San Francisco

2011-11-18T07:54:24Z

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[[Image:G1 cartoon San Francisco.JPG|right|300px|thumb|Yellow cars this way... green cars that way...]]
'''San Francisco, [[California]]''', seems to be a multiversal sufferer of Transformers-related abuse. It has been targeted for nukes at least twice—once it was hit successfully, and another time it was "only" contaminated by nuclear fallout.

And yet the rent is so high. We don't understand. Makes you long for the days when it was only being savaged by [[Asteroid bird alien|weird robot bird-dragons that hatched out of asteroids]] or [[Devastator (G1)|angry gestalts]].

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
When an [[asteroid bird alien]] was accidentally hatched in a battle between the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] and [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]], it got hungry and flew down to San Francisco to feed. It gnawed on the tip of the [[Wikipedia:Transamerica Pyramid|Transamerica Pyramid]] and caused general mayhem in the city before it [http://www.attorneysbayarea.com/personal-injury-lawyers/ Bay Area personal injury lawyers] was lured back into space by Omega Supreme. {{storylink|The Secret of Omega Supreme}}

====''The Headmasters'' cartoon====
[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] planted a giant alien carnivorous plant in San Francisco. The [[San Francisco Police|local authorities]] and an [[Autobot]] rescue force proved incapable of stopping its rampage until [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] arrived and sliced it up. {{storylink|Head On!! Fortress Maximus}}

Later, after she was injured in a plane crash in the [[Andes Mountains]], [[Carly|Carly Witwicky]] was transported aboard the ''[[Queen World]]'' to a San Francisco dock. {{Storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}

===Marvel Generation 1 comics continuity===
====Marvel Generation 1 comics====
[[Image:Franciscog2.jpg|left|150px|thumb|The tourist trade never recovered.]]
[[Cliff Dietz|Clifford Dietz]], a friend of [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]], lived in San Francisco. {{storylink|The Man in the Machine!}}

====Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic====
[[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] of the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian Empire]] fired upon San Francisco with an energy weapon of some sort, vaporizing the city to a radius of several miles—simply as an "up yours" gesture to [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Dark Shadows!}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' comics===
[[Image:DW devastator.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Great, there go my insurance rates again.]]

As part of his plan to eradicate Earth and to emphasise to [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] that humans weren't worth fighting for, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] launched a massed assault on San Francisco. (Why ''do'' comic-book [[Decepticon leader|Decepticon leaders]] target this specific city when they want to get at Prime? Maybe the [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] spends his summers there.) [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] tore through the city before the Autobots arrived to stop Megatron, but the damage was still extensive. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4}}

Then [[Robert Hallo|General Hallo]] decided to fire a nuclear missile at the city to wipe out all the Transformers, forcing [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] to sacrifice his life to save everyone else. While the actual missile strike was stopped, the shock wave from the blast still hit the city. Ouch. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6}}

====Keepers Trilogy====
As it turns out, San Francisco was contaminated with radiation from the fallout. {{storylink|Hardwired}}

===''Hearts of Steel''===
[[Stanford Merriweather]] and his daughter [[Kitty Merriweather|Kitty]] lived in San Francisco in the late 19th century. Their house was destroyed in a battle between [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] and [[Mark Twain]]. Thankfully, that seems to be the only damage the city suffered. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 3|''Hearts of Steel'' #3}}

===IDW Generation 1 comics''===
The Decepticons attacked San Francisco. We didn't see it and nobody seemed bothered, probably figuring "well of course they have". {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 3|''All Hail Megatron'' #3}}

===Live-action movie continuity===
====IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics====
The Decepticons [[Dead End (Movie)|Dead End]] and [[Swindle (Movie)|Swindle]] landed in San Francisco, where Swindle blew some crap up to distract the Autobots—geez, now the city isn't even a ''main'' target. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3|''Alliance'' #3}}

===Shattered Glass===
San Francisco, and all of California for that matter, are all but gone in the [[Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shatteredverse]]. What exactly happened, we don't know, though [[Professor Arkeville]] said that the 80's were particularly brutal, and the worst damage done to the whole west coast was implied to have happened in 1988. Whether San Francisco was even around at the time is unknown, but based on past experiences, it ain't looking good regardless. {{storylink|Eye in the Sky}}

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==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:San Francisco|San Francisco's non-exploding history at Wikipedia]]

[[Category:Cities in the United States]]
[[Category:Generation 1 cities]]
[[Category:Generation 2 locations]]
[[Category:Movie locations]]
[[Category:Shattered Glass]]

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