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Beast Wars: Transformers: Season 2

13 episodes Premiered Oct 26, 1997
Previously on Beast Wars: Transformers

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Beast Wars: Transformers Season 1.
  • Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (10): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

Aftermath

Oct 26, 1997

The alien machine is destroyed and Optimus went up with it, but the explosion sets off a quantum surge that changes the planet - and several of the robots. In his new, more powerfu

S2·E2 Core

Coming of the Fuzors (1)

Nov 2, 1997

A new breed of transformer, robots with two animals mixed together when in beast form.

S2·E3 Core

Coming of the Fuzors (2)

Nov 9, 1997

Hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned, Rattrap, Cheetor and Dinobot try to keep the Predacons away from the Axalon where Rhinox lies delving deep into the Matrix, pursuing a faint h

S2·E4 Core

Tangled Web

Nov 16, 1997

Megatron sends out Tarantulas, Blackarachnia and Quickstrike to build an energon refueling station, though the spiders' scheming complicates even the simplest task.

S2·E5 Core

Maximal, No More

Nov 23, 1997

Dinobot is captured while on a recognizance mission, and surprisingly asks Megatron for permission to rejoin the Predacons, offering the golden disk as proof of his sincerity.

S2·E6 Core

Other Visits (1)

Feb 8, 1998

While out surveying the planet, Airrazor and Tigatron trigger a remaining alien site. While the Maximals scramble to their rescue, Tarantulas is already on his way, determined to t

S2·E7 Core

Other Visits (2)

Feb 15, 1998

Surviving the energon surge thanks to their new transmetal bodies, Tarantulas sets up a shield around the alien construct and heads inside along with Megatron and Quckstrike. Outsi

S2·E8 Core

Bad Spark

Feb 22, 1998

Cheetor discovers a huge stasis pod, containing Protoform X - a failed Maximal experiment that created an indestructible spark but drove it insane in the process. When Predacons ar

S2·E9 Core

Code of Hero

Mar 9, 1998

Dinobot sees a chance to regain his lost honor when he spots Megatron attempting to alter history using the knowledge on the remaining golden disk.

S2·E10 Core

Transmutate

Mar 10, 1998

A series of earthquakes uncovers a heavily damaged stasispod. Out of it comes a freakish robot - barely sentient, but with extremely powerful weapons. Scoffed at by the others, bot

S2·E11 Core

The Agenda (1)

Mar 11, 1998

As the transwarp wave generated by the explosion in "Other Voices (2)" nears Cybertron, the Maximals rejoice, thinking the rescue is on its way. But unbeknownst to them, it is inte

S2·E12 Mytharc

The Agenda (2)

Mar 12, 1998

Megatron is captured, but the battle used up too much of the cruiser's energon supply for there to be enough for the travel back to Cybertron. While Ravage interrogates Megatron ab

S2·E13 Mytharc

The Agenda (3)

Mar 13, 1998

The Maximals manage to take out the transwarp cruiser and fend of the Predacon attack. But the battle is far from over, as Megatron heads for the now uncovered Autobot Ark - contai