MediaWiki - User contributions [en]

Evac (Movie)

2009-11-18T01:47:45Z

173.56.2.194: /* Revenge of theFallen */

{{factions|autobot}}
{{disambig2|the live-action-movie continuity helicopter|the Cybertron-series helicopter|Evac (Cybertron)}}
:''Evac is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Movie (franchise)|2007 movie franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Movie-Evac-Portrait.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Leapin' lifters, I think they need an airlift!]]
'''Evac''' is fearless in the face of danger, and is wholly devoted to the protection of sentient life; two qualities that make him ideally suited for search and rescue missions. When he received [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]'s signal summoning all remaining Autobots to [[Earth]], he came immediately to help [[Human|humanity]] rebuild in the aftermath of their devastating battle with the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]].

==Fiction==
===Titan Magazines ''Transformers'' movie comics===
{{notetitantlg}}
[[Image:Evac Titan18.jpg|left|250px|thumb|"Take that, forces of nature! And THAT!"]]
Member of a scientific specialist group, Evac and his team were called to Earth in the hope they could find a way of stopping its All Spark-caused apocalypse. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 16|Dark Spark}} Most of their time ended up being spent on damage limitation, with Evac helping evacuate humans from devastated areas. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 17|Return to Cybertron: Part 1}} He also used his firepower to make a lava-ditch when a volcano threatened to take out Shallowater, Texas. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 18|Return to Cybertron: Part 2}}

Optimus keeps thinking that Evac runs the specialist unit, even though he doesn't. [[Camshaft (Movie)|Camshaft]], who actually did the leader work in the team's appearances, must get annoyed about this.

In the mission to rescue Mikaela Banes, Evac ''did'' command the team (Optimus is watching, better do some work!) and played the part of evacuating Mikaela from the Decepticon HQ. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 22|The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself}}

In the final strike, it was Evac in charge ''again'' (ah, finally taking responsibility, eh?), this time of rigging Cybertron's [[Unicron]]-gifted teleportation engines so that, once the Decepticons were on the planet, it could be warped away to the far reaches of space. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution Part 3}}

===IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics===

Evac was among the Autobots in the crowd listening to Optimus Prime. He didn't say much.
{{Storylink|Defiance issue 2}}

==Toys==
===Transformers (2007)===
[[Image:Evacmovie.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Search and rescue robot scorpion not included.]]
* '''Evac''' (Voyager, 2008)
**''Accessories:'' Raft/blaster

: As part of the "[[AllSpark Power]]" portion of the movie line, Evac is a [[retool]] of the Voyager [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]], transforming into a [[wikipedia:MH-53_Pave_Low|Sikorsky MH-53 Pave Low heavy-lift helicopter]] in rescue helicopter colors. An aft "cage" compartment can be opened to release a small rescue raft, which becomes a hand-held gun for robot mode. A button on the very end of his tail can be pressed in a geared action to rotate his rotor blades, but this feature really comes into play when the user attaches the Deluxe-class Scorponok figure to the bottom of Evac's helicopter mode via two pegs. A geared shaft linked to the rotor mechanism connects to a geared peg on Scorponok's back. Thus, pressing the button on Evac's tail not only rotates his blades, but also rotates Scorponok's pincers, though this gimmick is actually easier to activate by rotating the geared wheel on Scorponok's undercarriage.

: During transformation, Evac's [[Automorph|Automorphing]] gimmick is activated when the user swings down his legs, which in turn flips the chest section his head is mounted upon up and into position. Another, less impressive Automorph is in his legs - If you pull his knees down, his shin armor pops out a bit. The figure's retooling involved a new head and new hands that can hold standard weapon pegs such as the raft which replaced the Scorponok miniature.

:Evac was later redecoed for in the Toys 'R' Us-[[exclusive]] Masters of [[Metallikato]] battle pack as [[Whirl (ROTF)|Whirl]], for the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen]]'' [[Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|toyline]].
{{-}}
===Revenge of the Fallen ===
* '''Evac''' (Deluxe, 2009)

:A redeco of [[Blazemaster]] in orange and white "Coast Guard" colors.

==Merchandise==
===3D Battle Card game===
[[Image:Movie-Evac-Battle-Card.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Sure, that's the same guy. Whatever.]]
* '''Evac''' (3D Battle Card, 2007)
**''Card number:''

: A 29-point "rare" character in the [[3D Battle-Card Game]], Evac "transforms" into a yellow helicopter. He uses the same parts layout as [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]], [[Vortex (Energon Wars)|Vortex]] and [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]].

==Trivia==
* According to the running commentary of the 2007 movie done by [[Aaron Archer]] and [[Jared Wade]] at [[BotCon 2008]], Hasbro's creation of Evac was prompted by the (ultimately unused) idea that there would be at least one Coast Guard helicopter featured in the film. They implied that, had it been used, it would have been the helicopter that attempted to move [[Sam Witwicky]] and the [[All Spark]] out of [[Mission City]].

{{-}}

==External links==
* [http://www.wizards.com/transformers/ 3D Battle Card Game at Wizards of the Coast]
* [http://www.tfu.info/2008/Autobot/Evac/evac.htm Evac at TFU.info]

[[Category:Autobots]]
[[Category:Movie characters]]
[[Category:3D Battle-Cards]]

Dynasty of Primes

2009-11-01T16:42:22Z

173.56.2.194:

:''The Dynasty of Primes is a group from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Cyberglyphics Prime Symbol.png|100px|right]]

The '''Dynasty of Primes''' was the ruling class of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] eons ago. Formed by the first rulers of Cybertron, the Dynasty ruled Cybertron and protected the [[All Spark]] until they were betrayed by [[The Fallen|one of their own]].

{{bigquote|Primes are born. Not made.|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]|''[[Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''}}

==Fiction==
===IDW Comics===
Eons ago, the All Spark created thirteen beings, the first Cybertronians, who had the ability to move between dimensions. They soon realized that the All Spark's power, though vast, was not infinite, and required the energy of stars to be replenished. Once a nearby star went nova, the All Spark created a worker race, the Transformers, who would assist the Dynasty in replenishing the All Spark. One of the thirteen, later known as the Fallen, betrayed his brothers and tried to steal the power of the All Spark for himself. However, once he had destroyed his brothers' [[sarcophagus|sarcophagi]], he realized that they were able to still act, trapping him in his own sarcophagus. Knowledge of the thirteen faded, and the Dynasty of Primes became little more than a myth. {{storylink|Defiance issue 4}}

Thousands of years later, the [[Science Division]] discovered the Fallen's sarcophagus and the remains of the other Twelve's sarcophagi. As the Fallen influenced [[Lord High Protector]] [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], the members of the Science Division, under the direction of their leader [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]], studied the remains of the other relics and discovered the [[Cyberglyphics|symbol of the Primes]]. This was the first proof that they had found of the Dynasty, and what's more, the symbol was etched on the head of the Science Division's leader, who was soon dubbed Optimus [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] by his fellow scientists. After the [[Autobot]]s refused to follow Megatron's [[Decepticon]]s, the term Prime came to denote Optimus as leader of the Autobots. {{storylink|Defiance issue 3}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen'' movie===
:''Voice actors:'' [[Michael York]], [[Kevin Michael Richardson]], [[Robin Atkin Downes]] (English), [[Banjō Ginga]], [[Daisuke Gōri]], [[Yasuyoshi Hara]] (Japanese)

[[Image:TheFallen-ROTFwithPrimes.jpg|250px|thumb|left|]]

At least by 17,000 BC, ancient beings known as the "Seven Primes" reached a solar system in their quest to build a [[Solar harvester]], but they discovered the chosen system contained [[Earth|a life-bearing world]], and so six of the Primes objected to using the harvester on the system's sun. The seventh, however, insisted on using the harvester anyway upon weighing the longevity of his planet and his race against a seemingly meaningless organic world. This Prime quickly turned on his brothers and their creed, waging war against them, with those who agreed with his ideals by his side. After attacking and killing many of his fellow Primes and slaughtering a large number of early [[human]]s he was thereafter ever known as "The Fallen." The remaining Primes mounted an attack on their new nemesis and hid the [[Matrix of Leadership#Live-action film series|Matrix of Leadership]]—without which he could not activate the harvester—in a [[Tomb of the Primes|tomb composed of their own bodies]] on the very planet he sought to destroy, using the last of their energy left from the epic battle to completely seal it.

According to Sam Witwicky, who had absorbed the All Spark, [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]] led an expedition where it took him fourteen galactic convergences to get an echo of something, seemingly related to the existence of other dimensions where the theory of relativity was not applicable.

In the present day, their descendant [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] perished in battle whilst protecting the human adolescent [[Sam Witwicky]], the chosen vessel of the All Spark after the Cube's physical destruction. With the seemingly confusing knowledge of an advanced alien civilization in his mind, Sam and his companions set out to find the Matrix of Leadership after learning it might be the only thing that could resurrect Optimus—the last of the Primes—who was the only being who could defeat "The Fallen". Travelling to [[Petra]] in [[Jordan]], Sam discovered the Tomb of the Primes hidden within, quickly discovering the small Matrix. His hopes were soon dampened however, when the artifact crumbled into dust upon it being moved. Nevertheless, he held onto his faith and gathered up the dust in a tattered sock, intending to revive Optimus with it in any way feasible.

[[Image:ROTF_movie_SevenPrimes.jpg|250px|thumb|You must avenge my death, Simba—uh, I mean, Sam.]]

During a climactic battle around the Solar Harvester between the [[Autobot]]s and The Fallen's [[Decepticon]] forces, Sam died in an attempt to use the remnants of the Matrix to resurrect Optimus Prime. Appearing to leave his body, the six Primes soon appeared before Sam, telling him that they had been observing him for a long period of time, praising his sacrificial acts to save the last Prime's spark. They pronounced him worthy of receiving the Matrix, revealing to him that it is now never merely found but instead ''earned'', then instantaneously resuscitated him. Brought back to life by the six Primes, he was able to fulfill his destiny by reviving Optimus, propagating the complete destruction of the Solar Harvester and the defeat of "The Fallen" and Megatron. {{Storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

{{-}}

===Revenge of the Fallen adaptations===

According to [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]], the Dynasty of Primes was formed by the first Thirteen Cybertronians. These beings could not transform, but they and their transforming descendants possessed powers beyond that of the average Cybertronian. The Dynasty ruled Cybertron and protected the All Spark, replenishing it with the energy harvested from stars. However, the Dynasty of Primes was also benevolent, believing that all life was sacred, and refused to harvest stars with worlds inhabited by sentient races. However, one of these Primes believed that they should harvest the star [[Sun|Sol]], which promised to yield vast amounts of energy, even though Sol was orbited by a small world with primitive inhabitants, [[human]]s. After this plan was unanimously rejected by the others, this Prime betrayed and killed most of his brothers, but one survived and hid the Matrix of Leadership, the key necessary to activating the [[solar harvester]], in the Tomb of the Primes on [[Earth]], fusing it shut with his own life essense. The Fallen, as the renegade Prime was now known, dispatched the [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]]s to retrieve the Matrix, but they were unsuccessful and eventually abandoned. On Cybertron, the Fallen hunted down and killed every last Prime he could find, knowing that they were a threat to him. A single orphan was hidden away with no knowledge of his lineage: Optimus Prime.

In time, The Fallen encountered Megatron, and directed him to form the Decepticons, promising him the powers of a Prime in exchange for his loyalty. When Megatron left Optimus Prime in stasis lock, the last threat to the Fallen was removed, and he prepared for his return to Earth. However, [[Sam Witwicky]], using the knowledge of the All Spark within his mind, found the Matrix in [[Petra]], [[Jordan]]. Unfortunately, it had turned to dust in the millennia in the tomb. When his heart stopped after an attack by Megatron, Sam communed with the [[spark]]s of the Twelve original Primes, who had judged Sam worthy of stewardship of the Matrix, and instructed him to merge the Matrix with Optimus. The Dynasty then returned Sam to life and transferred the knowledge of the All Spark into the restored Matrix. With the Matrix restored, Sam used it to revive Optimus Prime and give him the knowledge of his ancestors. Unfortunately, the Fallen then attacked and stole the Matrix, activating the harvester.

Using parts donated by a critically injured Jetfire, Optimus went to the solar harvester, recovered the Matrix, and confronted the Fallen. In the battle that followed, Optimus proclaimed that the Fallen had forfeited his right to be a Prime when he slaughtered his brothers, and told Megatron that Primes were born, not made. Realizing he had been betrayed, Megatron and Starscream abandoned the Fallen and used the space bridge he had created to escape. Optimus then impaled the Fallen through the head with his own spear. With the death of The Fallen, Optimus Prime became sole inheritor of the Matrix and the last of the Dynasty of Primes. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (novel)}} {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen Movie Adaptation}}

===Titan Magazines===

The original Transformers are explicitly stated to number only seven. There's also a legend they might actually be created by some guy called [[Primus]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|The Fallen Profile}}

==Notes==
* The [[Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|novelization]] and [[Revenge of the Fallen Movie Adaptation|comic book adaptation]] vary quite differently from the version told in the movie, as they were based on early versions of the final script.
[[Image:RotF The Twelve heads.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Give me your... faces?!]]
*Though barely glimpsed in the film, [[Josh Nizzi]] designed somewhat unique bodies and heads for each of the Twelve during the film's pre-production. Interestingly, ''all'' of them appear to have energy glowing within their armor just as The Fallen does.[http://www.joshnizzi.com/TF2.htm] Only seven of them made into the film, though.
*The Fallen's bio within the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' DVD/Blu-Ray bonus material says there were 13 of them, not seven. Talk about mythos whiplash.
{{-}}

[[Category:Factions]]
[[Category:Rulers of Cybertron]]
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen]]
[[Category:Autobot leaders]]
[[Category:Transformer culture]]