Australia

2010-08-14T14:42:21Z

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[[Image:Whatliesbeneath Australia.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Crikey. Fair dinkum. Too right. G'Don ya, mate. Bonzer. A Dingo ate my baby. Didgeridoo.]]
'''Australia''' is a nation-state on the planet [[Earth]]'s Southern Hemisphere. The world's largest island, the majority of it seems to consist of semi-arid or desert regions known as the [[Outback]]. The majority of the fauna and flora is unique to the country, and all of it deadly to [[Human|humans]], most notably the infamous and murderous dropbears.

In [[Unicron Trilogy|some continuities]] at least, the [[Accents|Australian accent]] is supposedly very similar to that of the inhabitants of the planet [[Nebulos|Nebulon]], or vice-versa.

==Generation 1==
===American cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
After the initial [[Decepticon]] threat was repulsed, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] wrote in his journal that "all of the world's governments" were assisting the [[Autobot|Autobots]]' attempts to return to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. This would presumably include Australia. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}

===Japanese cartoon continuity===
====''The Headmasters'' cartoon====
The Decepticons built one of their 'Death Towers' under the capital city, [[Canberra]]. [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] was left there to watch over it and thereby treated the locals to a show of him kicking [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]]'s skidplate. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 1)}}

====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon====
The Decepticons built an underwater base off the coast of Australia, their construction efforts causing increased volcanic activity and earthquakes that damaged the city of Sydney, which then drew the attention of the Autobot [[Godmaster]] [[Lightfoot]]. While the [[Headmaster Junior|Headmaster Juniors]] performed rescue operations in Sydney, [[Ginrai]] and Lightfoot fought against the threat of [[King Poseidon]]. {{storylink|Escape!! The Underwater Volcano Erupts}}

====''Story of Binaltech''====
In an unnamed Australian city, [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]] plans an experiment in which he will extract the minds of the city's inhabitants to help him build his own synthetic [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]. However, before he can set this plan into motion, the Autobots surround him and he faces off against [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. Nemesis Prime initially gains the upper hand against his Autobot counterpart, however the [[Optimus Primal|Protector]] unites with Optimus Prime, who is then easily able to reflect Nemesis Prime's attacks, resulting in his destruction. {{storylink|Unfinished Business, Part 4}}

==Unicron Trilogy==
===Dreamwave Energon comics continuity===
The West Australian outback was the site of [[Alterenergy]]'s [[01 Source]] Exploratory Excavation/Drilling Operation, where both [[Brian Jones (Energon)|Dr. Brian Jones]] and his son [[Kicker Jones|Kicker]] worked. The mining drew both a group of protesters including [[Alexis]], as well as a squad of [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons]] searching for [[Energon (Energon)|Energon]]. {{storylink|What Lies Beneath|What Lies Beneath}}

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==Live-action ''Transformers'' movie continuity==
===''Transformers'' (2007) movie===
Based on her accent, NSA analyst [[Maggie Madsen]] originates from Australia. Why she's working for a foreign government is unknown; maybe she just wants to buy cheaper toys. {{Storylink|Transformers (2007)}}

===IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics===
When [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave's]] forces arrived to Earth, Australia was one of the nations targeted by the second wave of Decepticons. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3}}

===''The Veiled Threat'' prequel novel===
[[Kickback (ROTF)|Kickback]], [[Tread]] and [[Trample]] landed in Oobagooma, deep in the Western Australia outback, to mine the huge deposits of uranium there, which they hoped could be used as a power source to revive [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]. However, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and [[William Lennox|Captain Lennox]] led a [[Ironhide (Movie)|team of]] [[Salvage (Movie)|Autobots]] and [[NEST]] [[Kaminari Ishihara|operatives]] Down Under and destroyed the Decepticons before they could carry out this plan. {{storylink|The Veiled Threat}}

===Titan Magazines ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comics===

When the Decepticon [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]] made a landing in the Northern Territory, Optimus Prime and [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] were sent to capture him. This took a while, Sideways turning out to be quite the road warrior! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.5|Reversal of Fortune}}

==Toys==
===Revenge of the Fallen===
====Power Bots====
[[Image:ROTF-toy_PowerBots_Sideswipe.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Crikey!]]
*'''Sideswipe''' (Power Bots, 2009)

: [[Power Bots]] Sideswipe has a North Americanised stereotypical Australian accent!

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==Notes==
* Everything costs considerably more in Australia than it does in America, including ''Transformers'' toys, which are usually twice or even thrice as expensive.

* [[Scott McNeil]], [[Rachael Taylor]], [[Isabel Lucas]] and [[Shane McCarthy]] are all Australian natives who've been involved with the ''Transformers'' franchise. Only Shane still resides there. We'll trade him if we can get Scott McNeil back.

* Australia is also home to [[Madman Entertainment]], who release ''Transformers'' [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1]] and ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' DVD's to the Aussie and New Zealand markets. They give the Aussies more DVD features than we get, the ''bastards''.

*The first live action movie also premiered Down Under almost a month before it did in the United States.

*For some reason, the first wave of the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|''Transformers'' (2010)]], ''[[Power Core Combiners]]'' and ''[[Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' toylines were available at mass retail in Australia several months before their scheduled release date elsewhere in the world.

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Cyclonus (Animated)

2010-08-09T18:15:44Z

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:''Cyclonus is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:TranswarpedCyclonus.jpg|thumb|right|350px|He's from the future and knows a lot about hysteria.]]

The other members of [[Team Chaar]] don't know what to make of '''Cyclonus'''. A few centuries ago, he fell out of the sky over [[New Kaon]], and the dark warrior isn't the type for exposition. A nihilist, Cyclonus cares for little and his expressions run cold and dispassionate. During the few occasions in which he speaks, he mentions only the imminent end of all things, and insists that all creation is ultimately doomed. He seems to long for this future apocalypse to come to pass and for this current age to be over, finished.

He waits for a being called "[[Megatron (Animated)|Galvatron]]," to whom he begs forgiveness.

In battle, Cyclonus is a warrior unequaled. He carries twin Bleedblack blades that can sap the energy out of his opponents. He wages war tirelessly, thanks to a reactor linkage that seemingly draws strength from an [[Unicron|unknown, limitless source of energy]] via [[transwarp]] circuitry. Perhaps most peculiar of all is the circuitry he seems to share with [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], specifically the disabled "self preservation" algorithms.

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
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[[Image:TranswarpedCyclonusAutobots.jpg|thumb|left|250px|I don't care how cool I look.]]

''Cyclonus appeared out of nowhere in a storm of light and tachyons over New Kaon. As [[Scalpel (Animated)|Scalpel]] reassembled him, he noted his immense power, that his internal chronometer was off by megacycles, and that he constantly muttered about someone named "Galvatron." Cyclonus soon swore allegiance to [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]], but seemingly in the abstract. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac Volume 2‎}}''

Battling for the control of a [[space bridge]] with [[Team Chaar]], Cyclonus strafed [[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus]] before using his twin swords to disable [[Ironhide (Animated)|Ironhide]] and [[Brawn (Animated)|Brawn]] with the help of [[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]]. Silently accepting [[Strika (Animated)|Strika]]'s orders to secure the area, he ignored the stoic defiance of the Autobot he had strafed before, not even watching it get disabled. It didn't matter to him. When the [[Elite Guard]] arrived and he was given the order to retreat, he did so without complaint. It's not like he cared anyway. {{storylink|TransWarped}}
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==Notes==
* ''Animated'' Cyclonus was designed by [[Irineo Maramba]].<ref>[http://derrickjwyatt.blogspot.com/2008/12/marty-isenberg-interview.html Marty Isenberg Interview comments section.]</ref>
* Due to the great similarity between this incarnation of Cyclonus and his ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' counterpart, [[Hasbro]] announced that it will not be designing an ''Animated'' version of the toy.
* ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac Volume 2‎]]'' strongly suggests that Cyclonus is from a dark future of the Animated universe, in which Megatron has become Galvatron. It also hints that Cyclonus is the future version of [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] or one of [[Starscream clone (Animated)|his clones]], since Scalpel believes he located within Cyclonus's code some of "Starscream's 'self preservation' algorithms commented out". Because of that last bit, our bets are on [[Skywarp (Animated)|Skywarp]], the cowardly clone. Which [[Cyclonus (G1)#Who is Cyclonus?|wouldn't be the first time]].
* He sometimes speaks in [[Furmanism]]s.

==References==
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