Laurentian Abyss

2011-05-06T17:30:30Z

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[[Image:Movie2007 USS Shoup dumpingMegs.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Exclusive footage of America burying the body of the world's greatest terrorist.]]
The '''Laurentian Abyss''' is an underwater depression off the eastern coast of Canada in the Atlantic Ocean, at least 6,000 meters in depth.

==Fiction==
===''Transformers'' (2007) film===
The [[United States of America|United States]] government dropped all of the defeated Decepticons into the Laurentian Abyss. It was hoped that the extreme pressure and temperature of the Abyss would destroy bodies of the Decepticons, hiding the evidence from the [[Human|unknowing populace]] of Earth. {{storylink|Transformers (2007)|Transformers}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen'' film===
Things did not work out as the government had planned, as the [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicons]], [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] and [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]] dived down to [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]'s resting place and reactivated him with a piece of the [[AllSpark (Movie)|AllSpark]]. Rapidly surfacing, Megatron rammed into and destroyed the [[United States Navy#U.S.S. Topeka (SSN-754)|U.S.S. Topeka]], a submarine assigned to guard the area. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen}}

==Notes==
* [[John Keller]] calls the abyss the deepest point on Earth... but in reality, this is untrue. The [[wikipedia:Mariana Trench|Mariana Trench]] is over twice as deep as the Laurentian.
* In [[Alliance issue 2|Alliance issue #2]], the Decepticons are transported across the country to an aircraft carrier in San Diego. San Diego is on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. In the 2007 film, Keller reports that they are going to be dropped into the Laurentian Abyss. Which is in the Atlantic Ocean. Now, either the aircraft carrier with the Decepticons is going to cruise down the Panama Canal, and all the way back up north to the Abyss and drop them there like Keller said, or they will be dropped somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, like the Mariana Trench. Or the carrier can transform into a giant spaceship and fly them there. Michael Bay did want to make an aircraft carrier Transformer for the next movie...

==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:Laurentian Abyss|Laurentian Abyss]] at Wikipedia

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Spotlight: Blurr

2010-08-09T15:55:47Z

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{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[Spotlight (comics)|''The Transformers: Spotlight'']]'' #20''
|prev=Spotlight: Sideswipe
|next=Spotlight: Jazz
|title="The Transformers Spotlight: Blurr"
|image=Spotlight Blurr a.jpg
|caption=I'm so great even '''''I''''' can't believe it!
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[November 5]], [[2008]]
|coverdate=November 2008
|written by=[[Shane McCarthy]]
|art by=[[Casey Coller]]
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]]
|letters by=[[Neil Uyetake]]
|edits by=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline#1,000,000+ years ago|Pre-Great War]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
}}
'''At the end of Cybertron's Golden Age, Blurr must make a choice between being a celebrity or a hero.'''

==Synopsis==
Blurr is the undefeated superstar champion of Cybertron's [[Cybertronian sport|racing circuits]]. His success on the race track has made him an arrogant and distant individual, though. Following another victory he promises to celebrate with his pit crew (whose names he can't remember), only to reveal he intends to celebrate at [[The Circle]], a nightclub only the elite of Cybertron can gain access to.

[[Image:Spotlight Blurr simultronic.jpg|left|200px|thumb|If you're down he'll pick you up, Doctor Robert. Take a drink from his special cup, Doctor Robert.]]
Blurr's world comes crashing down, however, after a Decepticon terrorist attack blows up the racing track. The manager of the races is ordered by the new Prime, [[Zeta Prime]], to shut down the races in the name of public safety.
Blurr runs into the lead tech on his pit crew, a bot named <s>Parton</s> Piston, in the race locker rooms. Blurr is surprised to see Piston clearing out his stuff, explaining that the races may very well return. Piston laments that they wouldn't matter even if they did return, as the Decepticon uprising is turning into an all-out civil war. Piston has opted to sign up with the Autobots, hoping to make something more of himself. Blurr refuses Piston's offer to join him among the Autobot ranks, declaring "The races might be over, but the parties aren't."

Blurr then arrives at The Circle to find it deserted. Bummer.

The bar's proprietor is shocked that Blurr didn't seem to notice the city's descent into the civil war. Hoping to drown his sorrows with a bottle of Energon and an alternate reality generator, the race champion is interrupted by Starscream, who presents himself as "a friend." Blurr tells Starscream that the thrill of knowing what he's doing matters is what he loves about racing. Starscream then tells Blurr that his devotion to victory on the race track can lead to greater things, if he would only rebel against the weak regime and the Autobots who hold him down. Starscream remarks that when the time comes Blurr will know what to do.

Leaving The Circle, Blurr transforms to take a mind-clearing drive, only to enter into a war zone. Saved by Ironhide, he's rushed into the Autobot position. There he sees the dead bodies of Piston and his former racing comrade Fasttrack, early victims of the Autobot/Decepticon conflict. He then meets a young Autobot named Optimus who explains to Blurr that his unique gift of making decisions in an instant is one he envies, and that Blurr would make a superb soldier, if he only turned his focus and drive outward instead of inward. Optimus then explains that the Decepticon group he and his team mates are fighting are an assassination squad, whose target is none other than the Autobot Commander Zeta Prime himself. Optimus' team can't communicate with Zeta's HQ, as the Decepticons are using Soundwave to block all transmissions in the area. Only Blurr is fast enough to break through the Decepticon line and warn Prime of the impending threat on his life.

After a heated exchange in which Optimus explains Cybertron's "Golden Age" only left the planet's rulers weak, and that the Decepticons are taking advantage of that weakness, the future Prime offers Blurr a spot within the Autobot ranks. After thinking it through Blurr rushes off, breaking through the Decepticon barricade (and a few Decepticons as well), toward Zeta Prime's citadel headquarters.

As he speeds toward his objective, Blurr feels pride in the knowledge that what he's doing really matters.
{{-}}
==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (1)
* [[Piston]] (2)
* [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (5)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus]] (6)
* [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (7)
|c2=
*[[Fasttrack (IDW)|Fasttrack]] (3)
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (4)
*[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (8)
}}

==Quotes==
"Check that out... "simultronic" reality inside reality." 
"Brain fry. Who could ever want to run away from a world like this?" 

:—'''Blurr''' and '''Fasttrack''' discuss drug addictions.

"If this is going to be ''another'' conversation about how cold and arrogant I am, trust me, I've heard it '''all''' before." 

:—'''Blurr''' gets tired of criticism.

"The crowds. When I can feel them behind me. The lights. The roar. And that one moment, that one single moment, when I know what I'm doing really matters." 

:—'''Blurr''', showing he is more than just a pretty face.

"You're wasting your time, kid. This one's just a pampered, arrogant, little upstart." 

:—'''Kup''' doesn't have time to deal with turbo-revvin' young punks.

== Errors ==
* Starscream gains a Decepticon symbol on his left shoulder that wasn't there on the previous page where he first appeared.
* The Decepticon assassination squad approaches the Citadel on foot, despite at least two flight-capable warriors among their ranks.

== Items of note ==
* '''Cameos:''' Blurr's limo bears a striking resemblance to ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]].
* While getting hammered at the bar, the drinking vessels used to imbibe liquid [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] are cube-shaped, so when full, they look just like mini old skool G1 energon cubes.

* Blurr's IDWverse design includes stylised Mercury-style wing shapes on the sides of his helmet, in either a classical evocation, or a more pop-cultural reference to [[wikipedia:The_Flash|The Flash]].
* Starscream's design in the issue is inconsistent with that shown in ''[[Megatron Origin]]''. This is annoying.
* The [[Mouthplate|mouthplateless]] Pre-Prime Optimus is also inconsistent with that shown in ''Megatron Origin'' (well, his back, anyway), but this design ''is'' a pointed homage to Orion Pax. Artist Casey Coller stated that the design was [[Guido Guidi]]'s. [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=64104&view=findpost&p=1380927]
* Optimus' backpack bears a strong resemblance to the canopy of the "artillery robot" in his G1 toy's Combat Deck.

===Covers (3)===
* '''Cover A:''' Blurr on a sports magazine cover; art by [[Casey Coller]] with colors by [[Joana Lafuente]].
* '''Cover B:''' A monochromatic stylized, and rather art-deco image of Burr sprinting by [[Trevor Hutchison]].
* '''Cover RI:''' Sketch cover of Blurr and his enormous shoulders, by [[Guido Guidi]].
<gallery>
Image:Spotlight_Blurr_a.jpg|Do you think Blurr would be interviewed by [[Eject]]?
Image:Spotlight_Blurr_cvrB.JPG|Run, run, run as fast as you can. You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!
Image:Spotlight_Blurr_RI.jpg|[[JaAm|ShOulDerZ HurT]]
</gallery>

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