Titans Return (comic)

2017-03-31T19:24:50Z

Jack79:

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"'''Titans Return'''" is an "event" storyline published in mid to late 2016 by [[IDW Publishing]], tying into the concurrent release of the ''Titans Return'' [[Transformers: Generations#Titans Return|toyline]]. The storyline begins in the one-shot comic ''[[The Last Autobot|Titans Return]]'', followed by issues of ''[[The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|The Transformers]]'' ongoing and ''[[The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]''; the "Titans Return" tie-ins mark the final issues of each series, before their relaunching and rebranding follow the ''[[Revolution]]'' event. A ''[[The Transformers: Till All Are One|Till All Are One]]'' story continuing from where the event leaves off follows ''Revolution''.

{{chapters
|title="Titans Return" chapters:
|prev=Combiner Wars (comic)
|next=Revolution
|content=
<div class="list-header">''Titans Return''</div>
*[[The Last Autobot|#1]]
<br/><div class="list-header">''The Transformers''</div>
*[[White Light|#56]]
*[[White Heat|#57]]
<br/><div class="list-header">''More than Meets the Eye''</div>
*[[Ten to Midnight|#56]]
*[[Last Light|#57]]
<br/><div class="list-header">''Till All Are One''</div>
*[[Ping|#5]]
*[[Desperate Times|#6]]
*[[Desperate Measures|#7]]
*[[Rubicon|#8]]
}}

==Overview==

On [[Earth]], the recently-raised [[Metrotitan (Zone)|Metrotitan]] assumes his [[alternate mode]], forming "[[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]]". Wanting to spread word of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s deeds across the entire universe, the [[Titan (IDW)|Titan]] sends out a beacon of information into the universe, one that has an unfortunate side effect: awakening former [[Autobot]] leader [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]], thought to have died long ago at [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s hands but in truth slumbering beneath the ruins of [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Disgusted by the post-war society where Autobots, [[Decepticon]]s, and "malformed colonists" live together, Sentinel goes on a brutal killing spree in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]'s Decepticon ghetto before taking the [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] to Autobot City on Earth.

Confronting [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] there, Sentinel reveals his true identity of [[Infinitus]], a diminutive [[Titan Master]] able to transform into a head mode for a host body and commune telepathically with Titans. Declaring Trion to be the weakest of the [[Thirteen]], whose teachings he claims to be a disciple of, Sentinel decapitates the elderly robot and uses his body to capture [[G.B. Blackrock|Garrison Blackrock]], awakening the Cybertronian sleeper agent's original Titan Master identity, named [[Sovereign]]. Sentinel returns to Autobot City with his prize, where his remote-controlled body has been clashing with Optimus Prime and [[Soundwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Soundwave]], and uses the spacebridge to abduct the duo to the planet of [[Prion]], a dead colony world founded by [[Micronus Prime]].

With Sovereign now using Alpha Trion's body, he and Sentinel reveal themselves to be heralds of [[Onyx Prime]] and [[Nexus Prime]], and invite Optimus Prime to join them ahead of Onyx's supposedly imminent return. Refusing the offer, Optimus and Soundwave are able to detach Sovereign from Trion and reassert his Blackrock personality, leaving Sentinel to grab him and flee again through the spacebridge. Rather than pursue, Prime and Soundwave instead head to Cybertron, where Alpha Trion's head is reattached, saving his life. Before returning to Earth, Prime promises to send troops to aid with Iacon's recovery from the ghetto massacre.

Sentinel and Blackrock/Sovereign emerge on [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]], home to a graveyard of Titans, which the former Autobot leader now intends to raise and teleport to Cybertron, which they can then wipe clean. He patches an unwilling Blackrock into a Titan's brain module in order to awaken the entire graveyard, but faces resistance from the contingency of Autobots present on the moon, which now includes his former right-hand-man [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]], who had predicted Sentinel's intentions with the Titans. The former Autobot leader is able to even the odds by activating subconscious conditioning that he had subjected one of the Autobots, [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]], to long ago, and successfully opens a giant spacebridge portal to Cybertron, telepathically commanding the revenant Titans to enter it and raze the planet.

The Autobots connect one of their number, [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] to one Titan's brain, allowing him to try to prevent the other behemoths from entering the portal, whilst Red Alert is able to wrest control of his actions long enough for Sentinel Prime to be knocked into one of Luna 1's gigantic [[Planetary engine|planetary thruster]]s, seemingly to his death. Whilst most of the Titans have passed through the spacebridge, Blackrock reveals that he was able to overcome enough of Sentinel's influence to redirect the portal's exit point: the Titans are still coming for Cybertron, but they've got a long journey through space first. With the immediate threat passed, Blackrock is returned to Earth, whilst Prowl decides to stick around on Luna 1 for the company.

==Creative team==
The "Titans Return" event was jointly plotted by [[John Barber]], [[James Roberts]], and [[Mairghread Scott]].

==Collections==
*'''''The Transformers: Titans Return''''' <small>([[January 18]], [[2017]]) ISBN 1631408216 / ISBN 978-1631408212 </small>
:*Contains the ''Titans Return'' one-shot, ''The Transformers'' #56–57, and ''More than Meets the Eye'' #56–57.
:*Bonus material unknown.

*'''''The Transformers: Till All Are One, Volume 2''''' <small>([[July 11]], [[2017]] ''scheduled'') ISBN 1631409247 / ISBN 978-1631409240 </small>
:*Contains issues #5 to #8.
:*Bonus material unknown.

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Tempo

2017-03-20T00:12:41Z

Jack79:

:''Tempo is a [[Titan (IDW)|Titan]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:TheWillOfTheFew-tempo.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The ship that launched a thousand wiki arguments.]]

'''Tempo''' was one of the [[Titan (IDW)|Titans]] created by the legendary [[Knights of Cybertron]] to act as a living ship. Tempo carried a crew of philosophers seeking new kinds of truth.

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
Millions of years ago, Tempo and the other 12 colony Titans departed [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to found new outposts of Cybertronian civilization. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}} Tempo was one of the first Titans to leave, but by all accounts neither he or his crew ever returned.

In the present-day, Tempo was one of the five colonies with which [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] established a [[space bridge]] link. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 4|Windblade vol. 2 #4}} When [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] met with the ship's captain, [[Elita One]], however, she learned that the Titan was not named "Tempo", but rather "[[Carcer]]". Elita claimed the present crew had simply renamed Tempo, but Windblade knew that this was the name of another, ''separate'' Titan, and was secretly concerned with what Elita was hiding from her. {{storylink|The Will of the Few}}

==Notes==
* Aside from the musical concept, Tempo is Italian and Portuguese for "time". Considering how [[Chela|some]] [[Caminus|other]] Titans have a direct connection to members of the [[Thirteen]], Tempo may be affiliated with [[Vector Prime]]. If this holds, considering that it was specifically noted the crew were philosophers—a discipline which could be described as asking questions about the universe—this could be a stealth pun referencing "[[Ask Vector Prime]]".

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