Continuities
Why can't Optimus Prime meet Beast Wars Megatron? Because they're from different continuities. These are the distinct timelines of the franchise, grouped into families.
Generation 1
Generation 1
1984The original 1984 continuity spanning the Sunbow animated series, the Marvel comics, and the first generation of toys. Autobots and Decepticons continue their ancient war on 1980s Earth after crash-landing on the planet four million years earlier.
Japanese G1 continuation
1987Takara's continuity following The Transformers' third season: The Headmasters, Super-God Masterforce, Victory and Zone replace the US fifth season, telling a separate future history for Cybertron.
Beast era
1996The future continuation of Generation 1 featuring the Maximals and Predacons, descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons, fighting on prehistoric Earth in Beast Wars and Beast Machines.
Robots in Disguise
Unicron Trilogy
Movie universe
Animated
Aligned
Cyberverse
War for Cybertron Trilogy
BotBots
EarthSpark
Transformers One
Transformers One
2024The fully animated origin story of Orion Pax and D-16 on Cybertron, telling how the friends became the legendary Optimus Prime and Megatron.
Transformers One: New Adventures
2025The non-canon stop-motion companion to the Transformers One film, presenting toy-based point-of-view adventures for its characters.