Confrontation (issue)

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This article is about the Dreamwave comic story. For the Armada cartoon episode, see Confrontation (episode).
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Three Autobots against the Fallen—they are severely outnumbered.
"Confrontation"
Publisher Dreamwave Productions
First published March 17, 2004
Cover date February 2004
Writer Simon Furman
Pencils Andrew Wildman
Inks Erik Sander
Additional inks Rob Armstrong
Colors Alan Wang, Ramil Sunga
Letters Ben Lee
Continuity Dreamwave continuity
Chronology The Dark Ages

The Fallen and his soldiers hunt down the four Transformers needed for the Unbinding.

Synopsis

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Grimlock charges at The Fallen, who easily swats him away and reprimands Bludgeon for his having to intervene in person. But Grimlock is not so easily defeated and relentlessly attacks The Fallen again... in vain. Jetfire watches the deactivation of Grimlock and speculates on The Fallen's origins, then blacks out. The Fallen drags both of them away, while the Chaos Trinity leave to retrieve the third target. As to the fourth, the Fallen tells them to leave that to him. Shockwave, forgotten, awakens.

At the hub-capital Iacon, beneath Virtue's Forum, in the Autobase, Prowl and the other Autobots discuss the escalation of the arms race between the six factions. Trailbreaker relates to Prowl Jetfire's theory of intelligent manipulation behind recent events. Sideswipe interrupts the discussion, bringing Prowl to answer a video communication from Swoop regarding Grimlock's disappearance. Moments after Swoop hangs up, an alarm signals an attack within the Autobots' brig. The lower levels of the base are invaded by the unstoppable Fallen.

In another part of Iacon, the Protectobots ponder why their combined form, Defensor, has such a reduced intellect. Bludgeon and his cronies crash the deliberations. With the elements of surprise, Mindwipe's hypnosis, and Hot Spot's hesitation to initiate the interlink into Defensor, the Protectobots are quickly defeated. Hot Spot is declared a captive.

Jazz, Sunstreaker, and Mirage continue to defend, refusing to let The Fallen retrieve the Autobots' prisoner. The Fallen's dark power lets him shrug off the Autobots' attacks and disable the three of them. He tears open the jail cell and recruits the fourth and final component of the Unbinding: Blitzwing.

Above, in the tactical central of the Autobase, Prowl orders a containment field erected to make sure The Fallen doesn't escape. But when Bumblebee sets up the shield, feedback detonates his console and almost injures him. There's no question that The Fallen has escaped.

In the Well of All Sparks, Jetfire awakens, bound to a machine with the three other Transformers captured by The Fallen. He explains that they are about to become casualties of a divine war, for when the Seal of Primus opens, chaos will follow.

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(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Others

Quotes

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"You...You're from before. Aren't you? Before the golden age, before recorded time."
"You know so little... about who and what you are, about the forces at work around you...beneath you. The golden age--heh. Welcome, Jetfire...To the Dark Age!"

—Jetfire and the Fallen


"Who?"
"Who cares?"

—Hot Spot and Blades on Bludgeon's arrival.

Notes

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  • This issue features one of the vanishingly rare times Bludgeon uses his tank form. Not that it does him any good.

Continuity notes

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  • Gadgets and powers:
    • The Fallen unleashes a light show of fire, to knock Grimlock out. He later uses another burst of energy on Sunstreaker.
  • Skids receives repairs after the injuries he got from Trypticon last issue.
  • Trailbreaker and Jetfire had a chat about the escalating nature of the war in issue 3.
  • The Protectobots had problems with their combined form in the same issue.
  • Bludgeon totally steals Grimlock's sword, the jerk.
  • It's never made clear why particularly Jetfire, Grimlock, Hot Spot, and Blitzwing were necessary for the Unbinding.
  • On the final page of the story, the Fallen casts a shadow with horns intentionally evocative of Unicron. How it's possible for him to cast a shadow with his back being constantly on fire is unclear but there's all kinds of Dark Magic involved so don't think about it.

Transformers references

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  • Blitzwing's cell number is D-43, the same number his toy was assigned for its original Japanese release.

Other trivia

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Errors

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  • The dialog on page 4 (page 96 of the collection) in panel 2 is confusing. The Fallen appears to be addressing Jetfire, while responding to Grimlock. The simplest fix would be to change the Fallen's line from "He does, Jetfire," to, "Jetfire has an idea."

Cover

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Reprints

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Other than reprints of the full series

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