Some images have a lot of characters here. For such images I may choose not to list all the names one by one in the image description, because it won’t look good.
这里有些图里面人物很多，那么我可能就不把人名一个个的在图片说明里面列出来了， 因为名单太长不好看。
Portraits || 肖像
Battle scenes || 战斗场景
Other || 其它场景
The pictures here are centered around non-robot characters or things, which include Spike, Daniel, Chip (the young genius in a wheelchair who designed dinobots Snarl and Swoop), Quintesson, Primacron and the Matrix.
Primacron was the super-intelligent monkey who created Unicron and Tornedron. But both of them were too powerful (and relentless) to be controlled and turned their back on Primacron by attacking him. Primacron escaped the attack of Unicron, and Grimlock saved him from Tornedron by finding a way to un-create it.
这里的图片是以非机器人角色或东西为中心的。这包括斯派克，丹尼尔，奇普(坐轮椅的天才少年，设计了机器恐龙嚎叫和飞镖)，五面怪，至尊太君和领导模块。
至尊太君是那个创造了宇宙大帝和蝎子精的超智慧猴子。但是这两个造物都太强大(也太无情)了，无法控制，最终都反过来攻击自己的创造者。至尊太君逃过了宇宙大帝的攻击，而钢锁找到了一个“逆转创造”蝎子精的方法，救了至尊太君一命。
Here they are: Metroplex and Trypticon. I guess after the destruction of Unicron, the show needed some big guys to fill the gap. If you are thinking about the robots in Pacific Rim, well they are probably bigger than the combiners in Transformers, but should be definitely smaller than Metroplex. Maybe Macross could be bigger than Metroplex.
就是他们：大都市和铁甲龙。我猜在宇宙大帝毁灭以后，这部动画片需要一些大家伙来填补空白。如果你在想《环太平洋》里面的大机器人，它们多半比组合金刚大，但是肯定没有大都市大。也许太空堡垒会比大都市大。
Portraits || 肖像
Battle scenes || 战斗场景
Talking about combiners and giants, I have two things to explain.
谈到组合金刚和巨型机器人，我要解释两件事。
First, technically the first combiner in the cartoon should be Reflector — three robots combining into a camera. But, that’s not what we are talking about here, right? When we say “combiner”, we mean a giant robot that is the combination of a 5- or 6-robot team.
首先，严格来说动画片里的第一个组合金刚应该是照相机三合一。但那并不是我们这里说的组合金刚，对吧？我们说的“组合金刚”指的是一个由五人或六人战队组成的巨型机器人。
Second, on the autobots’ side, there are three giant robots who are not combiners: Omega Supreme, Sky Lynx and Broadside. Broadside is also a triple changer and his pictures are put in the “Special types” category. Strangely my stickers don’t have any pictures of Sky Lynx, who was the archenemy of Predaking and an important figure in the cartoon. Considering that many sticker images came from Japan, maybe Sky Lynx just wasn’t a popular figure among the Japanese audience because it didn’t have a human form? That’s a pity.
第二，汽车人那边有三个非战队组合的巨型机器人：大力金刚，天猫(也叫“山猫号”)，排炮。排炮也是三变形机器人，他的图片在“特殊类别”那一栏。奇怪的是，我的不干胶上完全找不到天猫的图片。天猫是冲云霄的死敌，在动画片里出场也很频繁，可以说是重要人物。考虑到不干胶上的图片大多都是日本来的，我猜测天猫在日本观众里面不太受欢迎，可能是因为它没有人类形态？真是遗憾。
Now let me show the cartoon screenshots of Sky Lynx. Sky Lynx consisted of two parts. The upper part was a spaceshuttle that could transform into a dinobird. The lower part was a cabin that could transform into a lynx. And these two parts could combine into Sky Lynx as in the picture below.
现在我来展示一下天猫的动画片截图。天猫由两个部分组成，上半部是一架航天飞机，可以变形成恐鸟，下半部是一个客舱，可以变形成山猫。这两个部分可以组合成天猫，如下图所示。
In some sense, the design of Sky Lynx was similar to Duocons and Duobots in the Headmaster series later.
从某种意义上说，天猫的设计类似于以后在头领战士系列里出现的双组合机器人。
The sticker galleries below contain images of all combiners and just one giant — Omega Supreme.
下面的不干胶图库包含的是所有的组合金刚和一个巨型机器人–大力金刚。
Portraits || 肖像
Constructicons, Devastator || 挖地虎，大力神
As the first combiner, Devastator used to be the star of so many episodes. He practically kicked ass every time he showed up, and he even saved Earth from total destruction in one episode. But, ever since Omega Supreme showed up, Devastator had lost his premium status. What’s more, in later episodes he became basically a pushover. It looked like the only reason he showed up was to get his ass kicked. Alas, such is the fate of outdated characters…
作为第一个组合金刚，大力神曾经风头出尽。他每次出现都会把汽车人打得落花流水，而且在某一集里他还拯救了地球。但是，自从大力金刚出现后，大力神的优越地位就一去不复返了。在后期，他甚至成了个软蛋，基本上每次出场的唯一目的就是挨揍。唉，过气人物的命运真是悲惨…
Aerialbots, Superion || 飞行太保，大无畏
Again, Superion/Aerialbots used to be the star of many episodes. They defeated Menasor and Bruticus multiple times, traveled back in time to save Optimus, and even put up a good fight against Trypticon which left it wounded. But, in “the Rebirth” episodes, they were single-handedly defeated by Sixshot in like 30 seconds, without the chance to say a line! That’s just unbelievable…I mean the way the story writer treated them. Alas, such is the fate of outdated characters whom the story writer no longer cares about…
大无畏/飞行太保也曾经是风头出尽。他们数次击败飞天虎和浑天豹，回到过去拯救了擎天柱，甚至对铁甲龙也打了一次漂亮仗，伤了铁甲龙。但是，在“重生”剧集里面，他们居然被六变兽一个人在30秒以内打败了，连台词都没有一句！真是难以置信…我指的是编剧对他们的这种垃圾般的处理。唉，过气人物的命运就是这么惨啊！姥姥不疼舅舅不爱了…
Stunticons, Menasor || 飞虎队，飞天虎
Menasor was supposed to be the archenemy of Superion. In one episode, Soundwave said that Menasor’s sword was some kind of special weapon. It seemed that it had the capability of disassemble other combiners upon hitting. In the first episode of the Rodimus-Galvatron age, Menasor used his sword twice to cut down Devastator, in a fight for energons.
飞天虎是大无畏的死对头。在某一集里，声波说飞天虎的剑是某种“特殊本领”。好像这把剑具有拆散其它组合金刚的能力。在补天士惊破天时代的第一集，为了争夺能量块，飞天虎用剑两次把大力神打散了。
Combaticons, Bruticus || 战车队，浑天豹
Starscream created Combaticons to help him seize power from Megatron. Bruticus beat Devastator easily with superior strength and Starscream almost succeeded. But a sneak attack from Menasor saved Megatron. Exiled by Megatron, the combaticons attacked Cybertron and wanted to use the space bridge to send Earth into the sun, thus destroying Megatron along with all autobots on Earth. Megatron teamed up with Optimus to stop Bruticus, and in the end reprogrammed Bruticus to follow his order.
红蜘蛛创造了战车队，用来帮他从威震天那里夺权。浑天豹力大无比，轻松打败了大力神，红蜘蛛几乎就要成功了，但是飞天虎的奇袭导致他功败垂成。被威震天放逐后，战车队袭击了赛博坦，还打算用太空桥把地球送进太阳，一劳永逸的干掉威震天和地球上的汽车人。威震天和擎天柱联手阻止了浑天豹，最后浑天豹被重新编程，服从威震天的命令。
Protectobots, Defensor || 机器卫兵，守护神
Defensor was the archenemy of Bruticus. He could create an energy barrier around him that could block most attacks. He once blasted Bruticus into pieces, and only Swindle survived. Later Megatron ordered Swindle to reassemble the other combaticons and made Bruticus live again.
守护神是浑天豹的死对头。他能够以自己为中心制造一个能量罩，可以抵挡大多数攻击。守护神也曾经把浑天豹炸成碎片，只有诈骗活了下来。后来威震天命令诈骗重新组装战车队的其他成员，让浑天豹复活。
Predacons, Predaking || 巨狰狞，冲云霄
Predaking was the first new combiner in the Rodimus-Galvatron age. It seems that many people like him. His design looked pretty cool – a combination of robot beasts. And in the episode where Tornedron was destroying the universe, Predaking stood his ground and would rather die fighting than running away. That probably added to his popularity as well.
冲云霄是补天士惊破天时代的第一个新的组合金刚，好像很多人都喜欢他。首先他的设计看上去挺酷的 – 机器猛兽的组合。然后在蝎子精吞噬宇宙的那一集里，冲云霄选择了宁可战死也决不逃走的英勇态度，给他的形象也加分不少。
Terrorcons, Abominus || 龙头怪，犰狳鬼
Terrorcons transform into monsters such as two-headed dragons.
Now it should be clear that decepticons are animal-lovers, right? They even carried this tradition over to the Headmaster series…just look at Piranacon and Dinoking.
龙头怪变形成一些怪物，比如双头龙之类的。
现在大家都应该看出来了，霸天虎是动物爱好者，对吧？这个传统还一直延续到头领战士系列呢，有海皇和恐龙王为证。
Technobots, Computron || 神风队，计算王
Created by Grimlock and inherited his wisdom, Computron was a popular combiner that came late in the G1 cartoon. Apparently his calculating capability was unmatched, but could be cheated if he’s fed with wrong information like in the Episode “Money is everything”. He was the archenemy of Abominus. In their matches, it seemed that Abominus had more brutal strength, but Computron won most of the time because he could calculate out a smart strategy.
计算王是钢锁制造的，继承了钢锁的智慧。他是一个颇有人气的组合金刚，但是在G1系列里出现比较晚。他的计算能力天下第一，但是如果给他错误信息的话，他也会上当，在“金钱万能”那集里面就是这样。他是犰狳鬼的死对头。从他们的对战看来，犰狳鬼蛮力较大，但是计算王能算出聪明的战略，所以赢得比较多。
Mix || 混合
Battle scenes || 战斗场景
Special types here include triple changers, dinobots and insecticons.
这里的特殊类别包括三变形，机器恐龙和机器昆虫。
Portraits || 肖像
Triple changers || 三变形
Three autobots, three decepticons. Octane was shifty though. In one episode, it seemed that he shifted to the autobot side and was walking with Sandstorm. Then he was hunted by Cyclonus and Sweeps as a traitor and fled into the decepticon cemetery, where Starscream’s ghost showed up and helped him. Then in later episodes he fought by Galvatron’s side again.
A little bit story of Blitzwing: in the “Five faces of horror” episodes (the first several episodes after the 1986 movie), Blitzwing found out that the Quintessons were not really helping Galvatron to get the decepticon matrix and re-take Cybertron, and their true plan was to destroy all transformers. But Galvatron wouldn’t listen to him. So Blitzwing teamed up with autobots to stop Quitessons’ plan. After that he became tired of war and tried to push Galvatron to give up his war on autobots. Galvatron then expelled him from the decepticon army. Blitzwing was never seen in the cartoon afterwards.
三个汽车人，三个霸天虎。毒气弹有点游移不定。在某一集里，他好像投靠了汽车人，和沙暴在一起活动。然后狂飙和扫荡来捉拿叛徒，把他逼得逃进了霸天虎墓地，红蜘蛛的鬼魂出现救了他。然后在后面的若干集他又跟在惊破天身边了。
闪电的一点故事：紧接着1986年大电影之后，在电视动画片的“五面怪”几集里，闪电发现五面怪并不是真的想帮助惊破天找到霸天虎模块和夺回赛博坦，他们真正的计划是消灭所有的变形金刚。但是惊破天不相信他，所以闪电只好和汽车人一起阻止五面怪的阴谋。之后闪电表现出对战争的厌倦，并想逼迫惊破天放弃对汽车人的战争。惊破天把他踢出了霸天虎的队伍，在那以后闪电就再也没在动画片里出现了。
Dinobots || 机器恐龙
Being both powerful and cute, dinobots are all time stars. Grimlock was a superstar in the late stage of G1 cartoons. He created Computron, and saved the universe from Tornedron.
机器恐龙既很强也很萌，一直都是深受喜爱吧。钢锁在G1后期更是超级巨星，他创造了计算王，还从蝎子精手里拯救了宇宙。
Insecticons || 机器昆虫
They were impressive when they first showed up, but they weren’t nearly as popular as dinobots. Bombshell was turned into Cyclonus by Unicron in the 1986 movie, while some other insecticons were turned into sweeps.
机器昆虫第一次出场还是令人印象深刻的，但是人气远远比不上机器恐龙。在1986年的电影里，炸弹被宇宙大帝改造成了狂飙，其它一些机器昆虫成了扫荡队员。
Battle scenes || 战斗场景
I have to point out that the above battle picture of triple changers has a problem. Broadside is in fact, a giant robot, who should be much bigger than the other triple changers. If one watches the cartoon carefully, it should be apparent that he was set as a giant. For example, in Episode 93 “The burden hardest to bear”, Broadside was seen fighting both Devastator and Predaking:
我必须指出以上三变形战斗图片有个问题。排炮实际上是个巨型机器人，比其它三变形机器人大得多。只要仔细看动画片，就会知道他的设定是个巨型机器人。比如在第93集“千钧重任”当中，有一个场面是排炮单挑大力神和冲云霄两个组合金刚：
Broadside is on the left. Devastator and Predaking are on the right.
左边是排炮，右边是大力神和冲云霄。
Broadside didn’t show up often in the cartoon, but you can find more evidence if you watch the few episodes he was in.
排炮出场不多，但是只要你看一看他出场的那几集动画片，就能找到更多证据。
Honestly, tape robots is an outdated design. Tape recorders were popular in 1980s and 1990s, but who use them now? Nonetheless, the idea that small robots come out of a big robot’s belly is an interesting one. If the show was made today, Soundwave and Blaster would probably transform into something like a cellphone or notebook, or maybe even a DVD player. The tapes could be replaced by discs or USB drives I guess.
老实说，磁带机器人的设计是过时了。磁带录音机1980和1990年代挺流行的，但是现在很少有人问津了。不过呢，小机器人从大机器人肚子里跑出来的创意还是不错的。如果今天拍这个动画片的话，声波和录音机大概会变成手机，笔记本电脑，甚至DVD机。磁带可以改成光盘或者U盘。
In the newly translated version of Transformers the Movie (1986), the Chinese translator took the freedom to re-write a Soundwave-mocking line by the constructicons:
在变形金刚大电影里，中文翻译者把挖地虎嘲讽声波的一句台词给改了：
The Chinese line literally says: Nowadays it’s all MP3 and CD (MD is a typo). You piece of junk should just retire!
英文台词是：没人会认你这个沉闷无趣的家伙当头儿。中文翻译则很二十一世纪，呵呵。
Let’s see the image galleries.
现在来看图。
Portrait || 肖像
Battle scene || 战斗场景
Battle scenes || 战斗场景
Other scenes || 其它场景
In the 1986 movie, a bunch of first-generation autobot characteres were explicitly killed, including Ironhide, Ratchet, Prowl and Brawn. There was also a very short scene showing that Windcharger and Wheeljack were killed. The screenshot is below.
在1986年的电影里，好几个第一代汽车人在剧情里显然被干掉了，包括铁皮，救护车，警车，大汉。还有一个很短的场景显示充电器和千斤顶也死了。下面是截图。
Wheeljack was the first ever autobot who came on stage in the cartoon (Bumblebee was the second. See the screenshot below), and he was once an important character, the autobot scientist who created dinobots. But after a new autobot scientist — Perceptor — came into the show, Wheeljack simply stopped showing up. Then he died just like this in the movie. What a pity.
千斤顶是动画片里第一个出现的汽车人(第二个是大黄蜂。看下面的截图)，也曾经是个重要角色，是一位创造了机器恐龙的汽车人科学家。然而在新的汽车人科学家–感知器–登场后，千斤顶就再也没出过场。然后在电影里他就这么几乎不被人注意的死掉了。真是可惜。
As for the decepticons, Thundercracker, Skywarp and the three insecticons were heavily wounded, and later turned into Galvatron’s minions by Unicron. Thundercracker became Scourge.
在霸天虎那边，惊天雷，闹翻天和三个机器昆虫受了重伤，而后被宇宙大帝改造成了惊破天的手下。惊天雷变成了瘟疫。
As you can see, some of these pictures had different parts scattered in different pieces of stickers and I stitched them together. Again, we have a lot more autobot pictures than decepticon pictures here. The names of characters are listed in the image description. I know basically everyone’s name in these pictures, except some characters in Autobot group picture 09. Can anyone tell me the names I missed?
可以看到，这里有些图本来是分成很多小块放在不同的不干胶里，我把它们拼接起来的。汽车人的图片还是比霸天虎的多得多。图片描述里面有每个角色的名字。这里基本每个人我都知道名字，除了汽车人合照09。有人可以告诉我那些我不知道的名字吗？
The majority of these portraits are autobots. For the first generation of G1 robots, there seemed to be a lot more autobots than decepticons. Furthermore, some robots had special gimmicks which I produced a short list below. For the second generation (Rodimus-Galvatron age), the number of memorable autobot characters were cut down significantly, and I don’t remember any of them having special gimmicks any more.
Gimmicks of characters as I remember:
Autobots:
Mirage: invisibility mode. A very useful skill which allowed Mirage to go behind enemy’s back and steal stuff, such as Megatron’s cannon.
Trailbreaker: energy barrier. A strong defensive skill. Defensor’s energy barrier was probably an upgraded version of Trailbreaker’s.
Hound: hologram projection. A skill that fooled decepticons a couple of times.
Ironhide and Cliffjumper: Both of them seemed to have the skill to shoot out cement that was sticky and turned into solid quickly, effectively immobilizing anyone touching it. They also used this skill to build houses for humans. Maybe that was the original purpose of this skill…autobots were domestic robots for Quitessons, after all.
Jazz: Very loud jazz music played from super horns? Well, it seems that everyone’s afraid of it.
Decepticons:
Skywarp: teleport (only over a short distance). Goku’s teleporting in Dragonball was cool, but not here. He only used it a few times throughout the cartoon.
Starscream: Neon rays, his special weapon. It’s not very clear how it’s special. Judging from the story, it seemed to be circuit paralyzing?
Rumble and Frenzy: Earthquake. Their powerful hammers could make cracks on the earth that were big enough to swallow cars. It’s impressive and overpowered really.
这里的肖像大多数是汽车人。G1的第一代机器人里，汽车人的数量似乎比霸天虎多得多，而且有些人有自己的特殊技能，我在下面列了一张表。到了第二代(补天士惊破天时代)，有名字的汽车人角色的数量大幅减少了，而且我也不记得他们有谁具有特殊技能。
我记得的有特殊技能的角色：
汽车人：
幻影：隐形模式。十分有用的技能，幻影可以靠这个潜入敌后，盗取东西，比如威震天手上的大炮。
开路先锋：能量罩。这是个强力的防御技能，不过后来守护神的能量罩应该是更强的升级版。
探长：全息投影。这个太有用了，好几次骗得霸天虎团团转。
铁皮和飞过山：他们好像都能射出水泥一样的东西，粘性很强而且很快凝固，任何被它粘住的敌人都动弹不得。他们也曾经用这个技能给人类盖房子。也许这个技能本来就是盖房子用的…汽车人本来是五面怪的民用机器人么。
爵士：用超大喇叭放超响的爵士乐？大概跟狮子吼原理差不多，反正人人都怕这招。
霸天虎：
闹翻天：短距离瞬间移动。龙珠里面孙悟空的瞬间移动很有用，但是这里不然，在整部动画片里闹翻天使用瞬间移动的次数都是屈指可数。
红蜘蛛：氖射线，红蜘蛛的特殊武器。到底怎么特殊则不是很清楚，似乎能麻痹机器人的电路？
轰隆隆和迷乱：地震。他们的强力锤击可以在地表造成足以吞噬汽车的大裂缝。这招给人印象深刻，而且有点太强了吧。
Battle scenes || 战斗场景
Other scenes || 其它场景
“Leaders” here means No.1 and No.2’s of autobots and decepticons. We all know who the No. 1’s are. So I’ll talk more about the No. 2’s.
In the Optimus-Megatron age, there was no apparent No. 2 for autobots. Starscream was without doubt the decepticon No. 2. He was a very memorable character, both treacherous and funny. He’s probably the only decepticon who openly expressed his ambition to replace Megatron right in front of Megatron. At times when Megatron was temporarily down in the battle field, he would yell in excitement: “HE HAS FALLEN! I’m the new leader now!”. He even plotted several times to get rid of Megatron for real. But everytime after he failed and begged for mercy, Megatron would let him live. Apparently Megatron recognized Starscream’s capability to be valuable, but not enough to be a real threat to Megatron’s throne.
Well, things finally changed in the 1986 movie, where Starscream abandoned fatally wounded Megatron and really took over the decepticon leadership. His glory didn’t last long, as Megatron returned as Galvatron, and killed Starscream right on his coronation. But I guess he was just too popular to die. In TV episodes later, Starscream returned as a ghost, and was revived by Unicron.
In the Rodimus-Galvatron age, the autobot and decepticon No. 2 were Ultramagnus and Cyclonus, respectively. Ultramagnus was like a role model of autobots, noble, courageous and wise, who seemed more suitable to be a leader than Rodimus. Since Rodimus had confidence issues, Ultramagnus was there to make up for the lack of leadership sometimes. Cyclonus on the other hand, was like a role model of decepticons, loyal to Galvatron, enjoying battle and ruthless to enemies and soldiers who didn’t follow order. Interestingly, Cyclonus did betray Galvatron once. That was because he thought Galvatron’s madness was too much, and tried to find an asylum to cure Galvatron. He found the most famous asylum in the galaxy, which was a special planet. But of course Galvatron would never go there willingly, and so Cyclonus had to lure him there with false information, and let the “doctors” take care of the rest. Well, it turned out that even that asylum couldn’t cure Galvatron. Cyclonus begged for Galvatron’s forgiveness and Galvatron hit him in the face. And that’s it.
In my stickers, there are many images of No. 1’s. But there are much fewer images for No. 2’s. It seems rather unbalanced. I mean at least Starscream should deserve more exposure.
“首领”在这里指的是汽车人和霸天虎的头号和二号人物。我们都知道一号人物是谁，那么我就来谈谈二号人物。
在擎天柱威震天时代，汽车人里没有明显的二号人物。霸天虎的二号人物则无疑是红蜘蛛。红蜘蛛是个很有趣的角色，野心勃勃的反骨仔，又很搞笑。他大概是唯一一个敢在威震天面前说自己要取代威震天的霸天虎。有时威震天在战场上被击中暂时倒下，红蜘蛛就会兴奋地大叫：“威震天倒下啦！现在我是头儿啦！”他还是个行动派，几次实施计划要除掉威震天。但是他的计划全部失败，之后他又会向威震天求饶：“饶了我吧威震天！我会将功补过的！”威震天还真的每次都饶了他。估计威震天觉得红蜘蛛的能力还是有用的，但还没达到真正威胁自己的地步。
在1986年的大电影里，事情终于生变。红蜘蛛抛弃了重伤的威震天，让他在宇宙里漂流，自生自灭，而他真的纂权成功，成为了霸天虎的领袖。不过好景不长，威震天变成惊破天回来了，在红蜘蛛的加冕典礼上一炮将他干掉了。但是红蜘蛛这种高人气角色不会永远消失的，在之后的电视剧集里，他以鬼魂的形式回归， 而且被宇宙大帝复活了。
在补天士惊破天时代，汽车人和霸天虎的二号人物分别是通天晓和狂飙。通天晓是个模范汽车人，高尚，英勇，睿智，看上去比补天士更像领袖。因为补天士有缺乏自信的问题，所以通天晓可以弥补他领导力的薄弱。狂飙则是个模范霸天虎，对惊破天无限忠诚，热爱战斗，对敌人和不听命令的手下冷酷无情。不过有趣的是，狂飙也背叛过惊破天一次。那次是因为他觉得惊破天太疯狂了，所以想找个精神病院给他治一治。他找到了银河系里最有名的精神病院，一颗特殊的星球。当然，惊破天不可能自愿去精神病院，所以狂飙用假情报引诱惊破天去了那里，然后让“医生们”来做剩下的事情。呵呵，结果那颗星球也治不好惊破天的疯病。狂飙乞求惊破天的原谅，惊破天就狠狠地一拳打在他脸上，这事儿就算揭过了。
在我的不干胶里，头号人物有很多张图，但是二号人物的图就少得多，看起来很不平衡。我觉得红蜘蛛至少应该多点曝光才对。