Liege Maximo

2007-11-19T18:15:08Z

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:''Liege Maximo is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 2]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.''
[[Image:Liegemaximo.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Here I go again on my throne.]]
Evil is infinite, a natural counterforce to good in the universe that cannot be truly defeated. So when the first [[Prime (disambiguation)|Prime]] was created, so was, necessarily, the ultimate evil. Having no known name, he is known only by his rank. He is the '''Liege Maximo''', and from him [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and the Decepticons were descended.

The Liege Maximo's throne sits at [[Hub|The Hub]], a network of planetoids that exists in the outer fringes of known space.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====''Generation 2''====
With the Liege Centuro [[Jhiaxus|Jhiaxus]] destroyed, Jhiaxus's fleet wiped out by [[Swarm|The Swarm]], and the [[Autobot]]s and Decepticons united in peace under one banner, [[Rook (G1)|Rook]] reported to the Liege Maximo on the day's devastating events. The Liege Maximo, an ancient and monumental titan, accepted the destruction of Jhiaxus' forces as merely a minor disruption. Sneering at the Transformers' alliance as a fragile thing, the Liege Maximo promised a day of reckoning. {{storylink|A Rage in Heaven!}}

===Convention Stories===
====''Reaching the Omega Point''====
The [[Covenant]] witnessed a vision of the ancient past, in which the Liege Maximo tore the [[Matrix of Leadership]] from the defeated [[Primon]]. When and why this happened remain unanswered questions.
====Alignment====
The Liege Maximo's ultimate goal was to ascend to the realm of the [[Unicron|Dark Gods]]. Two Transformer groups, one led by Grimlock and one by Ultra Magnus & Megatron, disrupted this process. Wounded by Megatron, the Maximo panicked and entered his portal early, causing it to collapse and kill him. (This story did not receive Hasbro approval and is of debatable canonicity)

==Notes==
*[[Simon Furman]] intended for the Liege Maximo to be one of the [[13 original Transformers]], but like [[Alignment]], the exact canonicity of this is unknown.

*The notion of all [[Decepticons]] having descended from the Liege Maximo and thus being ''inherently'' evil is arguably incompatible with most other iterations of the Transformers mythos which posit the Autobot/Decepticon divide and subsequent conflict as political rather than racial, and being a matter of free will. Furman's [[retcon]] flies in the face of instances where characters have changed allegiance, and its "nature vs. nurture" notion is notably absent from his subsequent explorations of the [[Transformer]]s' (and [[Cybertronian Civil Wars|their wars']]) origins in other continuities such as the [[Dreamwave Productions|DreamwaveVerse]]'s ''[[The War Within]]'' and more recently in the [[IDW timeline|IDWverse]].

*However, it bares some similarity to the origin in the original [[Generation 1 (cartoon)|G1 animated series]] which posited that the Autobots and Decepticons were descended from [[Quintesson]] consumer goods and military hardware respectively, suggesting that the Decepticon's bellicose tendencies are inbuilt.

*Simon Furman has recently cryptically hinted in [http://simonfurman.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/script-wrap-15/#comments comments on his blog] that the Liege Maximo may make a return in 2008 in IDW's comics.

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