Talk:Flashback!

How is Megatron going back in time to save the Seacons any different to Wreck-Gar going back in time and saving Bumblebee? Or the future Autobots going back in time during Time Wars and helping to save everyone. Perhaps the timeline where Galvatron succeeded was supposed to the correct one and defeating him changed the timeline completely (but then Time Wars is the biggest mess of errors and confusion that Transformers has produced in its 25 years).

Megatron saving the Seacons doesn't seem that big of a deal that Prowl makes out to be really.

95.148.9.100 07:36, 31 December 2009 (EST)

Time travel rules are not consistent in the TF world, or for that matter in a lot of Marvel comics. That said for most of the previous Marvel UK stories there has been an implicit consistency that time travel into the past automatically creates an alternate timeline and a time traveller's actions have no bearer upon their own timeline. (This is the basic rule operated in much of the Marvel Universe, albeit with some exceptions.) Time Wars broadly follows this but Aspects of Evil shows the future timeline changed - perhaps the damage to the rift meant the Autobots arrived home in a different timeline.

Flashback! is the first time I can think of where the timetravel is into the past of regular events so maybe the change would have had a noticeable effect. Alternatively we've only really Prowl's word and Megatron's assumption that the past can be changed - maybe both are operating on a misunderstanding and there was never any danger in the first place? Timrollpickering 17:06, 31 December 2009 (EST)

Kup, Hot Rod and Blurr travelled back in time to save the past from a time-traveller. Wreck-Gar travelled back and saved Bumblebee from a time-traveller. The Seacons were not destroyed by a time-traveller and so that action was supposed to happen in that timeline. The other examples were not supposed to happen. Skywarp got destroyed and Bumblebee became Goldbug happened anyway but differently (see the U.S. comics). 95.148.10.240 06:09, 28 April 2012 (EDT)

"Jawbreaker" or "Overbite"?

He's not named in this issue, but should Jawbreaker's name be changed to "Overbite"? He had been prevously called by his actual name not only in the US reprints published in UK issues #194-195 and #206-207, but also in a UK-original story published in Transformers Annual 1990. I'd argue that by this point in the UK series, he was correctly named "Overbite", with "Jawbreaker" just being an early anomaly.--Nevermore (talk) 11:15, 14 December 2025 (EST)