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Activation codes, also called access codes are the phrases Transformers say to transform from one mode to another.
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Each faction used its own code to transform from beast mode to robot mode. Maximals used "{Robotname}, maximize!" (e.g., "Cheetor, maximize!"), while Predacons used "{Robotname}, terrorize!" (e.g., "Megatron, terrorize!") (Obviously, they put a great deal of thought into these words.) Beast Wars (Part 1)
On the occasions groups transformed all at once the variations "Maximals, maximize!" and "Predacons, terrorize!" were used (in one case "All units, maximize!" was used). For the transformation from robot to beast, Beast Era-Transformers sometimes used the phrase "Beast mode." However, none of these phrases were used universally and the "maximize"/"terrorize" codes were used on rare occasions for transforming out of robot mode, so exactly how strictly necessary they are is unclear. This is further muddled by instances of Maximals and Predacons transforming without so much as a single word. Changing an activation code from "maximize" to "terrorize" was relatively easy and could even be done to one Transformer by themselves or another under the right circumstances. Beast Wars (Part 2) Maximal, No More Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)
After the Oracle reformatted Optimus Primal's team into technorganic bodies their old activation codes stopped working. (Not that it would have mattered anyway, especially since Megatron cooked up an extremely nasty virus which stripped Transformers of their transformation abilities anyway. Forbidden Fruit Revelations Part II: Descent) The Maximals now had to find an "emotional still point" to switch to robot mode. To help focus they used the phrase "I am transformed", but this was not strictly an activation code. The Reformatting The "I am transformed" phrase was used for the first season of Beast Machines but dropped for the second season.
Vehicon drones did not have activation codes. The initial Vehicon Generals each had a unique code:
These codes were sometimes used to transform to vehicle mode, sometimes to robot mode and sometimes (particularly for Tankor) as just verbal tics unaccompanied by transformation.
The later Vehicon Generals Obsidian and Strika used "obliterate" and "terminate" as the entirety of their vocabulary when they were initially pretending to be 7 bits short of a byte but did not particularly use those words during transformation and essentially dropped them when the ruse was over.
Arcee was entrusted with a set of top-secret access codes said to be crucial to the war effort against the Decepticons by Cybertron Intelligence, but an encounter she and Ratchet had against Lockdown ended with Arcee's memory core wiped clean by Ratchet's disconnected EMP generator, erasing her identity and presumably the access codes as well. The Thrill of the Hunt Out of desperation, Ultra Magnus had Ratchet perform open-processor surgery on her to retrieve the codes, but this just triggered an automatic fail-safe which transferred them to Ratchet instead. It turned out the codes were needed to bring online Omega Supreme, the first of the Omega Sentinels created by Project Omega!
After Omega Supreme was deactivated following the Battle for Iacon, TransWarped his weapons systems technically still functioned but were locked up in the interests of conserving Energon. The verbal code that would have activated them was "Codename, Omega!" Transform and Roll Out A Bridge Too Close, Part II
When Megatron sought to bring the titanic ship-bot back online, he had his double-agent Shockwave abduct Arcee from Cybertron so the original codes could be extracted from her processor. This Is Why I Hate Machines Shockwave did get the codes, but when they were transferred to Lugnut they were found to be missing a special "security upgrade patch", which required Lugnut to be wired directly into Omega Supreme himself in order to control the clones Megatron had constructed beforehand. Eventually, Arcee was able to reboot the original Omega, which reactivated him once again. Endgame, Part I Endgame, Part II
PSP double-agent Wolfang's body could alter from his Maximal disguise to his natural Predacon form when he declared "terrorize". When he was infected with a virus by Resistance femme fatale Blackarachnia, he yelled out the phrase involuntarily. Trigger Warnings
Boulder and Doc Greene created a series of "energize" tools for the Rescue Bots stationed on Griffin Rock to use. Road Trip These required the use of the activation code "power up and energize!" as Blurr explained to Sideswipe. The Need for Speed
During a confrontation with Skyfire in the early days of the war on Cybertron, Slag ordered his fellow Dynobots to transform with the battle cry "Traumatize!". Secrets & Lies #1
During their charge towards the Terrorcon army, Optimus Primal ordered Rhinox and Cheetor to transform, shouting "Maximize!". Rise of the Beasts
Most of the Japanese Generation 1 Transformers franchises have had Transformers shouting "{Robotname}, Transform!" or just "Transform!" when they do so. There are also special phrases for members of specific subgroups:
In Japanese Beast Wars fiction as well as Car Robots, Transformers have different activation codes depending on whether or not they turn into vehicles or animals. Those that transform into animals shout "Henshin!" (Japanese for "transform") while those who turn into vehicles scream "Transform!" in English.
English dubs of Japanese-original series retain the "Transform!" and "[Name], Transform!" calls and isolated incidences of it exist in American originals. For the 2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon Predacons, "Henshin" became the familiar "Terrorize." Also, although he regularly declared "Optimus Prime, super mode!" before the appropriate transformation, it may or may not have been a necessary activation code. Optimus Prime once said such calls were merely a way to get psyched up. City
