Talk:Divide and Conquer!

Is 'Stazl' meant to be Staz? --FFN 21:11, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Oops yes. That error's cropped up a few times - maybe something on my notepad. Timrollpickering 21:57, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Broadside

I think its ridiculous to say the aircraft carrier the Survivors arrive on isn't Broadside simply because he doesn't speak. It's his exact design, he was originally introduced as a Triple Changer (so we know he has his three modes), and he's the only Survivor not otherwise present. Transformer fiction is FILLED with unspeaking cameo roles that are much less substantial than this one. Maybe Dirge and Thrust didn't really appear in this issue, either -- they never speak or transform, and never appear before or after this issue in Earthforce continuity. Maybe those were just jets that LOOKED like the Seekers.

Seriously...it's Broadside. --Xaaron 23:10, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. Tim brought up Nicholas, but the reason he remains nonspecific is because Nick Fury isn't part of TF canon. We only play nod-and-a-wink dumb when we would need to go to non-TF fiction to find the intended "truth." - Jackpot 23:39, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Thrust and Dirge don't have a history as "forgotten" Transformers whereas the entry on Broadside says in the intro "He's the forgotten Autobot Triple Changer". Hence the recycling of the joke here. And I'll admit that when I first read the story back in 1990 I didn't spot that it was Broadside at all - it was a mode that had never been seen before (and the toy had been long discontinued and the third season of the cartoon never screened on domestic television here) and didn't speak or change into the more familiar mode. It just looked like some ship the Survivors had commandeered - normal sized Transformers changing into massive transporters for their same sized fellows wasn't something the comic did much of. Timrollpickering 00:33, 25 May 2008 (UTC)