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:''Sandstorm is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:G1AutobotSandstorm boxart.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Enter Darude-Sandstorm joke here.]]
'''Sandstorm''' gets bored easily, and has a very hard time concentrating on humdrum tasks. He craves excitement, and since the [[Transformer]]s apparently don't have the X-Games (though they do have [[Optimus Primal (BW)|skateboarding apes]]), he goes in for fighting the [[Decepticon]]s. The ever-present threat of deactivation or maiming doesn't frighten him, but he does fear that the war might end any chance for him to enjoy life. For Sandstorm, war may not be heaven, but it's a hell of an adventure.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
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[[File:Triplechangerstarget2006.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|"Think how great a first impression we'd make if I shot him in the crotch!"]]
''Sandstorm was one of three [[Triple Changer]]s recruited by [[Emirate]] [[Xaaron]] to back up the [[Wreckers]] in [[Operation: Volcano]], replacing [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ultra Magnus]] after he went missing. In order to make a good first impression on [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]], their new commander, Sandstorm and his buddies beat the titanium-coated stuffing out of him, thus proving that they'd fit right in with the Wreckers. However, there were still doubts as to whether the Triple Changers were up to their task in the mission. Such concerns became null when Volcano ultimately failed to lure their targets into the intended trap. All it yielded was Impactor's death, who was felled by a [[Macabre|Decepticon nobody]] while the rest of the forces drew back. After gunning down the assassin, Sandstorm and the others watch solemny as their commander's life force faded away.'' {{storylink|Target: 2006}}

''As a member of the Wreckers, Sandstorm helped capture what he believed to be a Decepticon spy disguised as Autobot leader [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]],'' {{storylink|...The Harder They Die!}} ''only to later discover the "spy" was actually the genuine article. Once Emirate Xaaron confirmed his old friend's identity, the Wreckers stood down.'' {{storylink|Distant Thunder!}} ''Along with Ultra Magnus, they fought alongside Prime against [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]] and his forces, plundering Decepticon strongholds of their [[energon]] before Optimus returned to the Autobots of [[Earth]].'' {{storylink|Resurrection!}}

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''After Prime was transported back to Earth, [[Autobase]] was moved to [[Kalis]]. It was soon rocked by a huge explosion and, believing the explosion to be caused by an underground reactor, Sandstorm and the other Wreckers searched in vain for the chamber. Upon their return to headquarters, the Autobots were overcome by a legion of [[zombie]]s! Springer, still ill-at-ease in his role as leader, floundered when the shambling horde burst through the floor, and without anyone to coordinate them, the Wreckers were easily vanquished. They were captured by the undead horde's controller, [[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]], fitted with [[inhibitor band]]s, and detained within an underground cell. Though things seemed grim, Springer regained his senses following a pep-talk from Xaaron and managed to escape.'' {{storylink|Legion of the Lost!}}

[[File:Wreckers magnus meltdown.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|It's all part of a new program we like to call "Deep Hurting"!]]
''Sandstorm and the rest of the Wreckers managed to break out of their cell as well, reacquired their weapons, and once more took up the fight against the zombies patrolling Flame's headquarters. They then bumped into a returning Springer, now accompanied by Ultra Magnus, [[Fizzle]], [[Sizzle (G1)|Sizzle]], and [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]]. Unfortunately, any further progress towards Flame's inner sanctum was blocked off by a massive blast door. Though their weapons proved completely ineffective against it, the Autobots managed to get through when [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] arrived, repaying a favor that fellow Decepticon [[Flywheels]] owed Ultra Magnus. Unfortunately, they came to confront Flame too late; his machines had already destabilized, and the countdown to Cybertron's destruction had already begun. While Springer, Ultra Magnus, and Xaaron dealt with Flame, the rest of the group cut through the remnants of the mad scientist's zombie army, and headed back to the surface. There, Sandstorm learned that a zombified [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] had forfeited his (un)life in order to prevent the whole planet from blowing up. The Autobots stood in solemn silence to honor Impactor's heroic passing.'' {{storylink|Meltdown!}}

''Sandstorm helped prepare the squad to jump to Earth and eliminate the threat of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] after receiving a warning from Ultra Magnus and the Sparklers.'' {{storylink|Deadly Games!}} ''Unfortunately, their portal dropped the Wreckers on Galvatron right in the middle of a human town, while the latter was having a meeting with [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]. This left the risk of civilian casualties unbearably high. The Wreckers were forced to focus on clearing Galvatron out of the town and securing the safety of the humans rather than actually fighting to capture or kill the super Decepticon. Unfortunately, Sandstorm's efforts in this task were met with difficulty, as the humans couldn't tell Autobots apart from Decepticons. Springer managed to lure Scourge and Cyclonus away, allowing the rest of his crew an opportunity to gang-up on Galvatron. But they were unwilling to simply abandon their leader to the Decepticons' mercies, and the Wreckers allowed Galvatron to escape in order to help their leader. Scourge and Cyclonus also retreated upon finding themselves badly outnumbered, and the Wreckers were forced to return to Cybertron to plan anew.'' {{storylink|Wrecking Havoc}}

[[File:Blasterbeourleaderplease.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Aren't you with the Wreckers? In space?]]
Oppressed under [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]'s tyrannical rule, Sandstorm and several others on board the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] pleaded for [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] to usurp Grimlock as leader of the Autobots. {{storylink|Spacehikers!}} Later, he would join the other Autobots in watching them duel for leadership on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]]. No one knows how Sandstorm got there. {{storylink|Totaled!}}

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''After the mission against Galvatron failed, Sandstorm was assigned to Earth duty full-time with [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] and [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] as an [[Advance Surveillance Unit]] for Galvatron's next move. Though they had been instructed to keep out of human affairs, Sandstorm was still itching for some action. He got more than he bargained for when he investigated a town fire; at first the situation seemed like an opportunity to safeguard life from a natural disaster. While helping the townsfolk evacuate however, Sandstorm, Inferno, and Broadside discovered that an alien life-form, a [[Firebug (G1)|Firebug]], was the source of the conflagration. Working together, the trio caught the critter and sent him off to Mercury, where he wouldn't cause further trouble.'' {{storylink|Firebug!}}

''Later, the trio made a mess of some locals' [[Christmas]] celebration while trying to join in, leaving the town of [[Border Flats]] in ruins as a result. Sandstorm and his teammates made themselves scarce, only for the Autobot [[Powermaster]]s to track them down and attack, thinking they were dealing with a trio of Decepticon trouble-makers. Suitably ashamed of the damage they had caused, the Advance Surveillance Unit apologized for the misunderstanding. As the Autobots settled down, Optimus Prime joined them to impart on Sandstorm and the rest about their responsibility to the planet.'' {{storylink|Cold Comfort and Joy!}}

''Once he reported to Cybertron about Galvatron amassing resources, Sandstorm joined a joint task force of Wreckers and [[Mayhem Attack Squad|Mayhems]] in confronting the evil Decepticon from the future. They were strong. They were numerous. They were annihilated. Galvatron's [[particle cannon]] ended up obliterating Sandstorm while the task force was in full retreat after losing more than half their members.'' {{storylink|Time Wars}}

=====Marvel UK future timelines=====
[[File:Rodimus technobots wreckers peace.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6]]
Sandstorm was among the Autobots defending their territory during the Decepticons' all-out assault under the command of [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]. {{storylink|The Legacy of Unicron!}}

In an alternate future of [[2510]], Sandstorm joined the Wreckers on Cybertron's northern front where they finally exterminated the last Decepticon outpost, bringing the war to an end. Later on, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] called an official end to the war effort and announced his plans to pass the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] on to Springer. The Decepticons were not totally gone, however—a deep cover agent named [[Triton]] lived on inside the Autobot ranks. In order to stir up discord, Triton challenged Prime's decision, declaring that [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ultra Magnus]] was a better choice to carry the Matrix. The situation quickly escalated into a firefight, during which Sandstorm murdered Triton. As conflict escalated further, a new Cybertronian Civil War between the Wreckers and the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]] began.'' {{storylink|Peace}}

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====''Classics''====
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Sandstorm helped rebuild the [[Ironworks (facility)|Ironworks]]. When the evil Autobots attacked from the negative polarity universe, Sandstorm was one of the first wave assimilated by the [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]]. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}

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====''Regeneration One''====
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[[File:Wreckers loose ends.jpg|thumb|upright=1.9|Once a background character, always a background character.]]
In [[2012]], twenty-one years after the apparent end of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] and reoccupation of Cybertron, Sandstorm and the other Wreckers joined [[Kup (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Kup]] in going AWOL to investigate the "loose ends" of the conflict on other planets such as Earth and [[Nebulos]].

Unfortunately, they only made it as far as a devastated Earth before they were apparently blown out of the sky by [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 1}} The Wreckers escaped their ship in shuttles that took them to Earth's surface, where they decided to lay low while Rack'n'Ruin checked on Broadside and Topspin, as they had suffered damage during the battle. After, Sandstorm tried to draw off most of Megatron's [[zombie]] army with [[Leadfoot (G2)|Leadfoot]] and [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] while Kup tried to send a distress signal to Cybertron. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 2}}

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Upon returning to the other Wreckers, he found them being threatened by a [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|super-powered human]] calling himself Circuit Smasher. Topspin recognized the human as Spike Witwicky, a former ally of the Autobots, and Spike grudgingly took the to [[Argus Base]] where they met [[G.B. Blackrock]]. Sandstorm attended a meeting with Blackrock, Circuit Smasher, and Springer to form a plan to take down Megatron. During their meeting, they received a message from Megatron, informing them that he had Kup captive, and had infected him with [[Scraplet]]s! {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 3}} Sandstorm, Springer and Whirl split off from the other Wreckers, so they could try to save Kup, and, in the process, create a distraction so the other Wreckers could deactivate the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. They fought hard, but were quickly taken down by Megatron's forces. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 4}} With the arrival of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] with reinforcements from Cybertron and a joint Wrecker-human assault on the Ark, Megatron and his zombie army were defeated. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 5}}

[[File:Wreckers war to end all wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
Sandstorm and the rest of the Autobots, sans Optimus Prime, returned to Cybertron aboard the ''[[Valiant (G1)|Valiant]]'' {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part Five}} where he continued to serve with the Wreckers; helping to keep the peace at [[Eugenesis Plaza]] {{storylink|Destiny, Part One}} and [[Auto-artery RG1]] {{storylink|Destiny, Part Two}} and participating in a failed attack at [[Fort Scyk]] to root out [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]]'s Neo-Decepticons. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Three}} With the arrival of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s ''[[Warworld]]'' above the planet, he formed part of a raid on the Decepticon ship but was caught unawares by the master of [[Metallikato]] and found himself impaled by a sword. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Five}}

Sandstorm was well enough recovered to join Rodimus Prime's assault on the [[Hub (G2)|Hub Network]], with the Wreckers operating separately from the main Autobot forces and using the Hub's interplanetary "[[slam rail]]" tube system to avoid detection while causing massive explosions to detach planets from its superstructure. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 4}}

====''Transformers '84''====
Sandstorm, [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], and [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] were led by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ultra Magnus]] in a counterattack against [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]]'s forces as they laid siege to an Autobot fort in the [[Border Regions]]. Following their intervention, Straxus ordered his troops to retreat but to gather as many prisoners as they could as they did so. {{storylink|Secrets & Lies issue 2|Secrets & Lies #2}}

===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Jerry Houser]] (English), [[Yoku Shioya]] (Japanese)|[[Xia Zhiqing]] (Chinese), [[Bernd Simon]] (German, "Fight or Flee"), [[Imo Heite]] (German, "Starscreams Ghost"), [[Frank Röth]] (German, ''Generation 2'' dub), [[Georges Atlas]] (European French), [[Dani Albiac]] (Spain-Spanish), [[Lauro Fabiano]] (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
[[File:SandstormAutobot1.jpg|left|thumb|Autobot Creamsicle]]
Sandstorm was a native of [[Paradron]]. His Autobot ancestors fled Cybertron during what he called [[Cybertronian Civil Wars|the Fourth Great War]] and ventured through a strange vortex, where they discovered a habitable world. There, they founded an energon-rich, democratic colony dedicated to nonviolence.

But this came to an end when [[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] stumbled through the vortex and crashed on Paradron. They had no idea where they were, but they knew it was a land ripe for the picking. They literally pushed the welcoming Paradronians around, then alerted [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] to the planet's existence. Sandstorm tried to rally his fellows against the two Decepticons, but no one wanted to fight. And he was proven terribly right in the middle of a speech, when Cyclonus abruptly shot him as Galvatron's invasion force descended from the sky.

Sandstorm was jailed, and the Decepticons forced the Paradronians into labor, building weapons. However, Sandstorm escaped rather easily and took an old shuttle back through the vortex. He put out a distress call and was found by the [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] [[Autobot]]s, whom he convinced to mount a counterstrike against Galvatron.

[[File:Sandstorm ThiefInTheNight.jpg|thumb|upright=2|Technically, you're not supposed to be here.]]
The Autobots infiltrated Paradron and took guerrilla action. They freed a group of Paradronians, and though the pacifists were still wary of Sandstorm's pleas to fight, they did finally take up arms. Despite this victory, though, the Decepticons still presented a daunting battle. Sandstorm gave little objection to [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]]'s order to detonate the planet's energon core, destroying the world to keep it out of Galvatron's hands. In fact, he seemed downright happy to get some use out of the planetary escape pods. The Paradronians departed thusly while Sandstorm and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] planted a bomb on what Magnus called the most beautiful thing in the entire galaxy.

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When it detonated five minutes later, Sandstorm and the Paradronians stood alongside the Autobots and watched their homeworld's destruction. "It's as beautiful in death as it was in life". Sandstorm eulogized simply. Rodimus openly mocked him and told him Cybertron was better. {{storylink|Fight or Flee (episode)|Fight or Flee}}

Sandstorm joined the Autobots on Earth; there, he was part of Rodimus's team investigating [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]'s theft of famous monuments. {{storylink|Thief in the Night}} Interestingly, it was as a result of that caper that [[Octane]] was excommunicated from Galvatron's army. And then Sandstorm and Octane soon started hanging out, joyriding in and around [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]].

When the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] tried to assassinate Octane, he and Sandstorm fled to a space station somewhere and had lunch. There, a [[Skuxxoid]] in Galvatron's employ tried to kill Octane several times but was comically thwarted by circumstance. Believing it would be safer, Sandstorm and Octane then went to Cybertron. But while Octane was alone there, he finally ''was'' captured by the Decepticons.

As he was being hauled away, Sandstorm tried to rescue him. And failed. {{storylink|Starscream's Ghost}}

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====Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
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Alongside [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]], Sandstorm was sent from [[Athenia]] to Cybertron in order to defend against a major Decepticon assault. {{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}} The Triple Changers then traveled to Earth, where they helped [[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Twincast]] sneak into [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] by keeping their Decepticon counterparts busy with a dogfight. Apparently, Sandstorm wasn't on friendly terms with Octane anymore. {{storylink|The Great Cassette Operation}}

=====''Legends'' comic=====
In [[2030]], Sandstorm and [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] were by [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] when he declared he would turn his life around. {{Storylink|LG19 Sprung Prologue}}

====''Wings Universe''====
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At some point, [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] created [[Sandstorm (MW)|a clone]] of Sandstorm and sent him to Cybertron. {{storylink|Termination}} Two days before Jhiaxus' [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronian]] clone army arrived on Cybertron, [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] contacted [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] to show him that the ''real'' Sandstorm was with him on Earth. {{storylink|A Common Foe}} Meanwhile, the clone acted as a sleeper agent, living the original Sandstorm's life until Jhiaxus and his clone army attacked Cybertron. {{storylink|Termination}}

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===St. Michael ''The Transformers'' Sticker Book===
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Sandstorm served on an alien spacecraft with the Autobots [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] under the command of Ultra Magnus. While fighting Decepticons, their spaceship took heavy damage and crash-landed on the planet [[Barrenikon]]. There, he met [[you]], having just emerged from the Vortex, a portal through space and time contained within the planet. Together, you went on an adventure, fighting Decepticons, braving Barrenikon's barren desert or its putrid swamp, and trying to find a way to get the Autobots space-bound once more. {{storylink|The Transformers Sticker Book (St. Michael)|The Transformers Sticker Book}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:DWColdWar Sandstormdies.jpg|thumb|That's not healthy...]]
Sandstorm served under Springer as part of the Wreckers faction during the [[Dark Ages]] of Cybertron's civil war. They were primarily interested in keeping [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] and the [[Ultracon]]s from gaining control of the [[Tagan Heights]], the primary manufacturing region of Cybertron. During one of their missions, they came to blows against [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. Springer ordered Sandstorm to evacuate the troops instead of battling the colossus, but Sandstorm quickly found out it was impossible to dissuade his fellow Wreckers from tackling their opponent. Realizing this, he charged into battle himself. {{storylink|Escalation}} [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] then joined the fight, though the resulting clash between the two combiners was so brutal that Sandstorm and the rest of the Wreckers were forced to retreat to avoid becoming collateral damage. {{storylink|Devastation (issue)|Devastation}}

Originally only able to transform into a ground vehicle, Sandstorm received an additional flight mode after the [[Great Shutdown]], when Shockwave put him through Triple Changer engineering as part of the Pax Cybertronia between the Autobots and the Decepticons. He accompanied Shockwave to Earth along with several other Triple-Changers to apprehend both Optimus and Megatron's followers as war criminals. Though the Autobots escaped their clutches at first, the Decepticons were secured, and put in transit back to their home planet. {{storylink|New World Order}} Despite serving with Shockwave's Triple Changer Strike Force, Sandstorm and his partner [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] grew uneasy about Shockwave's ultimate intentions, and allied themselves with the Autobot underground resistance. Sandstorm was killed by an assassin, [[Runabout (G1)|Runabout]], while secretly leading Optimus Prime through the [[Old Slave Trails]] to make contact with the resistance. {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:ArtofWar3 Sandstorm Springer.jpg|left|thumb|So bored he's talking to himself.]]
When a number of Autobots and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joes]] vanished while chasing [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]], Sandstorm and [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] were sent out to look for them. Unfortunately, Serpent O.R. jammed their radars, and they didn't find a thing. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}}

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===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[Stormbringer issue 2|''Stormbringer'' #2]]}}
[[File:Primacy4 SpringerSandstormKillGuys.jpg|thumb|upright=1.7|Getting their pre-Wrecker on.]]
Sandstorm was [[Reproduction|Forged]], and later recalled that his birth was the last time he saw a [[hot spot (phenomenon)|hot spot]]. {{storylink|The Transformers: Salvation|Salvation}} In the era of [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]], Sandstorm was involved in a riot by protesters rallying against the [[Outback (G1)|Autobot cop]] who reportedly killed an unarmed [[Hefter|Decepticon agitator]]. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 1: To Walk Among the Chosen|To Walk Among the Chosen}} He participated in the defense of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] early in the war, ruthlessly killing Decepticons alongside [[Springer (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Springer]]. {{storylink|Primacy issue 4|Primacy #4}}

During the war Sandstorm became part of the elite [[Wreckers]] unit operating under [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]]'s command, replacing [[Blocker (G1)|Blocker]]. {{storylink|Out of Bullets}} He came out with the entire team for a warm Wreckers welcome on Springer's first day. {{storylink|Transformers: Requiem of the Wreckers|Requiem of the Wreckers}} At one point, one of the things the Wreckers had to deal with was an anti-matter clone of Sandstorm. {{storylink|Zero Point}} Sandstorm saw things that would haunt him forever during his tour as a Wrecker- war crimes not just perpetrated by Decepticons, but by his own side as well. These atrocities would greatly inform his personal sense of justice, as well as instill a deep sense of guilt and paranoia in him. {{storylink|Forever Is a Long Time Coming (issue)|Forever Is a Long Time Coming}}

[[File:LastStandoftheWreckers4-Sandstorm.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|This didn't happen, but this is what I looked like!]]
He participated in the final showdown between the Wreckers and [[Squadron X]] on [[Pova]], dogfighting with [[Crosscut (Marvel)|Crosscut]] and [[Ferak]] in the air. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} However, after the Decepticons were defeated and imprisoned, the Wreckers were told to release them due to Pova being neutral territory. The increasingly deranged Impactor refused, and chose to personally execute every single member of Squadron X rather than let them go. Like most of the Wreckers, Sandstorm only looked away in shame and did nothing to stop him. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Last Stand of the Wreckers #5}}

Notably, Sandstorm was the only one out of the Wreckers that participated in Pova ''not'' to attempt to persuade Springer to testify and clear them of all charges. {{storylink|Zero Point}}

In order to cover up Impactor's crime, a new story was written for the official records. In this version of the events, Squadron X broke out of their bonds and injured Sandstorm, who collapsed after limping to warn his fellow Wreckers. The Wreckers were then forced to destroy Squadron X in a grand battle. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}}

[[File:Stormbringer4 SpringerSandstormWhirlVehicleModes.jpg|thumb|upright=1.7|Oh you wanna dance? That what this is? Hey! I'll dance with you.]]
Many years later, while Sandstorm and the other aerial Wreckers were assaulting the Decepticon Siege Mode Armature on [[Varas Centralus]], Springer was ordered by Operations-Command to pull out and return to Cybertron to deal with the resurrection of [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 2|Stormbringer #2}} Sandstorm participated in the short assault that crushed [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s cult, {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 3|Stormbringer #3}} and fought against Thunderwing himself when the creature was recalled to Cybertron. During the battle, he reported that their weapons were being shut down by Thunderwing charging the atmosphere and tried to tell Springer to get away, but he (along with several other Wreckers) were blasted away by the creature's microwave pulse. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 4|Stormbringer #4}}

Sandstorm and his fellow Wreckers were later dispatched to [[Corata-Vaz]] to gain control of the [[Nega-Core]] in place on that world, but had serious trouble getting past its watchdog, Thunderwing. They had a brief reprieve when [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] used the old [[axis cradle]] to remotely shut down the Pretender, but Jetfire was soon distracted and the battle was renewed. The Jumpstarters worked on overriding the Nega Core's programming while Sandstorm and the others held back Thunderwing. Eventually the Nega-Cores were disabled and the Transformers of the [[Dead Universe]] defeated, causing Thunderwing to shut down once more. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}

[[File:Sandstorm Seasons In Flight.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|left|Sandstorm's <s>blue</s> Blurr period.]]
During the Decepticons' devastating attack against the Autobots across the galaxy, Sandstorm was one of several Autobots who had been captured by [[Turmoil]]. When the ship made a stop at a neutral alien world, two attacks on the Decepticons occurred simultaneously: the Autobot veteran [[Kup (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Kup]] led the remaining Wreckers to blast their way into the ship, while the factionless swordsman who called himself [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] snuck into the ship and helped the Autobots free their compatriots. {{storylink|Spotlight: Drift}}

Sometime later, after the defeat of the Decepticons in [[New York City]], Springer remarked that Sandstorm was deep behind enemy lines. Why he was there, and if it was by his own choosing, is unknown. {{storylink|Bullets}} Eventually, Sandstorm was one of the many Autobots stranded on Earth in the aftermath of the [[Surge (event)|Surge]]. After [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] turned himself in to [[Skywatch]], Sandstorm decided to leave the Autobots along with [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Hot Rod]]. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 1: "New Arrivals, Old Encounters"|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}} When [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]] had located Hot Rod's group, Sandstorm was one of the first Autobots to welcome him. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 3: "Seasons in Flight"|Seasons in Flight}}

[[File:Mtmte28-p23-sandstorm-at-trial.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Chekhov's Gunman.]]
Sandstorm was among the Autobots poised to fight against [[Galvatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Galvatron]]'s army on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Led by [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], he and the other Autobot fliers attacked [[Kimia Facility]] and fought with the many [[Sweep (G1)|Sweeps]] defending it. {{storylink|Chaos Part Two: Numbers|Numbers}} After the war, [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]] mentioned that of the Autobots involved with the Turmoil affair, only [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] and [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] were left on Cybertron, suggesting Sandstorm had left the planet, possibly aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]'' or at the Wreckers' ''[[Debris]]'' station with Roadbuster and the comatose Springer. {{storylink|Interference Patterns}}

Sandstorm returned to Cybertron at some point prior to the trial of [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]. Along with his fellow Triple-Changer, Broadside, Sandstorm acted as bailiff escorting Megatron to his trial on [[Moonbase Two|Luna 2]]. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 1: Towards Peace|Towards Peace}} During the trial he helped repel an attack by a group of Decepticons attempting to free Megatron. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 3: Predestination: A Beginner's Guide|Predestination: A Beginner's Guide}} He also began frequenting bars and befriending the Decepticons attending them. {{storylink|Forever Is a Long Time Coming (issue)|Forever Is a Long Time Coming}} He visited [[Swerve's]], the bar on board the ''Lost Light'', before the ship left Cybertron. {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}}

[[File:Punishment SandstormDrinks.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|left|"I was just tired, you know? You... you ever been tired, Red?"]]
With the war over, and no more distractions, Sandstorm went about his next plan of action: punishment. Having been left mentally scarred by what he had seen during the war, Sandstorm was determined to see all those who had committed "unspeakable acts" killed. Sandstorm first set his sights on [[Brisko]], [[Wilder (robot)|Wilder]], and [[Treadshot (IDW)|Treadshot]], murdering them for their massacre of the people of [[Traujor]] during the war. {{storylink|City of Steel (issue)|City of Steel}} Sandstorm then proceeded to murder [[Heavy Barrel (G1)|Heavy Barrel]] and [[Ransack (G2)|Ransack]] for siphoning [[Pseudo-energon]] from a small mechanical world, causing its inhabitants to starve, along with [[Stratotronic Jet|Stratotronic]] for massacring refugees under the Wreckers' protection during the early days of the war. When Optimus Prime arrived in [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]]'s bar, a hangout Sandstorm frequented, Sandstorm was quick to rebuke any affection his old comrade in arms showed him, making it clear to Prime that he was done with the Autobot cause. He ''did'', however, accompany Prime to the murder scene, but not before secretly setting the bar on fire, killing Gutcruncher, who had accompanied Stratotronic in massacring refugees. When he arrived at the scene of Heavy Barrel's murder with Prime, he found a familiar shell casing (no points for guessing why he recognized it). Before he and Prime could investigate any further, a call came in from the Autobot [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]], informing them that Gutcruncher's bar was on fire, unaware of Sandstorm's involvement. {{storylink|Fight or Flee (issue)|Fight or Flee}}

[[File:Punishment SandstormSparkstalker.jpg|thumb|"You hit 'em and they get back up. I hit 'em and they stay down!"]]
Sandstorm was quick to blame the deaths of all of his "friends" on Optimus upon seeing the fire. Optimus put paid to the notion, explaining that Gutcruncher was likely killed by someone unhappy with his illegal [[Engex]] operations. After calming down, Sandstorm revealed to Prime that the bullet he "found" was an [[Infernus bullet]], a weapon created by the [[Firecon]]s, effectively making ''them'' the prime suspects in the murders. When the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] launched an all out attack against the Firecons, Sandstorm was more than happy to join in and "avenge" his "friends". As the Dinobots beat down [[Flamefeather (G1)|Flamefeather]] and [[Cindersaur (G1)|Cindersaur]], Sandstorm was prevented from executing [[Sparkstalker]] by Optimus, who was alarmed at their actions. {{storylink|Quest for Fire}} After being denied his chance to kill Sparkstalker, Sandstorm allowed Prime to comfort him as he feigned guilt for nearly letting his emotions get the better of him. Sandstorm made sure to keep up this charade, continuing to berate himself. While he was doing this, Prime came to the conclusion that the Firecons were innocent as they did not need Infernus bullets to create fire, and departed to confront a "friend". With Prime gone, Sandstorm set his sights on new targets, this time his fellow Autobots [[Skram (G2)|Skram]], [[Fireball]], [[Lander]], and [[Diver (G1)|Diver]] for razing entire ''planets'' that had helped the Decepticons during the war. As Optimus investigated, Sandstorm listened in on an argument between Prime and [[Slag (G1)|Slug]], learning that the Dinobots had ''also'' committed horrible atrocities during the war, and began plotting their deaths. {{storylink|The Killing Jar (issue)|The Killing Jar}}

[[File:Punishment SandstormCaughtInTheAct.jpg|thumb|left|"''One batch... two batch... Penny and dime...''"]]
Sandstorm waited until the Dinobots were alone to make his strike. Slug, angry with Optimus's rants against the Dinobots threatened to kill Optimus, and dragged the other Dinobots along with him to do the deed. Before they could, however, Sandstorm fired an Infernus bullet at them causing an explosion that sent them flying. However, to Sandstorm's surprise the Dinobots were rescued by Windblade and [[Starscream (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Starscream]]. Optimus arrived, revealing that he had figured out Sandstorm was the murderer, and that revealing the Dinobots' war crimes to be a ploy to lure him out. Enraged, and possibly a little bit crazed, Sandstorm fired upon Prime with an Infernus bullet, but, as soon as the bullet was fired, Sandstorm came to his senses and became ashamed. Optimus, uninjured, placed Sandstorm under arrest. Sandstorm tried to explain his actions, saying that after all he had seen during the war, he could not let the war crimes others had committed go unpunished, explaining how he had befriended the Decepticons in order to have an easier time killing them. He then asked Optimus how ''he'' could live knowing of the atrocities committed by his Autobots during the war, before fleeing. Optimus simply knocked out Sandstorm, saying that he tries "to stay grounded." Sandstorm was then detained. {{storylink|Forever Is a Long Time Coming (issue)|Forever Is a Long Time Coming}}

[[File:Salvation SandstormBattleDiary.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|"I'm smack-dab in the middle of my right [[Primus]]-damned mind, and any scumbag, any lowlife, any maggot piece of slag that I put down, I did it... because I liked it! Hell, I loved it!"]]
Starscream had Sandstorm locked up in his secret prison, believing his skills could come in handy someday. {{storylink|You, Me, and the Universe}} [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] ended up in the cell below Sandstorm's. {{storylink|The Possible Light}} Starscream eventually offered him freedom in exchange for eliminating the Dinobots without getting Starscream in trouble with Optimus Prime, and Sandstorm agreed, already considering the Dinobots and Prime his enemies. He tracked them in the wilderness and successfully killed Slug before his hunt brought him to a fresh hot spot in [[Alyon]], where he encountered and was defeated by [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]. He awoke to find [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], but now aware of Bludgeon's plans to corrupt the hot spot's [[spark]]s, decided to put his mission aside and offer an alliance with the Dinobots. While Swoop agreed and accompanied Sandstorm to [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] where the Dinobots were confronting Bludgeon, they found on arrival that the other Dinobots were less keen on working with Slug's killer and attacked him. Having let Sandstorm live for this purpose, Bludgeon let them fight among themselves, only to learn they were faking it when Sandstorm suddenly lobbed [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]]'s [[Energo weapon|energo-sword]] into his [[Void Scepter]], ending his plans. Freed from Bludgeon's mind control, Trypticon settled into the depths of Cybertron to let the sparks within him grow, and Sandstorm agreed to protect these sparks together with the Dinobots. {{storylink|The Transformers: Salvation|Salvation}}

[[File:TheDeadComeHomePart2 SandstormVSOptimus.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"You know what I think of you, hero? I think you're a half-measure. I think you're a 'bot who can't finish the job. I think that you're a coward."]]
At some point, Sandstorm received Springer's final message before the former Wreckers leader entered the [[Timemaze]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Requiem of the Wreckers|Requiem of the Wreckers}} He, [[Centurion (IDW)|Centurion]], and the Dinobots were brought into confrontation with Optimus Prime, [[Arcee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Arcee]], [[G.B. Blackrock|Blackrock]], and the resurrected Slug after Bludgeon covertly used the Void Scepter to stoke their hostile emotions toward one another. {{storylink|The Dead Come Home, Part 1 (of 2)|The Dead Come Home, Part 1}} Optimus commented on the oddity of Sandstorm working with the Dinobots, given his attempt to kill them, but Sandstorm was more interested in throwing down with the Autobot commander himself. Centurion broke up their fight by punching Sandstorm, much to the [[Triple Changer]]'s anger, but everyone soon stopped fighting after Trypticon emerged from Cybertron's depths. Agreeing that safeguarding the young [[protoform]]s within Trypticon took top priority, Optimus Prime declared them to be under his protection. Sandstorm was disgusted at what he saw as a political move on Prime's part, but ultimately stood down. {{storylink|The Dead Come Home, Part 2 (of 2)|The Dead Come Home, Part 2}}

After [[space bridge|space-bridging]] to Earth aboard Trypticon, Sandstorm baby-sat the protoforms alongside Centurion during a battle between the [[Colonist Soldiers|colonist soldiers]] and the Dinobots. {{storylink|A Sunrise Dark}} He was present at a war council within Trypticon to determine how to effectively combat [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] and was among the attack force that confronted the planet-eater above Earth. {{storylink|Assembly (Unicron)|Assembly}} Sandstorm narrowly avoided an eye-beam from Unicron during the final battle. {{storylink|Ceremony}}

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===''Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe''===
[[File:Pop-upSandstormAVP.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7]]
Sandstorm was one of the many Autobots that pursued the [[AllSpark]] to Earth. He participated in an enormous battle against the Decepticons in a human settlement. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe}}
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==Commercial appearances==
Sandstorm and [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] came to the rescue of [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] and [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]], pinned down by a Decepticon attack. The Autobot triple-changers shifted quickly through their modes to keep pace with their fleeing enemies, the Decepticon triple-changers [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] and [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Sandstorm, Broadside, Octane|Sandstorm, Broadside and Octane commercial}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:BattleTacticsSandstorm.jpg|thumb|380px]]
Sandstorm participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character that could be recruited by collecting 110 units of Cybermetal, 60 units of Transmetal, and 35 hunter cores.{{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Frontiers''===
{{charstubgame|{{storylink|Transformers: Frontiers}}}}

===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[File:Sandstorm_Earth_Wars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.75]]
*'''Class''': Triple Changer
*'''Lowest Star Rating:''' 2 star
*Abilities: As a triple changer, Sandstorm has two abilities available to him.
**'''Tar Sands Rush''': Rush into combat and release toxic tar sands in a large zone on impact. Deal 61.6 damage over 10 seconds to enemies and provide 114 extra healing over 5 secs to all Autobots under the Supply Airdrop effect.
**'''Supply Airdrop''': Drops fuel supply from the air. Within a large area, all Autobots receive 114 healing for 10 seconds and all Decepticons buildings under the Tar Sands Rush effect receive an extra 61.6 damage over 5 seconds[-].
[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:sandstorm Sandstorm at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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==Toys==
===''The Transformers''===
[[File:G1 Sandstorm toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|He's like one of those kids that wears a propeller hat.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Sandstorm''' (Triple Changer, [[1986]])}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number:'' '''C-83'''
:*''Accessories'': "[[Sandblaster gun]]"

:Released in the third year of Hasbro's ''[[The Transformers (toyline)|The Transformers]]'' toyline, [[Triple Changer]] Sandstorm can transform from a robot to either a "sand rail" dune buggy or a Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion transport/search and rescue helicopter and back. Like many 1986 Transformers, there are two different versions; the initial releases use painted [[die-cast]] metal for his front bumper/[[robot mode]] feet, while the more common later releases have orange-colored plastic.

: Uncommon for a ''Transformers'' toy, Sandstorm's side window stickers appear to depict a helmeted human driver.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/Sandstorm/sandstorm.htm More information on Sandstorm at TFU.info]''

{{anchor|1991Classic}}
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Sandstorm''' (Triple Changer, [[1991]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': "Sandblaster gun"

: Sandstorm was re-released in the European/Australian ''[[Classics (Europe)|Classics]]'' reissue line in 1991. This [[variant|version]] has his black plastic feet painted orange.

: Unlike many toys with [[rubsign]] indents that were reissued in the Classics series, Sandstorm's indent was ''not'' [[retool]]ed out; however, the rubsign itself was not included.
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===''Machine Wars''===
[[File:MW-toy Sandstorm.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|He really blends in with all the foliage in the sky.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a2|'''Sandstorm''' (Mega, [[1997]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Left & right cannons, rotor blade

:A [[redeco]] of the European-line [[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]] [[Rotorstorm (G1)#Toys|Rotorstorm]] toy, ''[[Machine Wars: Transformers|Machine Wars]]'' Sandstorm transforms into a Cybertronian helicopter with a US Air Force roundel added to his helicopter mode. Due to the small missiles of Rotorstorm failing US [[For safety reasons|choke gate]] tests, the turbine launchers were [[retool]]ed (well, more like "entirely gutted") into non-firing cannons, with no missiles included. A button on the back of the rotor housing drops down both engines/cannons for an "attack mode" feature.

: In robot mode, Sandstorm has quite restricted articulation, and holds his turbine launchers in his hands. He can also hold his rotor blade as a somewhat odd [[sword]]. The original Rotorstorm [[sticker]]s were not properly redecoed to match the new ''Machine Wars'' color scheme, resulting in black stickers that are left indistinguishable on his black gauntlets.

: Like all the other ''Machine Wars'' toys, Sandstorm was sold [[exclusive]]ly at [[KB Toys]] and, later, at the related Toy Liquidator stores.

: This mold was later redecoed (and given further-retooled-into-functionality launchers) to make ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Whirl (Universe)#Toys|Whirl]]. This toy was also [[repurposing|repurposed]] as the [[Sandstorm drone]]s.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1997/Autobot/Sandstorm/sandstorm.htm More information on Machine Wars Sandstorm at TFU.info]''
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===''Generations''===
[[File:Generationstoy-SandstormGDO.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|So [[Sandstorm (TF 2010)|Movie Sandstorm]] gets a redeco of a G1 guy, and G1 Sandstorm gets a redeco of a Movie guy. Okayyyyy.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Sandstorm''' (Scout, [[2012]])}}</ul>

:''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)|Generations]]'' Sandstorm is a redeco of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' [[Dune Runner (ROTF)#Toys|Dune Runner]], transforming into a vehicle based on the [[Sector Seven]] dune buggies seen in the [[Transformers (film)|2007 ''Transformers'' film]], which were heavily modified Chenowth Desert Patrol Vehicles (DPV) with added protective armor. This same vehicle also served as the basis for the [[Transformers (2007 toyline)|2007 movie toyline]]'s [[Landmine (Movie)#Toys|Landmine]]. The twin gatling guns mounted on Sandstorm's roof/shoulders have multi-jointed armatures for different firing positions.

: Originally developed by Hasbro Asia for release in their territories, Sandstorm was brought to the US with many other toys as [[Toys"R"Us]] exclusives for the 2012 holiday season.

: This mold was also used to make ''Revenge of the Fallen'' [[Beachcomber (ROTF)|Beachcomber]], and ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers:]] [[Hunt for the Decepticons]]'' [[Crankstart#Toys|Crankstart]] and [[Rollbar (RPM)#Transformers (2010)|Rollbar]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Autobot/GDOSandstorm/sandstorm.htm More information on ''Generations'' Sandstorm at TFU.info]''
{{ROTFDuneRunnerMold}}

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[[File:Generationstoy-VoyagerSandstorm.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Now made of delicious cheese.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Sandstorm''' (Voyager, [[2013]])}}</ul>
:*''Series / Number:'' '''02 / 003'''
:*''Accessories:'' rifle, missile
{{toydesigner|[[Joe Kyde]] (Hasbro)|[[Nick Roche]] (concept artist)}}

:Part of the fourth wave of [[2012]]-[[2013]] ''Generations'' Voyager Class toys, ''[[Thrilling 30]]'' Sandstorm is a [[redeco]] and heavy [[retool]] of Voyager [[Springer (G1)/toys#Voyager|Springer]], with significant new molding based on [[Sandstorm (Prime)|a much older design]] by [[Nick Roche]].<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Big chats about Thrilling 30 Springer and Sandstorm on this ep! To clear up: I was working with Hasbro at the time, and designed Sandstorm while I was there. That was the base design, and then those crazy sods at Hasbro managed to pull my comic Springer out of it. In that order!|link=https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/1597658869521854464|name=Nick Roche|site=Twitter|year=2022|month=11|day=29}}</ref><ref>Although Nick Roche implies that Sandstorm was the original use of this mold, with Springer being a pretool, a comparison of the toys themselves reveals that all the shared tooling is specific to Springer, not Sandstorm. Roche's prior Sandstorm design was merely recycled for the retool.</ref> A [[Triple Changer]], he can transform into a robot, VTOL aircraft, and dune buggy. He comes with a blaster which can fire its [[missile]] via pressure-launch, peg via [[5 mm post|5 mm post]] onto his hands and back, or mount underneath his aircraft nose using specialised tabs.

:Sandstorm's panels align better than on Springer, especially in his [[Alternate mode|car mode]]. One notable and curious change involves the little dents inside the side-chest pieces: initially intended to hold the blade of the sword in his car mode, Springer's ones weren't able to do the job perfectly because of the asymmetrical shape of the sword, making it unable to fit inside the symmetrical dents. Sandstorm's side-chest dents, on the other hand have been modified to be asymmetrical, allowing the blade of Springer's sword to fit in better. This is, however, a pointless difference, as Sandstorm doesn't come with his own heli-sword and doesn't have the same kneecaps as Springer that allow the handle of Springer's sword to be fitted in!

:The original version of this mold was also used to make ''[[Transformers Cloud|Cloud]]'' [[Hot Rod (G1)/toys#Cloud|Hot Rodimus]] and it was retooled into [[BotCon 2015]] [[Battletrap (G1)#Timelines|Battletrap]]. It also served as the basis of the non-toy ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' incarnations of [[Dinobot (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Dynobot]] and [[Grimlock (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Grimlock]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2013/Autobot/GenSandstorm/sandstorm.htm More information on "Thrilling 30" Sandstorm at TFU.info]''
{{GenerationsSpringerMold}}
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===''Generations'' (Japan)===
[[File:TF-Generations-JP-TG-29-Sandstorm.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Sandstorm''' (Voyager, [[2013]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number:'' '''TG-29'''
:*''Release date'': [[December 28]], 2013
:*''Accessories:'' rifle, missile

:Part of the twelfth wave of [[TakaraTomy]]'s [[Transformers: Generations (Japan)|''Generations'']], Sandstorm features much more orange in his color layout than his western ''Thrilling 30'' counterpart: his canopy/roof, wings, crotch, feet, rifle and missile are all rendered orange. There are also some other minor changes, such as a centered Autobot sigil and a painted silver bumper.
{{GenerationsSpringerMold}}
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===''Kre-O''===
[[File:KreO-Toy SandstormKreon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Sandstorm''' (Kreon Micro-Changer, [[2014]])}}</ul>
:*''Bag number'': '''33501 42'''
:*''Accessories'': stand brick, buildable pistol
{{toydesigner|[[Ed Masiello]] (Hasbro)}}

:Part of the fourth assortment of [[blindpacking|blind-bagged]] [[Kreon]] [[Micro-Changer]]s, Sandstorm can be rebuilt from robot to helicopter mode.

: If you're feeling punchy, you could probably finagle a dune buggy mode for him, just add some wheels and other parts. That's the play pattern, after all!

: He reuses the [[Sideswipe (Kre-O)|Sideswipe]] helmet.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Autobot/Kre-OSandstorm/sandstorm.htm More information on Sandstorm at TFU.info]''
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===''Legacy''===
[[File:TF-Legacy-United-Leader-Sandstorm.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|With [[Hound (G1)/toys#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Hound MIA]], Sandstorm was put in charge of capturing Ravage.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''G1 Triple Changer Sandstorm''' (Leader Class, [[2024]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''TL-76'''
:*Accessories: "Sandblaster gun", pistol, roll cage/rescue stretcher
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Koki Yamada]] (TakaraTomy)<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/markclonus/p/C3RMSAAMAlo/ Design notes on ''Legacy'' Sandstorm] from [[Hasbro]] designer [[Mark Maher]] on Instagram.</ref>|[[Matthew Cohen]] (photography)<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Honing in on Transformers! Here's my photos of the newly revealed Legacy United Leader Sandstorm! This shoot represents my first serious Transformers dio since joining the company. Hopefully the first of more to come!|link=https://www.instagram.com/p/C3B7Zp5s-Ao/|site=Instagram|name=Matthew Cohen|year=2024|month=2|day=6}}</ref>}}

: Released in the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Legacy|Legacy: United]]'' Leader Class toys, "G1 Triple Changer Sandstorm" amalgamates elements of his original toy and his animation model, though surprisingly erring on the side of the original [[mouthplate|faceplated]] figure as opposed to the cartoon appearance. He once again transforms into either a Baja buggy or a rescue helicopter, though the latter is decidedly less Sikorsky-like than the original toy.

: Like [[Beachcomber (G1)#Legacy|''Legacy: Evolution'' Beachcomber]], the tires of his buggy mode are made of PVC plastic for smoother rolling, but retain the flexibility of a rubber tire. The buggy's roll cage separates to become a rescue stretcher with a functional winch for his helicopter mode, which he can also hold in robot mode to "capture" smaller figures. This assembly, like [[Astrotrain (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|''Siege'' Astrotrain]]'s coal car arsenal and [[Blitzwing (G1)/toys#Legacy|''Legacy'' Blitzwing]]'s Energon gauntlets, is meant to "fill out" his price point without making the main figure oversized. Speaking of extras, his small pistol is modeled after the soldering iron tool Sandstorm uses to cut jail cell bars while imprisoned in "[[Fight or Flee (episode)|Fight or Flee]]".

: The tail rotor section of Sandstorm is packed separately, and is on a 5mm port, making it removable and able to be wielded in his hand...sort of. It has a small ridge on the peg that goes in a slot on the intended socket so that it won't turn, which means you have to force it pretty hard to get it into the hand of any figure (like Sandstorm) with a complete circle socket. It can also fit into a hexagonal 5mm socket, as long as you put the ridge in one of the six corners.

: Unfortunately, Sandstorm suffers from a widespread [[design flaw]]. His chest assembly tends to unpeg with minimal force. This is due to the 5mm peg locking into the chest assembly being too small, and the tabs on the chest assembly itself being too short for their connectors. Additionally, the hinge pinning his robot chest into place is too long, pushing against his windshield/belly piece from the inside and popping the chest out from its proper position. If one shaves enough orange plastic from this hinge, the pressure will be relieved and the chest will stay pegged on better.

: Sandstorm was revealed by IGN on [[February 6]], [[2024]].

::*''[https://www.instagram.com/markclonus/p/C3RMSAAMAlo/ Designer commentary on ''Legacy'' Sandstorm from Mark Maher on Instagram]''
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===''Age of the Primes''===
[[File:AOTP-Sandstorm.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Little bit of spot the difference... more like spot the similarities...]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-wrmas|'''Autobot Sandstorm vs. Slugslinger''' (Multi-pack, [[2025]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name:'' '''Sandstorm''' (サンドストーム)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number:'' '''AOTP-EX'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date:'' [[2026]] [[January 31]]
:*Accessories: "Sandblaster gun", pistol, roll cage/rescue stretcher
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro)|[[Amy Bence]] (packaging)}}<ref>[[June 10]], [[2025]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEAkXHAU034 Transformers Fanstream | June 2025 | Hasbro Pulse] on YouTube, with [[Nate Purswell]] and [[Mark Maher]].</ref>

:Released only in an Amazon-exclusive 2-pack with [[Slugslinger (G1)#Age of the Primes|Slugslinger]], ''[[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]]'' Autobot Sandstorm is a ''very minor'' redeco of the above ''Legacy'' figure with a non-faceplated head, a slightly different shade of orange and all the grey parts now cast in black plastic.
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==Merchandise==
===Transformers Trading Card Game===
[[File:W4SpecialistSandstorm.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Specialist Sandstorm, Special Ops-Advance Guard''' ([[2019]])
**'''Wave 4: War for Cybertron: Siege II'''
**''Rarity: '''''CT'''
**''Card Number: '''''T50/T52'''
**''Stars: ''11
:Specialist Sandstorm, Special Ops-Advance Guard is one of 52 character cards released as part of Wave 4 of the [[Transformers Trading Card Game]], War for Cybertron: Siege II. In order to depict the [[Triple Changer]] nature of the character, Specialist Sandstorm, Special Ops-Advance Guard is a folding card, with both Alt Modes depicted when the card is folded in half, and Bot Mode depicted when the card is unfolded.

:The card features original artwork for all three modes, with line-art by [[Dan Khanna]] and colors by [[Volta]].
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==Notes==
[[File:FFoDPart5Sandstorm.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Not actually Sandstorm, we guess.]]
* Sandstorm's animation model has a color scheme pretty blatantly based on the toy minus ''all'' of the stickers... including the windows. Oops.
* Poor Sandstorm's history in the cartoon is...hackneyed. His model debuted in "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5]]" (at right) in an Autobot crowd scene on Cybertron but in [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]'s colors (though this does give the cartoon an out of arguably being a separate generic character). Then Sandstorm appeared under Rodimus Prime's forces on Earth in "[[Thief in the Night]]". Finally, Sandstorm would make his debut to meet the Autobots for the first time in "[[Fight or Flee (episode)|Fight or Flee]]".
* The Italian names for Sandstorm and Springer were subject to a massive mix-up of "[[FIRRIB]]" or "[[Back#Notes|Back/Forth]]" dimensions. While [[GiG]]'s toy packaging, including the [[bio]]s/[[Tech Spec]]s, consistently called Sandstorm by the name "Bora" and Springer by the name "Ghibli", the [[instructions]] had their names switched. Advertising for the toys used the names featured in the instructions, as did the Italian dub of the cartoon. As a result, Italian fans generally consider the names on the toys' packaging an "error", but unless internal documentation is discovered, it's virtually impossible to tell what GiG's original intention was. Anyway, given that the dubbing agency got their directions directly from GiG, it is fairly logical to assume that GiG had established the Springer/Bora and Sandstorm/Ghibli adaptation, while the boxing process switched the names and the bios (in fact "Ghibli" is described as having the ability to perform amazing jumps).
* Sandstorm's lone appearance in ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe|The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe]]'' is pretty well hidden, only showing up on a paper flap behind the one featuring Inferno, Blaster, and Scrounge, on the book's third page, which itself is only viewable when a tab is pulled to unfold a display of Cybertron. On top of that, Sandstorm is only seen in alternate mode as a MH-53 Pave Low, which appears to be based directly on [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] from the [[Transformers (film)|2007 live action ''Transformers'' film]]. Except completely yellow. In fact, the Pave Low Autobot had no clear identity until an entry of the Facebook edition of [[Ask Vector Prime]], written with input from [[Matthew Reinhart|the author]], declared it to be an [[Iocus]] version of [[Primax]] Sandstorm.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Sandstorm''' (サンドストーム ''Sandosutōmu'')
*''French:'' '''Siroco''' (Canada, "{{w|Sirocco}}")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Homokvihar''' ("Sandstorm")
*''Italian:'' '''Ghibli''' (toy instructions, advertising and cartoon), '''Bora''' (toy packaging)
*''Mandarin:'' '''Shābào''' (沙暴, "Sandstorm")
*''Russian:'' '''Zatvor''' (Затвор, "Shutter")

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Sandstorm cartoon model.jpg|''The Transformers'' cartoon model
File:Machinewars-sandstorm.jpg|
</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Age of the Primes Autobots]]
[[Category:Classics Autobots]]
[[Category:Earth Wars Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 1 cartoon Autobots]]
[[Category:Generation 1 toy Autobots]]
[[Category:Generations]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Transformers]]
[[Category:KB Toys exclusives]]
[[Category:Kre-O Autobots]]
[[Category:Kreons]]
[[Category:Legacy Autobots]]
[[Category:Legends Autobots]]
[[Category:Machine Wars Autobots]]
[[Category:Marvel Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category:Reconnaissance specialists]]
[[Category:Regeneration One Autobots]]
[[Category:The Headmasters Autobots]]
[[Category:Triple Changers]]
[[Category:Wings Universe Autobots]]
[[Category:Wreckers]]

Dark Creation

2025-05-17T12:55:33Z

Bigds9fan: /* Continuity notes */

{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'' (US)]] #65
|prev=Deadly Obsession
|next=All Fall Down
|title="Dark Creation"
|seriesissue2=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'' (UK)]] #290–293
|prev2=End of the Road! (UK)
|next2=All Fall Down
|image=MarvelUS-65.jpg
|caption=Get away from me, you GLITCH!
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|date=February [[1990]]
|coverdate=April 1990
|writer=[[Simon Furman]]
|artist=[[Geoff Senior]]
|colorist=[[Nelson Yomtov|Nel Yomtov]]
|letterer=[[Jim Massara]]
|editor=[[Don Daley]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}
'''In space, no one can hear you transform.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:DarkCreation we would know more.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5]]
And so, the true history of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] after it left Earth in [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s body unfolds. Crash landing on the barren moon [[VsQs]], the Matrix lies inactive until a droid crashes nearby as well, on the edge of death. Revitalized, the mechanoid who once brought death only to the terminally ill becomes willing and able to take all life in its path. The Matrix maintains a psychic link with the [[Deathbringer (Marvel)|Deathbringer]] after it departs, and experiences new sensations through the being, such as pain, terror, and evil. It becomes... curious.

Next, a [[Matrixspawn|small predatory creature]] crawls into Prime's dead chest and is exposed to the Matrix's power. Recognizing the creature as a predator that kills victims which are neither food nor enemy, the Matrix becomes fascinated by the nature of evil. To experiment with more sensations, it recreates the creature into a larger and more deadly form, something that [[VsQs Exploration Team|curious scientists]] from [[Cameron]] [[Cameron Space Control|Space Control]] learn to their eternal lament.

Cut to the present. The [[Classic Pretender]]s are exploring what remains of the VsQs exploration habitat. As [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]] uncovers the survey logs, which end abruptly after the first encounter with Optimus Prime's funeral barge and the [[Matrixspawn]], [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] returns from exploring the ruins. He's found the research team... what's left of them. While the Autobots are pondering their options, [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] suddenly crashes through the window, demanding they hand over the Matrix to him.

Back at Thunderwing's ship, [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] is monologuing to himself about how unfair it is that he's stuck on guard duty. He contends (to himself, still) that being backhanded across the room by Thunderwing should've been punishment enough. Little does he realize that his impact shook loose a circuit, sending an electrical surge through the [[Mind Leech]] technology holding the [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] prisoners in stasis.

[[File:Dark Creation Matrix Spawn about to eat Windsweeper.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|"What about our lives, you son of a glitch?" "I repeat: All other priorities are rescinded."]]
In the research station, [[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]] makes a vain attempt to reason with Thunderwing before he crushes Bumblebee's neck, but Grimlock just hauls off and slugs him. As Thunderwing's [[Decepticon]] warriors join the fight, [[Windsweeper]] sees how outnumbered the Autobots are and decides to just hang back in the shadows and let the other Decepticons do the work. This strategy works pretty well until the Matrixspawn grabs him from behind with its tail and begins pulling him up to the rafters.

Meanwhile, off the coast of [[United Kingdom|England]], a [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|shadowy figure dressed all in purple, and with only one eye]], emerges from the waters. Their monologuing is witnesssed by a solitary human, who they decree must be silenced. But WHO could it be...?

On VsQs, the Decepticons notice Windsweeper is missing, and spot the creature about ready to devour him. [[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] draws a bead on the Matrixspawn to kill it and save his comrade, but Thunderwing shoves him out of the way when he recognizes the Matrix energy dripping from the creature. Afraid of being separated from its vessel, the Matrix bids it to retreat. Thunderwing takes off in hot pursuit, leaving some very chagrined Decepticon troopers wondering just how far gone their leader is.

As the Pretenders regroup, they realize the moon's heavy gravity is beginning to have an effect on them; it seems they had been burning extra [[energon]] over the last few hours to compensate, which only means that now they're low on fuel reserves. Chasing after the creature as best they can, the [[Autobot]]s are caught between Thunderwing and the Matrixspawn as they battle for the right to possess the Matrix. Bumblebee, all-but dry of energy, reaches slowly towards the Matrix as their enemies fight to the death and...

At the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], the Classic Pretenders' [[Ark shuttlecraft|shuttle]] is coming in for a smooth landing, and Optimus Prime eagerly goes to meet the conquering heroes and reclaim their prize. The laugh's on him though, as Thunderwing steps forth from the shuttle wielding the power of the Matrix as his own.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] (3)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]] (5)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]] (6)
*[[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] (7)
*[[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]] (10)
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (11)
*[[Siren (G1)|Siren]] (12)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod]] (19)
|c2=
*[[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] (8)
*[[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] (9)
*[[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]] (13)
*[[Needlenose (G1)|Needlenose]] (14)
*[[Windsweeper]] (15)
*[[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shadowy figure]] (18)
|c3=
*[[Patch's owner]] (17)
|c4=
*[[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]]/[[Dark Matrix]] (1)
*[[Deathbringer (Marvel)|Deathbringer]] (2)
*[[Matrixspawn]] (4)
*[[Patch (G1)|Patch]] (16)
}}

==Quotes==
"We are '''Primus'''. We are '''Prima'''. We are '''Prime Nova'''. We are '''Sentinel Prime'''. We are '''Optimus Prime'''. '''''We are Creation Matrix!''''' We know pleasure, purity--'''goodness'''. But we would know... '''more'''."
:—The '''Creation Matrix''' monologues, ominously

"'''Pah'''! Fed up with '''weaklings''' crying about Unicron! Give me back my '''Dinobots''' and we '''kick butt!'''" 
"Of '''course!''' It's so '''obvious!''' Why didn't any of us see this before? Except -- without the Matrix, how do you expect to '''revive''' the Dinobots? '''Sheesh!'''"
:—'''Grimlock''' and '''Jazz'''

"Don't '''talk''' -- '''''HIT!''''"
:—'''Grimlock''' explains his nuanced approach to dealing with Thunderwing

"Interesting. I almost '''felt''' that."
:—A full-force punch from Grimlock fails to impress '''Thunderwing'''

"'''''AAAAH!''''' '''It's got me! It's got me!''' ...Ah ha. Well... the '''floor's''' got me, actually."
:—'''Jazz''' takes a tumble through a decaying deck

"You reckon we should go after Thunderwing, help out?" 
"Nah, it's '''his''' fight -- he's made that plenty clear to us already! Anyway, he doesn't care about what happens to us -- why should '''we''' worry about '''him?''' If Thunderwing beats the creature, the Autobots -- that's fine by me. If he dies -- '''I'll send flowers!'''"
:—'''Needlenose''' and '''Spinister'''

"We are '''Primus'''. We are '''Prima'''. We are '''Prime Nova'''. We are '''Sentinel Prime'''. We are '''Optimus Prime'''. '''''WE ARE THUNDERWING!'''''"
:—The '''Creation Matrix''' again. Toldja it was ominous!

==Notes==
===Artwork and technical errors===
*Page 14: Thunderwing's thighs are colored as if they were part of Jazz's torso.

===Continuity notes===
*This is the first fictional mention of [[Prima]], [[Prime Nova]], and [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]], although Prima and Sentinel Prime were previously depicted in "[[The Primal Scream|Primal Scream]]" and "[[The Legacy of Unicron!]]", respectively, as unnamed characters.
*Ruckus got knocked into the Mind Leech by Thunderwing just [[Deadly Obsession|last issue]].
*Bumblebee, Jazz, and Grimlock's Pretender Shells make their last appearance in the comics. Bumblebee's shell gets a hole blasted through it by Thunderwing, but Jazz and Grimlock's just disappear forever without explanation after they exit them to fight.
*Bumblebee complains about being low on Energon yet back when he was visiting Nebulos (as Goldbug) the Autobots were also low on fuel yet Goldbug was unaffected.
*The Deathbringer story the Matrix references occurred in "[[Deathbringer (issue)|Deathbringer]]", making it one of the biggest references to the UK comic ever made by the US comic.

===Real-life references===
*The assorted creatures in this story are obviously inspired in part by the critters from the {{w|Alien (franchise)|''Alien'' film series}}, particularly the "{{w|facehugger}}". Given that, the name of the moon, "VsQs," may be an homage to {{w|List of characters in the Alien series|PFC Vasquez}} from ''{{w|Aliens (film)|Aliens}}'' and the name of the planet it orbits, "Cameron", is certainly an homage to {{w|James Cameron}}, the director of that film.
*{{w|Blackpool}} is a [[United Kingdom|UK]] seaside resort famous for its tower (which resembles the [[Eiffel Tower]]) and pleasure beach.

===Bot Roster===
*Autobots: 27 active; 8 rogue Micromasters; 1 in storage, 31 offline, 25 presumed offline. (95 total)
*Decepticons: 23 active; 4 rogue Micromasters; 1 rogue Shockwave returns; 26 offline, 25 presumed offline. 3 offline/missing. (82 total)

===UK printing===
'''Issue #290:'''
*'''Reprint ''Transformers'' story:''' "[[The Legacy of Unicron!]]"
*'''Other strips:''' ''[[Action Force (comic)|G.I. Joe the Action Force]]'' - "Bailout" and ''[[Combat Colin]]''
*'''[[Transformers AtoZ|AtoZ]]:''' [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]] and [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]
*With this issue, Combat Colin reverted to color (for a few issues at least)
*The AtoZ reached the end of the list alphabetically. Future AtoZs would use characters who had been missed out.
'''Issue #291:'''
*'''Reprint ''Transformers'' story:''' "The Legacy of Unicron!"
*'''Other strips:''' ''G.I. Joe the Action Force'' - "Bailout" and ''Combat Colin''
'''Issue #292:'''
*'''Reprint ''Transformers'' story:''' "The Legacy of Unicron!"
*'''Other strips:''' ''G.I. Joe the Action Force'' - "Bailout" and ''Combat Colin''
'''Issue #293:'''
*'''Reprint ''Transformers'' story:''' "The Legacy of Unicron!"
*'''Other strips:''' ''G.I. Joe the Action Force'' - "Bailout" and ''Combat Colin''

===Other trivia===
*''[[The Transformers Universe|Transformers Universe]]'' profiles for [[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]] and [[Windsweeper]] are found after the main story.

===Foreign Localization===
*'''Swedish'''
:* ''Title (1990):'' "'''Skapad ur mörkret'''" ("Created from the Darkness")
:* ''Title (2019):'' "'''Mörk skapelse'''" ("Dark Creation")

===Covers (5)===
*'''US issue #65 cover:''' Grimlock attacked by the alien, by [[Bill Sienkiewicz]].
*'''UK issue #290 cover:''' Optimus Prime's corpse, by [[Staz|Stewart Johnson]].
*'''UK issue #291 cover:''' Bumblebee about to be attacked by the alien, by Stewart Johnson.
*'''UK issue #292 cover:''' Windsweeper attacked by the alien, by Stewart Johnson.
*'''UK issue #293 cover:''' Thunderwing with the Matrix, by Stewart Johnson.
<gallery>
File:MarvelUS-65.jpg|'''US issue #65''' - Zoinks!
File:MarvelUK-290.jpg|'''UK issue #290''' - Brings a new meaning to 'heartburn'
File:MarvelUK-291.jpg|'''UK issue #291''' - Feed me Seymour!
File:MarvelUK-292.jpg|'''UK issue #292''' - Windsweeper gets swept off his feet.
File:MarvelUK-293.jpg|'''UK issue #293''' - Hmm, a floaty green thing. Can't be harmful!
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
====US====
*Trix cereal - inside front cover
*Instant Quaker Oatmeal presents ''Popeye'' - between pages 4 & 5 and between pages 5 & 6
*Acclaim Douple Player wireless head-to-head system - between pages 7 & 8
*Capcom ''Bionic Commando'' - between pages 8 & 9
*''Airwolf'' engine powered model helicopter - between pages 16 & 17
*''Wheels and Wings'' cards - between pages 17 & 18
*Star Signals and Checklist - between pages 19 & 20
*''WCW'' video game for Nintendo - between story and Spinister profile
*[[Letters page|Transmissions]]
*Marvel subscription service
*Chips Ahoy! cookies - inside back cover
*Lucky Charms cereal (back cover)

====UK====
????

===Reprints===
*'''''[[Transformers: Matrix Quest]]'' TPB:''' Thunderwing, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]], [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] and half of [[Primus]], by [[Andrew Wildman]].
*'''''Transformers: Matrix Quest'' HC:''' Thunderwing with the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]], by [[Pat Lee]].
*'''''[[Best of Transformers: Eye of the Storm]]'':''' Optimus Prime, [[Ravage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ravage]] and [[Skywarp (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Skywarp]], by Andrew Wildman.
*'''[[Classic Transformers Volume 5|''Classic Transformers'' Volume 5]]:''' panels from this issue, "[[Eye of the Storm]]", "[[Deadly Obsession]]" and "[[...All This and Civil War 2]]".
*'''[[The Transformers Classics, Vol. 6|''The Transformers Classics,'' Vol. 6]] cover:''' [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]], by [[Guido Guidi]].
*'''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]], Volume 17: Matrix Quest:''''' Nightbeat and Prime's corpse by [[Makoto Ono]] and [[Geoff Senior]].
<gallery>
File:Titan-MatrixQuestSC.jpg|'''''Matrix Quest'' TPB''' (Titan Books, 2002)
File:Titan-MatrixQuestHC.jpg|'''''Matrix Quest'' hardback''' (Titan Books, 2002)
File:Best of Transformers.jpg|'''''Best of Transformers: Eye of the Storm''''' (Titan Books, 2008)
File:Classic Transformers Vol5.jpg|'''''Classic Transformers'' Volume 5''' (IDW Publishing, 2009)
File:TFClassicsVol6.jpg|'''''The Transformers Classics,'' Vol. 6''' (IDW Publishing, 2013)
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v17.jpg|'''''Definitive G1 Collection vol. 17: Matrix Quest''''' (Hachette Partworks, Ltd., 2018)
</gallery>

[[Category:Marvel US issues]]
[[Category:Marvel UK issues]]

Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 1

2025-05-06T14:36:44Z

Bigds9fan: /* Transformers references */

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[Infestation 2|Infestation 2: The Transformers]]'' #1
|prev=Infestation 2 issue 1
|prev2=Hearts of Steel issue 4
|next=Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 2
|title=
|image=Infestation 2 Transformers 1A.jpg
|caption=I should have turned left on R'lyeh.
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[February 1]], [[2012]]
|coverdate=February 2011
|written by=[[Chuck Dixon]]
|art by=[[Guido Guidi]]
|inks by=[[John Wycough]] (pgs. 15–22)
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]]
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|editor=[[Bobby Curnow]]
|consulting editor=[[John Barber]]
|continuity=[[Hearts of Steel]]
}}

'''The Transformers of the 19th century must contend with the Elder Gods.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:BumblebeestreetcarbodyInfestation2-1.jpeg|thumb|left|upright=1.3]]
Underwater in the [[Great Banks]] by the [[Flemish Cap]] in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in [[1887]], the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]] lay silent and waiting. They are activated by a race of [[fish people]], who bring the [[Decepticon]]s to their unearthly city.

[[1888|A year later]], the [[USS Miskatonic|USS ''Miskatonic'']] is traveling to [[Ireland]] when it is attacked by a tentacled and underwater menace. [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], who has been hidden aboard the ship, jumps into the water, realizing the creature as an alien lifeform, and swims to the other [[Autobot]]s to warn them.

One week later, in [[San Francisco]], the married [[Tobias Muldoon|Tobias]] and [[Kitty Merriweather|Kitty Muldoon]] are walking down a street with their two children when [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], now with a new trolley mode, approaches them. With the invasion of the [[Elder God]]s, Bumblebee needs Tobias's help again. What he needs is 1,000,000 watts of electricity. Muldoon makes it to [[Edison Machine Works]] in [[Schenectady]], [[New York (state)|New York]], a week later, but is refused the absurd amount of electricity by [[Thomas Edison]] himself. One of his workers, [[Nikola Tesla]], finds the prospect intriguing and offers his assistance.

Elsewhere, in [[Port Cenotaph]], [[Nova Scotia]], the fish people surface in the thousands. Hidden underwater, Ironhide observes them, but runs into [[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]], who has been pulled into the Elder Gods' servitude. Despite some fight, Ironhide succumbs to Bonecrusher's tentacles.

Two days later, Tesla and Muldoon are on a train in [[Quebec]] to [[Sant Felicien]]. Tesla finds the train strange, as it has not stopped for fuel and it is absent of crew. Tesla finds out the secret when the rail ends in [[Ivujivik]], [[Ontario]], and the components of the train reveal themselves to be the [[Autobot]]s [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailblazer]], [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]. The Autobots travel on foot while the [[human]]s ride in the comforts of [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s vehicle mode.

In Port Cenotaph, a boat's two-man crew discover that the city's populace has been changed, and that it is haunted by gigantic robots. Tentacles emerge from the water and pull the boat underwater.

On the north slope of the [[Mare Rurek Glacier]], the Autobots and the humans find what they have been seeking—the Autobot leader, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]!

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (7)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (12)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailblazer]] (16)
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (17)
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (18)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (19)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (23)

|c2=
*[[Skalor]] (1)
*[[Snaptrap (G1)|Snaptrap]] (3)
*[[Nautilator]] (4)
*[[Overbite (G1)|Overbite]] (5)
*[[Tentakil (G1)|Tentakil]] (6)
*[[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]] (15)
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (20)
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (21)
*[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (22)

|c3=
*[[Tobias Muldoon]] (8)
*[[Kitty Merriweather|Kitty Muldoon]] (9)
*[[Toby Muldoon]] (10)
*[[Katherine Muldoon]] (11)
*[[Thomas Edison]] (13)
*[[Nikola Tesla]] (14)

|c4=
*[[Fish people]] (2)
}}

==Notes==

=== Transformers references ===
* Bumblebee's streetcar mode is 1984 which is of course a reference to the original cartoon.
*The fish people are drawn in homage to the [[Pretender]] [[Submarauder (G1)|Submarauder]]...

=== Real-world references ===
* ...and are also certainly an adaption of the {{w|Deep One}}s of the {{w|Cthulhu Mythos}}.

===Errors===
*If the Seacons have never been awoken before, as the narration implies, why are they already "steampunk" and covered in vehicle [[kibble]]? The same thing applies to Optimus Prime.
*An anachronism: when Muldoon is explaining the Transformers to Tesla, he describes them as being from another galaxy. The story takes place in 1887, but it was in 1929 that astronomer {{w|Edwin Hubble}} first discovered that our galaxy isn't the only one.
**Also, the IDW continuity would later establish that [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] orbits the star {{w|Lambda Scorpii|Shaula}}, which ''is'' in the Milky Way.
*As confirmed by the next issue, the ''USS Mistkatonic'' is supposed to be spelled "Miskatonic" after {{w|Miskatonic University}}. However, the "U.S.S." prefix is anachronistic—in the real world, it was not introduced until 1907, 20 years after the events in the comic.
*[[Ivujivik]] is in [[Quebec]], not [[Ontario]].
*[[Sant Felicien]] is slightly mispelled, and although the Saint-Félicien colony town was established in 1882, it was a coal mining and lumber milling hamlet, whose railway was still being built well into the 1890s.

====Covers (3)====
* '''Cover A:''' Art by [[Guido Guidi]], colors by [[Joana Lafuente]]
* '''Cover B:''' Art by [[Livio Ramondelli]]
* '''Cover RIA:''' Art by Guido Guidi and Livio Ramondelli

<gallery>
Image:Infestation 2 Transformers 1A.jpg|
Image:Infestation 2 Transformers 1B.jpg|
Image:Infestation 2 Transformers 1RIA.jpg|
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
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Nightshade (ES)

2024-02-21T18:22:52Z

Bigds9fan: /* EarthSpark */

{{factions|terran}}
{{disambig2|the Terran from ''EarthSpark''|the BotBot|Nightshade (BotBots)}}
:''Nightshade is a [[Terran]] from the [[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)|EarthSpark]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Nightshade-earthspark-stock.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|Give a hoot! Read a book!]]

A [[Terran]] with a flair for the dramatic and boundless confidence, '''Nightshade Malto''' can seem weirdly distant at times. It's not that they're unfriendly by any measure: while they can certainly be glib and quick with a quip, they approach nearly everything and everyone with bright eyes and a huge smile. They're fascinated and delighted with the world they've found themselves in, and long to experience as much of it as possible. It's just that they'll do so on ''their'' terms. Nightshade prefers a quiet time reading rather than the energetic physical play of their siblings (or the endless online media onslaught that [[Hashtag (ES)|Hashtag]] enjoys). They're often in their lab tinkering away on some new device to aid their family, though they have a tendency to spring these surprises without warning, which can be awkward, or worse, depending on how ambitious Nightshade was feeling at the time. But as much time as they spend alone, they always come back in time, ever happy to join in family game nights and group celebrations.

But their bright, easygoing, giving nature should not be mistaken as weakness. Though they're generally averse to conflict, they do not abide threats to family, friends or even strangers they've just met, and they ''will'' fight with everything they have to protect those in need. Their incredible aerial maneuverability and quick thinking make them a very unpredictable opponent who aims to stop the fight as quickly as possible... after all, there are so many, many much nicer things to be doing.

{{bigquote|I always knew my pronouns felt right, but... what a wonderful word for a wonderful experience.|Nightshade on "nonbinary", "[[Home, Part 1]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Z Infante]] (English), [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] (Japanese)|[[Benjamin Bollen]] (French), [[Mario Heras]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Adolfo Moreno]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Carole Fernandez]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Lorenzo Crisci]] (Italian)}}
{{ongoing}}
[[File:AgeOfEvolution1-Nightshadeonline.jpg|thumb|upright=1.33|]]
Nightshade was brought to life at the same time as their other siblings [[Jawbreaker (ES)|Jawbreaker]] and [[Hashtag (ES)|Hashtag]] by the Malto siblings [[Mo Malto| Mo]] and [[Robby Malto| Robby]] via the [[Emberstone]] in the same cave where their other siblings, [[Twitch]] and [[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]], were first created. The otherwise happy moment was interrupted by a cave-in caused by a battle outside the cave between [[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] against the Decepticon Seekers, [[Skywarp (ES)| Skywarp]] and [[Nova Storm (ES)| Nova Storm]]. {{storylink|Age of Evolution, Part 1}} Despite being only a few seconds old, Nightshade and the other new Terrans instinctually came to their new family's rescue by shielding them from the collapsing cave rubble.

Emerging from the collapsed cave, they were warmly greeted by Optimus, who inquired about Nightshade and their siblings' names. Unlike Hashtag and Jawbreaker, Nightshade instinctually knew their name right off the bat and said what a delight it was to meet them. Sensing the pain the other Maltos and Terrans felt about learning their [[Dot Malto|mother]] was held captive by someone called [[Mandroid]], Nightshade volunteered to help them. While planning "Operation: Terran Horse", Nightshade, via their connection to Mo through her [[cyber-sleeve]], informed Optimus their pronouns were "they" and "them" and that male or female pronouns didn't fit them. While infiltrating Mandroid's base with Jawbreaker and Hashtag by posing as Decepticons who had captured Optimus, Nightshade was unable to hide their horror at Mandroid's experiments he was performing on the captured [[Megatron (ES)|Megatron]]. Their ruse quickly exposed, a battle erupted that saw Mandroid's base turn into a walking mech that required the combined efforts of the Malto family and their allies to take down. Following the battle, Nightshade was formally introduced to Dot and welcomed into her family. {{storylink|Age of Evolution, Part 2}}

Now a formal member of the Malto household, Nightshade found the cramped living quarters of the family barn unsuitable as a living space for their Terran siblings and set out to construct a new one. They covertly ended up recruiting Thrash to aide them in this, who was looking to try and bond with his new younger sibling. When Hashtag and Twitch returned with Bumblebee from a mishap with G.H.OS.T., Nightshade used the family gathering to introduce everyone to the [[Dugout|new base]] they had constructed beneath the farmstead. {{storylink|Hashtag: Oops}} Nightshade was present at the family movie night that showed off the movie Hashtag made while trying to find Jawbreaker an alt-mode. {{storylink|Outtakes}}

[[File:NightshadeOwlMode MissedConnection.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.33|'''Tarantulas:''' "We offer power and purpose. What can you offer us? What can you offer me?" '''Nightshade:''' "I have a [[Mo Malto|sister]]"]]
Worried that Nightshade was isolating themself from their family because they didn't share many interests, Alex introduced Nightshade to the ''[[Winged Sentinel]]'' books by his favorite author, [[D.E. O'Neil]]. Taken by the stories of daring heroism, Nightshade resolved to meet O'Neil, who was a Witwicky local, feeling they had found someone they could bond with. They quickly worked out O'Neil's current address and took off to visit... only to discover their "current address" was a cemetery, as the author was in fact deceased. But an encounter with a "groundskeeper" soon led to Nightshade instead discovering the reclusive Decepticon scientist, [[Tarantulas (ES)|Tarantulas]]. Bonding with the Decepticon spider over their shared interests in science and shared ''lack'' of interest in continuing the Autobot/Decepticon conflict, Nightshade aided Tarantulas in constructing a holographic projector that would allow him to completely avoid detection from G.H.O.S.T. During this partnership, Tarantulas expanded the young Terran's mindset on what alt-modes could be. Following a miscommunication, Tarantulas came to believe Nightshade was a prisoner of their human parents and kidnapped the two with the intent of wiping their memories so he could take Nightshade on the run with him. When Nightshade rescued their parents, they scanned a statue of the ''Winged Sentinel'' owl, granting them a new [[beast mode]]. Besting Tarantulas in combat just as the rest of Nightshade's family arrived on scene, Nightshade convinced Bumblebee to give the spider a second chance. When G.H.O.S.T. showed up, Tarantulas decided to make the best of this second chance and volunteered to lead G.H.O.S.T. away to let the Maltos escape. {{storylink|Missed Connection}}

When [[Jon Schloder|Agent Schloder]] arrived at the Malto family farm hot on Bumblebee's trail, Nightshade and Hashtag used the opportunity to show off the new "Emergency Lockdown" protocol they had installed in the Terran base. Sealing up the base whenever a G.H.O.S.T. vehicle (Hashtag excluded) approached the area, it made entry or exit of the dugout virtually impossible. Unfortunately the two hadn't worked out all the kinks yet and discovered that instead of keeping the lockdown going for 10 minutes after Schloder departed, it was instead set for 10 ''hours''. Stuck in the base, Nightshade and the others were unable to help Bumblebee and Dot in their attempts to evade G.H.OS.T. When Dot and Alex returned later that night and informed them Bee had to go back on the run, Nightshade comforted the devastated Twitch. {{storylink|Security Protocols}}

[[File:HomePart1-Nightshadeowl.jpg|thumb|upright=1.33|'''Random civilians:''' "Oh, what a perfect stuffed owl." '''Nightshade:''' "STUFFED!? I beg you pardon!?"]]
Still new to the concept of gift-giving, for their present to Dot on Mother's Day, Nightshade made several secret modification to their mother's prosthetic leg in hopes of making her life easier. While it proved critical in aiding Dot and the others in taking care of a mutated mother bear that was terrorizing them, Nightshade was confronted by Dot that they needed to ask for permission when tampering with something as personal as Dot's leg. Nightshade apologized and in the future promised to work with Dot if they wanted to modify her leg. {{storylink|Bear Necessities}} When Nightshade, and their other siblings, were taken to [[Spacebridge Memorial Park]] by Megatron to learn of the history of the Cybertronian War, they found their meeting interrupted by the return of the dormant Decepticon [[Shockwave (ES)|Shockwave]]. When Shockwave initiated an overload of the power chamber of the derelict Space Bridge, Nightshade worked with Robby and Thrash to disconnect them while Megatron battled it out with Shockwave. {{storylink|Warzone}}

[[File:NightshadeAndSamChat HomePartOne.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.33|"Now, child, flying is not merely some crude, mechanical process. It is a delicate art. Purely aesthetic. Poetry of motion. And the best way to learn it is to do it."]]

When the Terrans were taken on a nightly visit to [[Philadelphia]] by Robby and Mo, Nightshade went by themself when the group split up and got a chance to act out their heroic fantasies when they saved a young person from an attempted mugging. Taking note of the pronoun pins on <choose><option>their</option><option>her</option></choose> purse, Nightshade introduced themself to [[Sam (ES)|Sam]], who warmed up to the Terran when they told <choose><option>them</option><option>her</option></choose> of their own pronouns. It was talking with Sam where Nightshade learned of the concept of being "non-binary", which they felt was a wonderful word to describe themself. Upon reuniting with their family, Nightshade was surprised to see Bumblebee along with them. Needing help in tracking down the lost Autobot, [[Grimlock (ES)|Grimlock]], Nightshade eagerly joined him. {{storylink|Home, Part 1}} However, the search for Grimlock soon turned into a battle with the returning Mandroid. After taking down one of Mandroid's newest Arachnamech creations, Nightshade and the rest of their family found themselves having to fight the mind-controlled Hashtag. Taking the fight to the city above, Nightshade discovered attempts to forcibly remove her control chip were blocked by a forcefield. Eventually, they were all able free their sister when they were empowered by a mysterious energy that originated from the cave where the Terrans had been born. With their sister freed, Nightshade and the others raced back to Witwicky in hopes of getting home before their parents woke up. {{storylink|Home, Part 2}}

The kids encountered Grimlock while collecting flowers in the woods and had to flee back to the farm, where they eventually fought the Dinobot into submission.{{storylink|A Stygi Situation}} When Robby's cyber-sleeve manifested a new shield ability, Optimus smuggled the entire Malto family into G.H.O.S.T. HQ to have [[Teletraan I (ES)|Teletraan I]] scan the devices. The kids were later training in the base's rec room when Mandroid took control of it, unleashing a holographic Megatron on them, and though Hashtag was able to shut it down, the fight resulted in Robby's cyber-sleeve becoming inactive and the emotional link between the kids was lost. {{storylink|Disarmed}}

While trying to reactivate the cyber-sleeves with the cave water that the Maltobots were using to energize, the kids stumbled on a cave system through which [[Starscream (ES)|Starscream]], Nova Storm and Skywarp were trying to escape. Things were complicated more when they encountered the energon-feeding [[Dweller (ES)|Dweller]], forcing them to try to enact a desperate plan to imprison it so it couldn't escape the caves. {{storylink|What Dwells Within}} Robby's cyber-sleeve began affecting his health, and Dot assured the other kids that they'd do all they could to help the boy get better. When the other human members of the Malto family lapsed into unconsciousness, the Maltobots took care of them until they recovered, having had an encounter with Quintus Prime that restored both Robby's health and the cyber-sleeves. {{storylink|Prime Time (episode)|Prime Time}}

When Bumblebee was assigned the task of infiltrating G.H.O.S.T. HQ, he borrowed Nightshade's [[mobile hologram emitter]] and the latest Smart Trainer. The kids resolved to help their mentor, and to this end, once Twitch located the entrance to the HQ, Nightshade, Thrash and Robby joined her in sneaking in. They bumped into Schloder and managed to persuade him to help them, leading them to find G.H.O.S.T. had taken possession of the space bridge. During the ensuing fight with [[Karen Croft|Agent Croft]]'s [[Ghoid]]s, the group used the space bridge to escape to the outside. {{storylink|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} Pursued by a Mandroid-controlled Shockwave, the group headed into Witwicky where they were joined by the rest of the Malto kids and managed to take down the Decepticon, shortly before being surrounded by G.H.O.S.T. agents. With a timely intervention by their parents, they were able to escape back to the farm and revive Shockwave, only for Croft to arrive with an army of Ghoids. A battle ensued during which the Maltos, with the help of the Autobots, overcame the Ghoids, only to face Croft deactivating the Autobots and the arrival of Mandroid, grotesquely enhanced into a new robotic form. {{storylink|The Battle of Witwicky}}

The Malto family attempted to escape from Mandroid and his two [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]] henchmen, however eventually family members were picked off and only Twitch and Nightshade were left. The pair again sneaked into G.H.O.S.T. HQ to free Bumblebee, Schloder and the captive Decepticons, though the latter were unenthusiastic about helping and simply left. The remaining quartet found Mandroid preparing to use the space bridge to wipe out all Cybertronian life on the planet and during the resulting fight, the group escaped through the space bridge portal. {{storylink|The Last Hope, Part 1}} On their way to the huge Spire Mandroid had erected, the group encountered mind-controlled Autobots but were also reunited with Hashtag, Jawbreaker and Thrash. Nightshade battled the Sharkticons with Jawbreaker and Hashtag, allowing Twitch and Thrash to go on ahead, however Mandroid successfully activated his superweapon, putting Nightshade and the other Transformers on Earth into shutdown. Fortunately Mo and Robby were able to reverse the process using their cyber-sleeves to channel the power of Quintus Prime, and the Malto family were reunited. {{storylink|The Last Hope, Part 2}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition''===
{{voiceactor|[[Aaron Landon]] (English)|[[Frans Limburg]] (Dutch), [[Emmanuel Rausenberger]] (French), [[Andi Kroesing]] (German), [[Mosè Singh]] (Italian), [[Robert Ciszewski]] (Polish), [[David García]] (Spanish)}}
{{charfictionstub|{{storylink|Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition}}}}

==Toys==
===''EarthSpark''===
[[File:TF-Earthspark-Deluxe-Nightshade.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|That's the kind of thousand-yard stare that only comes from a veteran of the Culture Wars. ''(Hasbro Version Pictured)'']]
[[File:TF-ES-JP-ESD-05-Deluxe-Nightshade.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''(TakaraTomy Version Pictured)'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Terran Nightshade''' (Deluxe, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy ID Number'': '''ESD-05'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[November 1]], 2023
:*''Accessories'': Owl wings, 2 knives, Mandroid torso (Hasbro release only)

: Released as part of the third wave of Hasbro's ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (toyline)|EarthSpark]]'' Deluxe Class toys, Nightshade transforms into a robotic/statuesque hawk owl in thirteen steps. Nightshade's wings, owl face, and back of the robot head are made of a rubber material. The wings come separate in the packaging and must be assembled. While they can be removed for [[show-accuracy]], they are not designed to and doing so can stress the rubber connection points. The wings can be removed at the sturdier ball joint connection though. Nightshade comes with two knives that can store in slots on top of the wings.

: This toy also comes packed with the torso to the [[Mandroid]] [[Build a Figure|build-a-figure]] though there are releases spotted in Europe that omit that part and remove all mention of it from the packaging.

: The TakaraTomy release of the toy features a much more screen accurate paint deco, and omits the Mandroid piece.

: Nightshade was first listed on Portuguese toy website ''fnac.pt'', prior to any official announcement by Hasbro. They were then spotted alongside their wavemate Grimlock about a month later in Taiwan.

==Notes==
* An early concept for Nightshade was that they identified as "Terran" rather than male or female, as they did not consider gender to be an important part of their identity. This concept was dropped at some point during ''Earthspark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s development in favor of making the character explicitly non-binary, but this early draft persisted long enough that a version of the backstory found its way into the [[Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook|official ''Earthspark'' guidebook]], as well as several foreign-language websites.
* While other nonbinary characters like [[Screwball]] had previously been introduced in other extended ''Transformers'' media, Nightshade is the first character to be openly identified as such in a ''Transformers'' cartoon. ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'' previously featured a sort of edge case in the form of [[Acid Storm (Cyberverse)|Acid Storm]], but the character was not intentionally written that way, instead falling into the realm of [[pseudocanon]] via [[authorial intent]] in response to a recurring [[animation error]].
* Originally, Nightshade's alternate mode was to be a monstrous gargoyle. This idea was tweaked at some point during the show's development, and Nightshade ultimately wound up with a stylized owl alternate mode instead. Notably, ''The Official Guidebook'' still refers to their alternate mode as a gargoyle.
* Different localizations have interpreted Nightshade's gender depending on the availability of gender-neutral pronouns in the relevant language:
** In the Hungarian dub, which lacks gendered pronouns entirely, Nightshade initially speaks in the plural, using ''mi'' and ''minket'' ("we" and "us") instead of ''én'' and ''engem'' ("I" and "me"), and the subject of Nightshade's gender is not addressed. This speech quirk is dropped in subsequent episodes.
** In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, Nightshade is referred to as ''elu'', a neologistic system popularized on the Internet to accommodate the lack of formal gender-neutral pronouns in the Portuguese language.
** In the Italian dub, Nightshade is simply described as "not identifying in either gender" and dialogue tries to avoid using gendered pronouns as much as possible, albeit in a few occasions they end up using male-coded terms when it's impossible to do otherwise.
** In the Japanese dub, Nightshade's first-person {{w|Japanese pronoun|pronoun}} is ''boku'' (僕, ボク), commonly used in real life as an informal pronoun by males, but can be used by women with tomboyish or feminist connotations, especially in media. (Pronouns in Japanese are not strictly gendered. Second-person and third-person pronouns are not gendered most of the time.)

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Nightshade''' (ナイトシェード ''Naitoshēdo'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Gyorsacél''' ("High-Speed Steel")

[[Category:Nonbinary characters]]
[[Category:Terrans]]

Nightshade (ES)

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{{disambig2|the Terran from ''EarthSpark''|the BotBot|Nightshade (BotBots)}}
:''Nightshade is a [[Terran]] from the [[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)|EarthSpark]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Nightshade-earthspark-stock.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|Give a hoot! Read a book!]]

A [[Terran]] with a flair for the dramatic and boundless confidence, '''Nightshade Malto''' can seem weirdly distant at times. It's not that they're unfriendly by any measure: while they can certainly be glib and quick with a quip, they approach nearly everything and everyone with bright eyes and a huge smile. They're fascinated and delighted with the world they've found themselves in, and long to experience as much of it as possible. It's just that they'll do so on ''their'' terms. Nightshade prefers a quiet time reading rather than the energetic physical play of their siblings (or the endless online media onslaught that [[Hashtag (ES)|Hashtag]] enjoys). They're often in their lab tinkering away on some new device to aid their family, though they have a tendency to spring these surprises without warning, which can be awkward, or worse, depending on how ambitious Nightshade was feeling at the time. But as much time as they spend alone, they always come back in time, ever happy to join in family game nights and group celebrations.

But their bright, easygoing, giving nature should not be mistaken as weakness. Though they're generally averse to conflict, they do not abide threats to family, friends or even strangers they've just met, and they ''will'' fight with everything they have to protect those in need. Their incredible aerial maneuverability and quick thinking make them a very unpredictable opponent who aims to stop the fight as quickly as possible... after all, there are so many, many much nicer things to be doing.

{{bigquote|I always knew my pronouns felt right, but... what a wonderful word for a wonderful experience.|Nightshade on "nonbinary", "[[Home, Part 1]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Z Infante]] (English), [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] (Japanese)|[[Benjamin Bollen]] (French), [[Mario Heras]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Adolfo Moreno]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Carole Fernandez]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Lorenzo Crisci]] (Italian)}}
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[[File:AgeOfEvolution1-Nightshadeonline.jpg|thumb|upright=1.33|]]
Nightshade was brought to life at the same time as their other siblings [[Jawbreaker (ES)|Jawbreaker]] and [[Hashtag (ES)|Hashtag]] by the Malto siblings [[Mo Malto| Mo]] and [[Robby Malto| Robby]] via the [[Emberstone]] in the same cave where their other siblings, [[Twitch]] and [[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]], were first created. The otherwise happy moment was interrupted by a cave-in caused by a battle outside the cave between [[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] against the Decepticon Seekers, [[Skywarp (ES)| Skywarp]] and [[Nova Storm (ES)| Nova Storm]]. {{storylink|Age of Evolution, Part 1}} Despite being only a few seconds old, Nightshade and the other new Terrans instinctually came to their new family's rescue by shielding them from the collapsing cave rubble.

Emerging from the collapsed cave, they were warmly greeted by Optimus, who inquired about Nightshade and their siblings' names. Unlike Hashtag and Jawbreaker, Nightshade instinctually knew their name right off the bat and said what a delight it was to meet them. Sensing the pain the other Maltos and Terrans felt about learning their [[Dot Malto|mother]] was held captive by someone called [[Mandroid]], Nightshade volunteered to help them. While planning "Operation: Terran Horse", Nightshade, via their connection to Mo through her [[cyber-sleeve]], informed Optimus their pronouns were "they" and "them" and that male or female pronouns didn't fit them. While infiltrating Mandroid's base with Jawbreaker and Hashtag by posing as Decepticons who had captured Optimus, Nightshade was unable to hide their horror at Mandroid's experiments he was performing on the captured [[Megatron (ES)|Megatron]]. Their ruse quickly exposed, a battle erupted that saw Mandroid's base turn into a walking mech that required the combined efforts of the Malto family and their allies to take down. Following the battle, Nightshade was formally introduced to Dot and welcomed into her family. {{storylink|Age of Evolution, Part 2}}

Now a formal member of the Malto household, Nightshade found the cramped living quarters of the family barn unsuitable as a living space for their Terran siblings and set out to construct a new one. They covertly ended up recruiting Thrash to aide them in this, who was looking to try and bond with his new younger sibling. When Hashtag and Twitch returned with Bumblebee from a mishap with G.H.OS.T., Nightshade used the family gathering to introduce everyone to the [[Dugout|new base]] they had constructed beneath the farmstead. {{storylink|Hashtag: Oops}} Nightshade was present at the family movie night that showed off the movie Hashtag made while trying to find Jawbreaker an alt-mode. {{storylink|Outtakes}}

[[File:NightshadeOwlMode MissedConnection.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.33|'''Tarantulas:''' "We offer power and purpose. What can you offer us? What can you offer me?" '''Nightshade:''' "I have a [[Mo Malto|sister]]"]]
Worried that Nightshade was isolating themself from their family because they didn't share many interests, Alex introduced Nightshade to the ''[[Winged Sentinel]]'' books by his favorite author, [[D.E. O'Neil]]. Taken by the stories of daring heroism, Nightshade resolved to meet O'Neil, who was a Witwicky local, feeling they had found someone they could bond with. They quickly worked out O'Neil's current address and took off to visit... only to discover their "current address" was a cemetery, as the author was in fact deceased. But an encounter with a "groundskeeper" soon led to Nightshade instead discovering the reclusive Decepticon scientist, [[Tarantulas (ES)|Tarantulas]]. Bonding with the Decepticon spider over their shared interests in science and shared ''lack'' of interest in continuing the Autobot/Decepticon conflict, Nightshade aided Tarantulas in constructing a holographic projector that would allow him to completely avoid detection from G.H.O.S.T. During this partnership, Tarantulas expanded the young Terran's mindset on what alt-modes could be. Following a miscommunication, Tarantulas came to believe Nightshade was a prisoner of their human parents and kidnapped the two with the intent of wiping their memories so he could take Nightshade on the run with him. When Nightshade rescued their parents, they scanned a statue of the ''Winged Sentinel'' owl, granting them a new [[beast mode]]. Besting Tarantulas in combat just as the rest of Nightshade's family arrived on scene, Nightshade convinced Bumblebee to give the spider a second chance. When G.H.O.S.T. showed up, Tarantulas decided to make the best of this second chance and volunteered to lead G.H.O.S.T. away to let the Maltos escape. {{storylink|Missed Connection}}

When [[Jon Schloder|Agent Schloder]] arrived at the Malto family farm hot on Bumblebee's trail, Nightshade and Hashtag used the opportunity to show off the new "Emergency Lockdown" protocol they had installed in the Terran base. Sealing up the base whenever a G.H.O.S.T. vehicle (Hashtag excluded) approached the area, it made entry or exit of the dugout virtually impossible. Unfortunately the two hadn't worked out all the kinks yet and discovered that instead of keeping the lockdown going for 10 minutes after Schloder departed, it was instead set for 10 ''hours''. Stuck in the base, Nightshade and the others were unable to help Bumblebee and Dot in their attempts to evade G.H.OS.T. When Dot and Alex returned later that night and informed them Bee had to go back on the run, Nightshade comforted the devastated Twitch. {{storylink|Security Protocols}}

[[File:HomePart1-Nightshadeowl.jpg|thumb|upright=1.33|'''Random civilians:''' "Oh, what a perfect stuffed owl." '''Nightshade:''' "STUFFED!? I beg you pardon!?"]]
Still new to the concept of gift-giving, for their present to Dot on Mother's Day, Nightshade made several secret modification to their mother's prosthetic leg in hopes of making her life easier. While it proved critical in aiding Dot and the others in taking care of a mutated mother bear that was terrorizing them, Nightshade was confronted by Dot that they needed to ask for permission when tampering with something as personal as Dot's leg. Nightshade apologized and in the future promised to work with Dot if they wanted to modify her leg. {{storylink|Bear Necessities}} When Nightshade, and their other siblings, were taken to [[Spacebridge Memorial Park]] by Megatron to learn of the history of the Cybertronian War, they found their meeting interrupted by the return of the dormant Decepticon [[Shockwave (ES)|Shockwave]]. When Shockwave initiated an overload of the power chamber of the derelict Space Bridge, Nightshade worked with Robby and Thrash to disconnect them while Megatron battled it out with Shockwave. {{storylink|Warzone}}

[[File:NightshadeAndSamChat HomePartOne.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.33|"Now, child, flying is not merely some crude, mechanical process. It is a delicate art. Purely aesthetic. Poetry of motion. And the best way to learn it is to do it."]]

When the Terrans were taken on a nightly visit to [[Philadelphia]] by Robby and Mo, Nightshade went by themself when the group split up and got a chance to act out their heroic fantasies when they saved a young person from an attempted mugging. Taking note of the pronoun pins on <choose><option>their</option><option>her</option></choose> purse, Nightshade introduced themself to [[Sam (ES)|Sam]], who warmed up to the Terran when they told <choose><option>them</option><option>her</option></choose> of their own pronouns. It was talking with Sam where Nightshade learned of the concept of being "non-binary", which they felt was a wonderful word to describe themself. Upon reuniting with their family, Nightshade was surprised to see Bumblebee along with them. Needing help in tracking down the lost Autobot, [[Grimlock (ES)|Grimlock]], Nightshade eagerly joined him. {{storylink|Home, Part 1}} However, the search for Grimlock soon turned into a battle with the returning Mandroid. After taking down one of Mandroid's newest Arachnamech creations, Nightshade and the rest of their family found themselves having to fight the mind-controlled Hashtag. Taking the fight to the city above, Nightshade discovered attempts to forcibly remove her control chip were blocked by a forcefield. Eventually, they were all able free their sister when they were empowered by a mysterious energy that originated from the cave where the Terrans had been born. With their sister freed, Nightshade and the others raced back to Witwicky in hopes of getting home before their parents woke up. {{storylink|Home, Part 2}}

The kids encountered Grimlock while collecting flowers in the woods and had to flee back to the farm, where they eventually fought the Dinobot into submission.{{storylink|A Stygi Situation}} When Robby's cyber-sleeve manifested a new shield ability, Optimus smuggled the entire Malto family into G.H.O.S.T. HQ to have [[Teletraan I (ES)|Teletraan I]] scan the devices. The kids were later training in the base's rec room when Mandroid took control of it, unleashing a holographic Megatron on them, and though Hashtag was able to shut it down, the fight resulted in Robby's cyber-sleeve becoming inactive and the emotional link between the kids was lost. {{storylink|Disarmed}}

While trying to reactivate the cyber-sleeves with the cave water that the Maltobots were using to energize, the kids stumbled on a cave system through which [[Starscream (ES)|Starscream]], Nova Storm and Skywarp were trying to escape. Things were complicated more when they encountered the energon-feeding [[Dweller (ES)|Dweller]], forcing them to try to enact a desperate plan to imprison it so it couldn't escape the caves. {{storylink|What Dwells Within}} Robby's cyber-sleeve began affecting his health, and Dot assured the other kids that they'd do all they could to help the boy get better. When the other human members of the Malto family lapsed into unconsciousness, the Maltobots took care of them until they recovered, having had an encounter with Quintus Prime that restored both Robby's health and the cyber-sleeves. {{storylink|Prime Time (episode)|Prime Time}}

When Bumblebee was assigned the task of infiltrating G.H.O.S.T. HQ, he borrowed Nightshade's [[mobile hologram emitter]] and the latest Smart Trainer. The kids resolved to help their mentor, and to this end, once Twitch located the entrance to the HQ, Nightshade, Thrash and Robby joined her in sneaking in. They bumped into Schloder and managed to persuade him to help them, leading them to find G.H.O.S.T. had taken possession of the space bridge. During the ensuing fight with [[Karen Croft|Agent Croft]]'s [[Ghoid]]s, the group used the space bridge to escape to the outside. {{storylink|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} Pursued by a Mandroid-controlled Shockwave, the group headed into Witwicky where they were joined by the rest of the Malto kids and managed to take down the Decepticon, shortly before being surrounded by G.H.O.S.T. agents. With a timely intervention by their parents, they were able to escape back to the farm and revive Shockwave, only for Croft to arrive with an army of Ghoids. A battle ensued during which the Maltos, with the help of the Autobots, overcame the Ghoids, only to face Croft deactivating the Autobots and the arrival of Mandroid, grotesquely enhanced into a new robotic form. {{storylink|The Battle of Witwicky}}

The Malto family attempted to escape from Mandroid and his two [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]] henchmen, however eventually family members were picked off and only Twitch and Nightshade were left. The pair again sneaked into G.H.O.S.T. HQ to free Bumblebee, Schloder and the captive Decepticons, though the latter were unenthusiastic about helping and simply left. The remaining quartet found Mandroid preparing to use the space bridge to wipe out all Cybertronian life on the planet and during the resulting fight, the group escaped through the space bridge portal. {{storylink|The Last Hope, Part 1}} On their way to the huge Spire Mandroid had erected, the group encountered mind-controlled Autobots but were also reunited with Hashtag, Jawbreaker and Thrash. Nightshade battled the Sharkticons with Jawbreaker and Hashtag, allowing Twitch and Thrash to go on ahead, however Mandroid successfully activated his superweapon, putting Nightshade and the other Transformers on Earth into shutdown. Fortunately Mo and Robby were able to reverse the process using their cyber-sleeves to channel the power of Quintus Prime, and the Malto family were reunited. {{storylink|The Last Hope, Part 2}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition''===
{{voiceactor|[[Aaron Landon]] (English)|[[Frans Limburg]] (Dutch), [[Emmanuel Rausenberger]] (French), [[Andi Kroesing]] (German), [[Mosè Singh]] (Italian), [[Robert Ciszewski]] (Polish), [[David García]] (Spanish)}}
{{charfictionstub|{{storylink|Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition}}}}

==Toys==
===''EarthSpark''===
[[File:TF-Earthspark-Deluxe-Nightshade.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|That's the kind of thousand-yard stare that only comes from a veteran of the Culture Wars. ''(Hasbro Version Pictured)'']]
[[File:TF-ES-JP-ESD-05-Deluxe-Nightshade.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''(TakaraTomy Version Pictured)'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Terran Nightshade''' (Deluxe, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy ID Number'': '''ESD-05'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[November 1]], 2023
:*''Accessories'': Owl wings, 2 knives, Mandroid torso (Hasbro release only)

: Released as part of the third wave of Hasbro's ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (toyline)|EarthSpark]]'' Deluxe Class toys, Nightshade transforms into a robotic/statuesque hawk owl in thirteen steps. Nightshade's wings, owl face, and back of the robot head are made of a rubber material. The wings come separate in the packaging and must be assembled. While they can be removed for [[show-accuracy]], they are not designed to and doing so can stress the rubber connection points. The wings can be removed at the sturdier ball joint connection though. Nightshade comes with two knives that can store in slots on top of the wings.

: This toy also comes packed with the torso to the [[Mandroid]] [[Build a Figure|build-a-figure]] though there are releases spotted in Europe that omit that part AND remove all mention of it from the packaging.

: The TakaraTomy release of the toy features a much more screen accurate paint deco, and omits the Mandroid piece.

: Nightshade was first listed on Portuguese toy website ''fnac.pt'', prior to any official announcement by Hasbro. They were then spotted alongside their wavemate Grimlock about a month later in Taiwan.

==Notes==
* An early concept for Nightshade was that they identified as "Terran" rather than male or female, as they did not consider gender to be an important part of their identity. This concept was dropped at some point during ''Earthspark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s development in favor of making the character explicitly non-binary, but this early draft persisted long enough that a version of the backstory found its way into the [[Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook|official ''Earthspark'' guidebook]], as well as several foreign-language websites.
* While other nonbinary characters like [[Screwball]] had previously been introduced in other extended ''Transformers'' media, Nightshade is the first character to be openly identified as such in a ''Transformers'' cartoon. ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'' previously featured a sort of edge case in the form of [[Acid Storm (Cyberverse)|Acid Storm]], but the character was not intentionally written that way, instead falling into the realm of [[pseudocanon]] via [[authorial intent]] in response to a recurring [[animation error]].
* Originally, Nightshade's alternate mode was to be a monstrous gargoyle. This idea was tweaked at some point during the show's development, and Nightshade ultimately wound up with a stylized owl alternate mode instead. Notably, ''The Official Guidebook'' still refers to their alternate mode as a gargoyle.
* Different localizations have interpreted Nightshade's gender depending on the availability of gender-neutral pronouns in the relevant language:
** In the Hungarian dub, which lacks gendered pronouns entirely, Nightshade initially speaks in the plural, using ''mi'' and ''minket'' ("we" and "us") instead of ''én'' and ''engem'' ("I" and "me"), and the subject of Nightshade's gender is not addressed. This speech quirk is dropped in subsequent episodes.
** In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, Nightshade is referred to as ''elu'', a neologistic system popularized on the Internet to accommodate the lack of formal gender-neutral pronouns in the Portuguese language.
** In the Italian dub, Nightshade is simply described as "not identifying in either gender" and dialogue tries to avoid using gendered pronouns as much as possible, albeit in a few occasions they end up using male-coded terms when it's impossible to do otherwise.
** In the Japanese dub, Nightshade's first-person {{w|Japanese pronoun|pronoun}} is ''boku'' (僕, ボク), commonly used in real life as an informal pronoun by males, but can be used by women with tomboyish or feminist connotations, especially in media. (Pronouns in Japanese are not strictly gendered. Second-person and third-person pronouns are not gendered most of the time.)

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Nightshade''' (ナイトシェード ''Naitoshēdo'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Gyorsacél''' ("High-Speed Steel")

[[Category:Nonbinary characters]]
[[Category:Terrans]]

Nightshade (ES)

2024-02-21T18:21:20Z

Bigds9fan: /* EarthSpark */

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{{disambig2|the Terran from ''EarthSpark''|the BotBot|Nightshade (BotBots)}}
:''Nightshade is a [[Terran]] from the [[Transformers: EarthSpark (franchise)|EarthSpark]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Nightshade-earthspark-stock.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|Give a hoot! Read a book!]]

A [[Terran]] with a flair for the dramatic and boundless confidence, '''Nightshade Malto''' can seem weirdly distant at times. It's not that they're unfriendly by any measure: while they can certainly be glib and quick with a quip, they approach nearly everything and everyone with bright eyes and a huge smile. They're fascinated and delighted with the world they've found themselves in, and long to experience as much of it as possible. It's just that they'll do so on ''their'' terms. Nightshade prefers a quiet time reading rather than the energetic physical play of their siblings (or the endless online media onslaught that [[Hashtag (ES)|Hashtag]] enjoys). They're often in their lab tinkering away on some new device to aid their family, though they have a tendency to spring these surprises without warning, which can be awkward, or worse, depending on how ambitious Nightshade was feeling at the time. But as much time as they spend alone, they always come back in time, ever happy to join in family game nights and group celebrations.

But their bright, easygoing, giving nature should not be mistaken as weakness. Though they're generally averse to conflict, they do not abide threats to family, friends or even strangers they've just met, and they ''will'' fight with everything they have to protect those in need. Their incredible aerial maneuverability and quick thinking make them a very unpredictable opponent who aims to stop the fight as quickly as possible... after all, there are so many, many much nicer things to be doing.

{{bigquote|I always knew my pronouns felt right, but... what a wonderful word for a wonderful experience.|Nightshade on "nonbinary", "[[Home, Part 1]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Z Infante]] (English), [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] (Japanese)|[[Benjamin Bollen]] (French), [[Mario Heras]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Adolfo Moreno]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Carole Fernandez]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Lorenzo Crisci]] (Italian)}}
{{ongoing}}
[[File:AgeOfEvolution1-Nightshadeonline.jpg|thumb|upright=1.33|]]
Nightshade was brought to life at the same time as their other siblings [[Jawbreaker (ES)|Jawbreaker]] and [[Hashtag (ES)|Hashtag]] by the Malto siblings [[Mo Malto| Mo]] and [[Robby Malto| Robby]] via the [[Emberstone]] in the same cave where their other siblings, [[Twitch]] and [[Thrash (ES)|Thrash]], were first created. The otherwise happy moment was interrupted by a cave-in caused by a battle outside the cave between [[Optimus Prime (ES)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (ES)|Bumblebee]] against the Decepticon Seekers, [[Skywarp (ES)| Skywarp]] and [[Nova Storm (ES)| Nova Storm]]. {{storylink|Age of Evolution, Part 1}} Despite being only a few seconds old, Nightshade and the other new Terrans instinctually came to their new family's rescue by shielding them from the collapsing cave rubble.

Emerging from the collapsed cave, they were warmly greeted by Optimus, who inquired about Nightshade and their siblings' names. Unlike Hashtag and Jawbreaker, Nightshade instinctually knew their name right off the bat and said what a delight it was to meet them. Sensing the pain the other Maltos and Terrans felt about learning their [[Dot Malto|mother]] was held captive by someone called [[Mandroid]], Nightshade volunteered to help them. While planning "Operation: Terran Horse", Nightshade, via their connection to Mo through her [[cyber-sleeve]], informed Optimus their pronouns were "they" and "them" and that male or female pronouns didn't fit them. While infiltrating Mandroid's base with Jawbreaker and Hashtag by posing as Decepticons who had captured Optimus, Nightshade was unable to hide their horror at Mandroid's experiments he was performing on the captured [[Megatron (ES)|Megatron]]. Their ruse quickly exposed, a battle erupted that saw Mandroid's base turn into a walking mech that required the combined efforts of the Malto family and their allies to take down. Following the battle, Nightshade was formally introduced to Dot and welcomed into her family. {{storylink|Age of Evolution, Part 2}}

Now a formal member of the Malto household, Nightshade found the cramped living quarters of the family barn unsuitable as a living space for their Terran siblings and set out to construct a new one. They covertly ended up recruiting Thrash to aide them in this, who was looking to try and bond with his new younger sibling. When Hashtag and Twitch returned with Bumblebee from a mishap with G.H.OS.T., Nightshade used the family gathering to introduce everyone to the [[Dugout|new base]] they had constructed beneath the farmstead. {{storylink|Hashtag: Oops}} Nightshade was present at the family movie night that showed off the movie Hashtag made while trying to find Jawbreaker an alt-mode. {{storylink|Outtakes}}

[[File:NightshadeOwlMode MissedConnection.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.33|'''Tarantulas:''' "We offer power and purpose. What can you offer us? What can you offer me?" '''Nightshade:''' "I have a [[Mo Malto|sister]]"]]
Worried that Nightshade was isolating themself from their family because they didn't share many interests, Alex introduced Nightshade to the ''[[Winged Sentinel]]'' books by his favorite author, [[D.E. O'Neil]]. Taken by the stories of daring heroism, Nightshade resolved to meet O'Neil, who was a Witwicky local, feeling they had found someone they could bond with. They quickly worked out O'Neil's current address and took off to visit... only to discover their "current address" was a cemetery, as the author was in fact deceased. But an encounter with a "groundskeeper" soon led to Nightshade instead discovering the reclusive Decepticon scientist, [[Tarantulas (ES)|Tarantulas]]. Bonding with the Decepticon spider over their shared interests in science and shared ''lack'' of interest in continuing the Autobot/Decepticon conflict, Nightshade aided Tarantulas in constructing a holographic projector that would allow him to completely avoid detection from G.H.O.S.T. During this partnership, Tarantulas expanded the young Terran's mindset on what alt-modes could be. Following a miscommunication, Tarantulas came to believe Nightshade was a prisoner of their human parents and kidnapped the two with the intent of wiping their memories so he could take Nightshade on the run with him. When Nightshade rescued their parents, they scanned a statue of the ''Winged Sentinel'' owl, granting them a new [[beast mode]]. Besting Tarantulas in combat just as the rest of Nightshade's family arrived on scene, Nightshade convinced Bumblebee to give the spider a second chance. When G.H.O.S.T. showed up, Tarantulas decided to make the best of this second chance and volunteered to lead G.H.O.S.T. away to let the Maltos escape. {{storylink|Missed Connection}}

When [[Jon Schloder|Agent Schloder]] arrived at the Malto family farm hot on Bumblebee's trail, Nightshade and Hashtag used the opportunity to show off the new "Emergency Lockdown" protocol they had installed in the Terran base. Sealing up the base whenever a G.H.O.S.T. vehicle (Hashtag excluded) approached the area, it made entry or exit of the dugout virtually impossible. Unfortunately the two hadn't worked out all the kinks yet and discovered that instead of keeping the lockdown going for 10 minutes after Schloder departed, it was instead set for 10 ''hours''. Stuck in the base, Nightshade and the others were unable to help Bumblebee and Dot in their attempts to evade G.H.OS.T. When Dot and Alex returned later that night and informed them Bee had to go back on the run, Nightshade comforted the devastated Twitch. {{storylink|Security Protocols}}

[[File:HomePart1-Nightshadeowl.jpg|thumb|upright=1.33|'''Random civilians:''' "Oh, what a perfect stuffed owl." '''Nightshade:''' "STUFFED!? I beg you pardon!?"]]
Still new to the concept of gift-giving, for their present to Dot on Mother's Day, Nightshade made several secret modification to their mother's prosthetic leg in hopes of making her life easier. While it proved critical in aiding Dot and the others in taking care of a mutated mother bear that was terrorizing them, Nightshade was confronted by Dot that they needed to ask for permission when tampering with something as personal as Dot's leg. Nightshade apologized and in the future promised to work with Dot if they wanted to modify her leg. {{storylink|Bear Necessities}} When Nightshade, and their other siblings, were taken to [[Spacebridge Memorial Park]] by Megatron to learn of the history of the Cybertronian War, they found their meeting interrupted by the return of the dormant Decepticon [[Shockwave (ES)|Shockwave]]. When Shockwave initiated an overload of the power chamber of the derelict Space Bridge, Nightshade worked with Robby and Thrash to disconnect them while Megatron battled it out with Shockwave. {{storylink|Warzone}}

[[File:NightshadeAndSamChat HomePartOne.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.33|"Now, child, flying is not merely some crude, mechanical process. It is a delicate art. Purely aesthetic. Poetry of motion. And the best way to learn it is to do it."]]

When the Terrans were taken on a nightly visit to [[Philadelphia]] by Robby and Mo, Nightshade went by themself when the group split up and got a chance to act out their heroic fantasies when they saved a young person from an attempted mugging. Taking note of the pronoun pins on <choose><option>their</option><option>her</option></choose> purse, Nightshade introduced themself to [[Sam (ES)|Sam]], who warmed up to the Terran when they told <choose><option>them</option><option>her</option></choose> of their own pronouns. It was talking with Sam where Nightshade learned of the concept of being "non-binary", which they felt was a wonderful word to describe themself. Upon reuniting with their family, Nightshade was surprised to see Bumblebee along with them. Needing help in tracking down the lost Autobot, [[Grimlock (ES)|Grimlock]], Nightshade eagerly joined him. {{storylink|Home, Part 1}} However, the search for Grimlock soon turned into a battle with the returning Mandroid. After taking down one of Mandroid's newest Arachnamech creations, Nightshade and the rest of their family found themselves having to fight the mind-controlled Hashtag. Taking the fight to the city above, Nightshade discovered attempts to forcibly remove her control chip were blocked by a forcefield. Eventually, they were all able free their sister when they were empowered by a mysterious energy that originated from the cave where the Terrans had been born. With their sister freed, Nightshade and the others raced back to Witwicky in hopes of getting home before their parents woke up. {{storylink|Home, Part 2}}

The kids encountered Grimlock while collecting flowers in the woods and had to flee back to the farm, where they eventually fought the Dinobot into submission.{{storylink|A Stygi Situation}} When Robby's cyber-sleeve manifested a new shield ability, Optimus smuggled the entire Malto family into G.H.O.S.T. HQ to have [[Teletraan I (ES)|Teletraan I]] scan the devices. The kids were later training in the base's rec room when Mandroid took control of it, unleashing a holographic Megatron on them, and though Hashtag was able to shut it down, the fight resulted in Robby's cyber-sleeve becoming inactive and the emotional link between the kids was lost. {{storylink|Disarmed}}

While trying to reactivate the cyber-sleeves with the cave water that the Maltobots were using to energize, the kids stumbled on a cave system through which [[Starscream (ES)|Starscream]], Nova Storm and Skywarp were trying to escape. Things were complicated more when they encountered the energon-feeding [[Dweller (ES)|Dweller]], forcing them to try to enact a desperate plan to imprison it so it couldn't escape the caves. {{storylink|What Dwells Within}} Robby's cyber-sleeve began affecting his health, and Dot assured the other kids that they'd do all they could to help the boy get better. When the other human members of the Malto family lapsed into unconsciousness, the Maltobots took care of them until they recovered, having had an encounter with Quintus Prime that restored both Robby's health and the cyber-sleeves. {{storylink|Prime Time (episode)|Prime Time}}

When Bumblebee was assigned the task of infiltrating G.H.O.S.T. HQ, he borrowed Nightshade's [[mobile hologram emitter]] and the latest Smart Trainer. The kids resolved to help their mentor, and to this end, once Twitch located the entrance to the HQ, Nightshade, Thrash and Robby joined her in sneaking in. They bumped into Schloder and managed to persuade him to help them, leading them to find G.H.O.S.T. had taken possession of the space bridge. During the ensuing fight with [[Karen Croft|Agent Croft]]'s [[Ghoid]]s, the group used the space bridge to escape to the outside. {{storylink|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} Pursued by a Mandroid-controlled Shockwave, the group headed into Witwicky where they were joined by the rest of the Malto kids and managed to take down the Decepticon, shortly before being surrounded by G.H.O.S.T. agents. With a timely intervention by their parents, they were able to escape back to the farm and revive Shockwave, only for Croft to arrive with an army of Ghoids. A battle ensued during which the Maltos, with the help of the Autobots, overcame the Ghoids, only to face Croft deactivating the Autobots and the arrival of Mandroid, grotesquely enhanced into a new robotic form. {{storylink|The Battle of Witwicky}}

The Malto family attempted to escape from Mandroid and his two [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticon]] henchmen, however eventually family members were picked off and only Twitch and Nightshade were left. The pair again sneaked into G.H.O.S.T. HQ to free Bumblebee, Schloder and the captive Decepticons, though the latter were unenthusiastic about helping and simply left. The remaining quartet found Mandroid preparing to use the space bridge to wipe out all Cybertronian life on the planet and during the resulting fight, the group escaped through the space bridge portal. {{storylink|The Last Hope, Part 1}} On their way to the huge Spire Mandroid had erected, the group encountered mind-controlled Autobots but were also reunited with Hashtag, Jawbreaker and Thrash. Nightshade battled the Sharkticons with Jawbreaker and Hashtag, allowing Twitch and Thrash to go on ahead, however Mandroid successfully activated his superweapon, putting Nightshade and the other Transformers on Earth into shutdown. Fortunately Mo and Robby were able to reverse the process using their cyber-sleeves to channel the power of Quintus Prime, and the Malto family were reunited. {{storylink|The Last Hope, Part 2}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition''===
{{voiceactor|[[Aaron Landon]] (English)|[[Frans Limburg]] (Dutch), [[Emmanuel Rausenberger]] (French), [[Andi Kroesing]] (German), [[Mosè Singh]] (Italian), [[Robert Ciszewski]] (Polish), [[David García]] (Spanish)}}
{{charfictionstub|{{storylink|Transformers: EarthSpark - Expedition}}}}

==Toys==
===''EarthSpark''===
[[File:TF-Earthspark-Deluxe-Nightshade.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|That's the kind of thousand-yard stare that only comes from a veteran of the Culture Wars. ''(Hasbro Version Pictured)'']]
[[File:TF-ES-JP-ESD-05-Deluxe-Nightshade.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''(TakaraTomy Version Pictured)'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Terran Nightshade''' (Deluxe, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy ID Number'': '''ESD-05'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[November 1]], 2023
:*''Accessories'': Owl wings, 2 knives, Mandroid torso (Hasbro release only)

: Released as part of the third wave of Hasbro's ''[[Transformers: EarthSpark (toyline)|EarthSpark]]'' Deluxe Class toys, Nightshade transforms into a robotic/statuesque hawk owl in thirteen steps. Nightshade's wings, owl face, and back of the robot head are made of a rubber material. The wings come separate in the packaging and must be assembled. While they can be removed for [[show-accuracy]], they are not designed to and doing so can stress the rubber connection points. The wings can be removed at the sturdier ball joint connection though. Nightshade comes with two knives that can store in slots on top of the wings.

: This toy also comes packed with the torso to the [[Mandroid]] [[Build a Figure|build-a-figure though there are releases spotted in Europe that omit that part AND remove all mention of it from the packaging.]].

: The TakaraTomy release of the toy features a much more screen accurate paint deco, and omits the Mandroid piece.

: Nightshade was first listed on Portuguese toy website ''fnac.pt'', prior to any official announcement by Hasbro. They were then spotted alongside their wavemate Grimlock about a month later in Taiwan.

==Notes==
* An early concept for Nightshade was that they identified as "Terran" rather than male or female, as they did not consider gender to be an important part of their identity. This concept was dropped at some point during ''Earthspark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s development in favor of making the character explicitly non-binary, but this early draft persisted long enough that a version of the backstory found its way into the [[Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook|official ''Earthspark'' guidebook]], as well as several foreign-language websites.
* While other nonbinary characters like [[Screwball]] had previously been introduced in other extended ''Transformers'' media, Nightshade is the first character to be openly identified as such in a ''Transformers'' cartoon. ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (cartoon)|Cyberverse]]'' previously featured a sort of edge case in the form of [[Acid Storm (Cyberverse)|Acid Storm]], but the character was not intentionally written that way, instead falling into the realm of [[pseudocanon]] via [[authorial intent]] in response to a recurring [[animation error]].
* Originally, Nightshade's alternate mode was to be a monstrous gargoyle. This idea was tweaked at some point during the show's development, and Nightshade ultimately wound up with a stylized owl alternate mode instead. Notably, ''The Official Guidebook'' still refers to their alternate mode as a gargoyle.
* Different localizations have interpreted Nightshade's gender depending on the availability of gender-neutral pronouns in the relevant language:
** In the Hungarian dub, which lacks gendered pronouns entirely, Nightshade initially speaks in the plural, using ''mi'' and ''minket'' ("we" and "us") instead of ''én'' and ''engem'' ("I" and "me"), and the subject of Nightshade's gender is not addressed. This speech quirk is dropped in subsequent episodes.
** In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, Nightshade is referred to as ''elu'', a neologistic system popularized on the Internet to accommodate the lack of formal gender-neutral pronouns in the Portuguese language.
** In the Italian dub, Nightshade is simply described as "not identifying in either gender" and dialogue tries to avoid using gendered pronouns as much as possible, albeit in a few occasions they end up using male-coded terms when it's impossible to do otherwise.
** In the Japanese dub, Nightshade's first-person {{w|Japanese pronoun|pronoun}} is ''boku'' (僕, ボク), commonly used in real life as an informal pronoun by males, but can be used by women with tomboyish or feminist connotations, especially in media. (Pronouns in Japanese are not strictly gendered. Second-person and third-person pronouns are not gendered most of the time.)

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Nightshade''' (ナイトシェード ''Naitoshēdo'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Gyorsacél''' ("High-Speed Steel")

[[Category:Nonbinary characters]]
[[Category:Terrans]]

The New Order

2023-06-16T08:32:17Z

Bigds9fan: /* Continuity notes */

{{disambig2|the comic issue with the awesome cover|the unrelated trade paperback|Transformers: New Order}}
{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'' (US)]] #5
|prev=The Last Stand
|next=The Worse of Two Evils!
|title="The New Order"
|seriesissue2=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|''The Transformers'' (UK)]] #22–23
|prev2=Raiders of the Last Ark
|next2=The Worse of Two Evils!
|image=MarvelUS-05.jpg
|caption=Every time [[The Cure!|I see you falling]], I get down on my knees and pray.
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|date=[[February 26]], [[1985]] ("on sale" [[March 19]], 1985)
|coverdate=June 1985
|script=[[Bob Budiansky]]
|art=[[Alan Kupperberg]]
|colors=[[Nelson Yomtov]]
|letters=[[Rick Parker]]
|editor=[[Christopher J. Priest]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}
'''Shockwave has destroyed the Autobots, and begins his plans for the conquest of Earth.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:Television.jpg|thumb|left|Shockwave tunes into his "stories".]]
Within the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] observes a number of [[human]] [[television]] programs–among them, a news broadcast pertaining to a new and ultra-advanced [[oil-drilling platform|oil rig]] by [[Blackrock Enterprises]]–and judges [[Earth]]'s natives as quite primitive. As he walks past the deactivated [[Autobot]]s, now strung from the ceiling, he concludes that conquest of the planet "will be a simple task indeed."

Elsewhere in the vessel, the poisoned [[Decepticon]]s are being revived. Shockwave explains to [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] that, in light of this humiliating defeat, his leadership was clearly faulty, and it is only logical for Shockwave to take command. The weakened Megatron is in no condition to disagree... yet. Shockwave explains his plan to use the Autobots as spare parts, and to harvest the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]] from Optimus Prime and build an army to conquer the planet. Shockwave flies off to undertake his first conquest.

Meanwhile, as [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] recovers from his heart attack, he makes [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster]] promise not to have anything more to do with the [[Transformer]]s. [[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]] takes Buster back to the Ark to say his good-byes, only to discover that the Decepticons have taken over. Buster convinces Ratchet to stay outside while he sneaks in to investigate. Buster discovers the deactivated Autobots and despairs. When he realizes that [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] is not among them, he holds out hope, only to have that hope destroyed when he discovers Prime's detached head located in another room. Prime, still functional, informs Buster that he is the Autobots' last hope.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
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*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]] (11)
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Cliffjumper]] (12)
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (13)
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]] (14)
*[[Gears (G1)|Gears]] (15)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Wheeljack]] (16)
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (17)
*[[Ironhide (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ironhide]] (18)
*[[Prowl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Prowl]] (19)
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (20)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (21)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (22)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]] (23)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (29)
*[[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]] (31)
*[[Mirage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Mirage]] (36)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] (39)
}}
|c2=
*[[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] (6)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Thundercracker]] (24)
*[[Ravage (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ravage]] (25)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] (26)
*[[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] (27)
*[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (34)
*[[Skywarp (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Skywarp]] (35)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] (37)
*[[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] (38)
|c3=
*[[Ralphie]] (1)
*[[Alice (G1)|Alice]] (2)
*[[Shumway]] (3)
*[[Monty]] (4)
*[[Brad (soap opera)|Brad]] (5)
*[[Otis Parsley]] (7)
*[[Charlene Welles]] (8)
*[[G.B. Blackrock]] (9)
*[[Circuit Breaker (G1)|Josie Beller]] (10)
*[[Sparkplug Witwicky]] (28)
*[[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]] (30)
*[[Gus (medic)|Gus]] (32)
*[[Mel (medic)|Mel]] (33)
}}

==Quotes==
"Very illuminating. These humans are even '''more''' primitive than I thought. The conquest of this planet and the enslavement of its people shall be a simple task -- indeed."
:—'''Shockwave'''.... as he strolls past a hall full of deactivated Autobots.

"Remind me to thank you when I get down from here, Shockwave. Meanwhile, resumption of my command must begin now." 
"You don't seem to understand. These Autobots you see lying dead on the ground are there because I put them there. The Decepticons you see barely clinging to life are in that operating mode because of '''you'''. ...Logic says '''I''' must assume command of the Decepticons."
:—'''Megatron''' loses his command to '''Shockwave''', just like that.

"The present eleven Decepticons are not sufficient to fulfill my plans. I will use the Creation Matrix to build more Decepticons, '''many''' more -- '''''and then we shall conquer this planet!''''' I have been studying the Earthlings. They are weak... stupid... by every known measure we are their superiors! Their planet's energy resources shall become '''ours!''' ...while they become our '''slaves!''' And the time to begin our reign is '''now!'''"
:—And all that, dear reader, is why '''Shockwave''' rules.

==Notes==
===Production notes===
*''The Transformers'' transitions from being a [[The Transformers Four-Issue Limited Series|four-issue mini-series]] into an ongoing comic book with this issue. It is the first issue written by mini-series editor [[Bob Budiansky]], who would remain as the book's writer for the next four years.

===Continuity notes===
*This issue is quite careful about making sure every character is accounted for, following up on their last known state from the mini-series. While Ratchet is at the hospital, all seventeen remaining Autobots are shown strung up or dragged around the Ark by the Decepticons; in particular, Sunstreaker is blasted by Shockwave to make a point, and is left so badly damaged that he winds up being removed from the comic's roster entirely, only getting back on his feet in time for a crowd-scene cameo in [[Totaled!|issue #41]]. On the Decepticon side, meanwhile, the issue opens with Megatron, Starscream, Thundercracker, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, and Ravage all recovering from fuel poisoning sustained in the previous issue, while later, Skywarp, Soundwave, Rumble, and Frenzy are shown to be already up and about, having been injured since the events of [[Prisoner of War!|issue #3]] and thus never poisoned.
*During Megatron's recap of the events of the preceding four issues, on page 8, panel 2 includes a partial re-drawing of a portion of the title page of [[The Transformers (issue)|issue #1]], with [[Big Red (G1)|Big Red]]'s hand reaching into shot.
*Mirage is shown with two arms yet Ravage tore off his left arm in issue 4.
*This issue introduces the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]], which would evolve to become one of the central elements of the Transformers mythos. As is to be expected, the rough backstory provided for it in this issue—it is said by Shockwave to be a program encoded in an Autobot leader only "once every ten millenia"—will be the subject of future [[retcon]]s (inspired by ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'') that establish it is actually a physical object handed from leader to leader.

===Real-life references===
*Real-life TV shows viewed by Shockwave include ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' and ''[[Let's Make a Deal]]''.
*On page 18, Ratchet and Buster drive past a trailer with the word "STANJACK" on the side, presumably referring to {{w|Stan Lee}} and {{w|Jack Kirby}}.

===Artwork and technical errors===
[[File:Marvel-us05-neworder-autobot-ceiling.jpg|thumb|upright=1.75]]
[[File:KupperbergRatchetCharacterModel.jpg|thumb|In Japan, this coloring error probably became a totally different character.]]
*Following on from last issue, Shockwave is colored throughout this story in what appears to be an early colored scheme with white shoulders and an all-over bright fuchsia, as opposed to the more subdued purple of his standard look.
*Pages 4–5, the "Autobots hanging like slabs of beef scene," features a depressing amount of errors (right):
**Bumblebee is colored like Sideswipe.
**Cliffjumper is colored like Bumblebee.
**Windcharger is colored like Brawn.
**Wheeljack is missing his "ears," his [[mouthplate]] is bigger than the rest of his head, his missile launcher is strangely foreshortened, and his whole torso is colored blue instead of white with a red windshield.
**Bluestreak has a red-and-white chest instead of a grey one, making him harder to distinguish from Prowl, hanging right next to him.
**Ironhide's chest and arms are colored blue instead of red; additionally, despite being intact at the end of last issue, he is here depicted as a legless, one-armed torso.
**Trailbreaker is colored red and blue, and his chest is colored to look like a windshield, when it's actually his [[alternate mode]]'s hood. His forcefield projector is colored like part of the background, and his pose is just his character model flipped upside down, with his arm not even having been re-drawn to hang over his head.
**Jazz's head is significantly off-model, and it and his hand are colored red instead of blue. The arm connected to that hand is also strangely warped in proportion.
*Page 8, panel 6: In the flashback, Shockwave is incorrectly drawn among the Decepticons flying to [[Fortress Sinister|their fortress]], when he had not yet rejoined the Decepticons on Earth at that time. Also, the scene features the Decepticons flying in [[robot mode]], which was a hallmark of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon]] Decepticons, but not an ability possessed by the comic characters.
*Page 9, panel 5: When Shockwave blasts Sunstreaker, the Autobot is colored blue with red arms, and is missing a leg.
*Page 15:
**Sunstreaker's smoking remains are colored like Optimus Prime.
**Skywarp is missing his left wing.
**Despite being dragged across the ground, Mirage's pose is lifted from his character model, mirror-flipped. Thus his missile launcher is on the wrong shoulder, and all the damage he sustained last issue (his arm bitten off by Ravage, and his chest raked by Buzzsaw) is nowhere to be seen—though to be fair, an error on the penultimate page of last issue also depicted him without these injuries.
**Soundwave's head is blue-black instead of its usual pale purple.
*Page 20:
**Panel 2: Rumble and Frenzy are [[FIRRIB|both blue]].
**Panel 5: Ratchet has the same blue-chest/red-shoulders color scheme as in issue #3 (right). The blue chest is especially egregious since the same prominent area is white when he's an ambulance in the previous panel.
*Page 21, panel 2: It's impossible to tell whether it's Rumble or Frenzy Buster is sneaking past, because they're colored like an off-color Soundwave.

===UK printing===
[[File:V the new order.jpg|right|thumb]]
'''Issue #22:'''
*'''Published:''' [[July 13|13th July]], 1985
*'''[[Back-up strips]]:''' ''Machine Man'' ("Jolted by Jack O'Lantern," Part 1), ''[[Robo-Capers]]'', ''Chromobots'', ''Planet Terry'' ("The Saga of Princess Ugly," Part 3), and ''Matt and the Cat''
*[[Ian Rimmer]] became editor from this issue and oversaw a massive revamp of the look of the comic and a new focus on ''Transformers'' rather than being a general 'boys action' comic. This also featured the debut of ''[[Letters page (Marvel UK)|Soundwaves]]'', as the Decepticon communications officer took over the letters page: the first time the comic had a 'letter host'.
*Also featured "[[Robot War]]", the first in an irregular series of text features summarising events seen in the comic so far. This invented a way for the early UK strips to fit into the US timeline.
*The UK printing replaces Kupperberg's two illustrations of a scene from ''The Honeymooners'' with a publicity still from the television series ''[[V]]'' (right).

'''Issue #23:'''
*'''Published:''' [[July 27|27th July]], 1985
*'''Back-up strips:''' ''Machine Man'' ("Jolted by Jack O'Lantern," Part 2), ''Robo-Capers'', ''Chromobots'', ''Planet Terry'' ("The Saga of Princess Ugly," Part 4), and ''Matt and the Cat''
*'''August calendar:''' [[Skywarp (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Skywarp]]

===Other trivia===
*According to a text box in [[The Last Stand|issue #4]], this story was originally going to be drawn by the team of "{{w|Vincent Giarrano|Vince Giarrano}}, penciling superstar-in-the-making" and "[[Brad Joyce]], inker extraordinaire". This did not come to pass, and while Joyce did eventually ink issue [[The Next Best Thing to Being There!|#10]], Giarrano would never work on the series.
*Beginning with this issue, the cover corner box depicts Optimus Prime, in a different pose from that which appeared on issue #1 (which was just lifted from his [[character model]]). This image would be used until [[The Cure!|issue #30]], as well as on all three issues of the ''[[Transformers: The Movie (Marvel comic)|The Transformers: The Movie]]'' adaptation and the [[Ring of Hate!|first issue]] of ''[[The Transformers: Headmasters|Headmasters]]'' mini-series, and later returned for issues [[Dark Star|#50]][[On the Edge of Extinction!|–75]].
*From page 15 onward, the speech balloons for Transformers characters change style abruptly from rectangular boxes to rounded balloons, sometimes with "electronic" zig-zag tails. This type of speech balloon would continue to be used through [[DIS-Integrated Circuits!|issue #9]] before returning to the rectangular style, and would also become the default style for Transformers characters for the bulk of the UK series, beginning with the very next UK-exclusive story, "[[Decepticon Dam-Busters!]]".

===Bot Roster===
*Autobots: Ratchet active; 16 inactive plus Optimus Prime held captive; 5 [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] missing in action.
*Decepticons: 5 active; 6 in recuperation.

===Covers (3)===
*'''US issue #5:''' Iconic cover of Shockwave who burned (The Transformers) "Are All Dead" into the wall by [[Mark Bright]]. The cover is possibly the most well-known of all Transformers comics and has been homaged in official media many times.
*'''UK issue #22:''' reuse of US cover art.
*'''UK issue #23:''' Buster amongst the dead Autobots (and a couple of Decepticons, for some reason), by [[Robin Smith]].
<gallery>
File:MarvelUS-05.jpg|'''US issue #5''' - Shockwave really needs to invest in a pen.
File:MarvelUK-022.jpg|'''UK issue #22''' - Nice little corner logo.
File:MarvelUK-023.jpg|'''UK issue #23''' - Yes, where is he? Inside, you dolt!
</gallery>

===Reprints===
<gallery>
File:TFUSCollectedComics2BattleContinues.jpg|'''[[The Transformers: Collected Comics 2 - The Battle Continues...|''The Transformers: Collected Comics 2 - The Battle Continues...'']]''' (Marvel US, 1985)
File:Transformers Digest 03-cover.jpg|'''[[The Transformers Comics Magazine issue 3|''The Transformers Comics Magazine'' #3]]''' (Marvel US, 1987)
File:Tf commag 01.JPG|'''[[Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 1|''Transformers Comic-Magazin'' #1]]''' (Condor Verlag, 1989)
File:Titan-BeginningsSC.jpg|'''[[Transformers: Beginnings (G1)|''Transformers: Beginnings'']] paperback''' (Titan Books, 2003)
File:Titan-BeginningsHC.jpg|'''[[Transformers: Beginnings (G1)|''Transformers: Beginnings'']] hardback''' (Titan Books, 2003)
File:Classic Transformers Vol1.jpg|'''[[Classic Transformers Volume 1|''Classic Transformers'' Volume 1]]''' (IDW Publishing, 2008)
File:TFClassicsVol1.JPG|'''[[The Transformers Classics, Vol. 1|''The Transformers Classics'', Vol 1]]''' (IDW Publishing, 2011)
File:ClassicComicCollection1.jpg|'''''Transformers: Classic Comic Collection, Vol. 1''''' (Chrirpy Bird, 2015)
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v2.jpg|'''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]], Vol. 2: New Order''''' (Hachette Partworks Ltd, 2018)
File:HXClassicsVol2.jpg|'''''[[The Transformers Classics#Japanese reprints|The Transformers Classics]], Vol. 2''''' ([[Mediaboy Mook]], 2018)
File:BestOfShockwave cvr.jpg|'''[[Transformers: Best of Shockwave]]''' (IDW Publishing, 2022)
</gallery>

====IDW ''Transformers Classics'' edits====
For ''[[The Transformers Classics]]'' series of trade paperbacks, IDW Publishing "remastered" the coloring of the series with varying degrees of success. These changes were sometimes to fix errors, but often to alter characters' color schemes to make them resemble their toy and/or cartoon selves, and were rarely applied with consistency. IDW's recolored version was also used for Hachette's ''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection|Definitive G1 Collection]]''.
*Throughout this issue, Shockwave is recolored to have his "finalized" Marvel color scheme, replacing his fuchsia with paler purple. His white shoulders are colored in this purple on page 3, panel 1, but remain through the issue otherwise.
*Page 1: The ''Honeymooners'' splash page is reduced to little more than black-and-white lineart; all shading and texture is erased from the background, floor, furniture, and props, and Alan Kupperberg's signature in the bottom-left corner is removed.
[[File:NewOrderIDWColorEdits.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.7|Remastering, this is not.]]
*Pages 4–5: Many changes, virtually no corrections. Notably, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper and Windcharger's incorrect colors are all left unchanged.
**Wheeljack's face and legs become grey, his torso becomes red, and areas of green are added to his chest, all in accordance with his cartoon character model.
**Ironhide's chest is recolored to the correct red, but the other miscolored parts of his body are made pale grey, when they should all be red.
**Trailbreaker is made grey instead of blue-black; his "windshield" chest is still colored wrong.
**Hound's pelvis becomes green, erasing his correct Marvel solid-blue colors.
**Jazz's incorrect red head and hand are changed to grey, instead of the correct Marvel blue.
*Page 6, panel 2: Dark blue panels on Thundercracker's legs are tweaked to become more purplish, making him look like Skywarp. The same happens to the dark blue Ravage, whose Decepticon insignia also somehow becomes miscolored orange.
*Page 7: The block-colored Shockwave is changed from red to purple. This wasn't an error in the first place.
*Page 15: Continuing the standard, Soundwave's purple Marvel color scheme is erased, replaced with toy/cartoon blue.
*Page 20:
**Panel 2: Rumble and Frenzy are differentiated from the original version by coloring one's forearms red. This is still wrong; it's Rumble's ''shoulders'' that should be red, not his forearms.
**Panel 5: Ratchet is recolored into his finalized Marvel color scheme, but with red biceps.
*Page 21, panel 1: Ratchet's still in his finalized Marvel colors; his biceps aren't visible so he looks "correct."

===Advertisements===
*Rip-Off Velcro shoes (inside front cover)
*Reeses pieces - between pages 6 & 7
*Oreos - between pages 7 & 8
*Bonkers bike bag - between pages 7 & 8
*Block of various Sketchy Things and Marvel Mart - between pages 8 & 9
*Comic Buyers Guide, ''Choose Your Own Adventure'', Comic Book Convention 1985 in Manhattan - between pages 16 & 17
*J & S Comics - between pages 17 & 18
*Olympic Sales Club - between pages 19 & 20
*Bullpen Bulletins - between pages 20 & 21
*[[Letters page|Transmissions]]
*Comic subscriptions
*STAR Comics (inside rear cover)
*Noxzema Acne 12 acne medicine (rear cover)

{{DEFAULTSORT:New Order}}
[[Category:Marvel US issues]]
[[Category:Marvel UK issues]]

Kaput

2023-03-17T06:21:41Z

Bigds9fan: /* Notes */

{{factions|autobot}}
:''Kaput is an [[Autobot]] from the [[2005 IDW continuity|2005 IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:This Machine Kills Fascists - Kaput (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Find your inner balance! Quickly, because you're a unicycle!]]
'''Kaput''' is a medical officer stationed at the [[Kimia Facility]], specializing in the study of [[spark]]s. He's small, has a bad eye and moves around on a wheel in robot mode. His bedside manner needs some work.

==Fiction==
===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|"[[Bullets]]" (text story); ''[[Omega's Conundrum|Spotlight: Orion Pax]]'' (depicted on-panel)}}
[[File:KaputandRung.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left|]]
Early in the reign of [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]], Kaput of [[Teledonia]] {{storylink|Dissolution Part 2: Anomie|Anomie}} worked at an Autobot medical center. Alongside [[Wheeljack (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Wheeljack]], he oversaw the temporary redesign of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Orion Pax]] for a difficult mission. {{storylink|Omega's Conundrum}}

When [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]]'s [[cerebro-sensitive bullet]] gun backfired in his face, he went to Kaput to get a prognosis on his injury. Kaput told him in no uncertain terms that he was going to die, probably soon, and there was no way to remove the bullet before then. And no one likes you. And you're stupid. {{storylink|Bullets}}

Kaput and [[Fixit (G1)|Fixit]] repaired [[Springer (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Springer]] after his battle with [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] at [[Garrus-9]], but even though they renovated his entire body he wouldn't wake up. They found that this was because of a [[zero point]], a smaller-than-microscopical cavity that kept his [[spark]] from traveling through his body, but failed to locate it. Kaput later transferred the comatose Springer to ''[[Debris]]'', where he told [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] and [[Kup (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Kup]] of his findings. {{storylink|Zero Point}}

At some point, Kaput worked with [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Brainstorm]] at the [[Kimia Facility]]. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 3: A World Misplaced|A World Misplaced}}

Later, Kaput showed up as one of the "[[Disappeared]]" on [[Necroworld]], {{storylink|Dissolution Part 1: Some Other Cybertron|Some Other Cybertron}} where he repaired [[Anode]]'s impalement wound before leaving in a hurry when [[Velocity (G1)|Velocity]] got confrontational. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 2: Anomie|Anomie}}

Before [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]], Kaput also attempted to find a way to track whose sparks lit up the [[Mortilus|Necrobot]]'s flowers. He finally found that Censere had a database that matched the flowers to the sparks. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 3: A World Misplaced|A World Misplaced}}

[[File:AfterMegatron-DeadKaput.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|De-Kaput-ated.]]
After Anode learned that her [[Conjunx Endura]] [[Lug (IDW)|Lug]] hadn't actually travelled with her to the future, Kaput lead her, Nautica, and Velocity to a spark-flower containing a fragment of Lug's residual spark energy. Anode, however, realized that she could use the spark and a fragment of [[Living metal|sentio metallico]] to potentially return her partner back to life, and subsequently supervised the operation that resulted in the recreation of Lug's mind and body. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 6: This Machine Kills Fascists|This Machine Kills Fascists}}

As [[Team Rodimus (G1)|Team Rodimus]] prepared to leave Necroworld, Kaput decided that he would stay on the planet with his new assistant [[Fangry (G1)|Fangry]], fascinated by the wealth of potential knowledge the Necrobot had left behind. [[Minimus Ambus]] requested his assistance after he discovered that he could no longer control his new suit of [[Magnus Armor]], though Kaput couldn't figure out what was wrong.

After the Autobots had left, Kaput turned his attention to [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]], who was suffering increasingly destructive fits as a result of a trauma-induced spark mutation. After several days of study, Kaput devised an experimental procedure that would hopefully return Tailgate to normal: a sealed isolation chamber that would bombard the little Autobot's spark with neutronic radiation for six months. Just as Kaput finished lowering Tailgate into the chamber, however, Fangry, hoping to get his revenge on Tailgate, crept up on his erstwhile colleague and tore off his head, trapping Tailgate underground for another six million years. {{storylink|After Megatron (A Dissolution Epilogue)|After Megatron}}
{{--}}

==Trivia==

Kaput is German for broken.

==Notes==
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Kaput''' (カプット ''Kaputto'')

[[Category:Comic-only Autobots]]
[[Category:Disappeared]]
[[Category:IDW (2005) Autobots]]
[[Category:Medics]]

Revelations Part III: Apocalypse

2022-08-14T08:58:12Z

Bigds9fan: /* Real-world references */

{{episode
|series=BMtoon
|ep=9
|title="Revelations Part III: Apocalypse"
|image=Revelations3 Rhinox vision.jpg
|caption="*cue Villain Song*"
|season=1
|season ep=9
|airdate=[[November 13]], 1999
|written by=[[Steven Melching]]
|directed by=[[George Samilski]]
|production company=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|animation studio=[[Mainframe Entertainment]]
|continuty=[[Beast Wars continuity]]
}}
'''Nightscream pursues Jetstorm, who has captured Blackarachnia's spark; meanwhile, Optimus and Rhinox have a heart to heart.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:Jetstorm with extractor.jpg|left|200px|thumb|He's a spark-breaker, he's a spark-taker...]]
[[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] stands over [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]'s body, holding her [[spark]], as [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] looks on in anguish. Gloating, the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] transforms and flies off with the spark, and Nightscream sets off in pursuit. Watching them go, [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]] then eyes Blackarachnia's body.

Meanwhile, [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] is skeptical of [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]'s theory that [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]] is [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]], due to the vast difference in intellect. The pair resolve to try to reach Rhinox's consciousness.

Below ground, [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] tells the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] that he doesn't understand the visions he's had... and is promptly granted another vision. Walking in a field, he sees plants with his fellow [[Maximal]]s' faces on them, and is attacked by metal tentacles. The tentacles turn the plants to metal, and Optimus Primal's friends cry that he has failed them.

[[Image:Revelations3 Tankor cutting.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Tankor tries to cut 3 episodes of padding to find 15 minutes of story.]]
Tankor regains consciousness and Cheetor cautiously inquires whether Rhinox is in control. Although for a moment it seems as though Tankor's Maximal side is reasserting itself, he writhes in pain and reverts to his "TANKOR DESTROY!" persona. Cheetor is tossed aside, and Tankor advances on Rattrap, firing. After a brief attempt to reason with the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]], Rattrap jumps on some large pipes, releasing them from their bonds so that they fall on Tankor. He recovers quickly, and the two Maximals turn to flee. Unfortunately they're cut off by oncoming tank drones, and race down a narrow gap between the stacked containers. Tankor begins smashing the containers aside, so the pair run up one of the arched structures they've found. On reaching the arch, Tankor merely begins cutting into the side of it, and the Maximals look at each other in alarm. It doesn't take long for Tankor to cut through enough to push the arch over, and Rattrap and Cheetor are forced to jump to the next arch which comes under attack from tank drones.

Nightscream snatches Blackarachnia's spark back from Jetstorm (who seems to have stopped to have a chat with it). The enraged Vehicon chases him but clips a freeway and slams into the side of a building. Recovering quickly, Jetstorm continues the pursuit and follows Nightscream until the Maximal drops an elevator on him.

[[Image:Revelations3 Nightscream spark.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Well, the spark sure isn't going to go ''towards'' his face...]]
Thrust carries Blackarachnia's lifeless body through the city until he's intercepted by Nightscream. The pair fight until Nightscream is able to disable Thrust by draining his Energon. Floating in a white void, Blackarachnia encounters Optimus and he tells her that her spark must have left her body. Elsewhere, Nightscream liberates Blackarachnia's spark from its container and tries to force it back into her body. In the void, she panics and flees from Optimus, just as her spark does from Nightscream. Optimus is able to calm her, and her spark returns to her body. Nightscream suggests they find the others, as he has a feeling they'll need help.

Indeed, Tankor has just knocked over one of the arches in the row, and the rest of them begin to fall like dominoes. Rattrap and Cheetor fall from the final arch, and Cheetor finds himself trapped under some containers with Tankor towering over him. He pleads with the Vehicon to remember who he is and, after a great mental struggle, Tankor unleashes a cry which Optimus hears on his higher plane. Optimus marches through the field of his vision, pushing through the plants until he comes face-to-face with... Rhinox. Optimus talks with his old friend, who it seems sides with [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]], favoring technology over organic nature. Optimus is jerked back to reality with a cry of "NO!"

[[Image:Revelations3 Tankor maximals.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"''Damn it'' Tankor, ''The Phantom Menace'' was ''over two decades ago!''" "It still ''hurts'', Cheetor, ''alright''?!"]]
Blackarachnia pulls Cheetor out of the way of Tankor's descending fist, and Nightscream takes out a row of tank drones. Cheetor warns Blackarachnia not to harm Tankor, surprising her with the information that he's Rhinox. She's tossed aside by the Vehicon, disturbing a pile of containers and revealing Rattrap's hiding place. The four Maximals offer Tankor their help, but he replies in Rhinox's voice that he doesn't ''need'' their help. He reveals that he's been conscious but unable to do anything, suppressed by the Tankor personality the whole time. To their alarm, he also announces that Megatron is Cybertron's only hope for technological perfection. The Maximals wonder if Rhinox's spark has been corrupted, and attack their friend, pinning him to the ground. Cheetor tells Rattrap to use his tail interface to reprogram Rhinox, but they're interrupted by Optimus who says Rhinox has made his choice and they have to respect that. The Maximals sadly watch Rhinox leave, with Rhinox looking back and saying that the next time him and Optimus meet, it will not be as allies.

Back at base, the Maximals mourn over their lost friend, and Optimus gives a speech about how the Matrix sent them to prehistoric Earth for a reason—to restore nature to Cybertron.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Maximal]]s|c1=
* [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] (1)
* [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (2)
* [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (5)
* [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] (7)
* [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] (9)

|h2=[[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]]|c2=
* [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]] (3)
* [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]] (4)
* [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]]/[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (6)
* [[Tank Drone]]s (8)
}}

==Quotes==
"Lookee here, ma! I caught me a lightning bug! Yeeha!"
:—Are we sure '''Jetstorm''' isn't [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]]?

"Gee, good thing Tankor turned out to be a friend. Imagine if he was recycled from a ''Predacon''."
:—'''Rattrap''' getting tetchy at how the plan's going.

"C sharp... or B flat, music to my ears."
:—'''Nightscream''', as Jetstorm is flattened.

"Rattrap! Use your tail interface...if Rhinox won't change his mind, we'll change it for him!"
:—'''Cheetor''', ironically issuing a command that Megatron would have given.

"Megatron wants this planet to run harmoniously, but harmony without free will isn't harmony at all."
:—'''Optimus''' about to break out into a speech.

"Goodbye, Optimus. When we meet again, it will not be as allies."
:—'''Rhinox''''s parting words to Optimus.

"Was this planet ever natural to begin with?"
:—A humble question from '''Cheetor'''. To this day, the fandom [[Primus|is still]] [[Cybertron (planet)|divided]] over the answer.

==Notes==

===Animation and technical errors===

===Continuity errors===
* Optimus mentions that the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] on prehistoric Earth were, in fact, the Oracle's way of bringing the organic matter incorporated in [[beast mode]]s back to Cybertron. Of course, the Beast Wars were started by ''Megatron'', who stole a ship in an attempt to change history. We could be generous and assume that Primal's newfound religious zeal is blinding him to the truth, or maybe the Oracle was also manipulating Megatron, who knows? In any event, time travelling to the past to visit a planet extremely important to the history of the Transformers race seems a ''really'' roundabout way of getting organic matter. There's no indication whatsoever in Beast Wars that organic beast forms are in any way unusual. The only way any of this makes sense is if there are no planets with organic races still talking to Cybertron in the present day (something that [[Botanica (BM)|later episodes]] seem to disprove).

===Continuity notes===
* Cheetor's line "I am seriously missing my old turbo-jets right now," is a reference to his old [[Transmetal]] capability in ''Beast Wars''.
* Rattrap sardonically remarks that it's a good thing that Tankor doesn't have a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] spark. This is the only time that Predacons are mentioned in the series, although the producers did confirm that Maximals ''and'' Predacons were both targeted by Megatron's attack.
* Optimus refers to the tree in Nightscream's cavern, seen in "[[Forbidden Fruit]]", as an example of Cybertron's organic past.
* Gadgets and powers:
** Thrust's hand can detach as part of a grappling hook-like setup.

===Transformers references===

===Real-world references===
* After destroying several Tank Drones, Nightscream refers to them as "[[Tonka]] toys".
*When Nightscream recovers Blackarachnia's spark, Jetstorm exclaims "Why you little!". Something Homer Simpson often yells at Bart.

===Trivia===
*[[Bob Skir]]'s original intention was that Rhinox had "seen all sides of the argument, and chose to go more in Megatron's direction", so after a quiet chat he and Optimus would part company. As [[Richard Newman]] played that scene with growling and shouting, Rhinox instead sounded not quite in his right mind after his experiences. (That said, animating Rhinox growing into a towering and menacing Tankor while backlit by storm clouds and lightning didn't quite say "quiet chat", either, although the scene may have been altered to fit Newman's unhinged performance). [http://web.archive.org/web/20071202095033/http://bigbot.com/beast-machines-transformers-bob-skir/Beast-Machines-FAQ/Fri_03_Dec_1999.html]
*Although Nightscream's jocular one-liner put's Jetstorm's scream at a C♯ or a B♭, Jetstorm's scream is actually an F♮.

===Foreign localization===
'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Révélations, Partie III'''" ("Revelations, Part III")

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Apokalypse'''" ("Apocalypse")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 10]], [[2000]]

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Hoshi no Shimei'''" (星の使命, "Message from the Stars")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 4]], [[2004]]

'''Spanish'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Revelaciones, Tercera Parte: Apocalipsis'''" ("Revelations, Third Part: Apocalypse")

'''Mandarin'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Qǐshìlù '''" (启示录, "The Revelation")

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2005 — ''Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Returns'' — Volume 3 ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Geneon Entertainment]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2006 — ''Beast Machines: Transformers'' — The Complete Series ([[Rhino Entertainment|Rhinomation]]) 
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2014 — ''Transformers: Beast Machines'' — The Complete Series ([[Shout! Factory]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2007 — ''Transformers: Beast Machines'' — Season One: Volume Two ([[Sony]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers: Beast Machines'' — Season One: Volume Two — Revelations (Sony) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers: Beast Machines'' — Complete Season One (Sony) 
[[Image:Flag of France.png|20px|France]] 2009 — ''Transformers: Beast Machines'' — Intégrale Saison 1 (Sony) — French audio only.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Revelations part 3}}
[[Category:Beast Machines episodes]]

Junior Press

2022-01-21T15:25:49Z

Bigds9fan:

'''Junior Press''' was a Dutch publisher of comic books that is located in The Netherlands. It printed ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]]'' comic book series up until ''[[On the Edge of Extinction!]]''. They also Printed The Headmasters as a stand-alone comic which was given out for free at toy-stores.

Because they could only fit 2 US issues in one Dutch comic, which was printed every three months, it had to omit several comics in order to stay close to the US releases. Alltough there was one double-sized issue. Most importantly they skipped on the storyline in which Optimus and Megatron died. This was due to the fact that "The Transformers The Movie Adaptation" was printed but not in a stand-alone release or mini-series but in the regular series despite not fitting at all. And they felt killing off Optimus twice was too much so they skipped the comic storyline.

The series resumed with issue #24. And thus the publisher had to explain several times in the introduction page what happened in those omitted issues. Yet oddly enough they did print issue 43.

Additionally to fill the issues The Transformers Universe Profiles were printed in the regular series and even a few issues from the UK comic were printed as well.

Of further note is that in the earlier issues Optimus Prime went by the name Jetfire.

{{stub|More information if known}}

==External Links==
*[http://www.juniorpress.nl/ JuniorPress' website (Dutch only)]

[[Category:Companies]]
[[Category:Comics]]

Junior Press

2022-01-21T15:21:28Z

Bigds9fan:

'''Junior Press''' was a Dutch publisher of comic books that is located in The Netherlands. It printed ''[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|The Transformers]]'' comic book series up until ''[[On the Edge of Extinction!]]''. They also Printed The Headmasters as a stand-alone comic which was given out for free at toy-stores.

Because only 2 issues were printed every three months, it had to omit several comics in order to stay close to the US releases (yet oddly enough they did include issue 43) though there was the occasional double-sized issue. Most importantly they skipped on the storyline in which Optimus and Megatron died. This was due to the fact that "The Transformers The Movie Adaptation" was printed but not in a stand-alone release or mini-series but in the regular series despite not fitting at all. And they felt killing off Optimus twice was too much so they skipped the comic storyline.

The series resumed with issue #24. And thus the publisher had to explain several times in the introduction page what happened in those omitted issues.

Additionally to fill the issues The Transformers Universe Profiles were printed in the regular series and even a few issues from the UK comic were printed as well.

Of further note is that in the earlier issues Optimus Prime went by the name Jetfire.

{{stub|More information if known}}

==External Links==
*[http://www.juniorpress.nl/ JuniorPress' website (Dutch only)]

[[Category:Companies]]
[[Category:Comics]]

Ca$h and Car-nage!

2021-07-16T19:53:07Z

Bigds9fan: /* Continuity notes */

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'' (US)]] #46
|prev=Monstercon from Mars!
|next=Club Con!
|seriesissue2=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|''The Transformers'' (UK)]] #192–193
|prev2=Monstercon from Mars!
|next2=Club Con!
|title="Ca$h and Car-nage!"
|image=MarvelUS-46.jpg
|caption=This cover was created with the latest in anti-counterfeit technology.
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|date=July [[1988]]
|coverdate=November 1988
|writer=[[Bob Budiansky]]
|penciler=[[José Delbo]]
|inker=[[Danny Bulanadi]]
|colorist=[[Nelson Yomtov|Nel Yomtov]]
|letterer=[[Bill Oakley]]
|editor=[[Don Daley]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}
'''Apparently, bounty hunters were big in the '80s.'''

==Synopsis==
At a county fair, a bounty hunter named [[Burn-Out]] interrupts the [[Z Foundation]]'s carnie "[[Reck the Robot]]" shoot-'em booth by shotgun blasting the robo-prop. The barker tells him about a chance for real prizes...

[[File:Transformers Trash-o-rama.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.7]]
At a monster truck rally, [[Randy Horton|Randy "Roadhog" Horton]] indulges his passion for demolition derbies by destroying the [[Robo-Car]] provided for the [[Transformers Trash-o-rama|Z Foundation Challenge]]. The announcer tells him how he could do the real thing, for real money...

At a [[Red Motel|sleazy motel]], two bounty hunters named [[Skunge]] and [[Felix]] employ high technology gimmicks and their own deceptively small size to capture criminals-at-large. At the local police station, an officer mentions the Z Foundation's robot-hunting bounty...

And so, in [[New York City]], the four mercenaries gather at the Z Foundation's national offices. They are met by [[Kreb|Mr. K]] and his associates, [[Brisko|Mr. B]] and [[Lokos|Mr. L]]. They explain that the chairman, [[Zarak (G1)|Mr. Z]], founded their foundation in order to eliminate the threat of all [[Transformer]]s to the people of [[Earth]]. They offer the men $50,000 for each Transformer they bring in, and the use of patent-pending "[[jammer]]s", designed under the theory that they can neutralize a Transformer's conversion power. So armed, the bounty hunters are christened the [[Roadjammers]], and sent out to hunt their prey.

Meanwhile, there are nothing but robots on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Six [[Autobot]]s have been captured by the [[Decepticon]]s, and await their fates in a detention facility. The [[Firecon]]s arrive and escort out three Autobots—[[Fizzle]], [[Sizzle (G1)|Sizzle]], and [[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]]—to a waiting [[space bridge]] center. For their own suspicious purposes, the Decepticons fully re-energize and rearm the Autobots, sending them across the trans-dimensional gateway to planet Earth... right near New York City.

Catching the Autobots by surprise, the Roadjammers make quick work of Sizzle and the others. Still, some of what the Autobots said before they were jammered makes them curious—if the Autobots did just arrive on Earth like they claimed, how did the Z Foundation know where to send the Roadjammers to patrol? It crosses their minds that maybe Mr. K and the alphabet flunkies are running some kind of scam on the side with the 'Cons, so they come up with a plan to catch the businessmen with their possible Decepticon partners, and turn them all over to Mr. Z for an even bigger reward.

[[File:Headmasterscashandcarnage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
Back at the Z Foundation, Felix jimmies their way into a locked parking structure, and sure enough, they find three Decepticon [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] languishing in the corner. Mr. K and the others arrive and make no attempt to hide their partnership—they reveal their hidden [[binary bonding]] armors and join with their Decepticon partners in robot mode. Only then do they realize they're paralyzed by the jammers, since Felix made the necessary adjustments to double the power of the three jammers they were given.

At that moment, Mr. Z himself enters the structure, and unveils his true identity as Lord Zarak, leader of the Decepticons. He summons [[Scorponok (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Scorponok]] to retrieve the jammer technology from the Roadjammers, but Felix has arranged to manipulate the jammer signals by his dashboard computer system, letting him turn all six Cybertronians against Scorponok by remote control.

Temporarily overwhelmed, Zarak feels forced to activate his prototype [[Jammer|anti-jammer]], which unfortunately will free the Autobots from the Roadjammers' control, as well as his fellow Decepticons. As the jammering effect fades, the Autobots recover quickly and get the Roadjammers to safety before the Decepticons can turn on them. As the Autobots drive away, Felix tells his team that he's confident the jammer technology can be reverse-engineered, and that they'll all soon be back in business...
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters|c1=
*[[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]] (10)
*[[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]] (11)
*[[Sizzle (G1)|Sizzle]] (12)
*[[Fizzle]] (13)
*[[Override (G1)|Override]] (14)
*[[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] (15)
|c2=
*[[Flamefeather (G1)|Flamefeather]] (16)
*[[Cindersaur (G1)|Cindersaur]] (17)
*[[Sparkstalker]] (18)
*[[Horri-Bull]] (19)
*[[Fangry (G1)|Fangry]] (20)
*[[Squeezeplay (G1)|Squeezeplay]] (21)
*[[Scorponok (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Scorponok]] (22)
|c3=
*[[Burn-Out]] (1)
*[[Mel (spectator)|Mel]] (2)
*[[Randy Horton|Randy "Roadhog" Horton]] (3)
*[[Skunge]] (4)
*[[Felix]] (5)
|h4=[[Nebulan]]s|c4=
*[[Kreb]] (6)
*[[Brisko]] (7)
*[[Lokos]] (8)
*[[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]] (9)
}}

==Quotes==
"The '''true''' purpose of the Z Foundation is to get others to unwittingly eliminate the Autobots '''for''' us! So far, the offers of money and aid by you Earthling fools have been nothing less than '''inspiring'''! I want to personally '''thank''' you four! '''''Now give me the jammers!!'''''" 
"We'll '''give''' you somethin', sucker!" 
"I only ask '''once! ''Scorponok -- destroy!!'''''"
:—'''Zarak''' is on a roll, and '''Roadhog''' isn't about to slow him down.

==Notes==
===Artwork and technical errors===
*The dastardly Robo-Car destroyed by "Roadhog" appears to have [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]]'s head.
* Page 21, panel 2: Backstreet is as big as Scorponok.
* Page 21, panel 5: Zarak's aghast face is a direct swipe from ''Headmasters'' #4.
*Zarak has a Decepticon insignia (which he doesn't usually) for only one panel.

===Continuity errors===
*Cindersaur, of all people, saying "I can roast 'em later?"
*In "[[Broken Glass!]]" the Nebulons had to be binary bonded to the Autobot bodies because simply controlling them by remote control was pitifully ineffective. Here [[Felix]] overwhelms Scorponok by remote controlling six Transformers using the jammers and a few buttons on his truck's dashboard.
*Even taking into account the use of shoulder pads in eighties fashion, how on Earth do the Headmasters hide their armour under their suits? Kreb's especially includes a large, high collar which couldn't possibly be contained by a shirt collar.

===Continuity notes===
*The Z Foundation attempts to promote the idea among the people of Earth that all Transformers are dangerous and should be destroyed. This is reminiscent of [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron's]] use of [[Donny Finkleberg|Robot-Master]]. The humans already distrust the Decepticons so they try to get them to distrust the Autobots as well.
*In a nice artistic touch, Delbo actually draws Backstreet without his [[proton missile cannon]]s until they're returned to him by the Decepticons.
*This is the first US appearance for nearly the entire cast: Fangry, Horri-Bull, Squeezeplay, the [[Triggerbot]]s, Firecons, and [[Sparkabot]]s. The new Decepticons are seemingly part of Scorponok's crew who, like the pre-Pretenders, have been quietly lurking in the background, unseen until now.
*The Space Bridge was built by Straxus to estasblish contact with Megatron. So how did Scorponok learn of it/and or gain access to it? Of course the Regeneration series establishes him and Straxus as two of four warlords in an alliance retroactively answering that question.
*This is the first and only time José Delbo was to draw the space bridge. It was, in fact, the last appearance of the space bridge in the Marvel comics, though it does get one final mention in issue [[Back from the Dead|#56]].

===Real-life references===
* The bounty hunters are summoned from a county fair and a funny car rally in [[Pennsylvania]], and from western [[Nevada]]; the Z Foundation's headquarters is in [[New York City]]; the Autobots are deposited in upstate New York.

===UK printing===
[[Image:MarvelUS46vsUK192.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|right|Galvatron? Whossat? Never heard of 'im.]]
'''UK issue #192'''
*'''Back-up strips:''' ''[[Action Force (comic)|Action Force]]'' - "Unmaskings" and ''[[Combat Colin]]''
*Following the trend from last issue, this issue's splash page was edited to fit the UK comics' aspect ratio. Damn José Delbo and his small splash pages.
*This is the second time that the Sparkler Mini-Bots (as the UK comics called them) were captured by the Decepticons and tormented by the Firecons in the UK comics. The first time was in issues [[Deadly Games!|#170-171]].
*Some dialogue was edited to reflect the fact that the Sparkler Mini-bots had already been to [[Earth]] in the past, which is plainly evident as the lettering for the altered dialogue looks notably different from the lettering for the remaining, unaltered dialogue. The upshot of this is that it's now Backstreet who asks "Where are we?" when they leave the space bridge, rather than one of the Sparklers.
*This was the first issue where [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] got to answer letters addressed to him instead of to [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]. In this issue he encourages people to send in anti-Grimlock letters, confirms that [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] ''does'' have a brain and confuses continuity by claiming that he and [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] came to Earth after leaving [[Nebulos]].

'''UK issue #193'''
*'''Back-up strips:''' ''Action Force'' - "Unmaskings", ''[[Death's Head (G1)|Death's Head]]'', and ''Combat Colin''
*In ''[[Letters page (Marvel UK)|Dread Tidings]]'' this issue, Dreadwind confirms that he and Darkwing are most certainly ''not'' brothers. [[Hi-Test (G1)|Hi-Test]] also shows that he has a very [[Accent|British accent]].
*The Death's Head "back-up strip" in this issue is actually a one-page comic strip meant as an advertisement for Death's Head's own regular series. The UK comics often blurred the line between back-up strips and advertisements.

===Bot Roster===
*Ark Autobots: 47 active; 5 bodyless Throttlebots. (52 total)
*''Steelhaven'' Autobots: 28 active.
*Ratbat's Decepticons: 32 active; 8 rescued from the Ark; 4 offline/missing. (44 total)
*Scorponok's Decepticons: 25 active. Three new Headmasters are introduced here but narratively have been there all along, unseen in the background.
*The 3 Autobots sent to Earth here apparently do not remain there, as they are never seen with the Ark/''Steelhaven'' crew.

===Courtesy of my...===
*The Decepticons return Backstreet's laser-guided [[proton missile cannon]]s, which see a fair bit of use on Earth.

===Covers (3)===
*'''US issue #46 cover:''' Roadjammers vs an Autobot, by [[Frank Springer]].
*'''UK issue #192 cover:''' Mr. Z presenting picture of the Autobots to the Roadhog, by [[Stephen Baskerville]].
*'''UK issue #193 cover:''' Burn-Out blasting Fizzle, by [[Andrew Wildman]].
<gallery>
File:MarvelUS-46.jpg|'''US issue #46''' - Like, tripping out, man.
File:MarvelUK-192.jpg|'''UK issue #192''' - Come back, so I may brain thee!
File:MarvelUK-193.jpg|'''UK issue #193''' - OH NO! Not Fizzle's ROOF!
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
====US====
*''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' exclusive action figures - inside front cover
*Freedom Stick (wireless joystick)- between pages 4 & 5
*[[M&M's]] shirt and cap - between pages 5 & 6
*CBS/Columbia House music - between pages 7 & 8 (3 pages)
*Konami NES video games - between pages 10 & 11 (2 pages)
*Bullpen Bulletins and checklist - between pages 19 & 20
*[[Letters page|Transmissions]]
*Marvel subscription service
*Striped Chips Ahoy! cookies - inside back cover
*TSR ''Buck Rogers'' board game (back cover)

====UK====
'''Issue 192'''
*Doctor Who Anniversary Special - page 16
*Visionaries - back cover

'''Issue 193'''
*Weetabix ET stickers - page 14
*Targetmasters - page 16
*Death's Head - page 22
*Tempo Video - back cover

===Reprints===
*'''''[[Transformers: Dark Star]]'' TPB:''' [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]], [[Carnivac (G1)|Carnivac]], [[Overbite (G1)|Overbite]], Dogfight, and half a [[Mecannibal]], by [[Andrew Wildman]].
*'''''Dark Star'' HC:''' Starscream victorious, by [[Seth Fisher]] and [[Chris Blythe]].
*'''[[Classic Transformers Volume 3|''Classic Transformers'' Volume 3]]:''' Panels from this issue and US issues [[Child's Play (issue)|#35]] and [[Spacehikers!|#36]]. Art and pencils by José Delbo, pencils by [[Don Perlin]], finishes by Dave Hunt & Don Hudson, inks by [[Ian Akin]] & [[Brian Garvey]], colours by Nel Yomtov.
*'''[[The Transformers Classics, Vol. 4|''The Transformers Classics,'' Vol. 4]]:''' [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]], by [[Guido Guidi]].
*'''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]] Volume 12: Cosmic Carnival:''''' [[Skullgrin]] and the [[Cosmic Carnival]] by [[Don Figueroa]], [[Frank Springer]] and [[Danny Bulanadi]]
<gallery>
File:Titan-DarkStarSC.jpg|'''''Dark Star'' TPB''' (Titan Books, 2004)
File:Titan-DarkStarHC.jpg|'''''Dark Star'' HC''' (Titan Books, 2004)
File:Classic Transformers Vol3.jpg|'''''Classic Transformers'' Volume 3''' (IDW Publishing, 2009)
File:TFClassicsVol4.jpg|'''''The Transformers Classics,'' Vol. 4''' (IDW Publishing, 2012)
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v12.jpg|'''''The Definitive G1 Collection Volume 12: Cosmic Carnival''''' (Hachette Partworks, 2018)
</gallery>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cash and Car-nage!}}
[[Category:Marvel US issues]]
[[Category:Marvel UK issues]]

Ca$h and Car-nage!

2021-07-16T19:37:22Z

Bigds9fan: /* Continuity notes */

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''The Transformers'' (US)]] #46
|prev=Monstercon from Mars!
|next=Club Con!
|seriesissue2=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|''The Transformers'' (UK)]] #192–193
|prev2=Monstercon from Mars!
|next2=Club Con!
|title="Ca$h and Car-nage!"
|image=MarvelUS-46.jpg
|caption=This cover was created with the latest in anti-counterfeit technology.
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|date=July [[1988]]
|coverdate=November 1988
|writer=[[Bob Budiansky]]
|penciler=[[José Delbo]]
|inker=[[Danny Bulanadi]]
|colorist=[[Nelson Yomtov|Nel Yomtov]]
|letterer=[[Bill Oakley]]
|editor=[[Don Daley]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}
'''Apparently, bounty hunters were big in the '80s.'''

==Synopsis==
At a county fair, a bounty hunter named [[Burn-Out]] interrupts the [[Z Foundation]]'s carnie "[[Reck the Robot]]" shoot-'em booth by shotgun blasting the robo-prop. The barker tells him about a chance for real prizes...

[[File:Transformers Trash-o-rama.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.7]]
At a monster truck rally, [[Randy Horton|Randy "Roadhog" Horton]] indulges his passion for demolition derbies by destroying the [[Robo-Car]] provided for the [[Transformers Trash-o-rama|Z Foundation Challenge]]. The announcer tells him how he could do the real thing, for real money...

At a [[Red Motel|sleazy motel]], two bounty hunters named [[Skunge]] and [[Felix]] employ high technology gimmicks and their own deceptively small size to capture criminals-at-large. At the local police station, an officer mentions the Z Foundation's robot-hunting bounty...

And so, in [[New York City]], the four mercenaries gather at the Z Foundation's national offices. They are met by [[Kreb|Mr. K]] and his associates, [[Brisko|Mr. B]] and [[Lokos|Mr. L]]. They explain that the chairman, [[Zarak (G1)|Mr. Z]], founded their foundation in order to eliminate the threat of all [[Transformer]]s to the people of [[Earth]]. They offer the men $50,000 for each Transformer they bring in, and the use of patent-pending "[[jammer]]s", designed under the theory that they can neutralize a Transformer's conversion power. So armed, the bounty hunters are christened the [[Roadjammers]], and sent out to hunt their prey.

Meanwhile, there are nothing but robots on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Six [[Autobot]]s have been captured by the [[Decepticon]]s, and await their fates in a detention facility. The [[Firecon]]s arrive and escort out three Autobots—[[Fizzle]], [[Sizzle (G1)|Sizzle]], and [[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]]—to a waiting [[space bridge]] center. For their own suspicious purposes, the Decepticons fully re-energize and rearm the Autobots, sending them across the trans-dimensional gateway to planet Earth... right near New York City.

Catching the Autobots by surprise, the Roadjammers make quick work of Sizzle and the others. Still, some of what the Autobots said before they were jammered makes them curious—if the Autobots did just arrive on Earth like they claimed, how did the Z Foundation know where to send the Roadjammers to patrol? It crosses their minds that maybe Mr. K and the alphabet flunkies are running some kind of scam on the side with the 'Cons, so they come up with a plan to catch the businessmen with their possible Decepticon partners, and turn them all over to Mr. Z for an even bigger reward.

[[File:Headmasterscashandcarnage.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
Back at the Z Foundation, Felix jimmies their way into a locked parking structure, and sure enough, they find three Decepticon [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] languishing in the corner. Mr. K and the others arrive and make no attempt to hide their partnership—they reveal their hidden [[binary bonding]] armors and join with their Decepticon partners in robot mode. Only then do they realize they're paralyzed by the jammers, since Felix made the necessary adjustments to double the power of the three jammers they were given.

At that moment, Mr. Z himself enters the structure, and unveils his true identity as Lord Zarak, leader of the Decepticons. He summons [[Scorponok (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Scorponok]] to retrieve the jammer technology from the Roadjammers, but Felix has arranged to manipulate the jammer signals by his dashboard computer system, letting him turn all six Cybertronians against Scorponok by remote control.

Temporarily overwhelmed, Zarak feels forced to activate his prototype [[Jammer|anti-jammer]], which unfortunately will free the Autobots from the Roadjammers' control, as well as his fellow Decepticons. As the jammering effect fades, the Autobots recover quickly and get the Roadjammers to safety before the Decepticons can turn on them. As the Autobots drive away, Felix tells his team that he's confident the jammer technology can be reverse-engineered, and that they'll all soon be back in business...
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters|c1=
*[[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]] (10)
*[[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]] (11)
*[[Sizzle (G1)|Sizzle]] (12)
*[[Fizzle]] (13)
*[[Override (G1)|Override]] (14)
*[[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] (15)
|c2=
*[[Flamefeather (G1)|Flamefeather]] (16)
*[[Cindersaur (G1)|Cindersaur]] (17)
*[[Sparkstalker]] (18)
*[[Horri-Bull]] (19)
*[[Fangry (G1)|Fangry]] (20)
*[[Squeezeplay (G1)|Squeezeplay]] (21)
*[[Scorponok (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Scorponok]] (22)
|c3=
*[[Burn-Out]] (1)
*[[Mel (spectator)|Mel]] (2)
*[[Randy Horton|Randy "Roadhog" Horton]] (3)
*[[Skunge]] (4)
*[[Felix]] (5)
|h4=[[Nebulan]]s|c4=
*[[Kreb]] (6)
*[[Brisko]] (7)
*[[Lokos]] (8)
*[[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]] (9)
}}

==Quotes==
"The '''true''' purpose of the Z Foundation is to get others to unwittingly eliminate the Autobots '''for''' us! So far, the offers of money and aid by you Earthling fools have been nothing less than '''inspiring'''! I want to personally '''thank''' you four! '''''Now give me the jammers!!'''''" 
"We'll '''give''' you somethin', sucker!" 
"I only ask '''once! ''Scorponok -- destroy!!'''''"
:—'''Zarak''' is on a roll, and '''Roadhog''' isn't about to slow him down.

==Notes==
===Artwork and technical errors===
*The dastardly Robo-Car destroyed by "Roadhog" appears to have [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]]'s head.
* Page 21, panel 2: Backstreet is as big as Scorponok.
* Page 21, panel 5: Zarak's aghast face is a direct swipe from ''Headmasters'' #4.
*Zarak has a Decepticon insignia (which he doesn't usually) for only one panel.

===Continuity errors===
*Cindersaur, of all people, saying "I can roast 'em later?"
*In "[[Broken Glass!]]" the Nebulons had to be binary bonded to the Autobot bodies because simply controlling them by remote control was pitifully ineffective. Here [[Felix]] overwhelms Scorponok by remote controlling six Transformers using the jammers and a few buttons on his truck's dashboard.
*Even taking into account the use of shoulder pads in eighties fashion, how on Earth do the Headmasters hide their armour under their suits? Kreb's especially includes a large, high collar which couldn't possibly be contained by a shirt collar.

===Continuity notes===
*The Z Foundation attempts to promote the idea among the people of Earth that all Transformers are dangerous and should be destroyed. This is reminiscent of [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron's]] use of [[Donny Finkleberg|Robot-Master]]. The humans already distrust the Decepticons so they try to get them to distrust the Autobots as well.
*In a nice artistic touch, Delbo actually draws Backstreet without his [[proton missile cannon]]s until they're returned to him by the Decepticons.
*This is the first US appearance for nearly the entire cast: Fangry, Horri-Bull, Squeezeplay, the [[Triggerbot]]s, Firecons, and [[Sparkabot]]s. The new Decepticons are seemingly part of Scorponok's crew who, like the pre-Pretenders, have been quietly lurking in the background, unseen until now.
*The Space Bridge was built by Straxus to estasblish contact with Megatron. So how did Scorponok learn of it? Of course the Regeneration series establishes him and Straxus as two of four warlords in an alliance retroactively answering that question.
*This is the first and only time José Delbo was to draw the space bridge. It was, in fact, the last appearance of the space bridge in the Marvel comics, though it does get one final mention in issue [[Back from the Dead|#56]].

===Real-life references===
* The bounty hunters are summoned from a county fair and a funny car rally in [[Pennsylvania]], and from western [[Nevada]]; the Z Foundation's headquarters is in [[New York City]]; the Autobots are deposited in upstate New York.

===UK printing===
[[Image:MarvelUS46vsUK192.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|right|Galvatron? Whossat? Never heard of 'im.]]
'''UK issue #192'''
*'''Back-up strips:''' ''[[Action Force (comic)|Action Force]]'' - "Unmaskings" and ''[[Combat Colin]]''
*Following the trend from last issue, this issue's splash page was edited to fit the UK comics' aspect ratio. Damn José Delbo and his small splash pages.
*This is the second time that the Sparkler Mini-Bots (as the UK comics called them) were captured by the Decepticons and tormented by the Firecons in the UK comics. The first time was in issues [[Deadly Games!|#170-171]].
*Some dialogue was edited to reflect the fact that the Sparkler Mini-bots had already been to [[Earth]] in the past, which is plainly evident as the lettering for the altered dialogue looks notably different from the lettering for the remaining, unaltered dialogue. The upshot of this is that it's now Backstreet who asks "Where are we?" when they leave the space bridge, rather than one of the Sparklers.
*This was the first issue where [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] got to answer letters addressed to him instead of to [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]]. In this issue he encourages people to send in anti-Grimlock letters, confirms that [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] ''does'' have a brain and confuses continuity by claiming that he and [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]] came to Earth after leaving [[Nebulos]].

'''UK issue #193'''
*'''Back-up strips:''' ''Action Force'' - "Unmaskings", ''[[Death's Head (G1)|Death's Head]]'', and ''Combat Colin''
*In ''[[Letters page (Marvel UK)|Dread Tidings]]'' this issue, Dreadwind confirms that he and Darkwing are most certainly ''not'' brothers. [[Hi-Test (G1)|Hi-Test]] also shows that he has a very [[Accent|British accent]].
*The Death's Head "back-up strip" in this issue is actually a one-page comic strip meant as an advertisement for Death's Head's own regular series. The UK comics often blurred the line between back-up strips and advertisements.

===Bot Roster===
*Ark Autobots: 47 active; 5 bodyless Throttlebots. (52 total)
*''Steelhaven'' Autobots: 28 active.
*Ratbat's Decepticons: 32 active; 8 rescued from the Ark; 4 offline/missing. (44 total)
*Scorponok's Decepticons: 25 active. Three new Headmasters are introduced here but narratively have been there all along, unseen in the background.
*The 3 Autobots sent to Earth here apparently do not remain there, as they are never seen with the Ark/''Steelhaven'' crew.

===Courtesy of my...===
*The Decepticons return Backstreet's laser-guided [[proton missile cannon]]s, which see a fair bit of use on Earth.

===Covers (3)===
*'''US issue #46 cover:''' Roadjammers vs an Autobot, by [[Frank Springer]].
*'''UK issue #192 cover:''' Mr. Z presenting picture of the Autobots to the Roadhog, by [[Stephen Baskerville]].
*'''UK issue #193 cover:''' Burn-Out blasting Fizzle, by [[Andrew Wildman]].
<gallery>
File:MarvelUS-46.jpg|'''US issue #46''' - Like, tripping out, man.
File:MarvelUK-192.jpg|'''UK issue #192''' - Come back, so I may brain thee!
File:MarvelUK-193.jpg|'''UK issue #193''' - OH NO! Not Fizzle's ROOF!
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
====US====
*''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' exclusive action figures - inside front cover
*Freedom Stick (wireless joystick)- between pages 4 & 5
*[[M&M's]] shirt and cap - between pages 5 & 6
*CBS/Columbia House music - between pages 7 & 8 (3 pages)
*Konami NES video games - between pages 10 & 11 (2 pages)
*Bullpen Bulletins and checklist - between pages 19 & 20
*[[Letters page|Transmissions]]
*Marvel subscription service
*Striped Chips Ahoy! cookies - inside back cover
*TSR ''Buck Rogers'' board game (back cover)

====UK====
'''Issue 192'''
*Doctor Who Anniversary Special - page 16
*Visionaries - back cover

'''Issue 193'''
*Weetabix ET stickers - page 14
*Targetmasters - page 16
*Death's Head - page 22
*Tempo Video - back cover

===Reprints===
*'''''[[Transformers: Dark Star]]'' TPB:''' [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]], [[Carnivac (G1)|Carnivac]], [[Overbite (G1)|Overbite]], Dogfight, and half a [[Mecannibal]], by [[Andrew Wildman]].
*'''''Dark Star'' HC:''' Starscream victorious, by [[Seth Fisher]] and [[Chris Blythe]].
*'''[[Classic Transformers Volume 3|''Classic Transformers'' Volume 3]]:''' Panels from this issue and US issues [[Child's Play (issue)|#35]] and [[Spacehikers!|#36]]. Art and pencils by José Delbo, pencils by [[Don Perlin]], finishes by Dave Hunt & Don Hudson, inks by [[Ian Akin]] & [[Brian Garvey]], colours by Nel Yomtov.
*'''[[The Transformers Classics, Vol. 4|''The Transformers Classics,'' Vol. 4]]:''' [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]], by [[Guido Guidi]].
*'''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]] Volume 12: Cosmic Carnival:''''' [[Skullgrin]] and the [[Cosmic Carnival]] by [[Don Figueroa]], [[Frank Springer]] and [[Danny Bulanadi]]
<gallery>
File:Titan-DarkStarSC.jpg|'''''Dark Star'' TPB''' (Titan Books, 2004)
File:Titan-DarkStarHC.jpg|'''''Dark Star'' HC''' (Titan Books, 2004)
File:Classic Transformers Vol3.jpg|'''''Classic Transformers'' Volume 3''' (IDW Publishing, 2009)
File:TFClassicsVol4.jpg|'''''The Transformers Classics,'' Vol. 4''' (IDW Publishing, 2012)
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v12.jpg|'''''The Definitive G1 Collection Volume 12: Cosmic Carnival''''' (Hachette Partworks, 2018)
</gallery>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cash and Car-nage!}}
[[Category:Marvel US issues]]
[[Category:Marvel UK issues]]

Transformers: BotBots (toyline)

2018-12-17T12:40:27Z

Bigds9fan: /* Notes */

[[File:BotBotsPromoArt.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Don't eat the ones that turn into food, or you'll get botbotulism!]]

'''''Transformers: BotBots''''' is a toyline set for release in late [[2018]], involving small, cartoony, [[super deformed]] robot characters who transform into mundane items. These 1-inch tall soft-plastic bots are marketed in the same style as the insanely popular ''Shopkins'' toys and other collectible mini-toys.

In the universe of the BotBots, a mysterious cloud of [[energon]] gas drifted through a shopping mall, bringing tools, electronics, and even food to life as tiny transforming robots. By day they hide, and by night, mischief aplenty.

==Overview==
Each BotBot is a tiny, roughly-1-inch tall PVC-plastic toy that converts from a robot into... something else... in a few short, simple steps. Each character belongs to a themed team depending on the "store" their [[alternate mode]] is found in, though the individual members of the team are spread out among a '''''lot''''' of packages:

* Single-Bot [[Blindpacking|Blind Bag Mystery Figures]]
* 5-Packs with two Bots from the pack's theme team, two Bots from two other teams, and an additional blind-packed (but ''not'' random) "Lost Bot"
* 8-Packs with two Bots from the pack's theme team, five Bots from five other teams, and an additional blind-packed (but not random) "Lost Bot"

Naturally, there is a ton of overlap, with many figures available in multiple different packs. These redundant Bots are meant to encourage trading among the kids.

The blind-packed portions are opened by pulling up a tearable flap on the back of the card, revealing a perforated paper layer. The instruction say to then push the red bubble with both thumbs to pop the Bot out through the paper, but you can just tear the paper and pull it out too.

The singles do have individual ID codes (at least as of Series 1) that allow you to tell what toy is inside, lightly embossed on the back of the card on the bottom-right, near the pull-up flap.

{{-}}

==Toys==
As each individual toy can appear in multiple multi-packs, we're simply listing them by team, with ''which'' packs they come in listed on the individual entries.

===Series 1===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Backpack Bunch]]'''
* [[Cranks]]
* [[Ms. Take]]
* [[Point Dexter]]
* [[Professor Wellread]]
* [[Slappyhappy]]
* [[Snippy Snappy]]
* [[Sticky McGee]]
* [[Totes Magotes]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Greaser Gang]]'''
* [[Angry Cheese]]
* [[Duderoni]]
* [[Fottle Barts]]
* [[Hawt Diggity]]
* [[S'up Dawg]]
* [[Shredder Jack]]
* [[Spud Muffin]]
* [[Twerple Burple]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Jock Squad]]'''
* [[Arctic Guzzlerush]]
* [[Batsby]]
* [[Fit Ness Monster]]
* [[Kidd Klobber]]
* [[Laceface]]
* [[Pucksie]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''The [[Lost Bots]]'''
* [[Bonz-Eye]]
* [[Burgertron]]
* [[Clogstopper]]
* [[Dimlit]]
* [[Frostferatu]]
* [[Game Over]]
* [[Stinkeye Stapleton]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:TransformersBotBotstoys.jpg|thumb|right|250px|If ever there was a time to give us a new toy of [[Ejector]], Hasbro, this is it.]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Shed Heads]]'''
* [[Cuddletooth]]
* [[Fun Gus]]
* [[Grit Sandwood]]
* [[Major Lee Screwge]]
* [[Nail Byter]]
* [[Rootwing]]
* [[Slobber Rock]]
* [[Venus Frogtrap]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Sugar Shocks]]'''
* [[Cocoa Crazy]]
* [[Lolly Licks]]
* [[Nrjeez]]
* [[The Plop Father]]
* [[Remorsel]]
* [[Sippy Slurps]]
* [[Sprinkleberry D'uhnut]]
* [[Unilla Icequeencone]]
* [[Waddlepop]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Techie Team]]'''
* [[Chilla Gorilla]]
* [[Dr. Moggly]]
* [[Fomo]]
* [[Goob Toob]]
* [[Raddhaxx]]
* [[S.A. Cheez]]
* [[Screen Fiend]]
* [[Skillz Punk]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Toilet Troop]]'''
* [[Frohawk]]
* [[King Toots]]
* [[Nobeeoh]]
* [[Poo Sham]]
* [[Sergeant Scrubadub]]
* [[Stinkosaurus Rex]]
* [[Sudsbeard]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

==Notes==
* Though the checklists "rank" the individual BotBots with one to three stars, these ratings do not consistently line up with relative rarity or anything. For example, while all 3-Star Bots in Series 1 only appear in a single multipack or in the one-per-case blindpack assortment, there are several other "one of a kind" Bots who are ranked as 2- or 1-Star.
* Promotional art for Series 1 shows two Bots who are not actually ''in'' Series 1, a baseball and a soccer ball. Presumably they will be in a later Series, as the Hasbro website claims 190 characters will be released in 2019.
* All of the characters introduced thus far are entirely new, separate from any traditional "Generation 1" characters: a rarity in today's ''Transformers'' toy market.
* However, the European packaging uses the name Techo-bots for the French translation which is an inadvertant nod to G1.

==External links==
* [https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/botbots Page on the Transformers website]
* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G3gfw2uISQ7UAKF3sv8-a5O9JinhTITeRJyMGbZZQ04/edit#gid=2008530584 Google Spreadsheet of all ''BotBots'' pack contents]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:BotBots}}
[[Category:BotBots| ]]
[[Category:Toylines]]

Transformers: BotBots (toyline)

2018-12-17T12:40:08Z

Bigds9fan: /* Notes */

[[File:BotBotsPromoArt.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Don't eat the ones that turn into food, or you'll get botbotulism!]]

'''''Transformers: BotBots''''' is a toyline set for release in late [[2018]], involving small, cartoony, [[super deformed]] robot characters who transform into mundane items. These 1-inch tall soft-plastic bots are marketed in the same style as the insanely popular ''Shopkins'' toys and other collectible mini-toys.

In the universe of the BotBots, a mysterious cloud of [[energon]] gas drifted through a shopping mall, bringing tools, electronics, and even food to life as tiny transforming robots. By day they hide, and by night, mischief aplenty.

==Overview==
Each BotBot is a tiny, roughly-1-inch tall PVC-plastic toy that converts from a robot into... something else... in a few short, simple steps. Each character belongs to a themed team depending on the "store" their [[alternate mode]] is found in, though the individual members of the team are spread out among a '''''lot''''' of packages:

* Single-Bot [[Blindpacking|Blind Bag Mystery Figures]]
* 5-Packs with two Bots from the pack's theme team, two Bots from two other teams, and an additional blind-packed (but ''not'' random) "Lost Bot"
* 8-Packs with two Bots from the pack's theme team, five Bots from five other teams, and an additional blind-packed (but not random) "Lost Bot"

Naturally, there is a ton of overlap, with many figures available in multiple different packs. These redundant Bots are meant to encourage trading among the kids.

The blind-packed portions are opened by pulling up a tearable flap on the back of the card, revealing a perforated paper layer. The instruction say to then push the red bubble with both thumbs to pop the Bot out through the paper, but you can just tear the paper and pull it out too.

The singles do have individual ID codes (at least as of Series 1) that allow you to tell what toy is inside, lightly embossed on the back of the card on the bottom-right, near the pull-up flap.

{{-}}

==Toys==
As each individual toy can appear in multiple multi-packs, we're simply listing them by team, with ''which'' packs they come in listed on the individual entries.

===Series 1===
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Backpack Bunch]]'''
* [[Cranks]]
* [[Ms. Take]]
* [[Point Dexter]]
* [[Professor Wellread]]
* [[Slappyhappy]]
* [[Snippy Snappy]]
* [[Sticky McGee]]
* [[Totes Magotes]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Greaser Gang]]'''
* [[Angry Cheese]]
* [[Duderoni]]
* [[Fottle Barts]]
* [[Hawt Diggity]]
* [[S'up Dawg]]
* [[Shredder Jack]]
* [[Spud Muffin]]
* [[Twerple Burple]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Jock Squad]]'''
* [[Arctic Guzzlerush]]
* [[Batsby]]
* [[Fit Ness Monster]]
* [[Kidd Klobber]]
* [[Laceface]]
* [[Pucksie]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''The [[Lost Bots]]'''
* [[Bonz-Eye]]
* [[Burgertron]]
* [[Clogstopper]]
* [[Dimlit]]
* [[Frostferatu]]
* [[Game Over]]
* [[Stinkeye Stapleton]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[File:TransformersBotBotstoys.jpg|thumb|right|250px|If ever there was a time to give us a new toy of [[Ejector]], Hasbro, this is it.]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Shed Heads]]'''
* [[Cuddletooth]]
* [[Fun Gus]]
* [[Grit Sandwood]]
* [[Major Lee Screwge]]
* [[Nail Byter]]
* [[Rootwing]]
* [[Slobber Rock]]
* [[Venus Frogtrap]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Sugar Shocks]]'''
* [[Cocoa Crazy]]
* [[Lolly Licks]]
* [[Nrjeez]]
* [[The Plop Father]]
* [[Remorsel]]
* [[Sippy Slurps]]
* [[Sprinkleberry D'uhnut]]
* [[Unilla Icequeencone]]
* [[Waddlepop]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Techie Team]]'''
* [[Chilla Gorilla]]
* [[Dr. Moggly]]
* [[Fomo]]
* [[Goob Toob]]
* [[Raddhaxx]]
* [[S.A. Cheez]]
* [[Screen Fiend]]
* [[Skillz Punk]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[Toilet Troop]]'''
* [[Frohawk]]
* [[King Toots]]
* [[Nobeeoh]]
* [[Poo Sham]]
* [[Sergeant Scrubadub]]
* [[Stinkosaurus Rex]]
* [[Sudsbeard]]
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}

==Notes==
* Though the checklists "rank" the individual BotBots with one to three stars, these ratings do not consistently line up with relative rarity or anything. For example, while all 3-Star Bots in Series 1 only appear in a single multipack or in the one-per-case blindpack assortment, there are several other "one of a kind" Bots who are ranked as 2- or 1-Star.
* Promotional art for Series 1 shows two Bots who are not actually ''in'' Series 1, a baseball and a soccer ball. Presumably they will be in a later Series, as the Hasbro website claims 190 characters will be released in 2019.
* All of the characters introduced thus far are entirely new, separate from any traditional "Generation 1" characters: a rarity in today's ''Transformers'' toy market.
-However, the European packaging uses the name Techo-bots for the French translation which is an inadvertant nod to G1.

==External links==
* [https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/botbots Page on the Transformers website]
* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G3gfw2uISQ7UAKF3sv8-a5O9JinhTITeRJyMGbZZQ04/edit#gid=2008530584 Google Spreadsheet of all ''BotBots'' pack contents]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:BotBots}}
[[Category:BotBots| ]]
[[Category:Toylines]]

Maxima

2016-07-12T16:54:11Z

Bigds9fan: /* Notes */

:''Maxima is a somebody from the [[Transformers: Combiner Wars (cartoon)|Combiner Wars cartoon]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[File:CombinerWarsMachinima-Maximastill.jpg|right|thumb|300px|]]
'''Maxima''' exists!

==Fiction==
===''Combiner Wars'' cartoon===
[[File:CombinerWarsMachinima-Menasorstill.jpg|left|thumb|300px|]]

{{charstubfiction}}

==Notes==
*Maxima is a reuse of [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]'s model but in new colors and with a new head.

*Maxima shares her name with the Dutch Queen Máxima[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Máxima_of_the_Netherlands]

==External links==
* [http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/22/transformers-combiner-wars-show-photos Transformers Combiner Wars show photos @ EntertainmentWeekly]

[[Category:Cartoon-only Transformers]]
[[Category:Combiner Wars]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Transformers]]

Maxima

2016-07-12T16:53:20Z

Bigds9fan: /* Notes */

:''Maxima is a somebody from the [[Transformers: Combiner Wars (cartoon)|Combiner Wars cartoon]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[File:CombinerWarsMachinima-Maximastill.jpg|right|thumb|300px|]]
'''Maxima''' exists!

==Fiction==
===''Combiner Wars'' cartoon===
[[File:CombinerWarsMachinima-Menasorstill.jpg|left|thumb|300px|]]

{{charstubfiction}}

==Notes==
*Maxima is a reuse of [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]'s model but in new colors and with a new head.

*Maxima shares her name with the Dutch Queen Maxima[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Máxima_of_the_Netherlands]

==External links==
* [http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/22/transformers-combiner-wars-show-photos Transformers Combiner Wars show photos @ EntertainmentWeekly]

[[Category:Cartoon-only Transformers]]
[[Category:Combiner Wars]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Transformers]]

Transformers: Deviations

2016-04-13T20:45:06Z

Bigds9fan: /* Other notes */

{{comicstory
|seriesissue=''Transformers: Deviations''
|prev=
|next=
|image=TFDev_subcvr.jpg
|caption=Did you want to read an embarrassing 1994-era [[alt.toys.transformers]] fanfic in official comic form? Good news!
|title=
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[March 16]], 2016
|coverdate=March, 2016
|written by=[[Brandon M. Easton]]
|art by=[[Priscilla Tramontano]]
|colors by=Priscilla Tramontano and [[John-Paul Bove]]
|letters by=[[Tom B. Long]]
|editor=[[John Barber]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]] (alternate)
}}

'''What if... Optimus Prime did not die?'''

==Synopsis==
In [[The Transformers: The Movie|the world we know]], the [[Decepticon]]s launched a devastating attack on [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] in the year [[2005]], during which the young [[Autobot]] [[Hot Rod/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]], against the advice of [[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]], interfered in a battle between [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] when he spotted the Decepticon leader reaching for a fallen weapon. Megatron seized the young Autobot and used him as a shield to prevent Prime from firing, then blasted Prime, inflicting injuries that claimed his life soon after. But in this world, things take a different turn...

Rather than just call after Hot Rod, Kup actually tackles the young 'bot to the ground, preventing him from becoming involved in Prime and Megatron's fight. Megatron grabs the gun, but Optimus is able to react, dodging the blast, and—with no options remaining—regretfully pulls the trigger on his own weapon, slaying Megatron. With the loss of their leader, the Decepticons fall into disarray and flee aboard [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]; [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] recovers Megatron's [[fusion cannon]] as proof of his death, and nominates himself as the new leader. Soon after, partway into their journey back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], the wounded Decepticons are tossed into the void of space, where they are found by [[Unicron]]—but as Megatron is not among them in this universe, the planet-eater simply consumes them. Unicron then continues on his way to Cybertron, arriving in the middle of Starscream's coronation ceremony. At [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]]'s urging, Starscream flies out to make first contact with the living planet, and, ever the self-preservationist, is quick to accept when Unicron demands that he serve him. In return for destroying the [[Matrix of Leadership]], Starscream requests upgrades to himself and his inner circle, and Unicron agrees.

On [[Earth]], Optimus Prime decides to press the Autobots' current advantage, pursuing the Decepticons back to Cybertron and defeating them once and for all. Hot Rod is unsure, believing that they do not have to rush as the Decepticons will be demoralized and disorganized, but [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] silences him, sure that the villains will have reorganized under a new leader before long. Prime steps in before Magnus and Hot Rod's argument can escalate and gets things moving forward: he will lead a group on one shuttle to [[Moonbase One]], while Magnus will take a second group to [[Moonbase Two]]. Hot Rod is not happy about being assigned to Magnus's crew; Optimus charges him with looking after [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] until they can reunite him with [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|his father]]. The shuttles soon depart Earth, and Hot Rod spends the journey telling Daniel that he has begun to see images in his mind of Optimus dying, like a human "dream." He believes they are the work of the Matrix, but when Ultra Magnus overhears, he is ready to accuse Hot Rod of plotting treachery! Just then, the shuttles suddenly come under attack from the Decepticons, led by the upgraded Starscream, now calling himself "Megascream"! Hot Rod proposes that they buy themselves some time by throwing their engines into a hard reverse, causing the Decepticons to overshoot them, but Magnus and [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] refuse, believing such a tactic will burn the engines out. However, when a blast hits the ship and injures Magnus, Hot Rod seizes his chances and does it anyway... and the engines do indeed burn out. Fortunately, just then, Megascream receives a transmission from Soundwave on Cybertron, alerting him to the fact that Unicron is consuming Moonbase One. Outraged, Megascream calls off the attack and has the Decepticons return to their homeworld.

While Magnus's crippled shuttle drifts off in the direction of the [[Junkion (planet)|Planet of Junk]], Optimus's crew set down on the planet [[Quintesson]] to repair their own ship's damage before collecting their stranded teammates. No sooner have they landed than they are approached by a shoal of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]]; Kup tries the [[universal greeting]], but the creatures do not take kindly to it and a battle breaks out. The [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] soon overpower the Sharkticons, and the Autobots trace them back to their point of origin, the [[Quintesson]]s' citadel. The resident five-faced aliens promptly flee, and the Autobots liberate their prisoners, including [[Kranix (G1)|Kranix]], last survivor of the planet [[Lithone (planet)|Lithone]], who tells them of Unicron.

Meanwhile, as Ultra Magnus's shuttle hurtles toward Junkion, the wounded Magnus urges Hot Rod to get Daniel into the only escape pod that remains functional. The young 'bot complies, and he and Daniel escape down to the planet's surface but must watch as all their friends perish when the shuttle crashes and explodes. Hot Rod apologizes for everything, but Daniel tells him that it must all be part of the Matrix's plan, and that the other Autobots' sacrifice must mean something. Presently, Optimus's group arrives to rescue them, and they all head for Cybertron together.

Concurrently, Megascream confronts Unicron over his consumption of the Moonbase, but Unicron tires of his pawn's whining and transforms to robot mode to begin attacking Cybertron itself. As his assault begins, the Autobots gather on [[Moonbase Two]], where Optimus Prime announces his intent to take a small ship on a solo mission to Unicron's surface, believing that the Matrix has the power to destroy the monster planet. When he arrives, he is met by Megascream, who demands the Autobot hand over the Matrix so he can use it to destroy Unicron himself. Megascream unveils the "enhancements" he had Unicron make to his warriors, merging with Soundwave, Astrotrain, [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] to form a giant [[combiner]], and promptly crushes Prime beneath his colossal fist. He picks up the shattered Autobot, but Hot Rod—who stowed away on Prime's ship—appears to wrest his leader free. Following the call of the Matrix, Hot Rod removes the talisman from Optimus's chest, then slips a teleport disc from [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s lab onto the injured Autobot leader, sending him back to Moonbase Two. Megascream blasts Hot Rod, but even damaged, he crawls to the Matrix and manages to pull it open. The resulting burst of brilliant blue energy can be seen from space, causing an explosion that destroys Unicron... but both Megascream and Hot Rod are also lost in the blast.

In the aftermath, Optimus Prime declares the Cybertronian Wars at an end, and speaks of a future of peace and prosperity. In the skies above, he sees the image of his mentor, [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]], and that of the newest shining light to join the ranks of great Autobots within the Matrix: Rodimus Prime.

==Featured characters==

{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] (5)
*[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (7)
*[[Hot Rod/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime]] (9)
*[[Kup (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Kup]] (10)
*[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] (23)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (24)
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (25)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (26)
*[[Slag (G1)|Slag]] (27)
*[[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]]'s body (28)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]'s body (29)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s body (30)
*[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]]'s body (31)
*[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (32)
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (33)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (36)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] (43)
*[[Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Blaster]] (44)
*[[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] (45)

|c2=
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (1)
*[[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave]] (2)
*[[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] (3)
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (4)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (6, see [[#Errors|Errors]])
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] (8)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream/Megascream]] (11)
*[[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] (12)
*[[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (13)
*[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (14)
*[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (15)
*[[Mixmaster (G1)|Mixmaster]] (16)
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]] (17)
*[[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] (18)
*[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] (19)
*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (20)
*[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (21)
*[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (35)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Thundercracker]] (37)
*[[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]] (38)
*[[Acid Storm]] (39)

|c3=
*[[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel Witwicky]] (34)
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (39)

|c4=
*[[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] (22)
*[[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] (40)
*[[Quintesson]]s (41)
*[[Kranix (G1)|Kranix]] (42)
}}

==Notes==
''Deviations'' is IDW's multi-franchise crossover event for 2016, following in the footsteps of the ''[[The X-Files: Conspiracy: The Transformers|The X-Files: Conspiracy]]'', ''[[Mars Attacks: The Transformers|Mars Attacks]]'' and ''[[Infestation (IDW)|Infestation]]'' [[Infestation 2|events]] of previous years. The concept is a take on [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]'s "What If?" comic book, with each comic telling a story about a world in which a key event in the franchise's history happened differently; in this issue's case, it asks what would have happened if [[Hot Rod]] had not interfered with Optimus Prime's battle against Megatron, and thereby been the indirect cause of his death, in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. Other franchises involved in the ''Deviations'' event include ''Ghostbusters'', ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'', ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,'' and ''The X-Files.''

===Continuity notes===
*The "What Really Happened" introductory page uses artwork from IDW's ''[[Transformers: The Animated Movie]]'' adaptation. Remember that?
*True to form, there's no sign of [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] anywhere in the issue, reflecting his mysterious absence from the film.
*Hot Rod remarks that Ultra Magnus was nowhere to be seen during the battle of Autobot City, which is an accurate summary of his role in that part of the film. He was supposed to battle [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] alongside a team of Autobots, but the scene got deleted from the movie.
*So, uh, Ultra Magnus is kind of a massive asshole to Hot Rod in this, isn't he? They didn't have this kind of relationship in the film, though the original ''script'' for the movie did show Magnus butting heads with the young 'bot as he took him to task for breaking Kup's security cordon.
*In a cute touch, Shrapnel and Kickback can still be seen at Starscream's coronation despite being thrown out of Astrotrain, in a faithful replication of one of the movie's more famous animation/continuity errors. Continuing this theme in a new direction, Thundercracker appears among Megascream's troops (though it's worth mentioning that the comic ''doesn't'' show him being tossed into space in the earlier scene).
*The statues in the Decepticon [[Hall of Heroes]] are faithfully represented here, meaning we get a look at the figures of [[Gladiaron]], [[Floron]], [[Dery]], and [[Ghoulon]]. Gladiaron's missing his mohawk-crest, though.
*Hot Rod's tactic of reversing the engines comes from the original script to the movie (and the [[Transformers: The Movie (Marvel comic)|Marvel Comics adaptation]] based on it), in which Kup used it to shake off the [[moleculon missile]]s that were pursuing their shuttle. Even in the script, however, the move was described with the sci-fi nonsense phrase "inverting polarities," and for the finished film, it was changed to the shuttle actually blasting the missiles with some kind of scrambler beam that screwed up their trajectories.
*The reference to Ultra Magnus's ship covering "a much larger distance than expected" thanks to "plasma burnout" sounds like a reference to "[[The Rebirth]]," in which an Autobot ship was catapulted across the galaxy when struck by [[plasma energy]].
*Grimlock wants to "bash Decepticons in their turbo chargers," recalling [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]'s desire to "boot some Decepticon right in his turbo charger" from "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]".
*The Quintessons recognize the Autobots, and Prime deems their planet "familiar," alluding to the alien's status as the creators of the Transformers, which the Autobots would not discover until shortly ''after'' the film, in the five-part "[[Five Faces of Darkness]]" mini-series.
*Thanks to Starscream pushing Unicron's patience harder and faster than Galvatron ever did, the planet-eater foregoes noshing on Moonbase Two, and just goes straight for Cybertron, meaning Bumblebee and Spike don't get eaten in this version of events.

===Transformers references===
*In the first panel of the story, an [[Autotrooper (Animated)|''Animated'' Autotrooper]] can be seen amongst the wreckage.
*Two "executioner" Quintessons are seen fleeing on page 16; one is colored in animation-accurate white-and-green, the other in Marvel comic-accurate purple-and-teal.
*Also on page 16, Marvel character [[Scrounge (G1)|Scrounge]] is among those saved from the Quintessons' cells.
*A [[generic]] on page 20 is colored like [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]].
*On page 24, [[Dug Base|''Animated'' Dug Base]] is visible in the crowd.

===Errors===
*In the first panel, there's an all-grey Seeker with no visible wings. Given the scene from the film this panel represents, and the fact that the other 'Cons being mowed down by Prime in this panel (Blitzwing and Shrapnel) were shown receiving the same treatment in animated form, this was presumably supposed to be [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], who was prominently clobbered by Prime in the movie scene. Thrust is in the comic either way, showing up in later scenes.
*Also in the first panel, the fallen Swoop's body is colored red instead of blue.
*On page 4, Rumble is colored in Insecticon black-and-purple, rather than his cartoon two-tone purple color scheme.
*In the last panel of page 4, Blitzwing looks pretty off-color, with a greyish helmet and purplish face, but it might just be because he's in the back of the shot, and partially in shadow. It ''does'' kinda make him look like a Constructicon, who he's standing next to.
*On page 5, Ramjet has black forearms—an easy mistake to make, since it's standard protocol for Seekers to have forearms the same color as their fists, but Ramjet's the prominent exception; he has white arms from wrist to shoulder in the animated series.
*Also on page 5, Astrotrain is, um, missing his wing when he takes off...
*On page 7, the deceased Prowl's helmet is white in panel 1, but black in panel 4.
*He's only tiny, but Mixmaster is off-color on page 8, with one black arm and one green, a black headpiece, and a green mixing barrel.
*In the second panel of page 14, Optimus Prime is missing both smokestacks. His right smokestack disappears again on page 16 panel 3, and the first panel of page 22.
*"Lithone" is consistently misspelled "Linthone."
*Bumblebee's got yellow shoulders instead of black on page 20.

===Other notes===
*This issue's story is 24 pages in length, as opposed to the current standard of 20. The story is followed by eight pages of back-matter, including a letter from Easton introducing himself to the audience, a "story so far" cross-sell summarizing the current goings-on over in ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|The Transformers]]'' and ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'', and a "process" segment showing how the first page of the comic went from script to finished form. The end result is a book that retails at $4.99, instead of IDW's usual $3.99.
* The speech balloons are done in the same style as those of the Marvel G1 comics.
*As one might glean from the article, the comic takes a rather... ''dismissive'' tone towards the characters introduced in the movie. The Season 3 Autobots are all killed en masse in a shuttle explosion, the 'Cons who would become the Season 3 Decepticons are unceremoniously munched up by Unicron, and [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] and the [[Junkion]]s never even ''show up'', since the characters don't stay on-planet long enough to meet them. The only movie characters to actually survive until the climax of the story are Hot Rod and Kup... and then Hot Rod dies at the end. Ho-hum.
*The Autobots really hate Hot Rod for some reason. Ho-hum indeed.
*The planet Betamax-Nine and warring Veechezez group are both references to former [[Home video|home video]] formats.

===Covers (2)===
*'''Standard cover:''' Optimus Prime stands over Megatron's fallen body, by [[Marcelo Matere]] and [[John-Paul Bove]]
*'''Subscription cover:''' Hot Rod spots Optimus Prime and Megatron fighting and plans to help, but Kup has other ideas, by [[Casey Coller]] and [[John-Paul Bove]]
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Conquerors Part 3: Helden

2015-12-22T12:57:57Z

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|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
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|written by=[[John Barber]]
|art by=[[Andrew Griffith]]
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|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
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'''D.0.C. and Buster's Excellent Adventure!'''

==Synopsis==
In the [[Earth Defense Command]]'s [[Bikini Atoll]] base, unable to understand [[Buster (IDW)|Buster]]'s barking, [[D.0.C.]] tries to shoo the animal away and get on with his mission to rescue [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] and the other captive [[Autobot]]s. The pair are found by [[Thundercracker (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Thundercracker]], who believes D.0.C. is just one of multiple Cybertronian drones provided to the organization by [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]; unable to communicate with the ex-[[Decepticon]] in words, D.0.C. tries to make him aware of recent events by projecting holograms of the Autobots' defeat in [[Antarctica]] and the capture of the ''[[Ark-7]]'', topping it off with an image of the source from which he received the information: Soundwave himself. Thundercracker is concerned by what he sees, but [[Marissa Faireborn]] interrupts D.0.C.'s picture-show and, unaware of the drone's true nature, tells Thundercracker to leave it alone.

D.0.C. continues probing through the base, but Buster goes after him. Thinking the dog is attempting to communicate, D.0.C. follows her into the base canteen and watches as she receives a meal from a computerized food dispenser. Able to tap into the base systems via the machine, D.0.C. downloads a schematic of the facility and deduces the location of a secret room far below. Faireborn and [[Ayana Jones]] then enter the room, but a timely bit of bladder relief from Buster distracts them long enough for D.0.C. to slip out. As he heads deeper into the facility, however, D.0.C. is snagged by one of the base's drone maintenance trucks and trapped inside it. Deciding that the strange little robot is her friend, Buster scampers after the truck—through a control room where [[Sanjay Bharwaney]] and some techs are puzzling over a signal coming from the Jupiter commune—catching up to the vehicle and jumping aboard. D.0.C. succeeds in directing her to bite through the electric coupling holding him in place, allowing the drone to free himself. As soldiers come running in response to a "runaway drone," Buster indicates a nearby grating in the wall, which D.0.C. blasts open so they can both escape through the shaft on the other side.

The vent brings Doc and Buster to a seemingly empty room, beneath the secret room that D.0.C. previously detected. The drone fires up his laser and slices open the roof so he can access the hidden room, but a flood of black liquid comes pouring through the hole he cuts open. Realizing that Buster will drown, D.0.C. grabs the dog and flies her up through the hole into the room above, where he finds the bound forms of Jetfire, [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], [[Kup (G1)|Kup]], and the badly-wounded [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]]. At Jetfire's instruction, D.0.C. cuts them out of the room and they all burst through the ceiling directly in front of Faireborn, Jones, and Thundercracker, who are shocked to discover Autobots in the base. Before a fight can break out, D.0.C. and Buster put themselves between the two groups and explain the situation, their bleeps and barks translated by Jetfire and Thundercracker. Unaware that any Autobots had been captured, Faireborn immediately knows who is responsible...

In [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]]'s cell, [[G.B. Blackrock|Garrison Blackrock]] continues urging the former soldier to help him figure out his true nature. The exasperated Spike doesn't even understand what makes him to well-suited to this task; Blackrock tells him it is because he has seen "the best and worst" of Cybertron, but Spike doesn't understand what that has to do with anything... until suddenly, he realizes: Blackrock must ''be'' Cybertronian, but somehow unaware of it. Blackrock rejects the notion, pointing out that he is trying to ''rid'' the Earth of Transformers, at which point the combined forces of the Autobots and Faireborn's team smash their way into the cell. Spike takes advantage of the situation to seize Blackrock, allowing Marissa to grab his datapad and discover what he has been up to without their knowledge. Before they can do anything, however, [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]] and [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] suddenly teleport in, and Galvatron seizes Blackrock. He too knows the "human's" secret: he is a sleeper agent placed on Earth by [[Onyx Prime]], given false memories to make him believe that he is truly human, sent to find the [[Enigma of Combination]] and to summon Onyx to the planet. But Galvatron now has his own plans for Onyx's minion...

==Featured characters==
''Characters in italic text appear only in D.0.C's recordings.'' 
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (4)
*[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (5)
*[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] (6)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (7)
*''[[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]]'' (9)

|c2=
*''[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'' (10)
*[[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]] (16)
*[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (17)

|c3=
*[[Marissa Faireborn]] (11)
*[[Ayana Jones]] (12)
*[[Sanjay Bharwaney]] (13)
*[[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] (14)
*[[G.B. Blackrock#IDW Generation 1 continuity|Garrison Blackrock]] (15)

|c4=
*[[D.0.C.]] (1)
*[[Buster (IDW)|Buster]] (2)
*[[Thundercracker (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Thundercracker]] (3)
*''[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]]/[[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]] combiners'' (8)
}}

==Quotes==
"'''Buster!''' There you are! Why are you hanging out with a '''drone?''' Those things aren't very '''bright.''' It might try to... I don't know, update your '''software''' or something."
:—'''Thundercracker'''

"That stupid animal." 
"Cut her some '''slack'''. Her '''daddy's''' a big stupid '''robot.'''"
:—'''Jones''' and '''Faireborn''' react to Buster's bathroom habits

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Skywarp has at last been freed from the machines into which he has been plugged since the start of "season 2" of the series, following the worsening of injuries he sustained all the way back in [[Heavy Is the Head|issue #16]].
*Galvatron refers to the ancient alliance of [[Onyx Prime]] and [[Nexus Prime]], which we learned about in [[The Crucible|issue #34]].

===Transformers references===
*Marissa's coffee mug features a caricature of series colorist Josh Perez. Mugs like this appeared before in [[The One Where They Go to Earth|''More than Meets the Eye'' #43]].
*A Cybertronian masquerading as a human calls to mind the [[Pretender]] concept, which has featured before in the IDW continuity, but specifically human-sized Transformers in disguise hearkens back to the [[size changing]] Autobot Pretenders of ''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce]]'' or [[Alice]] from ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''.

===Real-world references===
*This issue's title drops the "celestial mechanics" theme of the previous two chapters, going with "Helden", which is German/Dutch for "heroes".
*Faireborn and Jones spend this issue in green fatigues specifically based on those worn by [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] member [[Lady Jaye]], who is Marissa's mother in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original Generation 1 cartoon continuity]].

===Errors (?)===
*The anagram-sentences that fill human speech bubbles during the portion of the story told from Buster's POV (see below) all unscramble to spell real sentences, but there appear to be three typos. One tech reports to Bharwaney "The weird signals from the Jupiter colony are continuing", but "colony" and "continuing" are misspelled (the former's got an "e" in it, the latter is missing an "i" and "n"). Reluctant to call Faireborn over the matter, Bharwaney responds "We'll wait for something important," but important is missing its "p". Of course, these might not be errors at all, it's kinda hard to tell.

===Other trivia===
*Portions of this story are told variously from D.0.C. and Buster's perspectives, allowing the two normally-wordless characters to have actual dialogue that can be understood by the audience (even if no-one else in the comic can understand them). Panels from D.0.C.'s point of view have yellow borders with slanted corners and a static overlay effect, while Buster's panels have grey borders and curved corners, and a muted palette representing the dog's partial color-blindness; additionally, while D.0.C. is capable of understanding human speech, Buster can only understand snippets of it, and most human dialogue in panels from her POV is jumbled into nonsense-anagrams. Panels showing the scene from the normal audience's perspective have white borders with squared-off corners.

===Covers (3)===
*'''Regular cover:''' D.0.C. and Buster by [[Andrew Griffith]]
*'''Subscription cover:''' Archie, driving [[Hot Rod]], does a 180 and screeches to a halt in front of Betty and Veronica, as Optimus Prime looks on. Art by [[Andrew Pepoy]] and [[Jason Millet]]; part of a series of Archie-themed covers for several IDW titles in December, celebrating the character's 75th anniversary.
*'''Retailer incentive "Countdown to 50" cover:''' [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]], and [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], by [[Alex Milne]] and [[Josh Perez]]; the first in a series of variant covers "counting down" to the release of the 50th issues of the ''The Transformers'' and ''More than Meets the Eye'' in February 2016.
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Omega Supreme (G1)

2012-12-30T23:14:47Z

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{{disambig3|Omega Supreme}}
{{disambigr|Omega Spreem|the [[Omega Sentinel (Animated)|Omega Sentinel]] from [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]|Omega S.P.R.E.E.M.}}
:''Omega Supreme is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:StudioOxOmegaSupreme.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Favorite punctuation mark: colon.]]

'''Omega Supreme''' is one of the [[Scale|largest Autobots there is]]. He isn't much for words, preferring his massive frame and equally massive weapons to do the talking for him. Omega is the last line of defense for the Autobots, a titanic guardian robot capable of instilling fear and panic into the [[spark]]s of [[Decepticon]]s that dare face him on the field of battle.

Except [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]]. Kill that little guy, it just makes him angry.

{{bigquote|Omega Supreme: always prepared.|Omega Supreme|"[[Blaster Blues]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Jack Angel]] (English), [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese), [[Henry Djanik]] (French), [[Carlos Agosti]] (Latin American), [[Gernot Duda]] (German, ''The Big Broadcast of 2006''), [[Gerd Rigauer]] (German, ''The Golden Lagoon'' Generation 2 Dub)

[[Image:Omegadefendscrystalcity.jpg|thumb|left|250px|How his base ends up on the planets his rocket flies to is just another of those eternal mysteries of life.]]
Millions of years ago, Omega Supreme was a member of the legendary [[Guardian robot]]s, and was charged with defending [[Crystal City]], the most spectacular city on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. He befriended the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], the city's creators. However, as it would happen, the Constructicons were attacked by [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s [[Robo-Smasher]] and converted into [[Decepticon|Decepticons]]. The now-evil Constructicons convinced Omega to leave his post to help defend the capital city, and promised to look after the city in his stead. When he left, they demolished the Crystal City, to Omega Supreme's horror. He hunted them down, trapping them in a pit, and tried to reverse the reprogramming done by the Robo-Smasher. Though he appeared to be successful, the programming was irreversible, and Megatron had given the Constructicons a new combined form named [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. The treacherous Constructicons lured Omega into an ambush and in their new form attempted to use the Smasher to convert him into a Decepticon, but he destroyed the machine and they fled before he recovered from the attack.

{{Quote|I lived, but changed. Since then, I feel only hate for the Constructicons.}}

[[Image:Robo-Smasher and Omega Supreme.jpg|thumb|260px|right|Et tu, Robo-Smasher?]]
Some time after these events transpired — after the launch of the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot]] and [[Nemesis (G1)|Decepticon starships]] — the Constructicons left Cybertron in a starship and tried to locate the missing Megatron. Omega Supreme pursued them, "for millions of years, across the galaxies"; eventually, the Constructicons rejoined Megatron on [[Earth]], and Omega Supreme followed them there, still seeking revenge. {{Storylink|The Secret of Omega Supreme}}

[[Image:Omegasupreme astrotrain.jpg|thumb|left|210px]]
For the most part, he acted as inter-planetary transport for the Autobots, as well as their last line of defense. While he was preparing for a round of target practice, Omega lost contact with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] when [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] began broadcasting the music from a concert over the Autobot communications frequencies. The interference resulted in Megatron getting away clean with the [[Voltronic Galaxer]], which necessitated a trip to the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] to retrieve it. Omega took Optimus, [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide]], [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and [[Carly]]. There, he got to battle [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], who taunted him for being outdated technology, but changed his tune after Omega triumphed. {{Storylink|Blaster Blues}} When the Decepticons found a pool of [[electrum]], rendering them invulnerable, they attacked Omega Supreme. His weapons had no effect on them, and the titan fell. Later the Autobots got the opportunity for payback when they located the electrum pool and used it themselves, gaining the advantage as the Decepticons' electrum coating wore off. {{Storylink|The Golden Lagoon}}

After [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] crashed on [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], Omega carried [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] there on a rescue mission. Unfortunately he just barely had enough energy to land, and was left teetering on the edge of a cliff overhanging a lake of deadly liquid. The moon was fortunately rich in [[energy crystal]]s, and Perceptor was able to use them to repower Omega. The explosion of the crystal deposit caused the island they were on to begin to disintegrate, so Omega Supreme used his base mode to transport everyone across to safety. {{Storylink|The God Gambit}}

[[Image:Secretomegachatinwoods.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Storytime: informative.]]
Omega Surpreme finally got his chance at revenge when the Constructicons started mining an asteroid that turned out to be the egg of an [[Asteroid bird alien|strange creature]]. Omega left the creature to its own devices, which would have resulted in it devouring [[San Francisco]]. However, Optimus Prime convinced Omega to lead the creature back to its asteroid, which would sustain it. Omega lost his chance at revenge, but he did his duty. {{Storylink|The Secret of Omega Supreme}}

After the energy pest [[Kremzeek]] took out most of the Autobots, Omega Supreme transported the survivors of his attack to [[Japan]] in an attempt to track down the creature. When they arrived, they were immediately beset by Kremzeek, however the Autobots remembered that Omega had not been coated with the insulating compound that was protecting them. Omega took to the air, but Kremzeek managed to reach him anyway, and he quickly crashed onto the Japanese beach. [[Bumblebee (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Bumblebee]] promised they'd fix him up as soon as possible. {{storylink|Kremzeek!}}

The Autobots used Omega Supreme to follow the Decepticons back to Cybertron when Megatron intended to use [[Vector Sigma]] to create a new group of Decepticon warriors. After failing to stop the Decepticons from creating the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]], {{Storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1}} the Autobots created a new team of their own to counter the new threat, the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]]. As Omega Supreme escaped Cybertron, he was hit by weapons fire from the [[Centurion droid]]s, and once he safely disembarked his passengers on Earth, he catastrophically exploded.

[[Image:KtVS2 Omega Supreme in pieces.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Exploding: painful.]]
[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Sparkplug Witwicky]] connected Omega Supreme's mind to the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'s life support unit while they set about putting the giant back together. The arrogant Aerialbots, unimpressed with both the Autobots and the humans they protected, refused to help their comrades in defeating the Decepticons until their group leader [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] showed them how Sparkplug was able to disregard his fatigue and continue repairing Omega Supreme simply because of his concern for a friend's well being. Soon afterwards, the Aerialbots were facing defeat as [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] at the hands of the Stunticon combined form, [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], when the newly-repaired Omega Supreme suddenly appeared and helped them defeat the combiner and send the Decepticons packing. {{Storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2}}

[[Image:BigBroadcast Omega Supreme attacked in rocket mode.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Enemy fire: tickles.]]
He transported the Autobots and the Aerialbots back to Cybertron when they detected strange energy readings emanating from the planet. The trip expended his energy so he was forced to sit out the mission. While the Autobots dealt with a [[Kronosphere|time machine]] sending the Aerialbots to the past, the Decepticons reactivated one of Omega's fellow Guardian Robots. After the Aerialbots returned from their trip through time, Silverbolt handed over some power packs they had taken from the Cybertron's Golden Age to refuel Omega. {{Storylink|War Dawn}}

After the coming of [[Unicron]], his space transport role was fulfilled by [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], though he still carried out occasional missions. He transported several Autobots to Junkion to investigate the strange behaviour of the Junkions. He was shot down by [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] and the [[Sweep]]s crashing the Autobots on an asteroid. After being repaired Omega quickly turned the tide of the battle. Upon arriving on Junkion, Omega again battled the Decepticons. He was knocked down by a blast from Galvatron's cannon mode, but recovered and battled the Decepticons until Blaster asked him to bring him to altitude to counter the Quintesson signals. {{Storylink|The Big Broadcast of 2006 (episode)|The Big Broadcast of 2006}}

He was off on an undescribed mission when [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]] acquired super-intelligence. {{Storylink|Grimlock's New Brain}}

====''The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers''====
Omega Supreme was deployed alongside [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] and [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] by [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]] to defend the [[Prime Energy Tower]] of planet [[Feminia]] from the Decepticons. Together, the three giant Autobots were a match for [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] and [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. Unfortunately, [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] had a trump card ready: [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]]. With a single blow from his fist, Predaking toppled Omega Supreme, Defensor and Superion. {{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 5|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #5}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
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[[Image:Omega_comics.jpg|thumb|left|200px|I... AM DARKWING DUCK!]]
Almost immediately after [[Grapple]] was brought online on Earth, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] had a secret project in mind for the architect. {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}} Constructed by Grapple and given life by Prime's [[Creation Matrix]], Omega Supreme was unveiled in front of the Autobots as the Ark's last line of defense. With Omega completed, the Autobots were now free to leave the base en masse to attack the Decepticons, an advantage Optimus Prime utilized immediately. As the Autobots attacked the [[Wyoming base|Decepticon headquarters]], [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], unaware of Omega Supreme's birth, took [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]], [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]], [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]], and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] with him to attack the Ark, which he believed to be unguarded. At first Megatron underestimated the tank and rocket ship sitting outside their target, but Omega Supreme transformed and within moments destroyed all of them one by one without pause. Laserbeak managed to escape with a wounded Megatron back to the Decepticons. {{Storylink|Command Performances!}}

''Early on in the first [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] encounter, the Autobots openly talked about siccing Omega Supreme on the Decepticons. And then '''never did so''', despite it being a smart idea and knowing it was an option.'' {{Storylink|Target: 2006|Target: 2006 part 1}}

[[Image:Omegasupreme-blasterandgrimlock.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Size: indeterminate.]]

Though Omega Supreme continued to guard the Ark, he didn't seem to stay [[Scale|quite as huge]] as he used to be. He could soon fit into the Ark, where watched with other Autobots as Ratchet tried to repair Optimus Prime, who had fallen in battle. At Prime's funeral, Omega placed his body in his final resting place, a spaceship casket which they shot into space. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend!}} The funeral motivated Omega to work even harder so as to not let Optimus Prime down. He defended the Ark against an assault by [[Cobra]] aircraft and [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. [[Serpentor]] then blew up Dirge as a demonstration of Cobra's peaceful intent and Omega ceased fire. {{storylink|Ashes, Ashes...}}

Omega entered the Ark again when he and other high-ranking Autobots assembled to nominate Prime's replacement, and he suggested courage as a valuable trait for their imaginary candidate. When [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] attacked, the Decepticon carpeted the entrance to the Ark with sonic scrambler mines, disabling Omega and the other Autobots within; Omega was thus unable to square off against the giant. Fortunately, they were rescued by [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] and the other [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], a turn of events that persuaded him, along with the other Autobots, to support Grimlock as their new leader. {{Storylink|King of the Hill!}} Later, Omega Supreme acted as a sort of Master of Ceremonies when [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] and Grimlock were due to fight it out for Autobot leadership on the [[Moon (moon)|moon]]. He had shrunk more by then, but once [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]'s Decepticons surprise-attacked them, he seemed bigger again. Omega survived the battle seemingly uninjured. {{Storylink|Totaled!}}

[[Image:Buzzsawyikes4.jpg|left|250px|thumb|It's over 9000.]]

Omega traveled with the rest of the Autobots to the [[Arctic]] to investigate a distress signal sent by [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]]. Soon, they were ambushed by two Decepticon armies, and Buzzsaw cannon-blasted Omega Supreme—and Omega actually seemed to be getting knocked over. This was all revealed as a plot by Starscream to divert both factions away from his attempts to absorb the powers of the [[Underbase]]. Omega traveled to [[Buenos Aires]] as part of a team led jointly by [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]. When Fortress Maximus was in danger, he jumped to his rescue—however, the Underbase-powered Starscream, recalling his earlier defeat at Omega's hands, gleefully killed him. {{Storylink|Dark Star}}

Pieces of him were seen in Ratchet's repair bay. {{Storylink|Back from the Dead}}

In an alternate future of 2006, Omega Supreme flew a group of Autobots to [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]] to investigate some strange goings-on there. He fought off alien spacecraft that were attacking the Autobots under hypnosis. He also battled with "[[Scourge (G1)|Sweeps]]" and helped disrupt a [[Quintesson]] hypnosis signal by flying [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] into the air to broadcast soothing music. {{storylink|The Big Broadcast of 2006 (issue)|The Big Broadcast of 2006 (US)}}

{{note|In the UK version of the story, the events of "The Big Broadcast of 2006" are a fabrication invented by [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]].}}

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===Dreamwave comics continuity===
[[Image:TheOmegaEffect_OmegaSupreme_Sunstorm_Starscream.jpg|thumb|200px|Starscream's pants: soiled]]
Some time after the departure of the Ark, Omega Supreme and [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] were part of one of the last Autobot space programs, tasked with containing the expansion of the Decepticons to other worlds and, more importantly, to find [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and the crew of the Ark. After falling out with the other members of the operation, Jetfire and Omega detected what they thought was the energy signature of the Ark, only to be attacked by [[Scourge (G1)|a mysterious, powerful assailant]]. They ultimately ended up buried under Antarctica on Earth. {{Storylink|Original Sin}} Millions of years later, Jetfire remotely reactivated Omega Supreme in an attempt to defeat the powerful and insane [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]]. Though Omega Supreme managed to capture the weakened Sunstorm thanks to Ratchet's energy siphon, Starscream destroyed the device to enable his own escape, reactivating Sunstorm and truly commencing the battle between the two powerhouses. Omega was ultimately successful in overpowering Sunstorm in a straight fight, but when he retracted his damaged visor in order to examine his quarry, Sunstorm blasted him right in the face with a burst of solar radiation, instantly knocking him off line. {{Storylink|The Omega Effect}} While he was recuperating from his damage, he shared [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]]'s concerns over the danger their friends were in and how useless they felt. {{Storylink|Atonement}} Omega later recovered and helped the Autobots in building [[Autobot City]]. {{Storylink|The Route of All Evil}}

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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[Image:ArtofWar3_OmegaSupreme_Sixshot_Astrotrain.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Characteristic speech pattern: averted.]]
Omega Supreme served as security during an Autobot peace ceremony on Cybertron. When [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]]'s forces attacked, he transformed and shot down [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]], but soon found himself surrounded by [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]], [[Piranacon (G1)|Piranacon]] and [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}} The combined might of the three giants was too much for Omega, who was defeated and almost crushed a [[Optimus Prime's rescuees|civilian]] as he fell to the ground. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}}

Following the defeat of Serpent O.R. and the Decepticon army, Omega Supreme helped repair damaged buildings in [[Capitol City]]. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 5|The Art of War #5}}

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===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
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[[Image:OmegaSupreme_SpotlightPrime.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Privacy: Requested. Discharge: Imminent.]]

Omega Supreme is an extremely ancient Transformer, hailing from the time of the [[Knights of Cybertron]] in the planet's largely-forgotten past. He served as the guardian of the subterranean Crystal City, former cultural centre of the planet, and when the Knights left Cybertron to spread their wisdom across the galaxy, he remained behind, protecting a lone [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] that lay slumbering beneath the city's foundations. When war erupted between the Cybertronians on the surface, Omega abstained from entering the conflict, holding true to his vigil. Eventually, a leader named [[Nova Prime]] brought the war to an end, and soon discovered Crystal City and Omega while searching for ways to bring peace and prosperity back to the planet. Approving of his goals, Omega allied with him and helped raise Crystal City back to the surface, but he did not entirely trust Nova and his plans to spread his influence to other worlds, and kept the Metrotitan's existence a secret. Eventually, Omega's caution proved warranted when [[Dai Atlas (Zone)|Dai Atlas]] alerted him to the fact that Nova Prime and his scientist [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] had created the horrific combiner, [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]]—the first step towards their goal of eliminating all free will. Omega attacked the beast and battled with it while Nova Prime and his followers departed on their mission of conquest aboard the first [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], and eventually subdued it. Knowing that war would return to the planet and lacking in any real hope for the future of their race, Omega handed the duty of guarding the Metrotitan over to Dai Atlas, {{storylink|Primus: All Good Things|All Good Things}} and withdrew from Cybertron, sealing Monstructor in a dimensionally-displaced prison and entering seclusion in a specially-shielded artificial asteroid within the [[Muta-Gaath Nebula]].

Omega's existence remained known to the Transformers on Cybertron, and when war did indeed begin again once more as he had predicted, Omega nominally aligned himself with the Autobots in an advisory capacity, but not participating in the combat itself. {{Storylink|Spotlight: Optimus Prime}} When [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] threatened to destroy the planet, however, Omega joined the allied forces of the Autobots and Decepticons to stop him, alongside [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]], and [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1}}

Centuries later, Optimus Prime came to Omega's asteroid to consult the ancient sentinel on Nova Prime. It was while Optimus was present that Monstructor attacked, having at last escaped his imprisonment and seeking revenge against Omega. Informing Optimus of his history with Nova and Monstructor, Omega provided the Autobot leader with information on Monstructor's weak spot, enabling him to defeat the gestalt, though Prime condemned him for attempting to play god by simply locking them away. {{Storylink|Spotlight: Optimus Prime}} Some time later, when the [[Dead Universe]] Transformers began attacking the Autobots, Omega confirmed the identities of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] for Jetfire, informing him that they too were members of Nova Prime's Ark crew. {{Storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}}

[[Image:Omega Arrives in AHM.jpg|thumb|left|250px|RAAAAAIIIID?!]]

When Decepticons initiated a [[Surge (event)|galaxy-wide assault]] on all Autobot outposts, pushing their enemies to the brink of extinction, Omega Supreme was also targeted, but his power proved too much for the Decepticons to handle. Around a year after this "Surge", Omega followed a distress call sent by [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] to Cybertron, arriving just in time to turn the tide of a battle between the Autobot survivors camped out on the planet and the feral [[Insecticon swarm]] stalking them. Apologizing for taking so long, Omega assumed his rocket mode at Optimus Prime's request, and ferried the Autobots to Earth for a confrontation with Megatron and the Decepticons. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}} During the battle that followed in New York City, Omega engaged the new Decepticon combiner [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], {{Storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}} moving their fight out to Liberty Island to minimize collateral damage. Notionally, that is—Omega won the bout when he pushed Devastator against the [[Statue of Liberty]] and took him out with a blast to the midsection, which also destroyed Lady Liberty. Whoops. {{Storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}

[[Image:NewArrivalsOldEncounters_OmegaSupreme.jpg|thumb|250px|Movieverse redesign: funky]]

Omega remained on Earth with the other Autobots during the two years that followed the New York battle, hiding out in a remote canyon in base mode. When Optimus Prime surrendered to the forces of [[Skywatch]] and Autobot leadership was divided between [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and Bumblebee, the two new leaders had different plans for Omega. Hot Rod approached him with the proposal that they use his rocket mode to get off the planet, but Omega refused, both because he lacked the fuel, and because he was insistent upon staying on Earth as long as Optimus Prime remained there. {{storylink|Things Fall Apart, Part 1: "New Arrivals, Old Encounters"|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}} Bumblebee then hid him from Skywatch by having him relocate to a cramped cave, which Omega-now too low on energon to even transform into base mode—found extremely uncomfortable, and by this time he was. {{storylink|The Hanging Sword}} Omega was later present at the cave's opening when [[Gordon Horiuchi]] made a visit to repair Bumblebee's supposedly damaged killswitch board. {{storylink|The Gift Horse}} After Horiuchi's scheme to control the Autobots was thwarted with the help of [[Daniel Klonowski]], Omega Supreme was present when Bumblebee's new, more powerful body was unveiled. {{Storylink|Wings of Wax}}

A few months later after an alliance had been formed between the Autobots and Skywatch, the Decepticons returned to Earth and wrecked their headquarters, a Skywatch base. [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] had the place evacuated and tried to regroup at Omega Supreme, still hiding in the desert. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 3: Woken Furies|Woken Furies}} After some trouble along the way, the Autobots reached their destination and made Omega's base mode their new headquarters. When Megatron let himself get captured, he was imprisoned inside Omega Supreme, who was ordered to transform and crush him in the process if he tried to escape. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 5: Enemy Mine|Enemy Mine}}

When the Autobots learned that Cybertron had become habitable once again only for Galvatron to occupy it, they elected to return to their home planet on Omega Supreme. Charged up with whatever energy Skywatch could offer and a fuel cell invented by [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]], Omega's rocket mode carried most of Optimus Prime's Autobots and the captive Megatron into space, while his base mode remained on Earth with Bumblebee. {{storylink|Space Opera—Final Tableaux: Orphans of the Helix|Orphans of the Helix}} When Optimus Prime wanted to have a private chat with Megatron, Omega shut off the viewscreens to the room to prevent the other Autobots from peeping, and he also cut the power to the [[variable voltage harness]] when Optimus lost patience and almost killed Megatron with it. {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 1}}

Upon arriving at Cybertron, Omega Supreme was ordered to remain in orbit while the Autobots went down to the surface. {{storylink|Chaos Part One: Lamentations}} With Rodimus captaining him, he participated in the battle against Galvatron's weaponized [[Kimia Facility]], but when the Autobot air forces failed to damage it, he and Rodimus agreed that their only choice was for Omega to ram it. However, just as they were about to, Kimia suddenly exploded from internal sabotage, damaging Omega's rocket mode and forcing him to land on Cybertron. {{storylink|Chaos Part Two: Numbers}} Unable to take off, he was easy prey for a [[Deceptigod|gigantic monster]] created out of Galvatron's entire army, which attacked and ripped the rocket in half. {{storylink|Chaos Part Three: Kings}} This caused pain to his other half on Earth, where he had to report to Bumblebee that their former ally [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] had fled the premises. {{storylink|Police Action Part 3: A Second Chance at Eden}}

Once the Autobots had won the battle on Cybertron and abandoned Earth, Omega Supreme's rocket was repaired and the rest of him returned home as well. He was still recharging three weeks later and thus couldn't help put down a [[NAIL]] riot, forcing the Autobots to get the Decepticons' help instead. Rodimus wanted to use Omega in the search for the [[Knights of Cybertron]], but Bumblebee wouldn't let him. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}} [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] broke one of Omega's walls while returning from exploring Cybertron's hostile surface, but was assured that it'd grow back. {{storylink|The Autonomy Lesson}}

When word reached Omega that the Metrotitan—which had long since left Cybertron along with Dai Atlas–had returned and promptly died, he spoke to Metalhawk about what the titan had said before he perished. The titan had dubbed [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] the Cybertronian who would unite their race, calling many of Metalhawk's beliefs into question, and Omega concluded that the titan's purpose had been to foster that sense of uncertainty to open the way for change. {{storylink|Primus: All Good Things|All Good Things}}
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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:G1OmegaSupreme_toy.jpg|thumb|300px|Little yellow clips: misplaced.]]
*'''Omega Supreme''' (1985, 2008)
**''Accessories:'' 2 small shields, 2 medium shields, 2 large shields, 4 armour halves (A, B, C, D), 4 ankle halves (E, F, G, H), 2 feet, backpack, 4 tracks (J, K, L, M)

:Omega Supreme transforms into three individual components simultaneously: a large rocket base, a rocket and a tank. Omega Supreme's "transformation" involves very little manipulation of his moving parts, in fact, the only part that transforms is his main body/tank. Instead, it is achieved by disassembling him into his component pieces, which are then put back together in a different configuration. The tank forms his main body, the rocket forms his forearms, the track makes up most of his legs, while the gantry forms his feet and backpack, with extra track parts forming wings. The torso features a battery-operated motor which propels the tank around the track as its turret spins and flashes with orange light, or allows Omega to walk (very slowly) forward in robot mode. This motor is extremely susceptible to failure.

:Omega Supreme was one of several toys licensed by [[Hasbro]] from a company other than [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]. In this case, and in common with [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], Omega Supreme was licensed by a company called Toybox. As a consequence, Omega Supreme was never released in [[Japan]] under the ''Transformers'' brand during the original 1980s run. In June 2008 TakaraTomy released the toy for the first time in Japan as part of their "[[Transformers Encore]]" ''Generation 1'' [[Generation 1 reissues|reissue]]. The new release was slightly [[retool]]ed to have a face (well, the top half of one) in the tank turret which becomes his head, although this ends up looking odd in vehicle mode.

: Normally it's not possible to have every part of the rails attached to him if one follows the instructions and animation model, but by arranging the "wings" into an "X" shape on his back, one can store all of his parts in robot mode.

: The retooled version was later [[redeco]]ed as a [[Guardian robot]], available through the online [[e-HOBBY]] store.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1985/Autobot/OmegaSupreme/OmegaSupreme.htm More information on Omega Supreme at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:G1OmegaSpreem_toy.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Identity: specious. Colors: [[Neon|abrasive]].]]
*'''Omega Spreem''' (Action Master Elite, 1991)
**''Accessories:'' Gun/treads

:As an [[Action Master Elite]], Omega Spreem is one of the few figures in the [[Action Master]] line that can actually transform to some extent, in this case transforming into a Cybertronian tank, though the "transformation" itself merely consists of him bending over. A button on back of the tank turret, when pressed, spins the front half of the turret. In robot mode, he carries the front of his tank as a treaded gun.

:Omega Spreem, as with the other Action Master Elites, was only released in Europe and Australasia.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1991/Autobot/OmegaSpreem/omegaspreem.htm More information on Omega Spreem at TFU.info]''

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==Merchandise==
===Super Collection Figures===
[[Image:HOC_OmegaSupreme.jpg|thumb|250px|Mask: Required wearing. Face: OH GOD NO]]
*'''Omega Supreme''' (2001)

:A three-inch tall [[plastic|PVC]] figurine of Omega Supreme was available in "Act 5" of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Super Collection Figure]]'' line (which, oddly, centered around ''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce]]'', a series which Omega Supreme was not part of). Like all the figures in the wave, it was available as both a standard full color figure and a metallic silver "pewter" version, one of each of which was available in a standard case of twelve [[blindpacking|blindpacked]] figures. Additionally, in eight out of every ten cases, the pewter version of Omega Supreme came packaged with the left leg of the [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] collectable "build-a-figure".

===Heroes of Cybertron===
*'''Omega Supreme''' (2003)

:Omega Supreme's ''Super Collection Figure'' PVC was released two years later by [[Hasbro]] as part of their ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' line. Like all the figures in the series, Omega was given a [[light-piping]] gimmick by being cast entirely in translucent blue plastic then painted everywhere except on his eyes and the back of his head. Part of the fifth and final wave of ''Heroes of Cybertron'', Omega was, unlike the Japanese figure, sold on an individual blister card and came packaged with the torso of the [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] "build-a-figure".

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===Diamond Select===
[[Image:Ark_Globe.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Appearance: cameo. Residuals: minimal.]]
*'''Autobot Snow Globe''' (2007)

:Omega Supreme appears as part of the base of this snow globe, sculpted by [[Art Asylum]] and sold by [[Diamond Select Toys]].

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[[Image:Omega_statue.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Pose: [[Pat_Lee#Transformers_by_Dreamwave|Dreamwave]]. Knees: buckling.]]
*'''Omega Supreme Statue''' (2008)

:Omega Supreme was released as a statue in 2008 by Diamond Select Toys. He was sculpted by Mark Wong of Art Asylum and limited to 1,000 pieces. He's in scale with G1 toys.

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==Notes==
[[Image:ToyboxMechabot-1.jpg|thumb|250px|Repaint: [[Black repaint|black]].]]
*Unlike the bulk of early Transformers that drew their molds from [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Diaclone]]'' and ''[[Micro Change|Microchange]]'' toys, Omega Supreme's original form was "[http://1501bc.com/pretf/mechabot.html Super Change Robo Mechabot-1]", produced by a company called [[Toybox]]. Toybox did not actually design Omega Supreme, instead commissioning his design, along with [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], from Takara's then-rival Tomy. As mentioned above, he was not released in [[Japan]] under the ''Transformers'' brand during the original 1980s run, and it seems that he was not released in the United Kingdom, either; part of the reason for the latter omission is presumably due to the fact that the Mechabot-1 mold was licensed to a UK company called Grandstand and sold as [http://megatronofcybertron2.homestead.com/omegatron.html Omegatron], part of Grandstand's ''Convertors'' toyline.
*Though not a part of the European Generation 1 toyline, either, the Omega Supreme mold was released in France by [[Orli Jouets]] under the name "[http://www.ina.fr/pub/culture-et-loisirs/video/PUB3784054071/robotrack-orli-jouets-jeu.fr.html Robotrack]". Oddly, they actually used footage from the ''Transformers'' commercial for Omega Supreme, so... what gives, France?
*According to [[Bob Budiansky]]'s notes at [[BotCon 2010]]<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/index.php?full=1&set_albumName=BotCon_2010_Sat_Panels&id=DSC05237&option=com_gallery&Itemid=4&include=view_photo.php Bob Budiansky's notes at BotCon 2010]</ref>, Omega Supreme was originally going to be named [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. Why the name changed is uncertain, but since it was later applied to [[Autobot City]] in the [[The Planet-Eater!|Marvel adaptation]] of the ''[[The Transformers: The Movie|Transformers]]'' movie before being used on the Headmaster, it seems someone ''really'' wanted to use it.
*Omega Supreme's name could be translated as "Last of the Best"; given his role as the "last line of defense", this is appropriate.
*In the cartoon, Omega Supreme can launch his rocket into space, leaving the remaining parts behind at his launch base, and then transform fully back to robot mode even though the majority of his body parts are separated from the rocket by a good planetary diameter or two (if not several light years). Indeed, sometimes his base mode is seen to be inexplicably awaiting his rocket mode at his destination, leading some to speculate that Omega (rather implausibly) has duplicate body parts on some other planets, "just in case". Some [[fanon]] alternatively holds that in cases such as these, Omega's non-rocket parts actually use [[Size changing|size-changing technology]] to shrink down and travel as cargo inside his rocket mode, which are then disgorged and enlarged before landing. Another theory is that the base is transported to [[subspace]], as some believe happens with Optimus Prime's trailer. Whatever helps you sleep at night...
*Although over half of the episodes from the Generation 1 cartoon featuring Omega were written by [[David Wise]] (including his showcase episode, "The Secret of Omega Supreme"), don't let that fool you into thinking Wise had a soft spot for Omega—he really didn't like him! In fact, the uncharacteristic eloquence displayed by Omega in "Secret" was actually a script error by Wise, who was unaware of Omega's trademark speech pattern and wrote the episode with normal dialogue. Script editors had to add in lines about Omega being able to talk normally when he wanted to make it work without a wholesale rewrite.<ref>[http://moonbase2.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=553015 Moonbase 2 interview with David Wise]</ref>
[[Image:JoemegaSupreme.jpg|thumb|250px|Declarative: YO JOE!]]
*At JoeCon 2011, Hasbro's [[Rik Alvarez]] hosted a "Treasures from the Hasbro Archives" panel, where he revealed that he had then-recently found a box in the company archives containing an assortment of artwork, concept boards, and proposals for what "could have been" in a series of Transformers/[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]] crossovers. Of these concepts, the only one shown at the panel were parts of an Omega Supreme that had been redecoed and intended for release in the G.I. Joe toyline (this was later shown again at [[BotCon 2011]], though no photos were allowed then). Whether these redecoed parts were intended for use as a "crossover" G.I. Joe/Transformers character or as a non-living G.I. Joe vehicle was unsaid.
*According to the [[Letters page (Marvel UK)|letters page]] of Marvel UK issue #285, [[External Forces!]], Omega is tougher than a "block of triple-strength [[durabyllium]] steel."
*"Omega Spreem" (the name of Omega Supreme's Action Master Elite form) is actually one possible transliteration of the Katakana (a Japanese syllabary used for foreign words and names) spelling of "Omega Supreme", suggesting that the name could possibly have resulted from the name "Omega Supreme" [[Engrish|going from English to Japanese, and then back to English again]]. ''Why'' it would have gone through this rigmarole, however, is unknown. The ''[[Transformers Vault]]'' book reveals more details for how this might have happened, without really ''explaining'' it: The design artwork for an unreleased standard (i.e. not Elite) [[Action Master]] version of Omega Supreme has his name (correctly spelled) written quite large on the top of the sheet in big black marker. However, there's also an illustrator's note written in very small pen/pencil next to the toy's design artwork, which misspells the character's name as "Omega Spreem", despite the correct spelling being in giant text directly above it (though to be fair, it's possible that the black marker text was added after the fact). When the toy was released, for ''some'' reason Hasbro used the "Omega Spreem" spelling. Hasbro UK moves in mysterious ways indeed.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Omega Supreme''' (オメガ・スプリーム ''Omega Supurīmu'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Szuper Omega'''
*''Italian:'' '''Megarobot'''
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Omega Velychnyi''' (Омега Величний "Omega Grand")
*''Russian:'' '''Omegator''' (Омегатор)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Omega_Supreme Omega Supreme's Universe profile at NTFA.net]
* [http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/classics-11/japanese-hobby-magazine-scans-for-january-2008-164116/ Interview with Junichi Ishikawa, who was in charge designing of Omega Supreme and Sky Lynx at Tomy, detailing the story of how their Encore reissues came to be.]

[[Category: Action Masters]]
[[Category: Autobot bases]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
[[Category: Multi-component Transformers]]

Loose Ends, Part 5

2012-11-10T17:17:39Z

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|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[November 7]], [[2012]]
|coverdate=November 2012
|writer=[[Simon Furman]]
|penciler=[[Andrew Wildman]]
|inker=[[Stephen Baskerville]]
|colorist=[[John-Paul Bove]]
|letterer=[[Chris Mowry]]
|editor=[[John Barber]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
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'''One stands... one falls!'''

==Synopsis==

In the realm of [[Zero Space]], the nothingness at the end of all time... a crack appears in the fabric of the universe...

[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] leads his [[Autobot]]s into [[Washington, D.C.]], there to confront [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] in final conflict. Riddled with guilt over the fate of [[Earth]], essentially a result of his own inaction, Prime manages to keep himself composed as he commands Megatron to let the captive [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] go... but when Megatron kills the [[Wrecker]]s' leader with a single [[fusion cannon]] blast, all the fury Prime has suppressed comes spilling out. As Megatron's [[zombie]] Decepticons engage the other Autobots, the two ancient enemies meet in battle, with Megatron gleefully revealing that he has taken steps to ensure this will be their last confrontation: when their duel reaches its end, whatever the outcome, [[Aunty|Auntie]], the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'s computer, is programmed to launch nuclear missiles all across the world, destroying winners, losers, and everyone else.

In the Yukon, the Wreckers and their human allies continue their press toward the Ark, battling their way through a phalanx of [[Guardian (Marvel)|Guardian]] robots. Discovering that [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Circuit Smasher]]'s powers are unable to damage the robots, and that they consequently do not register him as a threat, [[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] instructs the cybernetic superhuman to leave them behind and enter the Ark alone, gambling that the ship's systems will not react to him. Circuit Smasher is able to make it into Auntie's mainframe nest, but once there, the computer registers his presence and traps him in a cloud of nano-parasites that threaten to dissolve him within minutes.

Meanwhile, a new crisis grips the Autobots on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]: [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] has penetrated the [[Hall of Silence]], resting place of [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]'s remains. With a [[null field]] keeping the Autobots out of the facility, [[Grapple]] advocates destroying it entirely to prevent the reservoir of Matrix energy that still lingers within Thunderwing's body from falling into Decepticon hands, but acting commander [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] can only wonder how Optimus Prime would handle the situation...

Back on Earth, while Prime and Megatron's battle continues to rage, the [[Scraplet]]-infected [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] drags himself toward Megatron's battle-sled, following [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s instruction to kill the still-living head of [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] mounted on its prow. Doing so will kill Megatron through the psychic link he and Ratchet share; the very link that gave him the scientific knowledge to revive the dead Decepticons and take control of Auntie. [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] attempts to tend to Kup, but the elderly 'bot instead demands the medic's gun and has him hold his arm steady so he can deliver the killshot. Simultaneously, Optimus Prime pins Megatron and prepares to crush his eternal foe with a huge chunk of rubble... but when Megatron laughs that doing so will make Prime as bad as he is, Optimus relents, and Megatron seizes the opening to stab the Autobot leader with a shard of debris. The tables turned, Megatron leans in for the kill, at which point Kup shoots Ratchet point-blank. Megatron screams in agony, and Prime plunges his fist into the Decepticon's chest, ripping out his spark and killing him once and for all. Their clash at an end, Auntie is seconds away from letting the missiles fly, but Circuit Smasher is able to attune his powers to her systems and shorts them all out, shutting down the Ark, and with it the missiles, the zombie Decepticons and the Guardians.

But elsewhere in the frozen wastes of the Yukon... a crack appears in the ice... and from the frozen depths, [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] emerges!

And across the universe, on [[Nebulos]], [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] finds himself a prisoner of [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]. The Decepticon's head, long left behind on the planet after his merging with [[Zarak (G1)|Lord Zarak]], now sits atop a new, functional body, and he offers Grimlock the same treatment, thereby restoring his lost powers of [[transformation]], but in return, Grimlock must stand at Scorponok's side as he begins a plan to rewrite Cybertronian evolution!

==Featured characters==
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*[[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] (3)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (4)
*[[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] (5)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (6)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (7)
*[[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] (8)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (9)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (10)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (12)
*[[Skids (G1)|Skids]] (13)
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*[[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] (23)
*[[Rack'n'Ruin|Rack 'n' Ruin]] (24)
*[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] (25)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] (31)
*? (32)
*[[Grapple|Grapple]] (33)
*[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (34)
*[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] (37)
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (38)
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*[[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] (2)
*[[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] (11)
*[[Tantrum]] (17)
*[[Blot (G1)|Blot]] (18)
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (35)
*[[Galvatron II|Galvatron]] (36)
*[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] (39)
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*[[Rob]] (27)
*[[Gordon Kent]] (28)
*[[Nel]] (29)
*Mossof or Daley (30)
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*[[Aunty|Auntie]] (20)
*[[Guardian (Marvel)|Guardian units]] (21)
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==Quotes==
"What Optimus Prime would do?"

:—'''Hot Rod''' confirms that Prime is [[Jesus]].

==Notes==
*Optimus Prime is seen to transform in this issue, confirming that whatever effect [[Nucleon]] had upon him when he was exposed to the substance through [[Hi-Q]] in the final issues of the original Marvel series, it did not make him an [[Action Master]].
*Prowl and Tracks are also seen in vehicle mode so Nucleon seems to have affected them differently as well.
*Given that last issue featured only four humans in battlesuits, it follows that the "Mossof" and "Daley" called for in this issue are the surnames of Rob, Nel or Paula (but who they would be, we can't tell—see Errors, below). As with their first names, they are named after Furman's former colleagues on the US [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|comic series]], most likely ''Generation 2'' colorist [[Sarra Mossoff]] and editor [[Don Daley]].

===Errors===
*The four battlesuits are supposed to be distinguished by red (Gordon), blue (Paula), green (Nel) and brown (Rob) helmets, but when Daley and Mossof are called for, both suits visible have red helmets.
*On page 20, "permafrost" is misspelled "permaforst".

===Covers (3)===
*'''Cover A:''' Prime about to crush Megatron, by Andrew Wildman and [[Jason Cardy]].
*'''Cover B:''' Prime carrying a dead Megatron by [[Guido Guidi]].
*'''Cover RI:''' Ultra Magnus fights the [[zombie]] hordes, by [[Geoff Senior]] and [[Josh Burcham]].
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==Footnotes==
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[[Category:Regeneration One issues]]

Darkest Hour (episode)

2012-11-05T10:20:40Z

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{{disambig3|Darkest Hour}}

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|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 52
|prev=Regeneration (Prime)
|next=
|image=PrimeDarkestHourOPArm.jpg
|caption=WISE FWOM YOUR GWAVE
|title="Darkest Hour"
|airdate=[[November 2]], [[2012]]
|written by=[[Steven Melching]]
|directed by=[[Vinton Heuck]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
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'''Megatron's plans force Optimus to make a risky decision that could have inescapable consequences for the entire Autobot team.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:DarkestHour-captives.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Jack: It's all because of us. Miko: We're so fragged. Raf: Can I go to the bathroom?]]

The two groups stand on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], locked in a face-off. While the [[Autobot]]s have the [[Omega Key]]s, the [[Decepticon]]s have [[Jack Darby|Jack]], [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] and [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]]. [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] orders [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] to get ready to expose Jack to Cybertron's toxic atmosphere. Though the kids are ready to sacrifice themselves to save the planet, [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] isn't, and the Autobots throw down their weapons. [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] hands over his key in exchange for Miko, [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] hands over his for Raf, and Megatron insists that as someone who was entrusted with the [[Matrix of Leadership]], Jack is surely worth ''two'' keys, so Arcee and Smokescreen are compelled to hand over theirs. The exchange done, a [[space bridge]] opens and the Autobots are quickly surrounded by [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]].

On [[Earth]], [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] gets a call from [[June Darby]], worried as she can't get in touch with Jack. Ratchet, unable to get in touch with Optimus and unaware that the kids are on Cybertron, is more concerned with keeping the comm lines clear, and quickly ends the call.

Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave and Knock Out each hold a key, and activate the [[Omega Lock]]. At a touch from Megatron, the lock sends out a beam of energy that recreates a nearby ruin, turning it into a pristine building. Though Optimus requests he be allowed to take the [[human]]s back to Earth, Megatron announces they'll be safer where they are. He has Starscream open up a space bridge portal over the Omega Lock site, and unleashes a mechaforming beam through it... to Earth, just outside of [[Jasper]], [[Nevada]]. A horrified June drops her phone, and the Autobot base's systems go haywire from the energy overload.

[[Image:DarkestHour-June.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"I've been watching far too many movies."]]

Miko wonders aloud if the beam will simply restore Earth, but Optimus says that this won't be the case; the beam will instead [[Eco-structuring|cyberform]] the planet, tuning it into another metallic world, and in the process destroy ''all'' indigenous life. Unable to let Earth die, Optimus leaps into action, slicing his way through the guards with his blade and lunging for the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]]. Though Megatron tries to respond with the [[Dark Star Saber]], Optimus neatly cleaves the purloined Prime arm off of the Decepticon leader and sends the Dark blade flying, charging the Lock. Starscream gets his face stamped on as he tries to stop Optimus, and the other two Decepticons dive for cover as the Star Saber finds its mark, resulting in a massive explosion.

The cyberforming beam dissipates, and Ratchet's equipment clears up in time to get a transmission from Optimus requesting a space bridge. As the Decepticons pick themselves out of the rubble, the Autobots retreat through back to Earth. [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] quips, earning a quick backhand from Starscream, snarling that he needs to attend to their wounded leader. Starscream's ranting at Optimus's actions is cut of by a burst of maniacal laughter from Megatron... "They can run, but they can never again run ''home''!"

[[Image:DarkestHour-NewKaon.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Welp. There goes the neighborhood.]]

Ratchet is aghast as the Autobots return carrying the children, and even more so when they tell him Optimus has destroyed the Omega Lock. He staggers, lamenting that the sheer depth of loss the war has brought has all come to naught, with Cybertron now doomed to forever be a lifeless husk. [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] snaps at Ratchet, claiming it's not his place to question Optimus's battlefield decisions, and Ratchet does not exactly react well to that. The discussion is cut short by a call from an absolutely furious [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]], suggesting they take a look outside. As the Autobots reach the mountaintop via elevator, they find a huge [[New Kaon (fortress)|Cybertronian fortress]] now stands right on their doorstep. Fowler, landing his helicopter next to them, wonders why they picked Jasper. As the ''[[Trypticon (Prime)|Nemesis]]'' arrives, the answer becomes painfully clear: the Decepticons have found the [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|Autobot base]].

Megatron, still missing his arm, rallies his air troops with a speech damning Optimus for his actions, and Starscream launches his armada of silver-toned Jet Vehicons, followed by the [[Insecticon (Prime)|Insecticon]] horde. The Autobots retreat into the base, but Fowler jumps back into his helicopter and flies directly through the oncoming Decepticon formations. While he's soon outgunned and being chased by Vehicons, the ''[[Jackhammer (Prime)|Jackhammer]]'' streaks into view—[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] has come to lend a hand, much to the surprise of the Autobots, since their last parting was not exactly on friendly terms.

[[Image:DarkestHour-thisistheplace.jpg|right|thumb|300px|[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Album|We're going 'til the world stops turning, while we burn it to the ground tonight!]]]]

Optimus orders the Autobots to abandon base via [[GroundBridge]], each departing to different locations in the [[United States of America|USA]] in the hopes that it will allow them to evade capture easier and regroup. Bumblebee and Raf head out first, then Bulkhead and Miko, then Arcee and Jack. Outside, Fowler avoids more Decepticons only to see the ''Nemesis'' moving into position over the Autobot base. At the same time, June is approaching the base by car in search of her son, but is stopped by a low-flying Vehicon. Fowler moves fast, gunning the Decepticon down and pulling June to safety. Though Wheeljack has bought the Autobots time, the numbers are against him, and a pair of seeking missiles from Starscream soon send the ''Jackhammer'' plummeting to Earth in a trail of smoke.

Smokescreen having departed on his own, Ratchet and Optimus are the last ones left in the base. Optimus tells Ratchet to go on, while he will make sure the Decepticons can't follow. Realizing the implications, Ratchet sadly takes his leave. Optimus moves to use the Star Saber to destroy the space bridge controls, but at that moment his task is rendered moot as the ''Nemesis'' fires a colossal cannon, destroying the Autobot base in a huge explosion.

Megatron and Starscream fly down to the remains, landing on the Autobot [[insignia]]. The two gloat over their victory... and not far, all that can be seen of Optimus is his hand sticking out from the burning rubble...
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==Featured characters==
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* [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (1)
* [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] (2)
* [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] (3)
* [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] (4)
* [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] (5)
* [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] (14)
* [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (18)
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* [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] (6)
* [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] (9)
* [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (10)
* [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] (12)
* [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] (13)
* [[Insecticon (Prime)|Insecticons]] (17)
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* [[Jack Darby]] (7)
* [[Raf Esquivel]] (8)
* [[Miko Nakadai]] (11)
* [[June Darby]] (15)
* [[William Fowler]] (16)
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==Quotes==
"I guess we should cancel the welcome home party."
:—'''Knock Out''' makes an ill-timed quip.

"Optimus... ''we needed that''."
:—'''Ratchet''' expresses his dismay over Optimus's actions.

"Our opportunity to revive Cybertron has been lost, due to the treachery of Optimus Prime. But from our fortress of New Kaon, we will instead seize control of THIS world! '''Decepticons! Transform and rise up!'''"
:—'''Megatron''' gives his army a motivational speech as the onslaught begins.

"And that's how you wreck a Wrecker!"
:—'''Starscream''' bragging as he shoots down Wheeljack's ship.

"I... never imagined it would end like this." 
''[Heads through the GroundBridge]'' 
"Neither did I, old friend."
:—'''Ratchet''' and '''Optimus Prime''' on the breaking of [[Team Prime]].

"United we stand, divided they fall."
:—'''Starscream''' saw Sesame steet and learnt teamwork is important.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
* As in previous episodes, Megatron's jet mode retains the fusion cannon even though he no longer has it.

===Continuity notes===
* Megatron remembers that Jack was entrusted with the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back in "[[Orion Pax, Part 3]]".
* Ratchet vaguely references the events of "[[Hurt]]" when expressing surprise at Wheeljack's arrival. This also seems to be the reason why no one enlisted his aid for the events of the previous episode.
* Optimus cuts off Megatron's Prime arm, which he acquired in "[[Alpha/Omega]]", also removing his ability to use the Dark Star Saber.

===Transformers references===
* "[[Darkest hour]]", yet again.
* Megatron commands his troops to "Transform and rise up!", a phrase coined by the ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]].
* The red panel Megatron activates on the Omega Lock resembles an [[energon star]].
* Megatron plans to [[Cyberforming|cyberform]] Earth.

===Trivia===
[[Image:PrimeDarkestHourStarscreamsArmadaSingle.jpg|thumb|250px|ARE YOU SARAH CONNOR?]]
* A new type of Decepticon flyer debuts, sporting a silver and grey paint job.
* June Darby makes an appearance after a 23-episode absence.
* This is the first time we see a space bridge portal open facing downward and the second time we see a portal open North-South.
* June bought a new car after her old one was destroyed in "[[One Shall Rise, Part 1]]".
* Airachnid was still being held in that stasis pod when the Autobot Base blew up, leaving open the question of her fate.
* Soundwave's tentacle appendages can fire lasers.
* Optimus makes use of his integrated sword for the first time since the arrival of the Star Saber.
* Megatron goes almost the entire episode without a right arm. He is old because he is ''hard'', man.
* Why would the Autobots retreat from their base rather than make a fighting stand? They still outnumber the Deceptiocons 7 to 4 (Vehicons and Insecticons are little more than cannon fodder), Wheeljack has the Star Hammer and Megatron is missing an arm as well as the Dark Saber. While Optimus still wields the Star Saber, a weapon that split a mountain in half when it was first used! Guess no matter the cost does not mean much for Optimus Prime here.

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Darkest Hour (episode)

2012-11-05T10:12:36Z

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Darkest Hour (episode)

2012-11-05T10:09:33Z

Bigds9fan: /* Quotes */

{{disambig3|Darkest Hour}}

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 52
|prev=Regeneration (Prime)
|next=
|image=PrimeDarkestHourOPArm.jpg
|caption=WISE FWOM YOUR GWAVE
|title="Darkest Hour"
|airdate=[[November 2]], [[2012]]
|written by=[[Steven Melching]]
|directed by=[[Vinton Heuck]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
}}
'''Megatron's plans force Optimus to make a risky decision that could have inescapable consequences for the entire Autobot team.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:DarkestHour-captives.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Jack: It's all because of us. Miko: We're so fragged. Raf: Can I go to the bathroom?]]

The two groups stand on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], locked in a face-off. While the [[Autobot]]s have the [[Omega Key]]s, the [[Decepticon]]s have [[Jack Darby|Jack]], [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] and [[Miko Nakadai|Miko]]. [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] orders [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] to get ready to expose Jack to Cybertron's toxic atmosphere. Though the kids are ready to sacrifice themselves to save the planet, [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] isn't, and the Autobots throw down their weapons. [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] hands over his key in exchange for Miko, [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] hands over his for Raf, and Megatron insists that as someone who was entrusted with the [[Matrix of Leadership]], Jack is surely worth ''two'' keys, so Arcee and Smokescreen are compelled to hand over theirs. The exchange done, a [[space bridge]] opens and the Autobots are quickly surrounded by [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]].

On [[Earth]], [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] gets a call from [[June Darby]], worried as she can't get in touch with Jack. Ratchet, unable to get in touch with Optimus and unaware that the kids are on Cybertron, is more concerned with keeping the comm lines clear, and quickly ends the call.

Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave and Knock Out each hold a key, and activate the [[Omega Lock]]. At a touch from Megatron, the lock sends out a beam of energy that recreates a nearby ruin, turning it into a pristine building. Though Optimus requests he be allowed to take the [[human]]s back to Earth, Megatron announces they'll be safer where they are. He has Starscream open up a space bridge portal over the Omega Lock site, and unleashes a mechaforming beam through it... to Earth, just outside of [[Jasper]], [[Nevada]]. A horrified June drops her phone, and the Autobot base's systems go haywire from the energy overload.

[[Image:DarkestHour-June.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"I've been watching far too many movies."]]

Miko wonders aloud if the beam will simply restore Earth, but Optimus says that this won't be the case; the beam will instead [[Eco-structuring|cyberform]] the planet, tuning it into another metallic world, and in the process destroy ''all'' indigenous life. Unable to let Earth die, Optimus leaps into action, slicing his way through the guards with his blade and lunging for the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]]. Though Megatron tries to respond with the [[Dark Star Saber]], Optimus neatly cleaves the purloined Prime arm off of the Decepticon leader and sends the Dark blade flying, charging the Lock. Starscream gets his face stamped on as he tries to stop Optimus, and the other two Decepticons dive for cover as the Star Saber finds its mark, resulting in a massive explosion.

The cyberforming beam dissipates, and Ratchet's equipment clears up in time to get a transmission from Optimus requesting a space bridge. As the Decepticons pick themselves out of the rubble, the Autobots retreat through back to Earth. [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] quips, earning a quick backhand from Starscream, snarling that he needs to attend to their wounded leader. Starscream's ranting at Optimus's actions is cut of by a burst of maniacal laughter from Megatron... "They can run, but they can never again run ''home''!"

[[Image:DarkestHour-NewKaon.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Welp. There goes the neighborhood.]]

Ratchet is aghast as the Autobots return carrying the children, and even more so when they tell him Optimus has destroyed the Omega Lock. He staggers, lamenting that the sheer depth of loss the war has brought has all come to naught, with Cybertron now doomed to forever be a lifeless husk. [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] snaps at Ratchet, claiming it's not his place to question Optimus's battlefield decisions, and Ratchet does not exactly react well to that. The discussion is cut short by a call from an absolutely furious [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]], suggesting they take a look outside. As the Autobots reach the mountaintop via elevator, they find a huge [[New Kaon (fortress)|Cybertronian fortress]] now stands right on their doorstep. Fowler, landing his helicopter next to them, wonders why they picked Jasper. As the ''[[Trypticon (Prime)|Nemesis]]'' arrives, the answer becomes painfully clear: the Decepticons have found the [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|Autobot base]].

Megatron, still missing his arm, rallies his air troops with a speech damning Optimus for his actions, and Starscream launches his armada of silver-toned Jet Vehicons, followed by the [[Insecticon (Prime)|Insecticon]] horde. The Autobots retreat into the base, but Fowler jumps back into his helicopter and flies directly through the oncoming Decepticon formations. While he's soon outgunned and being chased by Vehicons, the ''[[Jackhammer (Prime)|Jackhammer]]'' streaks into view—[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] has come to lend a hand, much to the surprise of the Autobots, since their last parting was not exactly on friendly terms.

[[Image:DarkestHour-thisistheplace.jpg|right|thumb|300px|[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Album|We're going 'til the world stops turning, while we burn it to the ground tonight!]]]]

Optimus orders the Autobots to abandon base via [[GroundBridge]], each departing to different locations in the [[United States of America|USA]] in the hopes that it will allow them to evade capture easier and regroup. Bumblebee and Raf head out first, then Bulkhead and Miko, then Arcee and Jack. Outside, Fowler avoids more Decepticons only to see the ''Nemesis'' moving into position over the Autobot base. At the same time, June is approaching the base by car in search of her son, but is stopped by a low-flying Vehicon. Fowler moves fast, gunning the Decepticon down and pulling June to safety. Though Wheeljack has bought the Autobots time, the numbers are against him, and a pair of seeking missiles from Starscream soon send the ''Jackhammer'' plummeting to Earth in a trail of smoke.

Smokescreen having departed on his own, Ratchet and Optimus are the last ones left in the base. Optimus tells Ratchet to go on, while he will make sure the Decepticons can't follow. Realizing the implications, Ratchet sadly takes his leave. Optimus moves to use the Star Saber to destroy the space bridge controls, but at that moment his task is rendered moot as the ''Nemesis'' fires a colossal cannon, destroying the Autobot base in a huge explosion.

Megatron and Starscream fly down to the remains, landing on the Autobot [[insignia]]. The two gloat over their victory... and not far, all that can be seen of Optimus is his hand sticking out from the burning rubble...
{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (1)
* [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] (2)
* [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] (3)
* [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] (4)
* [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] (5)
* [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] (14)
* [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] (18)
|c2=
* [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] (6)
* [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] (9)
* [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (10)
* [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] (12)
* [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] (13)
* [[Insecticon (Prime)|Insecticons]] (17)
|c3=
* [[Jack Darby]] (7)
* [[Raf Esquivel]] (8)
* [[Miko Nakadai]] (11)
* [[June Darby]] (15)
* [[William Fowler]] (16)
}}

==Quotes==
"I guess we should cancel the welcome home party."
:—'''Knock Out''' makes an ill-timed quip.

"Optimus... ''we needed that''."
:—'''Ratchet''' expresses his dismay over Optimus's actions.

"Our opportunity to revive Cybertron has been lost, due to the treachery of Optimus Prime. But from our fortress of New Kaon, we will instead seize control of THIS world! '''Decepticons! Transform and rise up!'''"
:—'''Megatron''' gives his army a motivational speech as the onslaught begins.

"And that's how you wreck a Wrecker!"
:—'''Starscream''' bragging as he shoots down Wheeljack's ship.

"I... never imagined it would end like this." 
''[Heads through the GroundBridge]'' 
"Neither did I, old friend."
:—'''Ratchet''' and '''Optimus Prime''' on the breaking of [[Team Prime]].

"United we stand, divided they fall."
:—'''Starscream''' gets it while the Autobots do not.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
* As in previous episodes, Megatron's jet mode retains the fusion cannon even though he no longer has it.

===Continuity notes===
* Megatron remembers that Jack was entrusted with the [[Matrix of Leadership]] back in "[[Orion Pax, Part 3]]".
* Ratchet vaguely references the events of "[[Hurt]]" when expressing surprise at Wheeljack's arrival. This also seems to be the reason why no one enlisted his aid for the events of the previous episode.
* Optimus cuts off Megatron's Prime arm, which he acquired in "[[Alpha/Omega]]", also removing his ability to use the Dark Star Saber.

===Transformers references===
* "[[Darkest hour]]", yet again.
* Megatron commands his troops to "Transform and rise up!", a phrase coined by the ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]].
* The red panel Megatron activates on the Omega Lock resembles an [[energon star]].
* Megatron plans to [[Cyberforming|cyberform]] Earth.

===Trivia===
[[Image:PrimeDarkestHourStarscreamsArmadaSingle.jpg|thumb|250px|ARE YOU SARAH CONNOR?]]
* A new type of Decepticon flyer debuts, sporting a silver and grey paint job.
* June Darby makes an appearance after a 23-episode absence.
* This is the first time we see a space bridge portal open facing downward and the second time we see a portal open North-South.
* June bought a new car after her old one was destroyed in "[[One Shall Rise, Part 1]]".
* Airachnid was still being held in that stasis pod when the Autobot Base blew up, leaving open the question of her fate.
* Soundwave's tentacle appendages can fire lasers.
* Optimus makes use of his integrated sword for the first time since the arrival of the Star Saber.
* Megatron goes almost the entire episode without a right arm. He is old because he is ''hard'', man.

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Regeneration (Prime)

2012-10-29T12:22:38Z

Bigds9fan: /* Continuity notes */

{{disambig2|the episode from ''Prime''|the episode from Armada|Regeneration (Armada)}}

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 51
|prev=Patch (episode)
|next= Darkest Hour (episode)
|image=RegenerationOmegaKeysHologram.jpg
|caption=This is ''totally'' not gonna be epic.
|title="Regeneration"
|airdate=[[October 26]], [[2012]]
|written by=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|directed by=[[Todd Waterman]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
}}

'''The quest for the Omega Lock takes the Autobots and the Decepticons to Cybertron for a battle.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] is already making plans to move in with [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] while [[Jack Darby|Jack]] is feeling left out of the loop. [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] points out they no longer have the [[Omega Key]]s, let alone any way to get to Cybertron. They speculate that [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] has used the keys to bargain his way back with the [[Decepticon]]s. While they're wondering why Starscream didn't just try to sell the keys to the highest bidder, they are contacted by [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]], who requests a meeting. [[GroundBridge|Bridging]] out to a remote location, they find Dreadwing, who presents them with the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. Disillusioned by the fate of [[Skyquake (Prime)|his brother]], Dreadwing no longer believes in the Decepticon cause, though he's not interested in joining the Autobots either.

Back at base, the Autobots wonder what [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] will do with the Omega Keys, and [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] believes he will use them to restore Cybertron for political points. Optimus is aware that Megatron doesn't know of the existence of the [[Omega Lock]], which is needed to use the keys. He reveals to the others that [[Alpha Trion (Prime)|Alpha Trion]] entrusted him with knowledge of the Lock and its location on Cybertron during the message stored in the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]]. Optimus starts using the Forge to modify the GroundBridge.

Dreadwing returns to the ''[[Trypticon (Prime)|Nemesis]]'' where Megatron encounters him in a corridor and makes sure to stress that the Decepticons must be united to restore Cybertron. For his part, Dreadwing intends to personally reach out to [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]]. In the medical bay, [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] has just finished restoring Starscream's [[Transformation cog|T-Cog]] when Dreadwing arrives and immediately attempts to kill Starscream. As Knock Out flees, Dreadwing advances on the patient with his sword, but as he raises his sword, Megatron arrived and demands he stand down. Dreadwing refuses, and Megatron is forced to blast a hole through him with Dreadwing's own cannon.

The Autobots wonder why Optimus has been hiding things from them. [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] points out that Megatron would have learned about the Omega Lock by now if Optimus had been more open.

Knock Out and Starscream work on studying the Omega Keys in an attempt to discover how they work. Starscream resorts to hitting one against the table, and then against Knock Out, and they inadvertently discover that the keys lock together. By combining all four, they reveal a holographic map of Cybertron with a location marker on it. Pleased, Megatron orders the [[space bridge]] fired up.

Optimus finishes turning the GroundBridge into a space bridge. The base sensors detect the Decepticon space bridge firing up, and the Autobots realize that time is short. Optimus believes they still have the element of surprise. The Autobots pull the various Iacon relics they possess from storage. Meanwhile, Megatron leaves Starscream in command of the ship and takes a platoon of [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] with the Omega Keys through the space bridge. As the Autobots likewise fire up their space bridge, Optimus uses the Forge to recreate the Star Saber, and they too head through. Megatron and his men soon stand at the edge of the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]].

Jack gives Ratchet a call, as school's out and he, Miko and [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] haven't been picked up by the Autobots yet. Ratchet merely tells them the others are busy and hangs up.

As Megatron and his men walk through the Sea of Rust, Smokescreen rises out of the ground and attacks them from behind. [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] drops scrap on them using the [[polarity gauntlet]], Bulkhead zaps them with the [[Immobilizer]], and Arcee smashes through them while wearing the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]]. Megatron himself faces Optimus and the Star Saber, and while the pair fight, the other Autobots take back the Omega Keys. With a swipe of his blade, Optimus sends Megatron flying so the Autobots can retreat. As Megatron orders his men to follow, Smokescreen phases out of some nearby scenery and drops the [[spark extractor]] before disappearing again. The device obliterates the Vehicons before Megatron hurls the [[Dark Star Saber]], impaling it. Megatron orders Starscream to send reinforcements, but Starscream and Soundwave have an even better idea.

[[Image:RegenerationOmegaLockExpanded.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Pure. Epicness.]]
The Autobots reach the Omega Lock, an unassuming dimple on the landscape. The Keys glow, and the location transforms, creating a huge ring over their heads that fills with a shimmering energy field. Megatron arrives and demands they hand over the Keys. While the Autobots are wondering what motivation Megatron could give them for doing that, a space bridge opens and Starscream, Knock Out and [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] step out, carrying the three kids in airtight containers. Megatron threatens to expose all three to Cybertron's toxic atmosphere unless they return the Keys to him.
{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (2)
* [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] (4)
* [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] (6)
* [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] (7)
* [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] (8)
* [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] (9)
|c2=
* [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] (10)
* [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] (11)
* [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] (12)
* [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (13)
* [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] (14)
* [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] (15)
|c3=
* [[Miko Nakadai]] (1)
* [[Jack Darby]] (3)
* [[Raf Esquivel]] (5)
}}

==Quotes==
"Rise and shine! Your T-Cog transplant was a success! Yes, I am just that good."
:—'''Knock Out''' being modest about his surgery skills for a change.

"There must be ''something'' I can offer you to alleviate your anguish!" 
"YOUR SPARK WILL SUFFICE!"
:—'''Starscream''' reaches out to '''Dreadwing''', who refuses.

"I said stand down! That is an order." 
"One which I cannot follow."
:—'''Megatron''' gives his last orders to '''Dreadwing''' as the latter gives his last words.

"Oh gee, why didn't ''I'' think of that?"
:—'''Knock Out''' lamenting Starscream's idea of bashing an Omega Key against the table.

"Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' makes the obligatory [[The Transformers: The Movie|G1 shoutout]].

"I will have those keys or I will have your sparks!" 
"I can help with the last part."
:—'''Megatron''' is verbally beaten by '''Smokescreen''' one more time.

"What crawled up ''his'' tailpipe and died?"
:—'''Miko''' on [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]]'s curt reply.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
* As in "[[Inside Job]]", Megatron still has his fusion cannon when he transforms into vehicle mode, despite the arm it was attached to being removed.
* The Star Saber and Dark Star Saber vanish when their owners transform, even though both weapons are nearly as tall as their owners and shouldn't fit within their vehicle modes.
* When the Polarity Gauntlet saw action on Earth for the first time in "[[Metal Attraction]]", it affected both the bots around and the metal in the environment. When Bumblebee used it to pull the Omega Keys from the Vehicons, none of the bots around were affected, not even the reinforced Arcee.

===Continuity errors===

===Continuity notes===
* Dreadwing gives the Autobots the [[Forge of Solus Prime]], last seen being used to forge Megatron's Dark Star Saber in "[[Alpha/Omega]]". Optimus uses it to convert the GroundBridge into a Spacebridge and reforge the Star Saber, the latter of which was destroyed in that episode. Megatron himself references the event in battle with Optimus.
* Dreadwing attempts to kill Starscream for desecrating his twin's body in "[[Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone]]", which he learned about in the previous episode.
* Every relic which has been collected by the Autobots thus far sees action. This is also the first use of the spark extractor.
* The research on the Autobots' human allies, first mentioned in "[[Hard Knocks]]", sees fruition in this episode.
* At first Optimus is adament about protecting their human allies, yet in this episode he totally forgets them. Even though giving them information on their current plans is a security risk, he should have not only allowed but insisted they stay inside the base. Now they were left extremely vunerable without even being appointed an escort. Which the Decepticons immediately use to their advantage.

===Transformers references===
* The Omega Lock was previously seen in the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' cartoon, where it was also used to restore life to Cybertron.
* Optimus declares "[[The Transformers: The Movie|Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost!]]"

===Real-world references===
===Trivia===
* Jack, Miko, and Raf appear after a four-episode absence.
* Dreadwing's loyalty to the Decepticon cause finally proves weaker than his loyalty to his twin [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]].
* Despite the rather high stakes, no one on Team Prime thinks to contact [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]].
* So, if the containers ''are'' airtight, how are the kids breathing?

[[Category:Prime episodes]]

Regeneration (Prime)

2012-10-29T12:14:08Z

Bigds9fan: /* Quotes */

{{disambig2|the episode from ''Prime''|the episode from Armada|Regeneration (Armada)}}

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ep 51
|prev=Patch (episode)
|next= Darkest Hour (episode)
|image=RegenerationOmegaKeysHologram.jpg
|caption=This is ''totally'' not gonna be epic.
|title="Regeneration"
|airdate=[[October 26]], [[2012]]
|written by=[[Marsha Griffin]]
|directed by=[[Todd Waterman]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
}}

'''The quest for the Omega Lock takes the Autobots and the Decepticons to Cybertron for a battle.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Miko Nakadai|Miko]] is already making plans to move in with [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] while [[Jack Darby|Jack]] is feeling left out of the loop. [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] points out they no longer have the [[Omega Key]]s, let alone any way to get to Cybertron. They speculate that [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] has used the keys to bargain his way back with the [[Decepticon]]s. While they're wondering why Starscream didn't just try to sell the keys to the highest bidder, they are contacted by [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]], who requests a meeting. [[GroundBridge|Bridging]] out to a remote location, they find Dreadwing, who presents them with the [[Forge of Solus Prime]]. Disillusioned by the fate of [[Skyquake (Prime)|his brother]], Dreadwing no longer believes in the Decepticon cause, though he's not interested in joining the Autobots either.

Back at base, the Autobots wonder what [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] will do with the Omega Keys, and [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] believes he will use them to restore Cybertron for political points. Optimus is aware that Megatron doesn't know of the existence of the [[Omega Lock]], which is needed to use the keys. He reveals to the others that [[Alpha Trion (Prime)|Alpha Trion]] entrusted him with knowledge of the Lock and its location on Cybertron during the message stored in the [[Star Saber (Prima)|Star Saber]]. Optimus starts using the Forge to modify the GroundBridge.

Dreadwing returns to the ''[[Trypticon (Prime)|Nemesis]]'' where Megatron encounters him in a corridor and makes sure to stress that the Decepticons must be united to restore Cybertron. For his part, Dreadwing intends to personally reach out to [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]]. In the medical bay, [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] has just finished restoring Starscream's [[Transformation cog|T-Cog]] when Dreadwing arrives and immediately attempts to kill Starscream. As Knock Out flees, Dreadwing advances on the patient with his sword, but as he raises his sword, Megatron arrived and demands he stand down. Dreadwing refuses, and Megatron is forced to blast a hole through him with Dreadwing's own cannon.

The Autobots wonder why Optimus has been hiding things from them. [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] points out that Megatron would have learned about the Omega Lock by now if Optimus had been more open.

Knock Out and Starscream work on studying the Omega Keys in an attempt to discover how they work. Starscream resorts to hitting one against the table, and then against Knock Out, and they inadvertently discover that the keys lock together. By combining all four, they reveal a holographic map of Cybertron with a location marker on it. Pleased, Megatron orders the [[space bridge]] fired up.

Optimus finishes turning the GroundBridge into a space bridge. The base sensors detect the Decepticon space bridge firing up, and the Autobots realize that time is short. Optimus believes they still have the element of surprise. The Autobots pull the various Iacon relics they possess from storage. Meanwhile, Megatron leaves Starscream in command of the ship and takes a platoon of [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] with the Omega Keys through the space bridge. As the Autobots likewise fire up their space bridge, Optimus uses the Forge to recreate the Star Saber, and they too head through. Megatron and his men soon stand at the edge of the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]].

Jack gives Ratchet a call, as school's out and he, Miko and [[Raf Esquivel|Raf]] haven't been picked up by the Autobots yet. Ratchet merely tells them the others are busy and hangs up.

As Megatron and his men walk through the Sea of Rust, Smokescreen rises out of the ground and attacks them from behind. [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] drops scrap on them using the [[polarity gauntlet]], Bulkhead zaps them with the [[Immobilizer]], and Arcee smashes through them while wearing the [[Apex Armor (Prime)|Apex Armor]]. Megatron himself faces Optimus and the Star Saber, and while the pair fight, the other Autobots take back the Omega Keys. With a swipe of his blade, Optimus sends Megatron flying so the Autobots can retreat. As Megatron orders his men to follow, Smokescreen phases out of some nearby scenery and drops the [[spark extractor]] before disappearing again. The device obliterates the Vehicons before Megatron hurls the [[Dark Star Saber]], impaling it. Megatron orders Starscream to send reinforcements, but Starscream and Soundwave have an even better idea.

[[Image:RegenerationOmegaLockExpanded.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Pure. Epicness.]]
The Autobots reach the Omega Lock, an unassuming dimple on the landscape. The Keys glow, and the location transforms, creating a huge ring over their heads that fills with a shimmering energy field. Megatron arrives and demands they hand over the Keys. While the Autobots are wondering what motivation Megatron could give them for doing that, a space bridge opens and Starscream, Knock Out and [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] step out, carrying the three kids in airtight containers. Megatron threatens to expose all three to Cybertron's toxic atmosphere unless they return the Keys to him.
{{-}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (2)
* [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] (4)
* [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] (6)
* [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]] (7)
* [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]] (8)
* [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] (9)
|c2=
* [[Dreadwing (Prime)|Dreadwing]] (10)
* [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] (11)
* [[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]] (12)
* [[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (13)
* [[Soundwave (Prime)|Soundwave]] (14)
* [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] (15)
|c3=
* [[Miko Nakadai]] (1)
* [[Jack Darby]] (3)
* [[Raf Esquivel]] (5)
}}

==Quotes==
"Rise and shine! Your T-Cog transplant was a success! Yes, I am just that good."
:—'''Knock Out''' being modest about his surgery skills for a change.

"There must be ''something'' I can offer you to alleviate your anguish!" 
"YOUR SPARK WILL SUFFICE!"
:—'''Starscream''' reaches out to '''Dreadwing''', who refuses.

"I said stand down! That is an order." 
"One which I cannot follow."
:—'''Megatron''' gives his last orders to '''Dreadwing''' as the latter gives his last words.

"Oh gee, why didn't ''I'' think of that?"
:—'''Knock Out''' lamenting Starscream's idea of bashing an Omega Key against the table.

"Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost."
:—'''Optimus Prime''' makes the obligatory [[The Transformers: The Movie|G1 shoutout]]not realizing how high the costs might be.

"I will have those keys or I will have your sparks!" 
"I can help with the last part."
:—'''Megatron''' is verbally beaten by '''Smokescreen''' one more time.

"What crawled up ''his'' tailpipe and died?"
:—'''Miko''' on [[Ratchet (Prime)|Ratchet]]'s curt reply.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
* As in "[[Inside Job]]", Megatron still has his fusion cannon when he transforms into vehicle mode, despite the arm it was attached to being removed.
* The Star Saber and Dark Star Saber vanish when their owners transform, even though both weapons are nearly as tall as their owners and shouldn't fit within their vehicle modes.
* When the Polarity Gauntlet saw action on Earth for the first time in "[[Metal Attraction]]", it affected both the bots around and the metal in the environment. When Bumblebee used it to pull the Omega Keys from the Vehicons, none of the bots around were affected, not even the reinforced Arcee.

===Continuity errors===

===Continuity notes===
* Dreadwing gives the Autobots the [[Forge of Solus Prime]], last seen being used to forge Megatron's Dark Star Saber in "[[Alpha/Omega]]". Optimus uses it to convert the GroundBridge into a Spacebridge and reforge the Star Saber, the latter of which was destroyed in that episode. Megatron himself references the event in battle with Optimus.
* Dreadwing attempts to kill Starscream for desecrating his twin's body in "[[Shadowzone (episode)|Shadowzone]]", which he learned about in the previous episode.
* Every relic which has been collected by the Autobots thus far sees action. This is also the first use of the spark extractor.
* The research on the Autobots' human allies, first mentioned in "[[Hard Knocks]]", sees fruition in this episode.

===Transformers references===
* The Omega Lock was previously seen in the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' cartoon, where it was also used to restore life to Cybertron.
* Optimus declares "[[The Transformers: The Movie|Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost!]]"

===Real-world references===
===Trivia===
* Jack, Miko, and Raf appear after a four-episode absence.
* Dreadwing's loyalty to the Decepticon cause finally proves weaker than his loyalty to his twin [[Skyquake (Prime)|Skyquake]].
* Despite the rather high stakes, no one on Team Prime thinks to contact [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]].
* So, if the containers ''are'' airtight, how are the kids breathing?

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