Australia

2010-03-16T23:33:04Z

203.36.172.100: changed end of first paragraph to include sharks.

[[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 and sharks with Frikkin Laser Beams.

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}}

==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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==Trivia==
* 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.

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