Talk:Isidrite

2012-02-25T15:49:24Z

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Big Red (G1)

2012-02-25T07:48:26Z

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:''Big Red is an unnamed [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1]] and [[Unicron Trilogy]] continuity families.''

[[Image:Bigred.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Grab jets a little longer, crush 'Cons a little longer, kick aft a little longer-- longer with Big Red!]]
"'''Big Red'''" is big and he's red, and he can grab you out of the sky if he wants to. He doesn't have a known name, but some fans of the Transformers call him Big Red. There is an Autobot who looks just like Big Red only he's yellow and his name is either [[Pulsar]] or [[Tempest]]. But we don't care about him because Big Red is red and he's awesome.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Generation 1 comics===
Big Red is one of the Autobot combatants seen in the beginning throes of the Autobot/[[Decepticon]] war. He just grabs a Decepticon jet out of the sky with one hand and crushes him right there with only his fingers. Big Red is hardcore. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}}

===''Cybertron'' comic===
[[Image:Bigredkhanna.jpg|left|200px|thumb|He's big, he's red, he's good.]]
Big Red is one of the Transformers seen in the early days of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron history]], before the war. {{storylink|Vector Prime: In the Beginning}} What specific continuity this version of Big Red inhabited is unknown, as the dimension-hopping [[Vector Prime]] narrates the scene without identifying his home dimension.

[[Category:Comic-only Transformers]]
[[Category:Cybertron Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]

Gone Too Far

2012-02-25T01:12:45Z

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{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=[[Transformers Timelines (fiction)|''Transformers Timelines'']]
|prev=Wreckers: Finale Part II
|next=Force of Habit
|seriesissue2=''[[Transformers: TransTech]]''
|prev2=Bee in the City
|next2=Withered Hope
|image=Axiomnexusgonetoofar.jpg
|caption=And thus began an era where prose stories were enjoyable again.
|title="Gone Too Far"
|publisher=[[Transformers Collectors' Club]] (online exclusive)
|date=[[March 13]], 2008
|written by=[[Greg Sepelak]] and [[Trent Troop]]
|illustrations by=[[Evan Gauntt]]
|pagecount=28pp
|continuity=[[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]]
}}
'''Two Autobots try to make their way in Axiom Nexus and get more than they bargained for.'''

==Synopsis==
In [[Axiom Nexus]], [[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] goes through interrogation by a rather crotchety member of the [[Department of Acclimation]]. He and [[Hubcap (G1)|Hubcap]] have wound up in the multiversal city after some sort of [[space bridge]] accident. Designated Jackpot III, [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Primax Cluster]], he is reunited with Hubcap and introduced to their guide, [[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]], whose job is to introduce them to their new world. Over glasses of oil at a plaza-side pub, Scattorshot explains the way Axiom Nexus works to his offworlder guests, explaining such bureaucratic funfests as the [[Order of Bureaucratic Enlightenment]] and the [[Freelance Police Legion]], not to mention the vagaries of cross-dimensional travel. Jackpot regards the whole thing as just another travel stop, but Hubcap is uneasy about both the bureaucracy and the limitations placed on offworlders.

After Scattershot leaves them, the pair find their way to the somewhat seedy tavern [[The Blue Deployer]]. Jackpot makes the acquaintance of the owner, [[Cryotek (TransTech)|Cryotek]], while Hubcap attempts to win them some credits via gambling. Hubcap does well; playing cards against [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]], he is preparing to win a high-stakes round when a bizarre twist of Jackpot's luck-altering aura causes him to lose all his earnings, ''and'' the loan money they'd finagled in the first place.

As the two [[Autobot]]s debate their next move, Gutcruncher invites them in to talk business, offering them unspecified but well-paid work if they show up at a meeting the next day. Cryotek, noting that the Autobots' monetary options are severely limited, advises them to take him up on it, despite their misgivings.

The two arrive at a massive arena filling up with all manner of unsavory mechs; finally, Gutcruncher takes the stage to speak. He rouses the rabble with a speech declaring that they, the "low-techs", should have the true power in Axiom Nexus, power withheld from them by the [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s. He proposes a multi-faction alliance, an end to the fighting amongst themselves, to overthrow their oppressors, escape their gilded cage, and ''take over the city!'' ''Can! You! Dig it!?!''

Hubcap and Jackpot realize they're looking at the start of an uprising, but before they can do anything, a sniper shot from right behind them kills Gutcruncher in full view of the crowd. A nearby voice accuses the Autobots of the murder; they flee in the face of an angry mob set on vengeance. The Autobots narrowly escape a run-in with the [[Malignus (G1)|Malignus Revolutionary Army]], and Hubcap overhears on police radio that they are reported to be armed and dangerous.

Unable to find help from the other-universe versions of themselves that have passed through Axiom Nexus, the pair turn to Cryotek, who politely refuses to shelter the two fugitives but advises them to try the [[Widow's Cafe Cybertronian]] instead. Running out of ideas and options, Jackpot proposes trying to find the actual killer. Before they can consider the option very much, they literally run into a law-enforcement bot, who pursues them. As they flee, a thrilled Jackpot exults that they can't possibly catch them...

Later, they are well and truly caught, held at a police station by [[Cheetor (TransTech)|Commander Cheetor]], who cuts through their wheedling and informs them that of ''course'' they didn't murder Gutcruncher—it doesn't fit their profiles or abilities at all—but no mob is going to realize that. Cheetor says he's putting them under protective custody. Alarmed by the prospect of being stuck in one easy-to-locate place, Hubcap and Jackpot make a break for it. Cheetor isn't too concerned; he sends a seemingly invisible agent after them.

The escaped Autobots head for the Widow's Cafe Cybertronian, but have another run-in with the Malignus Revolutionaries before they can quite get there. Another stroke of Jackpot's luck gets rid of their six pursuers for a while, while simultaneously revealing the concealed police-bot who has been tailing them. [[Detectas]] introduces himself; Cheetor sent him to tail the Autobots in hope that they would lead him to the murderer. Despite his friendly demeanor, the two Autobots are keen to move on, particularly with the Malignus bots recovered from the previous incident and closing in again. After tricking the Malignus into falling down an elevator shaft near the entrance to the [[Heap]], the two Autobots take shelter in an abandoned building to rest and recover.

Soon they are confronted by [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Black Shadow]], whom Hubcap recognizes as one of Cryotek's employees. Black Shadow explains that he knows they couldn't have killed Gutcruncher—because ''he'' did the deed. He gloats that he can now kill the two Autobots and toss their corpses to the gangs to satisfy their need for vengeance, collect bounties for them ''and'' Gutcruncher, and leave the cops a dead end to boot. The Autobots flee, but Black Shadow splits into his robot form and [[Crossformer]] shell, and pursues them both.

While Jackpot battles the shell, Hubcap evades Black Shadow's robot component, and tricks a passing Decepticon into giving him a ride to [[Level 29]]. After a merry chase through [[Zone 6]], Black Shadow catches him in front of a band of Malignus bots, led by [[Dirge (Timelines)|Dirge]], one of Gutcruncher's cohorts. When Black Shadow announces he's brought in the assassin, Hubcap confirms it—by playing back a recording of Black Shadow's own admission of the deed, pulled from audio backups of his own memory banks. Black Shadow points out that audio can be faked; Hubcap counters that he also has video showing Black Shadow killing Gutcruncher with a maser cannon. Black Shadow smirks and announces that he only uses photon blasters... which, Dirge quickly reveals, is the weapon that killed Gutcruncher. The mob sets on Black Shadow, and brutal justice is served.

As Black Shadow dies, his shell overloads, erupting in smoke and flame, just before it can deliver a killing stroke to Jackpot—lucky for him! He turns around and runs right into [[Airazor (BW)|Officer Airazor]]...

At his office, Cheetor sorts through the whole affair while Jackpot and Hubcap wait. The Malignus are in jail, an uprising has been averted, and many illegal weapons have been recovered from Gutcruncher's cache. The only remaining mystery is, who paid for the original hit on Gutcruncher?

Cheetor pays a visit to Cryotek, who profusely professes his innocence. But after the police leave, Cryotek remarks to a barhand that Gutcruncher's revolution would have simply called down the full wrath of the TransTech on the Offworlder sections of the city, and that... would be bad for business.

Classified as "undesirables", Hubcap and Jackpot are shipped off-dimension post-haste. Jackpot is pleased that they'll be back on familiar territory... till he sees the smile on Cheetor's face as the transwarp field carries them away.

The pair land with a thud on an alien world, smashing a rampaging Decepticon named [[Killzone]] just before he could execute a random alien. The alien is quite grateful, if a bit confused by the turn of events. Turns out that Killzone has been ravaging the continent for days, drawn to the planet by some explosive glowing rocks that have been rising to the surface lately. The locals hate these rocks; first they caused mine and farming troubles, and now they're attracting violent space robot monsters. The two Autobots send a radio transmission, hoping to be picked up by Autobots. And while they wait for an answer, Hubcap and Jackpot offer to clean up [[energon (fuel)|all those pesky rocks]], all for free!

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters|c1=
*[[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] (2)
*[[Hubcap (G1)|Hubcap]] (3)
*[[Scattorshot (Cybertron)|Scattorshot]] (4)
*[[Stungun (TransTech)|Stungun]] (11)
*[[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (12)
*[[Cheetor (TransTech)|Cheetor]] (13)
*[[Detectas]] (14)
|c2=
*[[Cryotek (TransTech)|Cryotek]] (5)
*[[Black Shadow (Victory)|Black Shadow]] (6)
*[[Backslash]] (7)
*[[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]] (8)
*[[Dirge (Timelines)|Dirge]] (9)
*[[Jipe (Malignus)|Jipe]] (10)
*[[Menasor (Cybertron)|Menasor]] (15)
*[[Killzone]] (16)
|c4=
*[[Nitpick]] (1)
*[[Yurgeth]] (17)
}}

==Quotes==
'''Hubcap:''' "So, when do we get to go home?"<br>
'''Scattorshot:''' "Oh, that. Whenever. You just gotta apply for exit visas, an' the 'Techs will deliver you to your universe of origin... or at least an approved alternate reality. Provided, a' course, that you ain't been designated 'units of interest'."<br>
'''Jackpot:''' "And I'll take 'Ominous Terminology' for 500 [[shanix]], 'Shot."

"''Expression of menace and unveiled hostility. ...Ironic yet mean-spirited quip.''"<br>
:—'''Black Shadow's Crossformer shell AI'''. It knows the words, my dear, but it will never master the tune.

"You are in Zoruul, capital city of Zegris. Please, are you to bring more terror as he did? If so, kindly strike us down in a more painless and efficient fashion, for we are running out of places to pile the rubble and the screams are disturbing the rest of the untouched."
:—'''Yurgeth''' is a practical-minded alien.

==Notes==
* Axiom Nexus is home to a whole host of teams, gangs, and subfactions. The United Anarchists League rule the [[Heap]], to the extent that anarchists will deign to rule anything. Gutcruncher notes in his speech that the crowd includes representatives of the [[Destructicon|Destructicons]], Free Technorgs League, Scourges, Destron Boys, WildGuard, the Neo-Mutant Liberators, Beast-Riders, Mayhem Attackers, the Malignus Revolutionaries and the Junkion Rippers. He also mentions the Lightning Strikers, Imperius Legions, and [[Dinobot]]s.

===Cameos===
* The cameos fly fast and furious in this story, some more obvious than others. Axiom Nexus's offworld population includes two other versions of Jackpot, Gutcruncher's doorman [[Calcar]], Cryotek's thug [[Buzzbomb]], and a [[Hubcap (MW)|Hubcap]] who our Hubcap finds rather unsettling. Several characters aren't explicitly named, including Cryotek's [[Roulette (Universe)|croupier]], Gutcruncher's [[Demolishor (Armada)|many-gunned thug]], and the mob of [[Camaro|Malignus]] [[Pick-Up (Malignus)|Revolutionaries]].
* At one point, a "large synthetic-flesh canine" walks past, which could be a [[Pretender Beast]] or any number of Beast Warriors such as [[K-9]], [[Wolfang (Maximal)|Wolfang]] or the other [[Wolfang (Predacon)|Wolfang]].
* In addition to those bots who actually appear in the story, Gutcruncher makes reference to [[Bruticus (RID)|Bruticus]], [[Swerve (Cybertron)|Swerve]], and [[Mindset (G2)|Mindset]].
* The illustrations reveal even more offworlders, including [[Delta Seeker]], [[Beastbox (G1)|Beastbox]], [[Squawktalk]], [[Signal Lancer]], [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]], [[Apeface]], [[Manta Ray (G2)|Manta Ray]], [[Tigertrack]], [[Deep Cover]], and [[Crowmax]].

===Transformer references===
* Hubcap's [[identification bolt|ID card]] reads "[[Tech Spec|Strength=3]]".
* Jackpot describes himself as an [[Action Master]]; various TransTechs construe this to mean that he is a [[Nucleon]] addict. Several asides in the story explain some of how the Nucleon serves as a self-regenerating fuel source and a means of sudden power bursts.
* Jackpot and Hubcap are surprised to find that [[energon (fuel)|energon]] is not a currency in Axiom Nexus, but appreciate a currency format that isn't likely to explode, as energon is so often shown to do in the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoons]] and [[Marvel Comics|comics]].
* Jackpot: "Shall we make like a [[Scraplet]] and bolt?"
* Jackpot regrets the absence of [[Sights]], his [[Targetmaster]] partner.
* Jackpot notes the irony of them being unable to afford a disguise, which would have been in the form of a [[reformatting]].
* Cheetor mentions "three ''very'' strange mechs" who've just arrived—a reference to [[Breakaway (Classics)|Breakaway]], [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]] and [[Skyfall (Cybertron)|Skyfall]]'s transit at the end of "[[Crossing Over]]".
* While verbally harassing Jackpot about his "Nucleon habit", Stungun first quotes the Action Master tagline of "Stronger, faster, more alive", then parodies a line from the [[Transformers (2007)|2007 live-action film]]: "What else you into? [[Syk]]? Chips? [[Solitarium]]? Hit a little of the Old Fortran at nights?" Jackpot plays along: "[[Sam Witwicky|Are you on plugs]]?"
* Cheetor: "And anyhow, did you [[Furmanism|want to live forever or something]]?" (Jackpot and Hubcap: "''Yes.''")
* Hubcap tells the blue Decepticon hoverskiff (presumably [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]) that he's been rigged with an [[Exponential Generator]].

===Real-world references===
* Jackpot, as quoted above, parodies the contestant format of the game show ''[[Wikipedia:Jeopardy!|Jeopardy!]]''.
* If you don't recognize [[Widow's Cafe Cybertronian]], then it's been too long since you watched ''[[Wikipedia:Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]''— it's a stand-in for Rick's Cafe Americain, the club run by Humphrey Bogart's character. This, of course makes [[The Blue Deployer]] an analogue of Sydney Greenstreet's competing club, The Blue Parrot. This is [[Theft of the Golden Disk|not the first time]] that a Cryotek has been based on Greenstreet.
* "They can't catch us! We're the ''wind'', baby!" Jackpot enthuses during a high-speed chase, paraphrasing ''Mystery Science Theater 3000''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Tom Servo.
* "This is another fine mess you let me get us into," says Jackpot, a play on a famous ''Laurel & Hardy'' line.
* "Didn't we just leave this party?!" Jackpot says, quoting [[Han Solo]].
* Boy, this thing borrows pretty heavily from ''[[Wikipedia:The Warriors (film)|The Warriors]]'', doesn't it?
* "Olde Fortran" is an alcoholic beverage made for robots in ''[[Wikipedia:Futurama|Futurama]]'', which was in turn a reference to the computer programming language [[Wikipedia:Fortran|FORTRAN]].
* It is unlikely that the Freelance Police Legion could exist without a [[Wikipedia:Sam&Max|dog and rabbity thing]] for very long.

==External links==
* [http://www.transformersclub.com/members/fiction.cfm Transformers Collectors' Club exclusive fiction] (must be a logged-in member to access)

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