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Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5

2016-08-04T21:31:35Z

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{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' #5
|prev=Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4
|next=Escape (G1)
|image=Last Stand of the Wreckers5 Cover A.jpg
|caption=This is the end, my former friend.
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[May 19]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=May 2010
|story=[[Nick Roche]] & [[James Roberts]]
|script=Nick Roche & James Roberts
|art=Nick Roche
|colors=[[Josh Burcham]]
|letters=[[Chris Mowry]]
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|associate editor=[[Denton J. Tipton]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}

'''Where everything FINALLY hits the fan.'''

==Synopsis==
In [[Garrus-9]], [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] tears [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] in half, bashes [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] unconscious, and smirks when [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] ''destroys his right eye''. Down in the [[Aequitas]] chamber, [[Verity Carlo]] continues to argue against detonating the deterrence chips, which will kill Impactor in addition to the closing Decepticons. She puts her case to [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]], arguing that he's made the Wreckers stand for something, and ''his'' [[Wrecker]]s would never kill one of their own.

[[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] decides to abandon his egotistical visions of a glorious death and tells the others to run; he'll cover them. Dying for people he cares about, he tells Ironfist, is the most he can do, and he tells Verity that the ''[[Autobot]]s'' need the humans to look after ''them''. The Wreckers withdraw, Ironfist working out a plan to deal with Overlord, while Pyro is ingloriously torn to pieces behind them. As they withdraw, at Verity's urging, Ironfist reveals the truth he's learnt about Impactor and [[Pova]]...

''Twenty years ago, pinned down on Pova, Impactor decided the best way to get a shot at [[Squadron X]] would be to fire through [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]'s midsection. Despite Springer's protest that he didn't have the circuit dampeners needed to avoid the pain, Impactor fired. After winning the battle, Impactor reported to [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] that the enemy had been caught, but learned [[Povian]] neutrality made the operation illegal; Squadron X would have to be released. Instead, Impactor murdered the Decepticon as they knelt in chains as Springer tried to stop him and the others stood silent...''

Back outside, Overlord has defeated Impactor, but Springer gloats that his men will soon arrive with the freed Autobot prisoners, but Overlord reveals he had already ordered the prisoners executed. Luckily, the other Wreckers do arrive and [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] blasts the monster's hand off to free Springer, and Ironfist chucks him a ''massive'' chaingun, which Springer unloads into Overlord.

Overlord shrugs off the fire, ''rips off Springer's face'', and blasts Perceptor offline, leaving only Ironfist. ''That'' is when said nerd reveals the gun was loaded with deterrence chips... and detonates them.

[[File:LastStandoftheWreckers5-brittlebones.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Overlord learned the hard way to never let [[The Fallen]] ever do your makeovers.]]
Ironfist falls unconscious, leaving Verity alone as Overlord rises as a ''fire-consumed, skeletal horror'', enraged that he's left unable to face [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] when he arrives. Realizing Overlord's intentions, Verity, informs him that [[All Hail Megatron issue 12|Megatron is long dead]] and laughs; Overlord thought Megatron would come for him, yet the tyrant died not remembering Overlord ''at all''. The monster collapses in despair, and Impactor rises from the mat to finish him. When Overlord fails to resist, Impactor refuses to kill him. Repenting his actions on Pova, he disables Overlord for capture and trial... as Springer would want.

Overlord is beaten and the Decepticons have fled, but four Wreckers lie dead. Springer and [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] are on emergency life support, their chances of recovery unclear. Pardoned by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]], Impactor and a repaired Guzzle abruptly leave. Ironfist dies en route to Earth from an aneurysm caused by a lab accident with his [[Cerebro-sensitive bullet|cerebro-centric bullet]]s eighteen months ago that left one inching towards his brain all along.

[[File:Prowl LSOTW5 Pressure.jpg|thumb|150px|]]
On Earth, Prowl takes this report and the ostensibly sole [[data slug]] Ironfist was able to make of the Aequitas data. He admits to Ultra Magnus that he knew about Ironfist's approaching death and had arranged for him to be placed on the Wreckers, his dream job, in exchange for bypassing the suicide lock on Aequitas. ("''Yes'', of ''course'' I regret it.") Prowl reveals the true reason for the mission: they couldn't allow the Decepticons to get Aequitas's records of tried ''Autobots''. Prowl recalls the horror of their charges. Magnus believes in revealing the trials; Prowl agrees, but fears the Autobots will be shattered if they learn the truth before the war ends. Departing, Ultra Magnus notes how convienient it would be for Prowl if the data were corrupted, but he likes to think Prowl better than to destroy the evidence. Alone, contemplating the slug, Prowl slightly squeezes it...

And on Earth, Verity writing as "Fisitron", muses whether this is the "end of the road" for the Wreckers or just a "stop-off" to reflect. "Because that's how we ''honor'' those we've lost: by looking ''forward'', not back."
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==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] (1)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (3)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (4)
*[[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] (5)
*[[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] (6)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (7)
*[[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]] (8)
*[[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] (10)
*[[Rack'n'Ruin]] (14)
*[[Roadbuster (G1)|Roadbuster]] (15)
*[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] (16)
*[[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] (17)
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] (20)
*[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] (21)
*[[Rad (G1)|Rad]] (22)
*[[Jackpot (G1)|Jackpot]] (23)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (24)
*[[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]] (25)
*[[Tyrest (G1)|Tyrest]] (26)
*[[Xaaron]] (27)
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (28)
*[[Stakeout (G1)|Stakeout]] (29)
|c2=
*[[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] (2)
*[[Tornado]] (11)
*[[Macabre]] (12)
*[[Earthquake (G1)|Earthquake]] (13)
*[[Fang]] (18)
*[[Triton]] (19)
|c3=
*[[Verity Carlo]] (9)
}}

==Quotes==
"It's a story of sacrifice and betrayal, and of good people dying in ''stupid, pointless ways''."
:—'''"Fisitron"'''

"Oh, don't look so ''surprised''. You didn't expecte this stunted little ''wretch'' to ''survive'', did you?"<br>
"You're a '''maniac'''!"
:—'''Overlord''''s opinion on Guzzle's chance of living and '''Kup''' pretty much summing up readers' thoughts of Overlord.

"Ironfist! You should know better than ''anyone'' what the Wreckers are ''really'' about! They give the other Autobots something to ''believe in''!"
:—'''Verity''' trying to motivate Ironfist.

"I figure that dying to save people you ''care about'' is the most that anyone can do."<br>
"I think you have your ''motto''."<br>
"No... my ''last words''."
:—'''Pyro''' and '''Ironfist'''

"Sweet."
:—'''Springer''' gets thrown a giant gun to shoot Overlord with.

"Sweet."
:—'''Overlord''' holds Springer's face-skin in his palm.

"Oh, man, this is PERFECT! You can't accept that he never gave chase! You lived your life thinking about him every day, and he died forgetting all about you!"<br>
"But... But he owes me! <sub>He owes me.</sub>"
:—'''Verity''' giving '''Overlord''' the ''wonderful'' news about Megatron.

"One way or another, you've killed a ''lot'' of my friends today. It's been a ''long time coming'', but this is where you get yours!"
:—'''Impactor''' to Overlord.

"You see, this is one of those stories with a ''moral''. And the moral is simply this: life persists."
:—'''Verity'''

==Notes==
* Either Springer, Perceptor, or Kup ''were'' going to die in the final issue during planning, but in the end Roche and Roberts weren't allowed to do it.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9DPbginVXE Moonbase 2's AA2010 interview], 19:00 - 19:40</ref> Also dropped was a Guzzle/Kup confrontation, as there simply wasn't ''room'' in the condensed beast for it.
* [[Autopedia]] profiles include Pyro, Guzzle, and Impactor. Huzzah!
* Part of the narration by "Fisitron" on the first page is based upon Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem, ''[[Wikipedia:The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)|The Charge of the Light Brigade]]''. At the end of the issue, with Verity finishing the entry as "Fisitron", a book of [[Tennyson]]'s poetry is on the table.
* The visuals of the battle on Pova in this issue contrasts sharply with how it was depicted in [[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|the previous issue]]. In issue 4, the battle was depicted with a sense of non-reality (befitting a falsified story), taking place on a sunny day, with the participants having little damage upon their bodies, even in death. However, in issue 5, the reality shows a depressing, rainy landscape with the participants all showing the signs of battle injuries. When Impactor is shown standing above the corpses of Squadron X, he is splattered with their fluids.
* "[[Zero Point]]", a short story included in the second ''Last Stand'' hardcover, would reveal that Squadron X were merely refueling on Pova and that the Wreckers had started the fight unprovoked. In the same collection, [[Ferak]]'s profile says they were on a supply run and not a combat mission. No "did it to save lives" excuse for ''you'', Impactor!
* Also in "Zero Point", we learn what the Wreckers are thinking when they stand silently by: they're thinking "hooray, good ol' Impactor!" but will pretend otherwise so Springer will keep the team going.
* On Pova, Prowl admonished Impactor through a communications device in his palm which projected an image that resembles a [[communicube]]. The text story "[[Bullets]]" would later confirm these as communicubes.
* Ironfist's little head scar had been around since #1, so we'd all been visually forewarned what his accident had been...
* The scenes of the dead prisoners is a deliberate copy of #3's scene of the imprisoned prisoners hearing the Wreckers have come to save them...
* The final scene takes place in [[Mister O's]].
* According to the TPB of the series, the police car parked outside is not [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]] or [[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]].<ref>[[The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Fisitron's Facts]]</ref> Several years later, [[Sins of the Wreckers issue 1|it would be revealed]] that the car is actually [[Stakeout (G1)|Stakeout]], having been assigned to work with Verity by Ultra Magnus after the events on Garrus-9.
* Impactor's [[Autopedia]] profile mentions that Impactor got the idea for his harpoon arm after meeting an unnamed dimension-hopping "freelance peacekeeping agent" who had been "ricocheting from universe to universe after leaping through an exploding time portal." [[Death's Head (G1)|Death's Head]], yes? Their meeting is chronicled in ''[[Wreckers: Declassified]]'', [[Datalog]] 151, which refers to the [[The Legacy of Unicron!|Marvel UK issue number]] in which Death's Head leaps through a time portal with [[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] and disappears from the story. The title of said datalog, "The Wreckers at the Crossroads of Time", refers to the short ''[[Doctor|Doctor Who]]'' story, "The Crossroads of Time", which saw the titular Time Lord have a run-in with Death's Head following the time portal incident.
* Near the end of the issue we see [[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]] on trial.
* Autopedia tells us that Pyro suffers from [[Primus apotheosis]].
* Pyro's profile reveals he was at the [[Simanzi Massacre]], same as [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] in his profile. Both began to suffer their personality disorders following the Massacre...
* Speaking of Datalog numbers, the Datalog retelling of this series is numbered #332, which was the total number of issues of the Marvel UK ''Transformers'' comic had.
* Prowl starts to squeeze the chip a bit but it's left ambiguous as to whether he actually destroyed it. Even Roche and Roberts don't know whether Prowl did it! <ref>[http://tfarchive.com/community/showpost.php?p=690984&postcount=228 Fan account of the Auto Assembly 2010 Q&A]</ref> So how dodgy do ''you'' think Prowl is?
* James Roberts has noted that Prowl never asks about the Autobot prisoners, the alleged reason the Wreckers were sent in the first place. Brr.
* Ultra Magnus is shown in this issue in the design that [[Don Figueroa]] gave him for the first arc of the [[The Transformers (IDW)|ongoing series]].
*At the end of this issue, Kup and Perceptor are the only active Wreckers, with the other eight either dead, AWOL (Impactor and Guzzle), discharged (Whirl), or in critical condition (Springer), not counting Roadbuster.
* Perceptor uses his pretty-much-forgotten third "tank" mode in this issue.

===Errors===
* In the first scene in the Aequitas chamber, Topspin's body is initially colored gray and black (deactivated), but on the next page, it is colored normally.
* In the panel where Verity is on her knees mourning Ironfist's death, the part of the shirt below her ribcage is colored like skin.

===Real-world references===
* One of the sites of Flame's atrocities, [[Babu Yar]], is named very similarly to a [[wikipedia:Babi Yar|famous historical massacre site on Earth]].
* Amongst Flame's atrocities is listed the crime of "circuit-boarding", a reference to the torture technique controversially used by the CIA known as [[wikipedia:Waterboarding|waterboarding]]—kind of appropriate for a rogue Autobot.
* In what's likely a deliberate reference to the "Inquisitor" episode of the British sci-fi sitcom ''Red Dwarf'', Impactor almost directly quotes that show's Dave Lister, with his line to Overlord: "One way or another, you killed a lot of my friends today".

===Covers (3)===
* '''Cover A:''' A silhouette of Overlord looming over Impactor and Springer amidst flames with several Autobot grave markers in front of them, art by [[Nick Roche]] and colors by [[Josh Burcham]].
* '''Cover B:''' A Transformer hand lying on the ground, art and colors by [[Trevor Hutchison]].
* '''Cover RI:''' "Virgin" title-free edition of cover B.
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Navitas

2015-10-27T03:25:58Z

Rakatan384:

{{factions|velocitron}}
:''Navitas is a [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:DeltaCity.jpg|right|214px|thumb|]]
'''Navitas''' was one of the [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Titans]] created by the [[Knights of Cybertron]] millions of years ago to act as a living ship. He eventually colonized the planet [[Velocitron]].

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
Millions of years ago, Navitas and 12 other colony Titans departed Cybertron to found new outposts of Cybertronian civilization. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}} Navitas, carrying a crew of scientists searching for new sources of energy, colonized the planet Velocitron. The scientists' successes led to the development of Velocitron's racing-obsessed culture. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 4|Windblade vol. 2 #4}}

Navitas's body served as the base of Velocitron's capital city, [[Delta]]. His mind had been severely damaged by untold millennia of neglect—he constantly repeated the phrase "round and round" and forgot who [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] was mid-conversation. This meant that Windblade couldn't merge with him to control the racetrack for the [[Benefit 500]], in which Blurr was racing. Instead, she had to climb inside him and do it by hand. {{storylink|Race Against the Light}}

==Notes==
* "Navitas" is Latin for "energy," or in a more colloquial sense, "get up and go."

[[Category:Comic-only Transformers]]
[[Category:Metrotitans]]

File:DeltaCity.jpg

2015-10-27T03:24:58Z

Rakatan384:

Navitas

2015-10-27T01:42:59Z

Rakatan384:

{{factions|velocitron}}
:''Navitas is a [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
<div style="float:right;z-index: 2;width:240px;position:relative;">[[File:AllThatRemains-velocitron.jpg|right|214px|thumb|]]<br style="clear:both;" />
</div>
'''Navitas''' was one of the [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Titans]] created by the [[Knights of Cybertron]] millions of years ago to act as a living ship. He eventually colonized the planet [[Velocitron]].

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
Millions of years ago, Navitas and 12 other colony Titans departed Cybertron to found new outposts of Cybertronian civilization. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}} Navitas, carrying a crew of scientists searching for new sources of energy, colonized the planet Velocitron. The scientists' successes led to the development of Velocitron's racing-obsessed culture. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 4|Windblade vol. 2 #4}}

Navitas's body served as the base of Velocitron's capital city, [[Delta]]. His mind had been severely damaged by untold millennia of neglect—he constantly repeated the phrase "round and round" and forgot who [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] was mid-conversation. This meant that Windblade couldn't merge with him to control the racetrack for the [[Benefit 500]], in which Blurr was racing. Instead, she had to climb inside him and do it by hand. {{storylink|Race Against the Light}}

==Notes==
* "Navitas" is Latin for "energy," or in a more colloquial sense, "get up and go."

[[Category:Comic-only Transformers]]
[[Category:Metrotitans]]

Navitas

2015-10-27T01:42:37Z

Rakatan384:

{{factions|velocitron}}
:''Navitas is a [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
<div style="float:right;z-index: 2;width:240px;position:relative;">[[File:AllThatRemains-velocitron.jpg|right|215px|thumb|]]<br style="clear:both;" />
</div>
'''Navitas''' was one of the [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Titans]] created by the [[Knights of Cybertron]] millions of years ago to act as a living ship. He eventually colonized the planet [[Velocitron]].

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
Millions of years ago, Navitas and 12 other colony Titans departed Cybertron to found new outposts of Cybertronian civilization. {{storylink|First Contact (IDW)|First Contact}} Navitas, carrying a crew of scientists searching for new sources of energy, colonized the planet Velocitron. The scientists' successes led to the development of Velocitron's racing-obsessed culture. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 4|Windblade vol. 2 #4}}

Navitas's body served as the base of Velocitron's capital city, [[Delta]]. His mind had been severely damaged by untold millennia of neglect—he constantly repeated the phrase "round and round" and forgot who [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] was mid-conversation. This meant that Windblade couldn't merge with him to control the racetrack for the [[Benefit 500]], in which Blurr was racing. Instead, she had to climb inside him and do it by hand. {{storylink|Race Against the Light}}

==Notes==
* "Navitas" is Latin for "energy," or in a more colloquial sense, "get up and go."

[[Category:Comic-only Transformers]]
[[Category:Metrotitans]]