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Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor with an extensive career spanning nearly six decades. As of 2021, Welker holds over 860 film, television, and video game credits, making him one of the most prolific voice actors of all time. With a total worldwide box-office gross of $17.4 billion, he is also the third highest-grossing film voice actor of all time. Welker is best known for voicing Fred Jones in the Scooby-Doo franchise since its inception in 1969, and Scooby-Doo himself since 2002. In 2020, Welker reprised the latter role in the CGI-animated film Scoob!, the only original voice actor from the series in the movie's cast. He has also voiced Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in Epic Mickey and its sequel, Megatron, Galvatron and Soundwave in the Transformers franchise, Shao Kahn and Reptile in the 1995 Mortal Kombat film, Curious George in the Curious George franchise, Garfield on The Garfield Show, Nibbler on Futurama, the titular character in Jabberjaw, Speed Buggy in the Scooby-Doo franchise, Astro and Orbitty on The Jetsons, Mushmouse on Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse, and various characters in The Smurfs as well as numerous animal vocal effects in many works. In 2016, he was honored with an Emmy Award for his lifetime achievement. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Welker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
In the aftermath of Rise of the Beasts, Earth faces a new kind of extinction. The Terrans—Transformers born of Earth’s frequencies and bonded to human families—are being hunted by G.H.O.S.T., a covert organization that sees them as unstable anomalies. But the true threat looms above. Megatron has returned, leading a fractured Decepticon force in a desperate bid to restore Cybertron. Their plan: activate the ancient Space Bridge Pillars and drag Cybertron into Earth’s atmosphere, fusing the two worlds into one. The process will fracture gravity, collapse ecosystems, and rewrite the planet in steel. As the Terrans flee persecution and the sky begins to crack, the Autobots form a fragile alliance with new human allies—fighters, scientists, and survivors. Mirage, still haunted by war echoes, begins to unravel the truth behind the Pillars. And deep underground, the Terrans begin to evolve, sensing the pull of a world they’ve never known. The battle isn’t just for survival—it’s for identity, memory, and the right to call Earth home. The Autobots must rise, the Terrans must choose, and humanity must stand beside them before Cybertron falls… and takes Earth with it.
