User:Escargon/Ask Vector Prime and co references

Being written by Jim Sorenson leads to a lot of references!

Hasbro Era

Not much to see here at first.

• When asked about the first Transformers, Vector Prime brings up The Fallen.
• Vector Prime clarifies how Sideways comes back after his death in Origin; Unicron brought him back.
• The Source-also known as the One-is a concept that originated back in the Marvel comics, and was greatly expanded upon in Primeval Dawn and the DK Ultimate Guide.
• Cybertron is established to take place 10 years after Energon.

Almanac Era

(AAII)

• The mysterious figure referred to is indeed from the Japan opening credits to Animated. 7 years later and we still have no idea who this guy is.
• Unnamed in the comics, the Semper Tyrannis gains it's name from the Latin phrase "sic semper tyrannis."
• Classics Killzone appeared at the end of Gone Too Far, although he wasn't indicated as being from the Classics universe at the time. The Alignment Killzone appeared as one of the various heads of the Decepticon High Council.
• The Five Faces of Darkness leaders gain their names from various other Primes in fiction; Primon was mentioned off-handedly in Herald, Covenant, Schism, Paradox, a text story from BotCon 1999; his alternative title of Alpha Prime is a reference to the Dreamwave MTMTE guides. Prima is one of the thirteen original Transformers, first mention in issue 65 of the Marvel US run, which was also the source for Prime Nova and Sentinel Prime. Prime Nova also being known as Nova Prime connects him to the IDW Prime of the same name, although they appear to be separate characters still. Guardian Prime also comes from the Dreamwave MTMTE guidebooks. Zeta Prime was introduced in Spotlight: Blurr. Sentinel Prime was known as Sentinel Major before gaining the Matrix; later fiction would clarify him to be separate from the Wings Universe character, and that both were part of the same lineage.
• Primax 703.02 Gamma is the Devils Due Transformers Vs G.I. Joe sereis-Unicron appeared to have an organic brain in Black Horizon, which is clarified here as being a result of his coming from the Gobots universe. Primax 984.0 Gamma is the Marvel Comics universe, while Primax 984.17 Alpha is the Sunbow universe. Transformers, Joe, Inhumanoids, Jem, and COPS all had various references to each other in their series, such as with the character of Hector Ramierez, while Marvel's crossover was one of Transformers first,.
• The first almanac said that Beta Maxx and Calibun were Mini-Cons were Mini-Cons, while elsewhere they are Micromasters. Quadwal is the universal cluster of the real world, introduced in the first almanac. Later AVP segments would expand on this idea.
• When asked about Dion from War Dawn, Vector mistakes the question for Canadian singer Celine Dion, who sang the love theme for Titanic, My Heart Will Go On.
• The unique digital entity was mentioned in Armada's first episode.

(Addendum)

• Cyclonus' origin is a infamous fandom argument. Vector's answer is entirely truthful, as some publications have decided to go with either Bombshell, Skywarp, someone else, or having him be his own character.

(Complete)

• Mitotic sparks originate from Beast Machines Magmatron's bio information. Overlord is revealed to also be a Duocon.
• The Constucticon's origin was a bit of a mess in the cartoon: they were apparently made on Earth in Heavy Metal War, but revealed to have originally been friendly bots corrupted by Megatron in The Secret to Omega Supreme, and would later be made even more complicated, as they created Megatron, according to backstory from Five Faces of Darkness. The model sheet on the page cleverly covers up Vector's answer.
• Primax 207.0 Epsilon (the Classics universe) was destroyed in BotCon 2012's Invasion. It was replaced by the universe of Regeneration One, taking it's number string from #80.5's publication (which was indeed released only a few days later in the real world.) The GoBots world was shown being slowly destroyed by the Classicsverse in Withered Hope: the Diaspora is a concept that would later be expanded on in Spatiotemporal Challengers and Sorenson's Cultural Appropriations.
• Fornax is Latin for kiln-which, among other things, are used to make clay bricks. The two universal streams referred to here are the online TakaraTomy Kre-O manga, and the first run of stop-motion Kre-O cartoons on Youtube. Cloud's universal stream takes its numbers from the first wave of Cloud toys which included the comic, and clarifies that it is not its own cluster. The Rovio cluster name takes it from the company who owns the Angry Birds game, along with date of release for the game. Iocus is Latin for "a joke." The Iocus cluster would also be later expanded in the Facebook AVP run.
• The Lukas cluster is named after George Lucas, creator of Star Wars. The universal stream referred to here is the Crossovers toyline, although it takes its number string from the release date of A New Hope, and Darth Vader's mech is a reference to the Death Star Transformer toy with his appearance. Vector drops mention of non-singularity Unicrons (such as the G1 cartoon one, who was built by Primacron, and another one from the Dreamwave RID comic "Ultra Magnus...to the Rescue?"). The idea that there are non-singularity versions of multiversal beings would become a plot point in the upcoming AVP Facebook run and would tie in to the Fun Publications arc, Another Light.
• Prime's two favorite authors have both dabbled in Transformers, of course; Alan Dean Foster wrote the novelizations and prequels for the first two of the live action movies, while Peter David wrote the novelization of Dark of the Moon.
• The two Uniend streams mentioned here are the High Moon game series and the Prime cartoon and its spin offs, although the first takes its number string from Fall of Cybertron, the second game in the series, and the second takes it from the UK premier date. The terminology used to describe the cluster is similar to language used at the BotCon 2011 Transformers brand panel.
• Vector explains why there are subtle differences in between the individual Almanacs and this volume-obviously referring to edits made in the real world to the volumes, some of which came from Derrick J Wyatt's request. Natasha Pyranic comes from the Animated Be a Hero book, Time-Quake. Vector states that the Alternity (from the 2009 toyline of the same name) and the TransTech (from the Fun Publications stories) would be able to notice such differences. Gabriella Constanza (also from Time-Quake) replaces Elaine Nakurama as the first female President. Wavelength is another Time-Quake original, Graviton Prison is from a prose story from the Beast Wars Neo manga; this serves to explain why the Planet Map section is different. The line about gender flips refers to the female Sunstreaker replacing the male Sunstreaker from the second almanac, while the change of body types refers to various pieces of Bill Forster's art being replaced by Wyatt's. The background text has been entirely replaced, and is explained as due to screenshots being off a few nanokliks.
• Sideways' nature is heavily expanded upon-while not a multiversal singularity, multiple versions of him jump from universe to universe. The first Sideways mentioned is originally from the junior novelization for Revenge of the Fallen, and jumped to the Dreamwave Armada comics. The second Sideways is the one from the Armada and Cybertron cartoons, who would jump to the Robots in Disguise timeline (his originating point in real life.) The multiversal nature of the Fallen causing Tyran universes to branch frequently is in reference to sheer amount of ancillary storybooks and other media connected to the live action movies. The idea that Kappa universe are highly volatile and have multiple routes is in reference to the fluid nature of video game playthroughs, where while the ends are almost always pre-determined, the way a player gets there can be accomplished in many ways. The third Sideways originates from the PC version of the Revenge of the Fallen game (the XP, of course, referring to Windows XP), went to an Iocus universe through Nexus Zero (The Vok's home from the Beast Wars cartoon), while a fourth came from a Uniend stream and visited a Rovio stream. The fifth originates from the Kre-O manga, and jumped to the IDW movieverse comics, and after being rebuilt after bisection (referring to his rather gruesome death by Sideswipe in Revenge of the Fallen), jumped to a Primax verse to infiltrate the Autobots, presumably referring to the Robot Masters series.
• Another answer changing the perceptions of how singularities work. Primus does not exist in Malgus, and Unicron is divorced from the singularity, presumably due to Wyatt's dislike of the concept. More set up for Another Light....
• Perhaps the most infamous of fandom arguments, RIRFIB/RIBFIR originates as a result of the cartoon mixing up the two humanoid cassettes colors. Vector dodges the answer by bringing up the live-action movie Frenzy.
• Lambda is a new concept here, used to classify all the bits of art that don't really go anywhere else. The one mentioned here takes its number string from the release date of the 26 issue, evidently.
• Vector does another non-answer, here, referring back to the second almanacs claim that the book was canon. The Alignment was indeed a portal in the novella.