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Silverbolt (ROTF)

2010-09-22T18:05:47Z

68.36.54.192:

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{{disambig3|Silverbolt}}
:''Silverbolt is an [[Autobot]] from the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' portion of the [[live-action film series]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Universe2008 Silverbolt combiner.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Did you buy me last year? Now you can again!]]
'''Silverbolt''' merges with his subordinate [[Aerialbot (ROTF)|Aerialbots]] into the mighty [[Superion (ROTF)|Superion]]!

==Toys==
===Revenge of the Fallen===
*'''Superion''' (2009)

:''[[Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Silverbolt is a [[redeco]] of ''[[Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' [[Storm Jet (Energon)|Storm Jet]], transforming into a Cybertronic jet based vaguely upon an SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. He was available with the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' [[Superion (ROTF)|Superion]] giftset, and when combined with the other Aerialbots, Silverbolt forms the torso.

:The Superion five-pack was originally intended to be released as part of the 2008 ''[[Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' line as [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], with Silverbolt representing G1 [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], but was ultimately only released in ''Universe'' packaging on non-US markets such as Singapore and Australia, whereas the USA and Canada got the toy in ''Revenge of the Fallen'' packaging instead, [[exclusive|exclusively]] available at [[Target]] stores in the USA and at Zellers stores in Canada, and as a mass market release in the United Kingdom. His components were not available separately, only in a combiner five-pack.

: Like the Storm Jet version of the sculpt, Silverbolt features several instances of [[misassembly]]: Namely, his inside legs are swapped so that the knee joint faces the wrong way. Furthermore, his shoulders are also misassembled, since there is a molded chevron...in his armpit. Althouth a swap (involving tiny pieces and springs) fixes this, at least a few specimens reportedly had one leg assembled correctly, and the other one incorrectly, making repair impossible.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Autobot/Silverbolt/silverbolt.htm More information on Silverbolt at TFU.info]''

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[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen characters]]
[[Category:Target exclusives]]
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Cybertron-Unicron warp gate

2010-09-22T17:21:09Z

68.36.54.192:

:''The Cybertron-Unicron warp gate is a gateway from the [[Armada (cartoon)|Armada]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Arm47 cybertronunicron warpgate.jpg|right|250px|thumb|You do not want to go in there, seriously.]]
The '''Unicron-Cybertron warp gate''' is a concealed [[warp gate]] linking the lower levels of Cybertron to the nethermost regions of [[Unicron]]. It is used by Unicron's minions to pass covertly from Cybertron to Unicron without giving away the Devourer of Worlds' super-secret hidden location. (''Psst!'' He's disguised as one of Cybertron's moons!)

The gate is situated in the middle of a corridor in a seldom-traveled section of Cybertron which was long ago converted into a "fused organic" state. The gate is invisible until you make physical contact with it, and unless you knew it was there, it would be all too easy to stumble through it and find yourself stranded in the bowels of Unicron, surrounded by deadly [[Bot-spider|bot-spiders]].

It is strongly implied that the gate is unidirectional (Cybertron-to-Unicron),<ref>Despite the dangers Starscream and company encounter through the gate in "[[Portent]]", none of them attempts to pass back through it, instead fighting their way up through many layers of Unicron's defenses.</ref><ref>Before stepping through the gate in "[[Union]]", Rad comments that this is a one-way trip.</ref> though circumstantial evidence favors Unicron's minions being able to reverse its function to return to Cybertron.

The fused-organic section of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] where the gate is located is notably atypical, and its transformation is likely a result of slow "leakage" through the gate over a long period of time. Though the gate's exact age is unclear, at least one lifeform (the [[bot-spider]]) seems to have migrated through it over the years. The warp gate may date from the original transportation of the [[Mini-Cons]] to Cybertron 4 million years ago.<ref>The Mini-Con birthing chamber was the same location (apparently inside Unicron, not Cybertron) where the Autobots were cocooned in the alternate timeline of the unawakened Mini-Cons in "[[Drift (episode)|Drift]]."</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Armada'' cartoon===
While pursuing [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]], [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] and several others passed through the Cybertron-Unicron warp gate and had to fight their way up to Unicron's surface to escape. {{storylink|Portent|Portent}}

The Autobots subsequently blocked the warp gate with a large rock, either to prevent its use or merely to prevent people from accidentally wandering through it. When [[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]] and the [[Street Action Mini-Con Team]] realized their presence was needed to aid [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]] (who had traveled to Unicron by more conventional means), the Autobot [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] unblocked the entrance, allowing them and the humans [[Rad White|Rad]], [[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]], [[Alexis]], [[Billy (Armada)|Billy]] and [[Fred (Armada)|Fred]] to travel to Unicron's interior. {{storylink|Union}}

==References==
<references />

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[[Category:Unicron]]

Unicron Singularity

2010-09-22T17:04:37Z

68.36.54.192: /* Cybertron cartoon */

{{factions|unicron}}
{{disambig3|Unicron}}
:''The Unicron Singularity is a spatial-temporal anomaly that crosses many (possibly all) realities from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Unicronsingularity.jpg|right|250px|thumb|A black hole is like, this giant bunghole in outer space. And it like sucks up the whole universe, and then it grinds it up and like sends it all to hell or something.]]

The destruction of [[Unicron]] upset the balance of good and evil. This unbalance created a distortion of space-time resembling a [[black hole]] called the '''Unicron Singularity''' near the planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] that threatened to destroy the universe.<ref>[[Primus]]'s account of how the black hole was created in the episode [[Balance]].</ref>

{{bigquote|This thing you speak of, it is no ordinary black hole.|Primus, "[[Balance]]"}}

:''Japanese name:'' '''Grand Black Hole'''

==Fiction==
===''Cybertron'' cartoon===

{{note|The black hole was never called "the Unicron Singularity" in the cartoon, instead having the accurate but unimaginative name "the black hole".}}

When the Unicron Singularity manifested itself in their reality, the Autobots on Cybertron immediately took action, establishing a network of sensor probes to scan the black hole. [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] monitored the singularity's expansion from a remote station, observing the destruction of the planet [[Moriturus]] and reporting back to [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]. With the black hole steadily drawing nearer and nearer to Cybertron, and its effects already wreaking havoc across the planet, Prime's only course of action was to evacuate Cybertron, relocating the population to [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Fallen (episode)|Fallen}}

The effects of the Unicron Singularity were even felt outside of the linear universe by the ancient Transformer [[Vector Prime]], guardian of the timestream. While attempting to view the future, Vector Prime discovered that there was no future to see: the black hole would spread across the entire multiverse, consuming all possible realities and timelines. {{storylink|Guardian (episode)|Guardian}} Knowing that only the power of [[Primus]] could stop Unicron's evil, Vector Prime re-entered the timestream and joined with Optimus Prime's Autobots, directing them in a search for the lost [[Cyber Planet Key]]s that would awaken Primus and enable him to seal the black hole. {{storylink|Fallen (episode)|Fallen}} Optimus Prime was not entirely convinced that a mystical solution was necessary when technological options were left to explore, and had Red Alert attempt to collapse the black hole using a [[gravitron grid]]. Alas, the singularity's power proved too much for the grid and caused it to overload, but the Autobots remained unconvinced by Vector Prime's tale until Red Alert spoke up on his behalf and talked the heroes into searching for the lost talismans. {{storylink|Hidden}}

The Autobots' quest eventually led them to obtain three of the four Cyber Planet Keys, from [[Velocitron]] the Speed Planet, the [[Jungle Planet (Cybertron)|Jungle Planet]] and Earth itself. The [[Cybertron Defense Team]] laid the path back to Cybertron with the aid of their human allies, plotting a [[space bridge]] course through the warps in space and time that the black hole had created around the planet. {{storylink|Assault}} The Cyber Planet Keys were subsequently brought to Cybertron, where they were used to transform the planet into the body of Primus himself. {{storylink|Cybertron (episode)|Cybertron}} Optimus Prime substituted the power of his [[Matrix of Leadership]] for that of the fourth Cyber Planet Key in the hopes that it would be enough, and the re-energized Primus unleashed his power as a beam that he fired into the heart of the Unicron Singularity. Unfortunately, without the fourth key to restore his full power, Primus succeeded only in halting the singularity's expansion, failing to destroy it. {{storylink|Titans}}

The Autobots finally succeeded in acquiring the fourth and final Cyber Planet Key from [[Gigantion]] the Giant Planet, at which point all four keys were stolen by [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]]. {{storylink|Showdown (episode)|Showdown}} Galvatron ventured into the Unicron Singularity itself and unleashed the power of the keys on its dark heart, intending to accelerate its universal degeneration, destroying all of reality and remaking the universe in his own image. As the Jungle Planet threatened to become the first victim of the black hole's accelerated pull, and planets all across time and space were ravaged by the dark energies unleashed, Optimus Prime, [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]], [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]], [[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] and [[Metroplex (Cybertron)|Metroplex]] confronted Galvatron within the black hole and defeated him, regaining possession of the Cyber Planet Keys. His power at last fully replenished, Primus channelled his power through the massive starship known as the [[Ark (Cybertron)|Ark]], and with one definitive blast, the Unicron Singularity was finally obliterated. {{storylink|End}}

===''Cybertron'' comic===
Vector Prime revealed that the singularity was created when [[Primus]]'s plan to trap [[Unicron]] in an [[Energon Sun]], giving off life rather than consuming it, spectacularly backfired. The sun instead collapsed into a black hole which consumed [[Alpha Q's universe|the infant universe]] it had once nurtured, and then expanded into space near Cybertron. {{storylink|Balancing Act, Pt 5}}

The black hole's pull was so strong that even Unicron's presence in alternate realities were drawn into it, throwing the entire universal balance out of whack. As the Unicron Singularity replicated itself across these worlds, its space-time distortions drew them together, histories overlapping in a somewhat messy fashion. The continued expansion of the Unicron Singularity threatened to consume the entire Universe and, owing to its self-replicating nature, eventually the entire [[multiverse]]. {{storylink|Balancing Act, Part 2}}

==Universes involved==
[[Image:Unicronsinguality diagram.png|right|300px|thumb|Brings new meaning to "plot hole".]]
It is unclear whether the Unicron Trilogy caused a "[[wikipedia:Crisis on Infinite Earths|Crisis]]" event—permanently merging the universes caught in its snare into one, somehow jumbling them all while remaining separate, or possibly drawing them together at the point of the Singularity and releasing them after. What ''is'' clear is that the temporal changes seem to be permanent, and show no signs of 'unraveling' after the Singularity's destruction—individuals, events and locations from multiple universes now permanently co-existing in one. (The first scenario, for all intents and purposes.)

While the "gestalt" reality created by the Unicron Trilogy draws heavily on the [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] [[Armada (Dreamwave comic)|''Armada'']] and [[Energon (comic)|''Energon'']] comics ([[Over-Run (Armada)|Over-Run]]'s backstory); and the [[Armada (cartoon)|''Armada'']] and [[Energon (cartoon)|''Energon'']] cartoons (the creation of the [[Energon Sun]]), there is some indication that other realities are also involved. The capital of Cybertron in the new reality is suddenly [[Iacon]] (Generation 1) rather than [[Cyber City]] (comic) or [[Central City (Energon)|Central City]] (cartoon).

The [[ancients|four wise elders]] would also seem to indicate a Generation 1 connection... but their presence in the [[Unicron Trilogy]] universe seems to predate the Unicron Singularity, and is more likely simply internal [[homage|homaging]]. (That kind of thing [[Transformers Animated (franchise)#Homages|happens a lot]] in Transformers.)

All this adds up to an all-purpose answer for glaring continuity errors. That's right, it sucks up continuity along with everything else.

==Notes==

* The [[Fun Publications]] ''[[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' fan club comic created the idea that the Unicron Singularity was warping and altering space-time to explain away continuity errors between the English dub of the [[Cybertron (cartoon)|''Cybertron'' cartoon]] and the two [[Armada (cartoon)|previous]] [[Energon (cartoon)|series]] to which it was supposed to be a sequel. It is possible that it could also be used as a blanket explanation for continuity errors in the previous series and things like [[Sky Shadow (Cybertron)|Sky Shadow's]] backstory as well. Using this excuse, one could effectively explain away every plot hole from every fictional continuity ever, even in non-Transformers series. Gotta love Fun Publications.

* [[IDW Publishing]] would have originally tied their ''[[Generation 1]]'' comic in with ''Cybertron'', with Unicron's destruction destabilising ''their'' reality too and Vector Prime hopping between the G1 and ''Cybertron'' comics. <ref>Pitch printed in ''[[The Best of Simon Furman]]''</ref>

* The alternate, stand-alone Japanese version of ''Cybertron'', ''Galaxy Force'', made no blatant stated connection between Unicron and the "Grand Black Hole". However, the Grand Black Hole appeared in the present time because the (unspecified) Dark God, the source of darkness in the universe that opposes Primus, was trapped within a [[Matrix]]-type object, separating it from the universal balance. However, since then, Takara has released an official timeline of events that ties up the three series. The explanation given for the Grand Black Hole now agrees with the Hasbro fiction.

* The planet Cybertron itself was swallowed up by the Grand Black Hole in ''Galaxy Force'''s first episode. In the American version, these scenes were omitted, and the black hole merely hovered threateningly near the planet. This does make more sense, given that characters would return to the planet later in the series and not face any of the negative effects of being in a black hole, such as dying horribly.

* In the cartoon the anomaly was created when the balance of good and evil was disrupted after the destruction of Unicron. Presumably the balance could have been restored by destroying Primus, but none of the Autobots suggested that.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Cybertron]]
[[Category:Objects]]
[[Category:Unicron]]

Unicron Singularity

2010-09-22T17:04:05Z

68.36.54.192: /* Cybertron comic */

{{factions|unicron}}
{{disambig3|Unicron}}
:''The Unicron Singularity is a spatial-temporal anomaly that crosses many (possibly all) realities from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Unicronsingularity.jpg|right|250px|thumb|A black hole is like, this giant bunghole in outer space. And it like sucks up the whole universe, and then it grinds it up and like sends it all to hell or something.]]

The destruction of [[Unicron]] upset the balance of good and evil. This unbalance created a distortion of space-time resembling a [[black hole]] called the '''Unicron Singularity''' near the planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] that threatened to destroy the universe.<ref>[[Primus]]'s account of how the black hole was created in the episode [[Balance]].</ref>

{{bigquote|This thing you speak of, it is no ordinary black hole.|Primus, "[[Balance]]"}}

:''Japanese name:'' '''Grand Black Hole'''

==Fiction==
===''Cybertron'' cartoon===

{{note|The black hole was never called "the Unicron Singularity" in the cartoon, instead having the accurate but unimaginative name "the black hole".}}

When the Unicron Singularity manifested itself in their reality, the Autobots on Cybertron immediately took action, establishing a network of sensor probes to scan the black hole. [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] monitored the singularity's expansion from a remote station, observing the destruction of the planet [[Moriturus]] and reporting back to [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]. With the black hole steadily drawing nearer and nearer to Cybertron, and its effects already wreaking havoc across the planet, Prime's only course of action was to evacuate Cybertron, relocating the population to [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Fallen (episode)|Fallen}}

The effects of the Unicron Singularity were even felt outside of the linear universe by the ancient Transformer [[Vector Prime]], guardian of the timestream. While attempting to view the future, Vector Prime discovered that there was no future to see: the black hole would spread across the entire multiverse, consuming all possibly realities and timelines. {{storylink|Guardian (episode)|Guardian}} Knowing that only the power of [[Primus]] could stop Unicron's evil, Vector Prime re-entered the timestream and joined with Optimus Prime's Autobots, directing them in a search for the lost [[Cyber Planet Key]]s that would awaken Primus and enable him to seal the black hole. {{storylink|Fallen (episode)|Fallen}} Optimus Prime was not entirely convinced that a mystical solution was necessary when technological options were left to explore, and had Red Alert attempt to collapse the black hole using a [[gravitron grid]]. Alas, the singularity's power proved too much for the grid and caused it to overload, but the Autobots remained unconvinced by Vector Prime's tale until Red Alert spoke up on his behalf and talked the heroes into searching for the lost talismans. {{storylink|Hidden}}

The Autobots' quest eventually led them to obtain three of the four Cyber Planet Keys, from [[Velocitron]] the Speed Planet, the [[Jungle Planet (Cybertron)|Jungle Planet]] and Earth itself. The [[Cybertron Defense Team]] laid the path back to Cybertron with the aid of their human allies, plotting a [[space bridge]] course through the warps in space and time that the black hole had created around the planet. {{storylink|Assault}} The Cyber Planet Keys were subsequently brought to Cybertron, where they were used to transform the planet into the body of Primus himself. {{storylink|Cybertron (episode)|Cybertron}} Optimus Prime substituted the power of his [[Matrix of Leadership]] for that of the fourth Cyber Planet Key in the hopes that it would be enough, and the re-energized Primus unleashed his power as a beam that he fired into the heart of the Unicron Singularity. Unfortunately, without the fourth key to restore his full power, Primus succeeded only in halting the singularity's expansion, failing to destroy it. {{storylink|Titans}}

The Autobots finally succeeded in acquiring the fourth and final Cyber Planet Key from [[Gigantion]] the Giant Planet, at which point all four keys were stolen by [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]]. {{storylink|Showdown (episode)|Showdown}} Galvatron ventured into the Unicron Singularity itself and unleashed the power of the keys on its dark heart, intending to accelerate its universal degeneration, destroying all of reality and remaking the universe in his own image. As the Jungle Planet threatened to become the first victim of the black hole's accelerated pull, and planets all across time and space were ravaged by the dark energies unleashed, Optimus Prime, [[Override (Cybertron)|Override]], [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]], [[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] and [[Metroplex (Cybertron)|Metroplex]] confronted Galvatron within the black hole and defeated him, regaining possession of the Cyber Planet Keys. His power at last fully replenished, Primus channelled his power through the massive starship known as the [[Ark (Cybertron)|Ark]], and with one definitive blast, the Unicron Singularity was finally obliterated. {{storylink|End}}

===''Cybertron'' comic===
Vector Prime revealed that the singularity was created when [[Primus]]'s plan to trap [[Unicron]] in an [[Energon Sun]], giving off life rather than consuming it, spectacularly backfired. The sun instead collapsed into a black hole which consumed [[Alpha Q's universe|the infant universe]] it had once nurtured, and then expanded into space near Cybertron. {{storylink|Balancing Act, Pt 5}}

The black hole's pull was so strong that even Unicron's presence in alternate realities were drawn into it, throwing the entire universal balance out of whack. As the Unicron Singularity replicated itself across these worlds, its space-time distortions drew them together, histories overlapping in a somewhat messy fashion. The continued expansion of the Unicron Singularity threatened to consume the entire Universe and, owing to its self-replicating nature, eventually the entire [[multiverse]]. {{storylink|Balancing Act, Part 2}}

==Universes involved==
[[Image:Unicronsinguality diagram.png|right|300px|thumb|Brings new meaning to "plot hole".]]
It is unclear whether the Unicron Trilogy caused a "[[wikipedia:Crisis on Infinite Earths|Crisis]]" event—permanently merging the universes caught in its snare into one, somehow jumbling them all while remaining separate, or possibly drawing them together at the point of the Singularity and releasing them after. What ''is'' clear is that the temporal changes seem to be permanent, and show no signs of 'unraveling' after the Singularity's destruction—individuals, events and locations from multiple universes now permanently co-existing in one. (The first scenario, for all intents and purposes.)

While the "gestalt" reality created by the Unicron Trilogy draws heavily on the [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] [[Armada (Dreamwave comic)|''Armada'']] and [[Energon (comic)|''Energon'']] comics ([[Over-Run (Armada)|Over-Run]]'s backstory); and the [[Armada (cartoon)|''Armada'']] and [[Energon (cartoon)|''Energon'']] cartoons (the creation of the [[Energon Sun]]), there is some indication that other realities are also involved. The capital of Cybertron in the new reality is suddenly [[Iacon]] (Generation 1) rather than [[Cyber City]] (comic) or [[Central City (Energon)|Central City]] (cartoon).

The [[ancients|four wise elders]] would also seem to indicate a Generation 1 connection... but their presence in the [[Unicron Trilogy]] universe seems to predate the Unicron Singularity, and is more likely simply internal [[homage|homaging]]. (That kind of thing [[Transformers Animated (franchise)#Homages|happens a lot]] in Transformers.)

All this adds up to an all-purpose answer for glaring continuity errors. That's right, it sucks up continuity along with everything else.

==Notes==

* The [[Fun Publications]] ''[[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' fan club comic created the idea that the Unicron Singularity was warping and altering space-time to explain away continuity errors between the English dub of the [[Cybertron (cartoon)|''Cybertron'' cartoon]] and the two [[Armada (cartoon)|previous]] [[Energon (cartoon)|series]] to which it was supposed to be a sequel. It is possible that it could also be used as a blanket explanation for continuity errors in the previous series and things like [[Sky Shadow (Cybertron)|Sky Shadow's]] backstory as well. Using this excuse, one could effectively explain away every plot hole from every fictional continuity ever, even in non-Transformers series. Gotta love Fun Publications.

* [[IDW Publishing]] would have originally tied their ''[[Generation 1]]'' comic in with ''Cybertron'', with Unicron's destruction destabilising ''their'' reality too and Vector Prime hopping between the G1 and ''Cybertron'' comics. <ref>Pitch printed in ''[[The Best of Simon Furman]]''</ref>

* The alternate, stand-alone Japanese version of ''Cybertron'', ''Galaxy Force'', made no blatant stated connection between Unicron and the "Grand Black Hole". However, the Grand Black Hole appeared in the present time because the (unspecified) Dark God, the source of darkness in the universe that opposes Primus, was trapped within a [[Matrix]]-type object, separating it from the universal balance. However, since then, Takara has released an official timeline of events that ties up the three series. The explanation given for the Grand Black Hole now agrees with the Hasbro fiction.

* The planet Cybertron itself was swallowed up by the Grand Black Hole in ''Galaxy Force'''s first episode. In the American version, these scenes were omitted, and the black hole merely hovered threateningly near the planet. This does make more sense, given that characters would return to the planet later in the series and not face any of the negative effects of being in a black hole, such as dying horribly.

* In the cartoon the anomaly was created when the balance of good and evil was disrupted after the destruction of Unicron. Presumably the balance could have been restored by destroying Primus, but none of the Autobots suggested that.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Cybertron]]
[[Category:Objects]]
[[Category:Unicron]]