War Within (franchise)

This article is about the Dreamwave/toyline franchise. For the Transformers Legends event, see The War Within{{#switch:{{#sub:The War Within|-1}}|!=|.=|?=|.}} For a list of other meanings, see War Within (disambiguation).

The War Within franchise began with a Dreamwave comic miniseries set in Cybertron's distant past, featuring many popular Generation 1 characters in their pre-Earth forms. Its success spawned one and a half followup miniseries (the last one was cut short when Dreamwave went bankrupt) and a toyline spread between two umbrella franchises.

The War Within franchise comprises the following components:

• A toyline
• A comic book series

The franchise's visual style has been almost entirely determined by artist Don Figueroa, who was the penciler and character designer for the first miniseries and also served on the Titanium Series toy design team, which produced most of the War Within figures. Andrew Wildman contributed designs for some characters in the The Dark Ages series, while The Fallen design was created by Pat Lee. The Fallen toy, however is loosely based on Don Figueroa's design for pre-Earth Megatron. Joe Ng did some designs for the Age of Wrath series as well, but this series did not produce any toys of his designs.