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The Best Episodes Written By Bob Forward

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - Shadowed Past
    8.1/10(9 votes)

    #1 - Shadowed Past

    S1:E10

    Rogue's nightmares seem to show images from Kurt's past, but in them he's far too young to remember. So where did they come from?

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  2. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Strategy X
    7.3/10(12 votes)

    #2 - Strategy X

    S1:E1

    Mystique sees an opportunity to get a spy in Xavier's institute when the morally shady Todd Tolanski starts exhibiting mutant powers. Kurt Wagner, Xavier's latest recruit, arrives and tries to familiarize himself with his new life as part of the X-Men.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  3. undefined Season 4 Episode 5 - Uprising
    7.3/10(4 votes)

    #3 - Uprising

    S4:E5

    Hate crimes against mutants in Bayville prompt Spyke to return to stop the violence.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  4. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - The Stuff of Heroes
    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #4 - The Stuff of Heroes

    S3:E2

    Rogue and Wolverine duck a squad of soldiers when the nationwide alert goes out against mutants, while Storm and Beast go into a meeting of Congress to defend themselves. Meanwhile Juggernaut goes on a rampage and the X-Men feel obliged to take him down.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  5. undefined Season 2 Episode 14 - Operation: Rebirth
    7.0/10(5 votes)

    #5 - Operation: Rebirth

    S2:E14

    Magneto steals plans for a top-secret project that produced super soldiers. Wolverine worked on it during World War II.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  6. undefined Season 1 Episode 17 - Code of Conduct
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #6 - Code of Conduct

    S1:E17

    To regain his honor, Silver Samurai captures the X-Men and attacks Wolverine.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - Speed and Spyke
    6.7/10(9 votes)

    #7 - Speed and Spyke

    S1:E5

    Ororo's nephew starts exhibiting mutant powers, but he's more interested in settling a rivalry with a fellow mutant than hearing about a ""school for freaks"".

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - Thieves Gambit
    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #8 - Thieves Gambit

    S1:E5

    Wolverine rescues Magma from the Mutant Control Unit and uses a inhibitor collar built by Forge to help control her powers. Meanwhile Gambit is hired to steal that collar from the X-Men.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  9. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Beast Wars (1)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Beast Wars (1)

    S1:E1

    A band of benevolent Maximals follows a pack of power-seeking Predacons to a new planet.

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    Writer:Bob Forward

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Beast Wars (2)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Beast Wars (2)

    S1:E2

    Dinobot challenges Optimus for leadership of the Maximals, but while they fight the Predacons launch an ambush.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 7 - Fallen Comrades
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Fallen Comrades

    S1:E7

    One of the Maximal stasis pods, put in orbit before the crash, falls down in the north, and Optimus rushes out to retrieve it. Unfortunately, Megatron anticipates this and sets up an ambush that nearly kills the Maximal leader. Without a flyer, the Maximals race to the pod in hope of getting it before the Predacons reprogram the dormant robot inside.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  12. undefined Season 1 Episode 16 - The Trigger (1)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Trigger (1)

    S1:E16

    Tigatron discovers a floating island, with a giant obelisk in its center. When the obelisk fries Waspinator and Terrorsaur with a single blast, Megatron decides he wants that power and sends out Scorponok and Blackarachnia to seize it.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  13. undefined Season 1 Episode 17 - The Trigger (2)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Trigger (2)

    S1:E17

    Optimus and Rattrap race to the island to assist Tigatron and the wounded Airrazor, while Scorponok and Blackarachnia make their way towards the obelisk.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  14. undefined Season 1 Episode 19 - Call of the Wild
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Call of the Wild

    S1:E19

    The Predacons steal the Maximals' rectifier-coil, leaving the Axalon without Energon shielding. Forced to remain in beastmode, the Maximals' mentality becomes closer and closer to that of their organic counterparts.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  15. undefined Season 1 Episode 22 - The Low Road
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Low Road

    S1:E22

    Tarantulas infects Rhinox with a virus that causes him to sneeze raw energon, rapidly depleting the Maximal's power cells. Optimus sends out Dinobot and Rattrap to look for an antidote, and they end up having to follow the spider into its underground lair...

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    Writer:Bob Forward

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  16. undefined Season 1 Episode 24 - Before the Storm
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Before the Storm

    S1:E24

    Inferno retrieves a golden disk hidden inside a glowing mountain. When Megatron sees it, he decides there are far more important things to worry about than the Maximals, and offers Optimus a truce. Meanwhile, Tarantulas is even more determined to leave the planet than ever.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  17. undefined Season 1 Episode 25 - Other Voices (1)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Other Voices (1)

    S1:E25

    An alien spacecraft lands and captures Airrazor while she's examining it. Optimus and Rattrap enter to rescue her, while the Predacons stand outside, ready to break the truce at a moment's notice.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  18. undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - Coming of the Fuzors (1)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Coming of the Fuzors (1)

    S2:E2

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  19. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - Coming of the Fuzors (2)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Coming of the Fuzors (2)

    S2:E3

    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 hope...

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  20. undefined Season 2 Episode 11 - The Agenda (1)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Agenda (1)

    S2:E11

    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 intercepted and diverted by the leaders of the Cybertronian Predacon alliance, who view Megatron as a loose cannon and wants to deal with him quietly, by sending one of their covert operatives.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  21. undefined Season 2 Episode 12 - The Agenda (2)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - The Agenda (2)

    S2:E12

    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 about where they might find more, Primal confronts Silverbolt about his relationship Blackarachnia, leading the Fuzor to go off on his own to find her.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  22. undefined Season 2 Episode 13 - The Agenda (3)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - The Agenda (3)

    S2:E13

    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 - containing the heroes and villains who'll shape the Cybertron where the Predacons and Maximals come from.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  23. undefined Season 3 Episode 1 - Optimal Situation
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Optimal Situation

    S3:E1

    Realizing that without the Maximals she would never have existed, Blackarachnia actives the Ark's defenses and forces Megatron out of the ship. The Maximals start initial repairs and the time storm subsides a bit, but Optimus Prime's life still hangs in the balance - it could swing either way. Megatron rallies his troops to make sure it swings in his favor.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  24. undefined Season 3 Episode 8 - Go with the Flow
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Go with the Flow

    S3:E8

    Megatron is building a disruptor ray to scramble the Maximals' circuits, but needs an organic lifeform who won't be affected by it to finish putting the shielding into place. He has one of the cave-human children kidnapped, and it's up to Rattrap and Depthcharge to save her.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Bob Forward

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  25. undefined Season 3 Episode 12 - Nemesis (1)
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Nemesis (1)

    S3:E12

    While Inferno, Quickstrike and Waspinator go looking for a new ""colony"", Megatron discovers one of Tarantulas' secret projects - the reactivation of the gigantic Decepticon warship that shot down the Ark before it crashed into the sea.

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    Writer:Bob Forward

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Bob Forward Ratings Summary

"Shadowed Past" is the best rated episode written by Bob Forward. It scored 8.1/10 based on 9 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 3/31/2001 and is rated 0.8 points higher than their second-best episode, "Strategy X".