The Forge

The Forge is a Toonami Total Immersion Event (T.I.E.) that premiered on November 9, 2019 and will conclude on December 14, 2019. The Forge, the eighth Toonami T.I.E., was announced on December 29, 2018 through a promo. Although the teaser for the T.I.E. is in 2-D, Jason DeMarco has confirmed that The Forge will be animated fully in CGI, like all previous Total Immersion Events. Animator Shane Dering created the teaser for The Forge. Dering previously created several Adult Swim idents, including one featuring TOM that aired in 2017.

At the Toonami panel at MomoCon 2019, it was announced that The Forge would last 6 weeks (November 9 - December 14, 2019), and each week's episode would air during the first commercial break of the Toonami broadcast. The first episode was shown during the panel at MomoCon 2019.

Episode 1
Air Date: November 9, 2019

As TOM and SARA discuss Georgia's future with the crew, TOM feels his own life has become stagnant and wonders about his origin. Suddenly an alarm sounds; the Vindication's systems have locked out SARA and have charted an unknown course. After jumping through hyperspace, the Vindication gets trapped in the tractor beam of a large space station. With the Vindication captured, TOM attempts to set up an ambush with the Clydes. As a boarding party enters the Vindication, TOM confronts one of the intruders, that looks like a yellow version of TOM, before being blindsided by the leader of the boarding party. The leader then tells the robot that looks like a yellow TOM to drag TOM's body onto their ship. With their captain incapacitated, the Clydes charge at the leader of the boarding party only to be easily destroyed by his fist and blaster. SARA, witnessing the entire altercation, tells Georgia to hide on the Vindication while she goes to save TOM.

Episode 2
Air Date: November 16, 2019

TOM is awoken in the Forge by SARA, who reveals that the Vindication originally belonged to the inhabitants of the Forge. When the commander of the Forge shows up, he reveals himself as an organic being. He explains to TOM that the Vindication is actually an ancient warship called RVG7, that they have been looking for, for over a thousand years. After learning of the commander's plan to take control of the Vindication and release its true destructive power on the galaxy again, TOM decides to name him Booger and exclaims that he will stop him. After the commander leaves, TOM escapes and SARA knocks out one of the yellow TOM units on the Forge and gives him free will. SARA then upgrades his matrix giving him a basic understanding of things like physics and engineering. With his new found knowledge, the yellow TOM unit pleads with TOM to help his people because TOM is one of them, to which TOM agrees.

Episode 3
Air Date: November 23, 2019

Episode 4
Air Date: November 30, 2019

Episode 5
Air Date: December 7, 2019

Episode 6
Air Date: December 14, 2019

Voice Cast

 * TOM 5, Yellow TOM Units - Steve Blum
 * SARA v4 - Dana Swanson
 * Booger (Forge Commander) - Beau Billingslea
 * Narrator/Voice-over - Howard Parker