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Flywheels

2012-08-28T20:14:19Z

84.92.131.94: /* IDW Generation 1 comics */

{{factions|decepticon}}
:''Flywheels is a [[Decepticon]] [[Duocon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Flywheelsboxart.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Howitzer'd!]]
'''Flywheels''' tries to keep it together and stay upbeat, he really does, but it's hard when your mind (and often your body) is literally divided in two. A split personality would be trouble enough, but to add injury to illness, Flywheels's two halves are very jealous of each other and basically hate each other's guts. They spend more time fighting one another than the Autobots. It doesn't matter whether they're unified in robot form or not, Flywheels's two halves go right on arguing, which can be disconcerting to others around him, to say the least.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel Comics UK continuity====
Flywheels first appeared in a brief battle against [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and the [[Sparkabot|Sparkabots]]. He was knocked out of the air by Ultra Magnus and was captured by the [[Autobot]]s. As a prisoner, he was soon forced to fight with his captors against a horde of zombie Transformers in [[Kalis]] let loose by [[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]]. Flywheels disobeyed Ultra Magnus's order not to open fire on the zombots. {{storylink|City of Fear!}} While engaged in the fighting with the zombots, Ultra Magnus allowed Flywheels to go and get reinforcements, though he had little expectation of the Duocon's return. Surprisingly, Flywheels did come back with [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] to give the remaining zombots a good stomping. {{storylink|Meltdown!}}

[[Image:Galvatron flywheels.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Before...]][[Image:Time wars casualties.png|right|250px|thumb|...and after!]]
He later joined the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] and took part in their joint attack with the [[Wrecker|Wreckers]] on [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. He was one of only three Mayhems to escape alive from the gruesome twosome's base, but was killed by Galvatron after the retreat to the Decepticons' [[Decepticon heavy transport|heavy transport]]. {{storylink|Time Wars}}

{{note|Although Flywheels' death is not shown, Galvatron grabs him by the right arm during his and Megatron's assault on the Mayhems' ship, and his corpse (with the right arm torn off at the shoulder) can be seen on the ground just before Rodimus Prime and the other Autobots intervene to save the remaining Wreckers and Mayhems. It's pretty clear what happened off-panel.}}

====''Regeneration One''====
{{noterg1}}
Flywheels took part in [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s attack on the [[Baird Beaming Transmitter]] in [[Kalis]], where he berated [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] for making too much noise. {{storylink|Counterpoint}}

===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
{{Note|Flywheels doesn't exactly appear in any episode. However, because footage from his commercial was used in the [[title sequence]] for "[[The Rebirth]]" episodes, he is in the cartoon, somewhat.}}

===''The Headmasters'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Yūki Satō]] (Japanese)

[[Image:DuelAsteroid Flywheels.JPG|right|200px|thumb|What is this ominous light that threatens to engulf us?]]
Flywheels, alongside [[Battletrap]], worked under [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], who first sent them into battle when the Autobots and Decepticons were fighting over a [[Floppy disk|disk]] containing data on the [[Master Sword]]. The Duocons' double amount of vehicle modes was enough to overwhelm the Autobot [[Targetmaster]]s, and the Decepticons quickly grabbed the disk and retreated. {{storylink|The Master Sword Is in Danger!!}} Flywheels soon appeared again to defend Scorponok as he used the disk's data to manufacture the [[Zarak Shield]]. {{storylink|The Zarak Shield Turns the Tide}}

The Duocons' next mission was to hide a time bomb on the asteroid [[Juno]], so that Scorponok could blow up [[Sixshot]] and [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] when the two arrived for their duel. {{storylink|Duel on the Asteroid}} Flywheels later participated in the climactic battle against the Autobots at the [[Arctic|North Pole]] and retreated into space when Scorponok put his plan to destroy the [[Earth]] into motion. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}
{{-}}

===''Transformers in 3-D''===
Flywheels and the Decepticon [[Clone (subgroup)|Clones]] volunteered for [[Sixshot]]'s mission to make [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]'s weekend more interesting. Whether they succeeded was never recorded. {{storylink|The Test (issue)|The Test}}
{{-}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One''' comics===
[[Image:Duocons from MtMtE -8.jpg|left|200px|thumb|"It is only logical that there will be no side-effects from this whatsoever."]]
[[Battletrap]] and Flywheels were created by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] as early prototypes for his [[Triple Changer]] fascination. Instead of achieving three alternating modes, however, they gained the ability to separate into two different alternate modes at once. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye#Issue #8|More Than Meets The Eye #8}}
{{-}}

===IDW Generation 1 comics===
A "twitchy [[neoprimalist]] with big feet" who suffers from a possibly made-up form of psychosomatic hyperflexia that causes him to change form when he lies, Flywheels was part of [[Krok (G1)|Krok]]'s ragtag Decepticon crew along with [[Misfire]], [[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]] and [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] after the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] ended. Searching for [[energon]] and supplies on the planet [[Clemency]], Flywheels mistook the still-living body of [[Fulcrum]] firstly for a miracle and then for a [[zombie]] and an affront to [[Primus]]. Once that misunderstanding had been sorted out the group then chanced upon a P-6 [[Worldsweeper]], a type of [[Starships|ship]] that Flywheels noted was famous only for "crashing". What they found on board the ship, such as aborted [[protoform]]s, disconnected [[brain module]]s and a robot apparently made out of wood was disturbing enough, but then they were contacted by the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] through Flywheels's [[communicube]] and given an ultimatum to surrender one of their number so that the other six could watch him die. As there were only six of them the group reasoned that the D.J.D. must have miscounted, until Krok discovered that the ship also contained [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] in a [[stasis pod]]. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement}}

{{spoiler|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|September 5 2012}}
[[Image:Flywheels tesarus whos afraid of the djd.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Innuendo? What innuendo?]]
After agreeing on the seemingly-suicidal plan to fight their way out, the Scavengers spiked Grimlock's stasis pod with [[circuit speeder]]s and left him out for the D.J.D. to find. While [[Tarn (DJD)|Tarn]] battled the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]] leader, the rest of the Decepticons tried to slip away but were ambushed in turn by the rest of the D.J.D. and Flywheels was killed by [[Tesarus (DJD)|Tesarus]]. His surviving comrades looted his corpse for spare parts and [[energon]] and left the body on [[Clemency]], where, 18 months later, his remains were examined by the [[Necrobot]]. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}}
{{-}}

==Games==
===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{Note|Flywheels is a non-playable character. He appears among the legion of Decepticon duplicates in the Autobot campaign.}}
{{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1Flywheels toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"Hey, you know what they say about guys with big feet, right?"]]
*'''Flywheels''' (Duocon, 1987)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-97'''
**''Accessories:'' Gun
:Flywheels's robot mode is made from the combination of a maroon F-4 Phantom II fighter jet and a brown self-propelled howitzer of vague origin that make up his [[alternate mode]]. His only articulation is the up and down movement of his arms at the shoulder, and his only accessory is a maroon rifle. The rifle can also be mounted on the tank or jet, although the latter looks ridiculous.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1987/Decepticon/Flywheels/flywheels.htm More information on Flywheels at TFU.info]''
{{--}}

==Notes==
* The lack of ''wheels'' on Flywheels' alternate mode(s) has led to speculation that he and [[Battletrap]] may have swapped names during production. Their names are even swapped in ''The Headmasters'' episode "[[The Master Sword Is in Danger!!]]".

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Flywheel''' (フライホイール ''Furaihoīru'')

[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Mayhem Attack Squad]]
[[Category:Multi-component Transformers]]
[[Category:The Headmasters Decepticons]]

Flywheels

2012-08-28T20:12:52Z

84.92.131.94: /* IDW Generation 1 comics */

{{factions|decepticon}}
:''Flywheels is a [[Decepticon]] [[Duocon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Flywheelsboxart.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Howitzer'd!]]
'''Flywheels''' tries to keep it together and stay upbeat, he really does, but it's hard when your mind (and often your body) is literally divided in two. A split personality would be trouble enough, but to add injury to illness, Flywheels's two halves are very jealous of each other and basically hate each other's guts. They spend more time fighting one another than the Autobots. It doesn't matter whether they're unified in robot form or not, Flywheels's two halves go right on arguing, which can be disconcerting to others around him, to say the least.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel Comics UK continuity====
Flywheels first appeared in a brief battle against [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and the [[Sparkabot|Sparkabots]]. He was knocked out of the air by Ultra Magnus and was captured by the [[Autobot]]s. As a prisoner, he was soon forced to fight with his captors against a horde of zombie Transformers in [[Kalis]] let loose by [[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]]. Flywheels disobeyed Ultra Magnus's order not to open fire on the zombots. {{storylink|City of Fear!}} While engaged in the fighting with the zombots, Ultra Magnus allowed Flywheels to go and get reinforcements, though he had little expectation of the Duocon's return. Surprisingly, Flywheels did come back with [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] to give the remaining zombots a good stomping. {{storylink|Meltdown!}}

[[Image:Galvatron flywheels.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Before...]][[Image:Time wars casualties.png|right|250px|thumb|...and after!]]
He later joined the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] and took part in their joint attack with the [[Wrecker|Wreckers]] on [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. He was one of only three Mayhems to escape alive from the gruesome twosome's base, but was killed by Galvatron after the retreat to the Decepticons' [[Decepticon heavy transport|heavy transport]]. {{storylink|Time Wars}}

{{note|Although Flywheels' death is not shown, Galvatron grabs him by the right arm during his and Megatron's assault on the Mayhems' ship, and his corpse (with the right arm torn off at the shoulder) can be seen on the ground just before Rodimus Prime and the other Autobots intervene to save the remaining Wreckers and Mayhems. It's pretty clear what happened off-panel.}}

====''Regeneration One''====
{{noterg1}}
Flywheels took part in [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s attack on the [[Baird Beaming Transmitter]] in [[Kalis]], where he berated [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] for making too much noise. {{storylink|Counterpoint}}

===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
{{Note|Flywheels doesn't exactly appear in any episode. However, because footage from his commercial was used in the [[title sequence]] for "[[The Rebirth]]" episodes, he is in the cartoon, somewhat.}}

===''The Headmasters'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Yūki Satō]] (Japanese)

[[Image:DuelAsteroid Flywheels.JPG|right|200px|thumb|What is this ominous light that threatens to engulf us?]]
Flywheels, alongside [[Battletrap]], worked under [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], who first sent them into battle when the Autobots and Decepticons were fighting over a [[Floppy disk|disk]] containing data on the [[Master Sword]]. The Duocons' double amount of vehicle modes was enough to overwhelm the Autobot [[Targetmaster]]s, and the Decepticons quickly grabbed the disk and retreated. {{storylink|The Master Sword Is in Danger!!}} Flywheels soon appeared again to defend Scorponok as he used the disk's data to manufacture the [[Zarak Shield]]. {{storylink|The Zarak Shield Turns the Tide}}

The Duocons' next mission was to hide a time bomb on the asteroid [[Juno]], so that Scorponok could blow up [[Sixshot]] and [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] when the two arrived for their duel. {{storylink|Duel on the Asteroid}} Flywheels later participated in the climactic battle against the Autobots at the [[Arctic|North Pole]] and retreated into space when Scorponok put his plan to destroy the [[Earth]] into motion. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)}}
{{-}}

===''Transformers in 3-D''===
Flywheels and the Decepticon [[Clone (subgroup)|Clones]] volunteered for [[Sixshot]]'s mission to make [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]'s weekend more interesting. Whether they succeeded was never recorded. {{storylink|The Test (issue)|The Test}}
{{-}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One''' comics===
[[Image:Duocons from MtMtE -8.jpg|left|200px|thumb|"It is only logical that there will be no side-effects from this whatsoever."]]
[[Battletrap]] and Flywheels were created by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] as early prototypes for his [[Triple Changer]] fascination. Instead of achieving three alternating modes, however, they gained the ability to separate into two different alternate modes at once. {{storylink|Transformers: More than Meets the Eye#Issue #8|More Than Meets The Eye #8}}
{{-}}

===IDW Generation 1 comics===
A "twitchy [[neoprimalist]] with big feet" who suffers from a possibly made-up form of psychosomatic hyperflexia that causes him to change form when he lies, Flywheels was part of [[Krok (G1)|Krok]]'s ragtag Decepticon crew along with [[Misfire]], [[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]] and [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] after the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] ended. Searching for [[energon]] and supplies on the planet [[Clemency]], Flywheels mistook the still-living body of [[Fulcrum]] firstly for a miracle and then for a [[zombie]] and an affront to [[Primus]]. Once that misunderstanding had been sorted out the group then chanced upon a P-6 [[Worldsweeper]], a type of [[Starships|ship]] that Flywheels noted was famous only for "crashing". What they found on board the ship, such as aborted [[protoform]]s, disconnected [[brain module]]s and a robot apparently made out of wood was disturbing enough, but then they were contacted by the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] through Flywheels's [[communicube]] and given an ultimatum to surrender one of their number so that the other six could watch him die. As there were only six of them the group reasoned that the D.J.D. must have miscounted, until Krok discovered that the ship also contained [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] in a [[stasis pod]]. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement}}

{{spoiler|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|September 5 2012}}
[[Image:Flywheels tesarus whos afraid of the djd.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Innuendo, us?]]
After agreeing on the seemingly-suicidal plan to fight their way out, the Scavengers spiked Grimlock's stasis pod with [[circuit speeder]]s and left him out for the D.J.D. to find. While [[Tarn (DJD)|Tarn]] battled the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]] leader, the rest of the Decepticons tried to slip away but were ambushed in turn by the rest of the D.J.D. and Flywheels was killed by [[Tesarus (DJD)|Tesarus]]. His surviving comrades looted his corpse for spare parts and [[energon]] and left the body on [[Clemency]], where, 18 months later, his remains were examined by the [[Necrobot]]. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}}
{{-}}

==Games==
===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{Note|Flywheels is a non-playable character. He appears among the legion of Decepticon duplicates in the Autobot campaign.}}
{{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)}}

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1Flywheels toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"Hey, you know what they say about guys with big feet, right?"]]
*'''Flywheels''' (Duocon, 1987)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-97'''
**''Accessories:'' Gun
:Flywheels's robot mode is made from the combination of a maroon F-4 Phantom II fighter jet and a brown self-propelled howitzer of vague origin that make up his [[alternate mode]]. His only articulation is the up and down movement of his arms at the shoulder, and his only accessory is a maroon rifle. The rifle can also be mounted on the tank or jet, although the latter looks ridiculous.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1987/Decepticon/Flywheels/flywheels.htm More information on Flywheels at TFU.info]''
{{--}}

==Notes==
* The lack of ''wheels'' on Flywheels' alternate mode(s) has led to speculation that he and [[Battletrap]] may have swapped names during production. Their names are even swapped in ''The Headmasters'' episode "[[The Master Sword Is in Danger!!]]".

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Flywheel''' (フライホイール ''Furaihoīru'')

[[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]
[[Category:Mayhem Attack Squad]]
[[Category:Multi-component Transformers]]
[[Category:The Headmasters Decepticons]]

Transformers (Titan Magazine)

2011-02-18T23:48:06Z

84.92.131.94:

[[Image:Tf mag 01 2007.JPG|right|200px|thumb|''"GIVE ME YOUR £2.70."'']]

'''''Transformers''''' (rebranded '''''Transformers Universe''''' from issue #22-25, then '''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen''' with Vol.2 #1-7, then '''Transformers''' ''again'', likely to be rebranded ''again'' as, I dunno, '''Transformers: Go-Go-Go-Gobots''' or something) is an ongoing monthly magazine published in the United Kingdom by [[Titan Books|Titan Magazines]]. It ties in to the [[live-action film series]] and features a mix of original comic strips, reprinted strips by [[IDW Publishing]], and regular features and competitions. It is over 50 pages long each month.

Titan picked up the rights to a Transformers comic in 2005 after [[Panini]], publishers of [[Armada (Panini comic)|the short-lived UK ''Armada'' comic]], allowed it to lapse. Titan sat on it, reasoning "bugger [[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]], let's wait for the upcoming film and make £££££s!". Work began on it in October 2006, though all information on the film was top secret ''even for Titan'' until IDW's movie comics began.

According to Steve White, Transformers was seen as "the big one", the title that would get Titan Magazines the attention and kudos of the UK comic industry. [http://fractalmatter.com/main/?p=671] It seemed to succeed, selling enough to get ''original cover art'' after #6, quite a height in the UK licensed comic market. It's already the longest running UK Transformers comic since [[Marvel Comics|Marvel's]]!

Titan briefly ran a [[Transformers Animated (Titan)|Transformers Animated sister title]] from 23rd October 2008, but unfortunately it didn't make £££££s and died after issue 3.

The main comic was rebooted and rebranded in June 2009, ''just'' in time for the [[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|second film]]. This is not an unusual tactic for Titan, who have done this repeatedly with their ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' comic to give sales a little bump. Unfortunately, the reboot saw the comic use stock-photo covers again (sob!). The preview in #25 of the first volume lied that this was "an '''EXTREME''' makeover!!!".

The eighth issue, however, returned to comic art on the covers and then the format as a whole was made leaner from #9: the reprints were dropped and nothing replaced them, cutting the page count to 32, and from #10, the comic strip was reduced to eight pages. The cover stock, the cover's ''size'', and the price has proved to be fluid, going from larger-than-the-comic glossy card covers (£2.70/£2.75) to normal-sized paper covers (£2.50) and back again.

Titan has produced three digest-sized collections of the UK strips under the title '''''[[Transformers Adventures]]'''''. Simon Furman doesn't know whether or not Titan plans to print more. [http://simonfurman.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/sdcc-09-1/#comments] IDW reprinted the first eight issues' worth of strips in the United States in late 2008 as a four-issue miniseries, under the title ''[[Saga of the Allspark]]'', as a tie-in to Reign of Starscream [http://ryalltime.blogspot.com/2008/03/transfourmers.html]

{|style="margin:0 auto;padding:0 auto" align=center id=toc
!align=center bgcolor=#6699CC|'''Titan Transformers issues Volume 1:'''
|-align=center
|| [[Transformers Comic issue 1|#1]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2|#2]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 3|#3]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 4|#4]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 5|#5]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 6|#6]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 7|#7]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 8|#8]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 9|#9]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 10|#10]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 11|#11]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 12|#12]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 13|#13]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 14|#14]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 15|#15]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 16|#16]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 17|#17]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 18|#18]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 19|#19]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 20|#20]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 21|#21]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 22|#22]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 23|#23]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 24|#24]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 25|#25]] |
|}

{|style="margin:0 auto;padding:0 auto" align=center id=toc
!align=center bgcolor=#6699CC|'''Titan Transformers issues Volume 2:'''
|-align=center
|| [[Transformers Comic issue 2.1|#1]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.2|#2]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.3|#3]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.4|#4]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.5|#5]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.6|#6]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.7|#7]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.8|#8]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.9|#9]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.10|#10]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.11|#11]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.12|#12]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.13|#13]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.14|#14]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.15|#15]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.16|#16]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.17|#17]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.18|#18]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.19|#19]] | [[Transformers Comic issue 2.20|#20]]

|}

==Comic strip==
[[Image:Movie Devastator TitanIssue2.jpg|left|180px|thumb|I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE AND I BRING YOU...]]
Opening each issue is an original comic strip: 10 pages before #13 (Vol.1), 11 pages before #10 (Vol.2), and currently eight pages, with two 15 page special events. These are written by [[Simon Furman]] and illustrated by a mix of artists, many of whom have been seen on other Transformers comics — [[Geoff Senior]], [[Nick Roche]], [[Staz]] and [[Guido Guidi]].

===Transformers (2007)===

====Prequels and sequels====

{{quote|I suppose you'll just have to read the comic, which you could consider a historical document.|Starscream, #21's Star Screams}}

Issues #1–6 were set before the film and were based on specific characters, filling in details of the war and characters (like [[Brawl (Movie)|Devastator]]) who were not given much development in the film. The first two strips, starring [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], tied in to the [[Movie Prequel|IDW prequel comic]] in the same way [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|Marvel UK]]'s stories tied in to the Marvel U.S. series. At the end of #2, four of the characters had been scattered across the galaxy and #3–6 focused on their solo adventures on alien worlds. They also featured characters from the toyline, such as [[Clocker (Movie)|Clocker]], in secondary-character roles.

Issues #7–8 were set immediately after the [[Mission City]] battle in the film, dealing with leftover plot elements like [[Scorponok (Movie)|the whereabouts of Scorponok]]. Time and later film drafts have not been kind to these two strips: Scorponok stubbornly deciding to not be dead in ''Revenge of the Fallen'', and poor #7 had the Transformers' final battle being in Los Angeles.

====Alternate universe====
[[Image:TwilightsLastGleaming1.JPG|right|200px|thumb|Bloody foreigners, coming over here, taking our jobs...]]

For issues #9–13, the strip featured an alternate reality story, ''Twilight's Last Gleaming'', where the [[Decepticon]]s had captured the [[AllSpark]]. Rather than just being a 5-part divergence, this alternate reality rolled on into the second year of the title and lasted until #25, the end of the first series. This was intended to allow Titan to do pretty much whatever they wanted with the cast and universe without having to worry about the plot of the second film. [http://simonfurman.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/script-wrap-%e2%80%94-uk/]

The alternate reality boasted a sizeable cast, covering both characters from the film and ones who only had toy [[bio]]s like [[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-One]]. It opened with [[Sam Witwicky]] already dead, Optimus Prime missing in action (later found to be offline), Autobot reinforcements gathering on the moon, and the Decepticons [[cyberforming]] the Earth. The resolution had Megatron dead (with Starscream usurping command) and the AllSpark destroyed.

In this second year, the Autobots had to handle the ''aftermath'' of an Earth-shattering story, something that had not been done before. Storylines included the Decepticons deliberately preventing America from rebuilding, Jazz being reborn as an amoral villain, a second group of Decepticons under [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]], and [[Transformers Comic issue 18|then]] a [[Unicron|very big twist]]. The central plotline first involved Earth's slow, destructive demise from the aborted cyberforming of Twilight's Last Gleaming, before being replaced with the formation of a [[Decepticon Heartland]] and Starscream's manipulation of [[Theodore Allen|the American government]].

The alternate universe ended with a three-parter called ''Revolution'' that pitted the Autobots and Stockade's Decepticons against an all-out conquest attempt by Starscream. It tied up ''most'' of the loose ends. The last shot of the alternate universe was [[Mikaela Banes]] and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] driving off into the sunset, awwww!

====Artist "consistency"====
[[Image:Titan22 Arcee.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Hi, I'm Arcee!]]

Titan's first volume became infamous for inconsistency in the movie strip art. For reasons unknown, instead of using one or two artists it used ''hordes'' of them (plus a few inkers and colourists) in #1-25, none ever doing more than one issue in a row. Different artists had different styles and, not to put too fine a point on it, different ideas of how many of the Movie design's fiddly bits they want to draw.

Then there were other issues like:

* [[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-One]] started out looking just like her toy, but by her second strip her head was being altered to resemble [[Elita One|''Generation 1'' Elita One]] (either to differentiate her from Arcee or as deliberate homage). How ''much'' her head resembles Elita One differs depending on artist... and in #14 and #16, she has the toy's head again!

[[Image:Titan13 Arcee.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Hi, I'm Arcee!]]

* [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] constantly alternates between being drawn like her movie design or like her Scout-class toy (only not blue).

* Andrew Wildman drew Ratchet looking like the white, face-plated Cybertronian Ratchet in [[Movie Prequel issue 1|''Movie Prequel'' #1]], which was reprinted in Wildman's issue. Unfortunately, in the issue immediately before, Nick Roche had drawn Ratchet looking ''exactly like'' his movie self!

* Colouring is fluid for many characters and sometimes entirely wrong: [[Armorhide (Movie)|Armorhide]] has been green and [[Armorhide (Cybertron)|white-and-blue]], Starscream has been both grey and bronze (and once had a huge fanged mouth), Thundercracker has been blue and black...

* Poor [[Theodore Allen]] changes hair, age, and build in seemingly every appearance.

* The Decepticon Heartland base changes from a squat bunker with guns to a tall phallic tower, then into a ''different'' bunker, then into a bunker/tower combo thingy.

The ''Animated'' strips (which emulated a specific art style) and Vol.2 (which used a single artist, [[Jon Davis-Hunt]]) avoided this.

===Transformers Animated===

[[Image:Lugnut_robobutt.jpg|thumb|left|200px|(You ''need'' a caption for this?)]]

{{quote|...quite possibly the greatest animated TV series ever in the history of mechanoid lifeforms!|A very excited editor, [[Transformers Comic issue 10|#10's contents page]]}}

Issue 17 featured a 6 page Animated story written by Furman, written to promote the spin-off. Unsurprisingly, it featured [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]].

When [[Transformers Animated (Titan)|the spin-off]] buggered off into cancellation, Transformers began printing the leftover strips from #23 to #25. The first and third were done as "pull-out" comics. By the second, it had began to diverge from the Season 2 continuity... which will never be followed up. Doh!

{{-}}

===Revenge of the Fallen===
====Prequels====

{{bigquote|We've got the lowdown on this dude they call the F-|The twins, [[Transformers Comic issue 2.5|''Reversal of Fortune'']]}}

[[Image:Titan2-1_Mudflap.jpg|right|thumb|"[[Don Murphy]]'s stating an opinion! LEG IT!"]]

With the reboot, the comic returned to prequel strips, this time for the second film. Furman announced that the focus would be on [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] and [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and their interactions with the new movie cast. [http://simonfurman.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/it-begins-again/] This lasted for the first eight issues, with the first six following a specific formula: The twins' plotline had them run into a number of newly introduced characters, with a specific goodie and baddie being crucial to this part of the plot. Unlike the first run of prequels, there was no IDW prequel being reprinted and thus no attempt to tie into it.

A Decepticon army was being gathered on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] by Starscream, albeit a Starscream secretly backed by [[the Fallen]]. Skids and Mudflap, accidentally discovering the Decepticon plans, fled to Earth to warn the other Autobots. The menacing [[Ransack (ROTF)|Ransack]] was dispatched to silence them, but failed. The twins waited to warn Optimus and tried to adjust to life on Earth with [[NEST]] (and NEST tried to adjust to life with ''them''!), while the Decepticons under [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] began searching on Earth for ''[[Matrix of Leadership#Live-action film series|something]]'', simultaneously trying to ensure the twins never talked.

The Decepticons finally achieved this by framing the twins as traitors. At the same time, with the Fallen incapacitated, Soundwave and Starscream were doing their own thing more often, causing a clash with Ransack that they were determined to end ''permanently''. After the twins spent a few days as fugitives, Soundwave went to them and offered them a position in the Decepticons, their first mission being to bring Ransack in. The twins accepted...or so Skids wanted him to think, using that as a way to capture one of the Decepticons to show their credentials to the Autobots. That done, the twins took the fight to the enemy, bringing about the destruction of the Decepticons' Mars base and much of their [[purple generic drones|drones]].

Ransack fled to talk to the Fallen, with Soundwave desperately pursuing, while the twins were officially part of the Autobots' Earth team. After this, they decided not to bring up the Fallen again and [[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|just let what would happen, happen]].

====Sequels====

[[Image:Titan_rotf_deadend.jpg|left|thumb|275px|Even the characters wish Transformers comics were still weekly!]]

From #9, the comic began doing post-movie strips. ''New'' young, untrained Autobots became the POV characters, starting with [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]] and soon taking in new toys like [[Rollbar (ROTF)|Rollbar]]; they're undergoing training. [[Theodore Galloway]]'s hate for [[NEST]] was picked up, and new Decepticon toys reared their ugly heads. However, following the Fallen, the main battle is believed to be over and the Decepticons are a mop-up operation.

This assumption went ''horribly wrong'' when [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] broke free of NEST's jail and took a bunch of other prisoners with him as his own splinter faction.

Issue #10 saw the first of several scripts by [[Robin Etherington]], who'd previously written half of the ''Animated'' strips. Notably, Etherington used [[William Lennox]] and [[Robert Epps]] as characters, neither of whom had been touched by Furman (except for a brief cameo in #9). Etherington mostly left Furman's plot untouched, which has caused a bit of a problem for the strip's forward progression: only #16 tied into it.

Issue #18 kicked things forward with the introduction of a covert Autobot team (made of [[Hubcap (TF 2010)|new]] [[Slap Dash|toys]]) and Bludgeon declaring war. And then #19 put the breaks on again with a one-shot [[Christmas]] story starring [[Sam Witwicky]].

{{-}}

===Dark of the Moon===
Titan confirmed on their Transformers Facebook page that the comic would be rebranding itself for the [[Dark of the Moon (film)|third film]]. [http://www.facebook.com/TransformersComic]

==In fiction==
Titan Magazines were warned of reprisals if they continued to peddle Autobot propaganda {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 7|#7's Star Screams}}, but would not heed them... so, in 2008, Starscream seized control. Most of the staff were captured, starved, and forced at lash point to keeep working; the only relief were visits to conventions. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|#13's Star Screams}} Soon they would be locked in cages. Months of this soon left Den Patrick and Steve White broken, mentally and physically. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 19|#19's Star Screams}} However, secret [[Maximal]] agent Fur-Man remained on the loose. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 21|#21's Star Screams}}

After Starscream's nervous breakdown, before new occupier Barricade could consolidate his group, the Autobots launched a strike. While there's a power-sharing agreement over the letter page, the Autobots seem to run the rest of the comic and were responsible for hiring [[Jon Davis-Hunt]] for an extended run. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.1|#1's Law and Disorder}} However, Ironhide threatened Furman to alter the ending of his alternate universe stories... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.12|#12's Law and Disorder}}

==Regular features==
* '''Autobot vs Decepticon Smackdown''' — last seen in #5 (as "Human VS Decepticon Smackdown"), this pitted two characters against each other and gave a list of their strengths and weaknesses. The outcome of the fight was left up to the reader to decide. This feature saw a return in #20 as '''Beast Wars Battlefield''', pitting [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] against a real Tyrannosaurus.
* '''Top Gear''' — this section provided competitions to win Transformers merchandise, as well as [[To sell toys|telling readers about awesome new stuff it'd be cool to have]].
* '''Character Profiles''' — an in-depth description of an individual character's personality, history, abilities and weaknesses. Originally these were taken from ''[[Transformers: The Movie Guide]]'', but from #8 (Bonecrusher) the movie-based ones have been new creations. As of issue 14, the profiles have included ''[[Beast Wars (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' characters, adapted from ''[[Beast Wars Sourcebook]]''. When volume 2 started, it took the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Movie Universe|The Movie Universe]]'' profiles as its base but expanded on them (unsurprising as Furman wrote both!).
[[Image:Star Screams logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|You love it, you slags!]]
* '''Letters page''' — Letters and fan-art from readers, with a prize for the Star Letter. Originally called ''Mech Mail'', readers were invited to write in and say which Transformer they'd like to answer the mail (a [[Letters page (Marvel UK)|traditional]] gimmick) - [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] got the nod, and from #7 the column was called '''Star Screams'''. The tone was very over-the-top, with "Starscream" threatening death to readers who like the Autobots, slagging off the other characters, and so forth. Following the reboot, the strip was renamed '''Law and Disorder''', and [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] and [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] got the gig. Barricade picks up where Starscream picked off, while Ironhide is a nicer letters host; they argue and insult each other, similar to [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] and [[Hi-Test]] in [[:Image:185LETTERScomp.JPEG|''Dread Tidings'']].
* '''Artobots''' — a special section for readers' fan-art.
* '''[[Posters]]''' — a pull-out poster in the centre pages, sometimes double-sided. Generally it's a poster version of the front cover, though #7, #18 and #19 featured the art of what ''would'' have been a cover but were scrapped/altered at the last minute. Vol.2 has started to use covers from ''[[All Hail Megatron]]'' as posters.
* '''How To Draw...''' — This feature instructs small children how to draw the incredibly fiddly and complicated movie-verse Transformers. "If you found this one a bit difficult to draw... well, it's all part of Megatron's evil plans!" It's also shown how to draw sequential art and cover images. It's noted to not ''actually'' work as a how-to-draw and is generally unworkable.
* '''Colouring pages''', usually under the name '''The Purple and the Red'''.
* '''Puzzles'''. In Volume 2, these got a consistent name of '''More Than Meets The Eye'''.
[[Image:Sideswipe's Armoury logo.JPG|left|150px|thumb|]]
* '''Bumblebee's Way-Past-Cool Reviews''' - Video game reviews. Which aren't written in Bumblebee's "voice". And aren't way past cool. Or even cool.
* '''Why [x] Like Being A:''' - irregular feature explaining all the cool features of a Transformer's alternate mode.
* '''Arcee's Soulmates''' - Starting in #20 and ended in #25; a small personal's column in ''Star Screams'', with Transformers (all of which are specific characters but go unnamed) putting a lonely-hearts ad out. I am not joking about this.
* '''Starscream's Stars''' - Starting in Volume 2, Starscream writes a horrorscope! (Instead of Scorpio, there's Scorponok, ho ho ho.)
* '''Sideswipe's Armoury''' - Starting in Volume 2; a text feature explaining about military weapons.
* '''Bumblebee's Guide: The Solar System''' - Starting in Volume 2; "Bumblebee" gives minor facts about the solar system and its bodies, some of which are Transformers related.
* '''Megatron's Mind Maulers''' - Starting in Volume 2; pitiful humans, ''dare'' you attempt to answer the mighty Megatron's questions and puzzles?!

==Fantastic Free Gift!==
[[Image:freegiftscover.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Oh yeah, and Starscream's in here too.]]

It's a battle-scarred and ancient tactic, known well to British and Irish comic fans: a cheap item stuck to the cover, that is hopefully desirable enough to convince a child to buy the comic. It's been around for decades, but traditionally was placed on the early issues and then on the occasional later ones to cause a short-term sales boost. These days, due to the fragile state of the UK industry and demands by retailers, ''every damn issue'' has to have them - and they're often bulky, which leads to badly-shelved and bent comics in the newsagents - and Transformers is no exception.

Free gifts have included a target-shooting game, Autobot/Decepticon dog tags, a notebook and pen, stickers, a pinball game, sweatbands, and ''many'' [[FREE! Blaster!|toy guns]].

They are always large enough to take up a significant amount of space on the cover they are stuck to, necessitating some pretty ugly graphic layouts that cover the illustrations with text in order to leave a large blank space for the gift to be attached to so it won't obscure anything important. This can often make the covers look ''really freaking bad'' when you take the gift off; a quick perusal of the cover images on their relevant articles will make immediately apparent the frequent emptiness of the bottom left-hand corner in particular.

Issues #23-25 had a splashy ''two'' free gifts, both of the extras being ''Animated'' themed. You might think that this was Titan getting rid of gifts they'd had made for the cancelled ''Animated'' comic... and you'd be right, since the promised gift for #25 is the sacred Pencil Pod promised to us in Animated #4 but that never arrived! Vol.2's comics, from #4 to #7, would also use two free gifts, the second being nummy candy from Haribo. In #19, the ''Animated'' Pencil Pod turned up again!

According to editor [[Steve White]], coming up with free gifts is "a nightmare for our marketing department, who have no real experience on a more male-orientated older title and have to come up with ideas that don't just rely on some piece of cheap plastic... However, they're constrained as much by money — yes, we'd love to have a [[Minicon]] on the first issue, but we have to get real." [http://transfans.co.uk/interviews_white.php]

==Reprints==
[[Image:IDW Megatron Magmatron.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Transformers Mag is educational. It teaches small children that BW Megatron is ''badass''.]]

To fill out the pages while keeping costs down, the magazine reprinted comics published by [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]. The reprints in Vol.1 were cut into 5–8 pages segments (though one was once ''12'' pages out of necessity), deliberately shorter than the UK strip so it was clear which is the primary story.

The reprints in Volume 1 included:

* ''[[Movie Prequel|Transformers: Movie Prequel]]'': #1–13
* ''[[The Gathering|Beast Wars: The Gathering]]'': #1–13
* ''[[Megatron Origin]]'': #14–25
* ''[[The Ascending|Beast Wars: The Ascending]]'': #14–25

[[Image:Titan_AHM_cutandpaste.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Combiner!]]

The Diamond solicit for Volume 2 #1 said that it would reprint "the official movie prequel", though [[Alliance (comic)|which]] [[Defiance|one]] was not specified. [http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/pah25/f.jpg] Oddly, this was then ''not'' included, and instead we got:

* ''[[All Hail Megatron]]'': #1-8

The first issue promised ''All Hail'' would last until #12. Savvy readers wondered ''how'' this could work, as the reprints were cut into bits (except #1 and #8). Then, in #8, it was announced that ''All Hail'' was ending... and the issue reprinted random fragments from ''All Hail'' #6, #7, and #9 (the last having [[:Image:Titan_AHM_cutandpaste.jpg|one edited page made out of three normal pages]]), ending with telling us to buy IDW's trades to see the full story. Presumably, this wasn't the original plan at all.

From #4, Titan gave titles to the AHM reprints instead of "Part X".

After ''All Hail'' finished its run, Titan dropped reprints entirely.

{{-}}

==iPhone and PSP strips==

From February 2010, Titan started offering Transformers as a downloadable strip for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Sony PSP. It started off with a reprint of #1, Vol.1, which was absolutely free on iPhone! (On PSP, you have to pay for it)

You can only download the strips if you live in the UK or [[Ireland|Eire]]. Sorry, Americans!

==Audience==

{{quote|Younger readers? Pah, all they do is write in to fawn over that brightly coloured dishwasher, Bumblebee, or whine how Jazz dying in the 2007 film is 'unfair'.|Barricade, Vol.2 #1}}
[[Image:Ultra Magnus Koji and friends.jpg|left|150px|thumb|"Starscream called us worthless!! Yayyyy!"]]

The primary audience of ''Transformers'' is, of course, young children — as well as the features and editorial sections being written in juvenile tones (and the presence of free gifts), the letters page is full of kids sending in their praises, photos of their collections, suggestions for stories, and drawings of their own characters. Steve White has openly admitted it's a "junior" title, though they attempt not to talk down to the audience, citing this as a flaw in the short-lived Panini Armada title.

The youngest reader thus far is four and a half!

[[Image:Movie2007 Maggieandnerds.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"''That's'' not how that background character's feet looked in the last issue! ''To the wiki!''"]]

There is, however, a sizeable minority of older fans and this is openly recognized in both interviews and in the comic itself. This generally does not affect the content, with the exception of a few references to older fiction in features and the letters page (Starscream certainly enjoyed referring to G1!); one big exception was the competition in #7 for the ''Best of Simon Furman'' trade, with the question being: [[Death's Head (G1)|what robot bounty hunter Furman had made]]. Older fans have brought up continuity quibbles in Vol.2's letters page, which got a favourable response in #1 and a ruder one in #5. Of course, the biggest acknowledgement of older fans was the time [[Transformers_Comic_issue_2.7#Starscream.27s_stars|Starscream said only losers edit Transformers wiki pa]]- wait, hang on...

Letters and photos have also shown a sizeable number of female readers of varying ages, which Starscream openly approved of.

{{-}}

==Multi-continuity==
While the current focus of the comic are, obviously, the films, the title has been multi-continuity from the start; in #22 to #25, the logo was even altered to say "Transformers Universe".
[[Image:Tf mag 23 Animated Pullout.JPG|left|200px|thumb|''"CELTIC!"'' ''"RANGERS!"'']]

Substantial references are made to the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|''Generation 1'' franchise]]. #1 had a feature on the [[The Transformers: The Movie|animated movie and its DVD]], trades of IDW's comics are promoted and offered as competition prizes, and gets repeated nods in the letter's pages. A poster on [[The Many Faces of Optimus Prime]], running in both #17 and #1 of the Animated title, listed all the versions of Optimus Prime as well as [[Marvel Comics continuity|Marvel]], [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sunbow]], [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW]] and [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Dreamwave]] G1 continuity. A follow-up, The Many Faces of Megatron, was run in #2 of Animated and #19 of this title.

As of #14, it began reprinting the G1 prequel story ''[[Megatron Origin]]'', while informing the young'uns that G1 is a [[Ruined FOREVER|wildly different variation]] of the mythos they know and love; this was followed with ''All Hail Megatron'', "an awesome reimagining of Transformer history" apparently.

IDW's [[Beast Wars (comic)#IDW comics|''Beast Wars'' comics]] were the main reprint in Vol.1, being chosen by Steve White for marketing reasons as the ''[[Beast Machines (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' DVD boxsets were being released at the same time as the film [http://fractalmatter.com/main/?p=671]. The [[Beast Wars (cartoon)|''Beast Wars'' cartoon]] itself had been repeated in full on a loop on Channel five in recent years, making it familiar to the target audience. Young readers in the letter's page have written in mentioning it (and #7 had a fan-art of [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]), Beast Wars character profiles began in #14, and Starscream has alluded that Simon Furman as a [[Maximal]] in the form of "a strategically-shaved ape", especially his head! There have also been two competitions to win the UK ''Beast Machines'' DVD boxsets.

The new [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|''Transformers Animated'' cartoon]] received a series of minor features from #10-12 to hype up the show airing on UK satellite TV. #13 saw a 12-page "Pull Out Special" that contained information, plugged merchandise, and hyped the then-upcoming Animated comic; this was repeated with further hype and a six-page strip in #17. After the cancellation of the Animated comic, the three leftover strips and features ran in this comic.

==Sales==
Thanks to circulation figures printed in the comic's indicia and online sources, we know the comic's sales in the UK and Eire from 2007 to the end of 2008, as reported to the UK industry group [http://www.abc.org.uk ABC].

[[Image:Titan16_jazzlittleauction.JPG|right|240px|thumb|Titan's CEO appeases the shareholders.]]

The comic's average net circulation in 2007 was over 45,000 (reported from #10). This basically means it was selling more than the [http://tfarchive.com/comics/idw/sales.php average IDW issue] ever had.

[http://bearalley.blogspot.com/2008/08/comic-cuts-british-comics-circulations.html The January to June 2008 sales] showed Transformers' average sales [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsVALQtGIZM/SKcer_CIbqI/AAAAAAAAGUQ/vVbg7JzAS4A/s1600-h/Circulation+Charts+2008-01.jpg had dropped to 38,733].

The June to December 2008 average sales, by comparison, are reported by ABC to have [http://abcpdfcerts.abc.org.uk/pdf/certificates/15744762.pdf dropped to 24,617]. (''Arrrrg!'') Issue 14 was above the average, #18 and #19 below it. A global recession ''and'' being tied into last year's big film make for wobbly sales.

From #4 (Vol.2), for reasons unknown, Transformers is no longer registered with ABC [http://www.abc.org.uk/SearchResults.aspx?SearchInput=Transformers&WhereToSearch=Data] and the sales stopped appearing in the indicia. Sales in 2009 are thus unknown. The expectation was that sales bounced up again after the second movie, though at the moment there's no way to know. Worryingly, Diamond UK stopped carrying the title after #4 due to low orders [http://tmukhub.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=idwtf&action=display&thread=2712&page=6#60934]. Newsagents (where most of Titan's business lies), however, continued to stock the title.

From #9 (Vol.2), the reprints were scrapped, making the comic shorter; from #10 (Vol.2), the strip length was reduced to 8 pages.

Finally, with #18 the comic became ''bimonthly'', usually a sign of [[Void|bad things]]. This was a pretty worrying sign, but luckily in late December Titan stated that when the third film came out, the comic "will return to monthly, so you won't have to wait so long between issues." [http://www.facebook.com/TransformersComic]

The sales for #1 of the ''Saga of the Allspark'' reprint series sold 11,417 in the North American direct market [http://tfarchive.com/community/showpost.php?p=622675&postcount=432]; this had dropped to 8,939 by #4. [http://tfarchive.com/community/showpost.php?p=634907&postcount=467]

==External links==
* [http://www.titanmagazines.com/app?service=external/Product&sp=l919 Titan's webpage]
* [http://www.facebook.com/Transformers-Comic/ Transformers Comic Facebook page]
* [http://fractalmatter.com/main/?p=671 Steve White interview with Fractal Matter]
* [http://transfans.co.uk/interviews_white.php Steve White interview with TransFans.co.uk]
* [http://titanpublishing.com/digital/ Titan's digital strips]

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{{disambig2|the <s>bounty hunter</s> freelance peacekeeping agent from Generation 1|the starship from ''Animated''|Death's Head (Animated)}}
:''Death's Head is a [[bounty hunter| <s>bounty hunter</s>]] freelance peacekeeping agent from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]],yes?''

[[Image:Deathshead113heardofme.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Said I was handsome, right?]]

Hrn. '''Death's Head''' is the name. I'm a "Freelance Peacekeeping Agent". Some call me a "bounty hunter," but never twice, yes? Handsome, resourceful, deadly—all words used to describe me. Modest too, eh? In the past I've been accused of ending statements as questions.<ref>This happened in an interview with Death's Head and Simon Furman(!) in issue 13 of ''Strip Magazine''. (As in "Comic Strip Magazine" — sheesh, get your minds out of the gutter.)</ref> Never could understand why, right?

Learned a long time ago that if a mechanoid is to survive in this life, you've got to respect the economy. Money is everything. Still, it's also nice to enjoy one's job, yes? Use a wide range of weapons, most of which (unlike my plasma rifle) I can use in place of my right hand. Missiles, titanium shot blaster — but sometimes it's just more satisfying to use a good old-fashioned axe, hrn?

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics UK continuity===
[[Image:Deathshead113bartab.jpg|left|180px|thumb|One must always settle one's tab, eh?]]

First got involved with the Transformers on [[Elpasos]], around Earthdate 2007, yes? Mission 531, according to my log. Was just picking up some oil when I noticed a bounty on the head of some mechanoid named [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. [[Elpasos barkeep|Bartender]] filled me in on the details. An Autobot named [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]<ref>Death's Head never met Optimus Prime, so Rodimus Prime is '''his''' Prime.</ref> had put a 10,000-[[Shanix]] reward on the Decepticon's head. Lot of money, hrm? So I settled my account with the bar and went after the two Decepticons most likely to know Galvatron's whereabouts—his lieutenants, [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]].

Scourge quickly learned he shouldn't call me a bounty hunter, thanks to my plasma rifle.

Cyclonus decided he'd rather talk and told me where to find Galvatron. Wasn't long before I was using the Decepticon leader's time travel platform to transport myself to 1987, eh? Time jump-displaced [[First Aid (G1)|some Autobot]] to limbo during the [[Mass substitution|mass exchange]]. Also had to destroy his [[Bumblebee (G1)|companion.]] Didn't want any witnesses at that stage, right? {{storylink|Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!}}

Information is always the first key to a mission. Knew '''when''' Galvatron was, needed to find out where. Who better than the local Decepticons? Gambled they'd be keeping track of a... hrn... loose cannon. Ambushed [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and beat the information out of him—had to down his [[Laserbeak (G1)|pet bird]] in the process. Good times, yes?

Should have known it wouldn't last, right?

[[Image:Deathshead117laserbash.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Ahh, yes. Definitely good times, no?
]]

When I found Galvatron, he was in the throes of battle with Rodimus Prime. Hrn, hate it when a client decides he can do the job himself, eh? Usually means they don't intend to pay. Bad form, if you ask me. Allowed my annoyance with Prime to distract me—that let Galvatron blast me with his [[particle cannon]]. Sloppy. Had to retreat and make repairs. Cost me some precious time. {{storylink|Hunters}}

Still, some things never change—when I returned, Galvatron and Prime were at it again.<ref>Though Ultra Magnus and Death's Head were both big players in this ongoing arc, they never met. Instead, every time DH saw Galvatron, he was fighting Rodimus Prime. The closest Magnus and DH came to meeting was when the Freelance Peacekeeping Agent passed by Magnus's unconscious body during his initial retreat.</ref> Luckily Prime wasn't doing very well, so I finally had my chance against Galvatron, eh? Had better fights. Lost a very nice mace, then an arm to which I was particularly attached. Then [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] triggered a time jump, sending us all back to 2007, all except Galvatron. Turned out the Decepticon leader had prepared for such an eventuality and rigged his time jump trigger device so he couldn't be sent back forcibly.

[[Image:Deathshead120armless.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Ouch, yes?]]

Typical, yes? Would have simply extracted my lost fee from Rodimus Prime's hide then and there, if not for the garrison of Autobots waiting for us at the other end of the time jump. {{storylink|Fire on High!}}

Next time I dealt with the Transformers, I was working out of [[Scarvix]]. Some stinky little peon named [[Blot (G1)|Blot]] walked into my office with an offer. Name couldn't have suited him better, eh? Still, his offer was enticing—10,000 Shanix to kill Rodimus Prime. Jumped at the chance. Revenge doesn't pay the bills, but it's a satisfying fringe benefit, yes?

Decepticons gave me free passage to Cybertron and pointed me in the right direction. What I didn't know at the time was that Decepticon commander [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] was using me, right? I attacked Prime in one of his trenches and was moments from the killing blow, when the ground collapsed underneath us. Ended up in the sewers, yes? Hrn, worse than that, lost my trusty axe in the fall. Frustrating, right?

Still, titanium shott blaster would have done just as well, except moments before I could kill Prime, I was shot in the back by Scourge. Told you Shockwave was using me, eh? He tricked Cyclonus and Scourge into going after Prime too, hoping I'd eliminate them as well. And for free!

Shield took the brunt of the blow. Still, Prime got away in the process. Pursued him up a ladder, only to find he'd led me straight into Autobase, eh? Hate how he always does that. On the other hand, got to love his business acumen. Rather than throw me out, he sent me off with 10,000 Shanix in advance and a contract to kill Cyclonus and Scourge.<ref>This is the only time that Death's Head actually made any money in his dealings with the Transformers.</ref> {{storylink|Headhunt}}

[[Image:Deathshead150unicronsmind.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Not good times, right?]]

Caught up with Cyclonus and Scourge New Year's Day, Earth Year 2008. Hrn. The events that followed were not pleasant, right? So much killing, for absolutely no profit.

[[Junkion (planet)|Junk]] was under the thrall of a giant head calling itself [[Unicron]]. The Junkions were busy trying to build their planet into Unicron's new body. Worse still, Unicron put Cyclonus, Scourge and myself under his thrall. Stopped me completing my contract, huh? Yes, those were unpleasant times. Unicron used me to kill the Decepticon leader at the time, Shockwave, and put Cyclonus and Scourge in charge as the new leaders of the Decepticons. Distasteful work, killing without profit. Especially against a foe who deserved better, right?

[[Image:Deathshead151portaldash.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Last time I had to deal with any Transformers, hrn?]]

Unicron was playing all the angles—had Cyclonus and Scourge start a campaign against the Autobots that neither side could win, huh? Even had the Junkions build a giant time portal so he'd be able to fetch Galvatron from the past to tie up that loose end.

The mental power of Unicron was incredible, yes? Once I was back on Junk, I was forced to fight Wreck-Gar. Have no particular liking for the Junkion—he's cost me my fee in the past—but I defied Unicron and allowed Wreck-Gar to escape. Punishment followed...but still, it was a small victory, eh?

Also realised a weakness in Unicron's control: The mind link he used to control me was a two-way street. Destroyed a couple of his Junkion stooges, forcing him to punish me and establish the link. This allowed an attack on the astral plane, psychically assaulting him. At the time, I thought that would even the odds. After all, he's just a big robot, right?

Hrn.

Sometimes even I can be a little bit wrong, yes?

Unicron's mind was unfathomable. Impossible to describe it—an infinite swirling miasma of...hrn, I'm not a poet, I'm a hired killer, right? Suffice to say, trying to comprehend him on the astral plane, let alone battle him, was beyond even my abilities. Unicron revealed the reason for it, too—turns out he was a '''dark god of chaos''' bent on destroying the entire universe. Some vendetta with the Transformers' planet or something. Which is why he's afraid of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], eh? No, I don't understand it either, and I was '''in''' Unicron's mind.

Still, the net result is that when Rodimus Prime attacked, we joined forces. Used the mindlink to let Prime attack Unicron directly—and shortly after that, I discovered that Wreck-Gar had planted enough explosives under Unicron to destroy him. Dark god or not, I knew he was finished. So did he, so he recalled Cyclonus and Scourge from Cybertron, and I saw a chance to complete my most recent contract, yes?

Only problem was that the explosives started a little sooner than expected, so I grabbed Cyclonus and Scourge and dived through the time portal with them. Kill them another time, hrn? Too bad it didn't work out that way. No idea what happened to Cyclonus and Scourge, but I ended up careening through the time vortex. Inconvenient, yes? {{storylink|The Legacy of Unicron!}}

[[Image:Deathshead151matrixholder.jpg|center|350px|thumb|Heard a voice telling me to light their darkest hour. Ignored it, yes?]]

===IDW comics continuity===
Getting blown through time portal not a pleasant experience, right? Spent some time ricocheting around the multiverse; ran into the Transformers again when I had a stop-over in another universe and bumped into [[Impactor]]. Think I made an impression on him, yes? {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Impactor's Autopedia article}}

==Transformers notes==

Ahhh, my time with the Transformers, eh? Here's a few juicy tidbits about my relationship with them.

[[Image:Deathshead147shockdeath.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Shockwave's brain had 'Intel Inside' printed on it. Weird, right?]]

*Turns out I was the centre of a difference between the Transformers reality chronicled by Marvel US and the reality chronicled by Marvel UK. Hrn. Alternate realities can be a pain. There was an Autobot who was always destined to die and be reborn as a mechanoid named [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]]. In one reality, he was killed by some human team called [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. In the much more interesting timeline I was a part of, it was I who killed him. Clearly, this was the superior timeline, in that case, right?
*When fighting Transformers, I recommend a swift strike to the [[neural cluster]], eh? Weakest spot on any mechanoid from Cybertron.<ref>Death's Head tried to deliver just such a blow to Galvatron, only to have his mace blasted to atoms before he could do it.</ref>
*When I killed Shockwave, I did a thorough job. Even if I wasn't getting paid, huh? Transformers' brains are the key to their life—at least in the timeline I visited. Shockwave's was particularly large for a Transformer, but I still crushed it between thumb and forefinger, yes?
*Including Shockwave, killed only five Transformers in all my dealings with them, eh?
*Only ever got paid once by any Transformer, and I never finished that contract. Hrn. Dealing with them was a nightmare, right?
{{--}}

==External notes==

[[Image:Deathshead113timejump.jpg|right|180px|thumb|My first time jump. Who knew what I was getting myself into?]]

Hrm. What else to tell you about myself? So much of it has nothing to do with the Transformers, right? That's why I've separated it off into this additional segment.

*Was years later, give or take—it's tricky to judge actually when there's so much time travel involved—that I discovered my origin. Turns out I was originally built as a new body for some other-dimensional wizard named Lupex, right? His consort, Pyra, gave me a personality, so I'd kill Lupex. Parents. Typical, eh?
*Unicron's time gate left me flying through the [[wikia:tardis:Time_Vortex|time vortex]] where I bumped, quite literally, into a miscreant being calling itself [[Doctor (G1)|the Doctor]]. [[wikia:tardis:Death's Head|Had a few encounters with him]]: First he shrank me to human size, then he transported me to 8162 in a timeline without Transformers. Not all bad, right? More frustrating when he later dumped me on the roof of the Baxter Building.
*The [[Fantastic Four]] were just the first super heroes I met, eh? Iron Man 2020, She-Hulk, [[Thor]], even the original [[Iron Man]]. Met 'em all, no?
*Hrn. Then there's the matter of that possible future (well, relatively speaking for a time traveller such as myself, right?) where I take over the body of the AIM-created monstrosity ''Minion'', becoming the cyborg some have dubbed Death's Head II. Let's...not talk of that further, eh?
*There's another possible future where I kill Minion and don't die myself. Much prefer that one, right?<ref>In ''What If?'' Volume 2, issue 54. The last Death's Head collaboration between Simon Furman and Geoff Senior, his creators. This is also the only Death's Head appearance where he uses his face tusks in battle.</ref>
*As to the comic books which have chronicled my exploits, nearly all my tales had been recounted by [[Simon Furman]], until his untimely death,<ref>Remember that interview we told you about? When both Furman and the interviewer stopped listening to DH, he killed Simon Furman, effectively ending the interview. We can only assume that the Simon Furman seen since that time is actually some sort of [[Cloning|clone]] or [[facsimile construct]].</ref> and the first artist to draw me was [[Geoff Senior]]. Marvel liked me so much that they published a one-page story about me (drawn by some fleshling named [[Bryan Hitch]]) in various Marvel mags to prevent Hasbro from securing the rights to my adventures. Have to admire that kind of mercenary cunning, right?
*There's reportedly a third creature called Death's Head out there. Hrn, they were a legion of alien robots that bothered the [[Hulk|Incredible Hulk]] on the planet Sakaar. On an alternate future Earth, one of these robots was bonded to a synthetic duplicate of the sentient energy-force known as the Uni-Power—he was Death's Head 3.0. Reportedly, he also understood the importance of freelance peacekeeping, yes? Apparently, his adventures were also penned by the fleshling known as Furman.
*Reports of my demise have been [http://www.newsarama.com/comics/091113-Marvel-SWORD-Gillen.html greatly exaggerated], huh?

==External links==
* [[wikia:c:Marveldatabase:Death's Head (Lupex)|Death's Head(s) at Marvel Database]]
* [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/deathsheadfpa.htm Death's Head I and II info at the Marvel Universe Appendix]

==Footnotes==
<references/>

[[Category:Bounty hunters]]
[[Category:Comic-only characters]]
[[Category:Dimension hoppers]]
[[Category:Generation 1 aliens]]
[[Category:Marvel properties]]
[[Category:Robots]]

Death's Head (G1)

2010-12-13T10:28:15Z

84.92.131.94: /* Transformers notes */

{{factions|unicron}}
{{disambig2|the <s>bounty hunter</s> freelance peacekeeping agent from Generation 1|the starship from ''Animated''|Death's Head (Animated)}}
:''Death's Head is a [[bounty hunter| <s>bounty hunter</s>]] freelance peacekeeping agent from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]],yes?''

[[Image:Deathshead113heardofme.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Said I was handsome, right?]]

Hrn. '''Death's Head''' is the name. I'm a "Freelance Peacekeeping Agent". Some call me a "bounty hunter," but never twice, yes? Handsome, resourceful, deadly—all words used to describe me. Modest too, eh? In the past I've been accused of ending statements as questions.<ref>This happened in an interview with Death's Head and Simon Furman(!) in issue 13 of ''Strip Magazine''. (As in "Comic Strip Magazine" — sheesh, get your minds out of the gutter.)</ref> Never could understand why, right?

Learned a long time ago that if a mechanoid is to survive in this life, you've got to respect the economy. Money is everything. Still, it's also nice to enjoy one's job, yes? Use a wide range of weapons, most of which (unlike my plasma rifle) I can use in place of my right hand. Missiles, titanium shot blaster — but sometimes it's just more satisfying to use a good old-fashioned axe, hrn?

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics UK continuity===
[[Image:Deathshead113bartab.jpg|left|180px|thumb|One must always settle one's tab, eh?]]

First got involved with the Transformers on [[Elpasos]], around Earthdate 2007, yes? Mission 531, according to my log. Was just picking up some oil when I noticed a bounty on the head of some mechanoid named [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. [[Elpasos barkeep|Bartender]] filled me in on the details. An Autobot named [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]<ref>Death's Head never met Optimus Prime, so Rodimus Prime is '''his''' Prime.</ref> had put a 10,000-[[Shanix]] reward on the Decepticon's head. Lot of money, hrm? So I settled my account with the bar and went after the two Decepticons most likely to know Galvatron's whereabouts—his lieutenants, [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]].

Scourge quickly learned he shouldn't call me a bounty hunter, thanks to my plasma rifle.

Cyclonus decided he'd rather talk and told me where to find Galvatron. Wasn't long before I was using the Decepticon leader's time travel platform to transport myself to 1987, eh? Time jump-displaced [[First Aid (G1)|some Autobot]] to limbo during the [[Mass substitution|mass exchange]]. Also had to destroy his [[Bumblebee (G1)|companion.]] Didn't want any witnesses at that stage, right? {{storylink|Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!}}

Information is always the first key to a mission. Knew '''when''' Galvatron was, needed to find out where. Who better than the local Decepticons? Gambled they'd be keeping track of a... hrn... loose cannon. Ambushed [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and beat the information out of him—had to down his [[Laserbeak (G1)|pet bird]] in the process. Good times, yes?

Should have known it wouldn't last, right?

[[Image:Deathshead117laserbash.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Ahh, yes. Definitely good times, no?
]]

When I found Galvatron, he was in the throes of battle with Rodimus Prime. Hrn, hate it when a client decides he can do the job himself, eh? Usually means they don't intend to pay. Bad form, if you ask me. Allowed my annoyance with Prime to distract me—that let Galvatron blast me with his [[particle cannon]]. Sloppy. Had to retreat and make repairs. Cost me some precious time. {{storylink|Hunters}}

Still, some things never change—when I returned, Galvatron and Prime were at it again.<ref>Though Ultra Magnus and Death's Head were both big players in this ongoing arc, they never met. Instead, every time DH saw Galvatron, he was fighting Rodimus Prime. The closest Magnus and DH came to meeting was when the Freelance Peacekeeping Agent passed by Magnus's unconscious body during his initial retreat.</ref> Luckily Prime wasn't doing very well, so I finally had my chance against Galvatron, eh? Had better fights. Lost a very nice mace, then an arm to which I was particularly attached. Then [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] triggered a time jump, sending us all back to 2007, all except Galvatron. Turned out the Decepticon leader had prepared for such an eventuality and rigged his time jump trigger device so he couldn't be sent back forcibly.

[[Image:Deathshead120armless.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Ouch, yes?]]

Typical, yes? Would have simply extracted my lost fee from Rodimus Prime's hide then and there, if not for the garrison of Autobots waiting for us at the other end of the time jump. {{storylink|Fire on High!}}

Next time I dealt with the Transformers, I was working out of [[Scarvix]]. Some stinky little peon named [[Blot (G1)|Blot]] walked into my office with an offer. Name couldn't have suited him better, eh? Still, his offer was enticing—10,000 Shanix to kill Rodimus Prime. Jumped at the chance. Revenge doesn't pay the bills, but it's a satisfying fringe benefit, yes?

Decepticons gave me free passage to Cybertron and pointed me in the right direction. What I didn't know at the time was that Decepticon commander [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] was using me, right? I attacked Prime in one of his trenches and was moments from the killing blow, when the ground collapsed underneath us. Ended up in the sewers, yes? Hrn, worse than that, lost my trusty axe in the fall. Frustrating, right?

Still, titanium shott blaster would have done just as well, except moments before I could kill Prime, I was shot in the back by Scourge. Told you Shockwave was using me, eh? He tricked Cyclonus and Scourge into going after Prime too, hoping I'd eliminate them as well. And for free!

Shield took the brunt of the blow. Still, Prime got away in the process. Pursued him up a ladder, only to find he'd led me straight into Autobase, eh? Hate how he always does that. On the other hand, got to love his business acumen. Rather than throw me out, he sent me off with 10,000 Shanix in advance and a contract to kill Cyclonus and Scourge.<ref>This is the only time that Death's Head actually made any money in his dealings with the Transformers.</ref> {{storylink|Headhunt}}

[[Image:Deathshead150unicronsmind.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Not good times, right?]]

Caught up with Cyclonus and Scourge New Year's Day, Earth Year 2008. Hrn. The events that followed were not pleasant, right? So much killing, for absolutely no profit.

[[Junkion (planet)|Junk]] was under the thrall of a giant head calling itself [[Unicron]]. The Junkions were busy trying to build their planet into Unicron's new body. Worse still, Unicron put Cyclonus, Scourge and myself under his thrall. Stopped me completing my contract, huh? Yes, those were unpleasant times. Unicron used me to kill the Decepticon leader at the time, Shockwave, and put Cyclonus and Scourge in charge as the new leaders of the Decepticons. Distasteful work, killing without profit. Especially against a foe who deserved better, right?

[[Image:Deathshead151portaldash.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Last time I had to deal with any Transformers, hrn?]]

Unicron was playing all the angles—had Cyclonus and Scourge start a campaign against the Autobots that neither side could win, huh? Even had the Junkions build a giant time portal so he'd be able to fetch Galvatron from the past to tie up that loose end.

The mental power of Unicron was incredible, yes? Once I was back on Junk, I was forced to fight Wreck-Gar. Have no particular liking for the Junkion—he's cost me my fee in the past—but I defied Unicron and allowed Wreck-Gar to escape. Punishment followed...but still, it was a small victory, eh?

Also realised a weakness in Unicron's control: The mind link he used to control me was a two-way street. Destroyed a couple of his Junkion stooges, forcing him to punish me and establish the link. This allowed an attack on the astral plane, psychically assaulting him. At the time, I thought that would even the odds. After all, he's just a big robot, right?

Hrn.

Sometimes even I can be a little bit wrong, yes?

Unicron's mind was unfathomable. Impossible to describe it—an infinite swirling miasma of...hrn, I'm not a poet, I'm a hired killer, right? Suffice to say, trying to comprehend him on the astral plane, let alone battle him, was beyond even my abilities. Unicron revealed the reason for it, too—turns out he was a '''dark god of chaos''' bent on destroying the entire universe. Some vendetta with the Transformers' planet or something. Which is why he's afraid of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], eh? No, I don't understand it either, and I was '''in''' Unicron's mind.

Still, the net result is that when Rodimus Prime attacked, we joined forces. Used the mindlink to let Prime attack Unicron directly—and shortly after that, I discovered that Wreck-Gar had planted enough explosives under Unicron to destroy him. Dark god or not, I knew he was finished. So did he, so he recalled Cyclonus and Scourge from Cybertron, and I saw a chance to complete my most recent contract, yes?

Only problem was that the explosives started a little sooner than expected, so I grabbed Cyclonus and Scourge and dived through the time portal with them. Kill them another time, hrn? Too bad it didn't work out that way. No idea what happened to Cyclonus and Scourge, but I ended up careening through the time vortex. Inconvenient, yes? {{storylink|The Legacy of Unicron!}}

[[Image:Deathshead151matrixholder.jpg|center|350px|thumb|Heard a voice telling me to light their darkest hour. Ignored it, yes?]]

===IDW comics continuity===
Getting blown through time portal not a pleasant experience, right? Spent some time ricocheting around the multiverse; ran into the Transformers again when I had a stop-over in another universe and bumped into [[Impactor]]. Think I made an impression on him, yes? {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Impactor's Autopedia article}}

==Transformers notes==

Ahhh, my time with the Transformers, eh? Here's a few juicy tidbits about my relationship with them.

[[Image:Deathshead147shockdeath.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Shockwave's brain had an 'Intel Inside' label printed on it. Weird, right?]]

*Turns out I was the centre of a difference between the Transformers reality chronicled by Marvel US and the reality chronicled by Marvel UK. Hrn. Alternate realities can be a pain. There was an Autobot who was always destined to die and be reborn as a mechanoid named [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]]. In one reality, he was killed by some human team called [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. In the much more interesting timeline I was a part of, it was I who killed him. Clearly, this was the superior timeline, in that case, right?
*When fighting Transformers, I recommend a swift strike to the [[neural cluster]], eh? Weakest spot on any mechanoid from Cybertron.<ref>Death's Head tried to deliver just such a blow to Galvatron, only to have his mace blasted to atoms before he could do it.</ref>
*When I killed Shockwave, I did a thorough job. Even if I wasn't getting paid, huh? Transformers' brains are the key to their life—at least in the timeline I visited. Shockwave's was particularly large for a Transformer, but I still crushed it between thumb and forefinger, yes?
*Including Shockwave, killed only five Transformers in all my dealings with them, eh?
*Only ever got paid once by any Transformer, and I never finished that contract. Hrn. Dealing with them was a nightmare, right?
{{--}}

==External notes==

[[Image:Deathshead113timejump.jpg|right|180px|thumb|My first time jump. Who knew what I was getting myself into?]]

Hrm. What else to tell you about myself? So much of it has nothing to do with the Transformers, right? That's why I've separated it off into this additional segment.

*Was years later, give or take—it's tricky to judge actually when there's so much time travel involved—that I discovered my origin. Turns out I was originally built as a new body for some other-dimensional wizard named Lupex, right? His consort, Pyra, gave me a personality, so I'd kill Lupex. Parents. Typical, eh?
*Unicron's time gate left me flying through the [[wikia:tardis:Time_Vortex|time vortex]] where I bumped, quite literally, into a miscreant being calling itself [[Doctor (G1)|the Doctor]]. [[wikia:tardis:Death's Head|Had a few encounters with him]]: First he shrank me to human size, then he transported me to 8162 in a timeline without Transformers. Not all bad, right? More frustrating when he later dumped me on the roof of the Baxter Building.
*The [[Fantastic Four]] were just the first super heroes I met, eh? Iron Man 2020, She-Hulk, [[Thor]], even the original [[Iron Man]]. Met 'em all, no?
*Hrn. Then there's the matter of that possible future (well, relatively speaking for a time traveller such as myself, right?) where I take over the body of the AIM-created monstrosity ''Minion'', becoming the cyborg some have dubbed Death's Head II. Let's...not talk of that further, eh?
*There's another possible future where I kill Minion and don't die myself. Much prefer that one, right?<ref>In ''What If?'' Volume 2, issue 54. The last Death's Head collaboration between Simon Furman and Geoff Senior, his creators. This is also the only Death's Head appearance where he uses his face tusks in battle.</ref>
*As to the comic books which have chronicled my exploits, nearly all my tales had been recounted by [[Simon Furman]], until his untimely death,<ref>Remember that interview we told you about? When both Furman and the interviewer stopped listening to DH, he killed Simon Furman, effectively ending the interview. We can only assume that the Simon Furman seen since that time is actually some sort of [[Cloning|clone]] or [[facsimile construct]].</ref> and the first artist to draw me was [[Geoff Senior]]. Marvel liked me so much that they published a one-page story about me (drawn by some fleshling named [[Bryan Hitch]]) in various Marvel mags to prevent Hasbro from securing the rights to my adventures. Have to admire that kind of mercenary cunning, right?
*There's reportedly a third creature called Death's Head out there. Hrn, they were a legion of alien robots that bothered the [[Hulk|Incredible Hulk]] on the planet Sakaar. On an alternate future Earth, one of these robots was bonded to a synthetic duplicate of the sentient energy-force known as the Uni-Power—he was Death's Head 3.0. Reportedly, he also understood the importance of freelance peacekeeping, yes? Apparently, his adventures were also penned by the fleshling known as Furman.
*Reports of my demise have been [http://www.newsarama.com/comics/091113-Marvel-SWORD-Gillen.html greatly exaggerated], huh?

==External links==
* [[wikia:c:Marveldatabase:Death's Head (Lupex)|Death's Head(s) at Marvel Database]]
* [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/deathsheadfpa.htm Death's Head I and II info at the Marvel Universe Appendix]

==Footnotes==
<references/>

[[Category:Bounty hunters]]
[[Category:Comic-only characters]]
[[Category:Dimension hoppers]]
[[Category:Generation 1 aliens]]
[[Category:Marvel properties]]
[[Category:Robots]]

Death's Head (G1)

2010-12-13T10:28:04Z

84.92.131.94: /* Transformers notes */

{{factions|unicron}}
{{disambig2|the <s>bounty hunter</s> freelance peacekeeping agent from Generation 1|the starship from ''Animated''|Death's Head (Animated)}}
:''Death's Head is a [[bounty hunter| <s>bounty hunter</s>]] freelance peacekeeping agent from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]],yes?''

[[Image:Deathshead113heardofme.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Said I was handsome, right?]]

Hrn. '''Death's Head''' is the name. I'm a "Freelance Peacekeeping Agent". Some call me a "bounty hunter," but never twice, yes? Handsome, resourceful, deadly—all words used to describe me. Modest too, eh? In the past I've been accused of ending statements as questions.<ref>This happened in an interview with Death's Head and Simon Furman(!) in issue 13 of ''Strip Magazine''. (As in "Comic Strip Magazine" — sheesh, get your minds out of the gutter.)</ref> Never could understand why, right?

Learned a long time ago that if a mechanoid is to survive in this life, you've got to respect the economy. Money is everything. Still, it's also nice to enjoy one's job, yes? Use a wide range of weapons, most of which (unlike my plasma rifle) I can use in place of my right hand. Missiles, titanium shot blaster — but sometimes it's just more satisfying to use a good old-fashioned axe, hrn?

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics UK continuity===
[[Image:Deathshead113bartab.jpg|left|180px|thumb|One must always settle one's tab, eh?]]

First got involved with the Transformers on [[Elpasos]], around Earthdate 2007, yes? Mission 531, according to my log. Was just picking up some oil when I noticed a bounty on the head of some mechanoid named [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. [[Elpasos barkeep|Bartender]] filled me in on the details. An Autobot named [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]<ref>Death's Head never met Optimus Prime, so Rodimus Prime is '''his''' Prime.</ref> had put a 10,000-[[Shanix]] reward on the Decepticon's head. Lot of money, hrm? So I settled my account with the bar and went after the two Decepticons most likely to know Galvatron's whereabouts—his lieutenants, [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]].

Scourge quickly learned he shouldn't call me a bounty hunter, thanks to my plasma rifle.

Cyclonus decided he'd rather talk and told me where to find Galvatron. Wasn't long before I was using the Decepticon leader's time travel platform to transport myself to 1987, eh? Time jump-displaced [[First Aid (G1)|some Autobot]] to limbo during the [[Mass substitution|mass exchange]]. Also had to destroy his [[Bumblebee (G1)|companion.]] Didn't want any witnesses at that stage, right? {{storylink|Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!}}

Information is always the first key to a mission. Knew '''when''' Galvatron was, needed to find out where. Who better than the local Decepticons? Gambled they'd be keeping track of a... hrn... loose cannon. Ambushed [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and beat the information out of him—had to down his [[Laserbeak (G1)|pet bird]] in the process. Good times, yes?

Should have known it wouldn't last, right?

[[Image:Deathshead117laserbash.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Ahh, yes. Definitely good times, no?
]]

When I found Galvatron, he was in the throes of battle with Rodimus Prime. Hrn, hate it when a client decides he can do the job himself, eh? Usually means they don't intend to pay. Bad form, if you ask me. Allowed my annoyance with Prime to distract me—that let Galvatron blast me with his [[particle cannon]]. Sloppy. Had to retreat and make repairs. Cost me some precious time. {{storylink|Hunters}}

Still, some things never change—when I returned, Galvatron and Prime were at it again.<ref>Though Ultra Magnus and Death's Head were both big players in this ongoing arc, they never met. Instead, every time DH saw Galvatron, he was fighting Rodimus Prime. The closest Magnus and DH came to meeting was when the Freelance Peacekeeping Agent passed by Magnus's unconscious body during his initial retreat.</ref> Luckily Prime wasn't doing very well, so I finally had my chance against Galvatron, eh? Had better fights. Lost a very nice mace, then an arm to which I was particularly attached. Then [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] triggered a time jump, sending us all back to 2007, all except Galvatron. Turned out the Decepticon leader had prepared for such an eventuality and rigged his time jump trigger device so he couldn't be sent back forcibly.

[[Image:Deathshead120armless.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Ouch, yes?]]

Typical, yes? Would have simply extracted my lost fee from Rodimus Prime's hide then and there, if not for the garrison of Autobots waiting for us at the other end of the time jump. {{storylink|Fire on High!}}

Next time I dealt with the Transformers, I was working out of [[Scarvix]]. Some stinky little peon named [[Blot (G1)|Blot]] walked into my office with an offer. Name couldn't have suited him better, eh? Still, his offer was enticing—10,000 Shanix to kill Rodimus Prime. Jumped at the chance. Revenge doesn't pay the bills, but it's a satisfying fringe benefit, yes?

Decepticons gave me free passage to Cybertron and pointed me in the right direction. What I didn't know at the time was that Decepticon commander [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] was using me, right? I attacked Prime in one of his trenches and was moments from the killing blow, when the ground collapsed underneath us. Ended up in the sewers, yes? Hrn, worse than that, lost my trusty axe in the fall. Frustrating, right?

Still, titanium shott blaster would have done just as well, except moments before I could kill Prime, I was shot in the back by Scourge. Told you Shockwave was using me, eh? He tricked Cyclonus and Scourge into going after Prime too, hoping I'd eliminate them as well. And for free!

Shield took the brunt of the blow. Still, Prime got away in the process. Pursued him up a ladder, only to find he'd led me straight into Autobase, eh? Hate how he always does that. On the other hand, got to love his business acumen. Rather than throw me out, he sent me off with 10,000 Shanix in advance and a contract to kill Cyclonus and Scourge.<ref>This is the only time that Death's Head actually made any money in his dealings with the Transformers.</ref> {{storylink|Headhunt}}

[[Image:Deathshead150unicronsmind.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Not good times, right?]]

Caught up with Cyclonus and Scourge New Year's Day, Earth Year 2008. Hrn. The events that followed were not pleasant, right? So much killing, for absolutely no profit.

[[Junkion (planet)|Junk]] was under the thrall of a giant head calling itself [[Unicron]]. The Junkions were busy trying to build their planet into Unicron's new body. Worse still, Unicron put Cyclonus, Scourge and myself under his thrall. Stopped me completing my contract, huh? Yes, those were unpleasant times. Unicron used me to kill the Decepticon leader at the time, Shockwave, and put Cyclonus and Scourge in charge as the new leaders of the Decepticons. Distasteful work, killing without profit. Especially against a foe who deserved better, right?

[[Image:Deathshead151portaldash.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Last time I had to deal with any Transformers, hrn?]]

Unicron was playing all the angles—had Cyclonus and Scourge start a campaign against the Autobots that neither side could win, huh? Even had the Junkions build a giant time portal so he'd be able to fetch Galvatron from the past to tie up that loose end.

The mental power of Unicron was incredible, yes? Once I was back on Junk, I was forced to fight Wreck-Gar. Have no particular liking for the Junkion—he's cost me my fee in the past—but I defied Unicron and allowed Wreck-Gar to escape. Punishment followed...but still, it was a small victory, eh?

Also realised a weakness in Unicron's control: The mind link he used to control me was a two-way street. Destroyed a couple of his Junkion stooges, forcing him to punish me and establish the link. This allowed an attack on the astral plane, psychically assaulting him. At the time, I thought that would even the odds. After all, he's just a big robot, right?

Hrn.

Sometimes even I can be a little bit wrong, yes?

Unicron's mind was unfathomable. Impossible to describe it—an infinite swirling miasma of...hrn, I'm not a poet, I'm a hired killer, right? Suffice to say, trying to comprehend him on the astral plane, let alone battle him, was beyond even my abilities. Unicron revealed the reason for it, too—turns out he was a '''dark god of chaos''' bent on destroying the entire universe. Some vendetta with the Transformers' planet or something. Which is why he's afraid of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], eh? No, I don't understand it either, and I was '''in''' Unicron's mind.

Still, the net result is that when Rodimus Prime attacked, we joined forces. Used the mindlink to let Prime attack Unicron directly—and shortly after that, I discovered that Wreck-Gar had planted enough explosives under Unicron to destroy him. Dark god or not, I knew he was finished. So did he, so he recalled Cyclonus and Scourge from Cybertron, and I saw a chance to complete my most recent contract, yes?

Only problem was that the explosives started a little sooner than expected, so I grabbed Cyclonus and Scourge and dived through the time portal with them. Kill them another time, hrn? Too bad it didn't work out that way. No idea what happened to Cyclonus and Scourge, but I ended up careening through the time vortex. Inconvenient, yes? {{storylink|The Legacy of Unicron!}}

[[Image:Deathshead151matrixholder.jpg|center|350px|thumb|Heard a voice telling me to light their darkest hour. Ignored it, yes?]]

===IDW comics continuity===
Getting blown through time portal not a pleasant experience, right? Spent some time ricocheting around the multiverse; ran into the Transformers again when I had a stop-over in another universe and bumped into [[Impactor]]. Think I made an impression on him, yes? {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Impactor's Autopedia article}}

==Transformers notes==

Ahhh, my time with the Transformers, eh? Here's a few juicy tidbits about my relationship with them.

[[Image:Deathshead147shockdeath.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Shockwave's brain had an 'Intel Inside' label printed on it. Weird, right?.]]

*Turns out I was the centre of a difference between the Transformers reality chronicled by Marvel US and the reality chronicled by Marvel UK. Hrn. Alternate realities can be a pain. There was an Autobot who was always destined to die and be reborn as a mechanoid named [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]]. In one reality, he was killed by some human team called [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. In the much more interesting timeline I was a part of, it was I who killed him. Clearly, this was the superior timeline, in that case, right?
*When fighting Transformers, I recommend a swift strike to the [[neural cluster]], eh? Weakest spot on any mechanoid from Cybertron.<ref>Death's Head tried to deliver just such a blow to Galvatron, only to have his mace blasted to atoms before he could do it.</ref>
*When I killed Shockwave, I did a thorough job. Even if I wasn't getting paid, huh? Transformers' brains are the key to their life—at least in the timeline I visited. Shockwave's was particularly large for a Transformer, but I still crushed it between thumb and forefinger, yes?
*Including Shockwave, killed only five Transformers in all my dealings with them, eh?
*Only ever got paid once by any Transformer, and I never finished that contract. Hrn. Dealing with them was a nightmare, right?
{{--}}

==External notes==

[[Image:Deathshead113timejump.jpg|right|180px|thumb|My first time jump. Who knew what I was getting myself into?]]

Hrm. What else to tell you about myself? So much of it has nothing to do with the Transformers, right? That's why I've separated it off into this additional segment.

*Was years later, give or take—it's tricky to judge actually when there's so much time travel involved—that I discovered my origin. Turns out I was originally built as a new body for some other-dimensional wizard named Lupex, right? His consort, Pyra, gave me a personality, so I'd kill Lupex. Parents. Typical, eh?
*Unicron's time gate left me flying through the [[wikia:tardis:Time_Vortex|time vortex]] where I bumped, quite literally, into a miscreant being calling itself [[Doctor (G1)|the Doctor]]. [[wikia:tardis:Death's Head|Had a few encounters with him]]: First he shrank me to human size, then he transported me to 8162 in a timeline without Transformers. Not all bad, right? More frustrating when he later dumped me on the roof of the Baxter Building.
*The [[Fantastic Four]] were just the first super heroes I met, eh? Iron Man 2020, She-Hulk, [[Thor]], even the original [[Iron Man]]. Met 'em all, no?
*Hrn. Then there's the matter of that possible future (well, relatively speaking for a time traveller such as myself, right?) where I take over the body of the AIM-created monstrosity ''Minion'', becoming the cyborg some have dubbed Death's Head II. Let's...not talk of that further, eh?
*There's another possible future where I kill Minion and don't die myself. Much prefer that one, right?<ref>In ''What If?'' Volume 2, issue 54. The last Death's Head collaboration between Simon Furman and Geoff Senior, his creators. This is also the only Death's Head appearance where he uses his face tusks in battle.</ref>
*As to the comic books which have chronicled my exploits, nearly all my tales had been recounted by [[Simon Furman]], until his untimely death,<ref>Remember that interview we told you about? When both Furman and the interviewer stopped listening to DH, he killed Simon Furman, effectively ending the interview. We can only assume that the Simon Furman seen since that time is actually some sort of [[Cloning|clone]] or [[facsimile construct]].</ref> and the first artist to draw me was [[Geoff Senior]]. Marvel liked me so much that they published a one-page story about me (drawn by some fleshling named [[Bryan Hitch]]) in various Marvel mags to prevent Hasbro from securing the rights to my adventures. Have to admire that kind of mercenary cunning, right?
*There's reportedly a third creature called Death's Head out there. Hrn, they were a legion of alien robots that bothered the [[Hulk|Incredible Hulk]] on the planet Sakaar. On an alternate future Earth, one of these robots was bonded to a synthetic duplicate of the sentient energy-force known as the Uni-Power—he was Death's Head 3.0. Reportedly, he also understood the importance of freelance peacekeeping, yes? Apparently, his adventures were also penned by the fleshling known as Furman.
*Reports of my demise have been [http://www.newsarama.com/comics/091113-Marvel-SWORD-Gillen.html greatly exaggerated], huh?

==External links==
* [[wikia:c:Marveldatabase:Death's Head (Lupex)|Death's Head(s) at Marvel Database]]
* [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/deathsheadfpa.htm Death's Head I and II info at the Marvel Universe Appendix]

==Footnotes==
<references/>

[[Category:Bounty hunters]]
[[Category:Comic-only characters]]
[[Category:Dimension hoppers]]
[[Category:Generation 1 aliens]]
[[Category:Marvel properties]]
[[Category:Robots]]

Death's Head (G1)

2010-12-13T10:22:59Z

84.92.131.94: /* Marvel Comics UK continuity */

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{{disambig2|the <s>bounty hunter</s> freelance peacekeeping agent from Generation 1|the starship from ''Animated''|Death's Head (Animated)}}
:''Death's Head is a [[bounty hunter| <s>bounty hunter</s>]] freelance peacekeeping agent from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]],yes?''

[[Image:Deathshead113heardofme.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Said I was handsome, right?]]

Hrn. '''Death's Head''' is the name. I'm a "Freelance Peacekeeping Agent". Some call me a "bounty hunter," but never twice, yes? Handsome, resourceful, deadly—all words used to describe me. Modest too, eh? In the past I've been accused of ending statements as questions.<ref>This happened in an interview with Death's Head and Simon Furman(!) in issue 13 of ''Strip Magazine''. (As in "Comic Strip Magazine" — sheesh, get your minds out of the gutter.)</ref> Never could understand why, right?

Learned a long time ago that if a mechanoid is to survive in this life, you've got to respect the economy. Money is everything. Still, it's also nice to enjoy one's job, yes? Use a wide range of weapons, most of which (unlike my plasma rifle) I can use in place of my right hand. Missiles, titanium shot blaster — but sometimes it's just more satisfying to use a good old-fashioned axe, hrn?

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics UK continuity===
[[Image:Deathshead113bartab.jpg|left|180px|thumb|One must always settle one's tab, eh?]]

First got involved with the Transformers on [[Elpasos]], around Earthdate 2007, yes? Mission 531, according to my log. Was just picking up some oil when I noticed a bounty on the head of some mechanoid named [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. [[Elpasos barkeep|Bartender]] filled me in on the details. An Autobot named [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]<ref>Death's Head never met Optimus Prime, so Rodimus Prime is '''his''' Prime.</ref> had put a 10,000-[[Shanix]] reward on the Decepticon's head. Lot of money, hrm? So I settled my account with the bar and went after the two Decepticons most likely to know Galvatron's whereabouts—his lieutenants, [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]].

Scourge quickly learned he shouldn't call me a bounty hunter, thanks to my plasma rifle.

Cyclonus decided he'd rather talk and told me where to find Galvatron. Wasn't long before I was using the Decepticon leader's time travel platform to transport myself to 1987, eh? Time jump-displaced [[First Aid (G1)|some Autobot]] to limbo during the [[Mass substitution|mass exchange]]. Also had to destroy his [[Bumblebee (G1)|companion.]] Didn't want any witnesses at that stage, right? {{storylink|Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!}}

Information is always the first key to a mission. Knew '''when''' Galvatron was, needed to find out where. Who better than the local Decepticons? Gambled they'd be keeping track of a... hrn... loose cannon. Ambushed [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and beat the information out of him—had to down his [[Laserbeak (G1)|pet bird]] in the process. Good times, yes?

Should have known it wouldn't last, right?

[[Image:Deathshead117laserbash.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Ahh, yes. Definitely good times, no?
]]

When I found Galvatron, he was in the throes of battle with Rodimus Prime. Hrn, hate it when a client decides he can do the job himself, eh? Usually means they don't intend to pay. Bad form, if you ask me. Allowed my annoyance with Prime to distract me—that let Galvatron blast me with his [[particle cannon]]. Sloppy. Had to retreat and make repairs. Cost me some precious time. {{storylink|Hunters}}

Still, some things never change—when I returned, Galvatron and Prime were at it again.<ref>Though Ultra Magnus and Death's Head were both big players in this ongoing arc, they never met. Instead, every time DH saw Galvatron, he was fighting Rodimus Prime. The closest Magnus and DH came to meeting was when the Freelance Peacekeeping Agent passed by Magnus's unconscious body during his initial retreat.</ref> Luckily Prime wasn't doing very well, so I finally had my chance against Galvatron, eh? Had better fights. Lost a very nice mace, then an arm to which I was particularly attached. Then [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] triggered a time jump, sending us all back to 2007, all except Galvatron. Turned out the Decepticon leader had prepared for such an eventuality and rigged his time jump trigger device so he couldn't be sent back forcibly.

[[Image:Deathshead120armless.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Ouch, yes?]]

Typical, yes? Would have simply extracted my lost fee from Rodimus Prime's hide then and there, if not for the garrison of Autobots waiting for us at the other end of the time jump. {{storylink|Fire on High!}}

Next time I dealt with the Transformers, I was working out of [[Scarvix]]. Some stinky little peon named [[Blot (G1)|Blot]] walked into my office with an offer. Name couldn't have suited him better, eh? Still, his offer was enticing—10,000 Shanix to kill Rodimus Prime. Jumped at the chance. Revenge doesn't pay the bills, but it's a satisfying fringe benefit, yes?

Decepticons gave me free passage to Cybertron and pointed me in the right direction. What I didn't know at the time was that Decepticon commander [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] was using me, right? I attacked Prime in one of his trenches and was moments from the killing blow, when the ground collapsed underneath us. Ended up in the sewers, yes? Hrn, worse than that, lost my trusty axe in the fall. Frustrating, right?

Still, titanium shott blaster would have done just as well, except moments before I could kill Prime, I was shot in the back by Scourge. Told you Shockwave was using me, eh? He tricked Cyclonus and Scourge into going after Prime too, hoping I'd eliminate them as well. And for free!

Shield took the brunt of the blow. Still, Prime got away in the process. Pursued him up a ladder, only to find he'd led me straight into Autobase, eh? Hate how he always does that. On the other hand, got to love his business acumen. Rather than throw me out, he sent me off with 10,000 Shanix in advance and a contract to kill Cyclonus and Scourge.<ref>This is the only time that Death's Head actually made any money in his dealings with the Transformers.</ref> {{storylink|Headhunt}}

[[Image:Deathshead150unicronsmind.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Not good times, right?]]

Caught up with Cyclonus and Scourge New Year's Day, Earth Year 2008. Hrn. The events that followed were not pleasant, right? So much killing, for absolutely no profit.

[[Junkion (planet)|Junk]] was under the thrall of a giant head calling itself [[Unicron]]. The Junkions were busy trying to build their planet into Unicron's new body. Worse still, Unicron put Cyclonus, Scourge and myself under his thrall. Stopped me completing my contract, huh? Yes, those were unpleasant times. Unicron used me to kill the Decepticon leader at the time, Shockwave, and put Cyclonus and Scourge in charge as the new leaders of the Decepticons. Distasteful work, killing without profit. Especially against a foe who deserved better, right?

[[Image:Deathshead151portaldash.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Last time I had to deal with any Transformers, hrn?]]

Unicron was playing all the angles—had Cyclonus and Scourge start a campaign against the Autobots that neither side could win, huh? Even had the Junkions build a giant time portal so he'd be able to fetch Galvatron from the past to tie up that loose end.

The mental power of Unicron was incredible, yes? Once I was back on Junk, I was forced to fight Wreck-Gar. Have no particular liking for the Junkion—he's cost me my fee in the past—but I defied Unicron and allowed Wreck-Gar to escape. Punishment followed...but still, it was a small victory, eh?

Also realised a weakness in Unicron's control: The mind link he used to control me was a two-way street. Destroyed a couple of his Junkion stooges, forcing him to punish me and establish the link. This allowed an attack on the astral plane, psychically assaulting him. At the time, I thought that would even the odds. After all, he's just a big robot, right?

Hrn.

Sometimes even I can be a little bit wrong, yes?

Unicron's mind was unfathomable. Impossible to describe it—an infinite swirling miasma of...hrn, I'm not a poet, I'm a hired killer, right? Suffice to say, trying to comprehend him on the astral plane, let alone battle him, was beyond even my abilities. Unicron revealed the reason for it, too—turns out he was a '''dark god of chaos''' bent on destroying the entire universe. Some vendetta with the Transformers' planet or something. Which is why he's afraid of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], eh? No, I don't understand it either, and I was '''in''' Unicron's mind.

Still, the net result is that when Rodimus Prime attacked, we joined forces. Used the mindlink to let Prime attack Unicron directly—and shortly after that, I discovered that Wreck-Gar had planted enough explosives under Unicron to destroy him. Dark god or not, I knew he was finished. So did he, so he recalled Cyclonus and Scourge from Cybertron, and I saw a chance to complete my most recent contract, yes?

Only problem was that the explosives started a little sooner than expected, so I grabbed Cyclonus and Scourge and dived through the time portal with them. Kill them another time, hrn? Too bad it didn't work out that way. No idea what happened to Cyclonus and Scourge, but I ended up careening through the time vortex. Inconvenient, yes? {{storylink|The Legacy of Unicron!}}

[[Image:Deathshead151matrixholder.jpg|center|350px|thumb|Heard a voice telling me to light their darkest hour. Ignored it, yes?]]

===IDW comics continuity===
Getting blown through time portal not a pleasant experience, right? Spent some time ricocheting around the multiverse; ran into the Transformers again when I had a stop-over in another universe and bumped into [[Impactor]]. Think I made an impression on him, yes? {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Impactor's Autopedia article}}

==Transformers notes==

Ahhh, my time with the Transformers, eh? Here's a few juicy tidbits about my relationship with them.

[[Image:Deathshead147shockdeath.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Why do the captions have to be funny anyway? Stupid policy, right? Not very informative.]]

*Turns out I was the centre of a difference between the Transformers reality chronicled by Marvel US and the reality chronicled by Marvel UK. Hrn. Alternate realities can be a pain. There was an Autobot who was always destined to die and be reborn as a mechanoid named [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]]. In one reality, he was killed by some human team called [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. In the much more interesting timeline I was a part of, it was I who killed him. Clearly, this was the superior timeline, in that case, right?
*When fighting Transformers, I recommend a swift strike to the [[neural cluster]], eh? Weakest spot on any mechanoid from Cybertron.<ref>Death's Head tried to deliver just such a blow to Galvatron, only to have his mace blasted to atoms before he could do it.</ref>
*When I killed Shockwave, I did a thorough job. Even if I wasn't getting paid, huh? Transformers' brains are the key to their life—at least in the timeline I visited. Shockwave's was particularly large for a Transformer, but I still crushed it between thumb and forefinger, yes?
*Including Shockwave, killed only five Transformers in all my dealings with them, eh?
*Only ever got paid once by any Transformer, and I never finished that contract. Hrn. Dealing with them was a nightmare, right?
{{--}}

==External notes==

[[Image:Deathshead113timejump.jpg|right|180px|thumb|My first time jump. Who knew what I was getting myself into?]]

Hrm. What else to tell you about myself? So much of it has nothing to do with the Transformers, right? That's why I've separated it off into this additional segment.

*Was years later, give or take—it's tricky to judge actually when there's so much time travel involved—that I discovered my origin. Turns out I was originally built as a new body for some other-dimensional wizard named Lupex, right? His consort, Pyra, gave me a personality, so I'd kill Lupex. Parents. Typical, eh?
*Unicron's time gate left me flying through the [[wikia:tardis:Time_Vortex|time vortex]] where I bumped, quite literally, into a miscreant being calling itself [[Doctor (G1)|the Doctor]]. [[wikia:tardis:Death's Head|Had a few encounters with him]]: First he shrank me to human size, then he transported me to 8162 in a timeline without Transformers. Not all bad, right? More frustrating when he later dumped me on the roof of the Baxter Building.
*The [[Fantastic Four]] were just the first super heroes I met, eh? Iron Man 2020, She-Hulk, [[Thor]], even the original [[Iron Man]]. Met 'em all, no?
*Hrn. Then there's the matter of that possible future (well, relatively speaking for a time traveller such as myself, right?) where I take over the body of the AIM-created monstrosity ''Minion'', becoming the cyborg some have dubbed Death's Head II. Let's...not talk of that further, eh?
*There's another possible future where I kill Minion and don't die myself. Much prefer that one, right?<ref>In ''What If?'' Volume 2, issue 54. The last Death's Head collaboration between Simon Furman and Geoff Senior, his creators. This is also the only Death's Head appearance where he uses his face tusks in battle.</ref>
*As to the comic books which have chronicled my exploits, nearly all my tales had been recounted by [[Simon Furman]], until his untimely death,<ref>Remember that interview we told you about? When both Furman and the interviewer stopped listening to DH, he killed Simon Furman, effectively ending the interview. We can only assume that the Simon Furman seen since that time is actually some sort of [[Cloning|clone]] or [[facsimile construct]].</ref> and the first artist to draw me was [[Geoff Senior]]. Marvel liked me so much that they published a one-page story about me (drawn by some fleshling named [[Bryan Hitch]]) in various Marvel mags to prevent Hasbro from securing the rights to my adventures. Have to admire that kind of mercenary cunning, right?
*There's reportedly a third creature called Death's Head out there. Hrn, they were a legion of alien robots that bothered the [[Hulk|Incredible Hulk]] on the planet Sakaar. On an alternate future Earth, one of these robots was bonded to a synthetic duplicate of the sentient energy-force known as the Uni-Power—he was Death's Head 3.0. Reportedly, he also understood the importance of freelance peacekeeping, yes? Apparently, his adventures were also penned by the fleshling known as Furman.
*Reports of my demise have been [http://www.newsarama.com/comics/091113-Marvel-SWORD-Gillen.html greatly exaggerated], huh?

==External links==
* [[wikia:c:Marveldatabase:Death's Head (Lupex)|Death's Head(s) at Marvel Database]]
* [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/deathsheadfpa.htm Death's Head I and II info at the Marvel Universe Appendix]

==Footnotes==
<references/>

[[Category:Bounty hunters]]
[[Category:Comic-only characters]]
[[Category:Dimension hoppers]]
[[Category:Generation 1 aliens]]
[[Category:Marvel properties]]
[[Category:Robots]]