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Grandus (Animated)

2012-09-05T03:39:57Z

202.156.10.227:

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{{disambig2|the Autobot from ''Animated''|the Autobot Battlestar from ''Return of Convoy''|Grandus (ROC)}}
:''Grandus is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Grandus-Pic.JPG|right|thumb|300px|"Big guy" would be an understatement, yes?]]

'''Grandus''' is fat and faaaabulous, and thanks to this, he is a sumo wrestler. He is also a gushing fanboy for [[Rosanna (Animated)|Rosanna]]. She, in turn, wrote a song about him.

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon continuity===
{{Idw-tfa}}
:''Voice actor:'' [[Jeff Glen Bennett]] (English)

[[Image:StuntiConJob-ErectorGrandus.jpg|left|thumb|250px|He's big in France. Technically, he's big everywhere.]]

Grandus's accomplishments as a member of the [[Cyber-Ninja Corps]] were immortalized by a [[Hologram|holographic bust]] inside Master [[Yoketron (Animated)|Yoketron]]'s [[Cyber-Ninja Dojo|dojo]]. {{storylink|Five Servos of Doom}}

Grandus, in vehicle mode, carried a triumphant "[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Magnus]]", along with [[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] and [[Alpha Trion (Animated)|Alpha Trion]], in a victory parade before adoring masses. Behind them, the Decepticon prisoners were carried by [[Dug Base|another Transformer of the same model]]. {{storylink|Decepticon Air}}

He was later seen on Cybertron, minding his own business when an [[Carmine Fanzone|organic]] transwarped right in front of him, so close that he almost stepped on it. Grandus recoiled in fear and disgust while a crowd gathered. Most of the other then bots proceeded to run from it while it insulted him for almost crushing it. Grandus was told by [[Flareup (Animated)|Flareup]] to step on it, which he tried, only to be stopped by some [[Ratchet (Animated)|old bot]] who took Fanzone in vehicle mode and [[roll out|rolled out]].

Needless to say, Grandus and Flareup were horrified by the old bot's actions. He touched it! {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}}

''Grandus was in the audience for [[The Motor Master]]'s Stunt Convoy show, and as he was cheering, his flailing arm unwittingly set off a chain reaction of events that culminated in [[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]]'s cannon smashing [[Wheelie (Animated)|Wheelie]] on the head. Everyone around him was horrified. Later that evening, a video recording would catch [[Wildrider (Animated)|Wildrider]] invoking his name for a fat joke. He was not pleased.'' {{storylink|The Stunti-Con Job}}

==Notes==
* Grandus is a homage to the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Grandus (ROC)|character of the same name]].
* Yes, he is an ex-Cyber Ninja, believe it or not.
* Grandus was first revealed in a [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] interview with [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] and [[Eric Siebenaler]].
* According to Wyatt, Grandus's voice is an intentional nod to actor [[Wikipedia:Paul Lynde|Paul Lynde]]. [http://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/1749671239]
* He's not [[Dug Base]].
* He also screams like a little girl.

[[Category:Animated Autobots]]
[[Category:Fiction-only Transformers]]

Grandus (Animated)

2012-09-05T03:39:21Z

202.156.10.227:

{{Factions|autobot}}
{{disambig2|the Autobot from ''Animated''|the Autobot Battlestar from ''Return of Convoy''|Grandus (ROC)}}
:''Grandus is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Grandus-Pic.JPG|right|thumb|300px|"Big guy" would be an understatement, yes?]]

'''Grandus''' is fat and faaaabulous, and thanks to this, he is a sumo wrestler. He is also a gushing fanboy for [[Rosanna (Animated)|Rosanna]]. She, in turn, wrote a song about him.

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon continuity===
{{Idw-tfa}}
:''Voice actor:'' [[Jeff Glen Bennett]] (English)

[[Image:StuntiConJob-ErectorGrandus.jpg|left|thumb|250px|He's big in France. Technically, he's big everywhere.]]

Grandus's accomplishments as a member of the [[Cyber-Ninja Corps]] were immortalized by a [[Hologram|holographic bust]] inside Master [[Yoketron (Animated)|Yoketron]]'s [[Cyber-Ninja Dojo|dojo]]. {{storylink|Five Servos of Doom}}

Grandus, in vehicle mode, carried a triumphant "[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Magnus]]", along with [[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] and [[Alpha Trion (Animated)|Alpha Trion]], in a victory parade before adoring masses. Behind them, the Decepticon prisoners were carried by [[Dug Base|another Transformer of the same model]]. {{storylink|Decepticon Air}}

He was later seen on Cybertron, minding his own business when an [[Carmine Fanzone|organic]] transwarped right in front of him, so close that he almost stepped on it. Grandus recoiled in fear and disgust while a crowd gathered. Most of the other then bots proceeded to run from it while it insulted him for almost crushing it. Grandus was told by [[Flareup (Animated)|Flareup]] to step on it, which he tried, only to be stopped by some [[Ratchet (Animated)|old bot]] who took Fanzone in vehicle mode and [[roll out|rolled out]].

Needless to say, Grandus and Flareup were horrified by the old bot's actions. He touched it! {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}}

''Grandus was in the audience for [[The Motor Master]]'s Stunt Convoy show, and as he was cheering, his flailing arm unwittingly set off a chain reaction of events that culminated in [[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]]'s cannon smashing [[Wheelie (Animated)|Wheelie]] on the head. Everyone around him was horrified. Later that evening, a video recording would catch [[Wildrider (Animated)|Wildrider]] invoking his name for a fat joke. He was not pleased.'' {{storylink|The Stunti-Con Job}}

==Notes==
* Grandus is a homage to the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Grandus (ROC)|character of the same name]].
* Grandus was first revealed in a [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] interview with [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] and [[Eric Siebenaler]].
* According to Wyatt, Grandus's voice is an intentional nod to actor [[Wikipedia:Paul Lynde|Paul Lynde]]. [http://twitter.com/DerrickJWyatt/status/1749671239]
* He's not [[Dug Base]].
* He also screams like a little girl.
* Yes, he is an ex-Cyber Ninja, believe it or not.

[[Category:Animated Autobots]]
[[Category:Fiction-only Transformers]]

Hail and Farewell

2009-07-09T10:02:23Z

202.156.10.227: Undo revision 328092 by Jackpot (Talk)Have to be more sarcastic

'''Hail and Farewell''' is a ''[[Transformers: Mosaic]]'' strip written by [[Simon Furman]], drawn by [[Steve Buccellato]], and published on Furman's blog.<ref>[http://simonfurman.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/mosaic-a-go-go/ "Hail and Farewell" at Furman's blog]</ref> It is set some two years after the general time of ''[[Infiltration]]'' and ''[[Escalation (IDW)|Escalation]]'' in the [[IDW continuity|IDW ''Generation 1'' continuity]], foreshadowing a number of events to come. Unfortunately, not all of Furman's plans ended up coming to fruition, so as time has gone on, more and more of this story has been contradicted.

It is unclear just how [[canon]]ical this story ever was. Furman declared it "emphatically" canon in his blog post, but IDW editor-in-chief [[Chris Ryall]] later claimed that it was never approved by [[Hasbro]] and thus was never in continuity.<ref>[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?p=81277#81277 Ryall comments on "Hail and Farewell" canonicity (and Mosaic canonicity in general) on the IDW forums]</ref> So take this with as many grains of salt as you deem appropriate...

==Synopsis==
Hunter O'Nion touches some family photographs on a dresser, musing to himself about how he's saying goodbye to what little of a life he'd had. He stands in a bedroom, dressed in a trenchcoat and trucker cap, and thinks about his lost family: His father died when he was eight, and his mother descended into alcoholism. He and his sister had put on a good face, but she split as soon as she could. Hunter, on the other hand, had stayed right to the end, his only source of sanity being his dream of finding something bigger. Then, two years ago, he ''did.''

As Hunter heads to the front door, he loosens his trenchcoat to reveal his metallic chest. He ponders how everything had changed back then — how ''he'' had changed. Stepping outside, he drops his jacket and hat and leaps into the air, transforming into Sunstreaker's head. As the Autobot catches and attaches him, he thinks about how "Hunter" had ceased to be, as an individual, his memories overlapping with Sunstreaker's. Since the fusion, the merged Autobot/human had traveled to other worlds (even another dimension), battled [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], allied with the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s, and faced a [[Decepticon]] invasion. This house had become so very small, and truly he couldn't go home again.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (2)
|c3=
* [[Hunter O'Nion]] (1)
}}

==Errors==
{{spoilers|All Hail Megatron issue 12|July 22, 2009}}

* These are only errors in retrospect, but several events have been made impossible (or at least ''severely'' unlikely) in the time since this was published:
** Hunter and Sunstreaker are shown still being partnered two years after Hunter met the Autobots and became a Headmaster. Yet ''[[All Hail Megatron]]'', set only one year after that general timeframe, begins with their bond having already been fully severed and ends with both of them dead.
** The "other dimension" that Hunter said they'd gone to was probably going to be the [[Dead Universe]]. However, that storyline was heavily truncated in the rushed ''[[Revelation (IDW)|Revelation]]'' miniseries, and neither Hunter nor Sunstreaker ended up going there.
** The only "full scale Decepticon invasion" to happen yet is the one in ''All Hail'', which, as previously stated, is the series that makes this Mosaic strip so impossible.
** Hunter hasn't even been seen on another ''planet'' at this point, though he has been on a [[Ark-32|spaceship]], so there's still a chance for some as-yet-untold tale of interplanetary travel to surface.
** Hunter turns into the same type of head as the [[Machination]]'s [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]]s, but in ''[[Devastation (IDW)|Devastation]]'' he turns into a replica of Sunstreaker's original head. This mistake occurred because "Hail and Farewell" was drawn before [[Devastation issue 6|the relevant issue]] depicting Sunstreaker's Headmaster head had been released.

==Items of note==
* The foreshadowing that ''did'' come true was the Scorponok-facing and the Dinobot-allying, both in the ''[[Maximum Dinobots]]'' miniseries.
* As nothing has yet contradicted Hunter's childhood history, TFWiki.net is counting at least THAT bit as applicable to the IDW ''Generation 1'' continuity. The rest, if we consider it canon at all, is relegated to a [[splinter timeline]] (an idea suggested by Ryall's comments).<ref>[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?p=81293#81293 Followup comment from Ryall]</ref> Or perhaps the line about Hunter preserving his sanity via mental escape is a hint that this is actually his dream world while [[Bombshell]] experiments on him during ''All Hail Megatron''. The whole thing is very much open to reader interpretation, and all bets are off.
* All we know is, considering how horrible Hunter's mainstream fate turned out to be (Thanks a lot, [[Shane McCarthy]]), this story has only grown more painfully bittersweet over time.

==References==
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[[Category:Generation 1]]
[[Category:Stories]]