happened to Thunderhoof.

In Collect ‘Em All, Bumblebee and his team later encountered Filch, who complicated matters by being flight capable. When Strongarm felt particularly out of place on Earth, Bumblebee told her about his first time on the planet, hoping to cheer her up. After a few incidents involving Filch, and in a mission to rescue Denny from Filch’s nest, Bumblebee fought Filch. When it seemed he was losing, Strongarm breaks the rules to aid her commander in battle. Filch was captured and taken by the Autobots with Denny back to the scrapyard. Later, Bumblebee commends Strongarm on breaking protocols and noticing there was no hives on her. Strongarm realized her place on the team with her friends.

In True Colors, after Grimlock turned on the other Autobots and stole Underbite’s stasis pod, Bumblebee, Sideswipe and Strongarm were forced to track him down to the Crown River Dam, which Bumblebee manages to leave another unimpressive battle cry. They nearly escaped a trap set by Grimlock who had used a cryo-inducer. At the Crown River Dam, they discover Steeljaw was the «boss» that Grimlock referred to in Grimlock’s first attack on the Autobots. Bumblebee engages Steeljaw but later ends up being beaten down with Strongarm by Grimlock, which Sideswipe had to aid them instead of fighting Steeljaw. While Steeljaw managed to escape with Underbite’s stasis pod, the trio detained Grimlock with some wires. Fixit and Russell comms them to inform them about Minitron, who was controlling Grimlock somewhere on Grimlock’s armor. The trio ended up attacking each other when Minitron jumped from Autobot to Autobot then made his way back to Grimlock where he was immediately thrown to a wall and left unconscious instead of being squished by the Dinobot. Back at the scrapyard, Bumblebee apologizes to Grimlock and makes Grimlock an official Autobot member of their team as he told Grimlock he will have Fixit change the Decepticon symbols on Grimlock’s shoulders to Autobot insignias. Although Strongarm felt regret that Steeljaw escaped with Underbite’s stasis pod, Bumblebee states their team is getting stronger each day.

In Rumble in the Jungle, Bumblebee let Strongarm go on a solo mission, but then followed her anyway much to her dismay. He insisted on accompanying her as «an observer», and ended up helping her capture Springload. The pair had a difficult time capturing the Decepticon a few times, which resulted in Strongarm’s left hand to be burned by Springload as Bumblebee examined her hand and nearly causing them both to be trapped in a collapsing room. When Strongarm revealed to Bumblebee that she called Fixit and lied about capturing the Decepticon, Bumblebee was disappointed at her for such reckless behavior. Eventually, Strongarm asked Bumblebee for assistance, which Bumblebee stated he would be honored to aid her. Strongarm had devised a plan that proved successful as Strongarm imitates a spirit and tells Springload he’s unworthy, allowing Bumblebee to sneak up and knock him into a casket. With the pair trapping the Decepticon, Bumblebee commends Strongarm for her first solo mission, which even though Bumblebee was there, she still proved herself and told her «if she continues to prove herself worthy».

In Can You Dig It?, Bumblebee met up with an old ally named Jazz in the night at the scrapyard. After a few moments of catching up (which took until the morning), Jazz offered to take Bumblebee and his team back to Cybertron to clear things up with the council but the team realized they can’t leave Earth because of their mission. Suddenly, Ped attacked the scrapyard to steal their Energon cubes and nearly caused Russell to fall deep in a hole. Luckily, Bumblebee and the other Autobots saved Russell just in time, despite Ped making off with some of their Energon cubes. As the team split up to search for Ped in Ped’s underground tunnels, Bumblebee gave a battle cry that left even Jazz to question it. As Bumblebee and Strongarm chased Ped, Ped’s digging almost caused part of Crown City to collapse, forcing Bumblebee and Strongarm to prop it up. While Strongarm was left to hold it up, Ped mocked the Autobots as he tightly gripped on Bumblebee but he lets go of the Autobot when he overhears on Bumblebee’s comm that Jazz and Sideswipe found Ped’s Energon stash, which caused Ped to go after them and for Bumblebee to warn them about Ped. Later at night, the Autobots planned to lure Ped into a trap with some of Denny’s paint colored blue boxes but they ended up being momentarily trapped in a hole until they were able to get out by Denny’s electromagnet. Ped was successfully captured by the combine efforts of Sideswipe and Jazz. The next morning, Bumblebee helped Strongarm to her feet after she came out of the hole by Denny’s electromagnet, which caused her to fall off from as the cable broke. Bumblebee then wishes Jazz safe travels back to Cybertron as they shook hands.

In Adventures in Bumblebee-Sitting!, a run-in with Quillfire’s toxic spines caused Bumblebee to regress in maturity, and he began playing elaborate pranks on his teammates, such as throwing an oil pie at Grimlock’s face, Sideswipe hits a tripwire and gets a load of bolts flung at him. Strongarm was also pranked as she was entirely covered in fire extinguisher foam. Sideswipe and Russell were left to watch Bumblebee as Strongarm and Grimlock head out to capture Quillfire. The pair were able to get Bumblebee to watch a cowboy movie on TV, though as the pair went to do different things, Bumblebee was bored when a commercial came on and overheard Strongarm talking to Fixit via over the comm at the Crown City carnival. Drawn to the nearby carnival, Bee enjoyed herding a bunch of elephants while riding on Grimlock in his dinobot mode, riding on some rides, and inadvertently helped the Autobots capture Quillfire in the process. Fortunately for all concerned, Quillfire’s toxin eventually wore off when Strongarm had Grimlock chain Bumblebee to the top of a pole at the amusement park. Bee returned to his normal and mature state, although he had no memory of his escapades and was informed by his team that Strongarm filled in for him, which he appreciated her for that. He also discovered some «wet cement» as a classic.

In Hunting Season, Bumblebee encountered a Decepticon bounty hunter named Fracture who came to Earth to claim the bounty on Bumblebee. Drift had also arrived on Earth to collect the bounty on Bumblebee and engaged Fracture. Bee saved Drift’s life when Fracture got the best of Drift and found the Autobot now owed him a life debt as they brought Drift back to the scrapyard with his Mini-Cons named Jetstorm and Slipstream. Drift’s life debt to Bummblebee mostly meant Drift followed him around constantly. However, when Fracture captured the other Autobots, Bee reminded Drift that honor also meant helping friends. After Fracture’s defeat, Drift considered the debt repaid as he decided to not collect the bounty on Bumblebee as he changed his opinion on Bee and left the Earth with his Mini-Cons. Fixit informed Bumblebee that Fracture’s Groundbridge is still operational.

In Out of Focus, Bumblebee attempted to find his calm place as his team continued bickering during the pursuit of Malodor’s Skunkticon gang at the Crown River Dam. Eventually a first encounter with Malodor and his gang led to the Autobots to be temporarily sprayed and left Grimlock to be taken hostage by the Skunkticons. Eventually, Bumblebee, Sideswipe, and Strongarm met up with Malodor and his gang as they were holding Grimlock hostage in the Crown River Dam’s control room. Grimlock freed himself as Bumblebee tangled with Malodor but the Skunticons managed to give the Autobots the slip. Bumblebee was left to save his team from falling off the Dam’s edge and prevented a flood.

In Sideways, Bumblebee was feeling anxious at the lack of Decepticon activity as both Denny and Fixit startled him. Bumblebee got the action he craved when their first attempt to capture Clampdown proved unsuccessful. When they found Clampdown again near a garbage barge area, Bumblebee makes a deal with Clampdown but the Autobots also ended up tangling with Steeljaw’s gang. Bumblebee fought Steeljaw as the Decepticon got the best of Bee and tossed the Autobot in a trash compactor but Sideswipe saved Bumblebee by preventing the machine from totally crushing him. Steeljaw Bumblebee knew

One night, Bumblebee, Denny, and Fixit headed out in search of more energon in Even Robots Have Nightmares. On returning to the scrapyard, they discovered multiple Decepticon signals in a nearby cave system; believing it to be Steeljaw’s gang Bumblebee and his team headed there. The signal turned out to belong to Nightstrike and his hostage Chop Shop. Nightstrike captured the Autobots and immobilized them with his fear-inducing scream- Bumblebee experienced a nightmare about disappointing Optimus Prime. Bumblebee was able to escape with the unexpected help of Chop Shop and managed to capture Nightstrike after deactivating his audio receptors.

Bumblebee and the other Autobots headed to Crown City’s subway system after Sideswipe scouted it out in Some Body, Any Body. On arriving, they discovered that the mad scientist Vertebreak had hijacked Sideswipe’s body. Bumblebee fought Vertebreak and discovered his lab with Fixit. They discovered Sideswipe’s head still intact, which left Sideswipe to believe he was useless to the team. Bumblebee tried to convince Sideswipe he is vital to the team. When they caught up with the other Strongarm and Grimlock, Bumblebee fought Vertebreak with them while Sideswipe stayed in the jar from the fight. After avoiding a train, the trio fought Vertebreak again but this time with Sideswipe’s guidance, Bumblebee and the team managed to knock Vertebreak unconscious, and captured him as Sideswipe’s head was repaired back on his body by Fixit. 

After Jetstorm returned to Earth and claimed Russell as his new sensei, Bumblebee was left in an awkward predicament as he tried to negotiate with Drift and Slipstream in One of Our Mini-Cons Is Missing. The escape of Quillfire and Springload complicated things further. Bumblebee and his team chased the duo, who had stolen a human tank, across a local highway and eventually managed to bring them in. Drift and his students decided to remain with Bumblebee and his team. 

Bumblebee oversaw a training exercise for his teammates in Deep Trouble. Later, the team went underwater in pursuit of Octopunch, who was planning to steal an abandoned Cybertronian spaceship. After fighting off the ship’s various security measures, Bumblebee and Grimlock went up against Octopunch themselves, and managed to best him by knotting his tentacles together. They brought the fugitve back to the scrapyard after they all escaped from the exploding ship. When Bumblebee ordered Fixit to repair Grimlock, Strongarm strangely decides to go on patrol and Bumblebee tells Grimlock that Strongarm is perfect example of commitment. 

Bumblebee and the team, minus Grimlock, went after Groundpounder and his cheating manager Headlock, who were posing as remote-controlled robots in the Rumbledome’s demolition derby in The Champ. Unfortunately, the GroundBridge malfunctioned, first stranding the team in the Arctic and then depositing them outside the city limits. Bumblebee and the others were held up by traffic while Grimlock and Fixit fought the two Decepticons.

Fixit’s glitches began worsening, and Bumblebee had no choice but to order repairs on the damaged Mini-Con in The Trouble with Fixit. Denny’s attempts to repair Fixit only reactivated his sentry protocol. Bumblebee was forced to deal with the scrapyard’s various security measures and the escaped Chop Shop, but with Denny’s assistance he managed to force Fixit to stand down after the Mini-con incapacitated Chop Shop. Fixit was repaired to his normal state (which in this case was Fixit’s normal state) and Bumblebee also received a message from Optimus Prime on a piece of glass that he was holding. Optimus informed Bumblebee to be prepared and prepare his team for a certain threat before he disappeared on the glass.

Bumblebee and the Autobots helped Denny set up a rollercoaster he had purchased on the scrapyard in Lockout. The job was cut short after they detected Kickback, who had been captured by Steeljaw to serve as bait for the Autobots. After returning to the scrapyard, Bumblebee discovered that Steeljaw and his crew had taken over the scrapyard and set up a subsonic pulse to prevent them from entering. While Denny and Russell distracted the Decepticons, Bumblebee and Drift built a catapult and launched Slipstream and Jetstorm into the scrapyard. Bumblebee tangled with Steeljaw again and managed to see him off. The Autobots thanked their human allies for their assistance.

Bumblebee welcomed Grimlock back from a routine patrol, only for Grimlock to break down and confess that he had let the Decepticon Scowl walk away free in Similarly Different. After searching up Scowl’s extensive criminal record, the Autobots tried to track him down. Instead, Scowl flattened them with a tree and headed out to wreck a train station. Bumblebee tried to talk Scowl down, but the Dinobot would have none of it and began smashing the tracks. Bumblebee’s attempts to shore up the destroyed structure were unsuccessful, and eventually the Autobots were forced to grab the train and redirect its path. After Grimlock prevented Scowl from attacking a local spa, Bumblebee consoled Grimlock, who had hoped he could change Scowl’s ways.

Bumblebee listened to Strongarm’s presentation about the dangers of horses, although he was skeptical of its significance in The Buzz on Windblade. The newly arrived Windblade won over most of his team, and even impressed Bumblebee by coming up with a catchy motto. Along with Windblade, Bumblebee and his team worked together to re-capture Zizza and safely redirect human aircraft away from Zizza’s brainwashed human pilots with a plan that Strongarm came up with.

When his team felt homesick for Cybertron, Bumblebee tried to cheer them up by reminding them of Earth’s many interesting locations, and offered to take the team on a vacation in Ghosts and Impostors. Since an erupting volcano proved unpopular, the team visited the abandoned town of Edmondville. After scaring off a busload of human tourists, Bumblebee and his team ran afoul of Pseudo, who first tried to off Bumblebee and Grimlock with a cart of dynamite. Though Grimlock punched the cart, the dynamite merely left them covered in ash. Bumblebee and his team chased Pseudo into the town’s old mines, and temporarily cornered him. Pseudo managed to escape again, but Bumblebee and the team chased him down and captured him. They also observed a sunset together as Fixit called to check on them.

In Battlegrounds, Part 1, when Strongarm and Sideswipe were taken hostage by the Decepticons, Bumblebee realized that they’d have to mount a rescue mission. This was made easier by the reappearance of Windblade, and together the group prepared to raid the Decepticon’s steel mill base. After Windblade was also taken out of the fight, Bumblebee, Grimlock and Drift headed to the Crown City Colossus, where Steeljaw’s portal was nearing construction. The trio arrived too late, and Megatronus was freed from his dimensional prison.

In Battlegrounds, Part 2, Bumblebee’s team was reinforced by the arrival of a reborn Optimus Prime; while Optimus dueled with Megatronus, Bumblebee and the other Autobots worked to stave off Steeljaw’s gang. After Optimus was badly injured and sent flying, Bumblebee tried to help him come round as he observed the wound on Optimus’s chest heal. Fortunately, after a boost in the air from Megatronus, Bumblebee helped Grimlock take out Underbite. As Optimus was seemingly losing to Megatronus, Bumblebee’s Decepticon Hunter gave him, Sideswipe, and Strongarm an additional boost of power. Working with Optimus, the group fought and managed to pin Megatronus beneath the Colossus’s severed arm, and a concentrated burst of energy destroyed Megatronus’s body. Back at the scrapyard, Bumblebee told his team that they were free to return to Cybertron, although all of them opted to stay. Prime congratulated Bumblebee on his leadership skills, and also agreed to stay on Earth as Bumblebee’s equal, rather than his leader.

Season 2

After the Primes took back Optimus’s extra power, Bumblebee attempted to sideline Optimus without success in Overloaded, Part 1. Optimus joined the team Bumblebee assigned to hunt Decepticons far from the scrapyard. While the away team was gone, Overload arrived at the scrapyard, who Bumblebee arrogantly recognized. Despite the best efforts of Bumblebee and the others, they were unable to stop the Decepticon from escaping the scrapyard in his pursuit of Optimus Prime.

In Overloaded, Part 2, after tracking Overload to a parking lot, Bumblebee assumed a recent battle there had been between Overload and the two missing Cyclone Mini-Cons, and sent Grimlock and Strongarm off to hunt the Cyclones while he continued after Overload on his own. As it turned out, Overload and the Mini-Cons were together as they were smashing up a trailer outside of Crown City with screaming humans inside. Bumblebee intervened and pinned Overload to the ground as he punched him around and attempted to get the Decepticon into remembering him. While Overload got up, he thought Bumblebee was «some critic» that called Overload «shameless and over dramatic» in the past, but Bumblebee informed him that it wasn’t. Overload pinned Bumblebee on the ground and began hitting him in the face as he stated his face did look familiar but it was’t as distinctive as Overload’s face. However Bumblebee managed to convince Ransack and Backtrack to turn on the Decepticon by hitting Overload with some pans that made sounds that appealed to the Cyclones. As the Cyclones used other pans to hit Overload with, Bumblebee stated that while he was hoping that Overload would recognize him so that he could punch his lights out, he just punched Overload in the face and left him unconscious. Grimlock and Strongarm walked towards Bumblebee’s success of taking down Overload, which Grimlock complimented on Bee’s punch by dubbing it as «downright Grimlockian». Bumblebee formed a «marching band» with the Cyclones with their pots and pans as they marched back to the scrapyard.

In Metal Meltdown, Bumblebee and his team pursued a strange Decepticon named Saberhorn and discovered the Decepticon didn’t appear in the Alchemor database. Bumblebee fought Saberhorn but he escaped from the trio with some ore that he collected. They proved unable to capture him in a second attempt after Bumblebee was forced to surrender to Saberhorn when Russell was used as a hostage by Saberhorn and Bee nearly ended up being melted down. Fixit disturbingly informed them that Saberhorn was placed on the Alchemor.

In Suspended, when Strongarm became demoralized during the failed pursuit of Crazybolt and Slicedice, as she turned in her Decepticon hunter to Bee. Bumblebee also failed to encourage her by getting her to help Fixit. Bumblebee and Grimlock attempted to deal with a fire caused by the two Cons, and managed to get Strongarm out of the scrapyard to join them in saving some humans. Bumblebee returned Strongarm her Decepticon Hunter and they all shared a laugh when Strongarm prevented herself from destroying Denny’s gnomes as she stated she was a professional.

In Brainpower, after capturing Torpor, Grimlock soon gained super-intelligence from a data cylinder, Bumblebee was reluctant to let him join on a hunt for Simacore. During the attempt to capture the Con, Bumblebee and Strongarm fought Simacore’s Mini-Cons and ended up being defeated by Simacore himself. They were used as hostages and were placed in peril in the particle accelerator to be destroyed if Grimlock did no surrender the circuit board. However, Fixit was able to restore Grimlock’s brain and the Dinobot rescued them both. They brought Simacore and his Mini-Cons back to the scrapyard.

In Misdirection, the Autobots were stupefied at Russell’s coin trick. When a wounded Steeljaw turned up at the scrapyard, Bumblebee, Strongarm and Grimlock followed the trail of energon he’d left to a disused drive in. In the process of fighting and capturing Scorponok, his Mini-Cons, Crazybolt and Slicedice, Bumblebee discovered that Steeljaw had been feigning to gain access to the scrapyard which he had to cover Strongarm escaping to the scrapyard to stop Steeljaw while he dealed with the Decepticons with Grimlock. When Scorponok had the upper hand over Grimlock, Bumblebee seemingly surrendered and played a trick on the Decepticons with a rock as he claimed Steeljaw was after Earth’s «magic». As he provided enough time for Grimlock, they defeated the Decepticons and Bee gave Grimlock cuffs to put them in before leaving. Ultimately he arrived back at the scrapyard too late to prevent Steeljaw from freeing a bunch of the prisoners. They placed the other Decepticons in some stasis pods.

In Bumblebee’s Night Off, after weeks of trying to track down the new group of Decepticons, Bumblebee accidentally shot Grimlock during an encounter with Springload in a railyard. At the scrapyard, Bumblebee announces they will be back out on patrol in fifteen minutes which prompted Denny to advise him to let himself and his team to take a break. When Fixit informs about Decepticon activity at the Rumbledome where Bumblebee and Denny’s favorite concert band Axle will be performing, Bumblebee was thrilled but as the Autobots and Denny were busy, Russell reluctantly went with Bee. Bumblebee remained outside of the stadium in his vehicle mode as he informed Russell to get clear of any trouble, get Denny’s T-shirt and a steering wheel cover in a size medium for Bee’s wheel. Bumblebee was bouncing around through the music in the stadium but paused when a couple had passed his vehicle mode then resumed bouncing again. Rusell found and informed Bee about Bisk in the stadium. Bumblebee contacts his team for backup and Russell helps him get pass security at the loading area. Strongarm reports to Bumblebee that they were stuck in traffic and when Bumblebee goes with Russell to reach the backstage area, they discover the Decepticons were gone. Bumblebee thinks that Bisk may have gone after the sound board that was being used for the concert. Bumblebee promptly goes up the stage where the stage manager assumed he was part of the show. Bumblebee is happy to go along with it, and soon he fights Bisk in full view of the audience. Bumblebee is momentarily starstruck when he realizes where he is, allowing Bisk to unleash Hammer and Anvil on him while the Con heads for the sound board. After taking out the two Mini-Cons, Bumblebee resumes fighting Bisk while Rear Axle continues playing. Bisk nearly had the upper but after a sudden bost of inspiration from his band that was playing on the stage, Bumblebee takes out Bisk just as the band hits the big finish to their song. Later, Bumblebee and Russell throw Bisk and his Mini-Cons into a big box and get them out of the venue. Bumblebee claimed to Russell that he was extremely overjoyed that he was part of the show for his favorite band. Returning to the scrapyard, Russell shows Bumblebee the picture he has of the pair of them with Rear Axle.

In Impounded, following a near disaster while trying to apprehend Silverhound, Bumblebee banned Grimlock from being part of their field missions. He and Strongarm attempted to capture Quillfire, only to be knocked out by his quills and subsequently had to be rescued from an impound lot by Denny and Russell. Grimlock was there in a new disguise that Fixit made for him and helped them deal with Quillfire. After Bumblebee and Strongarm incapacitate Quillfire’s Mini-Cons, they ended up in a maintenance pit but Grimlock captured the Decepticon after spinning him around on his crane hook. Bumblebee approved the Dinobot’s new disguise for use on missions as they were going home.

In Portals, when Strongarm was stuck under a turret with Grimlock attempting to get her out, Bumblebee arrives to shut the turret down before it takes out most of the scrapyard. He reflects he will always be there to assist and states the team was like a family. When Soundwave returned and trapped Bumblebee in the shadowzone, Bumblebee was still able to communicate with the rest of his team, mainly Fixit, by radio. He was utterly incapable of being there for his team against Soundwave and his Mini-Con Laserbeak. After his team seemed defeated, it gave him an idea. He came up with a plan for his team to defeat the Decepticon. It worked as Bumblebee escaped from the shadowzone, destroys Soundwave’s transmitter and fights Soundwave, which Soundwave was able to get the better of Bee and pinned the Autobot down. He prepared to shoot Bee but was knocked back into the shadowzone along with Laserbeak who was thrown in by Grimlock. Bumblebee was impressed that his own team were able to take on a Decepticon like Soundwave without him but his team reminded him that they were following his plans.

In Decepticon Island (Part 1), Bumblebee found his orders were being double-guessed by Optimus during a mission with the other Autobots to track down a Decepticon. However, it was quite surprising as they reunited with Ratchet and brought him back to the scrapyard with Clampdown, who was placed in a stasis pod. Ratchet explains to the team about the regime on Cybertron that the council blamed Optimus and members of Team Prime for the destruction of their planet. Upon Toolbox arriving in the scrapyard and informing the team about the Decepticon island which Steeljaw had joined, the Autobots began working on their plans to place a stasis bomb in the Decepticon island. Later, the Autobots use one of Denny’s boats to head out towards the Decepticon island, which they all pretended to be unconscious while Grimlock steered the way. Bumblebee helped Grimlock with a ruse to infiltrate the crash of the Alchemor when a Decepticon picked up on their signal. The ship appeared in the water and the Autobots took advantage when Grimlock knocked out two Decepticon guards. As the Autobots make their way into the ship, they’re shocked to find numerous Decepticons who were in the ship. They came to a chamber where Mini-Cons were being forced to work. Their presence was compromised when one of the Mini-Con slaves called on Toolbox, which left Optimus having the urge to save the Mini-Cons
while Bumblebee wanted to finish the mission. Their argument delayed enough time for more Decepticons to enter the room and surround the Autobots, with Steeljaw «welcoming» the Autobots to his new Decepticon empire.

In Decepticon Island (Part 2), After Windblade uses herself to distract the Decepticons, the Autobots escape the room and soon split up, with Bumblebee taking Optimus and Toolbox to fix a cryo-gas bomb to the ship’s ventilation hub. After Bumblebee and Optimus sorts out their leadership issues, they also encountered and fought a Decepticon Hunter empowered Steeljaw. Bumblebee attempted to take on Steeljaw, only to be knocked aside and nearly finished off until Fixit arrives with his fellow Mini-Cons who were all freed. With the help from Fixit, Toolbox, and the other Mini-Cons, Bumblebee and Optimus succeeded in taking the Decepticon down as Bumblebee regained his Decepticon Hunter in the process and uses it to trap Steeljaw in the floor. Together, all of the Autobots and Mini-Cons escaped before the bomb froze every Decepticon on the ship. In the aftermath, Bumblebee and Optimus reconcile as Optimus wanted to check out the new regime on Cybertron. He also informed Bumblebee that he will come to his aid should Bumblebee ever need it and compliments Bumblebee’s leadership then they shook hands. After they watched the boat leave, Bumblebee announced it was time to establish a permanent base on Earth with his team members following him back to the scrapyard.

Season 2 1/2

In History Lessons, with the Decepticons no longer a problem, Bumblebee took his team on a tour of Earth, ending up in a visit to the remains of Output Omega One where they stumbled on a bomb. The team split up, and Bumblebee and Sideswipe stumbled on the scavengers Paralon and Buzzstrike, who were trying to find useful artifacts. Though Bee was knocked out cold after being controlled by Buzzstrike, he managed to prevent the bomb from doing any major damage. Unfortunately Sideswipe found his old diary, which included the exercise video he’d made.

In Strongarm´s Big Score, after it became clear that an unknown group was looking for, Bumblebee split up the team to search Cybertronian sites and personally went to western Africa. He and the rest of the team were accidentally GroundBridged back to the scrapyard instead of Mount St. Hilary because Denny and Russell couldn’t work the controls.

In Pretzel Logic, while continuing the search, Bumblebee and Sideswipe ended up in a desert. They later joined Grimlock when the Dinobot encountered Thermidor and Tricerashot, however when Thermidor threatened to bring down a ski lift, Bumblebee’s impatience resulted in him being defeated by the scavenger and it was down to Grimlock to retrieve the artifact. Bumblebee later worked on learning patience from Brother Gunter.

In Mighty Big Trouble, Bumblebee and his team retrieved a high energy pulse generator from Egypt, only to have to destroy it when it threatened to fry their brains. Following the invasion of the scrapyard by the Weaponizer Mini-Cons, Team Bee’s Mini-Con members were mistakenly abducted by Starscream’s men, and Starscream then used them to force Bumblebee to surrender himself.

In Mini-Con Madness, after an aborted attempt to escape and find the Mini-Cons, Bumblebee was tied up on the bridge of Starscream’s ship and forced to listen to the Decepticon’s rambling. He did manage to distract Starscream when Jetstorm got free. When Starscream had finally captured the Weaponizer Mini-Cons, Bumblebee was there to witness Starscream gloat.

In Worthy, Bumblebee was eventually freed by Fixit, Jetstorm and Slipstream and joined by Optimus and the rest of Team Bee, as they fought Starscream’s men. They eventually managed to defeat Starscream, despite him successfully merging with the Weaponizer Mini-Cons, by dragging him down into range of Fixit’s signal so he could be de-merged. After fare-welling Optimus and the Mini-Cons, Bumblebee and his team split up to search more Cybertronian sites.

Season 3

In King of the Hill (Part 1), when a Decepticon was detected, Bumblebee was confident that Sideswipe and Strongarm could handle it. Bee and the rest of the team had to join them when it turned out they couldn’t.

In King of the Hill (Part 2), during the battle against Heatseeker, Bumblebee found himself unexpectedly linked to a Mini-Con which gave him a flight mode, and an explosion resulted in the entire team being merged into one robot while unconscious. In the aftermath, Bumblebee realized he’d lost his Decepticon Hunter.

In Defrosted, Bee searched for his weapon in the scrapyard, fruitlessly, though his search was put on hold when the team had to head to one of Windblade’s caches in Antarctica to secure Crustacion.

In Blurred, while trying to secure another cache, the team encountered Rescue Bot Blurr, resulting in Bumblebee having to handle Sideswipe being paranoid about being replaced. As a result, they had to chase down Ragebyte after the Sharkticon prisoner escaped.

In Sphere of Influence, Bee and the rest of his team found themselves coveting the Sphere of Doradus thanks to the energies the artifact was giving off, and had to resist it so they could capture Springload.

In Bee Cool, Bumblebee became jealous of the rapport Blurr and Sideswipe had, and his attempts to be cool caused trouble as the team tried to apprehend Dragstrip and Wildbreak. Although the Stunticons got away, the team secured the weapons and Sideswipe complimented Bumblebee’s leadership which they share a new style of handshake with each other.

In The Great Divide, during another attempt to capture Dragstrip, the team once again inadvertently merged, and in the aftermath found themselves having to cope with two Sideswipes. In the end, the weapon from Dragstrip was recovered and the two Sideswipes were merged into one Sideswipe.

In Get a Clue, as the team investigated a series of Decepticon thefts, Bumblebee encouraged Strongarm to cultivate her detective skills, leading them to capturing three Decepticon brothers.

In Out of the Shadows, when Drift’s old mentor Shadow Raker showed up on Earth, Bumblebee and the team helped Drift recover his Mini-Con students after the Decepticon kidnapped them.

In Disordered Personalities, another of Fixit’s combiner experiments led to the Autobots temporarily switching bodies. Stuck in Grimlock’s body, Bumblebee was forced to sit out the subsequent road race mission to defeat the Stunticons. In the end, his team managed to save the driver and they switched back to their original bodies.

In Guilty as Charged, Bee and the rest of the team attempted to help Strongarm’s friend Nightra after she turned up apparently being pursued by Blastwave, only to discover that Nightra was the criminal and Blastwave was an Autobot bounty hunter. In the end, Nightra was apprehended by Strongarm and the team returned to the base.

In The Golden Knight, Bumblebee took Fixit with him to an English island where they encountered Flamesnort and had to shut down the Decepticon’s seismic-shock warhead before it could destroy Earth.

In The Fastest Bot Alive!, after an experiment led to Grimlock developing super speed, Bumblebee confined him to base. During an attempt to recapture Simacore, Bee had to contend with Grimlock turning up to help as well.

Appearances

Transformers: Robots in Disguise

• «Pilot (Part 1)» ^(Debut)
• «Pilot (Part 2)»
• «Trust Exercises»
• «More than Meets the Eye»
• «W.W.O.D.?»
• «As the Kospego Commands!»
• «Collect ‘Em All»
• «True Colors»
• «Rumble in the Jungle»
• «Can You Dig It?’
• «Adventures in Bumblebee-Sitting!»
• «Hunting Season»
• «Sideways»
• «Out of Focus»
• «Even Robots Have Nightmares»
• «Some Body, Any Body»
• «One of Our Mini-Cons Is Missing»
• «Deep Trouble»
• «The Champ»
• «The Trouble with Fixit»
• «Lockout»
• «Similarly Different»
• «The Buzz on Windblade»
• «Ghosts and Impostors»
• «Battlegrounds, Part 1»
• «Battlegrounds, Part 2»

Season 2

• «Overloaded, Part 1»
• «Overloaded, Part 2»
• «Metal Meltdown»
• «Suspended»
• «Brainpower»
• «Misdirection»
• «Bumblebee’s Night Off»
• «Impounded»
• «Portals»
• «Decepticon Island (Part 1)»
• «Decepticon Island (Part 2)»

Season 2 1/2

• «History Lessons»
• «Strongarm´s Big Score»
• «Pretzel Logic»
• «Mighty Big Trouble»
• «Mini-Con Madness»
• «Worthy»

Season 3

• «King of the Hill (Part 1)»
• «King of the Hill (Part 2)»
• «Defrosted»
• «Blurred»
• «Sphere of Influence»
• «Bee Cool»
• «The Great Divide»
• «Get a Clue»
• «Out of the Shadows»
• «Disordered Personalities»
• «Guilty as Charged»
• «The Golden Knight»
• «The Fastest Bot Alive!»
• «Railroad Rage»
• «Combine and Conquer»
• «Moon Breaker»
• «Exiles»
• «Breathing Room»
• «Prepare for Departure»
• «Prisoner Principles»
• «Collateral Damage»
• «Something He Ate»
• «Sick as a Bot»
• «Five Fugitives»
• «Enemy of My Enemy»
• «Freedom Fighters»

Physical Appearance

Body and car modes

During the Great War, Bumblebee was much smaller than the other Autobots. He was primarily colored in yellow, with several rims of red and black on his body. His vehicle mode is a fiction made car called the Urbana 500.

Stealth Bumblebee

In Beast Hunters, his paint is now mostly black with yellow stripes of his body. His head is still mostly yellow with a black stripe down the middle. All the parts of his body that previously glowed blue, now glow yellow.

Transformers: Robots in Disguise

Bumblebee retains his yellow and little of his black color scheme. His vehicle mode is a bit similar to his old vehicle mode from Transformers Prime.

Personality

Bumblebee is a quiet and a very playful Autobot. He seems to never bother his teammates at all and even the human kids look up to him. Despite his nice demeanour, Bumblebee holds a burden in him, due to Megatron ripping out his voice box during his time back on Cybertron. Bumblebee doesn’t realize that he doesn’t have to prove anything to his teammates and that they all see him as a valuable member of the Autobots. He seems to posses some irresponsibility problems as he jumped on the chance to engage in illegal street racing and disobey some of Optimus’s orders.

Despite his long history with the Autobots, Bumblebee wanted to take the ultimate step and gain the courage to be bold. He didn’t realize however, that he had already become bold on his own and was looked at highly by the other Autobots. Bumblebee’s biggest challenge is convincing himself that he is the only one that sees him unfit to carry out tasks in the Autobots’ missions.
Despite being a soldier, Bumblebee is still young by Cybertronian standards and has the mind set of 12-16-year-old child. It has been implied by Arcee that Bumblebee watches Earth cartoons on Saturdays. However, when the situation calls for it Bumblebee can become very serious. It is implied that Bumblebee is very ashamed of not being able to speak and did not tell Raf how he lost his voice box. 

Bumblebee got his voice back after getting revived by the Cybermatter and killing Megatron with the Star Saber in Deadlock.

After gaining his wish of becoming a full pledged warrior, Bumblebee began to mature through his outlook as with the threat of Unicron approaching Cybertron and with Optimus unavailable, Bumblebee reluctantly took on the role of leader of the Autobots where he managed to gain the Predacons trust in Predacons Rising.

In Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Bumblebee is far more serious and mature, despite his fame as a war hero and despite being a high ranking police officer, he is a humble peacekeeper, just like in Predacons Rising. On an another positive note, Bumblebee is reluctant to be a leader. He frequently trys to rally his troops with a battle cry to impress them, no avail. He shows signs of trepidation when he acted like a leader and fears letting his former mentor Optimus Prime down. However, despite his reluctance, he maintains control and demonstrates optimism and trust with his new team. When Megatronus nearly attempts to destroy Earth, Bumblebee is reunited with Optimus and unknowingly abandons his team for the first half of the battle. However, Bumblebee redeem himself for it when he worked with Sideswipe and Strongarm in using their Decepticon Hunters to upgrade their forms. Soon after his team has seemingly defeated Megatronus, Bumblebee impressed everyone including Optimus by stating a decent and catchy battle cry. After they placed Steeljaw’s pack (with Steeljaw remaining at large) in stasis pods, Bumblebee welcomes Optimus to join his team, which Optimus remained.

In season 2, Bumblebee has shown a hidden personal grudge against the Decepticon named Overload. However, even though Overload did not recognize Bumblebee, Bumblebee had some satisfaction when he punched Overload and left him unconscious as he captured him. He seems to have grown attached to his team as shown in Portals where he states they were like a family with Sideswipe being a «crazy cousin» and his team also relied on his leadership to defeat Soundwave and his Mini-Con Laserbeak. In Decepticon Island (Part 1), Bumblebee and Optimus began to have some discord before and during a mission to stop Steeljaw and his army by placing a stasis bomb in Decepticon island. Although their conflict continued in Decepticon Island (Part 2), Bumblebee was able to talk with Optimus and it left Optimus persuaded as he lets Bumblebee lead. After the Decepticons on Decepticon island were all successfully in stasis, Optimus and Bumblebee make up as Optimus advises Bumblebee to never doubt himself as he truly became a leader.

Powers and Abilities

Bumblebee is an excellent scout, due to his speed and small size. He is able to hold his own in battle facing off opponents such as Breakdown and Skyquake. He possesses leadership qualities which is shown in «Predacons Rising», as he lead the Autobots in the fight against Unicron. He is armed with two Energon blasters in his arms, he is also armed with an energy shield along with a plasma cannon. Interesting, he does not use his Energon blasters in the sequel most likely due to him being a cop.

After Cybertron’s restoration Bumblebee grew into a veteran warrior, which he has proven to be an adept fighter as he can easily engage numerous Decepticons twice his size, even going toe-to-toe with Steeljaw. Interestingly, he appears to have inherited many of his former allies abilities including Arcee’s dexterity as he can perform many amazing feats of high jump attacks and close-quarter combat, Bulkhead’s strength which he uses to face off against challenging opponents, Ratchet’s strategic mind and technological skills and Optimus’s leadership qualities which ultimately make Bumblebee one of the strongest Autobots on-line.

Relationships

• Bumblebee’s Relationships

Trivia

• Bumblebee’s appearance is heavily based on his Movie counterpart. The only other Autobot designed such is Optimus Prime. And like his movie counterpart (at least in the first live action movie), Bumblebee was able to talk in the end of the show.
• Bumblebee finally got his wish of moving from scout to warrior on Cybertron in Predacons Rising. 
• Many fans believe that the real reason Bumblebee can not speak throughout most of this series, it is because the creators of this series could not find the perfect voice actor for him until the end of the series, however some believe it may have been because his earlier incarnations were too annoying.
• Bumblebee and Arcee are the only two Autobots of the entire series to go on more than one relic hunt together.
• Bumblebee was once seen in an episode of a newer Transformers series, Transformers Rescue Bots, episode; Bumblebee To The Rescue. It is said by the character, Blades, a bot who can turn into a helicopter, that Bumblebee is legendary. It seems that Blades is Bumblebee’s biggest fan, and, towards the end of that particular episode, the character, Cody Burns, starts to understand Bumblebee’s speech.
• According to the Autobits in the first three episodes of Beast Hunters, Frank Welker actually did dialogue for Bumblebee until it was decided to replace the dialogue with sound effects instead.
• At San Diego Comic Con, it revealed that Bumblebee will be voiced by Will Friedle (Terry McGinnis from Batman Beyond, Deadpool from Ultimate Spider-Man and Lion-O from 2011 remake of Thundercats) in Deadlock.
• He is the first incarnation of Bumblebee to offline Megatron.
• Despite being the weakest of the Autobots aside from Arcee (and by a lot of fans, the most useless) Bumblebee has the highest kill count of the Autobots being the one to offline Skyquake and eventually Megatron.
  • Thus, Bumblebee has shown to be far from useless. 
• On that subject, Bumblebee was often the least favorite from fans, many beleving that Smokescreen was his replacement for kid appeal character. However once he started speaking in Deadlock and Predacons Rising his popularity greatly increased. 
• Ultra Magnus, Wheeljack, Smokescreen and Bumblebee never use built in melee weapons with Bumblebee never using any in the entire series.
• Bumblebee is shown to be a good liar, as he was able to trick Predaking into believing that a piece of metal he found was the Immobilizer and have Starscream believe that he did not possess it for a moment.
• When auditions were held for Bumblebee’s voice in Season 3, voice actors were led to believe that were reading for the role of Bluestreak as the producers wanted a true fan of Transformers to voice such an iconic character.
• He will return in the sequel in 2015 as the main protagonist. Revelations about the sequel states that he will have visions of Optimus, implying that Optimus becomes his guide.
• Bumblebee seems to be the only Autobot who does not have eyelids. The Vehicons, Insecticons, Soundwave, Shockwave, and possibly Makeshift are the only known Decepticons that do not seem to have eyelids.
• Since Bumblebee appears older than Sideswipe and Strongarm, his character is a lot like Cade Yeager in Transformers: Age of Extinction». They both act like adult figures and have different relationships with other characters. For example: Bumblebee and Sideswipe both have a similar relationship and traits to Cade Yeager and Shane Dyson.
• He is the only Cybertronian to be caught on camera more than once.
• Bumblebee think’s of Earth as his second home.

Transformers Prime quotes

• «MEGATRON!!!» *Stabs Megatron with Star Saber* «You took my voice. You will never rob anyone, of anything, ever again.»- Bumblebee regains his voice.
• «My voice? What’re you g-«
• «My voice!»
• «Ratchet, I got my pipes back.»
• «I never did.» Bumblebee telling Raf he never spoke until now.
• «Slow down Smokey. I’m not sure I wish a Prime’s responsibility on anyone.»
• «Let’s take the Warship and bring it back.»
• «Ok you got my attention. What do you want?»
• «Well when are you going to tell me where I can find your pals?»
• «Your finish is looking pretty drab.»
• «Optimus Prime would deem it a tragedy to stain Cybertron’s fresh soil with any newly spilled energon. So help us prove what Megatron was never willing to. That more than one race can co-exist on our planet.»
• «Megatron?»
• «Ratchet, we need a groundbridge!»
• «NO!!!»
• «You got that right.»
• «I like to think my actions spoke louder than my words Arcee. But it didn’t hurt to watch from the best.»
• «I was referring to a powerful little two-wheeler I know.» Bumblebee to Arcee
• «That device your holding. Not the Immobilizer.»
• «Knock Out… We needed that!»
• «We’re the last line of defense.»
• «Optimus go! Save the AllSpark!!»
• «You can count on us to keep the peace.»

Transformers: Robots in Disguise quotes

• «My name is Bumblebee, and I keep the peace around here. Try to, anyway.» — Bumblebee making a comeback in Pilot (Part 1).
• «I’ve been following a trail. One that you two apparently can’t see. A trail laid out for me by Optimus Prime.» — Bumblebee to Strongarm and Sideswipe.
• «Bad impersonation?» — Bumblebee after the two museum guards mistake him for someone else.
• «We’ve been here less than an hour, and he’s already revealed himself to a human.» — Bumblebee witnessing Sideswipe bring Russell Clay.
• «I’m not Optimus!» — Bumblebee to Strongarm in Pilot (Part 2).
• «Roll up and roll out! — Bumblebee’s first bad phrase to his team.
• «But we needed your help, Optimus. We always will.»
• «I… we… won’t let you down Optimus. And if I say it enough, maybe I’ll actually believe it.» — Bumblebee has high hopes for his new team.
• «The density of mercury is, uh, bzzt, error, bzzt, error.» — Bumblebee acting in W.W.O.D.?.
• «Oh Fixit, we don’t have any elephants.» — Bumblebee in As the Kospego Commands!.
• «The music on this planet is pretty great. The melodies are complex and the lyrics frequently have multiple meanings.»
• «Let’s rev, rock and rumble! [sees Sideswipe and Strongarm’s faces] Oh really? I kinda liked that one.»
• «I’ve seen Grimlock’s rap-sheet, the only crime on there is severe property damage due to Grimlock being… Grimlock.» — Bumblebee in True Colors.
• «Autobots, maximum velocity.»
• «Uh, look, this isn’t how it looks, Strongarm. I just forgot to give you something before you left. It’s… my good luck rock! Took it on my very first mission. Musta dropped it, right? Here.» — Bumblebee is unconvincing in Rumble in the Jungle.
• «Alright then. Autobots, lets bug out!» [dog barks in the distance] «Cause y’know, we’re kinda chasing a bug.» — Bumblebee in Can You Dig It?
• «Autobots, roll up…and..a..roll up.» — Bumblebee in Adventures in Bumblebee-Sitting!
• «I saved you, you saved me. I hereby release you from your life debt, with my deepest thanks.» — Bumblebee to Drift in Hunting Season.
• «Looks like the team meeting’ll have to wait. Too bad, so sad. Ok, Autobots! Let’s hit the trail!» — Bumblebee in Out of Focus.
• «Hey! I do the rallying cries!»
• «What is it? Oh uhh… let’s speed and succeed!… Well come on, I mean w-we…y-you put me on the spot!» — Bumblebee in Sideways.
• «OK team! Gas it up and blow it out! …Honestly it sounded better in my head.»- Bumblebee makes a fart joke in Even Robots Have Nightmares.
• «Time to bring the zoom and lower the boom!» — Bumblebee in One of Our Mini-Cons Is Missing.
• «Looks like we’ve come to a bridge. Let’s cross it.» — Bumblebee in Deep Trouble.
• «Ok, Autobots. Let’s wreck and roll! [silence] You see, ‘wreck’ because Scowl wrecks, and then I was like ‘roll’ because… that’s what we do.» — Bumblebee in Similarly Different.
• «Uh, Strongarm, horses aren’t generally aggressive unless provoked.» — Bumblebee to Strongarm in The Buzz on Windblade.
• «Now, how did you come up with that so fast? Cause I’ve had the worst time.» — Bumblebee to Windblade on catchphrases.
• «Ha! C’mon, Earth is unpredictable! That’s part of its charm!» — Bumblebee in Ghosts and Impostors.
• «Drift, Grim, let’s roll to the rescue! Wait, no, somebody’s already using that battle cry.» — Bumblebee in Battlegrounds, Part 1.
• «Scrud. Uh… halt! This is Fire Marshal, um, Denruss. For your safety, stay in your shelter and cover your eyes and mouth because of the smoke. And stuff.» — Bumblebee in Suspended.
• «Humans travel here in their vehicles and park next to these speakers so they can watch and listen to a film that’s projected on that giant screen.» — Bumblebee in Misdirection.
• «I mean, they play songs about fighting for justice, and not giving up so long as the music’s still playing! I mean it’s like they know me!» — Bumblebee on Rear Axle in Bumblebee’s Night Off.
• «It’s…like being in a dream!»
• «Every family has a crazy cousin.» — Bumblebee on Sideswipe in Portals.
• «Not today, Steeljaw. Not when all I have to do is imagine the tools I need to defeat you.» — Bumblebee before trapping Steeljaw in the floor with his Decepticon Hunter in Decepticon Island (Part 2)

References

Bumblebee is an Autobot warrior and the former scout of Team Prime, as well as the former guardian of his human friend, Raf Esquivel, in Transformers: Prime. Bumblebee was a very important member of Optimus’s team during the Great War and was with Optimus for the longest out of any Autobot, excluding Ratchet. Bumblebee went with Optimus, Bulkhead and Ratchet to Earth in an attempt to stop the Decepticons from draining the planet’s energy and taking it over. At the end of the war, Bumblebee was the one to kill Megatron, the very same Transformer who took away his voice since the war. However, Megatron was revived by Unicron shortly after, who used his body as a vessel to attack Cybertron. With Optimus missing in action at the time and Ultra Magnus badly wounded, Bumblebee became temporary leader of the Autobots. Optimus returned and defeated Unicron with the help of his team. Before Optimus became one with Primus, Bumblebee promised Optimus that they will keep the peace in his memory before Optimus left. Optimus gave one last smile to them before going into the Core. When the Sparks burst from the Well, the team watched as the sparks fly out to bring life to their home again, including Optimus’s own spark.

Years after the war finished, Bumblebee became a high ranking police officer, but was still praised as a war hero, with a partner police cadet Strongarm, but he began to see visions of Optimus leading him back to Earth with Strongarm, street punk Sideswipe and Mini-Con Fixit where they discover a crashed Decepticon ship with numerous fugitives at large. A dinobot named Grimlock, who was a prisoner on the ship, teams up with them as well as humans Denny Clay and his son Russell. Bumblebee takes leadership in his new team to hunt down the Decepticon fugitives on Earth. On some occasions, Bumblebee would mess up on his battle cries, which would make his team laugh or not impressed. In Battlegrounds, Part 2, after Bumblebee and his team, along with a revived Optimus Prime, seemingly defeated Megatronus, Bumblebee found a phrase that impressed everyone.

Biography

Bumblebee was born as one of the last generation to be created from the Well of Allsparks after it had ceased producing life. During ‘The Great War’, Bumblebee joined the Autobots where he fought alongside Optimus Prime and several other comrades during the centuries-old skirmish.

At an unknown point, Bumblebee took part in an operation to track down Overload, a Decepticon spy whom had managed to destroy a selection of Autobot installations. Bumblebee attempted to apprehend him, tragically however he was brutally overpowered by the physically-superior Decepticon; however, Overload was eventually captured by his leader, Optimus and placed into stasis.

At some point during the war, Bumblebee was captured by Decepticon forces at Tyger Pax, upon where he was brutally interrogated by Megatron though the young scout valiantly refused to reveal any information which ultimately resulted in the Decepticon leader destroying his voice box  and was subsequently left to die. However Bumblebee was later discovered by Autobot troops and was evacuated to a triage facility where he was stabilized by a field medic Ratchet where he was able to communicate (via beeps and tones), though was unable to repair his voice box and thus was rendered mute.

After Arcee had been captured and interrogated by Arachnid, immediately after the death of Tailgate, Bumblebee, alongside Cliffjumper, managed to invade her personal lair and managed to save Arcee and escort her to safety.

After the near conclusion of the war which had ultimately reduced Cybertron to become uninhabitable, Bumblebee personally joined Team Prime alongside Optimus, Ratchet (and presumably where he met Bulkhead) and thus evacuated the planet via The Ark. Together they travelled across the galaxy for thousands of years until they eventually reached Earth.

Mini Series

Human allies

During a scout for Energon, Cliffjumper was placed in a difficult battle and taken to the Decepticon warship. Bumblebee was in a different timezone, and unable to arrive until after he was captured. Bumblebee met up with Arcee, Ratchet, Bulkhead and Optimus Prime and searched the area for any clues regarding Cliffjumper’s previous presence. However, Arcee was able to find one of his horns, indicating he had been killed during the battle. Bumblebee was present for the Autobots’ gathered mourning of their ally’s death. Arcee struck out on her own and wound up with a human, Jack Darby. During a chase between her and two Vehicons, Bumblebee interfered and charged at the two.
As he continued to aid Arcee, he was forced into robot mode when the Vehicons chose to fight them. During the battle, he met Raf Esquivel and ordered him to run alongside Jack, in an attempt to evacuate. Despite his and Arcee’s best efforts, the pair proved ineffective and were nearly defeated until the arrival of Bulkhead. Bumblebee went back to the Autobot base and told Optimus of his and Arcee’s antics, alongside the latter. After Optimus ordered their human allies to be brought to the Autobots’ base, Bumblebee went to retrieve Raf and brought him back.

Last signs of Cliffjumper

After taking the humans to the base, Bumblebee and Arcee went with Optimus and Bulkhead to find where Cliffjumper’s signal had popped up at. After arriving at the signal, Bumblebee and the others discovered an Energon mine taking place by the Decepticons. Bumblebee and the other Autobots held off the Decepticons while Arcee went to recover Cliffjumper, who’s body had been sliced in half by Megatron. After returning to the base and Arcee’s falling out, Bumblebee was the first one to be worried about her, immediately asking if she was okay.

Leaving with Arcee

Bumblebee spent time with Raf, discovering that he had excellent driving skills on Raf’s computer games. Bumblebee went with Arcee out on patrol and left Raf at the base with Bulkhead. After Bulkhead went off to go rescue Agent Fowler back from the Decepticons and was promptly joined by the humans, Bumblebee was forced to drive there.

Rescuing Fowler

The next day, Bumblebee discovered that he was a lot better than Raf at computer games, though Raf blamed it on Bumblebee’s greater experience in driving. When they reached the base, Optimus and Ratchet left on a mission, placing Arcee in charge. Arcee promptly went out on patrol, taking Bumblebee with her and leaving Bulkhead in charge. As they drove through the Nevada desert, Bulkhead reported that Fowler had been abducted by the Decepticons. When it turned out there was no one left at base to bridge them back, Arcee and Bumblebee were forced to drive there.

Bumblebee and Arcee arrived at the Decepticon ship in time to rescue Raf and Jack from a pair of Decepticons. They quickly located Bulkhead and Miko, also moving through the ship, but after it became obvious that the humans were in too much danger as they fought their way through the ship, the Autobots cleared out a room for them to hide out in. They eventually reached the brig where Fowler was being held, and Bumblebee and Bulkhead burst through the main door while Arcee slipped in through a top vent.A standoff ensued, until Fowler distracted Starscream long enough for the Autobots to start firing. Starscream thusly chased off, the Autobots took off with Fowler and rescued the kids on the way out.

Space Bridge battle

Once the Autobots had located the whereabouts of the Decepticon space bridge—Earth orbit—Optimus, Bulkhead, Arcee and Bumblebee used the GroundBridge to reach it. They were spotted by Megatron and Starscream, who sent a force of flying Decepticons to attack them. While they battled, Ratchet determined a way to destroy the space bridge, so Bumblebee, Arcee and Bulkhead went to implement the plan. They committed the necessary act of sabotage before Megatron fired on them. Bumblebee collected Arcee on his way to jumping into the GroundBridge and carried her back to base where she recovered enough to stand on her own.

Season 1

Skyquake

Bumblebee helped Raf with his science project, building a small replica of a volcano while they discussed how Bumblebee had not yet risen to the rank of Warrior. As Optimus pointed out, Bumblebee still had much to learn before he could reach that level. Optimus also noted the lifespan of Cybertronians are much longer than that of humans. Optimus subsequently picked Bumblebee to go on a mission to investigate Decepticon activity, but warned the smaller Autobot to hold back.

When Optimus came to blows with Skyquake, Bumblebee decided to disregard the earlier order and charged into battle. Though he was no match for Skyquake, he and Optimus led the Decepticon into a trap and seemed victorious, until Skyquake scanned Fowler’s jet. Bumblebee managed to end the fight by jumping onto Skyquake’s jet form and causing critical damage, jumping to Fowler’s jet as Skyquake crashed to the ground. After some repairs, Optimus commended Bumblebee on his performance.

Scraplets

Bulkhead and Bumblebee discovered a strange pod in the Arctic which they brought back to base. When the kids arrived at base, Bumblebee was keen to play some videogames with Raf, but he and Bulkhead were roped into helping Ratchet repair the GroundBridge, which broke shortly after Optimus and Arcee used it to go to the Arctic. The cause of the problem was revealed when Raf found a Scraplet, which started gnawing on Bumblebee’s arm. Raf killed it with a crowbar before it could do much more damage, but Bumblebee ended up having to search the base with Raf for more of the Scraplets. After finding quite a lot of Scraplets, they returned to the control room, where another mass of them overwhelmed Bumblebee, Bulkhead and Ratchet. Though the kids were able to get rid of the attacking Scraplets, Bumblebee was out of it for the rest of the incident, and ended up on a repair bed, being tended to by the kids.

Wheeljack

When Wheeljack landed on Earth, Bulkhead, Arcee and Bumblebee turned out to welcome him and arrived in time to see him trash some Vehicons. The Autobots celebrated their new friend’s arrival, and Bumblebee and Raf danced The Robot to Miko’s guitar playing. He also stood around a lot while Bulkhead proved that «Wheeljack» was a Decepticon spy and the real Wheeljack turned up. After everything was resolved, the Autobots had another party to welcome the real Wheeljack, and Bumblebee got to bust out some more dance moves. He and Arcee turned out with Bulkhead to see Wheeljack off when the Autobot returned to space.

First MECH encounter

Bumblebee took part in the Autobot convoy to transport Fowler’s Dynamic Nuclear Generation System across the US countryside. When MECH attacked them, he bashed into one of the cars they were using, flipping it over. The Autobots successfully passed the D.N.G.S. over to a train, but were shortly after confronted by a squadron of flying Vehicons, and were forced to return to their robot modes to fight. Bumblebee got to try out some boxing moves on a Vehicon, but while the Autobots were occupied, MECH made another attempt to obtain the D.N.G.S. which was foiled by Optimus.

When an Energon Harvester was located in a museum, the Autobots surrounded the building while the kids went in to steal it. Knock Out and Breakdown appeared at the front of the museum to attack Optimus, and as Breakdown charged at the museum, Bumblebee and Arcee attempted to stop him. Bumblebee was hit by a missile, sending him tumbling, and then by Arcee who’d just missed catching another missile. He, Arcee and Prime later attempted to track down the Decepticons before the Harvester could be used, but they ended up coming to Bulkhead’s rescue after he found and stopped the Decepticons himself.

Street racing

When Arcee refused to go street racing with Jack, Bumblebee was more receptive, though they asked Raf’s permission beforehand. Unfortunately also participating in the race was Knock Out, who started firing on Bumblebee. After calling base and letting them know what was up, Bumblebee used an oil slick to slow down Knock Out, and hid under a bridge. They would have escaped detection had another human, Vince, not confronted Jack about apparently pulling out of the race, and Vince was subsequently captured by Knock Out. After Arcee and Bulkhead arrived, the three Autobots pursued Knock Out to a storage facility, where Bumblebee and Bulkhead were ambushed by Breakdown. While Arcee chased Knock Out, Bumblebee held his strength against Breakdown before getting defeated, although Bulkhead came to Bumblebee’s rescue when he slammed Breakdown with a street lamp. Meanwhile, Knockout was stopped by Optimus, who rescued Vince before requiring some explanations later on.

Venture to Nemesis

During a mission to recover any living Autobots from a crash, Optimus Prime fell under the infection of Cybonic plague and was treated at the base by Ratchet. Bumblebee later was present at the Autobot base as Optimus laid infected. Alongside Arcee, Bumblebee went to retrieve a possible cure from the Nemesis, hoping information on it would be in its database. As Arcee scattered through the ship’s computer, Bumblebee spotted a comatose Megatron laying down. As the two stared at the unconscious Decepticon leader, Ratchet concluded that Megatron may know the cure and told the two to enter his brain through Cortical Psychic Patch. Though Arcee had mixed feelings, Bumblebee was more than willing to comply. As he entered his mind, Bumblebee encountered Megatron as he attacked and defeated an illusion of Optimus Prime.

After he defeated the Autobot, Megatron set his sights on Bumblebee. Knowing his own strength, Bumblebee did not try to attack the Decepticon. However, Bumblebee soon realized he was immune to his attacks as the commander struck him several times, only for Bumblebee to continue to phase through. After failing to eliminate the Autobot, Megatron realized that Bumblebee was not an illusion and started to question how he had entered his mind before concluding that he had usage of Cortical Psychic Patch. As Megatron questioned Bumblebee more, he told the Decepticon leader of his near-death experience as well as Optimus Prime’s current state of being. As Megatron laughed, Bumblebee began to convince him to help Optimus, citing that he would never be able to defeat his enemy and would only be able to kill illusions of him.

Megatron was more than willing to comply, showing Bumblebee a brief glimpse of the cure before taking it back and telling him to release him from his current state of being. However, Ratchet simply was able to get a screenshot of the cure and ordered Arcee to disconnect Bumblebee. As Bumblebee awoke from his conversation with Megatron, he and Arcee were spotted by Starscream. The two escaped and soon enough, were able to return to the Autobot base, but after Bumblebee brought time for Arcee to shoot Megatron’s condition when being exposed. Their mission successful, Optimus Prime was given the cure and fully healed. As the latter woke from his ordeal, Bumblebee was given a standing ovation by his fellow Autobots and their human allies.

Mind games

Bumblebee began to experience visions of Megatron, causing him to stop dead during a basketball game with Bulkhead. After Megatron forced him to crush one of Ratchet’s devices, Bumblebee told Ratchet about the visions, and Ratchet induced a power down to give Bumblebee’s mind time to recover. Bumblebee reactivated, under the control of Megatron, and, retrieving a piece of Dark Energon from an old battlefield, bridged to the Decepticon warship over the Arctic. Although Ratchet and Raf tried to stop him, even managing to get Bumblebee to reassert control for a few moments, Bumblebee successfully brought Megatron back online and transferred his mind back to his body. Free of Megatron’s influence, Bumblebee beat a hasty retreat with Ratchet and Raf. Later at base, Ratchet checked Bumblebee was completely free of Megatron, and the small Autobot thanked Raf for coming to help him.

GroundBridge mistake

After a Dark Energon signature was detected, Optimus took a team including Bumblebee to investigate. They instead found Starscream trying to resurrect Skyquake. During the ensuing conflict, the Autobots discovered their human friends had followed them to the battlefield, and the three kids were caught in a freak GroundBridge accident, causing them to disappear.The Autobots returned to base to try and locate their friends, but it wasn’t until Bumblebee suggested trying to ring the kids that they found Miko’s cellphone, and the kids were able to send a text to it. Ratchet subsequently engineered a portal to rescue the kids from the other dimension they’d become trapped in.

Attempt to rescue Breakdown

When Breakdown was captured by MECH, Bumblebee and the others were more than happy to leave them to it, but Optimus insisted that they rescue the Decepticon to avoid Cybertronian technology falling into MECH hands. The team arrived in Kamchatka Peninsula and Bumblebee spotted some vehicle tracks, but they opted to follow the energon signal Ratchet had detected instead. After they escaped the bomb that the trace led them to, the team tracked down Bulkhead in time to chase off Starscream and some Vehicons.

Arcee and Bumblebee were in the middle of a fight with some Vehicons when Arcee got a call informing her she had to be in Jack’s garage ASAP. After checking if Bumblebee could handle it, Arcee left. Evidently he was able to, as he was later in the Autobot base when Jack and Arcee turned up with June Darby.

Airachnid encounter

Bumblebee was part of the team that investigated the wreck of a crashed Decepticon ship and found Airachnid and Starscream. He guarded the bound Starscream while the others decided what to do with the Decepticon. Prime, Bulkhead and Bumblebee went to check out the rear half of the ship, crashed some distance away, and were ambushed by Airachnid who had found an experimental weapon named the Immobilizer. She froze Prime and Bulkhead, but Bumblebee managed to trick her by kicking up a dust cloud with his guns, and then pretending to be frozen after she fired the Immobilizer into it. Once she turned her back, he crept up and sucker punched her before blasting the Immobilizer. After she fled, Bumblebee went back to find Arcee, and interrupted her when she was about to offline Starscream. They returned the pieces of Immobilizer to base, along with Bulkhead and Optimus, and Ratchet was able to repair the device and unfreeze their comrades.

Bulkhead intelligence boost

Bumblebee accompanied Prime and Arcee as they tried to retrieve a Cybertronian data cylinder before the Decepticons did. Ultimately the Decepticons made off with the cylinder, and later Bumblebee listened as Ratchet told them the cylinder’s contents had ended up in Bulkhead’s brain, though the Autobots were excited to find that the equations being scrawled by Bulkhead were a set of formula for synthetic energon. Unfortunately it later turned out that the data was eating Bulkhead’s brain. Bumblebee and Arcee accompanied Optimus on an unsuccessful attempt to get the cylinder back from Megatron, and they ended up fighting a bunch of Vehicons. Later they came to Miko and Bulkhead’s aid to save the pair from Knock Out and Breakdown, and were present when Miko managed to rouse the comatose Bulkhead with her guitar.

During a mission to stop Knock Out and Breakdown who were transporting energon, Bumblebee, Prime and Bulkhead were separated from Arcee. They caught up to find that Ratchet had already finished off the Vehicons. Impressed by his new strength with the use of Synthetic Energon, Bumblebee and the others considered Ratchet to be their secret weapon against the Decepticons. While Ratchet trained with Bulkhead, he knocked his teammate out of the room and in front of Bumblebee and Arcee. Ratchet soon found himself telling Bulkhead that he was stronger than he used to be, before asking Bumblebee if he wanted to fight him as well. Bumblebee objected to the notion by putting his hands up as the Autobots soon detected another signal.

Ratchet opted to have Bumblebee remain at base while he and the others went for the signal. The mission resulted in a strain between Ratchet and the others due to his newfound ideals, prompting Optimus to tell him that he was confining him to base. As Bumblebee prepared a GroundBridge for him, Ratchet began to walk through before being followed by Bulkhead, who he knocked out of the way as he got out and drove off. The Autobots met Bumblebee at base, without Ratchet, who they could no longer detect. That all changed when Ratchet found himself on the floor after trying to duel Megatron. Bumblebee stayed at base again while the others went to get him and was happy to see him back.^[1]

Injured Raf

Bumblebee was taking Raf to play with Raf’s remote-control car when he was called on to join the battle at a military base. Unfortunately Megatron found them before he could drop Raf off, and Bumblebee was hit by a blast from Megatron’s cannon. Though Bumblebee himself was mostly unaffected, Raf was gravely injured. Bumblebee arrived at the battle and had to be restrained from attacking Megatron so he and Arcee could take Raf back to base. Bumblebee watched helplessly as Ratchet and June Darby tried to save the boy. At one point, the frustration became too much, and he knocked a chunk out of the wall with his fist, but Arcee talked him down, and eventually Ratchet worked out that an energon infusion would save Raf. Bumblebee gave some of his own energon for the procedure, which was ultimately successful.

Unicron rising

After the other Autobots saved Optimus from Megatron, Bumblebee bridged them back to base. June decided to take Raf to the hospital, and didn’t intend to bring him back, so Bumblebee had to sadly watch them drive from the base. When it transpired that the Dark Energon volcano was causing global disasters, he went to find June and Raf, and managed to save them from a tornado by grabbing the front end of their car. After he returned to base with them, the assembled Autobots and humans worked out that Unicron was at the center of the Earth. He and the other Autobots began investigating the sites of the earthquakes Unicron had generated.

Saving Prime

Though Optimus ordered the other Autobots to remain at base, Bumblebee, Arcee and Bulkhead joined him anyway. They fought increasingly larger stone Unicrons, until they encountered a huge one which Bumblebee thought might be the real thing but Prime told him wasn’t. He and Bulkhead zoomed behind it to try and blast it, but it knocked them both aside as if they were nothing. To their surprise, help came in the form of Megatron who blasted the giant before it could crush Prime, and offered to help them fight Unicron. When Optimus gave the trio the choice of whether to accompany him and Megatron to Earth’s core, Bumblebee opted to go for Raf’s sake. He, Arcee and Bulkhead greeted Megatron to the Autobot base by aiming their guns at him. Before long, they stepped through the GroundBridge once again, this time into Earth’s core.

Losing Optimus

As they made their way through Unicron’s internals, they encountered antibodies which aggressively attacked them. When during the fight Bulkhead almost fell to his doom, Bumblebee grabbed his arm and held him long enough for Optimus to help. He, Bulkhead and Arcee remained outside Unicron’s spark chamber to hold off the antibodies, but after Unicron’s defeat, they entered to find Optimus had lost his memory. Megatron blasted at them, knocking them to the floor. Bumblebee saw Optimus run towards the GroundBridge and Optimus paused to look at Bumblebee. Bumblebee was sad and beeped in sadness.

Optimus left and Megatron followed back to the warship.The trio had to GroundBridge back to base without their leader.

Season 2

Reemergence of Orion Pax

The Autobots puzzled over how to get their leader back but made little progress. When Fowler warned them of an attack on a military base, Bumblebee, Bulkhead and Arcee went to try and deal with it, but Knock Out and Breakdown succeeded in getting away with the power source they needed.

Bumblebee and the others fruitlessly searched for the space bridge until the breakthrough came in the form of information from Starscream. Using said information, the Autobots stormed the mine containing the space bridge and secured it so they could send Jack and Arcee through to Cybertron.

Ratchet, Bulkhead and Bumblebee monitored Jack’s progress from the Earth end of the space bridge. When Megatron arrived to take back control, Bumblebee was grabbed by the head and tossed aside. Luckily it all turned out, and Bumblebee and the others returned to base with Optimus Prime restored.

Bumblebee’s T-Cog

During a mission to retrieve a Cybertronian artifact, Bumblebee followed Megatron into the Decepticon GroundBridge and snatched the Spark Extractor right out of his hand. Responding to another signal, Bumblebee was ambushed by MECH, who took his T-cog. Unable to transform, he became more and more testy despite the attempts of Raf to cheer him up. Bumblebee finally talked Bulkhead into taking him along on on a mission to find another artifact, only for his lack of a T-cog to become a liability as he tried to chase Knock Out. The pursuit ended when Bumblebee plunged out-of-control off a cliff.

When he came around back at base, Optimus restricted him to base. After an attempt to transplant Ratchet’s T-cog into him was aborted, Bumblebee was pointed in the direction of the MECH base and opted to go on a one-bot assault. Though he floored Starscream and MECH in the process of getting the cog back, the vital component was blasted by Starscream. After some repair work by Ratchet, the T-cog was reinstalled in Bumblebee, and his ability to transform restored.

Wheeljack returns and Dreadwing’s arrival

Bumblebee and the others came to Wheeljack’s aid when he returned to Earth to battle Dreadwing. Loose Cannons Bumblebee was part of an Optimus-led mission to an abandoned energon mine in South America, where they found Megatron fighting an Insecticon. When the fight was finished, the Autobots surrounded the exhausted Megatron, but were prevented from finishing him off by the arrival of Dreadwing. Though they trashed a bunch of Vehicons, Megatron and Dreadwing escaped them.

The appearance of Nemesis Prime

When Fowler was attacked by a truck resembling Optimus, Bumblebee caught his car as it plunged from a bridge. Returning to base, they established the truck was a MECH-created clone of Optimus, and began searching for the MECH base. Bumblebee found the hideout, but after alerting the other Autobots, was knocked out by Nemesis Prime. Following Optimus’s defeat of MECH, the Autobots returned to base for repairs. Nemesis Prime Bumblebee went with Optimus and Arcee to investigate some activity and found Airachnid sending out a swarm of Insecticons. He and Optimus ended up having to fight a bunch of them and won. They got to return to base with Airachnid, whom Arcee had stasis-locked.

Hunt for Relics

After the Nemesis crashed, Bumblebee took part in an attack on it with the Spark Extractor, only to be put into stasis by its weapons. He recovered back at base when the kids disabled the ship. Flying Mind Bumblebee was sent to New York City with Arcee, Jack and Miko to look for one of the Iacon relics. In the subway, they ran into Knock Out and an Insecticon, the latter of which temporarily floored Bumblebee. He recovered in time to pursue Knock Out, catching up with the Decepticon and getting the relic back. The relic turned out to be a phase shifter, which saved Bumblebee from being hit by an out-of-control sweeper train. After they chased Knock Out off, Bumblebee and Arcee were introduced to Vogel.

Bulkhead’s near death experience/Smokescreen’s arrival

They returned to base to find Bulkhead critically injured after his mission, and Bumblebee and Arcee helped get the Wrecker to the medical bay. Hurt During Bulkhead’s recovery period, Bumblebee arrived back at base to find Miko was upset at her friend’s lack of progress. Out of the Past Bumblebee was part of Optimus’s team investigating a crashed escape pod when they encountered Smokescreen. When Raf discovered the presence of Red Energon on Earth, Optimus, Arcee and Bumblebee headed to a dock to retrieve it, only to run into Starscream and the Apex Armor. Bumblebee and Arcee attempted to scale the crane but were attacked by Starscream, and Smokescreen had to come to their rescue using the phase shifter.

End of MECH

When Fowler notified them that a Project Damocles satellite had been stolen by Breakdown and Silas, Optimus took a team including Bumblebee to a military base in the hope of securing the satellite control codes before the Decepticons could get them. Instead they found themselves facing both Decepticon troopers and the orbital death ray itself, controlled by Soundwave. The Human Factor During an energon hunt, Bumblebee tried to stop Smokescreen harassing a human, resulting in them both getting their picture on the net. Bumblebee later accompanied Optimus on a search for another Iacon relic, which turned out to be a Decepticon hoax, and helped secure the Star Saber.

The Omega Keys

He, Arcee and Bulkhead were happy when they learned they might soon be able to return Cybertron, but quickly realized there would be a downside in that they would have to leave their friends on Earth behind. Alpha/Omega Bumblebee was sent with Arcee to retrieve one of the keys, but they encountered Knock Out. Bumblebee was significantly damaged by the Resonance Blaster before the Decepticon got away with the key, and had to undergo repairs when they returned to base. After Smokescreen escaped the Nemesis with two of the keys, the Autobots received a message from Starscream offering a trade for the final key. Bumblebee guarded the base with Smokescreen and Arcee, but Starscream was able to steal their three keys anyway, thanks to his Red Energon.

As the Autobots equipped themselves to go to Cybertron, Bumblebee took the polarity gauntlet from storage. During their battle with the Decepticons, he used it to reclaim the Omega Keys. The Autobots subsequently found the Omega Lock, only for the Decepticons to unveil their trump card in the form of the three kids as hostages.
As the Autobots had a stare off with the Decepticons, Bumblebee was forced to hand over his Omega key in exchange for Raf. Bumblebee took the young human out of the hands of Soundwave.
As he did so, he happily assured Raf that he was safe as he looked through the glass at the former while walking back to the other Autobots. After Megatron gained all four of the Omega Keys, the Autobots were surrounded by several Vehicons.

After Optimus destroyed the Omega Lock to prevent Megatron destroying Earth, Bumblebee returned with the others to base, only to find that the Decepticons were attacking it. As he and the others prepared to face off, Optimus Prime concluded their only chance of survival being a tactical retreat. As the Decepticons continued to barrage the base, Bumblebee and Raf were GroundBridged away from the base to an unspecified location in the US mainland to avoid capture.

Season 3: Beast Hunters

On the run

Bumblebee and Raf roamed around the country as the two evaded recognition by a Vehicon. Following Raf’s approval, Bumblebee transformed into robot mode and looked to see if any Decepticons were near, hiding behind a tree while doing so. Raf concluded that while the two were nearly caught, Bumblebee’s recent change in paint job saved the two. Raf exclaimed that while he understood Optimus’s decision to separate the group to make them harder to find, he questioned how the two would be able to contact the others. While Bumblebee simply wanted the two to continue to head to Jasper, Rafael was reminded of Megatron’s fortress.^[2]

Finding Ratchet

Upon heading to Jasper and Raf was looking on the conspiracy website, he headed for Woodlands Park Junk Yard in search for Ratchet. Though meeting up with him, he and Raf could not persuade him on joining them to look for the Harbinger for a base of operations. Unable to get the Harbinger’s ship computers up and running, Ratchet came in and saved the day by assisting them in getting everything online and hacked the operating codes to get the GroundBridge up and running.

At the same time, he spotted a flag ship that belonged to Ultra Magnus, reuniting with the gang, minus Optimus and Smokescreen. He was complimented by Arcee and Bulkhead on his new color scheme, with Arcee saying that if she reversed her colors like he did, she would be pink. Bumblebee and the others were introduced to the commander’s weapon locker.^[3]

Rebellion

Bumblebee and Arcee were sent into Darkmount as the Stealth Team. Bumblebbe was equipped with a new gun and a forcefield, while Arcee had a laser device. The two killed all the Vehicons blocking their path only for more to come behind them. They were escorted outside and about to be executed only for a reborn Optimus Prime to arrive, save the Autobots and destroy Darkmount. Bumblebee was reunited with the all of Team Prime back at their new base where Agent Fowler praised them.

Beast Hunters

When the Decepticons began hunting for Predacon bones, Bumblebee, Smokescreen and Optimus went to Texas. Smokescreen asked Bumblebee if he might ever want to be a Prime, but Bumblebee said all he wanted was to have warrior rank and he would only take it on a restored Cybertron, despite having the credentials. Despite the trio fighting off the Vehicons, Soundwave and Shockwave they still lost one tiny piece of the Predacon bone to the Decepticons. The Autobots later stormed a mine hoping for Energon, unaware they were pawns in a plan that has Project Predacon to be terminated with Autobots to take the blame by the Decepticons.

Ratchet captured

Bumblebee took offense at the fact that Smokescreen said his broken voicebox was his signature as he still missed the sound of his voice. He took part in missions to stop the Decepticons from stealing Earth technology. The Autobots secured the last target, the Solaris Particle Collider, only for the Predacon to come and take it from them. When they returned to base, they learned Ratchet was taken by Soundwave. They launched a probe to find Ratchet, followed by Optimus. Though the probe was destroyed, Ratchet sent coordinates of his location and the Autobots stormed the Nemesis.

Final battle

Stealth Team was ordered to secure the rebuilt Omega Lock, but Smokescreen abandoned them to complete his own mission. Despite resistance from Starscream and his armada, the two made it to the control room and Smokescreen returned with the Star Saber. Bumblebee climbed down the Lock to give to Optimus, but as he jumped he was shot numerous times by Megatron. He fell into the Cybermatter below, which revived him, and his voice box as well.

In the meantime, Optimus began to lose his battle against the threat to society that Megatron had proved himself to be. While Megatron had his back turned, Bumblebee yelled out Megatron’s name with his restored voice. Shocked to hear the voice he thought to have ridden, Megatron turned around and Bumblebee used this opportunity to stab Megatron straight through his spark with the Star Saber and promised that Megatron will never rob anything from anyone, like his voice. With the warship under their command, the Autobots flew it to Cybertron to use the Omega Lock to restore Cybertron. When they packed up their stuff from Earth, Bumblebee shared a sad farewell with Raf who told him he didn’t have to say anything, which prompted Bumblebee to admit that he never did.

Predacons Rising

Bumblebee was promoted to «Warrior» by Optimus and a statue of Megatron was blown up in his honor. When Ultra Magnus was left in charge while Optimus went with Wheeljack to collect the AllSpark, Bumblebee spent his time in the Nemesis interrogating prisoners for the locations of Starscream and Shockwave. When Ultra Magnus was injured, Bumblebee deduced the Predacon responsible was a clone from Shockwave’s experiments. Bumblebee went with Smokescreen, Arcee and Bulkhead to try and get help from Predaking but failed and went to the original Darkmount. When they downloaded a map of Shockwave’s lab network they were greeted by the Unicron possessed Megatron. Despite his power they managed to escape. Bumblebee was desperate for Ultra Magnus’ leadership but Ratchet told him that in the past all the other Autobots had risen above their ranks for the greater good and Bumblebee had to as well. When they later pinpointed Unicron, due to Megatron’s life signal, they took the warship to fight. Starscream, Knock Out and the Vehicons tried to take the ship only for Knock Out to betray them and destroy the (needed) Immobilizer to prove his loyalty to the Autobots. When they fought the Terrocon-Predacons, aided by living Predacons, Smokescreen praised Bumblebee on his leadership skills and revealed, to Bumblebee’s shock, Smokescreen almost inherited the Matrix of Leadership. When the warship crashed, the Predacons defeated and victory seemingly Unicron’s, Optimus Prime returned and fought off Unicron. Bumblebee used the Polarity Gauntlet to briefly hold off Unicron before he lunged at Prime and the AllSpark. To the surprise of all the AllSpark was not in its container which sucked the Anti-Spark right out of Megatron. When Optimus had to sacrifice himself Bumblebee promised the Autobots would keep peace on Cybertron in his memory. As the sparks flew out of the well, the team gazed upon its glory and saw a red spark, possibly Optimus’ spark, shine out. 

Transformers: Robots in Disguise/Return to Earth

History

During the war on Cybertron, Bumblebee was involved with capturing the Decepticon named Overload. However, he ended up being badly injured by the Decepticon as a result. When Bumblebee first arrived on Earth, he frequently felt homesick for Cybertron as he revealed in Collect ‘Em All. He managed to overcome his grief by learning about and adopting various Earth customs. He also maintained a video diary (exercise video) for a time as shown in History Lessons. He learned more about Earth as he developed an interest in Earth cowboys (which he revealed his knowledge about cowboys in W.W.O.D.?), exercise videos, and the band Rear Axle.

Season 1

Years after the War, Bumblebee took role as a street cop when Cybertron was repopulated once again with Autobots. Bumblebee and his new crime partner Strongarm were chasing down Sideswipe on Cybertron. On their mission, Bumblebee began having visions of Optimus Prime, who pointed Bumblebee that Earth was in trouble. Bumblebee ordered Strongarm to take Sideswipe to the station while he investigates at the Cybertron History Museum. He breezed passed the Matronly Docent who greeted him and he soon came to the Space Bridge room. However, Strongarm followed Bumblebee with Sideswipe still handcuffed to her. Bumblebee convinced them to fix the Space Bridge while he distracts the two guards that were outside the room. The two guards were surprised to see Bumblebee but saw something was up to which Bumblebee had to disable them. Bumblebee was able to go to Earth with Strongarm and Sideswipe following him to the planet. Bumblebee blasted their cuffs and Sideswipe went off while Strongarm walked with Bumblebee to meet Fixit. Fixit explained that the Alchemor was destroyed in some odd explosion and released most of it prisoners. Bumblebee and Strongarm went to look for Sideswipe who already revealed himself to a human. Underbite chased all four of them back to Fixit where Bee ordered Fixit and Russell to hide behind a stasis pod. When Underbite escaped to go to the Scrapyard, Bumblebee asked Fixit what Underbite was.

After learning of Underbite and his motives, Bumblebee could not allow Russell to go off on his own to save his dad. Grimlock appeared besides them and quickly vanished to fight Underbite. Bumblebee and his team were tangled in Underbite and Grimlock’s little fight until Underbite got the upper hand on Grimlock, thus leaving him unconscious for a short time. When Grimlock woke up, Bumblebee did not want to put any of their lives in danger, though everyone and Grimlock convinced Bumblebee to help him take down Underbite from reaching Crown City. Bumblebee gave a poorly thought out battle cry before they left to stop Underbite. At the bridge to Crown City, Bumblebee and Strongarm used their new weapons on Underbite but their weapons stopped working. Bumblebee, Denny Clay, Grimlock and Strongarm tried their best to slow down Underbite on the bridge until Sideswipe and Russell arrived to distract Underbite. They lead Underbite to the quarry where Bee and his team tried to push Underbite into the quarry. Underbite was able to regain some strength and pushed them all back. Underbite grabbed on Denny’s car and Bumblebee ordered his team to fall back. Just as Bumblebee was about to stop Underbite, Optimus Prime grabs Underbite and tosses him into the quarry. Optimus saved Denny Clay in the process.

Bumblebee was surprised to see Optimus alive but questioned if it was true. Optimus informed Bumblebee that he was not certain and complimented Bumblebee about his team. He also gave Bumblebee and his team a speech about the forces on Earth and was certain they will accomplish great things. Optimus told Bumblebee that the universe has a plan for Optimus that even he does not know. He also tells Bumblebee he will prevail before vanishing. Bumblebee puts Grimlock on probation despite Strongarm wanting to follow protocol. Bumblebee talked to himself about not letting Optimus down and if he said it enough, he would believe it.

In Trust Exercises, Bumblebee, who was carried by Grimlock after their trust exercise, stopped Sideswipe and Strongarm from fighting. Bumblebee told them that they must learn to trust each other in order to work on recapturing the Decepticon fugitives. Bumblebee went with Grimlock to track down Hammerstrike who was attacking an oil tanker. While Grimlock was stuck at the bottom of the ocean, Bumblebee was left to fight Hammerstrike. While he proved the adversary, Bumblebee was dispatched and Hammerstrike told him to not pursue him. Bumblebee and Grimlock returned to the scrapyard where Fixit told Bumblebee where everyone was. Fixit also filled Bumblebee on Hammerstrike’s bio and motives. Bumblebee told Grimlock about taking there are steps to learning. At the oil refinery, Bumblebee and Grimlock break in and attack Hammerstrike. After Hammerstrike broke an oil pipe, the room was slippery for both Bumblebee and Grimlock while Hammerstrike used it as a way of moving faster. However, Bumblebee used his vehicle mode to push Hammerstrike into the barrel that Grimlock was holding. They successfully captured Hammerstrike and returned to base where Bumblebee praised Sideswipe and Strongarm for working together against Steeljaw.

In More than Meets the Eye, Bumblebee, Strongarm, Sideswipe, and Grimlock worked together in bringing down Bisk at a golf field. Later, they returned to the scrapyard where they placed Bisk in a stasis pod. Fixit was feeling left out of the action despite Bumblebee trying to boost his spirits. Later, the team went to an airfield to hunt for another Decepticon that was detected, which Bumblebee gave an unsatisfying battle cry. Bumblebee encountered Chop Shop and wasn’t expecting Chop Shop to split into component bugs that jumped on and zapped him. The team backed Bumblebee but Chop Shop’s components got the best of them before they escaped with the pieces they stool from the airfield. Back at the scrapyard, Bumblebee and his team discussed about Chop Shop, his motives, and allowed Fixit to join them on their next attempt in bringing Chop Shop down. However, this plan was nearly unsuccessful as Chop Shop was able to use Fixit as a replacement arm. The team eventually tracked Chop Shop to his hideout where he overpowered Sideswipe, Strongarm and was about to finish Bumblebee but Bumblebee was able to get Fixit to fight back Chop Shop. It worked as Bumblebee thanked Fixit before uppercutting Chop Shop through the tanker where the Decepticon was taken down by freezing oxygen that was stored. Back at the scrapyard, Bee congrats Fixit before going with the Autobots and Denny to see Russell win his first football game. They cheered and celebrated when Russell won for his team.

In W.W.O.D.?, Bumblebee broke up a fight between Sideswipe and Strongarm during a team meeting. Then he attempted to use Optimus Prime’s methods of leading on his team, to which left them to laugh as Sideswipe stated it was the worst Starscream impression. Bumblebee was puzzled by his statement about Starscream and later went with his team to the Crown City Museum to get a stasis pod containing Terrashock. As the team entered inside, Bumblebee tried to explain the concept of cowboys as they walked passed an exhibit about cowboys, which nobody understood and walked on. Bumblebee tried to act like Optimus several moments, which resulted in him failing to command his team. After Terrashock had taken Bumblebee outside of the museum in front of some humans, Denny and Russell helped Bumblebee not blow his cover by stating he was just a museum robot prop. They walked inside the museum when Bumblebee played to be defected by failing to answer Denny’s question about the density on Mercury. A vision of Optimus Prime appeared on a wall in the museum where Bumblebee spoke to Optimus about the current conflicts he is facing. When he explained to Optimus about trying to be like him, Optimus replied by stating Bumblebee was not him. Before Optimus could explain further, he disappeared from Bumblebee’s sight. Russell suggest to Bumblebee that Optimus wanted to explain that Bumblebee should lead as himself. As Bumblebee gazed at the cowboy exhibit, it gave him an idea that soon led him and his team to work together like cowboys in taking down Terrashock on a highway. They were successful and brought the unconscious Decepticon back to the scrapyard as they rode off into the sunset together, cowboy style.

In As the Kospego Commands!, Bumblebee saved Fixit from being nearly crushed by a falling stasis pod. He also discovers that Sideswipe tricked Fixit to avoid doing work, which he found the latter nearby listening to music. Bumblebee takes Sideswipe’s headphones off him and proceeds to scold him for taking advantage of his teammates, but Bumblebee actually listened to Sideswipe’s music on his headphones and dances to the rhythm. Although Bumblebee appeared to like the music, he still reminds Sideswipe to not take advantage of his teammates. When a group of strange humans who were dressed with strange attire entered the scrapyard, they asked Denny for a bunch of items, which included a generator, Bumblebee recognizes the items they requested and told Russell not to let Denny give them the generator. After Strongarm returns to the scrapyard with a Decepticon Hunter, Bumblebee believes that a Decepticon is tricking those humans into building a space bridge. While his team believes it would be a good thing to use the space bridge to go back to Cybertron, Bumblebee notes that the space bridge could be unstable and could result in a black hole that could destroy Earth. When Fixit identifies the Decepticon as Thunderhoof, Bumblebee and his team go to the Crown River Dam to guard its generator from the Decepticon’s human minions, which he also gave an unconvincing battle cry. Bumblebee leaves Sideswipe and Grimlock to guard the generator while he patrols the area with Strongarm. Later, Bumblebee and Strongarm find that Sideswipe left his post to listen to music. While Bumblebee reprimands Sideswipe, the trio hear Grimlock being confronted by someone over the comms. They go back to see that Grimlock was flattened and the generator was gone. Bumblebee blames Sideswipe for leaving his post and orders Strongarm to take Grimlock back to the scrapyard since Grimlock had forgotten that he can’t fly. Bumblebee and Sideswipe then head off to find that the humans were constructing a space bridge. Sideswipe comes up with a plan, which includes the pair disguising as legendary creatures called with some tree branches and fake names «Sideswingo and «Bumbeego» so that they could trick the humans into leaving from the site. It worked successfully, despite Bumblebee still having distrust in Sideswipe. As the two Autobots inspect the space bridge, Thunderhoof himself arrives and is unimpressed that his workers have been scared off. He offers to cut a deal with the pair and let them have some of his criminal empire if they help him return to Cybertron, but Bumblebee is naturally uncompromising, though Sideswipe actually seems to consider it a good idea. While Bumblebee fights the Decepticon, Sideswipe stands back, and when Thunderhoof has Bumblebee on the ground, Sideswipe announces he wants to help with the space bridge. He convinces Thunderhoof not to stomp Bumblebee and instead they fire up the space bridge, which seems to work until it turns an ominous purple color and start sucking things in. Thunderhoof decides to test it out by sending a reluctant Sideswipe through first, but Sideswipe uses the Decepticon Hunter as a mace, knocking Thunderhoof off balance and towards the space bridge. Thunderhoof stops himself on the threshold, but Bumblebee releases some girders which knock Thunderhoof in and he disappears. The two Autobots realize they can stop the black hole with an explosion and throw the generator into the space bridge. There’s an explosion, and the whole space bridge is history. The Autobots pick themselves up and Sideswipe has regained Bumblebee’s trust after they fist bumped each other. They also wondered what had happened to Thunderhoof.

In Collect ‘Em All, Bumblebee and his team later encountered Filch, who complicated matters by being flight capable. When Strongarm felt particularly out of place on Earth, Bumblebee told her about his first time on the planet, hoping to cheer her up. After a few incidents involving Filch, and in a mission to rescue Denny from Filch’s nest, Bumblebee fought Filch. When it seemed he was losing, Strongarm breaks the rules to aid her commander in battle. Filch was captured and taken by the Autobots with Denny back to the scrapyard. Later, Bumblebee commends Strongarm on breaking protocols and noticing there was no hives on her. Strongarm realized her place on the team with her friends.

In True Colors, after Grimlock turned on the other Autobots and stole Underbite’s stasis pod, Bumblebee, Sideswipe and Strongarm were forced to track him down to the Crown River Dam, which Bumblebee manages to leave another unimpressive battle cry. They nearly escaped a trap set by Grimlock who had used a cryo-inducer. At the Crown River Dam, they discover Steeljaw was the «boss» that Grimlock referred to in Grimlock’s first attack on the Autobots. Bumblebee engages Steeljaw but later ends up being beaten down with Strongarm by Grimlock, which Sideswipe had to aid them instead of fighting Steeljaw. While Steeljaw managed to escape with Underbite’s stasis pod, the trio detained Grimlock with some wires. Fixit and Russell comms them to inform them about Minitron, who was controlling Grimlock somewhere on Grimlock’s armor. The trio ended up attacking each other when Minitron jumped from Autobot to Autobot then made his way back to Grimlock where he was immediately thrown to a wall and left unconscious instead of being squished by the Dinobot. Back at the scrapyard, Bumblebee apologizes to Grimlock and makes Grimlock an official Autobot member of their team as he told Grimlock he will have Fixit change the Decepticon symbols on Grimlock’s shoulders to Autobot insignias. Although Strongarm felt regret that Steeljaw escaped with Underbite’s stasis pod, Bumblebee states their team is getting stronger each day.

In Rumble in the Jungle, Bumblebee let Strongarm go on a solo mission, but then followed her anyway much to her dismay. He insisted on accompanying her as «an observer», and ended up helping her capture Springload. The pair had a difficult time capturing the Decepticon a few times, which resulted in Strongarm’s left hand to be burned by Springload as Bumblebee examined her hand and nearly causing them both to be trapped in a collapsing room. When Strongarm revealed to Bumblebee that she called Fixit and lied about capturing the Decepticon, Bumblebee was disappointed at her for such reckless behavior. Eventually, Strongarm asked Bumblebee for assistance, which Bumblebee stated he would be honored to aid her. Strongarm had devised a plan that proved successful as Strongarm imitates a spirit and tells Springload he’s unworthy, allowing Bumblebee to sneak up and knock him into a casket. With the pair trapping the Decepticon, Bumblebee commends Strongarm for her first solo mission, which even though Bumblebee was there, she still proved herself and told her «if she continues to prove herself worthy».

In Can You Dig It?, Bumblebee met up with an old ally named Jazz in the night at the scrapyard. After a few moments of catching up (which took until the morning), Jazz offered to take Bumblebee and his team back to Cybertron to clear things up with the council but the team realized they can’t leave Earth because of their mission. Suddenly, Ped attacked the scrapyard to steal their Energon cubes and nearly caused Russell to fall deep in a hole. Luckily, Bumblebee and the other Autobots saved Russell just in time, despite Ped making off with some of their Energon cubes. As the team split up to search for Ped in Ped’s underground tunnels, Bumblebee gave a battle cry that left even Jazz to question it. As Bumblebee and Strongarm chased Ped, Ped’s digging almost caused part of Crown City to collapse, forcing Bumblebee and Strongarm to prop it up. While Strongarm was left to hold it up, Ped mocked the Autobots as he tightly gripped on Bumblebee but he lets go of the Autobot when he overhears on Bumblebee’s comm that Jazz and Sideswipe found Ped’s Energon stash, which caused Ped to go after them and for Bumblebee to warn them about Ped. Later at night, the Autobots planned to lure Ped into a trap with some of Denny’s paint colored blue boxes but they ended up being momentarily trapped in a hole until they were able to get out by Denny’s electromagnet. Ped was successfully captured by the combine efforts of Sideswipe and Jazz. The next morning, Bumblebee helped Strongarm to her feet after she came out of the hole by Denny’s electromagnet, which caused her to fall off from as the cable broke. Bumblebee then wishes Jazz safe travels back to Cybertron as they shook hands.

In Adventures in Bumblebee-Sitting!, a run-in with Quillfire’s toxic spines caused Bumblebee to regress in maturity, and he began playing elaborate pranks on his teammates, such as throwing an oil pie at Grimlock’s face, Sideswipe hits a tripwire and gets a load of bolts flung at him. Strongarm was also pranked as she was entirely covered in fire extinguisher foam. Sideswipe and Russell were left to watch Bumblebee as Strongarm and Grimlock head out to capture Quillfire. The pair were able to get Bumblebee to watch a cowboy movie on TV, though as the pair went to do different things, Bumblebee was bored when a commercial came on and overheard Strongarm talking to Fixit via over the comm at the Crown City carnival. Drawn to the nearby carnival, Bee enjoyed herding a bunch of elephants while riding on Grimlock in his dinobot mode, riding on some rides, and inadvertently helped the Autobots capture Quillfire in the process. Fortunately for all concerned, Quillfire’s toxin eventually wore off when Strongarm had Grimlock chain Bumblebee to the top of a pole at the amusement park. Bee returned to his normal and mature state, although he had no memory of his escapades and was informed by his team that Strongarm filled in for him, which he appreciated her for that. He also discovered some «wet cement» as a classic.

In Hunting Season, Bumblebee encountered a Decepticon bounty hunter named Fracture who came to Earth to claim the bounty on Bumblebee. Drift had also arrived on Earth to collect the bounty on Bumblebee and engaged Fracture. Bee saved Drift’s life when Fracture got the best of Drift and found the Autobot now owed him a life debt as they brought Drift back to the scrapyard with his Mini-Cons named Jetstorm and Slipstream. Drift’s life debt to Bummblebee mostly meant Drift followed him around constantly. However, when Fracture captured the other Autobots, Bee reminded Drift that honor also meant helping friends. After Fracture’s defeat, Drift considered the debt repaid as he decided to not collect the bounty on Bumblebee as he changed his opinion on Bee and left the Earth with his Mini-Cons. Fixit informed Bumblebee that Fracture’s Groundbridge is still operational.

In Out of Focus, Bumblebee attempted to find his calm place as his team continued bickering during the pursuit of Malodor’s Skunkticon gang at the Crown River Dam. Eventually a first encounter with Malodor and his gang led to the Autobots to be temporarily sprayed and left Grimlock to be taken hostage by the Skunkticons. Eventually, Bumblebee, Sideswipe, and Strongarm met up with Malodor and his gang as they were holding Grimlock hostage in the Crown River Dam’s control room. Grimlock freed himself as Bumblebee tangled with Malodor but the Skunticons managed to give the Autobots the slip. Bumblebee was left to save his team from falling off the Dam’s edge and prevented a flood.

In Sideways, Bumblebee was feeling anxious at the lack of Decepticon activity as both Denny and Fixit startled him. Bumblebee got the action he craved when their first attempt to capture Clampdown proved unsuccessful. When they found Clampdown again near a garbage barge area, Bumblebee makes a deal with Clampdown but the Autobots also ended up tangling with Steeljaw’s gang. Bumblebee fought Steeljaw as the Decepticon got the best of Bee and tossed the Autobot in a trash compactor but Sideswipe saved Bumblebee by preventing the machine from totally crushing him. Steeljaw Bumblebee knew

One night, Bumblebee, Denny, and Fixit headed out in search of more energon in Even Robots Have Nightmares. On returning to the scrapyard, they discovered multiple Decepticon signals in a nearby cave system; believing it to be Steeljaw’s gang Bumblebee and his team headed there. The signal turned out to belong to Nightstrike and his hostage Chop Shop. Nightstrike captured the Autobots and immobilized them with his fear-inducing scream- Bumblebee experienced a nightmare about disappointing Optimus Prime. Bumblebee was able to escape with the unexpected help of Chop Shop and managed to capture Nightstrike after deactivating his audio receptors.

Bumblebee and the other Autobots headed to Crown City’s subway system after Sideswipe scouted it out in Some Body, Any Body. On arriving, they discovered that the mad scientist Vertebreak had hijacked Sideswipe’s body. Bumblebee fought Vertebreak and discovered his lab with Fixit. They discovered Sideswipe’s head still intact, which left Sideswipe to believe he was useless to the team. Bumblebee tried to convince Sideswipe he is vital to the team. When they caught up with the other Strongarm and Grimlock, Bumblebee fought Vertebreak with them while Sideswipe stayed in the jar from the fight. After avoiding a train, the trio fought Vertebreak again but this time with Sideswipe’s guidance, Bumblebee and the team managed to knock Vertebreak unconscious, and captured him as Sideswipe’s head was repaired back on his body by Fixit. 

After Jetstorm returned to Earth and claimed Russell as his new sensei, Bumblebee was left in an awkward predicament as he tried to negotiate with Drift and Slipstream in One of Our Mini-Cons Is Missing. The escape of Quillfire and Springload complicated things further. Bumblebee and his team chased the duo, who had stolen a human tank, across a local highway and eventually managed to bring them in. Drift and his students decided to remain with Bumblebee and his team. 

Bumblebee oversaw a training exercise for his teammates in Deep Trouble. Later, the team went underwater in pursuit of Octopunch, who was planning to steal an abandoned Cybertronian spaceship. After fighting off the ship’s various security measures, Bumblebee and Grimlock went up against Octopunch themselves, and managed to best him by knotting his tentacles together. They brought the fugitve back to the scrapyard after they all escaped from the exploding ship. When Bumblebee ordered Fixit to repair Grimlock, Strongarm strangely decides to go on patrol and Bumblebee tells Grimlock that Strongarm is perfect example of commitment. 

Bumblebee and the team, minus Grimlock, went after Groundpounder and his cheating manager Headlock, who were posing as remote-controlled robots in the Rumbledome’s demolition derby in The Champ. Unfortunately, the GroundBridge malfunctioned, first stranding the team in the Arctic and then depositing them outside the city limits. Bumblebee and the others were held up by traffic while Grimlock and Fixit fought the two Decepticons.

Fixit’s glitches began worsening, and Bumblebee had no choice but to order repairs on the damaged Mini-Con in The Trouble with Fixit. Denny’s attempts to repair Fixit only reactivated his sentry protocol. Bumblebee was forced to deal with the scrapyard’s various security measures and the escaped Chop Shop, but with Denny’s assistance he managed to force Fixit to stand down after the Mini-con incapacitated Chop Shop. Fixit was repaired to his normal state (which in this case was Fixit’s normal state) and Bumblebee also received a message from Optimus Prime on a piece of glass that he was holding. Optimus informed Bumblebee to be prepared and prepare his team for a certain threat before he disappeared on the glass.

Bumblebee and the Autobots helped Denny set up a rollercoaster he had purchased on the scrapyard in Lockout. The job was cut short after they detected Kickback, who had been captured by Steeljaw to serve as bait for the Autobots. After returning to the scrapyard, Bumblebee discovered that Steeljaw and his crew had taken over the scrapyard and set up a subsonic pulse to prevent them from entering. While Denny and Russell distracted the Decepticons, Bumblebee and Drift built a catapult and launched Slipstream and Jetstorm into the scrapyard. Bumblebee tangled with Steeljaw again and managed to see him off. The Autobots thanked their human allies for their assistance.

Bumblebee welcomed Grimlock back from a routine patrol, only for Grimlock to break down and confess that he had let the Decepticon Scowl walk away free in Similarly Different. After searching up Scowl’s extensive criminal record, the Autobots tried to track him down. Instead, Scowl flattened them with a tree and headed out to wreck a train station. Bumblebee tried to talk Scowl down, but the Dinobot would have none of it and began smashing the tracks. Bumblebee’s attempts to shore up the destroyed structure were unsuccessful, and eventually the Autobots were forced to grab the train and redirect its path. After Grimlock prevented Scowl from attacking a local spa, Bumblebee consoled Grimlock, who had hoped he could change Scowl’s ways.

Bumblebee listened to Strongarm’s presentation about the dangers of horses, although he was skeptical of its significance in The Buzz on Windblade. The newly arrived Windblade won over most of his team, and even impressed Bumblebee by coming up with a catchy motto. Along with Windblade, Bumblebee and his team worked together to re-capture Zizza and safely redirect human aircraft away from Zizza’s brainwashed human pilots with a plan that Strongarm came up with.

When his team felt homesick for Cybertron, Bumblebee tried to cheer them up by reminding them of Earth’s many interesting locations, and offered to take the team on a vacation in Ghosts and Impostors. Since an erupting volcano proved unpopular, the team visited the abandoned town of Edmondville. After scaring off a busload of human tourists, Bumblebee and his team ran afoul of Pseudo, who first tried to off Bumblebee and Grimlock with a cart of dynamite. Though Grimlock punched the cart, the dynamite merely left them covered in ash. Bumblebee and his team chased Pseudo into the town’s old mines, and temporarily cornered him. Pseudo managed to escape again, but Bumblebee and the team chased him down and captured him. They also observed a sunset together as Fixit called to check on them.

In Battlegrounds, Part 1, when Strongarm and Sideswipe were taken hostage by the Decepticons, Bumblebee realized that they’d have to mount a rescue mission. This was made easier by the reappearance of Windblade, and together the group prepared to raid the Decepticon’s steel mill base. After Windblade was also taken out of the fight, Bumblebee, Grimlock and Drift headed to the Crown City Colossus, where Steeljaw’s portal was nearing construction. The trio arrived too late, and Megatronus was freed from his dimensional prison.

In Battlegrounds, Part 2, Bumblebee’s team was reinforced by the arrival of a reborn Optimus Prime; while Optimus dueled with Megatronus, Bumblebee and the other Autobots worked to stave off Steeljaw’s gang. After Optimus was badly injured and sent flying, Bumblebee tried to help him come round as he observed the wound on Optimus’s chest heal. Fortunately, after a boost in the air from Megatronus, Bumblebee helped Grimlock take out Underbite. As Optimus was seemingly losing to Megatronus, Bumblebee’s Decepticon Hunter gave him, Sideswipe, and Strongarm an additional boost of power. Working with Optimus, the group fought and managed to pin Megatronus beneath the Colossus’s severed arm, and a concentrated burst of energy destroyed Megatronus’s body. Back at the scrapyard, Bumblebee told his team that they were free to return to Cybertron, although all of them opted to stay. Prime congratulated Bumblebee on his leadership skills, and also agreed to stay on Earth as Bumblebee’s equal, rather than his leader.

Season 2

After the Primes took back Optimus’s extra power, Bumblebee attempted to sideline Optimus without success in Overloaded, Part 1. Optimus joined the team Bumblebee assigned to hunt Decepticons far from the scrapyard. While the away team was gone, Overload arrived at the scrapyard, who Bumblebee arrogantly recognized. Despite the best efforts of Bumblebee and the others, they were unable to stop the Decepticon from escaping the scrapyard in his pursuit of Optimus Prime.

In Overloaded, Part 2, after tracking Overload to a parking lot, Bumblebee assumed a recent battle there had been between Overload and the two missing Cyclone Mini-Cons, and sent Grimlock and Strongarm off to hunt the Cyclones while he continued after Overload on his own. As it turned out, Overload and the Mini-Cons were together as they were smashing up a trailer outside of Crown City with screaming humans inside. Bumblebee intervened and pinned Overload to the ground as he punched him around and attempted to get the Decepticon into remembering him. While Overload got up, he thought Bumblebee was «some critic» that called Overload «shameless and over dramatic» in the past, but Bumblebee informed him that it wasn’t. Overload pinned Bumblebee on the ground and began hitting him in the face as he stated his face did look familiar but it was’t as distinctive as Overload’s face. However Bumblebee managed to convince Ransack and Backtrack to turn on the Decepticon by hitting Overload with some pans that made sounds that appealed to the Cyclones. As the Cyclones used other pans to hit Overload with, Bumblebee stated that while he was hoping that Overload would recognize him so that he could punch his lights out, he just punched Overload in the face and left him unconscious. Grimlock and Strongarm walked towards Bumblebee’s success of taking down Overload, which Grimlock complimented on Bee’s punch by dubbing it as «downright Grimlockian». Bumblebee formed a «marching band» with the Cyclones with their pots and pans as they marched back to the scrapyard.

In Metal Meltdown, Bumblebee and his team pursued a strange Decepticon named Saberhorn and discovered the Decepticon didn’t appear in the Alchemor database. Bumblebee fought Saberhorn but he escaped from the trio with some ore that he collected. They proved unable to capture him in a second attempt after Bumblebee was forced to surrender to Saberhorn when Russell was used as a hostage by Saberhorn and Bee nearly ended up being melted down. Fixit disturbingly informed them that Saberhorn was placed on the Alchemor.

In Suspended, when Strongarm became demoralized during the failed pursuit of Crazybolt and Slicedice, as she turned in her Decepticon hunter to Bee. Bumblebee also failed to encourage her by getting her to help Fixit. Bumblebee and Grimlock attempted to deal with a fire caused by the two Cons, and managed to get Strongarm out of the scrapyard to join them in saving some humans. Bumblebee returned Strongarm her Decepticon Hunter and they all shared a laugh when Strongarm prevented herself from destroying Denny’s gnomes as she stated she was a professional.

In Brainpower, after capturing Torpor, Grimlock soon gained super-intelligence from a data cylinder, Bumblebee was reluctant to let him join on a hunt for Simacore. During the attempt to capture the Con, Bumblebee and Strongarm fought Simacore’s Mini-Cons and ended up being defeated by Simacore himself. They were used as hostages and were placed in peril in the particle accelerator to be destroyed if Grimlock did no surrender the circuit board. However, Fixit was able to restore Grimlock’s brain and the Dinobot rescued them both. They brought Simacore and his Mini-Cons back to the scrapyard.

In Misdirection, the Autobots were stupefied at Russell’s coin trick. When a wounded Steeljaw turned up at the scrapyard, Bumblebee, Strongarm and Grimlock followed the trail of energon he’d left to a disused drive in. In the process of fighting and capturing Scorponok, his Mini-Cons, Crazybolt and Slicedice, Bumblebee discovered that Steeljaw had been feigning to gain access to the scrapyard which he had to cover Strongarm escaping to the scrapyard to stop Steeljaw while he dealed with the Decepticons with Grimlock. When Scorponok had the upper hand over Grimlock, Bumblebee seemingly surrendered and played a trick on the Decepticons with a rock as he claimed Steeljaw was after Earth’s «magic». As he provided enough time for Grimlock, they defeated the Decepticons and Bee gave Grimlock cuffs to put them in before leaving. Ultimately he arrived back at the scrapyard too late to prevent Steeljaw from freeing a bunch of the prisoners. They placed the other Decepticons in some stasis pods.

In Bumblebee’s Night Off, after weeks of trying to track down the new group of Decepticons, Bumblebee accidentally shot Grimlock during an encounter with Springload in a railyard. At the scrapyard, Bumblebee announces they will be back out on patrol in fifteen minutes which prompted Denny to advise him to let himself and his team to take a break. When Fixit informs about Decepticon activity at the Rumbledome where Bumblebee and Denny’s favorite concert band Axle will be performing, Bumblebee was thrilled but as the Autobots and Denny were busy, Russell reluctantly went with Bee. Bumblebee remained outside of the stadium in his vehicle mode as he informed Russell to get clear of any trouble, get Denny’s T-shirt and a steering wheel cover in a size medium for Bee’s wheel. Bumblebee was bouncing around through the music in the stadium but paused when a couple had passed his vehicle mode then resumed bouncing again. Rusell found and informed Bee about Bisk in the stadium. Bumblebee contacts his team for backup and Russell helps him get pass security at the loading area. Strongarm reports to Bumblebee that they were stuck in traffic and when Bumblebee goes with Russell to reach the backstage area, they discover the Decepticons were gone. Bumblebee thinks that Bisk may have gone after the sound board that was being used for the concert. Bumblebee promptly goes up the stage where the stage manager assumed he was part of the show. Bumblebee is happy to go along with it, and soon he fights Bisk in full view of the audience. Bumblebee is momentarily starstruck when he realizes where he is, allowing Bisk to unleash Hammer and Anvil on him while the Con heads for the sound board. After taking out the two Mini-Cons, Bumblebee resumes fighting Bisk while Rear Axle continues playing. Bisk nearly had the upper but after a sudden bost of inspiration from his band that was playing on the stage, Bumblebee takes out Bisk just as the band hits the big finish to their song. Later, Bumblebee and Russell throw Bisk and his Mini-Cons into a big box and get them out of the venue. Bumblebee claimed to Russell that he was extremely overjoyed that he was part of the show for his favorite band. Returning to the scrapyard, Russell shows Bumblebee the picture he has of the pair of them with Rear Axle.

In Impounded, following a near disaster while trying to apprehend Silverhound, Bumblebee banned Grimlock from being part of their field missions. He and Strongarm attempted to capture Quillfire, only to be knocked out by his quills and subsequently had to be rescued from an impound lot by Denny and Russell. Grimlock was there in a new disguise that Fixit made for him and helped them deal with Quillfire. After Bumblebee and Strongarm incapacitate Quillfire’s Mini-Cons, they ended up in a maintenance pit but Grimlock captured the Decepticon after spinning him around on his crane hook. Bumblebee approved the Dinobot’s new disguise for use on missions as they were going home.

In Portals, when Strongarm was stuck under a turret with Grimlock attempting to get her out, Bumblebee arrives to shut the turret down before it takes out most of the scrapyard. He reflects he will always be there to assist and states the team was like a family. When Soundwave returned and trapped Bumblebee in the shadowzone, Bumblebee was still able to communicate with the rest of his team, mainly Fixit, by radio. He was utterly incapable of being there for his team against Soundwave and his Mini-Con Laserbeak. After his team seemed defeated, it gave him an idea. He came up with a plan for his team to defeat the Decepticon. It worked as Bumblebee escaped from the shadowzone, destroys Soundwave’s transmitter and fights Soundwave, which Soundwave was able to get the better of Bee and pinned the Autobot down. He prepared to shoot Bee but was knocked back into the shadowzone along with Laserbeak who was thrown in by Grimlock. Bumblebee was impressed that his own team were able to take on a Decepticon like Soundwave without him but his team reminded him that they were following his plans.

In Decepticon Island (Part 1), Bumblebee found his orders were being double-guessed by Optimus during a mission with the other Autobots to track down a Decepticon. However, it was quite surprising as they reunited with Ratchet and brought him back to the scrapyard with Clampdown, who was placed in a stasis pod. Ratchet explains to the team about the regime on Cybertron that the council blamed Optimus and members of Team Prime for the destruction of their planet. Upon Toolbox arriving in the scrapyard and informing the team about the Decepticon island which Steeljaw had joined, the Autobots began working on their plans to place a stasis bomb in the Decepticon island. Later, the Autobots use one of Denny’s boats to head out towards the Decepticon island, which they all pretended to be unconscious while Grimlock steered the way. Bumblebee helped Grimlock with a ruse to infiltrate the crash of the Alchemor when a Decepticon picked up on their signal. The ship appeared in the water and the Autobots took advantage when Grimlock knocked out two Decepticon guards. As the Autobots make their way into the ship, they’re shocked to find numerous Decepticons who were in the ship. They came to a chamber where Mini-Cons were being forced to work. Their presence was compromised when one of the Mini-Con slaves called on Toolbox, which left Optimus having the urge to save the Mini-Cons
while Bumblebee wanted to finish the mission. Their argument delayed enough time for more Decepticons to enter the room and surround the Autobots, with Steeljaw «welcoming» the Autobots to his new Decepticon empire.

In Decepticon Island (Part 2), After Windblade uses herself to distract the Decepticons, the Autobots escape the room and soon split up, with Bumblebee taking Optimus and Toolbox to fix a cryo-gas bomb to the ship’s ventilation hub. After Bumblebee and Optimus sorts out their leadership issues, they also encountered and fought a Decepticon Hunter empowered Steeljaw. Bumblebee attempted to take on Steeljaw, only to be knocked aside and nearly finished off until Fixit arrives with his fellow Mini-Cons who were all freed. With the help from Fixit, Toolbox, and the other Mini-Cons, Bumblebee and Optimus succeeded in taking the Decepticon down as Bumblebee regained his Decepticon Hunter in the process and uses it to trap Steeljaw in the floor. Together, all of the Autobots and Mini-Cons escaped before the bomb froze every Decepticon on the ship. In the aftermath, Bumblebee and Optimus reconcile as Optimus wanted to check out the new regime on Cybertron. He also informed Bumblebee that he will come to his aid should Bumblebee ever need it and compliments Bumblebee’s leadership then they shook hands. After they watched the boat leave, Bumblebee announced it was time to establish a permanent base on Earth with his team members following him back to the scrapyard.

Season 2 1/2

In History Lessons, with the Decepticons no longer a problem, Bumblebee took his team on a tour of Earth, ending up in a visit to the remains of Output Omega One where they stumbled on a bomb. The team split up, and Bumblebee and Sideswipe stumbled on the scavengers Paralon and Buzzstrike, who were trying to find useful artifacts. Though Bee was knocked out cold after being controlled by Buzzstrike, he managed to prevent the bomb from doing any major damage. Unfortunately Sideswipe found his old diary, which included the exercise video he’d made.

In Strongarm´s Big Score, after it became clear that an unknown group was looking for, Bumblebee split up the team to search Cybertronian sites and personally went to western Africa. He and the rest of the team were accidentally GroundBridged back to the scrapyard instead of Mount St. Hilary because Denny and Russell couldn’t work the controls.

In Pretzel Logic, while continuing the search, Bumblebee and Sideswipe ended up in a desert. They later joined Grimlock when the Dinobot encountered Thermidor and Tricerashot, however when Thermidor threatened to bring down a ski lift, Bumblebee’s impatience resulted in him being defeated by the scavenger and it was down to Grimlock to retrieve the artifact. Bumblebee later worked on learning patience from Brother Gunter.

In Mighty Big Trouble, Bumblebee and his team retrieved a high energy pulse generator from Egypt, only to have to destroy it when it threatened to fry their brains. Following the invasion of the scrapyard by the Weaponizer Mini-Cons, Team Bee’s Mini-Con members were mistakenly abducted by Starscream’s men, and Starscream then used them to force Bumblebee to surrender himself.

In Mini-Con Madness, after an aborted attempt to escape and find the Mini-Cons, Bumblebee was tied up on the bridge of Starscream’s ship and forced to listen to the Decepticon’s rambling. He did manage to distract Starscream when Jetstorm got free. When Starscream had finally captured the Weaponizer Mini-Cons, Bumblebee was there to witness Starscream gloat.

In Worthy, Bumblebee was eventually freed by Fixit, Jetstorm and Slipstream and joined by Optimus and the rest of Team Bee, as they fought Starscream’s men. They eventually managed to defeat Starscream, despite him successfully merging with the Weaponizer Mini-Cons, by dragging him down into range of Fixit’s signal so he could be de-merged. After fare-welling Optimus and the Mini-Cons, Bumblebee and his team split up to search more Cybertronian sites.

Season 3

In King of the Hill (Part 1), when a Decepticon was detected, Bumblebee was confident that Sideswipe and Strongarm could handle it. Bee and the rest of the team had to join them when it turned out they couldn’t.

In King of the Hill (Part 2), during the battle against Heatseeker, Bumblebee found himself unexpectedly linked to a Mini-Con which gave him a flight mode, and an explosion resulted in the entire team being merged into one robot while unconscious. In the aftermath, Bumblebee realized he’d lost his Decepticon Hunter.

In Defrosted, Bee searched for his weapon in the scrapyard, fruitlessly, though his search was put on hold when the team had to head to one of Windblade’s caches in Antarctica to secure Crustacion.

In Blurred, while trying to secure another cache, the team encountered Rescue Bot Blurr, resulting in Bumblebee having to handle Sideswipe being paranoid about being replaced. As a result, they had to chase down Ragebyte after the Sharkticon prisoner escaped.

In Sphere of Influence, Bee and the rest of his team found themselves coveting the Sphere of Doradus thanks to the energies the artifact was giving off, and had to resist it so they could capture Springload.

In Bee Cool, Bumblebee became jealous of the rapport Blurr and Sideswipe had, and his attempts to be cool caused trouble as the team tried to apprehend Dragstrip and Wildbreak. Although the Stunticons got away, the team secured the weapons and Sideswipe complimented Bumblebee’s leadership which they share a new style of handshake with each other.

In The Great Divide, during another attempt to capture Dragstrip, the team once again inadvertently merged, and in the aftermath found themselves having to cope with two Sideswipes. In the end, the weapon from Dragstrip was recovered and the two Sideswipes were merged into one Sideswipe.

In Get a Clue, as the team investigated a series of Decepticon thefts, Bumblebee encouraged Strongarm to cultivate her detective skills, leading them to capturing three Decepticon brothers.

In Out of the Shadows, when Drift’s old mentor Shadow Raker showed up on Earth, Bumblebee and the team helped Drift recover his Mini-Con students after the Decepticon kidnapped them.

In Disordered Personalities, another of Fixit’s combiner experiments led to the Autobots temporarily switching bodies. Stuck in Grimlock’s body, Bumblebee was forced to sit out the subsequent road race mission to defeat the Stunticons. In the end, his team managed to save the driver and they switched back to their original bodies.

In Guilty as Charged, Bee and the rest of the team attempted to help Strongarm’s friend Nightra after she turned up apparently being pursued by Blastwave, only to discover that Nightra was the criminal and Blastwave was an Autobot bounty hunter. In the end, Nightra was apprehended by Strongarm and the team returned to the base.

In The Golden Knight, Bumblebee took Fixit with him to an English island where they encountered Flamesnort and had to shut down the Decepticon’s seismic-shock warhead before it could destroy Earth.

In The Fastest Bot Alive!, after an experiment led to Grimlock developing super speed, Bumblebee confined him to base. During an attempt to recapture Simacore, Bee had to contend with Grimlock turning up to help as well.

Appearances

Transformers: Robots in Disguise

• «Pilot (Part 1)» ^(Debut)
• «Pilot (Part 2)»
• «Trust Exercises»
• «More than Meets the Eye»
• «W.W.O.D.?»
• «As the Kospego Commands!»
• «Collect ‘Em All»
• «True Colors»
• «Rumble in the Jungle»
• «Can You Dig It?’
• «Adventures in Bumblebee-Sitting!»
• «Hunting Season»
• «Sideways»
• «Out of Focus»
• «Even Robots Have Nightmares»
• «Some Body, Any Body»
• «One of Our Mini-Cons Is Missing»
• «Deep Trouble»
• «The Champ»
• «The Trouble with Fixit»
• «Lockout»
• «Similarly Different»
• «The Buzz on Windblade»
• «Ghosts and Impostors»
• «Battlegrounds, Part 1»
• «Battlegrounds, Part 2»

Season 2

• «Overloaded, Part 1»
• «Overloaded, Part 2»
• «Metal Meltdown»
• «Suspended»
• «Brainpower»
• «Misdirection»
• «Bumblebee’s Night Off»
• «Impounded»
• «Portals»
• «Decepticon Island (Part 1)»
• «Decepticon Island (Part 2)»

Season 2 1/2

• «History Lessons»
• «Strongarm´s Big Score»
• «Pretzel Logic»
• «Mighty Big Trouble»
• «Mini-Con Madness»
• «Worthy»

Season 3

• «King of the Hill (Part 1)»
• «King of the Hill (Part 2)»
• «Defrosted»
• «Blurred»
• «Sphere of Influence»
• «Bee Cool»
• «The Great Divide»
• «Get a Clue»
• «Out of the Shadows»
• «Disordered Personalities»
• «Guilty as Charged»
• «The Golden Knight»
• «The Fastest Bot Alive!»
• «Railroad Rage»
• «Combine and Conquer»
• «Moon Breaker»
• «Exiles»
• «Breathing Room»
• «Prepare for Departure»
• «Prisoner Principles»
• «Collateral Damage»
• «Something He Ate»
• «Sick as a Bot»
• «Five Fugitives»
• «Enemy of My Enemy»
• «Freedom Fighters»

Physical Appearance

Body and car modes

During the Great War, Bumblebee was much smaller than the other Autobots. He was primarily colored in yellow, with several rims of red and black on his body. His vehicle mode is a fiction made car called the Urbana 500.

Stealth Bumblebee

In Beast Hunters, his paint is now mostly black with yellow stripes of his body. His head is still mostly yellow with a black stripe down the middle. All the parts of his body that previously glowed blue, now glow yellow.

Transformers: Robots in Disguise

Bumblebee retains his yellow and little of his black color scheme. His vehicle mode is a bit similar to his old vehicle mode from Transformers Prime.

Personality

Bumblebee is a quiet and a very playful Autobot. He seems to never bother his teammates at all and even the human kids look up to him. Despite his nice demeanour, Bumblebee holds a burden in him, due to Megatron ripping out his voice box during his time back on Cybertron. Bumblebee doesn’t realize that he doesn’t have to prove anything to his teammates and that they all see him as a valuable member of the Autobots. He seems to posses some irresponsibility problems as he jumped on the chance to engage in illegal street racing and disobey some of Optimus’s orders.

Despite his long history with the Autobots, Bumblebee wanted to take the ultimate step and gain the courage to be bold. He didn’t realize however, that he had already become bold on his own and was looked at highly by the other Autobots. Bumblebee’s biggest challenge is convincing himself that he is the only one that sees him unfit to carry out tasks in the Autobots’ missions.
Despite being a soldier, Bumblebee is still young by Cybertronian standards and has the mind set of 12-16-year-old child. It has been implied by Arcee that Bumblebee watches Earth cartoons on Saturdays. However, when the situation calls for it Bumblebee can become very serious. It is implied that Bumblebee is very ashamed of not being able to speak and did not tell Raf how he lost his voice box. 

Bumblebee got his voice back after getting revived by the Cybermatter and killing Megatron with the Star Saber in Deadlock.

After gaining his wish of becoming a full pledged warrior, Bumblebee began to mature through his outlook as with the threat of Unicron approaching Cybertron and with Optimus unavailable, Bumblebee reluctantly took on the role of leader of the Autobots where he managed to gain the Predacons trust in Predacons Rising.

In Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Bumblebee is far more serious and mature, despite his fame as a war hero and despite being a high ranking police officer, he is a humble peacekeeper, just like in Predacons Rising. On an another positive note, Bumblebee is reluctant to be a leader. He frequently trys to rally his troops with a battle cry to impress them, no avail. He shows signs of trepidation when he acted like a leader and fears letting his former mentor Optimus Prime down. However, despite his reluctance, he maintains control and demonstrates optimism and trust with his new team. When Megatronus nearly attempts to destroy Earth, Bumblebee is reunited with Optimus and unknowingly abandons his team for the first half of the battle. However, Bumblebee redeem himself for it when he worked with Sideswipe and Strongarm in using their Decepticon Hunters to upgrade their forms. Soon after his team has seemingly defeated Megatronus, Bumblebee impressed everyone including Optimus by stating a decent and catchy battle cry. After they placed Steeljaw’s pack (with Steeljaw remaining at large) in stasis pods, Bumblebee welcomes Optimus to join his team, which Optimus remained.

In season 2, Bumblebee has shown a hidden personal grudge against the Decepticon named Overload. However, even though Overload did not recognize Bumblebee, Bumblebee had some satisfaction when he punched Overload and left him unconscious as he captured him. He seems to have grown attached to his team as shown in Portals where he states they were like a family with Sideswipe being a «crazy cousin» and his team also relied on his leadership to defeat Soundwave and his Mini-Con Laserbeak. In Decepticon Island (Part 1), Bumblebee and Optimus began to have some discord before and during a mission to stop Steeljaw and his army by placing a stasis bomb in Decepticon island. Although their conflict continued in Decepticon Island (Part 2), Bumblebee was able to talk with Optimus and it left Optimus persuaded as he lets Bumblebee lead. After the Decepticons on Decepticon island were all successfully in stasis, Optimus and Bumblebee make up as Optimus advises Bumblebee to never doubt himself as he truly became a leader.

Powers and Abilities

Bumblebee is an excellent scout, due to his speed and small size. He is able to hold his own in battle facing off opponents such as Breakdown and Skyquake. He possesses leadership qualities which is shown in «Predacons Rising», as he lead the Autobots in the fight against Unicron. He is armed with two Energon blasters in his arms, he is also armed with an energy shield along with a plasma cannon. Interesting, he does not use his Energon blasters in the sequel most likely due to him being a cop.

After Cybertron’s restoration Bumblebee grew into a veteran warrior, which he has proven to be an adept fighter as he can easily engage numerous Decepticons twice his size, even going toe-to-toe with Steeljaw. Interestingly, he appears to have inherited many of his former allies abilities including Arcee’s dexterity as he can perform many amazing feats of high jump attacks and close-quarter combat, Bulkhead’s strength which he uses to face off against challenging opponents, Ratchet’s strategic mind and technological skills and Optimus’s leadership qualities which ultimately make Bumblebee one of the strongest Autobots on-line.

Relationships

• Bumblebee’s Relationships

Trivia

• Bumblebee’s appearance is heavily based on his Movie counterpart. The only other Autobot designed such is Optimus Prime. And like his movie counterpart (at least in the first live action movie), Bumblebee was able to talk in the end of the show.
• Bumblebee finally got his wish of moving from scout to warrior on Cybertron in Predacons Rising. 
• Many fans believe that the real reason Bumblebee can not speak throughout most of this series, it is because the creators of this series could not find the perfect voice actor for him until the end of the series, however some believe it may have been because his earlier incarnations were too annoying.
• Bumblebee and Arcee are the only two Autobots of the entire series to go on more than one relic hunt together.
• Bumblebee was once seen in an episode of a newer Transformers series, Transformers Rescue Bots, episode; Bumblebee To The Rescue. It is said by the character, Blades, a bot who can turn into a helicopter, that Bumblebee is legendary. It seems that Blades is Bumblebee’s biggest fan, and, towards the end of that particular episode, the character, Cody Burns, starts to understand Bumblebee’s speech.
• According to the Autobits in the first three episodes of Beast Hunters, Frank Welker actually did dialogue for Bumblebee until it was decided to replace the dialogue with sound effects instead.
• At San Diego Comic Con, it revealed that Bumblebee will be voiced by Will Friedle (Terry McGinnis from Batman Beyond, Deadpool from Ultimate Spider-Man and Lion-O from 2011 remake of Thundercats) in Deadlock.
• He is the first incarnation of Bumblebee to offline Megatron.
• Despite being the weakest of the Autobots aside from Arcee (and by a lot of fans, the most useless) Bumblebee has the highest kill count of the Autobots being the one to offline Skyquake and eventually Megatron.
  • Thus, Bumblebee has shown to be far from useless. 
• On that subject, Bumblebee was often the least favorite from fans, many beleving that Smokescreen was his replacement for kid appeal character. However once he started speaking in Deadlock and Predacons Rising his popularity greatly increased. 
• Ultra Magnus, Wheeljack, Smokescreen and Bumblebee never use built in melee weapons with Bumblebee never using any in the entire series.
• Bumblebee is shown to be a good liar, as he was able to trick Predaking into believing that a piece of metal he found was the Immobilizer and have Starscream believe that he did not possess it for a moment.
• When auditions were held for Bumblebee’s voice in Season 3, voice actors were led to believe that were reading for the role of Bluestreak as the producers wanted a true fan of Transformers to voice such an iconic character.
• He will return in the sequel in 2015 as the main protagonist. Revelations about the sequel states that he will have visions of Optimus, implying that Optimus becomes his guide.
• Bumblebee seems to be the only Autobot who does not have eyelids. The Vehicons, Insecticons, Soundwave, Shockwave, and possibly Makeshift are the only known Decepticons that do not seem to have eyelids.
• Since Bumblebee appears older than Sideswipe and Strongarm, his character is a lot like Cade Yeager in Transformers: Age of Extinction». They both act like adult figures and have different relationships with other characters. For example: Bumblebee and Sideswipe both have a similar relationship and traits to Cade Yeager and Shane Dyson.
• He is the only Cybertronian to be caught on camera more than once.
• Bumblebee think’s of Earth as his second home.

Transformers Prime quotes

• «MEGATRON!!!» *Stabs Megatron with Star Saber* «You took my voice. You will never rob anyone, of anything, ever again.»- Bumblebee regains his voice.
• «My voice? What’re you g-«
• «My voice!»
• «Ratchet, I got my pipes back.»
• «I never did.» Bumblebee telling Raf he never spoke until now.
• «Slow down Smokey. I’m not sure I wish a Prime’s responsibility on anyone.»
• «Let’s take the Warship and bring it back.»
• «Ok you got my attention. What do you want?»
• «Well when are you going to tell me where I can find your pals?»
• «Your finish is looking pretty drab.»
• «Optimus Prime would deem it a tragedy to stain Cybertron’s fresh soil with any newly spilled energon. So help us prove what Megatron was never willing to. That more than one race can co-exist on our planet.»
• «Megatron?»
• «Ratchet, we need a groundbridge!»
• «NO!!!»
• «You got that right.»
• «I like to think my actions spoke louder than my words Arcee. But it didn’t hurt to watch from the best.»
• «I was referring to a powerful little two-wheeler I know.» Bumblebee to Arcee
• «That device your holding. Not the Immobilizer.»
• «Knock Out… We needed that!»
• «We’re the last line of defense.»
• «Optimus go! Save the AllSpark!!»
• «You can count on us to keep the peace.»

Transformers: Robots in Disguise quotes

• «My name is Bumblebee, and I keep the peace around here. Try to, anyway.» — Bumblebee making a comeback in Pilot (Part 1).
• «I’ve been following a trail. One that you two apparently can’t see. A trail laid out for me by Optimus Prime.» — Bumblebee to Strongarm and Sideswipe.
• «Bad impersonation?» — Bumblebee after the two museum guards mistake him for someone else.
• «We’ve been here less than an hour, and he’s already revealed himself to a human.» — Bumblebee witnessing Sideswipe bring Russell Clay.
• «I’m not Optimus!» — Bumblebee to Strongarm in Pilot (Part 2).
• «Roll up and roll out! — Bumblebee’s first bad phrase to his team.
• «But we needed your help, Optimus. We always will.»
• «I… we… won’t let you down Optimus. And if I say it enough, maybe I’ll actually believe it.» — Bumblebee has high hopes for his new team.
• «The density of mercury is, uh, bzzt, error, bzzt, error.» — Bumblebee acting in W.W.O.D.?.
• «Oh Fixit, we don’t have any elephants.» — Bumblebee in As the Kospego Commands!.
• «The music on this planet is pretty great. The melodies are complex and the lyrics frequently have multiple meanings.»
• «Let’s rev, rock and rumble! [sees Sideswipe and Strongarm’s faces] Oh really? I kinda liked that one.»
• «I’ve seen Grimlock’s rap-sheet, the only crime on there is severe property damage due to Grimlock being… Grimlock.» — Bumblebee in True Colors.
• «Autobots, maximum velocity.»
• «Uh, look, this isn’t how it looks, Strongarm. I just forgot to give you something before you left. It’s… my good luck rock! Took it on my very first mission. Musta dropped it, right? Here.» — Bumblebee is unconvincing in Rumble in the Jungle.
• «Alright then. Autobots, lets bug out!» [dog barks in the distance] «Cause y’know, we’re kinda chasing a bug.» — Bumblebee in Can You Dig It?
• «Autobots, roll up…and..a..roll up.» — Bumblebee in Adventures in Bumblebee-Sitting!
• «I saved you, you saved me. I hereby release you from your life debt, with my deepest thanks.» — Bumblebee to Drift in Hunting Season.
• «Looks like the team meeting’ll have to wait. Too bad, so sad. Ok, Autobots! Let’s hit the trail!» — Bumblebee in Out of Focus.
• «Hey! I do the rallying cries!»
• «What is it? Oh uhh… let’s speed and succeed!… Well come on, I mean w-we…y-you put me on the spot!» — Bumblebee in Sideways.
• «OK team! Gas it up and blow it out! …Honestly it sounded better in my head.»- Bumblebee makes a fart joke in Even Robots Have Nightmares.
• «Time to bring the zoom and lower the boom!» — Bumblebee in One of Our Mini-Cons Is Missing.
• «Looks like we’ve come to a bridge. Let’s cross it.» — Bumblebee in Deep Trouble.
• «Ok, Autobots. Let’s wreck and roll! [silence] You see, ‘wreck’ because Scowl wrecks, and then I was like ‘roll’ because… that’s what we do.» — Bumblebee in Similarly Different.
• «Uh, Strongarm, horses aren’t generally aggressive unless provoked.» — Bumblebee to Strongarm in The Buzz on Windblade.
• «Now, how did you come up with that so fast? Cause I’ve had the worst time.» — Bumblebee to Windblade on catchphrases.
• «Ha! C’mon, Earth is unpredictable! That’s part of its charm!» — Bumblebee in Ghosts and Impostors.
• «Drift, Grim, let’s roll to the rescue! Wait, no, somebody’s already using that battle cry.» — Bumblebee in Battlegrounds, Part 1.
• «Scrud. Uh… halt! This is Fire Marshal, um, Denruss. For your safety, stay in your shelter and cover your eyes and mouth because of the smoke. And stuff.» — Bumblebee in Suspended.
• «Humans travel here in their vehicles and park next to these speakers so they can watch and listen to a film that’s projected on that giant screen.» — Bumblebee in Misdirection.
• «I mean, they play songs about fighting for justice, and not giving up so long as the music’s still playing! I mean it’s like they know me!» — Bumblebee on Rear Axle in Bumblebee’s Night Off.
• «It’s…like being in a dream!»
• «Every family has a crazy cousin.» — Bumblebee on Sideswipe in Portals.
• «Not today, Steeljaw. Not when all I have to do is imagine the tools I need to defeat you.» — Bumblebee before trapping Steeljaw in the floor with his Decepticon Hunter in Decepticon Island (Part 2)

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bumblebees

шмель

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That’s why the mascot of Internet engineering, if it had one, is said to be the bumblebee.

Поэтому лучшим талисманом для инженеров интернета стал бы шмель.

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That’s why the mascot of Internet engineering, if it had one, is said to be the bumblebee.
Поэтому лучшим талисманом для инженеров интернета стал бы шмель.

Because the fur-to-wingspan ratio of the bumblebee is far too large for it to be able to fly.
Потому что соотношение размаха крыльев и меха шмеля совершенно недостаточно для того, чтобы он мог летать.

And it had a big water tower that looked like a flying saucer, and a giant bumblebee and a big red door.
У него еще была большая водяная башня, похожая на летающее блюдце, и большой шмель и огромная красная дверь.

Even the beautiful bumblebee, with its mere one million brain cells, which is 250 times fewer cells than you have in one retina, sees illusions, does the most complicated things that even our most sophisticated computers can’t do.
Даже красавец-шмель, с его жалким миллионом мозговых клеток, что в 250 раз меньше, чем в одной только нашей сетчатке, видит иллюзии и делает сложнейшие вещи, которые не под силам даже нашим мощнейшим компьютерам.

Bumblebees are bigger than bees.
Шмели больше пчёл.

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