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Super Dimension Fortress Macross

2024-08-26T20:32:38Z

Pikawil:

[[File:Macross logo.png|400px|right|]]

'''''Super Dimension Fortress Macross''''' (超時空要塞マクロス ''Chōjikū Yōsai Makurosu'')<ref>Official translations vary on whether there should be a "''The''" at the beginning in the English title in front of "''Super Dimension Fortress Macross''".</ref> is a [[1982]] multimedia project consisting of a 36-episode animated television series accompanied by toys and songs. ''Macross'' was created by [[Shōji Kawamori]] in conjunction with [[Artland]], [[Studio Nue]], and [[Tatsunoko Production]] with sponsorship from Big West. Relevant to this wiki, ''Macross'' is the source of the original, much-beloved [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Toys|Jetfire]] toy design, notable for its "perfect transformation" (完全変形 ''kanzen henkei'') in having a revolutionary level of animation accuracy for a triple-mode mecha toy all the way back in 1982.

The ''Macross'' brand has continued with new entries every so often, notably with ''Macross 7'' in 1994, ''Macross Frontier'' in 2008, and ''Macross Delta'' in 2016.

==Story==
In the year [[1999]], a massive derelict spaceship crash-lands on [[Earth]] in the south [[Pacific Ocean]], confirming to [[human]]kind that they are not alone in the universe. Over the next decade, a [[United Nations]] Government (統合政府 ''Tōgō Seifu'') is formed to deal with the threat of the ship's previous owners, reverse-engineering the technology found aboard the alien ship to create the U.N. Spacy (統合宇宙軍 ''Tōgō Uchūgun''), humankind's first spaceworthy military service. Their primary air and space fighter craft is the VF-1 Valkyrie, a next-generation variable fighter (可変戦闘機 ''kahen sentōki''), with the alien capital ship itself being repaired and remodeled to become the SDF-1 ''Macross''. Finally, in [[2009]], the giant Zentradi (ゼントラーディ人) arrive to take possession of the lost warship and to investigate if this strange world may be home to their long-lost creators, the Protoculture (プロトカルチャー). At this point, an accident strands the human crew of the SDF-1 at the edge of the solar system and ignites war with the Zentradi, and humanity will never be the same again.

Notably, ''Macross'' chief director Kawamori takes a flexible approach to "canon", somewhat akin to ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' creator [[George Lucas]]'s willingness to embrace modifications in HD remastering. Newer entries of ''Macross'' are allowed to change up prior details as long as the broad strokes remain the same because Kawamori tailors the storytelling presentation to the medium at hand, be it a television series or a theatrical film.

==Mecha==
[[File:TakatokuSuperValkyrie.jpg|upright=2.0|thumb|''Macross'' 1/55 VF-1S Super Valkyrie]]

Kawamori and his team, ever the fans of real-world aviation, directly drew upon the Northrup Grumman F-14 Tomcat as the real and fictional precursor to the Stonewell Bellcom VF-1 Valkyrie. Each variable fighter features three modes:

*Battroid (バトロイド) - equivalent to robot mode

*GERWALK<ref>"GERWALK" is an acronym for "Ground Effective Reinforcement of Winged Armament with Locomotive Knee-joint".</ref> (ガーウォーク) - an in-between mode roughly comparable in function to an attack helicopter

*Fighter (ファイター) - equivalent vehicle mode

The VF-1 can equip attachments for extra ammunition and fuel capacity. It also features variants distinguished by the battroid head design, differentiated among squad leaders, aces, and grunts.

*Hikaru Ichijyo (一条輝 ''Ichijō Hikaru'') - the young male protagonist of the series. In the TV series, Hikaru starts out with a VF-1J in white with red highlights before inheriting Roy's VF-1S.
*Roy Focker (ロイ・フォッカー) - the leader of Skull Squadron. Roy flies a VF-1S in white with yellow highlights.
**The 1/55 toy for Roy's machine was used for [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#Toys|Jetfire]].
*Maximilian "Max" Jenius (マクシミリアン・ジーナス) - the genius pilot of Skull Squadron. In the TV series, Max initially flies a VF-1A in white with blue highlights before switching to a VF-1J in blue with white highlights.
*Hayao Kakizaki (柿崎速雄 ''Kakizaki Hayao'') - the inexperienced redshirt. In the TV series, Kakizaki flies a VF-1A in white with tan highlights.
*Milia Fallyna (ミリア・ファリーナ) - the newcomer alien ace who defected from her own people. When she joins humanity, Milia flies a VF-1J in red with white highlights.

==''Macross'' in ''Transformers''==
[[File:Jetfireg1toy.jpg|upright=2.0|thumb|''The Transformers'' Jetfire, a recoloring of the above 1/55 VF-1S Super Valkyrie]]
[[File:EvolutionSkyfire.jpg|upright=2.0|thumb|The progression of Jetfire's character model being redesigned to avoid evoking a Bandai asset]]

Initially in 1982, a company called [[Takatoku Toys]] manufactured ''Macross'' toys, notably the "perfectly-transforming" 1/55 VF-1S Super Valkyrie. However, Takatoku would collapse not long thereafter, and their assets would soon be bought out by [[Bandai]], who then licensed the large ''Macross'' VF-1S (as well as ''[[Armored Insect Corps Beetras|Beetras]]'' and ''[[Special Armored Battalion Dorvack|Dorvack]]'' assets) to [[Hasbro]], who was desperately needing molds to fill out the [[1985]] product line of the unexpectedly popular ''Transformers''.

Why would Hasbro market product from Japanese companies besides its collaborator Takara? [[Bob Prupis]], one of the original members of the ''Transformers'' marketing team, would frequently go to Toy Fairs in Asia, where ''"any product that really looked good that was exciting we didn't care where it came from. We did some work with Bandai, who had been working with other people, and took a few products that looked right for our line"''.<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/94f5cb70b08a646d G1 Hasbro marketing executives panel]</ref> The 1/55 Super Valkyrie, then, must have met their criteria for inclusion. As Bandai at the time was only concerned about business in Japan, Hasbro was free to sell the large VF-1 mold as a ''Transformers'' figure in non-Japan markets. However, as Hasbro wanted advertising for such a large toy ($32 plus tax on U.S. store shelves back in 1985), some compromises had to be made for Jetfire to appear in [[The Transformers (cartoon)|''The Transformers'' animated series]], which Takara would want to air in Japan as well. The exact sequence of details is uncertain, but we wound up with a character named "Skyfire" in the now-renowned episode "[[Fire in the Sky]]" shortly ahead of the "Jetfire" toy itself on North American and European store shelves. Notably, Hasbro's European offices billed Jetfire as the Autobot leader for their 1985 debut of the ''Transformers'' brand, creating a particularly lasting memory for European fans.

[[Jetfire (disambiguation)|Jetfire]]'s enduring popularity has seen many new incarnations of the character and trademark over the decades, culminating in the 2019 ''[[War for Cybertron: Siege|Siege]]'' Commander Class figure, a highly-accurate recreation of his 1985 animation model, free of any legal complications with other companies (though the 2019 U.S. price of $90 plus tax may irk a number of old men). Now and then, Jetfire's original ''Macross''-based design gets to make small appearances.

===Legacy cameos===
<gallery>
File:AshesAshes-JetfireJetfire.jpg|1986 comic artist error of Jetfire's toy design
File:KreO-webcomic-3-Jetfire.jpg|2013 ''Kre-O'' online manga cameo
File:Funko Pop Jetfire G1.jpg|2021 Funko Pop vinyl figure
</gallery>
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==Attempted interference by a terrible company==
Back in the 1980s, a U.S. real estate company called Harmony Gold ventured into the anime adaptation industry. They purchased the overseas rights to the 1982 ''Macross'' TV series as well as two unrelated series to create a hodgepodge project called ''Robotech''. (Back in the day, ''[[Power Rangers (franchise)|Power Rangers]]''-style story manglings were much more common in the U.S. industry.) However, they were unable to market the 1/55 VF-1S toy because that mold's overseas rights had been licensed by Hasbro.

Since the 1980s, Harmony Gold has accomplished nothing of substance with the rights to ''Macross''. They have promised for over a decade that a live-action ''Robotech'' film is in the works, but nothing manifests. Except for suing anyone who tries to make VF-1-style product without their say-so, even when said merchandise only vaguely resembles the VF-1 Valkyrie because the real-life F-14 Tomcat is not a hard idea to come up with. In 2013, Harmony Gold sued Hasbro for making a non-transforming ''G.I. Joe and the Transformers'' [[Jetfire (G1)/toys#G.I. Joe and the Transformers|Jetfire]] toy, but noted copyright "damages [were] difficult to ascertain", and the suit was dismissed in favor of Hasbro against Harmony Gold.

Because of Harmony Gold's ridiculous stranglehold over the distribution (or rather, the lack thereof) of ''Macross'' material outside of Japan, not even ''Macross'' fans in countries right next to Japan could receive full-fledged first-party distribution of ''Macross'' material throughout the 2000s and 2010s. No joke: While Asian ''Transformers'' fans enjoyed various official localizations of ''Transformers'' television series and theatrical films during this time, nothing of the sort happened with ''Macross'' while they lived right door next to Japan. After Big West and Studio Nue were finally able to assert some control in 2021, many ''Macross'' stories began streaming on Disney+ outside of Japan in 2024...but not the original series. Because of Harmony Gold.

Why is this relevant to you, a ''Transformers'' fan? Well despite their business rivalry, TakaraTomy and Bandai have officially collaborated now and then. Notably in 2022, Bandai Spirits announced a high-end chogokin (超合金) toy of the Liger Zero from TakaraTomy's ''[[Zoids]]'' brand while TakaraTomy announced a ''Tomica'' version of the iconic White Base from ''Mobile Suit Gundam''.<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2022/06/16/bandai-spirits-and-takara-tomy-end-rivalry-with-new-collaboration-starting-with-zoids-and-gundam-toys/]</ref> So what do you want to bet that Harmony Gold is the reason why Hasbro will not bother asking Bandai to cooperate on a reissue or else a new toy faithfully homaging the original VF-1S-style Jetfire toy?

Look, we're going to be honest. We of the TFWiki have no sympathy to attempt fairness toward Harmony Gold because they do not deserve any. And we are hardly the only sector of online fandom of Japanese franchises to feel this way. Shoji Kawamori himself dislikes ''Robotech''. Enough said about that.<ref>[https://fullfrontal.moe/kawamori-40-interview/ fullfrontal.moe interview by Dimitri Seraki and Arnaud Bastie at Gallery AaMo in June 2019]:
 
"In America, they have a modified version of Macross, which is called Robotech. Nowadays, there are a lot of people who are fans of Robotech without knowing that Macross exists. How do you feel about it?"
 
S. Kawamori: "I don’t understand, nor do I accept the fact that they took and modified my work without even asking. I can not comprehend how a pirated version like this exists. However, I feel I was very fortunate that many other people from other countries around the world were able to see Macross."
 
"Harmony Gold has a lot of new project around Robotech in America. I think they are working on a new movie, for example, do you take any credits from the American Robotech works?"
 
S. Kawamori: "I don’t want to talk about it. Please support the official Macross releases."
</ref>

==Notes==
*In the 1980s, the VF-1 molds underwent various licensed uses by overseas companies, similar to the distribution of Takatoku-based assets for ''Beetras'' and ''Dorvack''.
**In the United States, Canada, and Australia, Select released a small VF-1S mold as part of the "[[Maladroid]]s" subline in ''Convertors''. The baseline Roy Focker deco was renamed "[https://www.the-liberator.net/site-files/robot-toys/convertors-select-pages/convertors-select-zark.htm Zark]", also being given a variant red deco unique to ''Converters'', while a black deco (including the Super Pack) unique to ''Converters'' was named '[https://www.the-liberator.net/site-files/robot-toys/convertors-select-pages/convertors-select-zardak-vf-1s.htm Zardak]".

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.macross.jp Official website] (Japanese)
*[https://twitter.com/macrossD Official Twitter page] (Japanese)
*[https://twitter.com/MACROSS_BIGWEST Official Twitter page]
*''{{w|Super Dimension Fortress Macross}}'' at Wikipedia
*[http://macross2.net/m3/m3.html Macross Mecha Manual] fan database

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Maverick (Collaborative)

2021-09-01T22:14:13Z

Pikawil: /* Notes */ https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-health-arts-and-entertainment-coronavirus-pandemic-5de1c7a7b8fff565ccb114cbc26b69ec

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{{disambig3|Maverick}}
:''Maverick is an [[Autobot]] from [[Transformers Collaborative]].''
[[File:Maverick Robot Mode.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"It's classified. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you."]]

'''Maverick''' is an Autobot with a need for speed who loves to play volleyball. He'll take you to the danger zone—and take your breath away.
{{TOCclear}}

==Toys==
===''Collaborative''===
[[File:Maverick Packaging.jpg|thumb|300px|"She's lost that loving feeling."]]
*'''Maverick''' ([[2020]])
**''Accessories'': 2 dual-missile pods, 2 transforming fuel tank rifles, 2 alt-hands, volleyball, motorcycle

: The fourth figure and the third original character in the ''[[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]]'' line, Maverick is a Voyager-sized figure and is the first ''Collaborative'' toy to be an all-new mold, not borrowing any parts from other figures. He transforms into a fully-licensed {{w|Grumman F-14 Tomcat|Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcat}}, the iconic jet from the original ''{{w|Top Gun}}'' film. The figure features movable ''{{w|variable-sweep wing}}s'', front (but not rear) landing gear, and movie-inspired details including cockpit labels for 'LT PETE MITCHELL "MAVERICK"' and 'LT NICK BRADSHAW "GOOSE"'. The robot mode head is based heavily upon the design of Pete Mitchell's customized flight helmets, which feature his call sign "MAVERICK" across the forehead.

: Maverick includes a robot-scaled volleyball accessory, two alternate hands with posts in the palms to fit a hole in the volleyball, a miniature {{w|Kawasaki GPZ900R}} motorcycle based on one belonging to Pete Mitchell, two optional fuel tanks that can transform into hand-held rifle weapons, and two non-firing missile pod accessories that can be mounted on the back in robot mode or under the wings in jet mode. Each missile pod is a single piece of plastic depicting a pair of different missiles: an {{w|AIM-9 Sidewinder}}, and an {{w|AIM-7 Sparrow}}. The volleyball is compatible with [[War_for_Cybertron_Trilogy_(franchise)|War for Cybertron]] energy effect attachment points on figures from that line, but Maverick's guns and jet exhaust are not compatible with ''War for Cybertron'' energy effect parts.

: This toy was [[exclusive]] to the [[Hasbro Pulse]] web-store in the U.S. and Canada. It was also available at general retail in Hasbro's Asian markets such as Hong Kong.

:His instructions have a hidden message written in [[Cybertronian languages#Real-life alphabets|Ancient Autobot]] that translates to "Let's Turn and Burn", which is a quote from the original ''Top Gun'' film. It's also one of the tag lines for ''{{w|Top Gun: Maverick}}.''

==Notes==
* Maverick is named after [[wikia:topgun:Pete Mitchell|Pete "Maverick" Mitchell]], the lead character of the ''Top Gun'' films.
* The dog tags on Maverick's packaging feature two dates: [[May 26]], [[1986]], the theatrical release date of ''Top Gun''; and [[June 26]], 2020, the planned release date of ''Top Gun: Maverick''. Due to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}, ''Maverick'' was delayed to [[May 27]], [[2022]], meaning the packaging was already out of date by the time the toy was announced.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Maverick''' (マーベリック ''Māberikku'')

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September 10

2017-09-11T00:40:50Z

Pikawil:

<noinclude>{{cal-date|9|10}}</noinclude>

* '''[[1949]] —''' Pundit [[Bill O'Reilly]] is born.
* '''[[1952]] —''' Writer [[Gerry Conway]] is born.
* '''1952 —''' [[Martín María Soto Portilla|Martín Soto]] (Spanish voice of [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]]) is born.
* '''[[1985]] —''' Voice recording for ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' begins.
* '''[[1988]] —''' [[Space Pirates!|''Transformers'' #183 - "Space Pirates! Part 2"]] is released in the UK by [[Marvel Comics]].
* '''[[2001]] —''' The [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon]] episode "[[An Explosive Situation]]" premieres in the US.
* '''[[2003]] —''' ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers]]'' [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|Issue 3]] is released in the US by [[Devil's Due Press]].
* '''2003 —''' [[Transformers: Armada (Dreamwave)|''Transformers Armada'']] [[Worlds Collide, Part 2 of 4|#15]] is released by [[Dreamwave Productions]].
* '''2003 —''' [[Panini Armada issue 5|''Armada'' issue #5]] is released in the UK by [[Panini]].
* '''2003 —''' ''[[Transformers: Cybertron Redux]]'' is released in the US by [[Titan Books]].
* '''2003 —''' ''[[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|Armada]]—Vol:10'' is released on DVD in Australia by [[Warner Bros.|Warner Music Video]].
* '''[[2004]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Super Link]]'' episode "[[A Heroic Battle|Heroic! Alpha Q's Battle]]" premieres in Japan.
* '''[[2005]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Galaxy Force]]'' episode "[[Escape (episode)|The Big Escape Plan Go]]" premieres in Japan.
* '''2005 —''' The ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' episode "[[Hero (episode)|Hero]]" airs in the U.S.
* '''[[2007]] —''' The [[The Used]] single "[[Pretty Handsome Awkward]]" is released by [[Warner Bros.|Reprise Records]].
* '''[[2008]] —''' ''[[Transformers Animated: The Arrival]]'' [[The Arrival issue 2|#2]] is released by [[IDW Publishing]].
* '''2008 —''' ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)/home video|Transformers Animated—Transformieren und Abfahrt]]'' is released on DVD in Germany by [[Paramount Pictures]].
* '''[[2009]] —''' ''[[Transformers Animated Volume 11]]'' and ''[[Transformers: Tales of the Fallen|Tales of the Fallen]]'' [[Tales of the Fallen issue 2|issue 2]] is released in the US by IDW Publishing.
* '''[[2010]] —''' The ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers: Animated]] [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)/home video#Japan|volume 2]]'' DVD is released by [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount Japan]].
* '''[[2011]] —''' The ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' episode "[[T.M.I.]]" premieres on [[Hub Network|The Hub]].
* '''[[2013]] —''' ''[[Transformers Classified: Satellite of Doom]]'' is released by [[Little, Brown and Company]].
* '''[[2014]] —''' ''[[The Transformers: Primacy|Primacy]]'' [[Primacy issue 2|#2]] is released by [[IDW Publishing]].
* '''[[2016]]''' — The ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Rescue Bots]]'' episode "[[The Need for Speed]]" premieres on [[Discovery Family]].
* '''2016''' — The ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' episode "[[History Lessons]]" premieres on Teletoon in Canada.
* '''[[2017]]''' — The last day of [[HasCon 2017]].
* '''2017''' — Writer [[Len Wein]] passes away at age 69.

Len Wein

2017-09-11T00:37:02Z

Pikawil: He'

'''Len Wein''' ([[June 12]], [[1948]] - [[September 10]], [[2017]]) was an American writer. He was perhaps best known for co-creating ''Swamp Thing'' for DC Comics, and for writing ''Giant-Size [[X-Men]]'' #1 for Marvel Comics - in which he co-created some of the X-Men's most popular characters, including Storm, Colossus, and Nightcrawler, and [[Wolverine (superhero)|Wolverine]].

==Episode scripts==
===''The Transformers''===
*"[[Webworld]]" (with [[Diane Duane]])

===''Beast Wars''===
*"[[Tangled Web]]"

===''Beast Machines''===
*"[[Savage Noble]]"

===''Robots in Disguise'' 2015===
*"[[Cover Me]]"

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Shell Connecting Bridge

2016-06-05T08:22:58Z

Pikawil: /* Notes */

:''The Shell Connecting Bridge is a bridge from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[Image:Shell Bridge.gif|thumb|300px|"We've managed to avoid drowning!"]]

The '''Shell Connecting Bridge''' (シェル連絡橋 ''Shell Renraku Kyō'') is a set of two bridges at the Big Shell facility, which is located in a body of water. Harrier jets occasionally attack the bridge.

==Games==
===''DreamMix TV World Fighters''===
The Shell Connecting Bridge was one of the areas that the contestants of ''[[World Fighters]]'' fought on. {{storylink|DreamMix TV World Fighters}}

==Notes==
*Shell Connecting Bridge comes from ''[[Wikipedia:Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty|Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]''.
*The background music is "[[wikia:c:metalgear:Metal Gear Solid Main Theme|Metal Gear Solid Main Theme]]". When the Harrier appears, it shifts to "[[wikia:c:metalgear:Yell "Dead Cell"|Yell 'Dead Cell']]".

==External links==
*[[wikia:c:metalgear:Big Shell|Big Shell at the Metal Gear Wiki]]

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Matt Holloway

2016-05-23T01:37:05Z

Pikawil:

'''Matt Holloway''' is an American screenwriter who is one half of a writing team with [[Art Marcum]]. The pair wrote the script for ''[[Iron Man]]'', or at least ''a'' script which was combined with a script from two other writers to create the final movie. Hollywood. They also wrote an unused script for the 2014 ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' movie, and scripts for remakes of ''Highlander'' and ''Alien Nation''. The pair were hired to be part of the writers room created to brainstorm ideas prior to ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|Transformers: The Last Knight]]'', and after [[Akiva Goldsman]] was hired for other duties, the pair ultimately took over writing the movie itself.

==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:Art Marcum and Matt Holloway|Art Marcum and Matt Holloway]] on Wikipedia
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0391344/ Matt Holloway] on IMDB

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Matt Holloway

2016-05-23T01:36:48Z

Pikawil:

'''Matt Holloway''' is an American screenwriter who is one half of a writing team with [[Art Marcum]]. The pair wrote the script for ''[[Iron Man]]'', or at least ''a'' script which was combined with a script from two other writers to create the final movie. Hollywood. They also wrote an unused script for the 2014 ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'', movie and scripts for remakes of ''Highlander'' and ''Alien Nation''. The pair were hired to be part of the writers room created to brainstorm ideas prior to ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|Transformers: The Last Knight]]'', and after [[Akiva Goldsman]] was hired for other duties, the pair ultimately took over writing the movie itself.

==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:Art Marcum and Matt Holloway|Art Marcum and Matt Holloway]] on Wikipedia
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0391344/ Matt Holloway] on IMDB

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holloway, Matt}}
[[Category:DreamWorks]]
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Art Marcum

2016-05-23T01:36:28Z

Pikawil:

'''Art Marcum''' is an American screenwriter who is one half of a writing team with [[Matt Holloway]]. The pair wrote the script for ''[[Iron Man]]'', or at least ''a'' script which was combined with a script from two other writers to create the final movie. Hollywood. They also wrote an unused script for the 2014 ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' movie, and scripts for remakes of ''Highlander'' and ''Alien Nation''. The pair were hired to be part of the writers room created to brainstorm ideas prior to ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|Transformers: The Last Knight]]'', and after [[Akiva Goldsman]] was hired for other duties, the pair ultimately took over writing the movie itself.

==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:Art Marcum and Matt Holloway|Art Marcum and Matt Holloway]] on Wikipedia
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1436466/ Art Marcum] on IMDB

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Back to Virtual Reality

2016-05-16T01:55:36Z

Pikawil: /* Real-world references */

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'''When Chief is convinced by Cody to try a virtual reality video game, an old nemesis is uncovered; the team must stop the villain from destroying the real Griffin Rock.'''

==Synopsis==

Everyone's coming to the [[Griffin Rock Community Pool]] for the last day of the season before it turns into a skating rink. [[Frankie Greene|Frankie]] calls [[Cody Burns|Cody]] to reveal that she's found an update to [[Griffin Rock Element Quest 1.0]] and ask if he wants to come over to the Fun Zone to try it out, but he doesn't want to miss the last game of "Burnso". [[Kade Burns|Kade]], who [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] soaked, asks the lifeguard to turn the water heat up; unfortunately, the lifeguard is distracted by some running kids as he goes to adjust the temperature, and he accidentally puts it into ice rink mode. The pool freezes over immediately, and [[Jerry (RB)|Jerry]]'s son Timmy says that his father was under the water when it froze!

[[Boulder]] breaks the ice and [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] pulls Jerry out. [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] offers to take him over to the hospital for a checkup, and [[Graham Burns|Graham]] determines that the temperature control system is stuck on "ice rink"; fixing it is doable, but will take a while. The Burnses opt to head over to the Fun Zone, except for Boulder, who wants to get a library card, and [[Charlie Burns|Chief Burns]] and Chase, who intend to go out on patrol instead. Cody asks his father to come try out Element Quest 2.0 with them, and Chase points out that he's perfectly capable of patrolling by himself. Chief is convinced to go with the rest of his family to the Fun Zone.

At the Fun Zone, the group separates almost immediately, although Blades requests Chief's prize tickets. Heatwave, Cody, Chief, and Frankie decide to try out Element Quest's new four-player mode. Chief takes a little while to figure out the controls, but once he does he starts enjoying the game quickly. The group opts to play the new level, Air. Meanwhile, at the library, Boulder encounters trouble getting a library card due to his lack of a driver's license. Graham is busy playing pinball and can't provide his own driver's license information, and the librarian is unimpressed with his offer of a license plate number.

In the Air level, the team discovers a wooden horse that shows them how to get wings to fly up to the goal. When they reach the target, the horse splits apart to reveal a virtual [[Thaddeus Morocco|Doctor Morocco]], much to everyone's surprise. Chief ends the game and calls the rest of the rescue team over to explain matters. Frankie determines that the game is functioning normally and nothing's gotten into it from the outside, and the power immediately cuts out. Everything with a screen starts displaying Morocco's logo. Cody suggests that this is the effect of a virus embedded in the Element Quest 2.0 update. Boulder calls from the library; he can't check out the book of American folktales he wants to get because everything in the system is inexplicably checked out to Thaddeus Morocco. Chase reports that the bank is also showing that all the money in every account has been transferred to Thaddeus Morocco; he and [[Harrison (RB)|Mr. Harrison]] have barricaded themselves inside the bank to get away from the angry mob outside demanding their money. Chief instructs him to keep everyone calm until they've got this sorted out, so he decides to try to tell a joke.

Graham shuts down the wireless so the virus can't spread, and Frankie gets a program to remove the virus from her father. When she tries to upload it, everything seems to be going back to normal for a few seconds, but the virus quickly reasserts itself. The group concludes that the virtual Morocco from Element Quest is the virus itself, and winning the game should let them delete it. Chief, Cody, Blades, and Heatwave prepare to go into the program. Dani and Kade are dispatched to help Chase at the bank and Graham is sent to work on the library, both with copies of the virus-deleting program.

In the game, Griffin Rock appears to have been transformed into [[Moropolis]]. Morocco appears and forces them into the Earth level, but with the enemies and items of the Water level, like sharks. Cody gets everyone into the boats which came with the sharks, but Morocco sends a group of [[CAT]]s after them. When Heatwave prepares to jump up and attack him, he summons a dragon, which immediately kills virtual Heatwave. Back in the real world, Heatwave attempts to reenter the game, but Frankie realizes that she can't get him back into the program; the virus has control. Blades similarly dies to the dragon. Chief and Cody take one of the boats and make a break for it, and conclude that the bots can't get back into the game. They seize upon the idea of defeating Morocco permanently.

Cody notices a jump power boost Morocco hasn't noticed, and tells his father to go get it and try to attack. Cody distracts Morocco by throwing arrows at him long enough for Chief to get the flag, which defeats him. With the Morocco virus gone, Frankie can easily fix the Fun Zone computers, and the bank and library computers are even simpler. However, the Morocco virus prints itself into one of the prizes and makes a break for the street, only to discover that it's tiny and can't do much outside a video game. The team forces him into the pool, which has been melting and now has water at the surface, and freezes it. Frankie cuts out the block of ice containing the miniature Morocco and puts it in the Frozen section of the [[Hall of Inspiration|Best Left Forgotten Room]] archives.

==Featured characters==
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==Quotes==

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
===Continuity errors===
===Continuity notes===
===Transformers references===
===Real-world references===
* The wooden horse that hides the virtual Morocco is a reference to the {{w|Trojan horse}}; viruses that hide themselves in benign programs are known as "{{w|Trojan horse (computing)|Trojan horse viruses}}".
* "Do a barrel roll!", "the cake is a lie", and "ramming speed" are all memes, originating respectively from [[Nintendo]]'s ''{{w|Star Fox 64}}'', ''{{w|Portal (video game)|Portal}}'' and ''{{w|Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur}}''.

===Trivia===
===Foreign localization===

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[[Category:Rescue Bots episodes]]

Evangelion Unit-00

2016-05-10T04:28:58Z

Pikawil:

:''Evagelion Unit-00 is a biomechanical construct from [[Evangelion]].''
[[File:QEVA00 toy.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Hi! I'm piloted by a clone of the main characters' mother! And I also headbutt a control room!]]

'''Evangelion Unit-00''' (エヴァンゲリオン零号機 ''Evangerion Zerogōki'') shortened to '''Eva-00''', is a giant mecha employed by [[NERV]] to defend [[Tokyo-3]] from [[Angel]]s.

==Toys==
===Evangelion × Q-Transformers===

*'''Evangelion 3-Figure Set''' (Multi-pack, [[September 19|9-19]]-[[2015]])
**''ID Number:'' '''QTC-02'''

:Released as part of the ''Q-Collaboration'' crossover subline, ''[[Q-Transformers]]'' Eva-00 is a [[retool]] of [[Hello Kitty]], transforming from a robot to a truck with integrated trailer based on [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Generation 1 Optimus Prime]]'s truck mode. It was only available in a 3-pack alongside [[Evangelion Unit-01]] and [[Evangelion Unit-02]]. The truck mode trailer-halves can link up to other Q-Collaboration figures - The three EVA-Units can be connected to create a [[NERV]] hangar backdrop.

:This mold was also retooled into Evangelion Unit-01, Evangelion Unit-02, [[Kamiusagi Rope]], [[Akira Senpai]], [[My Melody]], and [[Snoopy]].

==External links==
*{{w|Evangelion (mecha)#EVA Unit 00|Evangelion Unit-00}} at Wikipedia
*[http://wiki.evageeks.org/Evangelion_Unit-00 Evangelion Unit-00] at EvaWiki

[[Category:Evangelion]]
[[Category:Mechanical suits]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Q-Transformers characters]]

My Melody

2016-05-10T04:28:32Z

Pikawil: /* External links */

{{factions|autobot}}
:''My Melody is an [[Autobot]] bunny from {{w|Hello Kitty}}.''

[[File:QmYmelody toy.jpg|thumb|right|300px|]]

'''My Melody''' (マイメロディ ''Mai Merodi'') is a cutsie anthropomorphic bunny who transforms into a truck.

==Toys==
===Hello Kitty × Q-Transformers===
*'''My Melody''' ([[January 18|01–18]]–[[2016]])
**''ID Number:'' '''QTC-06'''

:''[[Q-Transformers]]'' My Melody is a retool of fellow Sanrio character [[Hello Kitty]] and transforms from a bunny to a truck with integrated trailer based on [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Generation 1 Optimus Prime]]'s truck mode. As the truck trailer halves end up on the back of the figure in robot mode, you can link up Q-Collaboration figures to one another, though like both Hello Kitty figures, the backdrop just has a sticker with a dotted pattern on it.

:She was retooled with different heads into [[Kamiusagi Rope]], [[Akira Senpai]], [[Evangelion Unit-00]], [[Evangelion Unit-01]], and [[Evangelion Unit-02]], and [[Snoopy]] all within the same line.

==Notes==
*My Melody features unique tech-specs that rate her strength as a single cupcake, her "Spiritual Strength" as a cupcake, two macaroons, and two heart shaped cookies, and then her Birthday is listed as being [[January 18]]th (which is the day her Q toy was released).

==External links==
*{{w|List of Sanrio characters#My Melody (1975)|My Melody}} at Wikipedia

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[[Category:External properties]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Female Transformers]]
[[Category:Q-Transformers characters]]

Trust Exercises

2016-05-09T03:38:32Z

Pikawil: /* Real-world references */

{{episode|
|otherseries=''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' (2015) ep 3
|image=TrustExercises boating.jpg
|caption=''I'M ON A BOAT''
|prev=Pilot (Part 2)
|next=More than Meets the Eye (RID)
|title="Trust Exercises"
|airdate=[[February 22]], [[2015]] (Australia/NZ) [[April 4]], [[2015]] (US)
|production company=[[Hasbro Studios]]
|writers=[[Adam Beechen]], [[Marsha Griffin]]
|animation studio=[[Polygon Pictures]]
|director=[[Scooter Tidwell]]
}}
'''The Autobot team must learn to work together as they face two Decepticon fugitives.'''

==Synopsis==
[[File:TrustExercises Grimlock holds Bumblebee.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Grimlock and Bumblebee were married that afternoon in a private ceremony on Sanibel Island...]]
[[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] and [[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] carry out trust exercises, however Sideswipe doesn't bother catching Strongarm, which results in her comm unit being damaged. The pair start fighting, and are reprimanded by [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]], whose words are somewhat undermined by him being held in [[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]]'s arms. The pair resume fighting until [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] calls all four of them back to [[Vintage Salvage Depot for the Discriminating Nostalgist|the scrapyard]]. As they head off, [[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]] watches them go. Fixit reports he has detected some nearby fugitive signals and possibly intact stasis pods. They also receive a distress call from the oil tanker ''[[Windward]]'' near the coast, which is being attacked by a metal shark. Fixit notes that the ''[[Alchemor]]'' had a [[Sharkticon (Prime)|Sharkticon]] on board, and it's probably him. Bumblebee takes Grimlock and a boat to investigate the tanker, while Sideswipe and Strongarm head off to check out the fugitive signals.

[[File:TrustExercises Steeljaw convincing Strongarm.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Who'a afraid of the big bad wolf? Just wait until the [[Decepticon Justice Division|DJD]] gets a load of this guy.]]
Bee and Grimlock find the oil tanker deserted and climb on board. The tanker's soon struck by something which looks like a submarine. Meanwhile, Sideswipe and Strongarm, still squabbling, split up and with Strongarm's comms down, she's unable to keep in touch with Sideswipe. Grimlock jumps off the oil tanker and attacks the submarine—in reality a [[Decepticon]]. The Decepticon manages to shake Grimlock off and boards the oil tanker, quickly crushing Bumblebee's capture device. Strongarm finds the stasis pods, and the Decepticon [[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]]. Steeljaw tries to bluff her, claiming that he's a guard who was aboard the ''Alchemor'', however when she points out he has Decepticon [[insignia]], he instead renders her unconscious. When Sideswipe returns to the scrapyard alone, [[Russell Clay|Russell]] and Fixit tell him they got a garbled message from Strongarm indicating she's in trouble and Sideswipe realizes he has to go deal with it or get in trouble with Bumblebee. Back on the boat, [[Hammerstrike (RID)|Hammerstrike]] and Bumblebee fight. Grimlock, now stuck at the bottom of the sea, is unable to lend a fist, but Bumblebee is able to get Hammerstrike down solo. The arrival of the coast guard distracts Bumblebee long enough for Hammerstrike to turn the tables and escape.

[[File:TrustExercises Grimlock catches Hammerstrike.jpg|left|250px|thumb|''LAND SHARK!!'']]
Bumblebee and Grimlock arrive back at the scrapyard to find everyone but Fixit gone. Fixit looks up information on Sharkticons, and Bumblebee reasons that Hammerstrike is trying to recreate his home environment by flooding the sea with oil. Bumblebee and Grimlock head to a nearby automated oil refinery on the assumption that that's where Hammerstrike will head next. Meanwhile Russell and Sideswipe find an old ranger station with signs a Decepticon has been there recently. Sideswipe complains that Strongarm will continue treating him badly, and Russell suggests if he treats people with respect, he'll get respect. They find Steeljaw still trying to convince a chained-up Strongarm that he's changed and wants to live in peace. Russell quickly comes up with an idea. At the oil refinery, Bumblebee and Grimlock break in and track down Hammerstrike, however the tricky Decepticon breaks a pipe, flooding the ground with oil and making it slippery, an environment that he is suited for.

[[File:TrustExercises Steeljaw Strongarm tied up.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Hey, don't laugh, you'd be constantly squatting like that too if you were on a steady diet of pork and little girls in red hoods.]]
Steeljaw almost gets Strongarm to tell him where the Autobots are based when Sideswipe reappears, disguised as the Decepticon "Grimbee". He engages Steeljaw in conversation unconvincingly, while Russell attempts to free Strongarm. Bumblebee and Grimlock are still skidding around in the oil refinery while Hammerstrike runs rings around them. The pair resort to teamwork, and manage to trap the Decepticon in an empty oil barrel. Meanwhile, Steeljaw spots Russell and realizes Sideswipe's an Autobot. After a brief pursuit, the Decepticon is kicked in the head by Strongarm, however she's forced to save Russell from a falling tree and Steeljaw escapes. The two Autobots return to the scrapyard, where they tell the others about Steeljaw and Bumblebee makes Steeljaw the #1 wanted Decepticon. Strongarm catches Sideswipe when he slips in some mud, and Russell observes that perhaps the pair will be able to work together eventually.

==Featured characters==
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*[[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] (1)
*[[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] (2)
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (3)
*[[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] (5)

|c2=
*[[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] (4)
*[[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]] (6)
*[[Hammerstrike (RID)|Hammerstrike]] (9)

|c3=
*[[Denny Clay]] (7)
*[[Russell Clay]] (8)

}}

==Quotes==
"Oh sorry, maybe when it was my turn you shouldn't have let me fall three times in a row." 
"That's because you weren't falling correctly!"
:—'''Sideswipe''' and '''Strongarm''' failing at trust exercises.

"Don't feel bad, it's not easy to be a model teammate like me."
:—'''Grimlock'''

"Fixit never said anything about a guard being on the ''Alchemor''..." 
"Fixit, yes...well, he wouldn't have known. I was in stasis also, my pod programmed to wake in case of a riot." 
"Then why would you have a Decepticon logo?" 
"Ahehehe, you're very well trained, asking excellent questions. The logo is meant to confuse the otherGWARRR"
:—'''Strongarm''' and '''Steeljaw''', the latter of whom showing just how much of a wolf in sheep's clothing he is.

"You have forced me to walk on two legs like some foul land dweller. HOW DARE YOU!"
:—'''Hammerstrike''' is prejudiced.

[[File:TrustExercises Grimbee.jpg|right|250px|thumb|This is what Hasbro finds every time they let kids test out their latest Construct Bots.]]
"I don't trust him. He's too cool."
:—'''Sideswipe''' on Steeljaw

"Greetings brother, I'm Steeljaw. And you are?" 
"Oh I'm, I'm...Grim..Bee"
:—'''Steeljaw''' and '''Sideswipe''', proving that all the good names really are taken.

==Notes==
===Animation and technical errors===
*As Sideswipe and Strongarm drive along and bicker over whether they're going the right way, Strongarm clips through some rocks.

===Continuity notes===
*Without too much fanfare, Sideswipe's now carrying around the sword which Fixit brought to the scrapyard in "[[Pilot (Part 2)]]".
*Grimlock, who went conspicuously unnamed in the two-part pilot, is finally named onscreen.
*Stasis pods revert to their traditional name after being called "stasis cells" in the two-part pilot.
*Bumblebee is still trying to use the capture device he got off Fixit in "Pilot (Part 2)", at least until it gets pretty conclusively destroyed by Hammerstrike.

===Prisoner manifest===
* ''In stasis'': Underbite, Hammerstrike
* ''On probation'': Grimlock
* ''Known at large'': Steeljaw
* ''Countless others all missing, presumed at large''

===Transformers references===
*[[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]] is a term originating from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.

===Real-world references===
*The "[[w:trust fall|trust falls]]" which the team are practicing at the start of the episode are a common trust-building game.
*When asked how he was captured, "Grimbee" starts his story off "[[w:It was a dark and stormy night|It was a dark and stormy night]]," a now cliché phrase often mocked, notably by Charles Schulz in his comic ''Peanuts'' in which [[Snoopy]] repeatedly used it when writing.

===Trivia===
*So who ''was'' in the stasis pod Steeljaw found? Strongarm later says they found only open pods, but Steeljaw was still trying to get that one open when she encountered him. [[Minitron]]?
*The first thirteen episodes of the series, this included, first premiered in Mandarin on Chinese streaming video site M1905.

===Foreign localization===
'''Brazilian Portuguese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Exercícios de Confiança'''" ("Trust Exercises")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[April 7]], 2015

'''Chinese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Xìnrèn Liànxí'''" (信任练习, "Trust Exercises")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[December 31]], [[2014]]

'''French'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Mise en confiance'''" ("Building Trust")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[February 10]], [[2015]]

'''German'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Teamwork'''" ("Teamwork")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[April 11]], 2015

'''Hungarian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Csapatmunka'''" ("Teamwork")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 18]], 2015

'''Italian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Esercizi di Fiducia'''" ("Trust Exercises")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 11]], 2015

'''Japanese'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Daiji nanoha Teamwork'''" (大事なのはチームワーク, "The Value of Teamwork")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 29]], 2015

'''Polish''':
:*''Title:'' "'''Ćwiczenie na zaufanie'''" ("Trust Exercise")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 18]], 2015

'''Portuguese'''
:*''Original airdate:'' [[March 4]], 2015

'''Russian'''
:*''Title:'' "'''Komandnaya rabota''' (Командная работа, "Team work")
:*''Original airdate:'' [[August 4]], 2015

==Home video releases==
*TBA

[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) episodes]]

Beast mode

2016-05-04T23:15:13Z

Pikawil: /* Notes */

[[File:BWPart1 beastmodes.jpg|thumb|upright=2.2]]
'''Beast mode''' is a term that is properly used to describe a Transformer's [[alternate mode]] when the alternate mode is of the form of an animal and has organic material integrated among the Transformer's mechanical form. Transformers would often initiate the process of converting from their [[robot mode]] by vocalizing the phrase "Beast mode!"

==Beast Wars==
The term was first used officially in fiction relating to the [[Beast Era]]. When stranded on a planet with high levels of [[Energon radiation]], [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] took on beast modes from the native life on that planet. The [[Technorganic#.22Technorganic.22 in Beast Wars|quasi-organic nature]] of the beast mode protected them from the radiation.

In taking on such beast modes, the Transformer did more than simply mimic the life form, he also took on some behavioural characteristics of the animal. This affected the Transformer in various ways.

* Many characters displayed appetites consistent with their beast mode's diets, e.g. Rattrap's liking for cheese, [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot's]] carnivory, [[Optimus Primal/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus']] interest in bananas, [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas']] tendency to try and eat...everyone.
* [[Tigatron]]'s [[stasis pod]] was damaged causing him to identify more strongly than usual with the characteristics of the tiger that was [[scanning|scanned]], initially taking some time to realise that was not actually a normal organic tiger. {{storylink|Fallen Comrades}}
* The energon radiation shielding was sabotaged at the [[Maximal]] base forcing them to remain in beast mode for much longer than they were used to. The extended time in beast mode caused the Maximals to become overcome with the mindset of their beast mode. They become feral and live as animals in the jungle. Tigatron, due to the accident with his protoform, is well adapted to his beast mode and routinely remains a tiger for long periods of time. Tigatron teaches the rest of the Maximals to embrace the beast within, which both frees them from being overcome with the bestial instincts and allows them to be more effective fighters in beast mode. {{storylink|Call of the Wild}}
* When [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]]'s stasis pod activated, for reasons that are uncertain the characteristics of his ant beast mode became extremely dominant in shaping his worldview. He thought he was an ant and [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] was his queen. {{storylink|Spider's Game}}
* Some unknown factor seems to impart a more subtle sense of animal-identification amongst even those Beast Warriors with notionally "normal" programming. This tends to manifest itself in an odd kind of subtle [[wikipedia:Speciesism|speciesism]], e.g. Rattrap and Blackarachnia refer to Dinobot and Megatron respectively as "slag-sucking saurian"s, Megatron and Dinobot in turn refer to Rattrap with contempt as "vermin", Tarantulas deliberately makes sure Blackarachnia's protoform scans a spider for its beast mode and attempts to do the same with Inferno, seeking to create more of "our kind", and Megatron expresses his resulting distrust of the scheming "arachnids" on several occasions, Dinobot rather curtly addresses Cheetor in one episode simply as "feline", who in turn claims with some chagrin that, being a cat, he should "know better than to trust a dog" after being sucker-punched by Silverbolt.

==Generation 1==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[File:SpotlightShockwave GrimlockSlag trexscan.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Me, Grimlock like it!]]

Non-organic beast alt-modes were a hallmark of the Cybertronians who served [[Onyx Prime]]. When [[Nova Prime]] united the tribes of Cybertron and instituted [[functionism]], he placed them near the bottom of society, above only those in the so-called [[Disposable class]]. Transformers with beast alt-modes faced institutionalized discrimination that remained until the start of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], and a stigma that lasted longer. {{storylink|The Crucible}}

Seeing the writing on the wall, Onyx Prime instructed the [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] [[Chela]] to colonize and defend the distant planet of [[Eukaris]]. From the [[hot spot]] within his body, Chela created a civilization of beast mode Transformers, safe from the stigma of functionism. The Eukariens were aware of the prejudice their kind had faced on Cybertron, and cultivated a deep distrust of any "standard-formers" with vehicle modes. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|Windblade vol. 2 #6}}

The [[Dinobot (G1)|Dynobots]] took on organic flesh covered beast modes to protect them from high levels of Energon radiation on prehistoric [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}} During his tour of duty on [[Z'verei]], [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] adopted a beast mode based on the [[Z'verein mole-rat|local life-forms]]. {{storylink|Three Monologues}}

After the war, the Decepticon [[Demus]] started kidnapping and lobotomizing beast mode Transformers, selling his new "Roboids" as torture dolls for organic races to take their frustrations out on. {{storylink|Animals}}

[[Tarantulas (BW)|Mesothulas]] eventually refined organic beast mode technology, creating [[mass-shifting]] "bio-disguises" - the ability to perfectly mimic any living creature and completely mask their signals in the process. When [[Mayhem Attack Squad|Mayhem]] were deployed to Earth, they adopted this technology and hid themselves among the native wildlife. {{storylink|Sins of the Wreckers issue 3}}

===''Classics''===
When [[Autobot]] and [[Decepticon]] ships crash-landed on a prehistoric Earth saturated with Energon radiation, [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] came up with the solution of beast modes based on [[Pretender]] and [[Powermaster]] technology. Though [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]] came up with the same idea, [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] opted to give the Decepticons new armor instead. {{storylink|Shattered Time}}

==Notes==

*"Beast mode" has since been trademarked by Marshawn Lynch, an American football running back for the [[Seattle Seahawks]], who claims to have "invented" it as his own personal, signature catch phrase. Lynch now uses it as the primary branding of [https://www.beastmodeonline.com/ his clothing line], so don't expect the phrase to appear on any [[Hasbro]] merchandise any time soon.

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[[Category:Technology]]

Toei Animation

2016-04-28T09:50:29Z

Pikawil: /* The trouble with Toei */

[[File:Toei Animation logo svg.png|right|200px|thumb|ホワイトピッグゴーホーム!]]

'''Toei Animation Co., Ltd''' (東映アニメーション株式会社 ''Tōei Animēshon Kabushiki-gaisha'') is an animation studio based in Japan that was established on [[January 23]], [[1948]], and is owned by [[Wikipedia:Toei Company|Toei Company, Ltd]]. In terms of anime, they are known for animating shows such as ''Devilman'', ''[[Stephanie Sheh|Sailor Moon]]'', ''Golion'' (aka ''Voltron''), ''Mazinger Z'' (aka ''Tranzor Z''), ''Getter Robo'', the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise, ''One Piece'', ''Digimon'', ''Fist of the North Star'', ''Kinnikuman'', ''[[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] Disk Wars: The [[Avengers]]'' and many, ''many'' more.

In the 1980s, American animated series were frequently outsourced to Toei (though Toei abruptly discontinued the practice in 1989). Some American cartoons Toei animated include ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'', ''[[Susan Hoffman#Related characters|The Real Ghostbusters]]'', the original ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'', ''[[Spider-Man]] and his Amazing Friends'', ''Pryde of the [[X-Men]]'', ''[[Inhumanoids]]'', ''[[My Little Pony]]'', ''[[Jem]]'', ''[[Robotix]]'', ''Dungeons & Dragons'', and just about every other show you can think of.

==''Transformers'' work==

*''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]''
**Season 1 (16 episodes)<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20030106085836/www.toei-anim.co.jp/oldies/collabo2.html Archived version of Toei's resume for joint productions, confirming their share in seasons 2 and 3]</ref>
**Season 2 (39 episodes)<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20030106085836/www.toei-anim.co.jp/oldies/collabo2.html Archived version of Toei's resume for joint productions, confirming their share in seasons 2 and 3]</ref>
**Season 3 (13 episodes)<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20030106085836/www.toei-anim.co.jp/oldies/collabo2.html Archived version of Toei's resume for joint productions, confirming their share in seasons 2 and 3]</ref>
**[[Title sequence]]s, seasons 1, 2, 4 (partial, recycled animation), 5 (recycled animation)
**[[Commercial/Generation 1|Toy commercial]]s, 1984 - 1990
**[[Commercial bumper]]s, seasons 1, 2
**[[Public service announcement]]s, 5 total

*''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''

*"[[Scramble City: Mobilization]]" (OVA)

*''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|Transformers: The Headmasters]]'' (35 episodes, plus [[clip show]]s)

*''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|Transformers: Super-God Masterforce]]'' (43 episodes, plus clip shows)

*''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (cartoon)|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory]]'' (38 episodes, plus clip shows)

*''[[Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!|Transformers: Zone]]'' (OVA)

*''[[Beast Wars Special Super Lifeform Transformers]]''
**"[[Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!]]"

*''[[1999 Summer Toei Anime Fair]]''
**"[[Cutting Edge]]" (hosted only)

==The trouble with Toei==

Perhaps unflatteringly, Toei is notorious among Western anime distributors for their difficulty to work with. For distributors releasing their material outside of Japan, Toei often refuses to provide quality video masters. The masters they ''do'' provide are routinely of inferior picture and sound quality, and sometimes are even ''incomplete'' in their material.

The masters for ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|The Headmasters]]'' cartoon Toei provided to [[Metrodome]], [[Madman Entertainment]] and [[Shout! Factory]] for Western release contained none of the before credits recaps and next episode segments. This was unfortunate, as some of those segments contained new content and not just clips. The ''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|Super-God Masterforce]]'' and ''[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (cartoon)|Victory]]'' masters provided by Toei did not include the [[clip show]] episodes; while this would not normally be a serious issue, in the case of ''Masterforce'' the clip shows were vital for making the rather convoluted plot of that series coherent.

For their US release of ''[[Scramble City: Mobilization|Scramble City]]'', [[Sony]] was provided the video but refused the audio track, forcing them to replace it with a non-optional audio commentary. Metrodome and Madman Entertainment circumvented Toei entirely, releasing a low-quality fansubbed version of the OVA with burnt-in subtitles. Shout! Factory attempted to negotiate with them professionally, but were outright denied in their request for ''Scramble City'', leaving them no choice but to omit it from their releases of US and Japanese ''Transformers'' cartoons.

Toei later denied Shout! Factory a distribution license for the ''[[Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!|Zone]]'' OVA. How Metrodome and Madman Entertainment got around them is unknown, though they likely used an unlicensed copy of ''Zone'' as they did with ''Scramble City''.

Toei's stubbornness to cooperate with Western distributors is infamous outside of ''Transformers''. Western distribution of ''Sailor Moon'' material was forbidden for many years after both DiC & Cloverway's licenses lapsed in 2005, and even before that they never granted permission for the final season of that series (''Sailor Stars'') to be distributed in North America by either entity. Toei continued refusing new potential ''Sailor Moon'' licencees until Viz Media (a Japanese-owned company) finally worked something out in 2014. Toei rigorously oversees the localization of ''Digimon'' material in Western markets, often forbidding necessary edits or forcing inexplicable changes. Just about the only Western distributor they ''do'' get along with is Funimation (the licensee for almost everything ''Dragon Ball'', ''One Piece'', and ''Toriko''), but that most likely has to do with the company's founder, Gen Fukunaga, whose uncle had been a Toei producer in the past.<ref>https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/InfoFor/AlumniAndFriends/OECE/2003/fukunaga.whtml</ref>

Let's not even get into the ''Super Sentai''/''Power Rangers'' stuff. ''Abaranger'', ''Shinkenger'', ''Akibaranger'' and ''Ninninger'' have made Toei's opinion of Americans perfectly clear by employing horrible stereotypes.

==External links==
* [http://corp.toei-anim.co.jp/english/ Toei's Official English-language Website]

==Footnotes==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Animation companies]]

Philip L. Clarke

2016-04-28T09:20:00Z

Pikawil:

{{picsneeded}}

'''Philip Lewis Clarke''' ([[September 8]], [[1938]] - [[April 24]], [[2013]]) , sometimes credited as '''Phillip Clarke''', was an American screen actor and voice actor. Clarke primarily played incidental and supporting characters over the course of his career and was often used in this capacity by Disney, his voice being heard in films like ''The Little Mermaid'', ''Aladdin'' and ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''. He had a few major roles though, including [[Doctor Go]] in ''[[GoBots|Challenge of the GoBots]]'' and Prince Lightstar in the short-lived animated series ''Skeleton Warriors''.

Clarke passed away on April 24, 2013.

==Voice roles==
===''The Transformers''===
* [[Auggie Cahnay (G1)|Auggie Cahnay]]
* [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]]
* [[Victor Drath]]
* [[Abdul Fakkadi (G1)|Abdul Fakkadi]]
* [[Primacron]]
* [[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]]
* [[Zeta Prime (G1)|New Narrator]] ("[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4]]")
* [[Ozu's sensei]] ("[[The Burden Hardest to Bear]]")

==External links==
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164950/ Philip L. Clarke on the Internet Movie Database]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clarke, Philip L.}}
[[Category: English voice actors]]

Jamie Simone

2016-04-28T09:03:55Z

Pikawil:

{{picsneeded}}
'''Jamie Simone''' (born 1966) is an American voice director. Some films and television shows he has voice directed include ''[[Hulk|Hulk Vs.]]'', ''Planet Hulk'', ''[[Wolverine (superhero)|Wolverine]] and the [[X-Men]]'', ''[[Spider-Man|Spider-Man Unlimited]]'', ''[[Avengers|The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' and holy cow, just a lot of [[Marvel Productions|Marvel]] stuff.

He has also directed the English dubs of several anime programs, including ''Naruto'', ''Initial D'', ''Stitch!'', ''Tenkai Knights'', ''Tiger & Bunny'' and the Viz Media dub of ''Sailor Moon''.

Simone also voice directed ''Loonatics Unleashed'', but let's not hold that against him.

==Producer==
*''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' (2001 English dub)

==Voice direction==
*''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' ("[[Predatory]]" through "[[Deadlock]]" only)
*''[[Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising]]''
*''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' (2015 series)

==Notes==
*[[Susan Blu]] was originally tapped to voice direct ''Transformers: Prime'', however, the death of her wife, actress Cynthia Songe, forced her to step away from the series after "[[Speed Metal]]". Simone replaced her for the remainder of ''Prime''.
*Simone was nominated in the 2012 Daytime Emmy Awards in the category for "Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program" for his work in ''Transformers: Prime''. Incidentally, he was ''not'' nominated for his work on ''Loonatics Unleashed''.

==External links==
*{{w|Jamie Simone}} at Wikipedia

{{DEFAULTSORT:Simone, Jamie}}

[[Category:Hasbro Studios]]
[[Category:Voice directors]]

Canon

2016-04-28T07:14:03Z

Pikawil: /* General canon rules */

{{disambig2|the story material which is considered to affect the overall continuity|various big guns|Cannon (disambiguation)}}

[[File:KidsCliff1.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|This is canon. (It also shows a ca''nn''on.)]]
'''Canon''' originally referred to (among other things) the recognized books of the Bible. In the 20th century, however, the term has also been adopted in the discussion of most long-running media franchises to mean any event, character, or location within the fiction that is considered to have been "real" with respect to that fictional [[continuity]]. Only canonical material should be used as evidence in debates on the nature of the fictional universe and the characters that inhabit them.

In the ''Transformers'' brand, as a result of editorial choice and the [[multiverse|multiversal]] nature of the [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]], canon is both extremely complicated and extremely simple, depending on how you look at it. The only reliable metric for determining the canonical status of ''Transformers'' fiction is whether it was officially licensed/approved or not. If so, it is canon... for ''some'' continuity. If not, it is not canon at all.

==Canon in other media franchises==
[[File:VaderVsPrime.jpg|left|upright=1.2|thumb|So is this.]]
Before examining canonicity as it pertains to ''Transformers'' it might first be useful to understand how canon is dealt with in other media franchises. It is tempting to dismiss canonicity as a trivial matter, of interest only to [[Ironfist (G1)|the most obsessive fans]], and while it is true that many casual fans of a franchise will give very little thought to the canon, some franchise owners have taken it seriously enough to create their own "canon policies". Others ignore the issue totally.

The owners of three of the largest franchises in existence today, ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'', ''[[Star Trek]]'' and ''[[Doctor|Doctor Who]]'', have vastly different views on canon. Prior to being acquired by The Walt Disney Company, Lucasfilm developed several tiers of canonicity into which a ''Star Wars'' text can fall, ranging from G-Canon (the films) down to T-Canon (the TV cartoons) and so on to N-Canon (ignored). The old policy decreed that most fiction was canonical unless it was contradicted by a higher level source (effectively, the movies and TV shows trump everything else), or was explicitly marked as non-canonical (such as material released under the Infinities banner). In April 2014, to prepare the way for new movies under Disney management, Lucasfilm declared all ''Star Wars'' text up to ''Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2'' #18 (published on August 27, 2014) except for the movies, the ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' cartoon and non-TV adaptations of unproduced scripts of said cartoon officially non-canon and abolished the canonicity tiers, with all material starting with the aptly-named novel ''Star Wars: A New Dawn'' on September 2, 2014, falling into a single level of canon regardless of their medium unless explicitly marked as non-canonical (such as post-Disney updates to the pre-Disney MMORPG ''Star Wars: The Old Republic'').<ref name="sw">[[wikia:c:starwars:Canon|Canon at Wookieepedia]]</ref>

CBS, the owners of ''Star Trek'', have for the most part limited canon ''Star Trek'' text to the television series and the motion pictures. Material in any other medium outside of TV and film is largely considered non-canonical.<ref name="st">[[wikia:c:memory-alpha:Canon|Canon at Memory Alpha]]</ref>

Some franchise owners ignore canon totally: the BBC, owners of ''Doctor Who'', have no canon policy for the franchise, and fans are left to [[personal canon|argue it out themselves]]. Partly this is due to statute (as a public broadcaster the BBC cannot have its programs refer to merchandise) and partly because nobody involved gave much of a toss until the 1980s, when fans started to get more organised and loud. So despite being a single continuous story, even ''the core show'' is riddled with countless irreconcilable continuity clashes! The 2005-9 showrunner Russell T Davies said he'd prefer to let fans decide their own canons "completely free of the production team's hot and heavy hands",<ref name="mag356">''Doctor Who Magazine'' #356</ref> and made it clear in 2005 that time/continuity can be rewritten ''at any time'',<ref name="rewrite">''The Unquiet Dead'' mentions it, and ''The Long Game'', ''Father's Day'', and ''Bad Wolf'' all have plots involving the timeline being changed.</ref> the ultimate get-out clause.
{{-}}

==Canon in ''Transformers''==

[[File:BeastWarsMetals1 Rattrap beast mode.jpg|right|upright=0.8|thumb|And this.]]
Right from its conception in 1984 ''Transformers'' differed from many other franchises in that it was made up of more than a single [[continuity]], the two main ones being the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Sunbow cartoon series]] and the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel comic series]]. Although based on the same basic concept both series offered different interpretations of events and characters. For example, in the cartoon, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] was shown to be slavishly loyal to [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]], whereas the comic portrayed him as a usurper constantly plotting to take control of the Decepticons himself. ''Both interpretations are canonical within the confines of their specific continuity.''

In addition to these two main continuities, countless other licensed products offered their own take on the Transformers' fictional universe, resulting in yet more [[Micro-continuity|micro-continuities]], such as those presented in the [[Ladybird Books]], [[Big Looker Storybook]]s (also published by Marvel) and [[Kid Stuff]]’s Talk and Read series to name but three. Then it got stranger when the [[United Kingdom]] started to make its ''own'' UK-only stories set in and around the American Marvel Comics, and in 1987 [[Japan]] started to make its own cartoons following on from Sunbow's.

[[File:Preds in tears.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Yeah, this too.]]
Over the years as new ''Transformers'' franchises have been developed, multiple continuities have given way to multiple [[Continuity family|continuity ''families'']], each of which may contain dozens of continuities. The first time this happened was with the arrival of ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' in [[2001]], which was the first time any Transformers fiction had not been a continuation of the 1984 cartoon and/or comic.

[[Hasbro]]'s only real input on what constitutes canon in ''Transformers'' comes from the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 franchise)|Transformers Universe]]'' franchise, which grew out of the [[BotCon]] merchandise and fiction produced by [[3H Productions]], and has continued with [[Fun Publications]]' fan club and ''Timelines'' comics. These stories present the idea that each ''Transformers'' continuity exists in its own separate universe, with [[Primus]] and [[Unicron]] as entities which straddle (or easily travel between) these universes. This approach is essentially a tacit endorsement of the model that the ''Transformers'' [[fandom]] had already started working under:

:'''Everything is canon.'''

In ''Transformers'', "canon" is for all intents and purposes a synonym for "official". If it was released by a ''Transformers'' [[licensor]] with Hasbro<ref name="hastak">Or, in the case of Japanese canon, [[TakaraTomy]].</ref> approval, then it is canonical. However, simply being canonical doesn't say anything about what continuity or continuities it applies to.

[[File:Movie2007 Bumblebee lubricates Simmons.JPG|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Sorry, this as well.]]
3H and IDW have both released comics which take place "just offscreen" during the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon, but these comics contradict each other. Rather than the newer IDW comics ''invalidating'' the 3H story or [[retcon]]ning it out of existence, the two are simply relegated to separate but closely parallel universes.

While this "multiverse" approach helps to ensure that essentially all ''Transformers'' fiction is given a certain amount of validity, there are occasions when a given fiction will contradict itself. The origin of the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] in the original cartoon series is probably the most infamous example: they were built on 1980s Earth, are Autobots from Cybertron brainwashed into being Decepticons, ''and'' were Decepticons millions of years ago. Unless and until official fiction says "this origin is the right one" and [[retcon]]s the other two somehow, which one of the origins is the "real one" or how they might fit together is the domain of [[personal canon]]: a fan's subjective collection of ideas about the official fiction, constantly being reevaluated and changed.

One example of contradictions being retconned is the fan-club comic ''[[Transformers: Cybertron: Balancing Act|Balancing Act]]'', which said all the continuity contradictions in ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' was because [[Unicron Singularity|the black hole]] was warping reality.
{{-}}

==General canon rules==
[[File:Tf commag 09.JPG|thumb|upright=1.1|right|And this.]]
When dealing with ''Transformers'' fiction, these general rules apply:

*All officially-licensed fiction is canonical for ''some'' continuity.
*If conflicting events occur which are ostensibly within the same continuity, there is no single "correct" interpretation, unless an official retcon is later issued. Fans may reach a consensus on it, or not. The two events may be relegated to slightly different continuities, or an in-continuity fix may be applied.
*While canon from one continuity cannot, in general, be used as evidence to support canon in a different continuity, there are exceptions. For example, the [[Tech Spec]]s and [[bio]]s from toy packaging are used as the basis for character personalities across various continuities, and can therefore hold some cross-continuity weight.
*[[Fan fiction]] is not canon.
*Toy catalogs produced by companies other than Hasbro (such as [[:File:Seekers ad.jpg|J.C. Penney]]) are not canon.
*Some fans have their own ideas about what constitutes canon and nothing anyone else says will change their mind (see [[personal canon]]).
*Perhaps [[cannon (disambiguation)|most important]] of all... it only has one N in the center, and one at the end. Megatron has a "[[Fusion cannon|personal cannon]]" (although ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Voyager [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Classics (2006)|Megatron]] had an "anti-proton pulse canon" [[quality control#Packaging images and labelling|according to]] his on-[[packaging]] bio), but you likely never will.
{{-}}

==See also==
[[File:Elisetape.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Oh god, why was [[B.O.T. (episode)|this]] canon?]]
* [[Authorial intent]]
* [[Fan fiction]]
* [[Fanon]]
* [[Personal canon]]
* [[Pseudocanon]]
{{-}}

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Fandom]]
[[Category:Continuities| ]]

Canon

2016-04-27T02:59:48Z

Pikawil: /* Canon in other media franchises */

{{disambig2|the story material which is considered to affect the overall continuity|various big guns|Cannon (disambiguation)}}

[[File:KidsCliff1.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|This is canon. (It also shows a ca''nn''on.)]]
'''Canon''' originally referred to (among other things) the recognized books of the Bible. In the 20th century, however, the term has also been adopted in the discussion of most long-running media franchises to mean any event, character, or location within the fiction that is considered to have been "real" with respect to that fictional [[continuity]]. Only canonical material should be used as evidence in debates on the nature of the fictional universe and the characters that inhabit them.

In the ''Transformers'' brand, as a result of editorial choice and the [[multiverse|multiversal]] nature of the [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]], canon is both extremely complicated and extremely simple, depending on how you look at it. The only reliable metric for determining the canonical status of ''Transformers'' fiction is whether it was officially licensed/approved or not. If so, it is canon... for ''some'' continuity. If not, it is not canon at all.

==Canon in other media franchises==
[[File:VaderVsPrime.jpg|left|upright=1.2|thumb|So is this.]]
Before examining canonicity as it pertains to ''Transformers'' it might first be useful to understand how canon is dealt with in other media franchises. It is tempting to dismiss canonicity as a trivial matter, of interest only to [[Ironfist (G1)|the most obsessive fans]], and while it is true that many casual fans of a franchise will give very little thought to the canon, some franchise owners have taken it seriously enough to create their own "canon policies". Others ignore the issue totally.

The owners of three of the largest franchises in existence today, ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'', ''[[Star Trek]]'' and ''[[Doctor|Doctor Who]]'', have vastly different views on canon. Prior to being acquired by The Walt Disney Company, Lucasfilm developed several tiers of canonicity into which a ''Star Wars'' text can fall, ranging from G-Canon (the films) down to T-Canon (the TV cartoons) and so on to N-Canon (ignored). The old policy decreed that most fiction was canonical unless it was contradicted by a higher level source (effectively, the movies and TV shows trump everything else), or was explicitly marked as non-canonical (such as material released under the Infinities banner). In April 2014, to prepare the way for new movies under Disney management, Lucasfilm declared all ''Star Wars'' text up to ''Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2'' #18 (published on August 27, 2014) except for the movies, the ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' cartoon and non-TV adaptations of unproduced scripts of said cartoon officially non-canon and abolished the canonicity tiers, with all material starting with the aptly-named novel ''Star Wars: A New Dawn'' on September 2, 2014, falling into a single level of canon regardless of their medium unless explicitly marked as non-canonical (such as post-Disney updates to the pre-Disney MMORPG ''Star Wars: The Old Republic'').<ref name="sw">[[wikia:c:starwars:Canon|Canon at Wookieepedia]]</ref>

CBS, the owners of ''Star Trek'', have for the most part limited canon ''Star Trek'' text to the television series and the motion pictures. Material in any other medium outside of TV and film is largely considered non-canonical.<ref name="st">[[wikia:c:memory-alpha:Canon|Canon at Memory Alpha]]</ref>

Some franchise owners ignore canon totally: the BBC, owners of ''Doctor Who'', have no canon policy for the franchise, and fans are left to [[personal canon|argue it out themselves]]. Partly this is due to statute (as a public broadcaster the BBC cannot have its programs refer to merchandise) and partly because nobody involved gave much of a toss until the 1980s, when fans started to get more organised and loud. So despite being a single continuous story, even ''the core show'' is riddled with countless irreconcilable continuity clashes! The 2005-9 showrunner Russell T Davies said he'd prefer to let fans decide their own canons "completely free of the production team's hot and heavy hands",<ref name="mag356">''Doctor Who Magazine'' #356</ref> and made it clear in 2005 that time/continuity can be rewritten ''at any time'',<ref name="rewrite">''The Unquiet Dead'' mentions it, and ''The Long Game'', ''Father's Day'', and ''Bad Wolf'' all have plots involving the timeline being changed.</ref> the ultimate get-out clause.
{{-}}

==Canon in ''Transformers''==

[[File:BeastWarsMetals1 Rattrap beast mode.jpg|right|upright=0.8|thumb|And this.]]
Right from its conception in 1984 ''Transformers'' differed from many other franchises in that it was made up of more than a single [[continuity]], the two main ones being the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Sunbow cartoon series]] and the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel comic series]]. Although based on the same basic concept both series offered different interpretations of events and characters. For example, in the cartoon, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] was shown to be slavishly loyal to [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]], whereas the comic portrayed him as a usurper constantly plotting to take control of the Decepticons himself. ''Both interpretations are canonical within the confines of their specific continuity.''

In addition to these two main continuities, countless other licensed products offered their own take on the Transformers' fictional universe, resulting in yet more [[Micro-continuity|micro-continuities]], such as those presented in the [[Ladybird Books]], [[Big Looker Storybook]]s (also published by Marvel) and [[Kid Stuff]]’s Talk and Read series to name but three. Then it got stranger when the [[United Kingdom]] started to make its ''own'' UK-only stories set in and around the American Marvel Comics, and in 1987 [[Japan]] started to make its own cartoons following on from Sunbow's.

[[File:Preds in tears.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Yeah, this too.]]
Over the years as new ''Transformers'' franchises have been developed, multiple continuities have given way to multiple [[Continuity family|continuity ''families'']], each of which may contain dozens of continuities. The first time this happened was with the arrival of ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon)|Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' in [[2001]], which was the first time any Transformers fiction had not been a continuation of the 1984 cartoon and/or comic.

[[Hasbro]]'s only real input on what constitutes canon in ''Transformers'' comes from the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 franchise)|Transformers Universe]]'' franchise, which grew out of the [[BotCon]] merchandise and fiction produced by [[3H Productions]], and has continued with [[Fun Publications]]' fan club and ''Timelines'' comics. These stories present the idea that each ''Transformers'' continuity exists in its own separate universe, with [[Primus]] and [[Unicron]] as entities which straddle (or easily travel between) these universes. This approach is essentially a tacit endorsement of the model that the ''Transformers'' [[fandom]] had already started working under:

:'''Everything is canon.'''

In ''Transformers'', "canon" is for all intents and purposes a synonym for "official". If it was released by a ''Transformers'' [[licensor]] with Hasbro<ref name="hastak">Or, in the case of Japanese canon, [[TakaraTomy]].</ref> approval, then it is canonical. However, simply being canonical doesn't say anything about what continuity or continuities it applies to.

[[File:Movie2007 Bumblebee lubricates Simmons.JPG|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Sorry, this as well.]]
3H and IDW have both released comics which take place "just offscreen" during the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon, but these comics contradict each other. Rather than the newer IDW comics ''invalidating'' the 3H story or [[retcon]]ning it out of existence, the two are simply relegated to separate but closely parallel universes.

While this "multiverse" approach helps to ensure that essentially all ''Transformers'' fiction is given a certain amount of validity, there are occasions when a given fiction will contradict itself. The origin of the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] in the original cartoon series is probably the most infamous example: they were built on 1980s Earth, are Autobots from Cybertron brainwashed into being Decepticons, ''and'' were Decepticons millions of years ago. Unless and until official fiction says "this origin is the right one" and [[retcon]]s the other two somehow, which one of the origins is the "real one" or how they might fit together is the domain of [[personal canon]]: a fan's subjective collection of ideas about the official fiction, constantly being reevaluated and changed.

One example of contradictions being retconned is the fan-club comic ''[[Transformers: Cybertron: Balancing Act|Balancing Act]]'', which said all the continuity contradictions in ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' was because [[Unicron Singularity|the black hole]] was warping reality.
{{-}}

==General canon rules==
[[File:Tf commag 09.JPG|thumb|upright=1.1|right|And this.]]
When dealing with ''Transformers'' fiction, these general rules apply:

*All officially-licensed fiction is canonical for ''some'' continuity.
*If conflicting events occur which are ostensibly within the same continuity, there is no single "correct" interpretation, unless an official retcon is later issued. Fans may reach a consensus on it, or not. The two events may be relegated to slightly different continuities, or an in-continuity fix may be applied.
*While canon from one continuity cannot, in general, be used as evidence to support canon in a different continuity, there are exceptions. For example, the [[Tech Spec]]s and [[bio]]s from toy packaging are used as the basis for character personalities across various continuities, and can therefore hold some cross-continuity weight.
*Fan fiction is not canon.
*Toy catalogs produced by companies other than Hasbro (such as [[:File:Seekers ad.jpg|J.C. Penney]]) are not canon.
*Some fans have their own ideas about what constitutes canon and nothing anyone else says will change their mind (see [[personal canon]]).
*Perhaps [[cannon (disambiguation)|most important]] of all...it only has one N in the center, and one at the end. Megatron has a "[[Fusion cannon|personal cannon]]" (although ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Voyager [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Classics (2006)|Megatron]] had an "anti-proton pulse canon" [[quality control#Packaging images and labelling|according to]] his on-[[packaging]] bio), but you likely never will.
{{-}}

==See also==
[[File:Elisetape.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Oh god, why was [[B.O.T. (episode)|this]] canon?]]
* [[Authorial intent]]
* [[Fan fiction]]
* [[Fanon]]
* [[Personal canon]]
* [[Pseudocanon]]
{{-}}

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Fandom]]
[[Category:Continuities| ]]

D'Hoonib

2016-04-27T02:44:06Z

Pikawil:

'''D'Hoonib''' is a planet in the [[Milky Way]].

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
D'Hoonib was an unclaimed or neutral organic planet. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
*[[wikia:c:turtlepedia:D'Hoonnib|D'Hoonib]] (alternatively D'Hoon'''n'''ib, depending on continuity) is a planet in the ''{{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles}}'' franchise, appearing as the home planet of the [[wikia:c:turtlepedia:Fugitoid|Fugitoid]] in nearly every continuity the character has appeared in.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dhoonib}}
[[Category:Almanac-only planets]]
[[Category:Real-world cultural references]]

Skaro

2016-04-27T02:42:39Z

Pikawil: then, just mentioning the release years of the Almanac and Remembrance will subtly get the point across without explicitly saying "STEVEN MOFFAT MADE THE REFERENCE OUTDATED!"

'''Skaro''' is a planet in the [[Milky Way]]. It is likely the origin of the [[Dalek]]s.

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
Skaro was an unclaimed or neutral planet in the Milky Way that was destroyed. [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] noted the destruction as a shame, since he needed a Mark III Travel Machine. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
*{{w|Skaro}} is the home world of the Daleks from ''{{w|Doctor Who}}''. Back when ''The AllSpark Almanac II'' was published in 2010, the planet was last seen being completely destroyed by the [[Doctor]] causing an artificially-induced supernova of its star, in the 1988 serial "{{w|Remembrance of the Daleks}}".

[[Category:Almanac-only planets]]
[[Category:Real-world cultural references]]

File:QTF2 ep12 HelloKitty.jpg

2016-04-27T01:33:18Z

Pikawil:

[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] talk about [[Hello Kitty]]. Screencap from ''[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns (cartoon)|Q-Transformers: The Road to Additional Popularity]]'' episode 12, "[[The Road to Q-Transformers Land Which Won't Lose to Puroland]]".

© 2015 [[TakaraTomy]] and {{w|Sanrio}}
{{screencap|source=[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns (cartoon)|Q-Transformers: The Road to Additional Popularity]]|owner=TakaraTomy}}

Pablo Hidalgo

2016-04-26T08:47:52Z

Pikawil:

'''Pablo Hidalgo''' is the author of ''[[Transformers Vault]]''. In addition to ''Transformers'', he had experience writing coffee table books about ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' and ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]''. His work on ''Star Wars'' extends to RPG books, short stories, web and magazine articles, and serving as a member of the Lucasfilm Story Group, the Disney-era ''Star Wars'' [[canon]] police.

==External link==
{{Wookieepedia}}

[[Category:Writers|Hidalgo, Pablo]]

Conquerors Part 3: Helden

2016-04-26T05:04:05Z

Pikawil: /* Covers (3) */

{{Comicstory
|series=exrid|issueno=48
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|next=Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion
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|image=TF48 regcvr.jpg
|title="Conquerors Part 3: Helden"
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[December 2]], [[2015]]
|coverdate=December 2015
|written by=[[John Barber]]
|art by=[[Andrew Griffith]]
|colors by=[[Josh Perez]]
|letters by=[[Tom B. Long]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era]]
}}

'''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)
*''[[Seeker clone]] 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:''' {{w|Archie Andrews|Archie}}, driving [[Hot Rod]], does a 180 and screeches to a halt in front of {{w|Betty Cooper|Betty}} and {{w|Veronica Lodge|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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*''[[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe]]'' [[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 10|#10]]
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==External links==
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Mark Hamill

2016-04-26T04:14:16Z

Pikawil:

[[File:MarkHamill_Trickster.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Luke Skywalker, in all his glory.]]
'''Mark Richard Hamill''' (born [[September 25]], [[1951]]) is an American actor, producer, director, writer and voice actor. He has done many, ''many'' roles both on camera and in voice acting; most iconic of them are his screen role as [[Luke Skywalker]] in the original ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]'' trilogy and ''The Force Awakens'', and his voice role as the [[Joker]] in ''[[Batman]]: The Animated Series'' and other ''Batman'' animated productions and video games.

He was an announcer for [[Huboom!]] on [[Hub Network]].

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Rescue Bots''===
*[[Woodrow Burns]]

==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000434/ Mark Hamill at the IMDB]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hamill, Mark}}
[[Category:English voice actors]]
[[Category:Hasbro Studios]]

Activision

2016-04-24T00:27:27Z

Pikawil: Activision Blizzard is an independent company nowadays

[[Image:Activision_logo.jpg|thumb|250px]]

'''Activision''' is a [[United States of America|North American]] video game developer and publisher founded in [[1979]]. It was the first [[wikipedia:Video game development parties#Third-party developer|third-party]] video game company in the world, and one of the oldest video game companies to exist today, developing and producing series such as ''Tony Hawk'', ''Guitar Hero'', and ''Call of Duty''. Activision, Inc. is a division of Activision Blizzard, a new company formed out of a merger between Activision and Blizzard Entertainment, the developer/publisher of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game juggernaut ''World of Warcraft''.

Relevant to this wiki, they have published some ''Transformers'' [[video games]] throughout the years. Development studios owned by Activision who are also relevant to this wiki include [[High Moon Studios]], [[Vicarious Visions]] and the defunct [[Luxoflux]].

==''Transformers'' games published==
* ''[[The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth]]'' (1986, Commodore 64)
* ''[[Transformers The Game]]'' (2007, Xbox 360/PlayStation 3/Wii/PlayStation 2/DS/PSP)
* ''[[Transformers Animated: The Game]]'' (2008, DS)
* ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (video games)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - The Game]]'' (2009, Xbox 360/PlayStation 3/Wii/PlayStation 2/DS/PSP)
* ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)|Transformers: War for Cybertron]]'' (2010, Xbox 360/PlayStation 3/PC/DS)
* ''[[Transformers: Cybertron Adventures]]'' (2010, Wii)
* ''[[Dark of the Moon (video games)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon - The Game]]'' (2011, Xbox 360/PS3/Wii/DS/3DS)
* ''[[Transformers: Prime - The Game]]'' (2012, Wii/WiiU/3DS/DS)
* ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron]]'' (2012, Xbox 360/PS3/PC)
* ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark]]'' (2014, Xbox 360/Xbox One/PS3/PS4/Wii U/PC/3DS)
* ''[[Transformers: Devastation]]'' (2015, Xbox 360/Xbox One/PS3/PS4/PC)

==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:Activision|Activision, Inc. on Wikipedia]]
*[[Wikipedia:Activision Blizzard|Activision Blizzard on Wikipedia]]
*[http://www.activision.com/ Activision official website]

[[Category:Activision| ]]
[[Category:Video game companies]]

John-Paul Bove

2016-04-24T00:11:42Z

Pikawil:

'''John-Paul Bove''' (born [[February 23]], [[1980]]) is a British comic artist. His non-''Transformers'' work has included ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]'' and ''[[Doctor|Doctor Who]]'' for [[IDW Publishing]] and ''Wrath Of The Titans'' for Bluewater Productions. He was originally inspired to tell his own stories by the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel UK]] ''Transformers'' comic<ref>[http://wordmongerer.blogspot.com/2011/12/it-never-truly-ends.html The Mongerered Words of John-Paul Bove: "It Never Truly Ends..."]</ref> and has written and colored many stories for the ''[[Transformers: Mosaic]]'' project including the 22 page story "War Journal". In May 2013 his first licenced written work appeared in [[Panini]] UK's ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' magazine.

==Colors==
*"[[Devastation issue 6|Feeling Yellow]]"
*[[International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"]] (Comic-Con exclusive cover)
*''[[The Transformers: Regeneration One]]''
*''[[The Transformers: Drift - Empire of Stone]]''

==Gallery==
*[[:Category:Images by John-Paul Bove|Extended John-Paul Bove gallery]]

==Convention appearances==
*[[BotCon 2011]]
*[[BotCon 2013]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.jpbove.com/ John-Paul Bove's Website]
*[http://wordmongerer.deviantart.com/ John-Paul Bove's DeviantArt]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bove, John-Paul}}
[[Category:Colorists]]

SeizÅ KatÅ

2016-04-24T00:03:31Z

Pikawil: Just precising WHICH Disney Jungle Book, now that there's THREE of 'em

[[File:SeizoKato1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|He looked as grizzled as he sounded.]]

'''Seizō Katō''' (加藤精三 ''Katō Seizō'' [[February 14]], [[1927]]-[[January 17]], [[2014]]) was a veteran Japanese voice actor who worked for Haikyo. Some of his most notable roles include Count Magnus Lee from ''Vampire Hunter D'', Dr. Barcas from ''The Guyver'', Ittetsu Hoshi from ''Star of the Giants'', Gamo Whiskey from ''Cyborg 009'', Hazanko from ''Outlaw Star'', Kristopher McLaughlin from ''Case Closed'', Alien Mephilas from the ''Ultra Series'', Father Cornello from ''FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood'', Mother from ''Tokyo Godfather'', Grim Reaper Earl Bolstak from ''[[Johnny Yong Bosch|Trigun]]'', Great Satan from ''Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger'', and a one-off stint as Inspector Zenigata in ''Lupin III: The Fuma Conspiracy''.

In the world of dubbing, he played Shere Khan in Disney's animated ''The Jungle Book'', Master Control Program in ''Tron'', Emperor D'ken in the [[TV Tokyo]] dub of [[Saban Entertainment|Saban]]'s ''[[X-Men]]'' and Dr. Herbert Higginbotham in ''Little Big Planet 2''.

Katō died of complications from bladder cancer at the age of 86.<ref name="death">[http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20140117-00000164-jij-soci Report on death at Yahoo! Japan News]</ref>

==Voice roles==
===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''===
*[[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]
*[[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]

===''Scramble City''===
*Megatron
*Devastator

===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010''===
*[[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]]
*Devastator

===''The Headmasters''===
*Galvatron
*Devastator

===''The Transformers: The Movie''===
*Megatron
*Galvatron

===''The Transformers''===
{{note|''[[The Rebirth]]'' was released in Japan in 1996 with the American ''The Transformers'' branding to distinguish it from the continuity of the Japanese ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''.}}

*Galvatron

===''DreamMix TV World Fighters''===
*Megatron

==Notes==

*Katō voluntarily turned down the role of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] from the [[2007]] ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' film and the part was given to [[Kōtarō Nakamura]], instead. Katō cited, "I no longer have the same level of confidence as I did then," as his reasoning.<ref>http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%A0%E8%97%A4%E7%B2%BE%E4%B8%89#.E3.82.A8.E3.83.94.E3.82.BD.E3.83.BC.E3.83.89</ref>
*Despite retiring from the role, Katō would deign to play a parody of Megatron called "Mesutron" (Femmetron) in episode 7 of ''[[Wikipedia:Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt]]''. When one hears the age in his voice, they can see why he declined the opportunity to continue playing Megatron (he was 80 at the time). [[Tesshō Genda]] played a parody of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] named "Osutimus Surprise" (Masculus Surprise) in that same episode.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJYXqupjeuY</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.haikyo.or.jp/PROFILE/man/34.html Haikyo profile]

[[Category:Japanese voice actors|Kato Seizo]]

Skaro

2016-04-23T23:44:48Z

Pikawil: /* Notes */

'''Skaro''' is a planet in the [[Milky Way]]. It is likely the origin of the [[Dalek]]s.

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
Skaro was an unclaimed or neutral planet in the Milky Way that was destroyed. [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]] noted the destruction as a shame, since he needed a Mark III Travel Machine. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
*{{w|Skaro}} is the home world of the Daleks from ''[[Wikipedia:Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]''. At the time ''The AllSpark Almanac II'' was published, the planet was completely destroyed in "{{w|Remembrance of the Daleks}}" by the [[Doctor]] causing an artificially-induced supernova of its star; some years after the publication of the Almanac, "{{w|Asylum of the Daleks}}" and "{{w|The Magician's Apprentice (Doctor Who)|The Magician's Apprentice}}" [[retcon]] this such that, respectively, the planet was simply left in ruins by the supernova and then terraformed back to habitable status long after the fact.

[[Category:Almanac-only planets]]
[[Category:Real-world cultural references]]

Snoopy

2016-04-20T23:32:19Z

Pikawil:

:''Snoopy is a beagle from {{w|Peanuts}}.''

[[File:QSnoopy Toy.jpg|thumb|right|300px|He's not too fond of [[Ransack (ROTF) |Ransack]] either!]]

'''Snoopy''' (スヌーピー ''Sunūpī'') is an Earth beagle with [[Wikia:c:Peanuts:World War I Flying Ace|a legendary aerial combat record]].

==Toys==
===Peanuts × Q-Transformers===
*'''Snoopy''' ([[December 29|12–29]]–[[2015]])
**''ID Number:'' '''QTC05'''

:A [[retool]] of ''[[Q-Transformers]]'' [[Hello Kitty]] with a new head and arms. His arms have sculpted divots to accommodate the length of the new head's snout. He transforms from a beagle to a truck with integrated trailer based on [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Generation 1 Optimus Prime]]'s truck mode. As the truck trailer halves end up on the back of the figure in robot mode, you can link up Q-Collaboration figures to one another. Snoopy's backdrop features a sticker with his good pal Woodstock on it.

:This mold was also retooled into [[Kamiusagi Rope]], [[Akira Senpai]], [[Evangelion Unit-00]], [[Evangelion Unit-01]], and [[Evangelion Unit-02]], and [[My Melody]].

==Notes==
*Snoopy is a prominent character in [http://www.peanuts.com/ a comic strip you may or may not have heard of].
*His Tech-Specs state he has a strength rating of two pizzas, his owner as a {{w|Charlie Brown|Charles Brown}}, and that his birthday is [[August 10]]th.

==External links==
* {{w|Snoopy}} at Wikipedia

[[Category:Dogs]]
[[Category:External properties]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Q-Transformers characters]]

Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12

2016-04-20T23:26:28Z

Pikawil: /* Notes */

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|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[April 20]], [[2016]]
|coverdate=April 2016
|written by=[[Tom Scioli]] and [[John Barber]]
|art by=Tom Scioli
|colors by=Tom Scioli
|letters by=Tom Scioli
|production by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
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'''Cobra Commander returns to retake Cobra from the Serpentress, while the Autobots and G.I. Joe rally their forces for the epic final battle.'''

==Synopsis==

The [[Autobot]]s and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joes]] ready themselves for the final assault on [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. The [[Rescuebot]]s seal their oath to protect the humans by forging a "combination lock", merging into [[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]], while [[Doc (G.I. Joe)|Doc]] autopsies [[Wild Bill]], whose body has been brought back to [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] by [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]]. As he studies his old friend's body, Doc locates a "[[technoactive cube]]" that Perceptor implanted in Bill while his body was in his custody; it seems the cube has failed to perform whatever function Perceptor intended... until Bill's hand suddenly reaches up and grab's Doc's shirt!

Meanwhile, [[Cobra Commander]] and his retinue are travelling across [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], going from [[Terrordrome]] to Terrordome and retaking each one in order to reunite [[Cobra]] under his command again. After regaining the service of the [[Crimson Guard]] (by killing the member of their group who had taken up his title), the Commander confronts the [[Baroness|Serpentress]]; she believes he abandoned Cobra and that she has expanded his empire, while he in turn believes she has sacrificed the heart of the organization in allying with the Decepticons. Desiring that she return to his side as the Baroness once more, Cobra Commander urges the Serpentress to remove her mask, offering to remove his own cowl to convince her. They both unmask, but the blotches and scars that mark the Baroness's face pale in comparison to Cobra Commander's inhuman visage, as he stands revealed as one of [[Koh-Buru-Lah (creature)|Koh-Buru-Lah]]'s reptile-man spawn. The two look one another in the eye... then passionately embrace!

On another plane of existence, the spirit of the deceased [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] is led along the path to the [[Allspark|Matrix]] by the voice of [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]]. On the road to eternity, he comes upon [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], whose own path to the afterlife has been slowed by the heavy sword he drags behind him. The pair are stalked by the demonic [[Kremzeek]], eater of souls, but Prime saves Grimlock from the ravenous spirit, and together, they arrive at the gateway to the realm beyond. Their way is blocked by [[Bludgeon (G1)|the angel of death]], who announces that only those who carry the "[[Key to Vector Sigma|key]] to [[Vector Sigma|Vector Stigmata]]" may pass through. Prime realizes that the wounds on his body form the key, but the angel insists that this will only grant Prime passage, not Grimlock. Ever one for self-sacrifice, Prime takes Grimlock's sword and bestows the key upon him, allowing the former Autobot King to ascend into the Matrix while Prime remains behind.

Back on Cybertron, two old enemies, [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], meet once more. But these two city-bots now have different controllers: [[Scarlett]] has slain [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]] and taken control of Scorponok, while Fortress Maximus is now under the control of [[Snake-Eyes]] thanks to the [[Master Sword]], containing the souls of the ninja commando's three teachers. The two old lovers reunite atop the cities; the meeting is tense at first, and Snake-Eyes turns to leave, but is stopped when Scarlett asks him to show her his face. He complies, and she is visibly taken aback, before softening and embracing the ninja.

Within [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] finds himself assailed by visions of past Autobot leaders, transmitted through the [[Matrix of Leadership]] he now carries in his chest. He hurls abuse at the incorporeal Primes, demanding that the ghost of Optimus show itself... but receives an unexpected surprise when Grimlock, rather than Optimus, takes form before his eyes. Grimlock laughs and threatens to haunt Megatron forever, taking control of his old dinosaur head—still worn by Megatron on his arm—and forcing it to bite and snap at the Decepticon leader.

With Fortress Maximus and Scorponok now added to their ranks, the Autobots and Joes convince Metroplex to finally transform out of his city mode and join the fight. The united "Jotobot" army marches on Trypticon, where they are met by the collective forces of the Decepticons and their remaining Cobra allies (led by [[Destro]]), all protected by the saurian city's forcefield, just as Megatron (having divested himself of Grimlock's head) directs [[Primus]] to begin consuming [[Earth]]'s [[sun]]. [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] steps forward with [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] in hand, holding the Autobot communicator aloft so he can unleash a sonic assault; programmed using the information gathered by [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]], [[Tunnel Rat]], and Perceptor, the sonic signal shatters Trypticon's forcefield, and the Jotobots unleash a barrage of [[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]] that immediately entwine the Decepticon city, and Megatron, in their creeping vines. With one mighty punch, Metroplex breaches Trypticon's walls and deploys a squad of Jotobots to fight DeceptiCobra inside their own headquarters, while down below, Blaster releases his [[Autobot Mini-Cassette|Recordobots]], who are ridden into battle with [[Sixshot]] by a team of Joes led by the resurrected Wild Bill!

Presently, Cobra Commander and his army arrive, and the Commander offers Megatron a deal: he will exterminate the creeper vines if Megatron spares the planet [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] and gives it to him to control. Megatron agrees, and Cobra Commander has [[Doctor Venom]], creator of the creeper vines, broadcast a secret kill-switch signal that causes them to wither and die on the spot. Freed, Trypticon turns on Defensor, who has collapsed during the battle, but [[Steeler]] is eager to repay the combiner for his vow to protect humanity, and quickly drives the [[Bridge Layer]] in between the two. Using the vehicle's articulated, moveable bridge, Steeler elevates Defensor's gun into positon, and he combiner pulls the trigger, delivering a blast that consumes Trypticon in a fireball.

Elsewhere, the Serpentress consults the Cobra soothsayer [[Crystal Ball]], who shares with her a vision of the future... a vision that foretells the coming of the [[Serpentor|true Cobra Emperor]], the Serpentress and Cobra Commander's reptilian child!

==Featured characters==
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*[[Blades (G1)|Blades]] (1)
*[[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] (2)
*[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] (3)
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (4)
*[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] (5)
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (6)
*[[Peacemaker]] (7)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (8)
*[[Defensor (G1)|Defensor]] (18)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (31)
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (32)
*[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] (39)
*[[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] (44)
*[[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]] (45)
*[[Primon]] (46)
*[[Prima]] (47)
*[[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] (48)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (51)
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (52)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (53)
*[[Hot Rod|Rodimus]] (54)
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (57)
*[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (58)
*[[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] (59)
*Red guy (60)
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*[[Slag (G1)|Slag]] (61)
*[[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] (62)
*[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] (63)
*[[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] (64)
*[[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] (65)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (66)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (68)
*[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (69)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (70)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (71)
*[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] (72)
*Generic Datsun? (93)
*[[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] (94)
*[[Hound (G1)|Hound]] (95)
*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (96)
*[[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]] (98)
*[[Ramhorn (G1)|Ramhorn]] (99)
*[[Road Rage (G1)|Road Rage]]? (102)
*[[Gears (G1)|Gears]] (103)
*[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] (104)
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*[[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] (35)
*[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] (41)
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (43)
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] (80)
*Generic [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] and [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] (81)
*[[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] (82)
*[[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] (83)
*[[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]] (84)
*[[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]] (85)
*[[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] (86)
*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (87)
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (88)
*[[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] (89)
*[[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] (90)
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (91)
*[[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] (92)
*[[Sixshot]] (100)
*[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (101)

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*[[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] (9)
*[[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]] (10)
*[[Tunnel Rat]] (11)
*[[General Flagg]] (12)
*[[Gung-Ho]] (13)
*[[Quick Kick]] (14)
*[[Rock 'n Roll]] (15)
*[[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] (16)
*[[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]] (17)
*[[Wild Bill]] (19)
*[[Doc (G.I. Joe)|Doc]] (20)
*[[Snake-Eyes]] (40)
*[[Scarlett|Zkarlett]] (42)
*[[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] (55)
*[[Jinx]] (56)
*[[Cover Girl]] (67)
*[[Big Lob]] (73)
*[[Mutt]] (74)
*[[Junkyard (G.I. Joe)|Junkyard]] (75)
*[[Beachhead]] (76)
*[[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]] (77)
*[[Snow Job]] (78)
*[[Lady Jaye]] (79)
*[[Dusty]] (97)
*[[Steeler]] (106)

|h4=[[Cobra]]|c4=
*[[Crimson Guard]]smen (22)
*[[Cobra Commander]] (23)
*[[Raptor (Cobra)|Raptor]] (24)
*[[Nemesis Enforcer]] (25)
*[[Crimson Guard|Interim Cobra Commander]] (26)
*[[Tomax and Xamot|Xamot]] (27)
*[[Tomax and Xamot|Tomax]] (28)
*[[Major Bludd]] (29)
*[[Golobulus]] (30)
*[[Baroness|Serpentress]] (34)
*[[Destro]] (49)
*Cobra troopers (50)
*[[Doctor Venom]] (105)
*[[Crystal Ball]] (107)
*[[Serpentor]] (108)

|h5=Others|c5=
*[[Koh-Buru-Lah (creature)|Koh-Buru-Lah]] (21)
*[[Kremzeek]] (33)
*[[Blind Master]] (36)
*[[Soft Master]] (37)
*[[Hard Master]] (38)
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==Quotes==
"You never really understood how '''truly''' dangerous I was." 
"Of course I did. It's why I used every '''dirty trick''' and '''mind game''' I could with you... and none of it worked."
:—'''Serpentress''' and '''Cobra Commander'''

"Am I a monster?"
:—'''Snake-Eyes''' speaks his first words since receiving his scars, as he reveals his face to Scarlett

"I killed you! I sent you to your grave and made a trophy of your '''bones'''!" 
"Me haunt you in your '''dreams'''! You go to corners of the cosmos, but you can't escape me '''Grimlock!'''"
:—'''Megatron''' and '''Grimlock'''

"'''YOTO JOTOBOTO!'''"
:—An unidentified Joe coins their new battle cry

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*Wild Bill died in back in [[Targetmasters (issue)|issue #2]], though we didn't find out that fact until [[Everybody Hates Metroplex|issue #5]]. His dead body was seen being worked upon by Perceptor in [[Expelled from the Garden|issue #6]].
*Megatron killed Grimlock and took his tail and "Rex Tyrannus Crown" (his dino-head) in issue #5.
*Cobra Commander remarks that the Serpentress has "revised the [[Cobranomicon]]" as part of Cobra's alliance with the Decepticons. This would suggest that, at least, the Cybertronian figures in the portion of the book we saw in issue #6 was one of her retroactive additions.
*Cobra Commander reveals himself to be a hideous snake-man underneath his hood! The seeds for his reveal have been planted throughout the series, as we have slowly learned that the modern Cobra is a descendant of the original reptiloid race that was spawned by the god the cult of Cobra worships, Koh-Buru-Lah. The druids that were an earlier iteration of the cult seen in [[Stick To Your Guns|issue #9]] had blue skin, like Cobra Commander did in ''G.I. Joe: The Movie'', a cross-media allusion to the Commander's genetic connection to his eldritch master. That said... does this mean he romanced [[Billy (G.I. Joe)|Billy]]'s mum while looking like that, and bore the apparently-entirely-human Billy, or is his scaly countenance a transformation only recently visited upon him?
*Woah, dude, what's Snake-Eyes been up to? Last we saw him, he was on his way to the action, but detoured into [[Kalis]] for the prose story "[[Black Cybertron]]" in [[Earth: R.I.P.|issue #10]]. Where'd he get the Master Sword from? Wasn't the [[Soft Master]] alive as recently as [[I Saw Three Ships|issue #1]]? Scioli notes in the commentary that some of what we see here was originally intended for a second prose story that would have appeared in issue #11; presumably, some context has been lost in its transition to full comic page in this already-packed issue.
*[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] was last seen in issue #5, in which he was separated from his binary-bonded partner [[Galen Kord|Galen]]. We haven't seen ''him'' since issue #6, but since Snake Eyes has taken control of Fort Max, it doesn't look like Galen's time on the [[Polyhex]] Killway ended well.
*Scarlett took control of Scorponok from [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]] in [[Headmasters (issue)|issue #7]]. Reflecting her new role, her name is now given on her file card as "Zkarlett."
*It was just back in issue #10 that the Constructicons were complaining about their inability to form Devastator, but the big guy is back in action this issue. He has a grey midriff, indicating that something (or some''one'') has been used as a replacement for the deceased [[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]], who got 'sploded back in issue #2.

===Transformers references===
*Normally formed from the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobots]], here, Defensor is the combined form of the new, delightfully random subgroup, the [[Rescuebot]]s. The team is 50% 1984-85 Autobots with "emergency services" alternate modes and functions: [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] the police car, [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] and [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] the fire department vehicles, and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] the ambulance. The other members are [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], and traditional Protectobot member [[Blades (G1)|Blades]], who is a double-reference wrapped in an homage: based on the original toy version of [[Blades (RB)|''Rescue Bots'' Blades]], but colored like the Generation 1 character. Finally, the team is completed by [[Peacemaker]]—normally [[Pointblank]]'s [[Nebulan]] [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]] partner, here, he's a much larger Cybertronian who forms a huge gun for Defensor to hold. Phew!
*Kremzeek originally appeared in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|Generation 1 cartoon]] episode that [[Kremzeek!|shared his name]]. He has persisted as a figure of mischief who often appears as an easter egg in modern Transformers media; this is certainly the most fearsome take on the character yet!
*Though unnamed in dialogue, any Transformers fan is likely to recognize that the angel of death is skeletal samurai [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]].
*The entrance to the afterlife is shaped like the Matrix of Leadership, but with a featureless central globe that, through the "wireframe" effect the whole landscape is depicted with, is presumably intentionally supposed to resemble the mega-computer [[Vector Sigma]], for which the "Vector Stigmata" is named. The computer was originally introduced in the Generation 1 cartoon episode "[[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1|The Key to Vector Sigma]]," and has been depicted as a means of accessing the [[Allspark|Transformer afterlife]] in several subsequent stories. The key, of course, is an interpretation of the computer's own [[key to Vector Sigma|activation key]] that gave its introductory episode its name.
**Because the whole thing is ''purple'', though, it also looks an awful lot like [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s head, but that's probably ''not'' intentional.
*Fortress Maximus's [[Master Sword]] was a blade wielded by the character in the Japanese animated series ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|The Headmasters]]''. The Japanese version of the Fort Max toy came with the weapon, but it wasn't included with the American release. In this take on the story, it derives its name from the fact it contains the souls of Snake-Eyes's three "masters", the Hard Master, Soft Master, and Blind Master, who have all appeared in previous issues.
*In addition to the more well-known Autobot elder Alpha Trion, the crowd of floating ancient Autobot heads that haunt Megatron from within the Matrix include four of the Matrix guides from the Generation 1 cartoon episode "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4]]", who would later be given the names [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]], [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]], [[Primon]] and [[Prima]]. Megatron refers to Trion and Sentinel by name, but also mentions two brand-new Primes, [[Regulus Prime]] and [[Amazon Prime]].
*Sentinel Prime refers to Megatron's past as a gladiator, a plot element not mentioned in this series before, but which originated with the Marvel UK story "[[State Games]]," and which achieved great prominence as part of the backstory of the [[Megatron (WFC)|Aligned continuity version of the character]].
*There's a third Recordobot in addition to Steeljaw and Ramhorn, a red four-legged creature. Doesn't seem deliberately intended to be a pre-existing character, but hey, maybe it's an off-color [[Stripes]]?
*The whole scene is tinged red so it's hard to be ''definitively'' identify the Corvette Autobot who penetrates Trypticon with Gears and Warpath as [[Road Rage (G1)|Road Rage]], since it ''might'' just be a block-colored [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]].

===G.I. Joe references===
*Upon arrival at the Crimson Guard's Terrordrome, Cobra Commander kills a figure identified by his file card as the "Interim Cobra Commander." This is a reference to the character known as "Fred VII" in the Marvel ''G.I. Joe'' series, a member of the Crimson Guard who temporarily posed as the Commander when the genuine article was believed dead. In both that comic and this, he's based on the 1987 Cobra Commander figure, with its fully-body battle-armor.
*Speakin' of the Terrordrome, it's shown to severe as a launch base for a [[Firebat]], and to be one of many. The "launch base" aspect was part of the original toy, while the Marvel comics depicted Terrordromes as a series of installations. The original ''Joe'' cartoon, meanwhile, repurposed the concept and used the Terrordrome as a new headquarters for Cobra in the 1986 season.
*Cobra Commander was previously depicted as a snake-man in ''G.I. Joe: The Movie,'' when exposure to genetically-modifying spore slowly devolved him into a snake. In the cartoon story that followed the movie, "Operation: Dragonfire," he was partially evolved back to a similar humanoid reptile-man appearance.
*The blotches that scar the Baroness's face are based on a printing error from issue #44 of the Marvel ''G.I. Joe'' comic, which spattered magenta ink over the character's face.
*For years, the original Marvel series depicted Snake-Eyes's unseen injuries as being ''so gruesome'' that the sight of them could make hardened men throw up, but when he was eventually unmasked on-panel in issue #93, he was no oil painting, but he wasn't ''that'' hideous. As such, Tom Scioli notes in this issue's commentary that for his take on the unmasking, he really tried to make the reveal live up to that old promise. Snake's injuries are truly stomach-churning, with half his face torn off to expose the muscle, eye socket, and teeth beneath. As we noted back in our annotations for [[I Saw Three Ships|issue #1]], there's a visual similarity between Snake-Eyes's wounds and those he inflicted on [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] in that issue; if Starscream's were a worse version of the original Marvel Snake-Eyes's injuries, then this Snake's are an even ''worse'' version of Starscream's.
*Doctor Venom is wearing [[S.N.A.K.E.]] armor, sans the helmet piece.
*As Crystal Ball looks into the future, a panel snipped from issue #14 of the Marvel ''Joe'' series is used as a "vision," featuring the Baroness turning on Destro, with art by Mike Vosburg, Jon D'Agnostino and [[Joe Rosen]], and letters by Christie Scheele.
*Though unnamed, the figure Crystal Ball sees is [[Serpentor]], the Cobra Emperor. Usually a genetically-engineered super-warrior, Serpentor is here depicted as a Koh-Buru-Lah reptiloid, hearkening back to ''G.I. Joe: The Movie'' and its revelation that his creation was orchestrated by [[Cobra-La]], so that he could serve as the true leader of Cobra. Baroness's "Serpentress" guise has always been inspired by Serpentor's garb, and Cobra Commander even calls her by a feminized version of Serpentor's title, "Cobra Empress," this issue.

===Real-life references===
*Peacemaker's file card reads "And I'll form the gun!", referring to the famous ''{{w|Voltron}}'' quote, "And I'll form the head!"
*In addition to conceptually merging the Master Sword with the three Arashikage Masters, Scioli remarks in the commentary that he was also inspired by the [http://zeldawiki.org/Master_Sword Master Sword] from [[Nintendo]]'s ''{{w|The Legend of Zelda}}'' video game series, a sword that contains [http://zeldawiki.org/Fi a spirit] within it.
*Defensor paraphrases ''{{w|Jaws (film)|Jaws}}'' when he prepares to deliver the final shot to Trypticon: "Smile, you son of a gun!"
*As Crystal Ball studies the image of the multi-eyed Serpentor, he quotes ''{{w|Rosemary's Baby}}'': "He has his father's eyes."

===Errors===
*On the inside front cover, subscription cover artist [[Giannis Milonogiannis]]'s surname is misspelled "Milogiannis."

===Other notes===
*There are ''so many'' generic Seekers and Insecticons, you guys. Some of the Seekers in particular have color schemes that make them look kinda like [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], but the wing coloration, placemenent, and/or shape is wrong on both (and "Starscream" is missing his face-mask), so we've bundled them all under "generics" in the list above. Similarly, for numbering purposes, we're assuming the Kicback, Bombshell, and Shrapnel standing on the ground with the main force are the "real" ones, and the ones flying are the generics, but that's just an organizational thing.

===Covers (2)===
*'''Standard cover:''' Cobra Commander and the Serpentress, by [[Tom Scioli]]
*'''Subscription cover:''' [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and the Baroness, by [[Giannis Milonogiannis]]
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Form Follows Function

2016-04-20T23:10:53Z

Pikawil: /* Real-life references */

{{Comicstory|series=tfvsjoe
|issueno=4
|prev=Funeral for a Friend
|next=Everybody Hates Metroplex
|image=TFvsJoe4_regcvr.jpg
|title="Form Follows Function"
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[November 26]], [[2014]]
|coverdate=October 2014
|written by=[[Tom Scioli]] and [[John Barber]]
|art by=Tom Scioli
|colors by=Tom Scioli
|letters by=Tom Scioli
|production by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|continuity=[[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe]]
}}

'''While Scarlett's Joes make peace with the Autobots, another group led by Psych Out gets caught between the deposed Autobot leader Hot Rod and revolutionary Blaster, and the Joes' non-human unit clashes with the Oktober Guard.'''

==Synopsis==

In [[Decepticobracropolis]] on [[Earth]], [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]]'s undercover mission has gone wrong. Though his identity has been discovered, he doesn't take it lying down: after stuffing a grenade in [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]'s mouth to free himself from the robot's grip, he fights his way through a team of [[Cobra]] troops, and takes down loquacious Cobra pugilist [[Big Boa]]. Out for a bit of personal revenge, he then hunts down the apparent turncoat [[Snake-Eyes|Snake Eyes]], who has just completed a meditation ritual and believes his mastery of body and mind will allow him to make the journey through the [[M.A.S.S. Device]] that has killed so many others. Duke tackles Snake Eyes through the M.A.S.S. Device portal, and the pair are sent tumbling through the [[transwarp|void between worlds]].

In [[T.H.E. P.I.T.]], [[Doctor Venom]] conducts an arcane experiment with [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s remains, [[General Flagg]]'s [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblecycle]] and some Joe greenshirts. As Venom reads in the native tongue of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] from some kind of grimoire, the Bumblecycle springs to life and begins coiling around his arm...

A fleet of G.I. Joe [[green bomb]]s hurtles through space towards Cybertron, led by a supply rocket manned—so to speak—by G.I. Joe's "non-human personnel" unit [[U.S.7]], made up of the team's animal sidekicks and captained by [[Polly]], aka "Seasick". As they draw near to the metal planet, U.S.7's ship is attacked and boarded by G.I. Joe's Russian counterpart, the creepy, kooky [[Oktober Guard]], but after only a few moments of fighting, their ship is snatched out of the air by the gigantic [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. The energy-starved colossus pulls them down to Cybertron's surface, shakes animal and guardsman alike out of the ship, and tosses them down his gullet.

At Cybertron's north pole, a Joe team is marking the huge rocket-furnaces growing out of the planet's as targets for the approaching wave of green bombs. Team leader [[Psych Out]] is dismayed; he is fascinated by the constantly morphing geography of Cybertron, and would much rather be investigating the two curious mountains that have sprung up at the south pole. Though they successfully accomplish their task, misfortune strikes when the team are suddenly snagged in a [[turborat]] trap, laid around the furance to catch robotic vermin. The traps are collected by [[Hot Rod]], a fallen [[Autobot]] leader once known as "Rodimus Imhotep", now a maintenance worker for [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s empire. Loading up his traps and going on his weary way, trying to ignore the grisly sight of the [[smelting pool|smelting pits]] fueling the furnaces, Hot Rod finds his path barred by Autobot revolutionary [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], who is appalled by the once-great young hero's defection and eager to take him out. As the two Autobots fire on each other, the Joes are blasted free from their trap, but at that point, the green bombs begin falling. One bomb-blast kicks up a chunk of rubble that knocks out Blaster; Decepticons [[Apeface]] and [[Demolisher]] arrive in time to see Hot Rod standing over his fallen body and, believing he has defeated Blaster, congratulate him on a job well done. Disgusted by words of praise from the lowest of the low, Hot Rod is galvanized into action: he hurls the two Decepticons into one of the furnaces, loads Blaster into his alternate mode, and heads off for [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. This is good news for the Joes, who secretly use their grappling hooks to hitch a ride on Hot Rod, enabling them to outrun the green bomb blasts.

In the terraformed [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], [[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]] is in a portable toilet that is thrown through the air when [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]'s Autobot unit attacks. Emerging from the collapsed commode, he is horrified to see what appears to be a battlefield strewn with dead bodies... but as he cradles [[Scarlett]]'s fallen form, she and all the other combatants turn out to be alive. Before hostilities can break out again, though, the crawling form of Metroplex climbs appears and disgorges [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]'s Autobots and the small Joe team they had captured. Grimlock loudly announces that a truce has been brokered, and the Autobots and Joes all have a dance party to cement their new friendship. During the celebration, Bazooka tries chewing on some of the foliage that the terraforming process has created, but the bizarre [[technorganic|techno-organic]] leaves prove to be psychoactive, and induce a hallucination of some kind of composite intelligence known as "[[Primus]]".
[[File:FormFollowsFunction-OptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|left]]
The mesmerized Bazooka tries to explain what he is seeing, but Grimlock mistakenly believes he is asking about [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], and explains how the lost Autobot leader fled the planet after being defeated by Megatron; Rodimus was Optimus's appointed successor, but Grimlock overthrew him. The other Autobots grumble that Grimlock is twisting the facts, and that nobody knows why Optimus left or where he went...

Lost in the interdimensional gulf, Duke and Snake Eyes continues to struggle, both clinging onto the ninja's sword, which somehow seems to protect them from the ravages of the space between realities. Oblivion looms, but just then, the two are snatched to safety by the claws of a mysterious, misshappen robotic creature... which the two soldiers have no way of knowing is Optimus Prime himself, his body reconfigured into a form that can survive in the void!
 

==Featured characters==
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*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]'s body/Bumblecycle (11)
*[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] (28)
*[[Hot Rod]] (35)
*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (36)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (44)
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (45)
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (55)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (56)
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (57)
*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (62)
*[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (63)
*[[Slag (G1)|Slag]] (64)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (67)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (72)
*[[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] (drawing, 74)

|c2=
*[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (1)
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s body (9)
*[[Apeface]] (37)
*[[Demolisher]] (38)
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (drawing, 73)

|h3=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c3=
{{{!}}border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:transparent"
{{!}}-
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border-right: 0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] (2)
*[[Doctor Venom]] (10)
*[[Order]] (12)
*[[Junkyard (G.I. Joe)|Junkyard]] (13)
*[[Max (G.I. Joe)|Max]] (14)
*[[Clyde (G.I. Joe)|Clyde]] (15)
*[[Sandstorm (G.I. Joe)|Sandstorm]] (16)
*[[Freedom]] (17)
*[[Polly|Seasick/Polly]] (18)
*[[Airtight]]? (19)
*[[Shipwreck]] (20)
*[[Spirit]] (21)
*[[Psych Out]] (29)
*[[Frostbite (G.I. Joe)|Frostbite]] (30)
*[[Barbecue]] (31)
*[[Chuckles]] (32)
*[[Mainframe (G.I. Joe)|Mainframe]] (33)
*[[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Lt. Falcon]] (34)
*[[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]] (39)
*[[Snow Job]] (40)
*[[Tripwire (G.I. Joe)|Tripwire]] (41)
{{!}}style="background:transparent; border-right: 0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]] (42)
*[[Rock 'n Roll]] (43)
*? (46)
*? (47)
*[[Dusty]] (48)
*[[Scarlett]] (49)
*[[Recondo]] (50)
*[[Blowtorch]] (51)
*[[Beachhead]] (52)
*[[Quick Kick]] (53)
*[[Steeler]] (54)
*[[Breaker]] (58)
*[[Jinx]] (59)
*[[Cover Girl]] (60)
*[[Clutch (G.I. Joe)|Clutch]] (61)
*[[Gung-Ho]] (65)
*[[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] (66)
*[[Doc (G.I. Joe)|Doc]] (68)
*[[Lifeline (G.I. Joe)|Lifeline]] (69)
*[[Joe Colton]] (image, 71)
{{!}}}
|h4=[[Cobra]]|c4=
*[[Cobra]] troopers (3)
*[[Big Boa]] (4)
*[[Snake-Eyes|Snake Eyes]] (5)
*[[Crimson Guard]]smen (8)

|h5=Others|c5=
*[[Soft Master]] (memory, 6)
*[[Hard Master]] (memory, 7)
*[[S.H.R.I.E.K.]] (22)
*[[Colonel Breakoff]] (23)
*[[Horrorshow]] (24)
*[[Daina|Denia]] (25)
*[[Dragun]] (26)
*[[Münchnik]] (27)
*[[Primus]] (70)
}}

==Quotes==

"Trickings and Treatings, G.I Joes. Come and get your sweeties."
:—'''S.H.R.I.E.K.''' announces the October Guard's arrival

"'''Turncoat!''' The once-great polymath warrior prince '''Imhotep Rodimus''' spends his days cleaning turborat droppings and hauling energonic hot rods to fuel Megatronian death engines!? How '''far''' have the mighty '''fallen?''' Are there no heroes left on Cybertron?"
:—'''Blaster''', a mite peeved

"The party gets weird. The dancing simultaneously speeds up and slows to a crawl. I see each creature, man and cyberman, become the same centipede. It's life cycle, womb to tomb is arrayed before me. I see Earth growing ever larger, haloed by the sun just behind it. The bodies merge. The minds become one. Is there a name for this? I hear it spoken... two syllables... a name? A call to action? A plea? A command? A prayer? <big>'''PRIME US.'''</big>"
:—'''Bazooka''' has a vision

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*The street preacher from [[I Saw Three Ships|issue #1]] is revealed to have been one of Snake-Eyes's teachers, the [[Soft Master]] (see "G.I. Joe references", below).
*As the green bombs strike, an image of [[Joe Colton]]'s eyes appears over the scene, and the narration recalls his lifetime dream of remote warfare, as introduced back in issue #1 with his [[Coltonbolt]].
*Shipwreck and Polly have received cybernetic upgrades to replace the damaged portions of their body following the injuries they sustained last issue. The issue's commentary notes that Shipwreck's cybernetic eye can see through Polly's own.
*Though Grimlock's "cave-painting" style recap of Cybertronian history seems to imply that Optimus left Cybertron aboard [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]], the Autobot leader's fate, reveal at the issue's end, seems to indicate their belief is incorrect. Indeed, back in [[Targetmasters (issue)|issue #2]], Megatron mentioned that he had "booted [Prime's] hide into the void", suggesting he is responsible for stranding him in interdimensional space.

===Transformers references===
*Classic Cybertronian locations the [[smelting pool|smelting pits]] and the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]] put in appearances.
*It's not clear what it means yet, but the two "mega-mountains" that have emerged from Cybertron's surface certainly are reminiscent of [[Unicron]]'s famous horns.
*Blaster's grim, uncompromising depiction in this issue hearkens back to the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|original Marvel series]], which also debuted the character in [[The Smelting Pool!|a story revolving around the smelting pits]].
*A surprising face among the Decepticons is the [[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|''Armada'']] Decepticon [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]], but not unprecedented, as a [[Demolisher|Generation 1 version of the character also exists]].
*The Autobots and G.I. Joe boogie down to establish their truce, probably a reference to ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', when the Autobots and [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]] did the same.
*Optimus Prime's form is based around a mistransformation of his original toy, rather than a new body.

===G.I. Joe references===
*As Snake-Eyes meditates, he recalls the teachings of his masters. While unnamed in the issue, they are recognizable to ''G.I. Joe'' fans as the [[Soft Master]] and the [[Hard Master]], names reflected in the philosophies Snake-Eyes remembers them espousing.
*Doctor Venom's experiment with the Bumblecycle already looks pretty gruesome, but it becomes even more horrifying when you can recognize the device that one of the "greenshirt" Joes is strapped into as the [[Brainwave Scanner]], a particularly torturous mind-reading device of Venom's design that appeared frequently in the original Marvel ''G.I. Joe'' series.
*The Joes' animal team is made up of all real animal partner characters from ''G.I. Joe'' history. Franchise mainstays include [[Law]]'s German shepherd Order, [[Mutt]]'s Rottweiler Junkyard, Spirit's eagle Freedom, and of course, Shipwreck's parrot Polly, now granted a codename of her own, "Seasick". Less well-known are Spearhead's bobcat Max and Dusty's coyote Sandstorm; the odd-beast-out is warthog Clyde, who is not originally a Joe animal, but actually owned by the [[Dreadnok]] poacher Gnawgahyde. His file card here notes he was "liberated from a poacher" in reference to this.
*The Oktober Guard are the Russian counterpart to G.I. Joe, and have featured in much past Joe fiction. Originally named for the {{w|October Revolution}}, they are here completely reimagined as a Halloween-themed horror team. Only team bruiser Horrorshow gets to retain his original name, given its appropriateness; infantry trooper Schrage becomes torture robot "S.H.R.I.E.K."; team leader Colonel Brekhov is now "Colonel Breakoff" (as in, "breaking off your fingers"); flamethrower-wielding mechanic Dragonsky is reinvented as fire-breathing reptilian quadruped "Dragun"; paratrooper Stormavik is replaced by the diminutive Münchnik; and [[Daina]], the only member of the Guard to have appeared in Transformers fiction before, has become "Denia" (that is, she'll "deny ya" mercy).

===Real-life references===
*The title is derived from architect {{w|Louis Sullivan}}'s famous dictum that {{w|Form follows function|"form ever follows function"}}, often quoted by Modernist designers.
*The one-page scene of Doctor Venom working on the Bumblecycle is labelled "Tales from T.H.E. P.I.T.", a reference to the classic EC horror comic, ''{{w|Tales from the Crypt (comics)|Tales from the Crypt}}'', complete with a direct homage to the comic's logo. This comes on the heels of last issue's reference to Venom as the Crypt Keeper, the comic's host.
*The Joe's "non-human personnel" team is named "U.S.7" after the comic book ''{{w|We3}}'', about cybernetically-enhanced animals.
*U.S.7's ship is designed to resemble {{w|Snoopy}}.
*The Joes announce their intention to "Steranko" their way out of Hot Rod's cage, a reference to comic book artist {{w|Jim Steranko}}, who performed as an escapologist in his younger days. Steranko is particularly well known for the psychedelic spy/military stories he told on ''[[Nicholas Fury|Nick Fury]]'', a big influence on the look and tone of this series.
*As the Joes and Autobots party together, some words (not in a speech bubble, but probably intended to convey a chant or song) read "Yub Yub"—a reference to "[[wikia:starwars:Ewok Celebration|Yub Nub]]", the Ewok victory song that plays at the end of the original theatrical release of [[Star Wars (franchise)|''Return of the Jedi'']], as the Ewoks and [[Rebel Alliance|Rebels]] have a similar celebration.
*Barbecue quips that the planetary engines are hot enough to "turn [them] all into M.R.E's"; "M.R.E." stands for "{{w|Meal, Ready-to-Eat}}", a kind of military field ration. M.R.E.s replaced the unpopular "{{w|C-ration}}s", which the characters of the original Marvel ''G.I. Joe'' run would often comment on with relief.
*Hot Rod was once known as "Imhotep Rodimus". {{w|Imhotep}} was an ancient Egyptian polymath: an accomplished engineer, physician, and architect of pyramids. He was also chancellor to the pharaoh, perhaps mirroring Rodimus's high status as Optimus's choice of successor.

===Errors===
*As Bazooka has his vision, quoted above, "it's" is used instead of "its".

===Other notes===
*This issue was originally solicited for release in October, with the solicitation blurb specifically noting that the Oktober Guard were appearing "just in time for Halloween". Unfortunately, the issue didn't make it out until the end of November.

===Covers (4)===
*'''Standard cover:''' Megatron, Apeface and [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] fend off a G.I. Joe attack, by [[Tom Scioli]]
*'''Subscription cover:''' Soundwave versus a small group of Joes, by [[Riley Rossmo]]
*'''Cover RI:''' Optimus Prime, [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] and Scarlett by Tom Scioli; connects to the RI covers from issues #2 and #3 to form a larger image
*'''Yesteryear Comics exclusive cover:''' The [[Baroness]] and [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], by [[Jamie Tyndall]] and [[Ula Mos]], available exclusively from Yesteryear Comics

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Headmasters (issue)

2016-04-20T22:58:36Z

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{{Comicstory|series=tfvsjoe
|issueno=7
|prev=FCBD Funnies
|next=Pax Megatronus
|image=TFvsJoe7_regcvr.jpg
|title="Headmasters"
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[June 3]], [[2015]]
|coverdate=March 2015
|written by=[[Tom Scioli]] and [[John Barber]]
|art by=Tom Scioli
|colors by=Tom Scioli
|letters by=Tom Scioli
|production by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|continuity=[[Transformers vs. G.I. Joe]]
}}

'''Scarlett is confronted with the reality that neither G.I. Joe nor the Transformers actually exist, and that she is a mentally unwell patient about to return to her life in the nice, normal town of Springfield...'''

==Synopsis==

To cure her of her delusion that "Transformers" and "G.I. Joe" are anything more than children's toys and cartoons, [[Scarlett|Shanna O'Hara]] is strapped into the [[Brainwave Scanner]] by the kindly [[Doctor Mindbender|Doctor Mindelbinder]]. In the dreams the machine induces, Scarlett sees herself fighting strange reptile-creatures... a small [[Bumblebee (G1)|robot's head]] held between a human thumb and forefinger... a metal face and the words "[[Mindwipe (G1)|mind wipe]]"... and herself, praying before a shining [[Optimus Prime (G1)|robotic figure]], who tells her he will soon return.

Following her session, Mindelbinder takes Shanna to see [[Doctor B]] and her current robotics project: "[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]]", an artificial intelligence she has named after a character from the ''Transformers'' cartoon. As Shanna is wheeled through the hospital, she observes a nursery full of babies, and a [[Billy (G.I. Joe)|young man]] with cybernetic limbs, who apparently communicates with her telepathically to tell her that "[[Snake-Eyes|her boyfriend]]" was responsible for his condition. The mental technique feels familiar to Shanna... but nonetheless, in a subsequent office session with Mindelbinder, she appears to have been cured of her delusions, and now tells the doctor that she knows the robots and soldiers are only imaginary. Reunited with her husband Fred and her two children, she returns home to [[Springfield (G.I. Joe)|Springfield]]. But in truth, Shanna has only told Mindelbinder what she knew he wanted to hear—dark visions of alien ghosts swarm in her mind as she tries to go about her daily life, their voices ringing in her ears, the world and everything in it seeming artificial... until eventually, unable to bear it any long, she shaves half her hair off, and discovers a fresh scar on her scalp. Picking the wound open, Shanna finds an electronic implant within, which she jolts to life with a shock from a power cord. In her mind's eye, the image of [[General Flagg|a general]] appears, who urges her to get out as fast as she can.

At a welcome home party thrown for her by the neighborhood, Shanna sees many familiar faces in the crowd—those her mind tells her are her old G.I. Joe teammates. She tries to jog [[Mutt]]'s memory, but he reacts only with confusion... until he leaves the party, and finds himself being followed by a [[Junkyard (G.I. Joe)|dog]]. He tries to shoo the animal away, but it pounces on him... and its fond licking of his face stirs a memory within him...

Pushed to the brink, Shanna slits her husband's throat, and sets their house on fire with her children—whom she is convinced are not real—still inside. Leaving the inferno, Shanna finds all her friends waiting for her... and a whispered "Yo Joe" from Mutt confirms that all she has believed is true. She is Scarlett of G.I. Joe—and she will have revenge.

The Joes, bar Scarlett, locate the bodies of the [[Autobot]]s who were captured alongside them, and although the 'bots are non-responsive and stuck in vehicle mode, they still make useful getaway cars. Before long, the Springfield police force are in hot pursuit, but the Joes outrun them and smash through her roadblocks to finally burst out of Springfield... which they discover is an artificial town constructed inside [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], the Decepticon "city of madness". Their minds finally clearing as they escape the boundaries of Scorponok, the Joes are amazed to see [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], back on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] once more, facing off against the huge scorpion-city. At a command from their leader, the mesmerized Autobots are suddenly themselves again, and transform to enter the fray.

Back in Springfield, Scarlett returns to the hospital to confront her tormentors. She first comes upon Doctor B, and hands her a sword: a means of defending herself as Scarlett attempts to kill her. The doctor refuses to take the blade, insisting that she is only there to obtain funding from [[Cobra]] to further her own research, and that Scarlett's grudge has nothing to do with her. Content with the woman's refusal to fight, Scarlett spares her life, and then heads for Mindelbinder's office. There, Mindelbinder—or rather, Cobra's [[Doctor Mindbender]]—chastizes her even as he opens fire on her, claiming that she would have suffered ''much'' worse had a more callous intellect than his been responsible for her treatment. Mindbender escapes when Scarlett is attacked by her "children"—revealed to be bio-mechanical constructs, now seared by flame down to the metal skeleton—but she quickly overpowers them, catches up to Mindbender, and forces him to spill the beans. Mindbender hastily explains that the entire facility has been set up by [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] to study the brains of both human and Transformer in order to deduce the commonalities between them, with the end goal of "decrypting" the living mind itself and attaining complete control of all sentient beings in the universe. Satisfied with his answers, Scarlett straps Mindbender into the Brainwave Scanner, and stabs him through the heart; in his final moments, the doctor sees a twisted vision of a DNA spiral, and the faces of his heroes—the greatest rulers, conquerors, and villains in history—laughing at him.

Scarlett moves to depart the hospital, but is confronted with a final unexpected opponent: a bio-mechanical duplicate of ''herself''. The pair turn out to be evenly matched in every way, meaning that neither can win over the other... so all Scarlett focuses on is ''not'' bleeding to death before her doppelganger. This gruesome tactic works, and Scarlett is guided to her final objective by the ethereal alien voices: [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]], the [[binary bonding|binary bonded]] master of Scorponok, who betrayed his people the [[Nebulos|Neb'los]] to the Decepticons long ago. Springfield was built upon their remains, and the ghosts of the Neb'Los now cry out for Scarlett to enact their vengeance. Scarlett slays Zarak, severing his bond with the city of madness, then takes control of Scorponok herself. For her first action, she uses the city's massive claws to return Bumblebee's still-living head to the humbled Optimus Prime.

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks. 
{{Featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (4)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (5)
*[[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] (22)
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (23)
*[[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]] (24)

|c2=
*[[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] (3)
*[[Army]] (7)
*[[Limbot]] (8)
*[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] (25)
*[[Mo Zarak|Zarak]] (27)

|h3=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c3=
*[[Scarlett]] (2)
*[[Junkyard (G.I. Joe)|Junkyard]] (13)
*[[General Flagg]] (14)
*[[Gung-Ho]] (15)
*[[Alpine]] (16)
*[[Beachhead]] (17)
*[[Steeler]] (18)
*[[Dusty]] (19)
*[[Quick Kick]] (20)
*[[Mutt]] (21)
*[[Doctor Venom]] (26)

|h4=[[Cobra]]|c4=
*[[Doctor Mindbender]] (1)
*[[Doctor B]] (6)
*[[Crimson Guard|Fred]] (10)
*Scarlett's children (11-12)

|h5=Others|c5=
*[[Billy (G.I. Joe)|Billy]] (7)
}}

==Quotes==

"Why are you here?" 
"Delusions of persecution. Anti-social behavior. Violence. To myself and others." 
"What is G.I. Joe?" 
"G.I. Joe is a cartoon for children." 
"And Cybertron?" 
"A nonsense word, invented to tie together several unrelated robot toys into a single advertising narrative. Created in a boardroom by three toy executives named Cy, Bert and Ron."
:—'''Doctor Mindelbinder''' and '''Shanna'''

"You're a doll, Shanna. You're a doll that nobody wanted and for that reason alone, you are rare and valuable."
:—'''Doctor Mindbender'''

"I refuse to take my medicine if the doctor himself has never tried it."
:—'''Scarlett''', as she straps Mindbender into the Brainwave Scanner

"Zarak. Butcher. Betrayer. I don't know you from Adam. The ghosts of long-buried Neb'los demand your head. Who am I to refuse them their due?"
:—'''Scarlett'''

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*One of the first images Scarlett sees after being plugged into the Brainwave Scanner is what looks like herself, fighting reptilian creatures. In the issue's commentary, Scioli describes this as "memory regression going back to an ancestor", so presumably, these snake-men are of the reptilian race we were introduced to last issue, the spawn of [[Koh-Buru-Lah (creature)|Koh-Buru-Lah]].
*Bumblebee yet lives! The little yellow 'bot's decapitated head was brought back to Cybertron in [[The Golden Boys|issue #0]], and has been worn on a chain around Megatron's neck ever since, up until last issue, when Megatron had stopped wearing it. Now we know why!
*If you didn't pick up [[Robots in Disguise issue 0|''Robots in Disguise'' #0]] on [[Free Comic Book Day]], then Billy's appearance here will be unexpected: his plight, including the loss of his limbs to Snake-Eyes and their replacement with cybernetic duplicates, was detailed in the issue's ''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe'' back-up strip, "[[FCBD Funnies]]".
*Scarlett mentions once being "almost married", perhaps a reference to the promise she made to marry Snake-Eyes in issue #0. The characters have gone through similar plots in other pieces of ''G.I. Joe'' fiction.
*Gung-Ho still has the Autobot symbol tattoo he got in issue #5.
*[[Tunnel Rat]] found a machine that he believed could possibly have been "making" people last issue; looks like the bio-mechanical beings we see in this issue are the answer to that mystery.

===Transformers references===
*For his appearance in Scarlett's Brainwave Scanner vision, Bumblebee is based directly on his original Generation 1 character model, rather than the revised look he normally has in this series.
*Also part of Scarlett's vision in one small panel is Decepticon hypnotist [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]], with an appearance largely based on the face of his original toy, rather than his character model. Given the deliberately psychedelic collection of images, which includes things Scarlett cannot rationally be aware of, it's hard to know what to make of his brief showing here, beyond perhaps the inference that his abilities have something to do with the Brainwave Scanner, or might be an additional "treatment" used on Scarlett.
*Though the bit about "Cy, Bert and Ron" is fictional, Scarlett alludes to the Transformers toyline's real-life origin as "several unrelated robot toys", namely ''[[Diaclone]]'' and ''[[Micro Change]]''.

===G.I. Joe references===
*This issue is largely inspired by the two-part ''G.I. Joe'' cartoon episode, "There's No Place Like Springfield," in which [[Shipwreck]] awakes in the town of Springfield with no memory of the last few years, surrounded by ever-so-slightly "off" versions of his friends, and slowly thinks he is going insane. The whole thing, naturally, is revealed to be a Cobra plot, with the other inhabitants of the town turning out to be [[Synthoid]]s. Scioli notes in the commentary that in early drafts of this issue, Shipwreck was the star of the story.
*Springfield itself was created for the original Marvel ''G.I. Joe'' comic, in which it was a real, functioning town cast in the image of wholesome 1950s midwestern Americana—but one which was a public front for Cobra, with all those who lived in it being members of the organization. We previously saw an incarnation of the Springfield of Earth in this continuity in [[I Saw Three Ships|issue #1]].
*Though not discussed in-story, Scarlett's fake husband being named "Fred" indicates he is a member of the [[Crimson Guard]]. In the Marvel series, elite members of the Guard's "Fred" series all had plastic surgery to look identical and operated undercover across America. One memorable "Fred" was the father in an all-American nuclear Springfield family, like Scarlett's in this story, and the character's connection to the image of Springfield was previously referenced in this series when he and his family appeared on a billboard in issue #1.
*The torturous Brainwave Scanner was a fixture of the Marvel series, where it was designed by Doctor Venom. We previously saw a version of the device in Venom's own lab aboard the ''USS Flagg'' in [[Form Follows Function|issue #4]].
*"Doctor B" is something of a composite of Doctor Adele '''B'''urkhart, a minor supporting character in the Marvel series memorable for being at the center of the very first issue's plot, and [[Sidney Biggles-Jones|Doctor Sidney '''B'''iggles-Jones]], from the [[G.I. Joe (comic)|''G.I. Joe/Transformers: Generation 2'' crossover]]. She combines Burkart's non-combatant aggressive-peacenik stance with Biggles-Jones's role as a scientist who signed up with Cobra to further her work.
*Fred calls Gung-Ho "Ettie"; that's short for his real name, Ettienne, if you were wondering.
*When Scarlett sneaks up on Doctor B, the doctor asks "Who's there?" and Bumblebee tells her: "The most dangerous thing in the world. Ninja holiday." "The Most Dangerous Thing in the World" and "Ninja Holiday" are the titles of two episodes from the second season of the original ''G.I. Joe'' cartoon.
*Doctor Mindbender's nightmarish Brain-Scanner-induced vision comes straight from the ''G.I. Joe'' cartoon mini-series, "Arise, Serpentor, Arise!" Inspired by the sight of the greatest conquerors and villains in history and the spiral of DNA, Mindbender will go onto genetically engineer the Cobra emperor, [[Serpentor]]. Dooooesn't look like he'll be around to do it in ''this'' story, though!
*The figures in Doctor Mindbender's dream include every genetic donor named in "Arise, Serpentor, Arise!", with the exception of {{w|Ivan the Terrible}} and {{w|Geronimo}}. All of them are real (see below), except for a fictional Egyptian general named Xanuth Amon-Toth.
*Doctor Mindbender's filecard lists his specialities as "mind control" and "interrogation" (his established primary roles within Cobra), "dentistry" (he was formerly a dentist before joining Cobra), and in an obscure reference, "wrestling", referring to an early, abandoned version of the character's profile, in which it was alleged he might have previously been a professional wrestler.

===Real-life references===
*When Junkyard follows Mutt, the page is titled "Mutt and Junkyard", after comic strip ''{{w|Mutt and Jeff}}'', in with suitably appropriate "Sunday Funnies"-style title font.
*As Mutt thumps on Inferno's dashboard to try and wake him up, he shouts "Robot roll call!", the famous lyric from the opening to ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''.
*Given the debt Scioli's work owes to the oeuvre of Jack Kirby, it's worth mentioning that Megatron's ambition to find the encryption key to the mind shares no small degree of similarity with {{w|Darkseid|one of Kirby's most famous villains'}} {{w|Anti-Life_Equation|ultimate quests}}.
*In addition to the aforementioned fictional Amon-Toth (presumably a reference to Conan villain [[Wikipedia:Thoth-Amon|Thoth-Amon]]), the figures in Doctor Mindbender's dream who are derived from Serpentor's origin story in the ''G.I. Joe'' cartoon are: {{w|Julius Caesar}}, [[Sun Tzu]], {{w|Hannibal}}, {{w|Philip II of Macedon}}, {{w|Alexander the Great}}, {{w|Attila|Attila the Hun}}, {{w|Moctezuma I|Montezuma}}, {{w|Genghis Khan}}, {{w|Grigori Rasputin}}, {{w|Napoleon|Napoleon Bonaparte}}, and [[Dracula]]. Mindbender is left incredulous by the presence of the king of vampires, but as stated, he ''was'' part of the cartoon's list of donors, although there, they made the point of identifying him as real-life figure {{w|Vlad the Impaler}} as well as Dracula. The comic adds: {{w|Osama Bin Laden}}, {{w|Joseph Stalin}}, {{w|Kublai Khan}}, {{w|Mordred}}, villain of Arthurian legend, {{w|Adolf Hitler}}, {{w|Caligula}} and someone named Toshiro.

===Other notes===
*This issue was originally solicited for release in March, but production delays meant it did not come out until early June. No further issues of were solicited for three months in order to for the series to catch up.
*An earlier version of the double-page sequence of the Autobots' and Joes' chase with police lacked two of the inset panels, bearing in their space the words "Grand Theft Autobot" done out in the style of the video game Grand Theft Auto's logo. It's unknown why it was ultimately altered, but IDW editor-in-chief Chris Ryall posted the earlier version of the sequence [http://ryallsfiles.tumblr.com/image/120624964113 online].

===Covers (3)===
*'''Standard cover:''' G.I. Joe and Cobra battle on an asteroid to which [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] is attached, by [[Tom Scioli]]
*'''Subscription cover:''' Optimus Prime battles Soundwave and Starscream while the Joes and Cobras battle in the air on flight packs that look like [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]] wings, by [[Joe Quinones]]
*'''Cover RI:''' Starscream by [[Kody Chamberlain]]

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Escape from Primus

2016-04-20T22:55:42Z

Pikawil: /* Real-life references */

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|title="Escape from Primus"
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|date=[[February 24]], [[2016]]
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'''We flashback to G.I. Joe boot camp as the family history of Duke and Falcon is revealed.'''

==Synopsis==

Far below the surface of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], sudden tremors shake the cavernous chamber of [[Primus]], and the visiting [[Autobot]]s and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joes]] realize they must make a quick escape before they are buried alive. During the escape run, [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] is pinned beneath a boulder, and [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] refuses to leave him behind; the others, meanwhile, make it back to the waiting [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] above, and [[Hot Rod|Rodimus]] sends [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and a unit of Joes after their fallen comrades. Springer lifts Mirage to safety, but Duke's grappling hook "wirepoon" jams, and it looks like he is going to be trapped in the cave-in... until one Joe wearing a tether takes a flying leap from Springer, grabs Duke, and hauls him to safety. That Joe is [[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]]—Duke's half-brother!

''Some time beforehand, when the [[Earth]] had not yet been destroyed, Duke is training the newest team of Joe recruits to be the second wave of troops sent to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], on the heels of [[Scarlett]]'s advance team. Falcon is among them, and Duke—never having had much love for his kid brother—is especially hard on him, tricking him to cutting his much-loved hair into a crew-cut. Falcon strives to show up his older brother by excelling, even looking set to beat Duke's obstacle course record—until he throws it away to disobey orders and "save" a "fallen comrade" who had got stuck in the course mud pit.''

''When Falcon and [[Quarrel]] shirk their guard duty to fool around, Duke dons a [[Cobra]] uniform and attacks his brother to show him the folly of his ways. Falcon tires of his brother's attitude towards him, and Duke is fed up of Faclon's smart mouth, so Falcon is led by the ear to the barracks' gym, where Duke proposes a bare-knuckle boxing match so they can settle their issues once and for all. Duke leads in the fight, and their family issues come out for all the watching Joes to hear: Duke's father took a bullet for Falcon's, who then married Duke's mother and raised Duke with a closed fist. But he wouldn't do the same to Falcon when he was born, so Duke has always seen his little brother as "soft"—especially since his mother made him promise to always take care of Falcon before she died. Duke has spent his entire military career secretly looking out for Falcon; even the Purple Heart his brother earned was down to Duke keeping him safe on the battlefield. But still, Duke refuses to kick Falcon out of the Joes: he will have to quit on his own, and that is one thing Falcon refuses to do, as it will prove everything Duke has said to be true.''

''In time, Falcon, now a fully-fledged Joe, ships out for Cybertron with the rest of his fellow graduates. Before they depart, Duke appears to see them off; he salutes Falcon, and tells his brother to prove that he is wrong about him.''

Duke, Falcon, and Mirage are safely carried out of Cybertron's depths, but as they make it to the surface, the reason for the tremors becomes apparent. At the command of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], Cybertron has transformed into the body of Primus, and as the clouds of debris left by the Earth part at last, the god-planet turns his attention to the [[Sun]]... and prepares to feed!

==Featured characters==
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks. 
{{Featuredcharacters
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*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (3)
*[[Hot Rod|Rodimus]] (5)
*[[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] (8)
*[[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] (11)
*Goldbug? (12)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (13)

|c2=
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (1)
*[[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] (23)
*[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] (24)
*[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] (25)

|h3=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c3=
*[[Cover Girl]] (4)
*[[Tripwire (G.I. Joe)|Tripwire]] (6)
*[[Bazooka (G.I. Joe)|Bazooka]] (7)
*[[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] (9)
*[[Falcon (G.I. Joe)|Falcon]] (14)
*''[[General Flagg]]'' (15)
*''[[Cutter (G.I. Joe)|Cutter]]'' (16)
*''[[Outback (G.I. Joe)|Outback]]'' (17)
*''[[Muskrat]]'' (18)
*''[[Big Lob]]'' (19)
*''[[Quarrel]]'' (20)
*''[[Budo]]'' (21)
*''Duke & Falcon's mother'' (22)

|c4=
*[[Primus]] (2)
*[[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]] (10)
|}}

==Notes==
===Continuity notes===
*This issue's flashback must occur concurrently with [[Targetmasters (issue)|issue #2]] of the series; it takes place following the battle seen in [[I Saw Three Ships|issue #1]], since the Joes have knowledge of [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] (they train using animatronics and cut-outs of them), but must end before [[Funeral for a Friend|issue #3]], in which Duke goes undercover in Cobra.
*Further, Falcon had made it to Cybertron by [[Form Follows Function|issue #4]], though there was no indication at the time that any kind of "second unit" was involved.
*[[Cutter (G.I. Joe)|Cutter]] must also have been part of that unit, as he appeared on Cybertron in [[Everybody Hates Metroplex|issue #5]], but is seen on Earth in this issue's flashback, cutting Falcon's hair (''Cutter'', y'geddit?).
*We previously got a hint toward Falcon and Duke's troubled home life in [[Everybody Hates Metroplex|issue #5]], in which the [[Quintesson]]s plucked an image from Duke's mind of himself as a child mouthing off to his stepfather and dismissing his new baby sibling as "no brother of mine." The same issue had earlier identified Falcon as Duke's little brother on his file card.

===Transformers references===
*As Primus transforms, swarms of [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] are brought skittering out of the planet's depths by the tremors. The concept of an Insecticon swarm goes all the way back to [[The Transformers (cartoon)|the original Generation 1 cartoon]] and its Insecticon clones, but the beasties were first depicted as a naturally-occurring sub-race that lived in the depths of Cybertron in the ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]'' video game. They are, of course, all designed to look like innumerable duplicates of the classic G1 Insecticons [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]], [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]], and [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]], who previously appeared as individuals in this series in issue #2.
*Primus's robot mode design in this issue borrows from the original robot-mode Primus drawing created by [[Don Figueroa]] for [[Dreamwave Productions]]' ''[[Transformers: The War Within|The War Within]]'', later published in ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]''. Specifically, it's got the double-barreled over-the-head cannon, and the same domed buildings/turrets on its shins.

===G.I. Joe references===
*In addition to the military movies mentioned below (see "Real-life references"), Scioli notes in this issue's commentary that the boot camp scenes were inspired by issues #4 and #82 of the Marvel ''G.I. Joe'' comic. The former featured a brutal paramilitary training camp, while the latter put Duke in the role of no-nonsense drill sergeant training new Joes.
*Falcon was Duke's half-brother in ''G.I. Joe: The Movie'', but not in the Marvel comics. Falcon notes that he's going to be a Green Beret, like this father—factoids plucked from the character's original file card.
*And speaking of ''G.I. Joe: The Movie'', it was also responsible for the introduction of Big Lob, part of the same unit as Falcon in both the film and this issue. Big Lob is quite famous for being to ''Joe'' what [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] was to ''Transformers''; a major movie character who never had an action figure in the original toyline.
*Continuing with the ''Joe'' movie references, the scene of Falcon and Quarrel ignoring their guard duty to fool around is an homage to a similar scene in the film in which Falcon abandons his post to flirt with [[Jinx]].
*Never heard of Quarrel? That's 'cause she was actually an early original creation for ''[[Action Force (team)|Action Force]]'', the European version of the ''G.I. Joe'' toyline, who was only officially 'ported into the American version of the brand in 2013. Her file card humorously reads "Swiss Army Knife Expert"; she's not an expert in Swiss army knives, but rather a knife expert from the Swiss army, a reference to her original ''Action Force'' profile, which noted she was the daughter of a Swiss diplomat and an expert with Cantonese butterfly knives.
*The disguised Duke is able to get the drop on Falcon because he has removed the firing pins from his and Quarrel's weapons. Larry Hama, writer of the Marvel ''Joe'' comic, liked using this trick from time to time; it was originally pulled off by Eskimo mercenary [[Kwinn]] in the second issue of the series.

===Real-life references===
*This whole issue is a tribute to military cinema, and specifically "boot camp" movies, include such staple scenes of the genre as the haircut, the obstacle course, the brawl between rivals, and the superior officer saluting the young hotshot when they make good.
**Duke gives a speech while in front of a huge American flag, homaging ''{{w|Patton}}''. In the issue's commentary, John Barber recalls how he did the same thing with [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] in [[Dinobot Hunt (IDW)|''Robots in Disguise'' #8]].
**Falcon asks Duke if he is afraid he's "gonna have to salute" him, stealing a line from Richard Gere to Robert Loggia in ''{{w|An Officer and a Gentleman}}''.
**After his luscious locks are shorn into a crew cut, Falcon is horrified to discover he wasn't required to get one because G.I. Joe has no dress code or hair length regulation, a scene Scioli describes as being inspired by scenes in ''{{w|Heartbreak Ridge}}'' ''{{w|Stripes}}''.
**In addition to these movies, Scioli also cites ''{{w|Private Benjamin}}'' as an influence.
*When Falcon grabs Duke and gets him to safety, their firm arm-lock is an homage to that shared between [[Arnie|Arnold Schwarzenegger]] and Carl Weathers in ''{{w|Predator (film)|Predator}}''.
*The issue's commentary identifies the Joe recruit who Falcon gives up the record to save from the obstacle course mud pit as "Private Pyle," named after the luckless private from ''{{w|Full Metal Jacket}}'', who was in turned named for {{w|Gomer Pyle}}. Though, as that movie is such a classic of boot camp cinema, the term has evolved into slang for a screw-up in the military, so it might be a euphemistic use by Scioli and not literally his name.
*When Duke invites Falcon into the boxing ring with him, he calls him "Little Mac," after [[Wikipedia:Little Mac (Punch-Out!!)|the player character]] from the ''{{w|Punch-Out!!}}'' video game series.
*As the cloud of radio-disrupting Earth debris finally parts and communications are restored, an unseen Joe is heard exclaiming "Good morning Cybertron!", after another military movie, ''{{w|Good Morning, Vietnam}}''.

===Other trivia===
*Scioli's first draft of this issue's cover featured Duke holding a smoking cigar, but this was changed to a snake for the published version. We'd gamble that [[Hasbro]] said no to the stogie.
*Even the inside-front cover is part of the story in this issue, featuring a drawing of Megatron ordering Cybertron to transform, transmitted via the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]].

===Covers (2)===
*'''Standard cover:''' Duke, by [[Tom Scioli]]
*'''Subscription cover:''' [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck Gar]] rides with the [[Dreadnok]]s, as [[Unicron]]'s head floats in the sky, by [[Tom Neely]] and [[Marc Palm]]
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Antiga Prime

2015-10-19T01:01:59Z

Pikawil: /* Notes */

'''Antiga Prime''' is a planet in the [[Milky Way]].

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
Antiga Prime was an unclaimed or neutral organic planet in the Milky Way. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
*[http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Antiga_Prime Antiga Prime] is a planet from ''[[Wikipedia:StarCraft|StarCraft]]''.

[[Category:Almanac-only planets]]

Tantalus V

2015-10-19T00:57:14Z

Pikawil: /* Notes */

'''Tantalus V''' is a planet.

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
Tantalus V was a neutral or unclaimed planet in the [[Milky Way]]. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|The Complete AllSpark Almanac}}

==Notes==
*[http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Tantalus_V Tantalus V] comes from the ''[[Star Trek|Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "{{w|Dagger of the Mind}}".

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[[Category:External properties]]

Tantalus V

2015-10-19T00:57:06Z

Pikawil: /* Notes */

'''Tantalus V''' is a planet.

==Fiction==
===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
Tantalus V was a neutral or unclaimed planet in the [[Milky Way]]. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|The Complete AllSpark Almanac}}

==Notes==
*[http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Tantalus_V Tantalus V]] comes from the ''[[Star Trek|Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "{{w|Dagger of the Mind}}".

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Lindsey Beer

2015-10-19T00:38:14Z

Pikawil:

'''Lindsey Beer''' is an American screenwriter. Among the as-yet-uncompleted films she's contributed to are Disney's ''Dig'', the [[Warner Bros.]] remake of ''Short Circuit'', and the R-rated ''How to Nail an Alien'' for Atlas Entertainment. Prior to becoming a scriptwriter, Beer was a science major at Stanford where she studied neuroscience and the intersection of technology with society. As part of the production of ''[[Transformers 5]]'', she was recruited into the writers' room led by [[Akiva Goldsman]], and is now slated to be writing a future ''Transformers'' movie.

==External links==
*[https://twitter.com/hstweetheart/ Lindsey Beer] on Twitter
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5170222/ Lindsey Beer] on IMDB

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beer, Lindsey}}
[[Category:DreamWorks]]
[[Category:Writers]]

TesshÅ Genda

2015-10-06T03:59:52Z

Pikawil:

[[File:Tesshogenda.jpg|200px|thumb|Japan's own cowboy!]]
'''Tesshō Genda''' (玄田哲章 ''Genda Tesshō'' born [[May 20]], [[1948]]) is a Japanese voice actor who was born as Mitsuo Yokoi (横居光雄 ''Yokoi Mitsuo''). Some of his most famous roles include Umibōzu in ''City Hunter'' and ''Angel Heart'', the original voice of Guile in many of the ''Street Fighter'' video games and anime, Agent Shu in ''Dragon Ball'' as well the titular villain of ''Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound'', [[Kazumi Araiwa]] in ''Cooking Papa'', the Nine tailed Fox Demon in ''Naruto'', Dan Dastun in ''The Big O'', Sourman in ''Dr. Slump'', Taurus Aldebaran in ''Saint Seiya'', the Younger Toguro Brother in ''Yu Yu Hakusho'', Action Bastard in ''Shin Chan'', [[Punisher|The Punisher]] in the ''Marvel Anime'' films and the Impostor Captain Tennille in ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure''.

In terms of dubbing, some of his roles include Tigger in ''Winnie the Pooh'', [[Batman]] in the DC Animated Universe and among other incarnations, Cable in the [[TV Tokyo]] dub of [[Saban]]'s ''[[X-Men]]'', the current voice for Foghorn Leghorn in ''Looney Tunes'', Kratos in the ''God of War'' series, [[Mace Windu]] in ''[[Star Wars]]'', the slumbering dragon in ''[[My Little Pony|My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'' and Good Cop/Bad Cop (but ''not'' Batman!) in ''The LEGO Movie''. He's also the official Japanese dub over voices for [[Arnie|Arnold Schwarzenegger]], Sylvester Stallone, Steven Seagal and, uh, ''Dan Aykroyd''.

==Roles==
===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''===
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Convoy/Orion Pax]]
*[[Halonix Maximus|Giant]]
*[[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]
*[[Teranova|Professor Teranova]]
*[[Wulf]]

===''Scramble City''===
*Convoy

===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010''===
*Convoy

===''The Headmasters''===
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Convoy]]

===''The Transformers: The Movie''===
*Convoy

===''TF Telephone audio adventures: The Battlestars''===

*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]]

===''The Transformers''===
{{note|''[[The Rebirth]]'' was released in Japan in 1996 with the American ''The Transformers'' branding to distinguish it from the continuity of the Japanese ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''.}}

*Convoy

===''DreamMix TV World Fighters'' video game===

*Convoy

===''Super Link''===
*[[Primus]]

===''Galaxy Force''===
*Primus

===''Kiss Players''===
*Convoy

===''Transformers'' (2007) movie===
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]

===''Revenge of the Fallen'' movie===
*Optimus Prime

===''Animated''===
*[[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]]
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Generation 1 Optimus Prime]] (pre-[[title sequence]] gag for "[[TransWarped#Part I|TransWarped, Part 1]]")

===''Dark of the Moon'' movie===
*Optimus Prime

===''Age of Extinction'' movie===
*Optimus Prime

===''Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns''===
*[[Kazumi Araiwa]]

==Notes==
*Because of his healthy background in ''ballet'', one of his popular nicknames is "Pirouette Genda". *snicker*

*Genda played a parody of his [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] character (named "Ostimus Surprise") in episode 7 of the series ''[[Wikipedia:Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt]]''. [[Seizō Katō]], despite having retired from the role, played a parody of [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] in that same episode.

==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0312656/ Tesshō Genda at the Internet Movie Database]
*[[wikipedia:Tesshō Genda|Tesshō Genda]] at Wikipedia
*[[wikipedia:ja:玄田哲章|Tesshō Genda at Japanese Wikipedia]]
*[http://www.81produce.co.jp/list.cgi?man+1499313433220 81 Produce profile]
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1250 ANN Profile]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Genda, Tessho}}
[[Category:Japanese voice actors]]
[[Category:Convention guests]]

Yoshimasa Hosoya

2015-10-06T03:54:51Z

Pikawil:

[[File:YoshimasaHosoya.jpg|right|thumb|250px|]]
'''Yoshimasa Hosoya''' (細谷佳正 Hosoya Yoshimasa, born [[February 10]], [[1982]]) is a Japanese voice actor. Among many of his credits include Tetsuya Yūki in ''Ace of Diamond'', Alveric Gilette in ''Chaika: The Coffin Princess'', Yūsuke Asahina in ''Brother Conflict'', Renier Braun in ''Attack on Titan'', Junpei Hyūga in ''Kuroko's Basketball'', Matt Ishida in ''Digimon Adventure tri'', Ginti in ''Death Parade'', Kuranosuke Shiraishi in ''The Prince of Tennis II'', Arata Wataya in ''Chihayafuru'', two of four possible voices for the male Robin in ''Fire Emblem: Awakening'' and the sole voice for the same character in ''Super Smash Bros. for [[Nintendo DS|Nintendo 3DS]] and [[Wii U]]'', and the LQ-84i/Bladewolf in ''[[Solid Snake|Metal Gear]] Rising: Revengeance''.

As dubbing would go, he's one of the dub-over voices for Taylor Lautner, Eddie Redmayne and [[Shia LaBeouf]]. He has has also dubbed over Sokka (Jackson Rathbone) in ''The Last Airbender'', Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) in ''Terminator: Genisys'', Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) in ''The Lucky One'' & Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) in ''Now You See Me''.

==Roles==
===''Transformers (2007)''===
*[[Miles Lancaster]]

===''Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns''===
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]

==External links==
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=53773 ANN Profile]
*[http://www.yoshimasa-hosoya.com/ Website] (Japanese)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hosoya, Yoshimasa}}
[[Category:Japanese voice actors]]

Next Level Games

2015-10-06T02:45:10Z

Pikawil:

[[File:NextLevelGamesLogo.jpg|thumb|250px|right|For ''Metroid'' fans, the day Next Level Games unveiled ''Federation Force'' was [[Ruined FOREVER|the darkest hour]] [http://www.change.org/p/nintendo-petition-for-cancelation-of-metroid-prime-federation-force of their lives]. But for ''Transformers'' fans, ''Cybertron Adventures'' was Tuesday.]]

'''Next Level Games''' is a video game developer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company is best known for their collaborations with [[Nintendo]] (to the point that they pledged to work only for Nintendo from 2014 onwards) including ''Super Mario Strikers'', ''Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon'', ''Punch-Out!!'' for the Wii and ''[[Samus Aran|Metroid]] Prime: Federation Force''. Less notable is their non-Nintendo output, with games such as ''[[Spider-Man]]: Friend or Foe'', the 2010 ''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon'' game, [[Sega]]'s ''[[Captain America]]: Super Soldier'', ''NHL Hitz Pro'' and - relevant to this wiki - ''[[Transformers: Cybertron Adventures]]''.

== Games ==
* ''Transformers: Cybertron Adventures'' (Wii)

== External Links ==
*[http://www.nextlevelgames.com/ Next Level Games' Official Website]

[[Category:Video game companies]]

Jeff Pinkner

2015-10-05T01:30:22Z

Pikawil:

'''Jeff Pinkner''' is an American screenwriter and producer best known for showrunning ''Fringe'' with [[Roberto Orci]] and [[Alex Kurtzman]], whom he teamed with again to co-write ''The Amazing [[Spider-Man]] 2''. Pinkner was also a writer and producer on ''Alias'' and, briefly, ''Lost''. He is among the writers developing spin-offs for the ''Transformers'' [[live-action film series]] led by [[Akiva Goldsman]]. He is also co-writing ''[[Transformers 5]]'' with Goldsman and writing an unnamed future film.

==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0684374/ Jeff Pinkner] at the Internet Movie Database
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pinkner, Jeff}}

[[Category:DreamWorks]]
[[Category:Writers]]

Zak Penn

2015-10-05T01:29:20Z

Pikawil:

'''Zak Penn''' (born [[September 1]], [[1968]]) is an American screenwriter, best known for his spec script that became ''The Last Action Hero''. He wrote unused screenplays for ''[[X-Men|X2]]'', ''The Incredible [[Hulk]]'' and ''The [[Avengers]]'', and co-wrote ''Elektra'' and ''X-Men: The Last Stand''. He is among the writers assembled by [[Akiva Goldsman]] to develop spin-offs for the ''Transformers'' [[live-action film series]].

He and Werner Herzog were once attacked by the Loch Ness monster.

==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zak_Penn Zak Penn] on Wikipedia
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672015/ Zak Penn] at the Internet Movie Database

{{DEFAULTSORT:Penn, Zak}}

[[Category:DreamWorks]]
[[Category:Writers]]

Robert Kirkman

2015-10-05T01:28:21Z

Pikawil:

[[File:RobertKirkman.jpg|thumb|250px|He's gonna have [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]] doing stuff. ''Thaaaangs.'']]

'''Robert Kirkman''' (born [[November 30]], [[1978]]) is an American comic book writer. He is best known for creating and writing the post-apocalyptic horror comic book ''The Walking Dead'', also overseeing and taking part in its television adaptations and several spin-offs. Outside ''The Walking Dead'', he has also created ''Invincible'', and has worked on ''Ultimate [[X-Men]]'', ''[[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] Zombies'', and ''Haunt''. He has been hired by [[Akiva Goldsman]] to help develop an upcoming film for the expanding ''Transformers'' [[live-action film series|live-action film series]].

He apparently ate a copy of ''[[The Transformers: Infiltration]]''.<ref>[https://twitter.com/chris_ryall/status/601184796513959936 Chris Ryall: And for anyone who questions Robert Kirkman's TF bonafides, we took this at the '07 Louisville BotCon.]</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://twitter.com/RobertKirkman Robert Kirkman] on Twitter
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirkman Robert Kirkman] on Wikipedia
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3079117/ Robert Kirkman at the Internet Movie Database]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kirkman, Robert}}
[[Category:Writers]]

Bee in the City

2015-09-15T03:09:43Z

Pikawil: /* Real-world references */

{{episode
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|title="Bee in the City"
|prev=Shattered Glass
|next=Withered Hope
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|next2=Withered Hope
|image=BeeintheCityPromotionalArtwork.jpg
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|written by=[[Greg Sepelak]] and [[Trent Troop]]
|directed by=
|original presentation=9:45pm on [[April 26]], [[2008]] (BotCon)
|continuity=[[Transformers: TransTech|TransTech]]}}

'''Two Transformers and a human are zapped to another dimension. Fourth-wall-breaking hijinks ensue!'''

==Synopsis==
[[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Professor Sumdac]] tests a new space-warp teleportation device, the [[Bi-directional Unified Transit Terminal]], in an attempt to transport the [[Autobot]]s home. His BUTT malfunctions, sending [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari]], [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus]], and [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] to the city of [[Axiom Nexus]] on an [[Nexus 208.0 Epsilon|alternate version]] of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] ruled by the [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTechs]].

There, they are soon confronted by Officer [[Flareup (G1)|Flareup]], who notes that, by their very presence, they have violated the city's rules: no mechs named [[Prime (disambiguation)|Prime]] or [[Megatron (disambiguation)|Megatron]], no cosmic MacGuffins (in this case, the [[AllSpark Key]]), and absolutely no soliciting, rules established to preserve this Cybertron's utter lack of war. She takes them in for "processing", which turns out to be seventeen soul-crushingly boring hours of standing in line and filling out paperwork (or the digital equivalent).

As they finally leave, they encounter the morally ambiguous scientist [[Shockwave (TransTech)|Shockwave]], a Subcommander Third Rank from the Menacing and Foreboding Sciences Division of the Axiom Nexus Military Intelligence Branch. Enforcing his will with a cadre of utterly silent soldiers, he takes Optimus Prime and Sari into custody as potential threats to planetary security, but ignores Bumblebee, reasoning the plucky, yellow, kid-friendly character will be essentially ineffective without a spunky human sidekick. Flareup is dismayed, noting to an indignant Bumblebee that she expected his group to receive no more than a fine and a deportation home, not a military arrest.

At Shockwave's lab, he prepares to experiment on Sari and Prime in some fashion to determine the extent of their potential threat. In particular, he is concerned about the potential effects of the AllSpark Key being present. After confiscating it, he begins examining [[Rescue Roy (1-2-3 Transformers)|Rescue Roy]]—er, Optimus, starting with a [[Matrix check|Routine Matrix check]].

Elsewhere in the city, Bumblebee and Flareup meet [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], who is going by the alias "[[Joe (disambiguation)|Joe]]" to avoid arrest or deportation himself. Learning about the AllSpark Key, Megatron is all too eager to gain this MacGuffin and utilize its power for his own nefarious plans. Once he determines that the other two have no idea who or what he is, he asserts that as a "heroic [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]", he will help them retrieve their friends and the Key.

Bumblebee comes up with an initial plan involving a trained chimp marching band (which "Joe" [[Protohuman|naturally]] [[Optimus Primal|hates]]), but it predictably fails. Megatron comes up with a plan that will actually work: pretending he and Bumblebee are illegal Primes (Beeimus Prime and Joe [[Convoy (rank)|Convoy]]) being transferred by Flareup.

Once they reach Shockwave's lab, Megatron has Flareup and Bumblebee run a distraction so he can knock out the TransTech scientist. Once that is done, Megatron reveals his true name and ambitions. He snatches the Key and uses it to bring to life a variety of Shockwave's lab equipment. However, Bumblebee and Sari introduce the new robots to the concept of bureaucracy. Less than thrilled with all the paperwork their new lives will entail just to be part of society, the new robot army turns on Megatron and drags him away. Shockwave provides Prime, Bumblebee, and Sari a way home, expediting their paperwork, and he and Flareup agree never to speak of the incident again.

Back home, Sari and her Autobot friends likewise agree never to speak of the incident again. Still, Prime finds the thoughts of a Cybertron without war so inspiring that he feels like bursting into song. Thankfully, the others shout him down first.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters|c1=
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (4)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (5)
*[[Flareup (G1)|Flareup]] (6)

|h2=[[Decepticon]]s/[[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s|c2=
*[[Shockwave (TransTech)|Shockwave]] (7)
*"[[Megatron (BW)|Joe]]" (8)
*TransTech Guard (10)

|c3=
*[[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] (2)
*[[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] (3)

|c4=
*Narrator (1)
* Drive-thru speaker (9)
* Newly-created robots (11)
}}

==Quotes==
'''Dr. Sumdac:''' "We're ready for a test run now. Here we go!" 
'''Sari:''' "Hey! My Key is acting weird again." 
'''Dr. Sumdac:''' "Oh, my! This is not going to turn out well!" 
'''All:''' "ahhhhhhhhhhhhh."
:—Sari, Dr. Sumdac, '''Optimus Prime''', and '''Bumblebee''' show us a fine example of [[dull surprise]].

"Hmm. No Megatrons, no Primes, no Cosmic MacGuffins, and no soliciting. By order of the Axiom Nexus... tourism board?!"
:—'''Bumblebee''' reads the sign of rules in Axiom Nexus, unlike Megatron, Prime, and Sari!

"Begin proactive maintenance log: Subject A, [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|adolescent human female]], has regained consciousness and has demonstrated both an awareness of the narrator and an utter disregard for the fourth wall."
:—'''Shockwave''' records his observations.

"Okay, so you've got some crazy no-Prime policy, I can roll with that. But why am ''I'' under arrest? I'm just a little girl. I'm no harm to anyone. Can you please just let me go, ''pleeeaaaase''?" 
"Child, the only way you could make me more suspicious is if you were wearing a yellow [[hard hat]]!"
:—Despite '''Sari Sumdac''''s best efforts, '''Shockwave''' knows the deal with human companion characters.

"Items of cosmic significance like this AllSpark-powered key are contraband in Axiom Nexus, and I will not allow you to ''deus ex machina'' your way out of this." 
"''Deus ex machina'' isn't a verb." 
"'''SILENCE!!'''"
:—'''Shockwave''' and '''Optimus''' argue proper grammar usage.

"I shall begin with you, as to avoid delving too deeply into any dark secrets of this girl's past that the audience might find ''too'' interesting." 
"What? It's not like I'm some hyper-advanced, human-like robot my dad made or anything. That's silly."
:—'''Shockwave''' and '''Sari''' carefully avoid spoilers.

'''Bumblebee:''' "Uh, yeah. I-I'd like, um... whoo. Uh, y—lemme get a shake...some fries, side of barbecue sauce... uh, what's a Manwich? ...Ohhh, okay, yeah, I'll take one of those too!" 
'''Loudspeaker:''' "Revah ruh rug reese, issra rayest ruh." 
'''Flareup''': "Bumblebee, what are you doing?!" 
'''Bumblebee:''' "A contractually obligated gag."

"We need help. BIG help! Maybe we can rig up a communicator and call in [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]]. Or maybe con [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] into helping us out." 
"Oh, please. What do I look like, [[Scott McNeil]]?"
:—'''Bumblebee's''' plan is shot down by '''"Joe"'''. Maybe he should've tried asking [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] instead?

==Notes==
[[File:BeeCityCast.jpg|thumb|250px|Look to this day, graduates, as you meta-reference the world.]]
*The cast:
** [[Tara Strong]]: [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]]
** [[David Kaye]]: [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]
** [[Bumper Robinson]]: [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]], Narrator
** [[Marty Isenberg]]: [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]], Drive-Thru, [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]] guard
** [[Anastasia Matejka]]: [[Flareup (G1)|Flareup]]
** [[Chris Ho]]: [[Shockwave (TransTech)|Shockwave]]
** [[Pete Sinclair]]: Pete Sinclair
* Anastasia and Chris were the winners of the [[BotCon Idol]] voice acting contest held that weekend. Everyone played the parts of the newly created lab-equipment bots, with Marty Isenberg having their only line in English.

===Transformers references===
* Bumblebee ordering fast food is a reference to a longstanding BotCon voice actor panel tradition, which involves the attending actors performing their characters ordering at a drive-thru.
* Bumblebee is identified by Flareup as "a kid-appeal yellow-car-type", narrowed down to either "a Bumblebee or a [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]]", also referencing early ''Animated'' plans for Hot Shot to be the [[kid-appeal character]] of the crew. Various characters later "mistake" him for [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], [[Side Burn (RID)|Side Burn]], and [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]].
* Bumblebee yells out to a passerby, asking how they walk without knees. This was an incredibly common articulation issue of most figures pre-''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]''.
* Shockwave refers to Optimus as "[[Rescue Roy (1-2-3 Transformers)|Rescue Roy]]".
* When introducing himself to Bumblebee and Flareup, Megatron mentions that when he and [[Maximal|his]] [[Predacon (BW)|kind]] came in, it was believed that they would [[Ruined FOREVER|destroy the franchise, er, multiverse]]. Wonder where he got [[Trukk not munky|THAT idea]]...
* While masquerading as a Prime, Megatron identifies himself as "Joe [[Convoy (rank)|Convoy]]", playing on the Japanese name for Optimus and his ilk.
* Bumblebee calls Shockwave "[[Shockblast]]", the "close enough" name used as a substitute for "Shockwave" for a time when [[Hasbro]] was unable to secure that [[trademark]].
* In a sort of anti-reference, Prime and Bumblebee's "let us never speak of it again" conclusion provides an in-story reason for why none of this extra-dimensional silliness was ever mentioned on the actual ''Animated'' cartoon.
* Sari's befuddlement at a robot having high heels and Flareup's own distaste at having such an attribute is funny since so many fembots in the "Animated" universe have high heels, including [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]], [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]], and even their own version of [[Flareup (Animated)|Flareup]].

===Real-world references===
* Professor Sumdac refers to Sari as "the joy and the laughter," a reference to actress Tara Strong's role as Bubbles in ''{{w|The Powerpuff Girls}}''. Bubbles is proclaimed to be "the joy and the laughter" in that show's closing [[theme song|theme tune]].
* Prime remarks that waiting in line for 17 hours "took longer than an ''{{w|InuYasha}}'' story arc". David Kaye played a recurring role in that series as InuYasha's brother, Sesshomaru. (David also punctuated the gag with a little fist-pump.)
* When Bumblebee places his fast-food order, the nearly incomprehensible drive-thru speaker replies "''Sever your leg please, it's the greatest day.''" The line is a direct lift from the ''[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Homestar_Runner_%28body_of_work%29 Homestar Runner]'' cartoon "[http://www.homestarrunner.com/drivethru.html Drive-Thru]" featuring [http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Drive-Thru_Whale a randomly-appearing, nearly incomprehensible drive-thru speaker].
* When trying to sneak Bumblebee and "Joe" into Shockwave's lab, Flareup tells the TransTech guard that it's a "prison transfer from [[wikia:c:starwars:Cell Block 1138|cell block 1138]]". While the guard does not get the reference, it's a line uttered by [[Luke Skywalker]] in the first [[Star Wars (film)|''Star Wars'' film]] (which in turn is a reference to one of {{w|George Lucas}}'s early films, ''{{w|THX 1138}}'').
* Bumblebee tries to get the maniacally laughing (and coughing) Megatron's attention with a "Yo, Joe?" This is, of course, a reference to the battle cry of ''[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]'' from the eponymous '80s cartoon series. Flareup follows up with "Wrong convention", referencing [[Fun Publications]]' role in running the annual ''G.I. Joe'' convention.
* When Sari snatches Bumblebee's meal, Bumblebee laments "My manwich!", a line used by another of voice actor Bumper Robinson's characters, [http://theinfosphere.org/Dwight_Conrad Dwight Conrad] of ''{{w|Futurama}}''.
* With the AllSpark Key in hand, Megatron claims he has "a big boost of confidence", a tag line from commercials Kaye narrated touting {{w|Enzyte}}, a non-prescription drug for... er, male performance enhancement. In a similar vein (Ha-haaa! ''Vein!''), he also refers to himself as "the Keymaster" (much to Flareup's disgust), a reference to the movie ''{{w|Ghostbusters}}''.
* One of the newly born lab robots, upon being told of the forms it will have to fill out, says "What you talkin' 'bout, Wheelie?", a reference to the catchphrase of a young {{w|Gary Coleman}} in ''{{w|Diff'rent Strokes}}''.
* During the epilogue, Prime adds to the list of Bumblebee's misnomers by calling him "T-Bob", the robot sidekick from the '80s cartoon series/[[Kenner]] toy line ''[[M.A.S.K.]]''.

===Trivia===
* "Bi-directional Unified Transit Terminal"... [[Fully Automated Rapid Transit System|mature as ever]], eh, Sumdac?
* Sari is mistakenly described as an "adolescent", which is a teenager.
* After Sari's "human-like robot" line, Marty Isenberg put his finger to his lip and looked upwards in a very hammy faux-innocent look....

==External links==
"Bee in the City" Live Recording:
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4rUveSq7vg Part 1 on YouTube]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRLwZZV1YJ4 Part 2 on YouTube]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sww0sue3xTs Part 3 on YouTube]

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James Horan

2015-09-15T03:02:54Z

Pikawil:

[[Image:JamesHoran.JPG|right|thumb|200px|5 Hour Energon. For hours and hours of Energon.]]
'''James Horan''' (born [[December 14]], [[1954]]) is an American screen and voice actor. He's known to ''[[Star Trek]]'' fans for a number of roles, including Ikat'ika on ''Deep Space Nine'' and the enigmatic "Future Guy" on ''Enterprise''. He's made a number of guest appearances on live action TV, and also lent his voice talents to Doc LaCroix on ''Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles'', Smaug in ''The Hobbit'' video game, Doctor Strange and Ultron in ''[[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]: Ultimate Alliance'', Jack Ryder in ''[[Batman]]: Arkham City'', Scar in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', and Skull Face in ''[[Solid Snake|Metal Gear Solid]] V: Ground Zeroes''/''The Phantom Pain''.

He also appeared in those ''5-hour Energy'' commercials as a cowboy.

==Voice roles==
===''Transformers: Prime''===
{{collist|3|
* [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]]
* [[Makeshift (Prime)|Makeshift]] (disguised as Wheeljack)
* [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticon]]
* [[Thundercracker (WFC)|Thundercracker]] (BotCon 2013)
}}

==Convention appearances==
*[[BotCon 2013]]

==External links==
* [http://www.jameshoran.com/ James Horan's website]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0394533/ James Horan on IMDB]

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Splatoon

2015-09-12T21:31:52Z

Pikawil: /* External links */ Inkipedia link

{{videogame
|title=''Splatoon''
|image=Splatoon.jpg
|caption=[[Repaint]]: The Video Game
|japanese=スプラトゥーン
|developer=[[Nintendo]]
|publisher=Nintendo
|date=JP: [[May 28]] [[2015]] NA/EU: [[May 29]] [[2015]] AU: [[May 30]] [[2015]]
|platforms=[[Wii U]]
|rating=CERO: A ESRB: E10+ PEGI: 7 CB: PG
}}
'''''Splatoon''''' is a video game developed and published by [[Nintendo]] exclusively for their [[Wii U]] system. The game is a third-person shooter in which teams of kid-like/squid-like beings known as [[Inkling]]s use a variety of weapons to cover a battlefield in their color of ink, with the winners of the Turf War being the team who covers the largest surface area in their color.

An in-game Splatfest event took place for 24 hours in North America betweeen August 28-29, 2015, with ''Transformers'' as its central theme due to a sponsorship deal between Nintendo and [[Hasbro]].

==Synopsis==
[[Image:Splatoon-Shirts.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Freshness is the right of all sentient beings.]]
12,000 years in [[Earth]]'s future, humanity has gone extinct while sea life has evolved, becoming the dominant species of the planet. Many of these creatures, most notably [[Inkling]]s, reside in the bustling city of Inkopolis, whose residents are obsessed with staying "fresh" and participating in the popular sport known as Ink Battles. Occasionally, a Splatfest is held in Inkopolis, in which competitors split into teams based on their preferences for one of two subjects, such as cats vs. dogs, then participate in a series of Ink Battles over a 24 hour period to earn points for their team based on their performance, with a winning side being chosen after the 24 hours are up.

On one specific late-August day, a sudden broadcast of ''Inkopolis News'' took place, with news anchors [[Callie]] and [[Marie]] stating that they had a special announcement. According to the Squid Sisters, word from "on high" had come down stating that there was to be a new Splatfest event soon, and that its theme would be ''Transformers'', with Inklings choosing whether to represent the [[Autobot]]s or [[Decepticon]]s. When asked which side she would support, Callie enthusiastically praised the Autobots, revealing her admiration for [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]. This prompted Marie to accuse her cousin of being a "classic goody-goody", citing [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]], [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]], and [[Megatronus (WFC)|Megatronus]] as being much cooler, though Callie claimed this was only because she was jealous of the Autobot supporters' stylish red shirts. The two urged their viewers to pick a side at the Pledge Box by Inkopolis Tower before continuing with the rest of their newscast.

For several days following this, Inklings threw support behind their respective sides, wearing shirts bearing their chosen faction's [[insignia]], changing their ink color to match, and posting graffiti and artwork in support of their teams all over Inkopolis. On the night of August 28, the Splatfest began, with teams taking to Port Mackerel, Saltspray Rig, and Flounder Heights to earn points for their respective side while Callie and Marie each set up trucks in Inkopolis Plaza and put on a live performance from on top of them. After a grueling 24 hours of continuous battles, the Squid Sisters appeared again on ''Inkopolis News'' to announce the final results of the event. The Autobots proved to be the more popular faction, with 58% of participants taking their side. However, befitting their chosen faction's nature, the Decepticon supporters proved more vicious in combat, winning 56% of all Splatfest battles. As a result, the Decepticons ultimately placed higher than the Autobots, earning 266 points compared to the Autubots' 234, prompting a celebratory cry of "Decepticons annihilate!" from Marie. She declared that being evil never felt so good, though Callie continued to maintain that her side had the cooler shirts. The two reminded participants to pick up their Super Sea Snail prizes before continuing with the rest of their broadcast.

==Notes==
[[Image:Splatoon-Splatfest.jpg|thumb|250px|right|"Hmm...an emissary of peace, or an ancient evil bent on my destruction...tough choice."]]
*Between the Splatfest's announcement and its conclusion, players were able to wear a shirt branded with the Autobot or Decepticon insignia, and were unable to wear any other shirt during the Splatfest itself. However, these were removed from the game immediately following the event's conclusion. A limited number of real-life versions of the shirts were given away by Nintendo at the 2015 Penny Arcade Expo and via their social media channels.
*The ''Transformers'' Splatfest marked the first instance of a sponsored Splatfest theme in North America, and the third across all regions.
*While advertised as being related to ''Transformers'' in general, the in-game artwork is branded with the ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' logo and features that series' incarnations of [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatronus (WFC)|Megatronus]].
**Notably, Megatronus had not yet made a physical appearance in ''Robots in Disguise'' by the time the Splatfest took place, only having appeared as a nameless extradimensional entity to [[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]] in "[[Lockout]]" as of that time. He would make his first proper appearance the following week in "[[Battlegrounds, Part 1]]".
**Marie specifically cites [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]], [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] and Megatronus as respectable members of the Decepticons, despite the fact that the former two did not appear at all in ''Robots in Disguise'' but rather in its [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|predecessor]].
*According to Splatoon producer Hisashi Nogami and art director Seita Inoue, Splatfest themes are received by the Squid Sisters via messages sent 12,000 years in the past that they misinterpret as commands from a higher power. However, it is unclear whether ''Transformers'' being chosen is because it was a popular brand, as in the real world, or because the people discussing them were actually living through events such as [[Battlegrounds, Part 1|the summoning of]] [[Battlegrounds, Part 2|Megatronus to Earth]].
**It is also unclear how the Inklings would have any knowledge of the Transformers, having little to no knowledge of the human civilization that preceded them (and likely, by extension, the role Cybertronians played in it). It's possible that Cybertron has continued to maintain a peaceful relationship with Earth even after the humans' demise, though if they did, they probably wouldn't approve of the Decepticon movement's apparent popularity.

==External links==
*''{{w|Splatoon}}'' at Wikipedia
*[http://splatoonwiki.org/w/index.php Inkipedia, the ''Splatoon'' wiki]

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Edge of Reality

2015-09-12T21:20:37Z

Pikawil:

[[File:EdgeOfRealityLogo.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.85|So what's beyond?]]
'''Edge of Reality''' is a video game developer founded in 1998. Games developed by the company include ''Loadout'', the [[PlayStation]] 3 port of the first ''Mass Effect'' and the Nintendo 64 ports of [[Activision Blizzard|Activision]]'s 2000 ''[[Spider-Man]]'' video game and ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater'' series. Relevant to this wiki, they developed [[Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|the console version of ''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark'']].

==Games==
* ''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark'' (PlayStation 3/PlayStation 4/Xbox 360/Xbox One/Wii U/PC)

==External links==
* [http://www.edgeofreality.com/ Official website]

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Gregg Berger

2015-08-03T05:14:27Z

Pikawil:

{{disambig3|Greg}}
{{disambig3|Berger}}

[[File:GreggBerger.png|thumb|We're seriously waiting for him to split down the middle and a tiny Grimlock to pop out.]]
'''Gregg Berger''' (born [[December 10]], [[1950]]), sometimes credited as '''Greg Berger''', is a prolific American voice actor. Some of his animation roles include Odie the dog from the ''Garfield'' franchise, Mysterio from ''[[Spider-Man]]: The Animated Series'', Agent Kay from ''Men in Black: The Series'' and Cornfed from ''Duckman''. Outside of cartoons, he is known among video game enthusiasts for his work on high-profile video games such as [[Thing|The Thing]] in ''[[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]: Ultimate Alliance'', Jecht in ''Final Fantasy X'' and both ''Dissidia: Final Fantasy'' titles, Captain Blue in ''Viewtiful Joe'', and The Pain in ''[[Solid Snake|Metal Gear]] Solid 3''. He also substitutes for [[Peter Cullen]] as the voice of Eeyore within the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series.

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
Gregg was at [[Auto Assembly 2009]] with [[Nick Roche]] and [[Liam Shalloo]] when [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] stomped through the hall in dino mode, complaining about his absence from ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron]]''. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 13|''All Hail Megatron'' issue #13 cover}}

==Roles==
===''The Transformers''===
*[[Golden One]]
*[[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]]
*[[Head Guard]]
*[[Long Haul (G1)|Long Haul]]
*[[Oracle (G1)|Oracle]]
*[[Outback (G1)|Outback]] ("[[The Quintesson Journal]]")
*[[Sentinel (G1)|Sentinels]] ("[[Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2]]")
*[[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]]
*[[TORQ III]]

===''Animated''===
*[[Cheetor (Animated)|Cheetor]] (Botcon 2011 script reading)
*[[The Motor Master]] (Botcon 2011 script reading)

===''Fall of Cybertron''===
*[[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]]

===''Rise of the Dark Spark''===
*[[Grimlock (AOE)|Grimlock]]
*[[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]

===''Transformers: Devastation''===

*[[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]

==Written works==
*''[[Transformers: Treason]]'' (foreword)

==Convention appearances==
*[[BotCon]] ([[BotCon 2001|2001]], [[BotCon 2009|2009]], [[BotCon 2011|2011]])

==Notes==
[[File:Bergergrim.gif|120px|thumb|Me voice actor?]]
*The head of Grimlock's [[Pretender]] shell bears a passing resemblance to Mr. Berger. Though it also looks like [[wikipedia:Ed Asner|Ed Asner]], so, ''um''.
*Berger is known for participating in fan events, such as a fan script reading at TFCon 2008 in Toronto, where he reprised his roles of Skyfire, Grimlock and Outback.
*Berger stated he prefers characters that think before they act, yet he truly loves [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]]. Which happens to be his favorite role to date.
*Berger was one of the eight voice actors featured in [[Shout! Factory]]'s cast reunion in the 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection of the original series.
*The first issue of [[Maximum Dinobots issue 1|''Maximum Dinobots'']] was released on his birthday.
*Berger has stated that, while "[[Grimlock's New Brain]]" was the most difficult episode for him to do, it was also the episode he enjoyed working on the most, as it shows him using his Skyfire voice for Grimlock's intelligent voice.

==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0074185/ Gregg Berger at the Internet Movie Database]
*[http://therealmcast.com/2010/07/26/comic-con-2010-interview-with-gregg-berger/ Interview with Gregg Berger at The RealmCast]

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Hiroaki Hirata

2015-08-03T05:10:56Z

Pikawil:

[[File:Hirata.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Now a cooking partner for [[Dwayne Johnson]].]]
'''Hiroaki Hirata''' (平田広明 ''Hirata Hiroaki'', [[August 7]], [[1963]]) is a Japanese voice actor. He is best known for his roles as Sanji in ''One Piece'', Kotetsu T. Kaburagi/Wild Tiger in ''Tiger & Bunny'', Klein/Ryotaro Tsuboi in ''Sword Art Online'', Mutta Nanba in ''Space Brothers'', Benny in ''Black Lagoon'', Allen Ridgeley in ''Xenosaga'', Samuel Rodriguez/Jetstream Sam in ''[[Solid Snake|Metal Gear]] Rising: Revengeance'', Pip Bernadotte in ''Hellsing Ultimate'', Suikotsu in ''[[Richard Ian Cox|Inu]][[Kappei Yamaguchi|Yasha]]'', Genma Shiranui in ''[[Junko Takeuchi|Naruto]]'' and Leomon in ''Digimon''.

In the world of dubbing he has played Joey in ''Friends'', the Riddler in both ''The [[Batman]]'' & ''Batman: The Brave and the Bold'', [[Gregg Berger|Hunter the Cheetah]] in ''Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage'', Joseph in ''Joseph: King of Dreams'', The Narrator in ''Fight Club'', Adam Stanheight in ''Saw'', Steven M. Kovacs in ''The Cable Guy'', Johnathan Harker in ''Bram Stoker's [[Dracula]]'', Matt Eversmann in ''Blackhawk Down'', Danny Messer in ''CSI: NY'', the titular character of ''Rango'' and is the official dub-over voice of Johnny Depp (hence ''Rango'').

==Roles==
===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''===
*[[Ironhide (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ironhide]] ("Day of the Machines")

===''Galaxy Force''===
*[[Ernesto]]
*[[Ransack (Cybertron)|Gasket]]
*[[Evac (Cybertron)|Live Convoy]]

===''Transformers Adventure''===
*[[Thunderhoof]]

==External links==
*[http://www.hiratahiroaki.com/ Official website] (English)
*[http://homepage2.nifty.com/hirata_data/ Official website] (Japanese)
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386286/ Hiroaki Hirata] at the Internet Movie Database
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=917 Hiroaki Hirata] at Anime News Network

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Mitsuhiro Oikawa

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Pikawil:

'''Mitsuhiro Oikawa''' (及川光博; ''Oikawa Mitsuhiro'') ([[October 24]], [[1969]] - ) is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and musician. An excerpt of his filmography includes the ''Revolutionary Girl Utena'' movie, ''The Clone Returns Home'', the live-action ''Cutie Honey'' movie and the ''Kamen Rider Drive'' movie ''Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider 3'', in the latter two of which he both played characters and sang the theme song.

==Music==
===[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Transformers Adventure]]===
*[[Save the Future!!]]

==Notes==
* By getting involved with the ''Transformers'' brand, Oikawa claims to have fulfilled a childhood dream of singing a theme song for a cartoon involving robots.<ref>[http://news.asiaone.com/news/showbiz/mitsuhiro-oikawa-saves-future-song AsiaOne Showbiz News: Mitsuhiro Oikawa saves the future with song]</ref>

==External Links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0645237/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 IMDB entry]
*[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=4296 Anime News Network entry]

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