User talk:Ascendron/sandbox: Sideways (disambig)

If it helps, here's a tweaked version of the history-of-dimension-hopping summary from the Sideways (RID) page:

• The case for the Sidewayses of the various different continuity families being the same individual hopping universes wasn't always airtight, and was built up over a period of several years. Until 2010, no fiction had clearly established him migrating from one universe to another, but even before then, circumstantial evidence abounded:
  • The first Sideways, a Robots in Disguise toy, was packaged with Axer, whose on-package bio strongly insinuates that he had come from the Generation 1 universe through a black hole. The bios make no particular connection between the two characters, so there is no reason to think Sideways must have come from another universe as well. Nevertheless, the real-world pairing of the characters makes it easy to accept that he did, based on later evidence.
  • The next Sideways, from Armada, was given an on-package bio of almost identical wording to that of the Robots in Disguise character. The Armada bio suggests that his duplicity is a new development upon coming to Earth, the result of being pulled in two mental directions by his Mini-Cons. However, the cartoons and comics would both develop him as a pure agent of Unicron, which of course opens all sorts of cross-universal possibilities.
  • The Robotmasters toy is what seals the deal. It's named and colored after the Armada toy, and some Robotmasters publicity material has declared that the character's first toy was indeed the Robots in Disguise Sideways figure. Since the entire premise of Robotmasters is that Transformers are arriving on present-day Earth through wormholes from across time and space, the idea that Sideways universe-hopped into the Robotmasters continuity is too strong to ignore.
  • In 2010 the The AllSpark Almanac II presented Animated Sideways as pretty clearly the same individual as all the other previous Sidewayses, while also alluding to the movie version of the character.
  • Lastly, the details of Sideways' dimension hopping were explicitly spelled out in an Ask Vector Prime entry in The Complete AllSpark Almanac, undeniably tying all previous iterations of Sideways together, while also establishing that not all of them were necessarily the exact same individual.

Probably needs some tweaking, but it might be useful. Riptide (talk) 17:28, 30 June 2015 (EDT)