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Optimus Prime (SG)

2012-09-27T22:38:11Z

86.146.100.27: /* Shattered Glass */

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{{disambig3.5|the evil Autobot leader|his heroic counterpart|Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime}}
:''Optimus Prime is the [[Prime (rank)|leader]] of the evil [[Autobot]]s from the [[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Optimusshatteredsipher.jpg|right|300px|thumb|EVIL LINCOLN'S '''''BAAAAAACK!!!''''']]
'''Optimus Prime''' is the sadistic, tyrannical leader of the evil [[Autobot]]s, a cruel and ambitious villain whose plans fall nothing short of universal conquest. First stop: [[Earth]]! The only thing standing in Prime's path to domination is [[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]], a young and noble [[Decepticon]] willing to lead a small band of rebels in a fight for freedom.

Long ago, he was a librarian named '''Optronix''' who cheated his way up through Cybertronian society. He formed the war-loving Autobots and initiated a war against the complacent, but it wasn't until a crucial, yet undocumented moment that he truly turned insane. He suspends the corpses of his enemies and would-be usurpers on the walls, talking to them as if they still lived. He is completely unhinged, prone to deadly outbursts against even his most loyal followers.

{{quote|Strike, my Autobots! Strike with all the power at your disposal! Let those who see our wisdom join us, and those who choose to stagnate be cut out like the rotting cancer they are!|Optimus Prime says it's on|"[[Shattered Glass]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Shattered Glass''===
[[Image:Optronixshattered.jpg|left|250px|thumb|The Dewey Decimal System is a cruel mistress.]]
Dangerously obsessive, Optronix worked as a librarian in the Great Cybertronian Archives. Backstabbing his way up the ranks, he soon amassed a following of like-minded Cybertronians who believed in his code of advancement through conflict. Suddenly, his armies attacked, sweeping through cities and killing those who refused to join them. {{storylink|Shattered Glass}} When the scientist [[Starscream (SG)|Starscream]] turned down Optronix's offer, he ordered Starscream's [[Crystal City]] home to be destroyed in front of him. {{storylink|Starscream (SG)|Starscream's toy bio card}} With their spoils, his "Autobots" began arming themselves with more complicated weaponry, but Optronix, now named Optimus Prime, saved the most advanced upgrades for himself. His hunger for power and knowledge ended one day without warning; he discovered something terrible that destroyed his mind, and in place of his cold calculations was now an unhinged mind bent on random, indiscriminate violence. He strung up his countless victims along the walls of [[Great Dome|his headquarters]] in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] and began talking to them, asking them mockingly for advice.

But [[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]], a young champion from [[Polyhex]], gathered an army to oppose him. Megatron's forces also had a way to counter Optimus Prime's military superiority: the ability to configure their bodies into alternate forms. It did not take long for Optimus Prime to steal this "Decepticon" technology for himself. {{storylink|Shattered Glass}}

[[Image:Invasion-MagnusFlashback.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Only an evil Optimus Prime would rip off someone's face! Except maybe [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|that guy]]]]

At some point Optimus Prime's brother [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]] staged a coup. It ended unsuccessfully, with Ultra Magnus losing his face and being imprisoned on [[Paradron]]. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}

When the Decepticons destroyed all but one of the rogue mercenary group named the [[Wrecker]]s in the battle of [[Praxus-Delta]], Optimus Prime welcomed their leader, [[Rodimus (SG)|Rodimus]], into his ranks. {{storylink|Rodimus (SG)|Rodimus's toy bio}} Increasingly paranoid, Optimus Prime began suspecting his subordinates of treachery. He killed the leader of his elite [[Seeker (SG)|Seeker]] unit, [[Drench (SG)|Drench]], and when he learned of Seeker [[Sideswipe (SG)|Sideswipe]]'s dissatisfaction with his leader's assassination, Prime staged an ambush to kill him. However, not only did Sideswipe narrowly escape and join the Decepticons, {{storylink|Sideswipe (SG)|Sideswipe's toy bio}} one of Optimus's few friends and savior at the [[Torus Heights]] battles, [[Cliffjumper (SG)|another Autobot]], happened to be at the [[Rad Zone|location of the ambush]] and did get killed. Optimus never learned of this though, and assumed Cliffjumper had died in the battle at [[Darkmount]]. {{storylink|Shattered Glass}} Optimus chose Rodimus in place of Sideswipe and [[Goldbug (SG)|Bumblebee]] to take Drench's place as the Seeker unit's new leader, having him rebuilt into the fearsome Goldbug. {{storylink|Goldbug (SG)|Goldbug's toy bio}}

Optimus began looking elsewhere. He targeted the distant planet Earth for conquest, had several of his Autobots reconfigure their bodies to transform into the machinery native to the planet, and began construction of an [[Ark (SG)|''Ark'']]. However, he requested so much weaponry to be built onto the starship that the integrity of the launching platform was in question. He dismissed these concerns.

[[Image:Optimusshatteredhallway.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Optimus got a [[Skyquake (SG)|Skyquake]] in his collection?? Wow! Yeah, the plastic [[Gold Plastic Syndrome|does that]].]]

Close to the ''Ark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s completion, [[Cliffjumper (SG)|Cliffjumper]] appeared to return from the dead. At first, he was readily welcomed back into their ranks, but they quickly learned that he was not their Cliffjumper at all, but a [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper doppelganger]]. Prime shot him and ordered his body dumped in the [[Rad Zone]]. This backfired, as Cliffjumper was recruited by the Decepticons, and during a subsequent full-scale Decepticon attack, his [[glass gas]] weaponry was used in an attack on the ''Ark'' launching platform. Prime's plans to conquer Earth were stopped for the moment. {{storylink|Shattered Glass}}

After a later Autobot ambush at the recently rediscovered [[Arch-Ayr]] fuel dump, the Cliffjumper doppelganger angrily rushed Optimus Prime, followed by the combined forces of the [[Mayhem Suppression Squad]]. Despite it all, Optimus Prime kept on his feet, though his rage was growing with every blow. No one, however, was expecting the sudden arrival of an army of [[Dinobot (SG)|Dinobot]]s led by the exiled mad scientist, [[Wheeljack (SG)|Wheeljack]]. Optimus Prime ordered the rampaging Dinobots to destroy the Decepticons, but instead the beasts attacked each other. During the chaos, both sides withdrew.

Optimus Prime was furious at the Autobots' failure. At [[Side Burn (SG)|Side Burn]]'s clever suggestion, Prime ordered Wheeljack be put in charge of rebuilding the ''Ark'', a task that the mad scientist felt was beneath him. Also, he demanded that the Dinobots be hunted down and gathered for the Autobots' purposes.

Blurr and Rodimus returned triumphantly with eight Dinobots, though Rodimus had lost his hand in the process. Optimus Prime stood over Rodimus as he awoke from [[Ratchet (SG)|Ratchet]]'s table: the traitorous Seeker now had a buzzsaw in place of where his hand used to be. A suitable punishment! Prime told Rodimus he should be grateful he let him live at all. Perhaps he should use the saw to remove that [[facial hair|ridiculous thing]] from his face? Though Blurr and Rodimus thought Grimlock had died during their search for the Dinobots, sure enough, Grimlock appeared, alive and strangely very intelligent, within their base. Optimus Prime was about to punish Grimlock as well, but Grimlock pointed out a fuel system error in the blueprints of the ''Ark''. The evil Autobot leader let the Dinobot leader go, but demanded someone be brought to him he could destroy. {{storylink|Dungeons & Dinobots}}

When Optimus Prime ordered the ''Ark'' fixed, he knew that the Decepticons would try to follow the Autobots into space. [[Jazz (SG)|Jazz]] mentioned that [[Ricochet (SG)|Ricochet]] had taken care of the Decepticons. Optimus's eyes filled with rage as he learned that Ricochet had captured Megatron. Prime immediately left to reprimand Ricochet for stealing the honor of destroying Megatron. Upon his arrival at the [[Temple of Knowledge]], Optimus and Ricochet were attacked by a group of Decepticon [[Micromaster]]s, allowing Megatron to escape. After a few turnabouts, Megatron won the day. The ''Ark'' launched without Optimus Prime (due to Rodimus' treachery), so Prime ordered a retreat. Once back at the launch site, he learned from Blurr that Rodimus had thrown the Autobots loyal to Prime off the ship. Optimus Prime ordered Ricochet to the [[Agonizing Rehabilitation Chamber]]s for his impudent plan of capturing Megatron. He also promised that Blurr had failed him for the last time. {{storylink|Do Over}}

In one of [[Aquarius (SG)|Aquarius]]' explanatory flashbacks to [[Breakaway (Classics)|Breakaway]], [[Topspin (Classics)|Topspin]], and [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], Optimus Prime asked [[Ironhide (SG)|Ironhide]] how progress was coming on [[Omega Doom]]. He was pleased to hear that it was going well, and gloated that once the behemoth was finished, the galaxy would be his for the taking.
[[Image:TakingOutRemotePatrol6_Reunification5.jpg|thumb|right|300px|I said, [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] [[FIRRIB|is blue!]]]]
In the present day, Rodimus promised that his assassins would take down Optimus Prime at the same time [[Alpha Trion (SG)|Alpha Trion]]'s agents took down Megatron, thus paving the way for their own conquering. {{storylink|Reunification: Part 3}}

Or not.

After the assassination of Megatron, [[Hound (SG)|Hound]] and [[Remote Patrol Six]] made their move, surrounding Optimus Prime and Ricochet as they discussed Megatron's death, intending to kill Optimus and install Rodimus in his place as Prime. Hound's rally cries failed to impress Optimus, and the Autobot leader proceeded to use Ricochet as a living shield against a blast from [[Warpath (SG)|Warpath's]] chest-mounted cannon, before crushing [[Kup (SG)|Kup's]] head with his bare hands, destroying Warpath's chest cannon, taking out Hound by flinging Warpath into him, and cannon-blasting [[Camshaft (SG)|Camshaft]] in the head.

However, the battle was not over yet, as [[Alpha Trion (SG)|Alpha Trion]], [[Sky Lynx (SG)|Sky Lynx]] and [[Nightscream (TransTech)|Nightscream]] had arrived to kill Optimus themselves. However, Prime introduced the trio to a completed [[Omega Doom]], who reduced Alpha Trion to a distant smear on the ground, before going off to destroy the Decepticons while Optimus dealt with Sky Lynx and Nightscream. {{storylink|Reunification: Part 5}}

At some unspecified point in time, a team of Autobots somehow under the command of both [[Rodimus (SG)|Rodimus Prime]] and Optimus Prime fought [[Thundercracker (SG)|Thundercracker]] and [[Ravage (SG)|Ravage]] in the Transformers' greatest battle on Earth, "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (SG)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." According to Ravage, anyway. {{storylink|Recordicons#Recordicons #3|Recordicons #3}}

Optimus Prime was destroyed and left to die during an important battle in [[Mirtonian constellation|Sector 17 of the Mirtonian Quadrant]]. After Prime was abandoned by his troops, he dragged himself into a nearby [[CR Chamber]], and with the help of a local tech, he was upgraded into a new body with a sword made out of a mysterious "[[G-Metal]]." Optimus Prime returned to Polyhex and murdered many of those who had abandoned him.

Some time after Prime returned, his brother Ultra Magnus and the [[Junkion (SG)|Junkion]]s were sprung from the prison planet of Paradron by Wheeljack and [[Tracks (SG)|Tracks]]. Optimus Prime watched over a viewscreen as Magnus killed several of his most loyal warriors. After Magnus and his new army escaped via the [[Stellar Spanner]] into an alternate universe, Optimus Prime activated a distress beacon, knowing that Magnus's rival [[Treadshot (SG)|Treadshot]] would do his dirty work for him. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}

==Toys==
===Timelines===
[[Image:Optimusprimesgtoy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Pimpimus Prime: all he needs is a tiger-print hat.]]
*'''Shattered Glass''' (BotCon box set, 2008)
**''Accessories'': Aero-fairing "ion blaster", smokestack rifle

:''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]''/''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (toyline)|Shattered Glass]]'' Optimus Prime is a purple, gray, and black [[redeco]] of ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]], transforming into a semi cab of undetermined, probably made-up model. In robot mode, his aero fairing transforms into a large ion blaster, and his smokestacks transform into a smaller blaster. Additionally, both can combine together to form a back-mounted shoulder weapon.

: Optimus Prime is only available as part of a set of six toys, along with [[Jazz (SG)|Autobot Jazz]], [[Grimlock (SG)|Grimlock]], [[Goldbug (SG)|Goldbug]], [[Razorclaw (SG)|Razorclaw]] and [[Starscream (SG)|Starscream]].

: His mold was also used for ''Classics'' [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Autobot/BCOptimusPrime/optimusprime.htm More information on Optimus Prime at TFU.info]''
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{{anchor|InvasionSGPrime}}
[[Image:Timelinestoy-BC2012OptimusPrime.jpg|right|thumb|300px|In the mirrorverse, Transformers get smaller and less impressive with each update.]]
*'''Invasion''' (BotCon souvenir set, 2012)
**''Accessories'': "G-Metal" sword

:Optimus Prime is a [[redeco]] of ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers]]'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Transformers (2010)|Optimus Prime]], and transforms into a racing truck in the same colors as the 2008 figure. A large Autobot [[insignia]] adorns the hood; along one side of the hood is inscribed "I shall stand...", with the other side reading "... the rest shall fall". He features a rub sign on his roof, and has a (non-detachable) matrix gimmick in robot mode formed by a relief pattern on the inside of the cab's side windows, which is visible through the windshield/chest in robot mode. He also comes with a sword that he can wield with both hands, and is folded up and stored between his legs in truck mode, forming the fifth wheel.

: Optimus Prime was packaged with ''Classics'' [[Kick-Off (G1)#Timelines|Kick-Over]], available for purchase by [[BotCon 2012]] attendees.

: This mold was also used to make [[Scourge (RID)#Timelines|''Timelines'' Scourge]], and was also retooled into ''Shattered Glass'' [[Ultra Magnus (SG)#Timelines|Ultra Magnus]].

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==Notes==
* Evil Optimus Prime's bio art was featured on the back of one of two t-shirts made available at BotCon 2008, and later on the [[Fun Publications]] Official [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] web-store.
* ''Shattered Glass'' fiction writers [[Trent Troop]] and [[Greg Sepelak]] have said that evil Optimus sounds like Venger, the [[wikipedia:Dungeons & Dragons (TV series)|''Dungeons & Dragons'' cartoon]] villain voiced by [[Peter Cullen]].
*He may or may not have a [[Combat Deck (SG)|trailer]].

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Tailgate (Prime)

2012-09-27T17:47:54Z

86.146.100.27: /* Notes */

{{disambig3|Tailgate}}
{{faction|autobot}}
:''Tailgate is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers: Prime (franchise)| Prime]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[Image:Prime-TailgateCardArt.jpg|rigght|thumb|300px|Proud sponsor of Tailgate toothpaste]]

'''Tailgate''' once worked alongside [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]]. They really didn't get along at first, but their fighting skills were pretty evenly matched, and the two became a powerful, nigh-unstoppable team.

And then they went and got caught, and Tailgate went and got dead. Arcee didn't take that very well.

{{TOCclear}}

==Fiction==
===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[Image:Predatory-partner.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Arcee should stay away from [[Mini Vehicle]]s.]]
{{voiceactor|[[Josh Keaton]] (English), [[Yuichi Ishigami]] (Japanese)|[[Jan Kurbjuweit]] (German), [[Óscar Flores]] (Latin American Spanish)}}

Tailgate was a member of [[Delta Team]] during an unnamed battle. He failed to take out a sniper, forcing Arcee to enter hand-to-hand combat. As the two discussed where to rendezvous, Arcee was captured by [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]]. Later, Tailgate was also captured and brought before the two of them. Airachnid threatened to kill Tailgate unless she was told the co-ordinates of an impending attack. After Arcee claimed she did not know them, Airachnid made good on that threat. Arcee escaped the same fate, but Tailgate's death hit her ''hard''. {{Storylink|Predatory}}

Later, Arcee found herself captive yet again, this time alongside [[Cliffjumper (Prime)|Cliffjumper]], and left to the mercies of [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]]. After escaping the Decepticon, Cliffjumper reminded her that he knew about Tailgate (after all, he was part of the rescue party that freed her from Airachnid's clutches), so he understood why she was being such a loner. {{storylink|Out of the Past}}

When Airachnid and Arcee later encountered each other on [[Earth]], Airachnid would often torment her foe by bringing up what happened to Tailgate. {{storylink|Predatory}} {{storylink|Metal Attraction}} {{storylink|Partners}} While fighting with Arcee, Starscream taunted her by asking if Tailgate was "weak like Cliffjumper." {{storylink|Partners}}

Arcee would remind her teammates of how Airachnid was not the only 'Con to have taken a partner away from her. {{storylink|Crossfire}}

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==Toys==
===Prime===
{{anchor|Cyberverse}}
[[Image:Prime-toy Tailgate.jpg|thumb|right|300px|For the first time in years, he really went old school.]]
*'''Tailgate''' (Cyberverse Legion, 2012)
**''Series/Number:'' '''2 / 014'''
**''Accessories:'' "Dual Ion Blaster"

:Part of the fourth wave of ''Prime'' [[Cyberverse]] Legion-class toys, Tailgate is a [[redeco]] of [[Cliffjumper (Prime)#Toys|Cliffjumper]], transforming into a white and blue muscle car resembling a [[Wikipedia:Dodge Challenger|Dodge Challenger]]. He has 3mm holes in his roof, doors and fists for mounting Cyberverse-scale weapons. The gun he comes with is the same as Cyberverse [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]]'s, being modeled after the dual-blasters present in Bumblebee's character model.

==Notes==
* They should ''really'' stop partnering bots who look like that with Arcee, good thing [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] [[Cliffjumper (G1)|look]] [[Cliffjumper (Movie)|like]] [[Cliffjumper (Animated)|them]]
* Tailgate shares his voice actor with Arcee's current partner, [[Jack Darby]].

[[Category:Prime Autobots]]
[[Category: Cyberverse]]

Night and the City

2012-09-06T15:50:08Z

86.146.8.144: Undo revision 749093 by Chris McFeely (Talk)

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|story by=[[John Barber]]
|art by=[[Andrew Griffith]]
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]]
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'''As Bumblebee continues to struggle with the burden of leadership, the Dinobots stalk Ironhide through the Cybertronian wilderness.'''

==Synopsis==

The demands of planetary governing weighing heavily upon him, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] takes a brief moment of peace to perch on the hull of [[Turmoil]]'s captured spaceship, stare up at the stars, and wonder about using the time machine in the ship to undo past mistakes. His reverie is abruptly ended by the crash-landing of [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], who has just barely made it back to the city after the disorienting effects he felt while transporting [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] into the wilderness. His report gives Bumblebee pause to wonder if some external force could be controlling the [[Autobot]]s, [[Decepticon]]s and [[NAIL]]s, causing their conflicts, but [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] debunks the theory when he scans Sky Lynx and confirms that the mind-altering effects are not occurring within [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. Wheeljack offers three possibily reasons why: simple luck, some still-active mechanism in the heart of [[Kimia Facility|Kimia]] is protecting them, or... the planet itself is responsible, wanting to keep the Transformers together. As if on cue, [[Metalhawk]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] arrive to offer their help finding Ironhide's team, but Bumblebee turns them down; Starscream thinks he is attempting to prevent him from currying favour with the populous in the face of upcoming elections, and although Metalhawk disputes so outlandish a claim, Bumblebee remains silent...

Out in the wilderness, the wounded Ironhide awakens to the sight of [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] and [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] in battle, and attempts to sneak away, only to be stopped by the still-living [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]]—largely unaffected by the destruction of his dino-mode head—who has also come under the same uncontrollable rage that has seized the others. [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]], too, proves to still be alive, and his entry into the fray gives Ironhide a chance to get to safety. Activating his comm device, Ironhide picks up a recording from the missing [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], locks onto its source, and begins heading toward it.

Bumblebee visits [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] to speak with [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], hoping his disaffected comrade will rejoin the fold to help search for the missing Ironhide. Blurr is reluctant, seeing in [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] the same unemotional, black-and-white views on life and death as those held by [[Zeta Prime]]—whose life Blurr saved upon joining the Autobots—but Bumblebee is able to talk him into helping. Their conversation is observed by [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] and [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] at the behest of [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], who has charged them with a special mission... although unbeknownst to the Decepticons, ''they'' are also being observed by the gun-toting [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]].

Making his way through the wilds, Ironhide listens as Silverbolt's recording explains that the madness also took hold of the other four [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], but that over time, they all began working together to hunt their leader down. Ironhide soon learns that the same has happened to the Dinobots as they catch up to him and attack, but he is able to push them back and breaks into a run, covering the last of the distance to the source of Silverbolt's signal. What he finds, however, is anything but expected: somehow, the five Aerialbots have become merged into one single being: a titan that scoops Ironhide up into the safety of his grip, and turn on the Dinobots, introducing himself as [[Superion (G1)|The Superion]]!

Bumblebee returns to Turmoil's ship to try and clear his head, and finds Wheeljack there, still working on the time machine. Bumblebee half-joking proposes several uses for the device, but Wheeljack explains that it does not allow for travel back and forth through time, only sideways, meaning that there will be no easy answers. Unfortunately, the ship chooses that moment to ''vanish'': whether stolen by enemies or departed of its own volition, no-one can say, but it's just one more problem for Bumblebee's list... as the weight of leadership grows ever greater...

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==Quotes==

'''Starscream:''' "We figured you guys could use a couple of fliers to help find '''Ironhide''' and the '''Monsterbots'''." 
'''Bumblebee:''' "Dinobots." 
'''Starscream:''' "Whatever. I figure four '''morons''' and a 'bot who's '''already crazy''' are probably going to be worse off than '''Lynx'''." 
'''Bumblebee:''' "You—'''what?''' Ironhide's not crazy—" 
'''Starscream:''' "Bumblebee, he thinks Obama is a good choice for president!." 
'''Metalhawk:''' "You '''do''' know what '''"crazy"''' means...?"

"'''I... ron... hide... You... you have... found we...''' Us... am... were... '''Aerialbots.''' Now... Dinobots... you answer to the '''Superion.'''"
:—'''Superion''' is obviously a little mixed-up

==Notes==
*This issue is named after the 1938 Gerald Kirsh novel, ''[[wikipedia:Night and the City (novel)|Night and the City]]''.
*Wheeljack has a panel welded to his chest, covering the hole blown in him by Turmoil back in [[Interference Patterns|issue #7]].
*Blurr refers back to his saving Zeta Prime's life, the setup for which occurred in ''[[Spotlight: Blurr]]''. The unfortunate ramifications of this, as Zeta descended into zealotry, were chronicled in ''[[The Transformers: Autocracy|Autocracy]]''.
*Given that Turmoil's time-travelling ship matches the craft piloted by the Reflectors that crashed on [[LV-117]] in ''[[Spotlight: Wheelie]]'', and their talk of being "fated" to carry out this mission, it looks like author John Barber is poised to resolve one of the most notable longstanding continuity errors in the IDW timeline: the fact that the Reflectors have been appearing alive despite their deaths in ''Spotlight: Wheelie''. Time travel fixes all ills!

===Errors===
* In between pages 11 and 12, Circuit is suddenly colored like [[Rumbler (G1)|Rumbler]].

===Covers (3)===
* '''Cover A:''' The shadow of Superion looms over Ironhide, by [[Andrew Griffith]] and [[Josh Perez]].
* '''Cover B:''' A model city made of glass crumbles in Bumblebee's hand, with Ironhide, Starscream, Silverbolt and Blurr reflected in its shards, by [[Casey Coller]] and [[Joana Lafuente]].
* '''Cover RI:''' Swoop breathes fire at a jet, by [[Marcelo Matere]] and [[Joana Lafuente]].

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The Transformers: Regeneration One

2012-06-12T12:41:45Z

86.146.248.51:

[[Image:Regeneration One 80-5 art.jpg‎|thumb|250px|Yes, it's back!]]
'''''The Transformers: Regeneration One''''' is a limited series published by [[IDW Publishing]], set in the main [[Marvel Comics continuity]]. It is set 21 years after the events of [[End of the Road! (US)|issue #80]] (the final issue of the Marvel series).

The series is written by [[Simon Furman]], who also wrote the final 24 issues of the US Marvel series. Joining him is [[Andrew Wildman]] on pencils and [[Stephen Baskerville]] on inks.<ref>http://wildwords.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/transformers-regeneration-one/</ref> [[John-Paul Bove]]<ref>http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?sid=8659944f841c01c44147fe1f282058cf&p=279599#279599</ref> provides colors.

Issue #80.5 was given away as part of [[Free Comic Book Day]] on [[May 5]], [[2012]], and the series proper will be published monthly (with issue #81 in July) until issue #100.<ref>http://www.allspark.com/content/view/10004/16/</ref>

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* [[Counterpoint|#80.5]]
* #81
* #82
* #83
* #84
* #85
* #86
* #87
* #88
* #89
* #90
* #91
* #92
* #93
* #94
* #95
* #96
* #97
* #98
* #99
* #100
}}

{{quote|noquote=true|"Even way back in the day, there was never any question in my mind of either treating the robots just as robots -- they were characters, first and foremost, and getting readers to care about them and what happened to them was paramount to me -- or writing down to the kids who'd be reading the comic."|'''Simon Furman'''}}

==Overview==
*TBD

==Collections==
* Unknown at this time.

==Notes==
* TBD

==References==
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Pax Cybertronia (issue)

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|art by=[[Casey Coller]]
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]]
|letters by=[[Neil Uyetake]]
|associate editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|editor=[[John Barber]]
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'''In a new era of peace, Ironhide and Alpha Trion reflect on how they stopped Obama's evil plan...'''

==Synopsis==
On [[Gorlam Prime]], it is a time of peace, and [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] entertains a group of three young [[Autobot]]s with tales of times past. The four speak of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s [[Megatron Origin issue 4|insurrection]], the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]' [[Spotlight: Shockwave|attack]] on [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s [[Escalation issue 5|defeat]] by Megatron. The stories are cut short when the fireworks for the upcoming [[Remembrance Night]] ceremony begins and Alpha suggests the youths go home. One youth expresses preference for Alpha's stories over the [[media-tron]]—his experiences are much more '''real'''. This comment prompts an arriving [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] to rebuff Alpha's supposed presence at events during the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. The young Autobots are in awe of the veteran and, after a question, leave to their homes to prepare for the ceremony.

At the ceremony, the speaker establishes that it has been fifteen million years since the end of the Unification War and the [[Great Years]]. He introduces the key speaker for the event, the last veteran at Gorlam, Ironhide. Ironhide makes his speech, noting that the prosperous time they live in is what the Autobots fought for all those years. He recalls the [[Stormbringer issue 4|fight]] against [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]], Megatron's [[All Hail Megatron issue 1|invasion]] of [[Earth]], his own [[Any Old Iron|fight]] against the [[Insecticon swarm]], and Megatron's [[Chaos Part Four: Genesis|battle]] against the [[D-Void]]. Ironhide finishes his speech, expressing that his time has passed and leaves the hall.

Outside, Alpha Trion finds Ironhide looking at the stars. Alpha asks the old [[Transformer]] if he believes Megatron is still out there and comforts him with the thought that Optimus Prime, too, is still out there. Ironhide doesn't understand why he is being honored—he did little else but punch [[Decepticon]]s. Now, he's just a relic of a bygone era who did nothing to build the current civilization. Alpha Trion tells him that the future is based on the past, and that Ironhide's contributions are vital to understanding what is to come. One of the three young Autobots comes up to the pair and asks Ironhide what would happen if Megatron returned. When Ironhide points out that they stopped him before and can stop him again, the young one asks him to tell him the story of Megatron's defeat.

==Featured characters==

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*Autobot youths (1–3)
*[[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] (4)
*[[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] (11)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (13)
*[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] (14)
*[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] (15)
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (17)
*[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (18)
*[[Slag (G1)|Slag]] (19)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (20)

|c2=
*[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (5)
*[[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] (6)
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (7)
*[[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] (8)
*[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (9)
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (10)
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (12)
*[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (16)
*[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] (21)
*[[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] (22)
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (23)
*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (24)
*[[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] (25)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (26)
*[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (27)
*[[Insecticon swarm]] (28)

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*[[D-Void]]/[[Deceptigod]] (29)
}}

==Notes==
*The young Autobots sport the ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'' Autobot [[insignia]].
*Statues of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]], [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]], and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] adorn the scenery of Gorlam Prime in this issue.
* This issue was released as part of IDW's Photo Cover Month, which also includes the upcoming [[Death of Optimus Prime]] issue.

===Errors===
* On page 4, Megatron is seen with his Decepticon symbol neckchain. However, in ''Megatron Origin'', when he was about to give his deathblow to Sentinel Prime, he never wore this chain. Casey Coller admitted on his deviantArt page that he added it in to make the scene look cool.

===Covers (3)===
* '''Cover A:''' ''Revoltech'' Megatron toy; photo by [[Rik Alvarez]]
* '''Cover B:''' Close-up of Ironhide staring at the stars; art by [[Casey Coller]] and colors by [[Joana Lafuente]]
* '''Cover RI:''' ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' poster homage, with Optimus Prime, Rodimus, Bumblebee, Ironhide and Prowl replacing Ultra Magnus, Kup, Springer, Arcee and Blurr respectively; art by [[Trevor Hutchison]]

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Pax Cybertronia (issue)

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Cybertron (planet)

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[[Image:Cybertronplanet.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The planet Cybertron, as seen in the original series. Not pictured: Realistically sized buildings.]]

'''Cybertron''' is the home planet of the [[Transformer|Transformers]] and (usually) the body of their creator, [[Primus]]. Cybertron is ([[Beast Machines (cartoon)|almost]] [[Universe (2003 comic)| always]]) a shining metal, technological world; a planet of towering future cities without end and vast metallic plains, spiraling metal mountains and bottomless neon-lit chasms. Battling over control of Cybertron and its resources is frequently the motivation for, or origin of, the Transformers epic wars. Beyond these facts much about Cybertron can differ between continuities, see individual entries below.

{{bigquote|This world is older than you can imagine. It has sailed the starscape...tending budding galaxies...forever a buffer to [[Unicron|the approaching darkness]]. And now its fate...is in your hands.|A voice to [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]|[[The War Within issue 6|''The War Within'' #6]]}}

==Generation 1 / Beast Era==
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===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[Image: Marvel issue 1 Cybertron.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Just another Alpha Centauri sunrise.]]
Cybertron was the adopted form of the lord of the light gods [[Primus]], who trapped himself and [[Unicron]] in barren asteroids which they then shaped into their physical forms. While Unicron turned his prison into a transformable, humanoid body, Primus reformed himself into a vast Saturn-sized machine-world, home for a [[Transformer| robotic race]] he created to fight Unicron with similar [[Transformation| transformation]] abilities. {{storylink|Primal Scream (issue)|Primal Scream}}

{{note|A Saturn-sized metal world like Cybertron is an impossibility under our current understanding of the laws of physics. Then again it was created by and infused with the power of a “space god” so, well, if anyone’s gonna bend those laws…}}

It has been suggested that the [[Demon]]s in the darkness were the world’s original inhabitants, locked away beneath the world by Primus, though this remains unconfirmed.
Aside from the Transformers, the world seems to possess the mechanical equivalent of plant and animal life, though the exact nature and origin of this lower "life" has never been examined in detail. This version of Cybertron has rough hewn [[Manganese Mountains|mountain ranges]] and great [[Rust Sea|seas]]. (Though of note these seas are not made of water. Liquid water is so rare on Cybertron as to be thought a mythical substance. Alternative substances these bodies are filled with are mercury {{storylink|The Smelting Pool!}} and liquid helium {{storylink|Primal Scream (issue)|Primal Scream}}/{{storylink|Letters page (Marvel UK)|Darn 'n' Blast #303}}) The atmosphere and temperature on most of the surface is such that human life can survive unaided.

In its earliest recorded era Cybertron orbited [[Alpha Centauri]], and the Transformers were at peace. But the avaricious [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] sought to rule the planet and turn it into a "cosmic [[wikipedia:Dreadnought|dreadnaught]]". This plan would find a kind of fruition, but not what Megatron intended: The cataclysmic forces of his [[Cybertronian Civil Wars|wars]] eventually sent the planet careening through deep space.

Its aimless journey brought it near [[Earth]] four million years ago. When our [[asteroid belt]] threatened it, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] led an expedition to clear the way. They were successful, but they were ambushed by [[Decepticons]] led by Megatron, and their battle ended with a crash-landing on Earth that left all the combatants deactivated. Their compatriots on Cybertron mourned their loss but continued the wars. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}}

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In the modern day, Prime and Megatron's troops were reactivated, and they eventually found their way back to Cybertron. The world had changed little in the intervening eons, but the return of the old legends helped bring about the fulfillment of the planet's destiny. Deep below the surface, a small group of the once-lost Autobots fought the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] in a chamber containing the giant head of Primus. A stray shot hit the god's face, and he awoke with a scream that alerted Unicron to his location. When the Chaos Bringer arrived, the Autobots and Decepticons united against him, but the battle still wreaked havoc on the planet. Unicron was defeated by the opening of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]], which destroyed both deities. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}} In the aftermath, Cybertron suffered storms and earthquakes that many believed would tear the world apart. {{storylink|Exodus!}} The remaining Transformers evacuated, but Cybertron was ultimately saved by a [[Neo-Knights|band of humans]] who awakened the [[Last Autobot]]. {{storylink|The Last Autobot?}} He was, it turned out, a safeguard put in place by Primus to guide the planet's reconstruction after the god's “death.” Cybertron was healed and for a time there was peace.

====Significant Locations====
*Cybertron has two moons. {{storylink|The Bridge to Nowhere!}}

*Cybertron was historically organized into city-states, the largest and most important being [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. Others have included [[Kalis]], [[Tarn]], and [[Vos]]. Within the province of [[Polyhex]] was the Decepticon stronghold called [[Darkmount]].

*Beneath the [[Mutant (G1)|Mutant]] filled sewers, the [[Demon|Demons in the Darkness]] were locked away.

*At the center of this Cybertron there was a room with a huge head of Primus on the wall where he slept and was watched over by the [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]]. Somewhere within the depths of Cybertron could also be found a chamber containing the [[Last Autobot]].

===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
[[Image:Cybertron-mtmte-actioncards1.jpg|left|180px|thumb|And that, my friends, is when you say "Look out below!"]]
Cybertron appeared [[Scale|considerably smaller than the planet Earth]]. Entirely metallic on the surface, some of the [[Organic core| lowest levels]] of Cybertron consisted of rock and dirt, suggesting an organic beginning to the planet. Its gravity was light enough that [[Human|humans]] were able to traverse the surface without any trouble, and it possessed a breathable atmosphere. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2}} [[Water]], or at least a substance resembling it, was in evidence on the planet—lakes and rivers have been shown to exist, albeit sparingly. {{storylink|Grimlock's New Brain}} {{storylink|War Dawn}} Many levels below the surface was the energy-furnace, the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], {{storylink|The Rebirth}} and at the heart of the planet was the spherical mega-computer, [[Vector Sigma]]. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1}}

[[Image:G1 Cybertron's galaxy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|LOOK HOW LOUD I HAVE TO YELL!]]
Cybertron was orbited by at least three unnamed moons, but its own place in the cosmos appears unfixed—in [[1984]], it was clearly shown to exist outside of the [[Milky Way]]; on the cusp of an entirely different galaxy, in fact. {{storylink|Roll for It}} Nine million years prior, however, [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] and [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] had been able to fly from their home planet to Earth under their own power, {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}} suggesting that it may drift freely through space, and had been passing through the Sol System at that point, going on to drift out of the galaxy over the ensuing millennia.

If the assorted colourful exclamations made by numerous Transformers are anything to go by, Cybertron also played host to [[:Category:Cybertronic wildlife|a vast array of fauna]], including but not limited to: [[ant-droid|ant-droids]], [[bolt-bat|bolt-bats]], [[cyber-duck|cyber-ducks]], [[dynametal duck|dynametal ducks]], [[electro-toad|electro-toads]], [[glitch mouse|glitch mice]], [[guinea pig-o-tron|guinea pig-o-trons]], [[helio-hamster|helio-hamsters]], [[hydro-weasel|hydro-weasels]], [[photovoltaic pussycat|photovoltaic pussycats]], [[pidgeonoid]]s, [[retrorat|retrorats]], [[robo-rat|robo-rats]], [[sheepacron|sheepacrons]], [[titanium moosebot|titanium moosebots]], [[turbofox|turbofoxes]], [[zap-mouse|zap-mice]] and [[robotopossum|robotopossums]].

Twelve million years ago, the [[Quintesson]]s used Cybertron as a factory to manufacture their robot creations. Notably, the origins of the planet are never explicitly stated—the Quintessons may have built it, terraformed an organic world, or colonized an existing metal planet. Whatever the case, after a million years, the Quintessons were forced to abandon Cybertron when their robots evolved true sentience and feelings, and knew they were being used as slaves, rebelling in the [[Cybertronian Civil Wars|First Cybertronian War]]. The second war was soon to come, however, when the robots splintered into two factions, the peace-loving [[Autobot]]s and the war-mongering [[Decepticon]]s—and began fighting amongst themselves. With the Autobots' innovation of transformation, they were able to win—or at least stalemate—the war, and a period of peace descended on Cybertron, which shone with a healthy golden glow, distinguishing the period as the "[[Golden Age]]". {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4}}

Eventually, however, Decepticons adopted transformation as well, along with robot-mode flight, and around nine million years ago, the creation of the Decepticon [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] re-ignited the war on Cybertron. Megatron rallied like-minded individuals to his cause, and brainwashed others into his service, quickly killing the current Autobot leader in a strike on one of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]'s outer cities. With this act kept out of the public knowledge, rumors circulated as Autobot machinesmith [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] worked diligently on a new process to reconstruct Autobots into battle-hardy configurations for the war he knew was coming. That war finally erupted in full when Megatron fatally injured a naive young dock worker, Orion Pax, and Alpha Trion made him the first subject of his new process, reconstructing him into [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], who would lead the Autobots in the [[Great War (G1)|Third Cybertronian War]]. {{storylink|War Dawn}}

[[Image:Cybertron-mtmte-actioncards2.jpg|right|180px|thumb|]]
After a further five million years of war, during which many Autobots fled the planet, the Decepticons had acquired a large hold on the planet, with the majority of it under their control. The main Autobot force continued to operate from the capital city-state of Iacon, but Cybertron's energy levels were depleted to a dangerous low, necessitating a space mission to locate a new planet with new sources of energy that the Transformers could harness. Optimus Prime led his best and brightest on the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], but they were pursued by Megatron's elite troops, and all were stranded in stasis on Earth for four million years. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}

[[Image:Cybertron-mtmte-actioncards3.jpg|left|180px|thumb|The white zone is for blasting Autobots only.]]
In the ensuing four million years, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], who Megatron had left in charge as guardian of the planet, maintained the Decepticon hold on the planet, though he was unaware of the continued guerrilla efforts of [[Elita One]]'s [[Female Autobots]] to undermine him as they raided his energy supplies. {{storylink|The Search for Alpha Trion}} Eventually, Cybertron's energy level dipped so low as to put the planet in immediate, mortal danger. Reestablishing contact with Megatron, who had awoken with the other Transformers on Earth in the year 1984, Shockwave co-designed the [[Space Bridge]], an intergalactic transport system that could transport [[Energon (fuel)|Energon]] Cubes from Earth to Cybertron, abating the planet's impending doom. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}}

[[Image:UltimateDoom2 Cybertron Earth.JPG|right|180px|thumb|I see a Cybertron a-risin'. I see trouble on the way.]]
Cybertron's place in the universe was forcibly altered in 1984 when the Decepticons constructed a colossal Space Bridge that actually transported the entire planet into the [[Solar system|Sol system]], into Earth's orbit,{{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}} where its gravity wreaked havoc with the planet's natural balance, unleashing an unending torrent of energy created by natural disasters. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} The energy acquired re-energized Cybertron enough to put it out of the danger zone, but the planet was soon knocked out of orbit by a massive Energon explosion, and set drifting off through the solar system.{{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}} At this closer range, Cybertron remained easily accessed throughout 1985 at least, with the Autobots now able to reach it by conventional transportation ([[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]), rather than having to constantly hijack use of the spacebridge. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1}}

By the Earth year 2005, Cybertron had exited the Sol system, but, remaining within the Milky Way, was still relatively easily accessible by shuttlecraft from Earth. By this time, the Decepticon forces had succeeded in conquering the entire planet, forcing all the Autobots off it, leading them to relocate to [[Autobot City]] on Earth, and to two staging ground bases on two of [[Moonbase One|Cybertron]]'s [[Moonbase Two|moons]]. It was at this time that Cybertron came under attack from the world eater, [[Unicron]], who consumed the two moonbases and assaulted Cybertron itself, only to be destroyed by the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Autobot Matrix of Leadership]]. His deactivated, decapitated head fell into orbit around Cybertron, a grisly new satellite to replace those he had destroyed. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}} With the Decepticon forces in disarray after Unicron's attack, [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] and his troops succeeded in driving their foes off Cybertron, reclaiming the planet for the Autobots, and restoring and re-energizing much of the planet by 2006, {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1}} when the world came under frequent attacks from the returning Quintessons, whose previously-secret history with the Transformers came to light. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5}}

In the year 2007, Cybertron was once again wrenched from its place in space when [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and the Decepticons invaded the planet and constructed a massive [[planetary engine]] that propelled Cybertron back into Earth orbit once more. Once there, Galvatron opened the Plasma Energy Chamber, intending for the energy release to drive the Sun supernova, consuming Earth, Cybertron and everything else in one final destructive blow. [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and the Autobots' [[Nebulan]] allies were able to stop this plan by reversing the rocket engine, which drained off the excess solar energy and channeled it straight into Vector Sigma, which used it to fully re-energize Cybertron. Its rich golden hue restored, Cybertron entered a new Golden Age. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 3}}

====Japanese cartoon continuity====

{{note|The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese cartoon continuity as detailed above, except that the events of "The Rebirth" do not occur. Japanese continuity inserts several new stories into the timeline, including an extensive 2007 retcon that revealed the complicated origins of Cybertron in this continuity.}}
=====''Kiss Players''=====

[[Image:OracleMatrix.jpg|left|180px|thumb|"It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree."]]
12 billion years ago, the ancient genius [[Primacron]] and his assistant, the [[Oracle (G1)|Oracle]] were attacked by Primacron's renegade creation Unicron. The Oracle's body was destroyed, but his essence, encased within a protective shell, fled to a dead planet at the center of the universe, which he proceeded to transform into a verdant, living world.

In time, the Quintessons discovered the Oracle's world and invaded, taking control of the Oracle and his powers. The Oracle was transformed by the Quintessons into the mega-computer [[Vector Sigma]] and also obtained the shell that had held his essence, which went on to become the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Using the power of the [[Key to Vector Sigma]], the Quintessons transformed the Oracle's green planet into the metallic Cybertron. {{storylink|Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)|2007 TakaraTomy Transformers timeline}}
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=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====

In 2011, it was discovered that the release of the energy of the Matrix by Optimus Prime to cure the [[Hate Plague]] had much more far-reaching consequences that anyone suspected. With the Matrix's energy depleted, Vector Sigma's balance—permanently tilted in favor of the Autobots by the existence of the Matrix—was reset to neutrality, allowing the Decepticons, bolstered by their new [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] troops, to freely invade Cybertron. Eventually, this forced Optimus Prime to sacrifice his life by merging with Vector Sigma in order to stabilize the computer before it destroyed Cybertron from within.{{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}} {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}} {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}

Not long thereafter, Vector Sigma developed a new metal alloy dubbed [[Cybertonuron]], which enticed Galvatron into another raid on the planet. However, the Decepticon Headmaster leader, [[Scorponok (G1)|Zarak]], feared the power that Galvatron would gain from the alloy, and so, to prevent either him or the Autobots from obtaining it, arranged for his Headmasters to plant bombs at the core of the planet, within Vector Sigma's chamber. The Autobots were unable to stop the countdown and the bombs detonated, tearing Cybertron apart and leaving it a charred uninhabitable ruin drifting in space. {{Storylink|Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1}} {{Storylink|Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 2}}

=====''G-2'' story pages=====
When the Autobots and Decepticons finally laid down their arms and forged the [[Cybertron Alliance]], they rebuilt and restored Cybertron, using the energy known as [[Nucleon]], which Optimus Prime recovered from the core of a [[black hole]].

===Beast continuity===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
[[Image:CybertronBW Transwarp.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Sunny with an 80% chance of lens flares. If you're traveling, watch out for transwarp waves.]]
[[Image:CybertronBW SolarSystem.jpg|right|150px|thumb|At least it's finally trying to keep an orbit.]]
Three hundred years after the end of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], the Autobots and Decepticons had faded into obscurity while their descendants, the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], dominated Cybertron. The planet had found a star to orbit (eccentrically, but still), which reflected the relative stability that had come upon Cybertronian culture at last. The Maximals, inheriting the [[Pax Cybertronia]], ruled over the Predacons in a time of uneasy truce. Peacetime diversions had sprung up, such as the [[Six Lasers Over Cybertron]] amusement park. Or for more "mature" amusement, one could find joints where the servers went around without their torso plates on.

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====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
[[Image:CybertronBM Season1.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Amidst Megatron's spark collection, a little pocket of validation blossomed.]]
The tranquility of that age would come to a rapid end when [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] returned from the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] and set a [[Transformation virus|virus]] loose on the world that incapacitated the population and paved the way for [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] rule.

As [[Optimus Primal]] and his Maximals fought back, several facts about the planet became apparent. It had at least two moons, one with big gashes in its surface. The Maximal city of [[Cybertropolis]] had been built over the ruins of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] and was home to billions of Transformers. And this was just the latest example of an eons-old trend of vertical expansion. In fleeing from the Vehicons, the Maximals found many layers of abandoned civilization, all the way down to the rocky crust of the world. There, fossils existed of bats, dinosaurs, and birds (which were well-preserved enough to harbor DNA). A few plants, such as trees and flowers, were seen growing underground or even occasionally breaking through to the surface. And stranger yet, drilling through the rock revealed the planet's green, oozing "organic core".

[[Image:CybertronBM Season2.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Times were so dark, the sun had a shadow.]]
Another previously-unseen feature of the planet—but one that went unremarked upon—was its heavy cloud cover. Across dimensions and timeframes, Cybertron has been conspicuously devoid of visible weather systems. But when the Maximals returned from the Beast Wars, their view from orbit showed extensive, unmistakable clouds (which were also seen from the ground). This wouldn't last forever, though: By the time [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] arrived, the clouds had vanished again. The only major planetary event in the meantime was the doomsday energy storm that occurred when Primal and Megatron pitted the [[Plasma energy|Plasma Energy Chamber]] against the [[Key to Vector Sigma]]. However, it is unclear whether this actually caused any meteorological effects.

Finding a chamber of fossils, [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] drew the conclusion that Cybertron's animals had been driven extinct by colonizing robots, a theory mildly supported by Primal's conviction that a balance between organic and mechanical needed to be "restored" to the planet. In the end, Primal's dream became a reality when he applied his "[[reformatting]]" power to the organic core and converted the entire world to a [[technorganic]] state.

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=====''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon=====
Tens of thousands of years into the future, in the era of the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], Cybertron was reigned over by Vector Sigma itself, who handed down orders through the ruling body known as the [[Convoy Council]]. {{storylink|Big Convoy, Move Out}} When Unicron attempted to engineer his rebirth following his destruction eons beforehand, his [[Angolmois|lifeforce]] possessed Vector Sigma and briefly transformed Cybertron into his new body before he was defeated by [[Big Convoy]].

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===3H comics continuity===
According to the [[Al-Badur]], the Quintessons had once served Unicron, and in so doing, they found the "dimensional landing" of Primus: Cybertron. Rather than alert their master, however, they decided to capitalize on their discovery for their own purposes. They attempted to subvert Primus's creations via the Plasma Energy Chamber, but the [[Trans-Organic|results]] were disastrous. Success came when they placed a shell program over [[Vector Sigma]] and channeled the divine power into creating a subservient race. That race would one day rebel and become the Transformers, but the Quintessons' influence remained in the form of the Vector Sigma shell program—otherwise known as the Oracle. Primus could nonetheless sometimes send messages from Vector Sigma through the Oracle, but it is difficult to tell the difference. {{storylink|Disclosure}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
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{{note|The only continuity in which Cybertron has been mapped to some extent. A map of one hemisphere of the planet appears in the DK Transformers Ultimate Guide.}}

===Devil's Due comics continuity===
There aren't many details revealed in regards to Cybertron's past, but it involved the [[Quintesson]]s creating both [[Trans-Organic|transorganics]] and the gladiator and slave races that would evolve into the Decepticons and Autobots. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 1}}

Following Optimus Prime and Megatron's crash on Earth, Cybertron was conquered by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]. The planet was also the location of [[Teletran 3]], which accidentally transported members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] and [[Cobra]] to the alien world. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1}}

Shockwave was eventually defeated and the Decepticons were driven back to the [[Gladiator Zone]], allowing Cybertron to be at peace for the first time in millennia. A [[warp gate]] was set up between Cybertron and [[Area 52 (G1)|Area 52]] on Earth. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 1}} The peace was interrupted when [[Serpent O.R.]] warped to Cybertron and took control of the Decepticons, but he was eventually defeated. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 5}} Notable locations on Cybertron included [[Capitol City]] and the large junkyards where the [[cannibalizer]]s would reside. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3}}

After the death of Serpent O.R., Cybertron was peaceful yet again, and seemingly stayed that way. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2}}

===IDW comics continuity===
The Transformers' homeworld is located around [[wikipedia:Lambda_Scorpii|Shaula]] which can be seen from Earth as the second brightest object in the constellation [[wikipedia:Scorpius|Scorpius]] located in its tail. <ref>[http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=705 Simon Furman Q&A]</ref>

It is possible that Cybertron was originally an organic world with organic lifeforms, and that they deliberately made the evolutionary jump to cyborgs and, eventually, to fully mechanical lifeforms. {{storylink|Spotlight: Nightbeat}} In fact, the world of [[Gorlam Prime]], a massive experiment by [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] in evolutionary science, gradually changed into a metal world full of transforming robots. The inhabitants forgot its old name and existence, and renamed it... Cybertron. This raises interesting questions about the planet's origin... {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}

Cybertron is the only known world with naturally occurring [[Energon (fuel)|energon]]. {{storylink|Escalation issue 1}} This resource occurs deep beneath the surface and was initially mined by hand, before the mines became automated, and the labourers lost their livelihoods. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 1}}

Some 1500 years ago, the constant fighting and the stripping of Cybertron's natural resources by both Autobot and Decepticon to feed their age-long war led to a terrible [[Thunderwing (G1)|cataclysm]] that rendered Cybertron uninhabitable. With no atmosphere, Cybertron's surface was unprotected from cosmic radiation and was wracked by plasma storms. Transformers had to divert energy to their personal shielding in order to remain on the surface for short periods; the surface was presumably immediately lethal for humans. Gravity was also weaker than normal and Transformers needed [[magno-tread]]s to walk on the surface. The Transformer race abandoned the planet (save for occasional scientific surveys from orbit) and began conducting its conflict across the galaxy.

According to Autobot command directives, landing on Cybertron was forbidden. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1}} However, with the resurrection (and subsequent defeat) of Thunderwing, this directive was lifted due to the unusual circumstances. {{storylink|Spotlight: Galvatron}}

Around the year 1997, the wise [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] returned to Cybertron with a plan to revive the planet. Through years of work, he began to repair Cybertron's atmosphere and rid it of radiation, though the planet remained dead and resourceless. {{storylink|Any Old Iron}}

Many years later, the Decepticons created the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] on Cybertron, which had the side effect of also creating thousands of mindless monsters dubbed the [[Insecticon swarm]]. After the Decepticons defeated the Autobots on Earth, they sent their battered enemies through a portal to Cybertron, where the swarm would finish them off. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7}} By this time, Alpha Trion's hard work had eliminated much of the radiation and electromagnetic storms, so the Autobots survived their stay on the planet with only minor pains. {{storylink|Any Old Iron}} Later, the Autobot starship ''[[Trion]]'' was shot down over Cybertron, and its crew joined the rest of the survivors on its surface. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 5}} They were eventually rescued by [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10}}

Most of the Insecticon swarm survived their brushes with the Autobots and stayed on Cybertron, which interfered with Alpha Trion's plans. In order to make Cybertron habitable again, he first needed to get rid of the swarm, and thus he revived [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] to take care of them. {{storylink|Ironing Out the Details}} Trion then left again, with only Ironhide, [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and a few hundred swarm members remaining on the planet. {{storylink|Any Old Iron}}

==Robots in Disguise==
[[Image:RID Cybertron.jpg|right|thumb|Well, it's... uh... it's green!]]
Cybertron was located near or orbiting a larger ringed world,{{storylink|Ultra Magnus (episode)|Ultra Magnus}} and had an [[asteroid prison colony]] in which dangerous Decepticon and Predacon prisoners were interred.{{storylink|The Final Battle (RID)|The Final Battle}} At one point there were a series of civil wars, in which [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]], both creations of [[Alpha Trion (RID)|Alpha Trion]], fought side-by-side. Following the wars, Magnus was honored, but [[Vector Sigma]] selected Optimus as Autobot leader and bestowed on him the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion!}} The [[Predacon (RID)|Predacon]]s on Cybertron were ruled over by a [[Predacon Council|council]], of which [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]] was a subordinate,{{storylink|Mystery of the Ultra Magnus}} though he once claimed to be "leader of the Predacons and future ruler of the galaxy" and that he was already "ruler of many worlds".{{storylink|Battle Protocol!}}
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==Unicron Trilogy==
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[[Primus]], a "unique digital entity", came to exist eons ago. To search for other life in the universe, it sent out the Transformers as explorers. One of the first places the Transformers settled was on a planet that would eventually become known as Cybertron. {{storylink|First Encounter}}

[[Image:PlanetCybertron Armada.jpg|left|165px|thumb|Flaky crust.]]
Cybertron is the body of Primus. Much like the versions of Cybertron before it, it is a metallic planet that is damaged by conflict. Cybertron existed in an unnamed system until the ''Energon'' series, where it was pulled from orbit and pushed into another part of space (or universe) that [[Alpha Quintesson]] had created.

In ''Energon'', Cybertron was equipped with a system of [[energon tower]]s that could surround the planet with a protective field, which has since been disabled due to Decepticon attack.

Cybertron had at least one known moon in the ''Armada'' series, but this moon turned out to be Unicron. It is unknown whether it was always Unicron's depowered body, or if the moon somehow became a new "host" body for him.

[[Image:PlanetCybertron Energon.jpg|right|165px|thumb|I can see my house from here!]]
Through the ages, Cybertron has had many repairs, causing new "layers" to be added to the surface of the planet. Deep within the core is a pool of [[Super Energon]] that was once guarded by the four ancient combiners, [[Constructicon Maximus]], and [[Bruticus Maximus (Energon)|Bruticus Maximus]], [[Superion Maximus]], and the latter's unnamed brother.

At the end of the ''Energon'' series, Cybertron was granted a new sun when Primus trapped Unicron's spark within a ball of Super Energon, igniting it. This sun would eventually collapse, becoming the [[Unicron Singularity]].

[[Image:PlanetCybertron GalaxyForce.jpg|left|165px|thumb|You DENTED it!]]
It is unknown how large Cybertron is in this continuity, but it is most likely [[Scale|the size of Earth or smaller]]. Cybertron has an atmosphere, but it was unbreathable by Earth life forms as when [[Rad White|Rad]], [[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]] and [[Alexis Thi Dang|Alexis]] visited the planet in 2010, they required spacesuits to operate on the surface; by 2020, however, humans were capable of surviving without specialised suits, indicating that an oxygen/nitrogen-based atmosphere may have somehow been generated by the planet or created by Transformers or humans artificially.

In the ''Cybertron'' series, much of the planet had been repaired, including the construction of a "[[Sky Dome]]" headquarters where important meetings are held. This structure housed the artifacts that were used to mount the [[Omega Lock]], which unlocks the robot form of Cybertron.

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==Live-action ''Transformers'' movie continuity==
[[Image:Movie Cybertron.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Cybertron as it didn't appear in the movie.]]
Cybertron was a world created by a device known as the [[AllSpark]]. With its power, it created a race of dimensional travelers, the [[Thirteen original Transformers|Thirteen Primes]], and made Cybertron suitable for their habitation. The Primes soon discovered that while the AllSpark's power was vast, it was also finite, needing to be recharged. The universe soon provided the answer, for a nearby star went nova, recharging the AllSpark. Though the Primes could travel dimensions, they needed help locating stars and harvesting their energy. The AllSpark responded by creating two things to help the Primes. The first gift was the second race of Cybertronians, the [[Transformer]]s, who could change their forms. The Thirteen Primes ruled over the Transformers with their descendants, forming the [[Dynasty of Primes]], to protect the AllSpark and Cybertron, while seeking out stars to harvest. The Dynasty even shared their dimensional traveling abilities with the [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]]s, those tasked with finding stars. Once they found a star, the Dynasty would follow with [[Constructicon (ROTF)|builders]] to forge a [[star harvester|harvester]] to drain a star of its energy and send it to the AllSpark to form [[Energon (fuel)|Energon]]. The second gift the AllSpark gave the Dynasty was the [[Matrix of Leadership]], a key which contained the essence of the AllSpark and powered the harvesters. The Dynasty of Primes recognized the potential for destruction the harvesters presented, so they decreed that any star system which supported life was to be spared.

One day, the Dynasty of Primes and their attendants came to [[Earth|a world]] to harvest its [[sun|star]]. Just as the harvester was completed, the Primes discovered [[human|primitive but sentient creatures]]. Twelve of the Primes upheld the sanctity of life, but the thirteenth despised the creatures as insects and sought to steal the AllSpark's power for himself. What followed was the very first battle of Transformer against Transformer, as the rogue Prime and his loyalists waged war against the Dynasty of Primes and their loyalists. The rogue Prime murdered eleven of his brothers, but the twelfth stole the Matrix and hid it a [[Tomb of the Primes|tomb]] forged from the bodies of his brothers, sacrificing his own spark to seal the Tomb. The rogue Prime, now known as [[The Fallen]], dispatched the Seekers to find the Matrix. When he returned to Cybertron, he brought his war there as well, killing the rest of the Primes and destroying his brothers' [[Sarcophagus|sarcophagi]] to prevent them from returning. However, he expended much of his power in this process and withdrew to his own sarcophagus to heal. It was there that he learned that he'd made two mistakes: First, the spirits of his brothers were able to seal him in the sarcophagus, preventing him taking over Cybertron. Second, the warriors of the Dynasty had managed to save a single orphan, hiding him from the Fallen. The Dynasty of Primes passed into the realm of legend. {{storylink|Defiance issue 3|Defiance #3}} {{storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen issue 3|Revenge of the Fallen #3}}

Eventually, what little the Transformers knew of their origins would be lost to time. A new society arose, known as the [[Autobot]]s. The Autobots were a peaceful people, led by [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]], head of the [[Science Division]], and [[Megatron (Movie)|Protector Megatron]], head of the [[Defense Force]]. The two leaders created a balance; Optimus was fair while Megatron was firm. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} Their world's main cities included [[Tyger Pax]], [[Metrotitan (ROTF)|Metrotitan]], [[Simfur]], and the capital city of [[Trypticon (Movie)|Trypticon]]. Another area of importance was [[Burthov]], where the Science Division had many facilities. In time, the Autobots began work on a dig near the [[Simfur Temple]], discovering the remains of the Twelve's sarcophagi and the intact sarcophagus of The Fallen. At the same time, unknown [[Eshems alien|alien hostiles]] attacked Cybertron. Megatron had Optimus remove the intact artifact to his quarters to better protect it, allowing him to come under the influence of The Fallen. {{storylink|Defiance issue 1|Defiance #1}} {{storylink|Defiance issue 2|Defiance #2}}

[[Image:Movie Cybertron surfaceconcept.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Hell on Cybertron. Image taken from New York skyline.]]
As Megatron began to grow more aggressive, Optimus discovered that he was the orphaned Prime hidden away when the Dynasty fell. Megatron raised an army, the Decepticons, and sought to take the AllSpark to conquer the universe. However, most of the early Decepticon forces left on the [[Nemesis (ROTF)|''Nemesis'']] with The Fallen and [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] to seek out the harvester. With the number of Megatron's Decepticons now diminished, Optimus assumed his proper [[Prime (rank)|title]] and raised his own army of Autobots. In the war that followed, Cybertron was decimated. Prime eventually sent the AllSpark through a wormhole into deep space, and Megatron pursued it. Both were lost. Without the AllSpark's power, Cybertron became a dead world. The Autobots and the Decepticons scattered across the galaxy, hoping either to create a new world or locate the AllSpark and restore Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers (2007)|Transformers}} A number of Transformers remained, with the Decepticons centered in Trypticon (now a ''Decepticon'' capital), but this didn't last long. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream}}

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[[Image:DOTMCybertrontransit.jpg|thumb|250px|Honeycomb's big, yeah yeah yeah.]]
Sentinel Prime attempted to teleport Cybertron via the space bridge-forming pillars from his ship, the [[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]] in order to acquire Earth's resources to re-energize Cybertron. However, Bumblebee destroyed the master pillar and Cybertron collapsed as it was going through, presumably destroying Cybertron forever.
Although, you never know, it could have just put a huge crater in it.
{{storylink|Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

Geography-wise, the surface of Cybertron is a mystery. Large rivers of liquid criss-cross the planet, though whether this is lava, molten metal, or possibly [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] is anyone's guess. In more urbanized areas, such as the city of [[Tyger Pax]], the stone and lava seem to be covered over with steel or other refined metal. However, these incidents took place during the war, so it may have been the result of the devastation Cybertron saw. This liquid is even on the tops of ''buildings''! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.1|Training Day}}
In the opening of Dark of the Moon, Cybertron was shown to consist of various platforms and pathways high in the air, criss-crossing each other and forming a honey-comb like pattern, though whether these platforms are man-made or naturally formed is unknown, as is whether they form the whole planet or just make up a network above it's actual surface.

Internally, Cybertron has similar features to the inside of a ''Transformer'', including gyroscopic joints. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 20|Return to Cybertron, Part: 4}}

===Titan Magazines ''Transformers'' movie comics===
While everyone had abandoned Cybertron, the twin Autobot [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] hung out there for a while, and Starscream began organising [[Purple generic drones|an army]] there in secret. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.1|Training Day}}

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Cybertron's status was unknown, with everyone abandoning it as it began to die. However, [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]] and a group of Decepticons remained, staying alive by using [[Nucleon]]. Stockade believed they could renew Cybertron by summoning a new power source, one related to the AllSpark. They succeeded in summoning such an energy being, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 17|Return to Cybertron: Part 1}} which did enter Cybertron to renew it...

[[Image:Unicron Titan19.JPG|right|200px|thumb|The Beast Planet!]]
...and to everyone's horror, announced itself as [[Unicron|Unicron, the Anti-Life]]! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 18|Return to Cybertron: Part 2}}

The possessed Cybertron was swiftly altered into a scarier-looking form with a large mouth and grasping prongs, turned hostile to those on it, and warped to the Sol system. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 19|Return to Cybertron: Part 3}} The Autobots and Decepticons were able to destroy Unicron, but Cybertron was left in its transformed state and seemingly in the Sol system, as well as continuing to be dead and powerless. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 20|Return to Cybertron: Part 4}}

When the Autobots were ordered off American soil, they regrouped ''under'' Cybertron and began working on the teleportation engines that Unicron had left there when he transformed the planet. Using these, they were able to make a decisive strike by teleporting the entire Decepticon army to Cybertron, then teleporting ''Cybertron'' to the far reaches of space. With the engines now burnt out and no energy on the planet, the Decepticons were marooned there, at the cost of the Autobots never being able to go home. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 24|Revolution Part 2}} {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution Part 3}}
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==Animated==
[[Image:Animated Cybertron.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Pointier than most.]]
In an interesting turn of events, the Decepticons have been driven entirely from the planet. Autobot mastery of [[space bridge]] technology, and their strategic relocation of the [[AllSpark]] led to ultimate victory, and a Cybertron where an entire generation has seen neither [[armor-plating]] nor transistor of a Decepticon.
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According to [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]], it doesn't rain liquid on Cybertron. {{storylink|Where Is Thy Sting?}}

==Aligned==
[[Image:WFCCybertron.jpg|200px|thumb|]]
[[Image:DarknessRising4-Cybertron.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Well, at least there's ''one'' consistency.]]
Cybertron is orbited by three "near-Cybertron" objects: [[Moonbase One|Moon Bases One]] and [[Moonbase Two|Two]] and the [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon Asteroid Belt Station]], each on opposite hemispheres of the planet (presumably the [[Iacon (polity)|Iaconian]] and [[Kaon]]ian sides). Beyond the moons and asteroid belt floats the last of the great [[Space bridge|Space Bridges]], the long-abandoned interstellar transportation system that once connected Cybertron to its colonies [[Velocitron]], [[Gigantion]] and the [[Hub (G2)|Hub]] elsewhere in the galaxy.

[[Unicron]] attacked this Cybertron early on in its history, presumably after all but [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|one]] of [[the Primes]] left once their squabbles escalated into murder. The [[Covenant of Primus]] decreed only one [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] could rule at a time, with the thirteen members of the [[Autobot High Council|High Council]]. The Quintessons seized control but an [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guard]] named [[Sentinel Zeta Prime|Sentinel]] led the revolution, and with the High Council and the [[Guilds of Cybertron|Guilds]], he led to the Transformers to a [[Golden Age]] of expansion. As the space bridges became less reliable and contact with the colonies was lost, Sentinel and the Guilds instituted the [[caste system]] to slow their civilization's decline. The High Council and their Guards were in charge of law and order, but each state controlled its own militia.

But as the nameless miners resorted to [[gladiatorial combat]] as an outlet for their misery, a champion named [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] rose to seize the title of Prime for himself. Unwittingly, his Iaconian ally was appointed [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] instead, and their anti-caste movement became a civil war for Cybertron's future. The [[AllSpark]] was lost to space, whole regions of the planet were laid waste, and the [[core]] of Cybertron was poisoned by [[Dark Energon]], the remnants of Unicron's attack, prompting the Autobots to evacuate on the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]''. Megatron and his elite forces left on Trypticon too, now modified into the ''Nemesis'', leaving [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] to deal with the [[Wrecker]]s. ''{{storylink|Transformers: Exodus}}''

In the present, Megatron raised a [[zombie]] [[Terrorcon (Prime)|Terrorcon]] army from Cybertron's dead by hurling solidified Dark Energon at it through a space bridge. His plan to have them sack Earth was foiled, when the Autobots turned the Energon pump on the space bridge and caused it to implode. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}}

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==Toys==
===Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers===
[[Image:Cybertron Primus toy.jpg|350px|thumb|]]
*'''Primus''' (Supreme, 2006)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-00'''
**''Accessories:'' Omega Lock, special silver Cybertron planet-type Cyber Planet Key

:[[Primus]] transforms into the planet Cybertron as seen in the [[Cybertron (cartoon)|''Cybertron'' cartoon series]]. In planet mode, he is considerably more detailed than [[Unicron]] from the [[Armada (toyline)|''Armada'' line]], with visible cities, including [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], based upon its appearance in the [[DK Publishing]] book, ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'', and [[Kaon]] as seen in ''[[The War Within]]''. On the "bottom" of the planet mode there are four hard rubber legs, molded to be shaped like towers, allowing Primus to be displayed in planet mode, yet not require a flat base as Unicron did.

:Primus's transformation is unusual, in many ways similar to a [[Powermaster]], in that he requires the owner to insert his accompanying [[Omega Lock]] accessory into several special ports around the planet, then manipulate it to unlock his parts and transform him. When the Omega Lock is inserted into his back and pushed, a transforming sound is heard. When it is inserted into his chest and pushed up to reveal his head, his eyes glow red and a laser-type sound effect is heard. The Lock itself lights up red when it is inserted into any of the ports.

:In robot mode, Primus resembles both the ''[[Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]]'' Unicron prototype as well as [[Don Figueroa]]'s Primus concept, created for ''The War Within'' and used in ''The Ultimate Guide''. He is bristling with weaponry, including two shoulder-mounted cannons that can fire missiles, two forearm blasters that raise and extend when a Cyber Power Key is inserted, and several banks of Gatling guns, lasers and missile launchers in his shins and legs revealed by the Omega Lock.

:Primus also has what might charitably be called a third mode—an intergalactic world-ship, which is basically formed by transforming the figure halfway and leaving the head down and the legs backward. It features no dedicated parts or transformation steps, making it very obvious that it was created after the fact.

:Primus comes with two accessories, the aforementioned battery-operated Omega Lock that lights up red when inserted into any of the four Omega Lock ports, and a special silver Cybertron-Planet Cyber Power Key with the key code '''sp8u''' [[tampograph]]ed onto the back. Any four Cyber Planet Keys can be inserted into the four key slots at the base of the Omega Lock, though doing this does not activate any feature. There are also nine inactive [[Mini-Con]] [[powerlinx]] ports on the Primus figure, including two on the claws on his legs.

:Primus was developed by Hasbro and Takara as a toy for their joint ''Cybertron/Galaxy Force'' toylines, but was released in Japan in the ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' line a few months after ''Galaxy Force'' had ended its run. This release can be considered a pre-release of the ''Cybertron'' toy because it features Hasbro's [[Cyber Key Codes]] that the ''Galaxy Force'' line lacked.

===Cybertron===
*'''Cybertron Primus''' (Supreme, 2006)
**''Accessories:'' Omega Lock, special silver Cybertron planet-type Cyber Planet Key

:Cybertron Primus is the North American version of Primus, released a few months after the Japanese release. Both toys are identical.

:In North America, limited early-run versions of Cybertron Primus came packaged with a very creepy "battle damaged" [[Unicron]] head based upon the planet eater's ''Armada'' appearance.

:A later version, [[exclusive]] to [[Wal-Mart]] as a [[Black Friday (event)|Black Friday]] 2006 special, included four Mini-Cons; [[Strongarm (Cybertron)|Strongarm]], [[Knockdown (Cybertron)|Knockdown]], [[Nightscream (Cybertron)|Nightscream]], and [[Offshoot (Cybertron)|Offshoot]].

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===Transformers 2010===
[[Image:Primus_2010.jpg|300px|thumb|]]
*'''Creator Primus''' (2010)
**''Accessories:''
:To celebrate the year [[Transformers 2010 (franchise)|2010]], Takara [[redeco]]ed the previous Primus toy. It is primarily silver and gold in planet mode, with blue robot parts. A blue [[Omega Lock]] is also included.

:Primus includes the retooled Cybertron style Cyber Key which was originally available with both [[:Image:Cybertron OptimusPrime deluxe toy.jpg|Cybertron Planet Deluxe Class Optimus Prime]] and [[:Image:Cybertron-toy Demolishor.JPG|Cybertron Planet Deluxe Class Demolisher]]. The Cyber Key features a "blank" central area (so any faction symbol could be tampographed on) and a Mini-Con-style Powerlinx socket on the back. The Cyber Key included with this figure is entirely unpainted, aside from the tampographed Autobot symbol.
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==Notes==
*The name "Cybertron" was used by Marvel Comics long before the Transformers series came about. In issue 48 of the original ''X-Men'' title (released in September 1968), a computer named Computo created a race of robots named the "Cybertrons".<ref>[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/computoxm.htm Computo and the "Cybertrons" at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe]</ref>
*Cybertron's "gashed" moon, often glimpsed during the course of Beast Machines, is heavily based on one side of a modern sculpture by Arnaldo Pomodoro, "Sphere with Sphere" ("Sfera con Sfera"), that can be found in the Vatican City's Courtyard of the Pinecone.<ref>[http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/italy/rome/pomodoro/0003.jpg Photo of ''Sfera con Sfera'']</ref> See, kids? Transformers IS educational.
*The size of the Planet Cybertron varies between different continuities. In one, the diameter of the planet is around 6,300 km, while the Marvel comics describe it as "Saturn-sized," placing its diameter at around 120,000 km.<ref>[http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/TF/bible/wottf.html World of TRANSFORMERS]</ref> We can probably lay these at the feet of Primus, who is god after all, and can decide to be whatever size he wants.
*Towards the end of the original comic run, Blaster was asked in the [[Letters page (Marvel UK)|UK Letters Page]] whether Cybertron would be turned into a Transformer. His response was "No. More likely it will turn into a rapidly expanding ball of component molecules, the way things are going at the moment". [[Primus|Oh, what fools time makes of us all]].<ref>[http://transfans.co.uk/popup.php?id=2242 Letters page for Marvel UK Issue #323]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Cybertron''' (セイバートロン ''Seibātoron''),<ref>For decades, Western fans have typically opted to render the Japanese pronunciation of the planet's name as "Seibertron" (pronounced "Say-ber-tron") in order to distinguish it from the Japanese name of the Autobots, the "Cybertrons" (pronounced "Sigh-ber-tron"). However, several Japanese sources actually spell it as "Cybertron" in English, including the [[Transformers: The Headmasters (video game)|''Headmasters'' video game]], the covers of the ''"Planet of Cybertron Guide"'' books included with Takara's mid-90s laserdisc sets of the original cartoon, a ''Beast Wars'' [http://www18.tok2.com/home/jackhama/transformers/bwtcard_2/img/043.jpg trading card], and the packaging for ''Galaxy Force'' toys. Sources beyond these are surprisingly scarce, although an article in the December 1985 issue of ''[[Comic Bom Bom]]'' did render the planet's name in English as, of all things, "Saybertron".</ref> '''Cybertron''' (サイバトロン ''Saibatoron'')

*''English:'' '''Cyberton''' ([[Omni Productions]] dub)
*''Hungarian:'' '''Kibertron''', '''Kájbertron''' (first ''The Movie'' dub), '''Mesterséges bolygó''' (''Energon'', "Artificial planet")

==References==
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Transformers (Titan Magazine)

2010-03-28T17:41:38Z

86.146.92.18: /* Reprints */

{{move|Transformers Comic|All the individual issue-articles are titled "Transformers Comic".}}

[[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]]'' 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 size to 30, 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]

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!align=center bgcolor=#6699CC|'''Titan Transformers issues Volume 1:'''
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|| [[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]] |
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{|style="margin:0 auto;padding:0 auto" align=center id=toc
!align=center bgcolor=#6699CC|'''Titan Transformers issues Volume 2:'''
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|| [[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]]

|}

==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 (2007)|IDW prequel comic]] in the same way [[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 (Movie)|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|the G1 Elita]] (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|Prime Directive issue 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 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|When there's no more room in IDW, the dead shall walk in Titan.]]

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.

Issue #10 saw a brief fill-in by [[Robin Etherington]], who'd previously written half of the ''Animated'' strips.

{{-}}

==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}}

==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 ''[[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.

==Fantastic Free Gift!==
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.

[[Image:FREE! Gun.jpg|right|200px|thumb|This issue, FREE!! Micro-Plasform Missile Deploy-vice!]]
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, starting with #4, would also use two free gifts, the second being nummy candy from Haribo.

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]]. 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 (2007)|The 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 ''wow'' 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 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. #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 is that sales will have bounced up again after the second movie, though at the moment there's no way to know. Worryingly, [[Chris McFeely]] confirmed that Diamond UK had 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, continue to stock the title and Furman is still writing new strips for it; the reduction in size and strip length, of course, is nerve-wracking.

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/19522254813#/ Transformers Comic Facebook page]
* [http://fractalmatter.com/main/?p=671 Steve White interview with Fractal Matter]
* [http://transfans.net/interviews_white.php Steve White interview with TransFans.net]
* [http://titanpublishing.com/digital/ Titan's digital strips]

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G.I. Joe (franchise)

2010-01-02T12:26:47Z

86.146.124.219: /* 1990s */

{{disambig2|the real-world Hasbro franchise|the fictional counter-terrorist team|G.I. Joe (team)}}
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'''''G.I. Joe''''', sometimes called '''''Action Force''''' in Europe, is one of [[Hasbro]]'s most long-lived [[franchise]]s, originating in 1964 as the very first line of "action figures." Though it has undergone many revisions and relaunches since then, it has always maintained a military theme, often with a science-fiction edge. In part because of the nature of the franchise and in part because of similarities in presentation, ''G.I. Joe'' and ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' share much of the same fanbase.

The fictional universes of the two franchises have also overlapped on several occasions, originally due to pure marketing but more recently due to nostalgia. From the late 80s, Hasbro repeatedly ''tried'' to make a Joe/Transformers combo pack with Joes that fight inside vehicle Transformers, but the timing never worked out; one franchise would be popular and the other wouldn't be. <ref>[http://obscuretf.com/hhk/images/full/BC04DAlleva02.jpg Interview with Vinnie D'Alleva at Obscure Transformers, page 2]</ref>

==History==
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===1980s===
Following its initial popularity in the mid to late 1960s, the ''G.I. Joe'' line underwent several rebrandings and redesigns in the '70s with varying degrees of success. In 1982, Hasbro decided to try a complete overhaul, drastically reducing the size of the figures, broadening the cast, and commissioning the advertising agency [[Griffin Bacal]] and [[Marvel Comics]] to develop a brand-new universe for them to occupy. The resulting comic book and toyline, dubbed "G.I. Joe: A Real America Hero", proved massively popular, and Hasbro quickly expanded the scope of their marketing to include a television cartoon by [[Sunbow Productions]] in 1983. (Since advertising toys through cartoons was still frowned upon—if not outright banned—by that point, Hasbro circumvened that limitation by declaring the cartoon an advertisement for the comic books instead.<ref name="dunsay">[http://www.tfarchive.com/fandom/interviews/george_dunsay/george_dunsay_interview.php Interview with former Hasbro employee George Dunsay.]</ref> The ban on toy-promoting cartoons was eventually lifted in 1984.)

The success of this formula led Hasbro to repeat it a year later when the ''Transformers'' property was developed, having Marvel create the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|universe]] and print a [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|comic]] while Sunbow produced a [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon]] based on Marvel's premise. The ''G.I. Joe'' and ''Transformers'' cartoons were often broadcast in the same programming block, and their similar art style, shared musical scores and voice-actors, and mutual sci-fi action themes made them popular with roughly the same audience. The third season of the ''Transformers'' cartoon even featured cameos by characters intended to be (but never officially identified as) [[Flint (G.I. Joe)|Flint]] and [[Cobra Commander]]. The comics were more dissimilar in tone, but they actually shared a bona fide crossover, ''[[G.I. Joe and the Transformers]]''. (While this crossover was fully in-continuity with the contemporary ''Transformers'' storyline, the ''G.I. Joe'' comic ignored it.)

Meanwhile, in the [[United Kingdom|UK]], Hasbro had licensed [[Wikipedia:Palitoy|Palitoy]] to sell similar products, but the marketing was somewhat different. The term "[[Wikipedia:G.I. (military)|G.I.]]" specifically refers to the U.S. military, so the line was sold abroad as ''Action Man''. When the ''A Real American Hero'' line caught on in the U.S., Palitoy responded with ''Action Force'', which was similar in engineering but contained its own unique characters and storylines. In 1985, Hasbro's characters and concepts began to seep into ''Action Force'', and an awkward transitional period commenced. While the new ''Action Force'' characters looked like Joes and were given Joe code-names, their identities were changed to be more international, with members now from [[Europe]], [[Japan]], [[Australia]], and French Congo. For example, Flint went from being Dashielle Faireborn, born in Wichita, Kansas,<ref>[http://yojoe.com/filecard/85/flint.shtml ''G.I. Joe'' Flint's toy filecard]</ref> to being David Faireborn, born in Lincoln, England.<ref>[http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/toys/004/af/046/004.html ''Action Force'' Flint's toy filecard]</ref> An ''Action Force'' comic was published that featured some of these G.I.-Joe-inspired characters alongside UK-originals, and its universe was very different from ''G.I. Joe''.<ref>[http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/comics/baf/051/index.html Scans of Storm Shadow's original ''Action Force'' origin story]</ref> But as the ''G.I. Joe'' property became more dominant, the existing ''Action Force'' universe was eventually discarded in favor of one closer to the American comics with a cast almost entirely indistinguishable from G.I. Joes, outside of their still-different bios. During this time, a [[Ancient Relics!|brief crossover with the UK ''Generation 1'' comic]] occurred, wherein an ''Action Force'' team fought [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] underneath [[London]]. Meanwhile, in a display of incongruity in Marvel UK's approach to the franchises, another storyline in the ''Action Force'' comic featured an ad for the ''Transformers'' comic...in the background of one of its panels!<ref>[http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/comics/maf/001/020.html Scan of an ''Action Force'' comic page] showing ''Transformers'' as a fictional entity within that universe.</ref>

Marvel UK's ''Action Force'' comic also reprinted American ''G.I. Joe'' issues, editing them slightly and claiming this was the American division of Action Force (the guys with toys out were the European branch and [[To sell toys|got the original strips]]). In time, new UK-original material stopped being produced, and ''Action Force'' was rebranded as ''G.I. Joe: The Action Force''. Marvel UK published a promotional comic explaining that Europe's Action Force and America's separate G.I. Joe team had been too divided to fight Cobra effectively. They ceremoniously joined forces, though the notion that there was a strange group of doppelgangers between the two teams was neither acknowledged nor addressed.<ref>[http://www.yojoe.com/international/unitedkingdom/actionforce_gijoecomic.shtml Scans of the free comic] explaining the G.I. Joe / Action Force merger in-fiction.</ref> This story did not fit into any existing continuity, but the strip quickly went back to ''G.I. Joe'' reprints anyway, eventually dropping the term "Action Force" from the title altogether.

===1990s===
Where the 1980s had seen ''A Real American Hero'' and ''Generation 1'' ruling toy aisles, comic shops, and TV screens, that glory quickly faded in the '90s. The death of ''Generation 1'' came in 1991, and when it was reborn as ''Generation 2'' in 1993, Hasbro decided to promote it through the ''A Real American Hero'' comic, itself on death's door. Where the previous crossover had been politely ignored in the pages of the more "serious" ''G.I. Joe'' book, this one was unavoidable, and the author simply ran with it as though the first crossover had happened all along. But then, when the crossover ended, the universes seemed to split again, as the ''Generation 2'' comic featured worldwide apocalyptic havoc and the obliteration of [[San Francisco]], events that showed no signs of happening in the contemporary ''Joe'' issues.

Around the time of the 1993 crossover, Hasbro also planned to produce a ''Transformers''/''G.I. Joe'' crossover ''toy''. Even though a prototype was made, the toy was ultimately never released.<ref name="crosstoy">[http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Prototypes/Generation2/GiJoeTransformers1.html Unproduced ''G.I: Joe/Transformers'' crossover toy at Toy Archive]</ref>

By the end of 1994, ''A Real American Hero'' came to a close. The franchise continued to lurch on with two retools: [[Sgt. Savage|''Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles'']] and the later ''G.I. Joe Extreme''. This would extend the franchise for a few more years; ''Extreme'' even got its own two-season cartoon series and a short-lived comic. However, sales were naff and the franchise quietly went dormant, bar the occasional ''Real American Hero'' collectors' set.

===2000s===
Around the same time that nostalgia filled the sails of ''Generation 1'' once more, ''G.I. Joe'' also enjoyed a comeback. Hasbro began to invest again in new ''A Real American Hero'' toys and comics, commissioning [[Devil's Due Press]] to continue Marvel's continuity. While these new comics also pointedly ignored the ''Transformers'' crossovers nominally in their backstory, Devil's Due happily produced several ''Transformers'' crossover miniseries set in a [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity|fresh, unique universe of their own]]. As usual, this universe was based on a mixture of ''A Real American Hero'' and ''Generation 1'' elements, but by the end, it had also referenced some older concepts, such as the '70s-era [[Atomic Man]] and [[Adventure Team (G.I. Joe)|Adventure Team]].

Meanwhile, the comic company with the ''Transformers'' license, [[Dreamwave Productions]], produced [[Transformers/G.I. Joe|its own alternate-universe ''G.I. Joe'' crossover]]. The first miniseries transplanted ''A Real American Hero'' and ''Generation 1'' concepts into an alternate version of World War II, with Cobra playing the role of the Nazis. A second miniseries followed that universe into the present day, but it was halted after a mere single issue by Dreamwave's bankruptcy and collapse.

Outside of comics, there were scant few connections between the ''G.I. Joe'' and ''Transformers'' franchises except for a handful of toys. The first were homages in the [[Unicron Trilogy]] toyline, of all places: The ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' character [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Snow Cat]] was clearly designed to look like the ''G.I. Joe'' vehicle of the same name, and the [[Mini-Con]] [[Skyhammer (Universe)|Skyhammer]], sold under the [[Universe (2008 franchise)|2008 ''Universe'' franchise]]'s "[[Armada (franchise)|Armada]] Series", was given a deco very similar to a Cobra [[Rattler]]. However, this universe has never featured any other kind of ''G.I. Joe'' crossover, so the significance of these toys is unclear. The Japanese ''[[Alternators#Fiction|Binaltech]]'' line, meanwhile, told a storyline in the toy instruction booklets that included two ''Joe'' villains... [[General Blitz]] and [[Iron Klaw]] from the ''Sgt. Savage'' and ''G.I. Joe Extreme'' lines!

Those were followed by the [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Titanium Series|first 6" ''Titanium Series'' Megatron]], whose on-package [[bio]] mentioned subservience to Cobra. The details were sparse, but they seemed to reflect the Dreamwave WWII-era crossover, even though the toy looked nothing like his appearance there.<ref>[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toys/titanium/megatron/902/2/10/ The first ''Titanium Series'' Megatron's bio]</ref> A toy ''would'' have been released of [[Baroness|the Baroness]] walking Ravage, but sadly it was not to be.

==Future==
With [[IDW Publishing]] now holding the rights to print both ''G.I. Joe'' and ''Transformers'' comics, they have hinted at crossovers to come. What form they may take remains to be seen.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://gijoe.wikia.com Joepedia: The G.I. Joe Wikia]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe G.I. Joe on Wikipedia]
* [http://www.gijoe.com Official G.I. Joe website]
* [http://www.yojoe.com Yo Joe website]
* [http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/index.html ''Blood for the Baron!'' Action Force fansite]

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Sector Seven

2009-10-17T19:30:25Z

86.146.228.238: /* Sector Seven alternate reality game continuity */

{{disambig2|the Sector Seven organization itself|the alternate reality game based on it|Sector Seven (game)}}
:''Sector Seven is a [[Human|human]] organization in the [[Movie (franchise)|Movie]] [[Continuity family|continuity family]]. It doesn't run on "feelings."''

[[Image:Sector7logo.png|right|270px|thumb|"You guys have heard of Area 51? Well this is 50!"]]

{{quote|We're the government. Sector Seven.}}
{{quote|Never heard of it.|}}
{{quote|Never will.|Agent Simmons and Ron Witwicky}}

'''Sector Seven''' is a secret [[United States of America|American]] government agency, which deals with extraterrestrial technology and threats. It has been around for quite some time, but how long ''exactly'' depends on who you ask (see Trivia for more).

It is so secret, it has its own [http://www.sectorseven.org/ secret website].

''Sector Seven sometimes operates through the front companies '''S7 Industries'''. and '''[[Sectors Even|Sectors Even]]'''.''

==Fiction==
===Sector Seven alternate reality game continuity===
Sector Seven was founded over 100 years ago by a group of seven men:

*Stanford Julius Morehouse
*Edgar Thibedeau Westfield
*Neville Octavian Brewster
*Percy Emerson Whitting
*Wallace Wilson Clairmont
*Alistair Jennings Crowther
*Vance Milhaus Lawson

They are known as "The First Seven," and are said to have "hid the past to protect the future,"<ref>Names originally revealed via Agent X's website. Page mirrored [http://ebucehtdnif.wikibruce.com/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/317526-AE0/ here.]</ref> whatever that means. Their portraits adorn a wall in the lobby of the present day Sector Seven headquarters, as a [[B11-9981|local pizza boy]] can attest.

In 2007, after the detection of a "blip" that matched their "threat profile," Agent [[Alexander Powers]] informed the organization that war might be imminent and that they were humanity's only hope. He and research scientist [[Rebecca Howard]], ex-lovers, clashed several times over her desire to go public with information about the [[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial|NBE1]] threat and seek assistance from other nations. This escalated with the detection of "NBE Two," with whom Dr. Howard argued in favor of making contact.

Meanwhile, the mysterious [[Agent X]] began hacking into the Sector Seven network and leaking information to the public. {{storylink|Sector Seven (game)|Sector Seven ARG}}

====Sector Seven Mobile Command Unit====
[[Image:Sectorsevenmobilecommandunit.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Nothing to see here. Move along.]]
To counter public suspicion and the information about the NBEs leaked by Agent X, Sector Seven employed a [[Sector Seven Mobile Command Unit|mass disinformation program in the form of a road tour]] at various cinemas across America. Black Peterbilt cabover trucks pull large, armoured trailers containing sophisticated communications and scanning equipment, as well as a small cage for containing any [[Frenzy (Movie)|captured N.B.E.s]] assigned agents happen to find. However, the communications equipment aboard these trailers are frequently susceptible to displaying emergency communiques from Sector Seven Command showing a very well-edited and scored satellite video feed of an [[Scorponok (Movie)|alien robot attack]] in [[Qatar]], usually in the presence of ordinary civilians.

{{main|Sector Seven Mobile Command Unit}}
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===Live-action film series contiuity===
====IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics====
*Apparently, Sector Seven has been around for a very long time; certainly, an existing group has been around since before Sam Witwicky's Great-Great-Grandfather encountered the [[Megatron (Movie)|''Mega-Man'']] underneath the arctic ice. Upon hearing his story Sector Seven immediately went into action to seize his find and discredit the story. {{storylink|Interlude}}

*Interestingly, even this older version of Sector Seven has a number of interesting artifacts in their collection. These include pictures and a skull from a "triclops" life form of some kind, a severed bestial arm in a jar (possibly from a version of the Beast Wars, although the sketch is difficult to make out and mechanics may not be incorporated) and what could possibly be a fragment of a [[Golden Disk (disambiguation)|Golden Disk]]. Most intriguing indeed.

*The early Sector Seven had a base in a normal-looking townhouse in Boston, [[Massachusetts]]. By 2003, they also had a base in Richmond, [[Virginia]].

====''Ghosts of Yesterday'' prequel novel====
*'''1969''' - Sector Seven (headed by [[Walter Simmons]], known internally as "The Old Man"), attempted the first test flight of an [[Megatron (Movie)|Ice Man]]-derived spacecraft ([[Ghost 1]]) using the Apollo 11 moon launch as cover. Unexpected complications occurred following contact with [[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial|N.B.E.]]s. At the same time the first attempt was made to relocate the Ice Man himself from the Arctic to southern Nevada to be better studied alongside a likewise mysterious [[All Spark|"alien cube"]]. Signs seemed to point to Sector Seven beginning to shift from being a secret U.S. military protocol to a non-military "black ops" program. {{storylink|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

====Capture the Cube====
In 2007, preceding the main Transformer conflict, a [[Dewbot|lone operative]] of a [[Mountain Dew Robot|third Transformer faction]] was able to infiltrate [[Area 52 (Movie)|the Hoover Dam base]] and almost obtain the "cube", simply by ''changing shape'' when people were coming. If it had reached the "cube", the results [[Dew City|would have been horrific]]. {{storylink|Capture the Cube}}

====''Transformers'' (2007) film====
[[Image:Movie Autobots Sector Seven.JPG|left|200px|thumb|Being cars, the Autobots take fender benders very seriously.]]
According to [[Tom Banachek]], Sector Seven was convened 80 years ago under President Hoover. (Banachek later also states that the First Seven found the [[All Spark]] cube in 1913, but that might have been before Sector Seven was formally created.)

A Sector Seven field team under Director [[Seymour Simmons]] headed to the [[Witwicky]] residence upon learning of [[Sam Witwicky|Samuel James Witwicky]]'s [[Bumblebee (Movie)|living car]]. Taking Witwicky and [[Mikaela Banes]] into custody, Simmons began to interrogate Sam and Mikaela aggressively, until the field unit's convoy was ambushed by [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]...who ripped off the roof of their SUV. Although they attempted to resist the [[Autobot]]s, [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] alone had more weapons than all of them, and [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] soon disarmed them. A backup team arrived to capture any of the Autobots they could, but were only successful in capturing Bumblebee and the two teens.

Taken to [[Area 52 (Movie)|the Hoover Dam base]], Simmons and Tom Banachek showed the teens, an army ranger unit, and [[John Keller|Defense Secretary Keller]] the frozen N.B.E.-01, who Sam Witwicky identified as Megatron, leader of the [[Decepticon]]s. However, [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] arrived and destroyed their external power lines, while [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] sabotaged Megatron's stasis controls. With Megatron minutes away from thawing, Sam tried to convince Simmons to release Bumblebee, but Simmons was only convinced by [[William Lennox|Captain Lennox]] and his men...who pointed dangerous objects at everyone. However, Bumblebee, who was constantly being doused with cryoblasts, nearly lashed out at Sector Seven, before Sam calmed him and took him to the All Spark. Beyond providing a small amount of soldiers to assist the ranger unit under Lennox, Sector Seven played no serious role in the Battle of [[Mission City]], which was mostly decided by the Autobots.

Sector Seven's time had come—and they had done nothing but make the situation worse, all their secret weapons being ineffective against the Decepticons, and having alienated the Autobots. Sector Seven was terminated in an effort to better cover up the existence of the [[Transformer|Transformers]], but it may have been influenced by their loss of control over the situation. {{storylink|Transformers (2007)|''Transformers''}}

====Toy bios====

Sector Seven managed to remain in operation, seemingly by buddying up to the Autobots ''very quickly''; Ironhide appears to have been bribed with free experimental weaponry. {{storylink|#Voyager Class toys|Premium Ironhide}} What they don't know is that the Autobots have a secret agent, [[Landmine (Movie)|Landmine]], spying on them. {{storylink|Landmine (Movie)|Landmine toy bio}} Worryingly, [[Hardtop (Movie)|several]] [[Storm Surge|Decepticons]] appear to be doing the same thing.

A [[Strongarm (Movie)|surprisingly]] [[Signal Flare (Movie)|large]] [[Crosshairs (Movie)|number]] [[Air Raid (Movie)|of]] Autobots bear Sector Seven markings after the Mission City conflict, possibly indicating an exchange program between Sector Seven and the Autobots.

Sector Seven later shared intelligence with Optimus regarding Decepticon activity on [[Mars]]. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Fast Action Brawlers|Fire Blast Optimus Prime}}

====IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics====
{{stub}}

====Titan Magazines ''Transformers'' movie comics====
{{notetitantlg}}
Sector Seven had made the situation so bad that, in an alternate timeline, a single second's difference by Sam at Mission City led to the conquest & Decepticon occupation of the United States and the gradual transformation of Earth into a new Cybertron, with their Hoover Dam base being used by Megatron to store Optimus Prime's frozen body. Nice one, guys. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}}

The only member of the organization seen so far fighting the Decepticons was [[Tom Banachek]]. His knowledge of the Hoover Dam base proved invaluable, as did his knowledge of (and probable involvement in) a nanovirus that targeted All Spark operational frequencies: a weapon Sector Seven created in case they lost control of the All Spark and needed to destroy it. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5}} Why they hadn't used it when Megatron gained the All Spark at Mission City? Because they suck.

Sector Seven was later reformed under [[President of the United States|President]] [[Theodore Allen|Allen]], and Tom Banachek was placed in charge of it. Their mandate was to stop everyone on Earth from realizing that Megatron's aforementioned gradual transformation of their world had not stopped completely, and that the planet was facing techno-organic armageddon. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 16|Dark Spark}} Being Sector Seven, they crapped this up.

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

Sector Seven had discovered evidence that Transformers had been on Earth before, including [[Cyberglyphics]] in ruins across the Earth, and that there may be Transformers lying inert on the planet. Seymour Simmons wanted to investigate these Transformers lying on Earth and they wouldn't let him, thinking that wanting to look for Transformers on Earth was an obsession that Sector Seven, who counter and look for Transformers, shouldn't indulge.

''God'' these guys sucked. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)}}

==Equipment==
As an exceptionally well-funded secret government organisation, Sector Seven is at the cutting edge of human (or alien-derived) technology in their quest to better understand the Ice Man, the Cube, and to seek other N.B.E.s on Earth.

====M9-2 Harpoon Gun====
[[Image:M9-2 Harpoon Gun.jpg|left|250px|thumb|After this, let's go shoot some baby seals.]]
The M9-2 Harpoon Gun is a weapon developed by Sector Seven, under the direction of [[Rebecca Howard]]. The intial protoype was completed in 2003. Featuring an armor-piercing projectile that weighs 21.2 kilograms, the weapon has a range of 55 meters with a muzzle velocity of 324 meters per second. Primitive by N.B.E. standards, the weapon is nevertheless effective at subduing non-hostile [[Bumblebee (Movie)|aliens]] and contain them for cryo-freezing.

In 2003, Sector Seven first used the harpoon gun against Bumblebee outside of [[Baton Rogue]], [[Louisiana]], mounted on their pursuit vans. Bumblebee defeated them by dragging the vans into each other. {{storylink|Interlude}} Four years later, Sector Seven had better luck with these harpoons when Bumblebee was cornered trying to protect his human friends, Sam and Mikaela. Three helicopters mounted with harpoons entangled Bumblebee, allowing soldiers to move in and freeze the helpless Autobot. {{storylink|Transformers (2007)|''Transformers''}}

{{main|M9-2 Harpoon Gun}}
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====Pursuit van====
[[Image:Movie SectorSeven van.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Who took the doughnuts?]]
Once an N.B.E. has been located within range of Sector Seven field units, Mobile teams are sent out in pursuit vans to intercept and capture them (alive if possible). Equipped with the standard array of sophisticated communications equipment one comes to expect from Sector Seven, the vans are armed with a passenger-side M9-2 harpoon gun and generally carry a squad of troops armed with portable cryo-freezing units.

Outside of Baton Rogue, these vans, carrying Sector Seven troopers, tried to corral Bumblebee with their harpoons and totally failed. {{storylink|Interlude}}
{{-}}
====AH-64 Apache attack helicopter====
[[Image:Movie SectorSeven Apache.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Airwolf in action.]]
Sector Seven uses modified [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|AH-64 Apache helicopters]] fitted with cryo-stasis rocket pods to capture N.B.E.s

Outside of [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], Bumblebee was attacked by one of these modified Apaches. It tried to hem him in with machine gun fire, but failed to hit the Autobot with its cryo-stasis pods. {{storylink|Interlude}} Soon afterwards, in [[New Mexico|New Mexico]], several similar Apaches awaited Bumblebee in a trap set by Agent Simmons. However, the Decepticons turned up, complicating matters. Two Apaches attempted to cryo-freeze [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]], but were destroyed by [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 4|Prime Directive issue 4}}
{{-}}
====SUV====
[[Image:Movie SectorSevenSUV smash.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Damn this gas guzzler. Which I as an American have a right to own.]]
For operations within urban/suburban zones or for human targets, Sector Seven agents travel in custom black GMC Yukons. They do not hold up well to being lifted by their roofs by [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|large N.B.E.s]], nor can they withstand [[electromagnetic pulse]]s.

Agent Simmons and other Sector Seven personnel arrived at the [[Witwicky]] house in these GMC Yukons. After arresting the Witwickys and Mikaela Banes, Optimus Prime stopped several of these vehicles with his legs, then lifted the SUV containing Simmons, Sam and Mikaela by the roof, breaking it off and freeing his human friends. Reinforcement Yukons were easily defeated by an EMP blast from [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide's]] cannon. After Sam and Mikaela were rearrested, they were transported to and from an airfield in [[Nevada|Nevada]] to Hoover Dam. {{storylink|Transformers (2007)|''Transformers''}}

{{note|These SUVs also appear in [[Transformers The Game|the console version of the Transformers movie game]]. Although, they resemble Lincoln Navigators.}}
{{-}}
====Assault buggy====
[[Image:Movie Sector7Buggy.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Not Beachcomber.]]
Based upon the Chenowth Desert Patrol Vehicle (DPV) formerly used by the [[United States military]], this all-purpose, high-speed recon and attack vehicle can be fitted with Sector Seven's specially-developed weapons, ranging from cryo-freezing cannons (though this requires cryo-tanks to be installed in the rear compartment) to belt-fed automatic grenade launchers capable of firing armor-piercing [[wikipedia:sabot|sabot]] rounds.

After Sam Witwicky, Captain Lennox's soldiers and the Autobots came to an agreement with Sector Seven, the human soldiers mounted up on the assault buggies to escort [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and the All Spark cube to Mission City. They fared poorly against the attacking Decepticon forces, with many wrecks strewn about the city streets. {{storylink|Transformers (2007)|''Transformers''}}

During the battle of Mission City, of these buggies was imbued with power from the All Spark and became the [[Autobot]] [[Landmine (Movie)|Landmine]].

{{note|These buggies also appear in [[Transformers The Game|the console version of the Transformers movie game.]] They also appear in the two Nintendo DS games.}}
{{-}}
====L.M.-1 drones====
[[Image:Alliance2 LM1 Landmines.jpg|right|300px|thumb|]]
L.M.-1 drones are Sector Seven's crowning technological achievement: their own transforming mechanoids.

With the assistance of the captured Decepticon [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]], Agent [[Salazar]] and [[Professor Vine]] were able to develop the [[Landmine (Movie)|L.M.-1]] units using Sector Seven's own assault buggy as a vehicle template at their [[Nevada]] desert base. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2}} However, they failed to function once Wreckage was hit by an EMP weapon and shut down. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream Issue Number Two|The Reign of Starscream #2}} Later, when the All Spark sliver reactivated Wreckage, it also activated the L.M.-1s. Though they were armed with automatic grenade launchers and shoulder mounted missiles, they fared poorly against the rampaging Decepticon. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2}}
{{-}}
====Sector Seven Drone====
These large treaded robots patrol the interior of [[Hoover Dam]] serving as security patrols. They are also found at certain military installations seemingly not in association with the secret agency. They are equipped with two powerful cannons.

{{note|The Sector Seven Drones only appear in [[Transformers The Game|the console version of the Transformers movie game]].}}

{{note|A far different kind of Sector Seven Drone, a white, Decepticon-like legged robot, appears very infrequently in the Antarctic level of ''Transformers: Autobots'' in only one mission. One can later be seen running around on a glacier, and is the only source of non-mission EXP in this particular map.}}

==Toys==
===Transformers (2007)===
*'''Capture of Bumblebee''' (Screen Battles, 2007)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''SB-04'''

[[Image:Movie ScreenBattles Sector7figures.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Simmons: "I'm gonna count to five." Lennox: "Well I'm gonna count to three!" Middleman: "Um, guys, can ya let me out of the way first?"]]
: This ''Screen Battles'' pack comes a redecoed Camaro Concept Deluxe class Bumblebee featuring a more accurate grey colour scheme for his robot mode parts and a silver painted face and toes. The pack also comes with non-poseable figurines of Sector Seven agent [[Seymour Simmons]], a helmeted Sector Seven soldier, and what appears to be a figurine of [[William Lennox]] painted like a Sector Seven soldier.

:This set comes in a special window box featuring a diorama background of the scene where Bumblebee is captured by Sector Seven forces.

*'''Other toys'''

:A number of other Transformers from the Movie toyline are robots in disguise as Sector Seven vehicles, some straight from the screen, others straight from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradius ''Gradius'']. These include:

:*[[Air Raid (Movie)|Air Raid]]
:*[[Armorhide (Movie)|Armorhide]]
:*[[Crosshairs (Movie)|Crosshairs]]
:*[[Hardtop (Movie)|Hardtop]]
:*[[Landmine (Movie)|Landmine]]
:*[[Signal Flare (Movie)|Signal Flare]]
:*[[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]]
:*[[Storm Surge]]
:*[[Strongarm (Movie)|Strongarm]]
{{-}}
==Trivia==
===Contradictory founding date===
Various movie-related media have offered contradictory information regarding when Sector Seven was originally founded:

*In the [[Transformers (2007)|movie]] itself (which is, for all intents and purposes, the "primary" media), [[Tom Banachek]] tells [[John Keller|John Keller]] that Sector Seven was "convened 80 years ago under President Hoover". This would place the founding date of Sector Seven somewhere around 1927 (assuming the main events of the movie do indeed take place in 2007). Ignoring the historical error (Herbert Hoover didn't succeed Calvin Coolidge as president until 1929), Banachek later also tells Keller and everyone else given a tour of the S7 headquarters inside Hoover Dam that the First Seven had found the [[All Spark]] cube in 1913, but he doesn't explicitly state that Sector Seven had already been established by then, so the discovery of the cube might have in fact been one of the factors that had later led to the formation of the organization.
*Meanwhile, information revealed as part of the [[Sector Seven (game)|Sector Seven Alternate Reality Game]] establishes that the First Seven had founded Sector Seven "over 100 years ago" (that is, before 1907). The Sector Seven game is in a different continuity and therefore not necessarily contradictory.
*[[Movie Prequel issue 2|Issue 2]] of [[IDW Publishing|IDW's]] ''[[Movie Prequel (2007)|Movie Prequel]]'' mini-series implies that Sector Seven had already been established and operating for quite some time before [[Archibald Witwicky]] found [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] in 1897 (they are shown to have a headquarters with quite a number of [[#IDW_Movie_Prequel_comic|interesting artifacts]] displayed in trophy cases by 1898). To topple things off, Sector Seven is shown to discover the All Spark cube as early as 1902.

Of course it's ''possible'' that all this is simply part of the mystery surrounding such a shady group... but then again, why should Banachek lie to the United States' Secretary of Defense about the founding date of his organization? (Granted, saying 80 years may have just been rounding up. People do it all the time.)

==Footnotes==
<references />

==External links==
*[http://www.sectorseven.org/ Sector Seven's SECRET WEBSITE - Current password: Deceptibot]

*[http://sector7.wikibruce.com/Home Sector 7 - Wiki]

[[Category:Human organizations]]
[[Category:Movie]]
[[Category:Sector Seven| ]]
[[Category:United States of America]]

Panini Armada issue 9

2009-07-03T01:09:13Z

86.146.120.14:

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=[[Armada (Panini comic)|''Transformers: Armada'' (Panini) #9]]
|prev=Panini Armada issue 8
|title="Dawn of Destruction!" & "Tales of the Mini-Cons... Counter-Strike!"
|image=Armpanni09_cover.jpg
|caption=Giant squidhead! Run away!!
|publisher=[[Panini]]
|date=[[December 31]], [[2003]]
|continuity=[[Armada (Panini comic)]]
}}
''The comic book '''Panini Armada issue 9''' contains multiple stories or features.''

==Panini Armada issue 9==
===Contents===
* Dawn of Destruction! (comic, 8 pages)
* Data File #17: Jetfire
* Cyclonus Upgraded! Power Poster
* Data File #18: Commetor
* Tales of the Mini-Cons... Counter-Strike! (comic, 6 pages)

===Free Gift===
* Marble Shooters

==Dawn of Destruction!==
=== Synopsis ===
===Credits===
===Featured Characters===
{{featuredcharacters
|c2=
* [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] (1)
* [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (5)
* [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (6)
* [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] (7)
|h4=[[Mini-Con|Mini-Cons]]
|c4=
* [[Destruction Mini-Con Team]] (2-4)
** [[Dualor]] (2)
** [[Drill Bit (Armada)|Drill Bit]] (3)
** [[Buzzsaw (Armada)|Buzzsaw]] (4)
* [[Leader-1 (Armada)|Leader-1]] (8)
* [[Blackout (Armada)|Blackout]] (9)
* [[Swindle (Armada)|Swindle]] (10)
}}

=== Quotes ===
* N/A

=== Errors ===
* N/A

===Items of note===
* N/A

==Counter-Strike!==
=== Synopsis ===

===Credits===

===Featured Characters===
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (17)
* [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (18)
* [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] (19)
* [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]] (20)
|c2=
* [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] (1)
* [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] (2)
* [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]] (3)
* [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] (4)
* [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (21)
|h4=[[Mini-Con|Mini-Cons]]
|c4=
* [[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]] (5)
* [[Mirage (Armada)|Mirage]] (6)
* [[Dirt Boss (Armada)|Dirt Boss]] (7)
* [[Destruction Mini-Con Team]] (8-10)
** [[Dualor]] (8)
** [[Drill Bit (Armada)|Drill Bit]] (9)
** [[Buzzsaw (Armada)|Buzzsaw]] (10)
* [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]] (11)
* [[Sky Blast]] (12)
* [[Ransack (Armada)|Ransack]] (13)
* [[Liftor]] (14)
* [[Comettor]] (15)
* [[Spiral]] (16)
}}

=== Quotes ===
* N/A

=== Errors ===
* N/A

===Items of note===
* N/A

{{issuestub}}

[[Category:Panini Armada issues]]

Call of the Wild

2009-06-20T11:06:08Z

86.146.179.118: /* Continuity errors */

{{episode
|series=BWtoon
|ep=19
|image=Call of the Wild Optimus scope.jpg
|caption=Scopes munky trial?
|title="Call of the Wild"
|production company=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|airdate=[[January 7]], 1997
|written by=[[Bob Forward]]
|directed by=[[Jonathan Goodwill]]
|animation studio=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|continuity=[[Beast Wars continuity]]
}}
'''The Predacons steal the rectifier coil from the Maximal base, which causes the Maximals to revert into a more feral state.'''

:''Japanese title:'' よみがえれビーストパワー! (''Yomigaere Beast Power!'', "Revive, Beast Power!")

==Synopsis==
A cheetah enthusiastically chases some antelopes, when the ground around it breaks up and it is sent falling into hot lava. Before the cat gets burned, the sequence ends, revealed to be a dream of [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]'s. Cheetor awakens from his nightmare in time to hear the alarms triggered by a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] assault. As the other [[Maximals]] prepare [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]], [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] drags Cheetor outside to battle.

[[Image:Call of the Wild Waspinator Terrorsaur.jpg|left|200px|thumb|What do we do about the slime?]]
[[Optimus Primal|Primal]] exits the Maximals' control room via the roof hatch, but is unable to prevent [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] and [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] from grabbing a piece of Maximal hardware off the roof and retreating with the other Predacons. A well-placed rocket from [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] prevents Primal from chasing the fliers. [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] is just able to catch the Maximal leader before he crashes into the ground, but lowering Primal after taking a hit from Terrorsaur seriously taxes Airazor's systems. On the upside, the Predacons are no longer attacking.

Inside the base, recuperating, the Maximals suddenly feel the harmful effects of [[Energon (fuel)|Energon]] build-up. [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] explains that without the [[rectifier coil]] the Predacons stole, the Maximals will have to stay in Beast Mode. Meanwhile, the Predacons, after an uncharacteristically successful mission, enjoy a hearty laugh together.

[[Image:Call of the Wild Rhinox Optimus Rattrap.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The Maximals look on as Michael Bay attempts to direct a scene.]]
Days later, Rhinox interrupts a dream Primal has (of being a real ape) to mention that Predacons are still haunting the local area. [[Rattrap]] suffers frustration from his Beast Mode's diminutive size and limb length. Primal and Rattrap almost get into a fight with each other, their minds suffering from bestial traits leaking into their personalities, but Rhinox lays down the line. Once the Preds leave, the Maximals take some much-needed rest.

[[Image:Call of the Wild Hunt.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Be very, very quiet. We're hunting Maxies.]]
In his dreams, Primal is tormented by eyes glowing in the dark, Dinobot dreams of hunting surprisingly tiny hadrosaurs, and Rattrap dreams of rat stuff. The dreams overpower their respective dreamers, and the Maximals awaken, trapped in the mindsets of the creatures whose forms they wear. The animals all eventually exit [[Axalon (BW)|their base]]. Their foes' intellects gone, Megatron and the Predacons begin their hunt.

Airazor exits the [[CR Chamber]] to meet [[Tigatron]] in the empty Maximal base. Tigatron resolves to reform his Maximal companions before they're killed, while Airazor has her own mission. She heads to the unoccupied [[Darksyde|Predacon base]], deftly dodging the automated defenses. Inside, the rectifier coil is under no protection she can't destroy.

[[Image:Call of the Wild Optimus Megatron.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Peter Jackson likely watched this episode.]]
In the jungle, Tigatron comes to face the feral Cheetor and Rhinox. The two follow him for reasons their animal minds don't comprehend. Next Tigatron recruits the primal Optimus into his party, and finally Dinobot and Rattrap. His friends gathered, Tigatron speaks to the dormant minds of his friends. He explains how the schism that exists between the Maximals' two modes is a side effect of a programming block, and as long as that program exists, the animal and Maximal identities will never reach cohesion. Now embracing the beasts within, the restored Maximals are ready to "Slag some bot!"

Primal swings Megatron off of his throne as the two Maximal cats tackle the two Predacon goons who were carrying their leader. Dinobot's raptor mode conquers [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]. Rhinox knocks over a tree to ground the Predacon fliers, and a ratball special puts Rattrap into position to pump gunfire into Terrorsaur. After the Predacons start to feel the effects of Energon build-up, Megatron orders a retreat.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Maximal]]s|c1=
* [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (1)
* [[Optimus Primal]] (4)
* [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (5)
* [[Rattrap]] (6)
* [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] (7)
* [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (11)
* [[Tigatron]] (13)

|h2=[[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]|c2=
* [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]](2)
* [[Tarantulas]] (3)
* [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (8)
* [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] (9)
* [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (10)
* [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (11)
* [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] (12)
}}

==Quotes==
"Man, I swear them polka-dots go clear through to the brain."
:—'''Rattrap''' on Cheetor.

"Trouble with the neighbours again."
:—'''Airazor''' spots the ''Axalon'' under attack.

"Predacons, fall back!" 
"Now he tells me!"
:—'''Megatron''''s order comes a wee bit too late to save '''Tarantulas'''.

"Hunting from the air with automatic weapons—now ''that's'' a sport!"
:—'''Terrorsaur''' and Sarah Palin would be right at home in each other's company

"She stoops to conquer!"
:—'''Airazor''' shows some wit.

"Rat...robot. Rat...robot. I'm a robot ''and'' a rat! Yeahh, I ''like'' it!" 
"Hrmf, I do not see why."
:—'''Rattrap''' and '''Dinobot'''

"Remember, do not fight your beast instincts. Let them help your robot forms both in battle and in peace. But for now, let us maximize (''transforms into robot mode), AND SLAG SOME BUTT!"''
:—'''Tigatron''' delivers solid advice.

==Other notes==
===Animation errors===
===Continuity errors===
* In one of the bigger continuity errors in ''Beast Wars''—because it is actually in the spoken dialogue and not a result of [[Code of Hero|careless animation]] or [[Transmutate (episode)|time-filling sound edits]]—Megatron says his plan is contingent on his research of Maximal programming, and Tigatron later confirms the existence of this specifically Maximal weakness. So ''why is Dinobot affected at all?'' However, it is demonstrated that suitably strong Beast mental urges can override even Predacon coding (for example, Inferno), so its possible that the hunting instincts of the Velociraptor, coupled with Dinobot's exhaustion, led to this scenario

===Other errors===
* In his beast dream, Dinobot—supposedly experiencing the instincts of his beast mode, Asia's ''Velociraptor''—dreams of chasing what appears to be a ''Parasaurolophus'', which only lived in the Americas and which furthermore is portrayed as far too small. Since the creature is never actually named, it may be taken as representing a different dinosaur species as-yet-undiscovered. It's also likely that the Parasuralophus was a youngster.

===Transformers references===
===Real-world references===
* The episode was likely named after [[wikipedia:Jack_London|Jack London's]] 1903 novel ''[[wikipedia:The_Call_of_the_Wild|The Call of the Wild]]''.
* Airazor's "she stoops to conquer" line is a ''double'' reference: first, and most obviously, to 1773 play ''[[wikipedia:She_Stoops_to_Conquer|She Stoops to Conquer]]'', and secondly to a ''stoop'', which is the dive of a bird of prey. [[Ben Yee|Some people]] do not get it.

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* This episode marks the only use of Megatron's right arm-mounted missile launcher, which fires from the same port the laser beam emanates from. What is with Transformers and the one-use weapons?
* This episode explores many themes that several of the same characters would later explore in ''[[Beast Machines]]''. The idea of the Maximals taking on more bestial personalities because of their beast modes is used in the episode "[[Forbidden Fruit]]". A similar concept would have been touched on in the unproduced ''Beast Wars'' episode "[[A Greater Ape]]".
* When the Maximal computer announces that the Predacons are withdrawing from the area, text in the Maximal version of the Cybertronix [[Cybertronian languages|language]] scrolls by the bottom of the screen, and more text flashes in blue in the middle of the screen. The blue flashing text reads "area clear", and the text on the bottom reads "its been a long time since ive had sweet thistle pie".

[[Category:Beast Wars episodes]]

Call of the Wild

2009-06-20T11:03:57Z

86.146.179.118: /* Quotes */

{{episode
|series=BWtoon
|ep=19
|image=Call of the Wild Optimus scope.jpg
|caption=Scopes munky trial?
|title="Call of the Wild"
|production company=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|airdate=[[January 7]], 1997
|written by=[[Bob Forward]]
|directed by=[[Jonathan Goodwill]]
|animation studio=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|continuity=[[Beast Wars continuity]]
}}
'''The Predacons steal the rectifier coil from the Maximal base, which causes the Maximals to revert into a more feral state.'''

:''Japanese title:'' よみがえれビーストパワー! (''Yomigaere Beast Power!'', "Revive, Beast Power!")

==Synopsis==
A cheetah enthusiastically chases some antelopes, when the ground around it breaks up and it is sent falling into hot lava. Before the cat gets burned, the sequence ends, revealed to be a dream of [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]'s. Cheetor awakens from his nightmare in time to hear the alarms triggered by a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] assault. As the other [[Maximals]] prepare [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]], [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] drags Cheetor outside to battle.

[[Image:Call of the Wild Waspinator Terrorsaur.jpg|left|200px|thumb|What do we do about the slime?]]
[[Optimus Primal|Primal]] exits the Maximals' control room via the roof hatch, but is unable to prevent [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] and [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] from grabbing a piece of Maximal hardware off the roof and retreating with the other Predacons. A well-placed rocket from [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] prevents Primal from chasing the fliers. [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] is just able to catch the Maximal leader before he crashes into the ground, but lowering Primal after taking a hit from Terrorsaur seriously taxes Airazor's systems. On the upside, the Predacons are no longer attacking.

Inside the base, recuperating, the Maximals suddenly feel the harmful effects of [[Energon (fuel)|Energon]] build-up. [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] explains that without the [[rectifier coil]] the Predacons stole, the Maximals will have to stay in Beast Mode. Meanwhile, the Predacons, after an uncharacteristically successful mission, enjoy a hearty laugh together.

[[Image:Call of the Wild Rhinox Optimus Rattrap.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The Maximals look on as Michael Bay attempts to direct a scene.]]
Days later, Rhinox interrupts a dream Primal has (of being a real ape) to mention that Predacons are still haunting the local area. [[Rattrap]] suffers frustration from his Beast Mode's diminutive size and limb length. Primal and Rattrap almost get into a fight with each other, their minds suffering from bestial traits leaking into their personalities, but Rhinox lays down the line. Once the Preds leave, the Maximals take some much-needed rest.

[[Image:Call of the Wild Hunt.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Be very, very quiet. We're hunting Maxies.]]
In his dreams, Primal is tormented by eyes glowing in the dark, Dinobot dreams of hunting surprisingly tiny hadrosaurs, and Rattrap dreams of rat stuff. The dreams overpower their respective dreamers, and the Maximals awaken, trapped in the mindsets of the creatures whose forms they wear. The animals all eventually exit [[Axalon (BW)|their base]]. Their foes' intellects gone, Megatron and the Predacons begin their hunt.

Airazor exits the [[CR Chamber]] to meet [[Tigatron]] in the empty Maximal base. Tigatron resolves to reform his Maximal companions before they're killed, while Airazor has her own mission. She heads to the unoccupied [[Darksyde|Predacon base]], deftly dodging the automated defenses. Inside, the rectifier coil is under no protection she can't destroy.

[[Image:Call of the Wild Optimus Megatron.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Peter Jackson likely watched this episode.]]
In the jungle, Tigatron comes to face the feral Cheetor and Rhinox. The two follow him for reasons their animal minds don't comprehend. Next Tigatron recruits the primal Optimus into his party, and finally Dinobot and Rattrap. His friends gathered, Tigatron speaks to the dormant minds of his friends. He explains how the schism that exists between the Maximals' two modes is a side effect of a programming block, and as long as that program exists, the animal and Maximal identities will never reach cohesion. Now embracing the beasts within, the restored Maximals are ready to "Slag some bot!"

Primal swings Megatron off of his throne as the two Maximal cats tackle the two Predacon goons who were carrying their leader. Dinobot's raptor mode conquers [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]. Rhinox knocks over a tree to ground the Predacon fliers, and a ratball special puts Rattrap into position to pump gunfire into Terrorsaur. After the Predacons start to feel the effects of Energon build-up, Megatron orders a retreat.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Maximal]]s|c1=
* [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (1)
* [[Optimus Primal]] (4)
* [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (5)
* [[Rattrap]] (6)
* [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] (7)
* [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (11)
* [[Tigatron]] (13)

|h2=[[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]|c2=
* [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]](2)
* [[Tarantulas]] (3)
* [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (8)
* [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] (9)
* [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (10)
* [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (11)
* [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] (12)
}}

==Quotes==
"Man, I swear them polka-dots go clear through to the brain."
:—'''Rattrap''' on Cheetor.

"Trouble with the neighbours again."
:—'''Airazor''' spots the ''Axalon'' under attack.

"Predacons, fall back!" 
"Now he tells me!"
:—'''Megatron''''s order comes a wee bit too late to save '''Tarantulas'''.

"Hunting from the air with automatic weapons—now ''that's'' a sport!"
:—'''Terrorsaur''' and Sarah Palin would be right at home in each other's company

"She stoops to conquer!"
:—'''Airazor''' shows some wit.

"Rat...robot. Rat...robot. I'm a robot ''and'' a rat! Yeahh, I ''like'' it!" 
"Hrmf, I do not see why."
:—'''Rattrap''' and '''Dinobot'''

"Remember, do not fight your beast instincts. Let them help your robot forms both in battle and in peace. But for now, let us maximize (''transforms into robot mode), AND SLAG SOME BUTT!"''
:—'''Tigatron''' delivers solid advice.

==Other notes==
===Animation errors===
===Continuity errors===
* In one of the bigger continuity errors in ''Beast Wars''—because it is actually in the spoken dialogue and not a result of [[Code of Hero|careless animation]] or [[Transmutate (episode)|time-filling sound edits]]—Megatron says his plan is contingent on his research of Maximal programming, and Tigatron later confirms the existence of this specifically Maximal weakness. So ''why is Dinobot affected at all?''

===Other errors===
* In his beast dream, Dinobot—supposedly experiencing the instincts of his beast mode, Asia's ''Velociraptor''—dreams of chasing what appears to be a ''Parasaurolophus'', which only lived in the Americas and which furthermore is portrayed as far too small. Since the creature is never actually named, it may be taken as representing a different dinosaur species as-yet-undiscovered. It's also likely that the Parasuralophus was a youngster.

===Transformers references===
===Real-world references===
* The episode was likely named after [[wikipedia:Jack_London|Jack London's]] 1903 novel ''[[wikipedia:The_Call_of_the_Wild|The Call of the Wild]]''.
* Airazor's "she stoops to conquer" line is a ''double'' reference: first, and most obviously, to 1773 play ''[[wikipedia:She_Stoops_to_Conquer|She Stoops to Conquer]]'', and secondly to a ''stoop'', which is the dive of a bird of prey. [[Ben Yee|Some people]] do not get it.

===Miscellaneous trivia===
* This episode marks the only use of Megatron's right arm-mounted missile launcher, which fires from the same port the laser beam emanates from. What is with Transformers and the one-use weapons?
* This episode explores many themes that several of the same characters would later explore in ''[[Beast Machines]]''. The idea of the Maximals taking on more bestial personalities because of their beast modes is used in the episode "[[Forbidden Fruit]]". A similar concept would have been touched on in the unproduced ''Beast Wars'' episode "[[A Greater Ape]]".
* When the Maximal computer announces that the Predacons are withdrawing from the area, text in the Maximal version of the Cybertronix [[Cybertronian languages|language]] scrolls by the bottom of the screen, and more text flashes in blue in the middle of the screen. The blue flashing text reads "area clear", and the text on the bottom reads "its been a long time since ive had sweet thistle pie".

[[Category:Beast Wars episodes]]

Cyclonus (Armada)

2007-12-05T17:24:22Z

86.146.4.239: /* Armada */

{{disambig2|the Unicron Trilogy Decepticon Cyclonus/Snow Cat|the Generation 1 Decepticon Cyclonus|Cyclonus (G1)}}
{{disambig2|the Unicron Trilogy Decepticon Cyclonus/Snow Cat|the G.I. Joe vehicle|Snow Cat (G.I. Joe)}}

:''Cyclonus is a Decepticon from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] series. He took the name '''Snow Cat''' after recieving a new body.''

[[Image:Cyclonus-AR-DVD.jpg|300px|right|thumb|"Morale? We've never had morale around here!"]]

Cautious. Reliable. Uneager. These are not words to describe '''Cyclonus'''. He is one wild and craaaaaaazy guy. Seriously, he's the guy in the group that even the other Cons think is a little unbalanced. His usual battle tactic is to rush straight in with every piece of artillery he has blazing, all while laughing maniacally. Other times, he yodels while rushing straight in with every piece of artillery he has blazing.

He loves combat, and isn't particularly picky about which side he's on, so long as he gets to shoot things. He's not especially bright, but [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] knows the value of a soldier largely without fear.

:''Japanese name:'' '''Sandstorm''' (''Armada''), '''Snowstorm''' (''Energon'', Snow Cat body)
:''Hungarian name as Cyclonus'': '''Ciklon''' (basically means cyclone)
:''Hungarian name as Snow Cat'': '''Hósapka''' (meaning Snow Ca''p'')

==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===
====''Armada''====
'''Voice actor:''' [[Don Brown]] (US) [[Isshin Chiba]] (Japan)

Cyclonus is a wild soldier under [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]'s command. He is closely partnered with his comrade [[Demolishor]], with whom he sometimes shares a love/hate relationship. He is known for having a maniacal personality and will often fire at targets frantically, risking damage to his own teammates. He has a quirky and sarcastic personality, often leading to harsh punishment by his commander. For some unknown reason, Cyclonus had the habit of falling asleep at random intervals during downtime after battles.

Cyclonus served Megatron throughout the [[Unicron Battles]], and was a key player in the united Armada against the [[Unicron|chaos-bringer]]. His alternate form is a helicopter, and he often took pleasure in tormenting the three kids under [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime's]] protection. He joined the Autobot unit after the demise of Megatron, though with reservations.

====''Energon''====
'''Voice actor:''' [[Don Brown]] (US) [[Isshin Chiba]] (Japan)

Cyclonus returned as the guardian of [[Cybertron City]] based on the moon. Although he served his role dutifully, he was yearning for the days of combat. Not long after the attacks on Mars and Asteroid City, the moon would also be attacked, a battle through which Cyclonus would hold up a small resistance before he was presumed destroyed. As [[Demolishor]] prepared for more [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcon]] assaults on Earth, Cyclonus surfaced, having tucked tail and ran, abandoning Cybertron City on the moon to be looted of its [[Energon]]. Cyclonus assisted Demolishor and the Autobots until [[Tidal Wave]] showed up wielding [[Megatron's Sword]], a blade forged by [[Alpha Quintesson]] from the Spark of Megatron. Believing that it was proof of Megatron, Cyclonus abandoned the Autobots and Demolishor, joining Alpha Quintesson's forces.

Cyclonus would once again serve Megatron when the commander was revived within Unicron for some time, before sustaining damages from an [[Autobot]] assault while retreating. Having failed to topple the [[Energon tower]]s, Cyclonus returned injured to his commander, begging for repairs. In a rage, Megatron bound Cyclonus to the wall using [[Unicron]]'s internal tentacles as punishment. Cyclonus was then fused with Unicron's essence in a painful manner and upgraded into '''Snow Cat''', who then took up yodeling, and skiing. During the [[Powerlinx Battles]] Snow Cat and Demolisher had to deal with a gigantic [[Insecticon (Energon)|Insecticon]], who was mutated by the [[Super Energon]].

===Cybertron===
''Universe Toy Bio''

Following the [[Powerlinx Battles]] Snow Cat went totally starkers (it wasn't a long trip), and without Megatron to guide him, wandered the streets of [[Kaon]], a raving loon during the planet's evacuation.

: ''('''Note''': Snow Cat's ''[[Universe]]'' bio sets him off-camera during the events of ''[[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' rather within the pre-existing ''Universe'' storyline. This is likely due to the ''Universe'' storyline giving way to and folding into the Fanclub Cybertron comic which is set largely on this abandoned Cybertron.)

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
====''Armada''====
====''Energon''====
Ten years after the destruction of Unicron, Cyclonus was spotted in [[Cyber City]], oddly not blowing anything up. {{storylink|This Evil Reborn}}

Later, Snow Cat, under the command of [[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]], captured the [[Omnicon]]s in a small town in the Yukon and rigged them to a machine that would extract their [[energon]] to feed Unicron, then reprogram them as [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons]]. However, the Omnicons learned the value of teamwork thanks to the shared-hallucination-indiced disembodied advice-giving head of [[Over-Run (Armada)|Over-Run]], broke free, and totally kicked his ass. {{storylink|Omni-Potent}}

Much later, Snow Cat was one of several Decepticons who attempted to "sneak" into [[Ocean City]] and steal the data for the Autobots' [[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme prototype]]. He rushed into the dark hangar, smacked into a scaffolding like a big dumb doof, and was chased out by security. Megatron didn't buy Snow Cat's recounting of how his daring and skill was thwarted by a "sub sea earthquake" for one second. {{storylink|Dreamwave Summer Special}}

:''('''Note''': Due to the bankruptcy of [[Dreamwave Productions]], it has not been confirmed if Cyclonus and Snow Cat are one and the same in this reality. If Snow Cat was indeed a reformatted Cyclonus, then it is likely that he was taken during the horsemen's attack on Cybertron during [[What Lies Beneath, Part 2|issue 21]].'')

==Toys==
===Armada===
*'''Cyclonus with Mini-Con Crumplezone''' (Deluxe, 2002/2003)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''MD-04'''

[[Image:Armada_Cyclonus_toy.jpg|right|thumb|Craaaaaaazy air-taxi!]]

:Cyclonus transforms into a Cybertronian helicopter coloured in light blue, light grey with dark blue and gold accents. His Mini-Con Crumplezone can be attached to the front of his helicopter cockpit for added firepower. Attaching Mini-Cons to either of his wing-mounted weapons pods launches a missile. In robot mode, attaching a Mini-Con to the ports on either side of his legs will make a spring-loaded cannon pop up from his shins.

: The Japanese release of Cyclonus has some slight color differences, including a "separated" painted sigil, and a much brighter white plastic.

: This mold was also used to make ''[[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' [[Buzzsaw (Cybertron)|Buzzsaw]].

{{-}}

*'''Sandstorm w/ Cannon and Destruction Micron''' (Multi-pack, 2003)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''MS-04'''

: This Japanese release is largely identical to the single-packed version, except that it comes with the [[Destruction Mini-Con Team]], whose gear-gimmicks were designed to function with Cyclonus.

*'''Cyclonus''' (Happy Meal toy, 2003)

: Part of the McDonald's ''Armada'' promotion, Cyclonus transforms into an assault helicopter. Rolling his vehicle form forward spins his rotor prop, which launches into the air after picking up enough speed, a gimmick like that of the ''[[Generation 2]]'' [[Rotor Force]] toys. He could combine with the Happy Meal versions of [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] and [[Demolishor]] toys to form a "super vehicle".

*'''Megatron with Leader-1 and Cyclonus with Crumplezone''' (Built to Rule, 2003)

[[Image:Armada_BTR_MegatronCyclonus.jpg|left|thumb|175px|Let's make some crazy Energon!]]

: Part of the largest ''Transformers'' series ''[[Built to Rule]]'' set, Cyclonus can be assembled into an assault helicopter, a robot, or whatever your imagination can do with the blocks provided. Cyclonus is the only ''Built to Rule'' "figure" that does not have some kind of missile launcher. He came with a block-version of his Mini-Con parter Crumplezone, as well as the larger Megatron with [[Leader-1]] model.

{{-}}

*'''Powerlinx Cyclonus with Mini-Con Crumplezone''' (Deluxe, 2003)

[[Image:Powerlinx_Cyclonus_toy.jpg|right|thumb|Still Crazy In Spite Of All These Gears.]]

: This redeco of Cyclonus is designed as something of a questionable homage to [[Springer]], using mostly bright green plastic, as well as dark grey and chocolate-brown. He retains all of his original gimmicks and still has his Mini-Con partner.

: This toy was not released as part of the normal ''Micron Legend'' series in Japan; presumably, it was straight-imported as a [[USA Edition]].

: In November of 2003, US Toys "R" Us stores had special bonus pack Max-Con (Deluxe) toys, which came with a single bonus Mini-Con attached to the card over their sticker, for ''less'' than the price as a normal Max-Con during Toys "R" Us' post-Thanksgiving-day sale. Like Powerlinx [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]], Powerlinx Cyclonus could come with one of the [[Adventure Mini-Con Team]] members: [[Dune Runner]], [[Iceberg]] or [[Ransack (Armada)|Ransack]].

{{-}}

===Energon===
*'''Cyclonus with Mini-Con Crumplezone''' (Deluxe, 2004)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''SD-03'''

: This is an 'urban-camouflage' redeco of Cyclonus, presented in mostly dark grey with black and purple. The majority of the paint applications are black and white in a camouflage pattern.

: Released at the start of the Japanese ''Super Link'' line, this toy did not appear in the American ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' line until late 2004 as a KB Toys [[exclusive]].

[[Image:Energon_Snowcat_toy.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Does not come with Frostbite :(]]
*'''Snow Cat''' (Deluxe, 2004)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''SD-10'''

:Snow Cat transforms into a Snow Cat SAM half-track. He is cast in primarily white and light blue plastics, with clear and burgundy for accents. In vehicle mode, the sideskirts can be lowered to form skis for the vehicle to travel on, while in robot mode the skis fold down from his legs. He features twin spring-loaded missile launchers available to him in both modes. Unusual for Transformers of this era, he has a visible cockpit interior with a partially frosted windshield and working windshield wiper.

===Universe===
*'''Snow Cat''' (Deluxe, 2005)

: The ''Energon'' Snow Cat mold was redecoed and released as an [[exclusive]] to Kay-Bee stores in 2005 along with a redeco of ''Energon'' [[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]]. However, at the time Kay-Bee was undergoing financial troubles, closing numerous stores across the United States, and it appears that the two toys did not make it to a great many of the stores that remained open. Many did make their way to Toy Liquidator outlets, a sub-company within Kay-Bee. In 2006, it seems the toys finally made it to a wider distribution through the remaining Kay-Bee stories.

==Trivia==
* According to the [[Transformers (Melbourne House)|''Armada'' Playstation 2 game]] instruction booklet, Cyclonus's ''Armada'' body has the following statistics:
:Height: 19' 7" (17' 1" vehicle mode)
:Weight: 16,550 lbs
:Power: 1800 shaft horsepower
:Vehicle top speed: 190 mph

* The Snow Cat toy was designed to resemble a ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' [[Snow Cat (G.I. Joe)|vehicle of the same name]]. This toy ''also'' featured a frosted windshield with movable wiper. Why a good-guy vehicle got turned into a bad-guy robot is unknown.

* The colors chosen for Universe Snow Cat emulate the colors of vehicles present in G.I. Joe's [http://www.yojoe.com/action/subteams/nightforce.shtml Night Force] sub-line.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Decepticon/Cyclonus/cyclonus.htm Cyclonus at TFU.info]

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Cyclonus (Armada)

2007-12-05T17:15:39Z

86.146.4.239: /* Cybetron */

{{disambig2|the Unicron Trilogy Decepticon Cyclonus/Snow Cat|the Generation 1 Decepticon Cyclonus|Cyclonus (G1)}}
{{disambig2|the Unicron Trilogy Decepticon Cyclonus/Snow Cat|the G.I. Joe vehicle|Snow Cat (G.I. Joe)}}

:''Cyclonus is a Decepticon from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] series. He took the name '''Snow Cat''' after recieving a new body.''

[[Image:Cyclonus-AR-DVD.jpg|300px|right|thumb|"Morale? We've never had morale around here!"]]

Cautious. Reliable. Uneager. These are not words to describe '''Cyclonus'''. He is one wild and craaaaaaazy guy. Seriously, he's the guy in the group that even the other Cons think is a little unbalanced. His usual battle tactic is to rush straight in with every piece of artillery he has blazing, all while laughing maniacally. Other times, he yodels while rushing straight in with every piece of artillery he has blazing.

He loves combat, and isn't particularly picky about which side he's on, so long as he gets to shoot things. He's not especially bright, but [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] knows the value of a soldier largely without fear.

:''Japanese name:'' '''Sandstorm''' (''Armada''), '''Snowstorm''' (''Energon'', Snow Cat body)
:''Hungarian name as Cyclonus'': '''Ciklon''' (basically means cyclone)
:''Hungarian name as Snow Cat'': '''Hósapka''' (meaning Snow Ca''p'')

==Fiction==
===Animated continuity===
====''Armada''====
'''Voice actor:''' [[Don Brown]] (US) [[Isshin Chiba]] (Japan)

Cyclonus is a wild soldier under [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]'s command. He is closely partnered with his comrade [[Demolishor]], with whom he sometimes shares a love/hate relationship. He is known for having a maniacal personality and will often fire at targets frantically, risking damage to his own teammates. He has a quirky and sarcastic personality, often leading to harsh punishment by his commander. For some unknown reason, Cyclonus had the habit of falling asleep at random intervals during downtime after battles.

Cyclonus served Megatron throughout the [[Unicron Battles]], and was a key player in the united Armada against the [[Unicron|chaos-bringer]]. His alternate form is a helicopter, and he often took pleasure in tormenting the three kids under [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime's]] protection. He joined the Autobot unit after the demise of Megatron, though with reservations.

====''Energon''====
'''Voice actor:''' [[Don Brown]] (US) [[Isshin Chiba]] (Japan)

Cyclonus returned as the guardian of [[Cybertron City]] based on the moon. Although he served his role dutifully, he was yearning for the days of combat. Not long after the attacks on Mars and Asteroid City, the moon would also be attacked, a battle through which Cyclonus would hold up a small resistance before he was presumed destroyed. As [[Demolishor]] prepared for more [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcon]] assaults on Earth, Cyclonus surfaced, having tucked tail and ran, abandoning Cybertron City on the moon to be looted of its [[Energon]]. Cyclonus assisted Demolishor and the Autobots until [[Tidal Wave]] showed up wielding [[Megatron's Sword]], a blade forged by [[Alpha Quintesson]] from the Spark of Megatron. Believing that it was proof of Megatron, Cyclonus abandoned the Autobots and Demolishor, joining Alpha Quintesson's forces.

Cyclonus would once again serve Megatron when the commander was revived within Unicron for some time, before sustaining damages from an [[Autobot]] assault while retreating. Having failed to topple the [[Energon tower]]s, Cyclonus returned injured to his commander, begging for repairs. In a rage, Megatron bound Cyclonus to the wall using [[Unicron]]'s internal tentacles as punishment. Cyclonus was then fused with Unicron's essence in a painful manner and upgraded into '''Snow Cat''', who then took up yodeling, and skiing. During the [[Powerlinx Battles]] Snow Cat and Demolisher had to deal with a gigantic [[Insecticon (Energon)|Insecticon]], who was mutated by the [[Super Energon]].

===Cybertron===
''Universe Toy Bio''

Following the [[Powerlinx Battles]] Snow Cat went totally starkers (it wasn't a long trip), and without Megatron to guide him, wandered the streets of [[Kaon]], a raving loon during the planet's evacuation.

: ''('''Note''': Snow Cat's ''[[Universe]]'' bio sets him off-camera during the events of ''[[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' rather within the pre-existing ''Universe'' storyline. This is likely due to the ''Universe'' storyline giving way to and folding into the Fanclub Cybertron comic which is set largely on this abandoned Cybertron.)

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
====''Armada''====
====''Energon''====
Ten years after the destruction of Unicron, Cyclonus was spotted in [[Cyber City]], oddly not blowing anything up. {{storylink|This Evil Reborn}}

Later, Snow Cat, under the command of [[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]], captured the [[Omnicon]]s in a small town in the Yukon and rigged them to a machine that would extract their [[energon]] to feed Unicron, then reprogram them as [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcons]]. However, the Omnicons learned the value of teamwork thanks to the shared-hallucination-indiced disembodied advice-giving head of [[Over-Run (Armada)|Over-Run]], broke free, and totally kicked his ass. {{storylink|Omni-Potent}}

Much later, Snow Cat was one of several Decepticons who attempted to "sneak" into [[Ocean City]] and steal the data for the Autobots' [[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme prototype]]. He rushed into the dark hangar, smacked into a scaffolding like a big dumb doof, and was chased out by security. Megatron didn't buy Snow Cat's recounting of how his daring and skill was thwarted by a "sub sea earthquake" for one second. {{storylink|Dreamwave Summer Special}}

:''('''Note''': Due to the bankruptcy of [[Dreamwave Productions]], it has not been confirmed if Cyclonus and Snow Cat are one and the same in this reality. If Snow Cat was indeed a reformatted Cyclonus, then it is likely that he was taken during the horsemen's attack on Cybertron during [[What Lies Beneath, Part 2|issue 21]].'')

==Toys==
===Armada===
*'''Cyclonus with Mini-Con Crumplezone''' (Deluxe, 2002/2003)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''MD-04'''

[[Image:Armada_Cyclonus_toy.jpg|right|thumb|Craaaaaaazy air-taxi!]]

:Cyclonus transforms into a Cybetronian helicopter coloured in light blue, light grey with dark blue and gold accents. His Mini-Con Crumplezone can be attached to the front of his helicopter cockpit for added firepower. Attaching Mini-Cons to either of his wing-mounted weapons pods launches a missile. In robot mode, attaching a Mini-Con to the ports on either side of his legs will make a spring-loaded cannon pop up from his shins.

: The Japanese release of Cyclonus has some slight color differences, including a "separated" painted sigil, and a much brighter white plastic.

: This mold was also used to make ''[[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' [[Buzzsaw (Cybertron)|Buzzsaw]].

{{-}}

*'''Sandstorm w/ Cannon and Destruction Micron''' (Multi-pack, 2003)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''MS-04'''

: This Japanese release is largely identical to the single-packed version, except that it comes with the [[Destruction Mini-Con Team]], whose gear-gimmicks were designed to function with Cyclonus.

*'''Cyclonus''' (Happy Meal toy, 2003)

: Part of the McDonald's ''Armada'' promotion, Cyclonus transforms into an assault helicopter. Rolling his vehicle form forward spins his rotor prop, which launches into the air after picking up enough speed, a gimmick like that of the ''[[Generation 2]]'' [[Rotor Force]] toys. He could combine with the Happy Meal versions of [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] and [[Demolishor]] toys to form a "super vehicle".

*'''Megatron with Leader-1 and Cyclonus with Crumplezone''' (Built to Rule, 2003)

[[Image:Armada_BTR_MegatronCyclonus.jpg|left|thumb|175px|Let's make some crazy Energon!]]

: Part of the largest ''Transformers'' series ''[[Built to Rule]]'' set, Cyclonus can be assembled into an assault helicopter, a robot, or whatever your imagination can do with the blocks provided. Cyclonus is the only ''Built to Rule'' "figure" that does not have some kind of missile launcher. He came with a block-version of his Mini-Con parter Crumplezone, as well as the larger Megatron with [[Leader-1]] model.

{{-}}

*'''Powerlinx Cyclonus with Mini-Con Crumplezone''' (Deluxe, 2003)

[[Image:Powerlinx_Cyclonus_toy.jpg|right|thumb|Still Crazy In Spite Of All These Gears.]]

: This redeco of Cyclonus is designed as something of a questionable homage to [[Springer]], using mostly bright green plastic, as well as dark grey and chocolate-brown. He retains all of his original gimmicks and still has his Mini-Con partner.

: This toy was not released as part of the normal ''Micron Legend'' series in Japan; presumably, it was straight-imported as a [[USA Edition]].

: In November of 2003, US Toys "R" Us stores had special bonus pack Max-Con (Deluxe) toys, which came with a single bonus Mini-Con attached to the card over their sticker, for ''less'' than the price as a normal Max-Con during Toys "R" Us' post-Thanksgiving-day sale. Like Powerlinx [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]], Powerlinx Cyclonus could come with one of the [[Adventure Mini-Con Team]] members: [[Dune Runner]], [[Iceberg]] or [[Ransack (Armada)|Ransack]].

{{-}}

===Energon===
*'''Cyclonus with Mini-Con Crumplezone''' (Deluxe, 2004)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''SD-03'''

: This is an 'urban-camouflage' redeco of Cyclonus, presented in mostly dark grey with black and purple. The majority of the paint applications are black and white in a camouflage pattern.

: Released at the start of the Japanese ''Super Link'' line, this toy did not appear in the American ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' line until late 2004 as a KB Toys [[exclusive]].

[[Image:Energon_Snowcat_toy.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Does not come with Frostbite :(]]
*'''Snow Cat''' (Deluxe, 2004)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''SD-10'''

:Snow Cat transforms into a Snow Cat SAM half-track. He is cast in primarily white and light blue plastics, with clear and burgundy for accents. In vehicle mode, the sideskirts can be lowered to form skis for the vehicle to travel on, while in robot mode the skis fold down from his legs. He features twin spring-loaded missile launchers available to him in both modes. Unusual for Transformers of this era, he has a visible cockpit interior with a partially frosted windshield and working windshield wiper.

===Universe===
*'''Snow Cat''' (Deluxe, 2005)

: The ''Energon'' Snow Cat mold was redecoed and released as an [[exclusive]] to Kay-Bee stores in 2005 along with a redeco of ''Energon'' [[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]]. However, at the time Kay-Bee was undergoing financial troubles, closing numerous stores across the United States, and it appears that the two toys did not make it to a great many of the stores that remained open. Many did make their way to Toy Liquidator outlets, a sub-company within Kay-Bee. In 2006, it seems the toys finally made it to a wider distribution through the remaining Kay-Bee stories.

==Trivia==
* According to the [[Transformers (Melbourne House)|''Armada'' Playstation 2 game]] instruction booklet, Cyclonus's ''Armada'' body has the following statistics:
:Height: 19' 7" (17' 1" vehicle mode)
:Weight: 16,550 lbs
:Power: 1800 shaft horsepower
:Vehicle top speed: 190 mph

* The Snow Cat toy was designed to resemble a ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' [[Snow Cat (G.I. Joe)|vehicle of the same name]]. This toy ''also'' featured a frosted windshield with movable wiper. Why a good-guy vehicle got turned into a bad-guy robot is unknown.

* The colors chosen for Universe Snow Cat emulate the colors of vehicles present in G.I. Joe's [http://www.yojoe.com/action/subteams/nightforce.shtml Night Force] sub-line.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Decepticon/Cyclonus/cyclonus.htm Cyclonus at TFU.info]

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