Talk:The Enemy Within!

Changed "electrocuteds to "shocks". Electrocution means death, because of the "cution" part of it, like in execution. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electrocution

Definition of ELECTROCUTE transitive verb 1

to execute (a criminal) by electricity

2

to kill by electric shock

-J

Red Alert

I can't remember which issue it's in, but in one of the letters pages it is said that Red Alert was injured in 'Raiders of the Last Ark' and had not (up to that point) been repaired in the present-day stories, although of course he featured quite prominently in the post-Movie UK material. So his presence in this story was retroactively explained, although it remains rather anomalous. (Also, he doesn't appear at all in 'Raiders' so his injuries must have been inflicted off-panel)Tribimat 15:57, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

It's a while since I've read Raiders but I recall there's one Autobot who's not named but is either Sideswipe or Red drawn toy accurate in black and white. Although the letters page may have tried to explain it, there's a couple of times when an injured Red is conspicuous by his absence - in The Wrath of Grimlock! Ratchet repairs "all but one" of the Autobots and the exception is explicitly identified as Sunstreaker. Then in the 1986/7 annual there's a listing of all the current Autobots which does not include Red. Timrollpickering 18:23, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay it's been a few years but I think the mystery of Red's appearance can now be "solved". The main reason why he's traditionally considered a mistake is that he wasn't one of the original Autobots on the Ark as shown on the famous two-page spread of self-introductions in The Transformers (issue), nor was he introduced subsequently. But here's the big thing - when that issue was reprinted in the regular UK comic (and again in the Collected Comics) that two-page spread was omitted. It was later printed standalone in the first annual (despite not featuring a lot of the Autobots in that book) and in the "Complete Works" book, but as far as the UK comic is concerned there is no official list of which Autobots were and weren't on Earth from the start. So Red's presence is very simple - he's one of the original crew like any other Autobot at this stage, albeit one who's rarely seen. (Similarly Inferno is easier to understand in this light.) So the only real error is leaving him off a later checklist. Timrollpickering 17:01, 6 July 2011 (EDT)