"We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron."
- Optimus Prime, in Transformers (2007)
Transformers is a franchise owned by Hasbro and TakaraTomy (known collectively as HasTak). It's comprised of the three major components: toys, movies, and comic books. In fiction, they're race of alien robots from a metallic planet called Cybertron, and they have a bad habit of ending up 4 million-year-long wars that drain their planet of resources and cost thousands of lives. In this war, they are divided into two factions, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, but there's been other parties involved, like the Maximals, Predacons, Quintessons, Mercenaries, etc.
