Titans Return: The Power of the Titan Masters
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| Publisher | Hasbro | ||||||||||||
| First published | July 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Titans Return toy bios | ||||||||||||
The Titans have returned! And they brought friends!
Synopsis
[edit]At the dawn of time, the Titans were born, giant living robots which could travel across the galaxies on their mission to explore the universe. Crewing these behemoths were the Titan Masters, diminutive caretakers blessed with the ability to imbue other beings with special powers, a gift intended to forge links with other civilizations. As the eons passed, the Titans and their crews were forgotten, but now, for reasons unknown, they have returned, and their Autobot and Decepticon descendants have taken notice!
Galvatron declares that the Decepticons will use the power of the Titan Masters to rule the universe, and battles break out across the many worlds of the Transformers. On Velocitron, Wheelie and Blurr are competing in the planet's biggest race when Scourge and Crashbash launch an attempt to capture Blurr's Titan Master partner Hyperfire. Luckily, Optimus Prime, Hardhead, and Sentinel Prime are on hand to fight back.
Elsewhere, on Eukaris, Alpha Trion and Clobber's attempt to locate an artifact related to the Titans has drawn the attention of Astrotrain and a squad of Decepticons, but Apeface blows their ambush with his over-enthusiasm. On Caminus, the closest planet to Cybertron, Blaster and his spy-tablet team pursue Skullsmasher, Grax, and Rot-Gut, who have stolen codes. The Autobots have them on the ropes until Rot-Gut teams up with Skullsmasher, imbuing the larger 'bot with the power to project a toxic rust cloud.
Later, on Cybertron itself, Soundwave, joined by his own spy-tablet troops and the other Decepticons, launches an all-out final assault. Their onslaught is thwarted, however, when the Autobot base transforms, revealing itself to be the legendary Titan Fortress Maximus! Optimus Prime himself declares that in order to defeat the Decepticons, the Autobots too will need to unlock the powers of the Titan Masters.
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons |
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Notes
[edit]- This booklet was given away by Hasbro and IDW Publishing during San Diego Comic-Con 2016.
- Titan Masters Nightbeat and Brawn receive profiles in the booklet, but do not appear in the narrative comic sections. Loudmouth and Skytread, meanwhile, don't even get profiles.
- Terri-Bull is consistently referred to as "Rot-Gut", presumably an earlier name abandoned once a closer approximation of his original moniker was obtained. He and his tank also have their original CG render colors, with blue barrels for the tank instead of silver, silver arms instead of blue, and a purple face instead of yellow.
- Fortress Maximus also has his prototype hands instead of the final version with blue.
- All characters address each other by name all the time.
- The chart in this book is one of the few pieces of media (if not the sole work) to actually explain what the different Titan Masters' unique powers are. And it doesn't even cover all of them.
Errors
[edit]- "Teslor" is mislabeled as a Decepticon on the chart
Transformers references
[edit]- The inclusion of the colony planets Velocitron, Caminus, and Eukaris stems from the 2005 IDW continuity.
- While Fortress Maximus has been labeled as having a city alt-mode since his debut in 1987, this fiction is the first to call Fortress Maximus a Titan in the vein of Metroplex.
- Little Transformers who grant powers to bigger bots who went missing for several millions of years only to return as the prize Autobots and Decepticons fight over? Where have we seen this before?
Cover
[edit]- Wraparound cover: Fortress Maximus in wireframe.
