Wreck and Rule
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| The name or term "Wreck and Rule" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Wreck and Rule (disambiguation). |
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| Publisher | 3H Enterprises | ||||||||||||
| First published | On or before March 23, 2001[1] (BotCon: Beyond) | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Rob Gerbracht | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | 3H Beast Wars continuity | ||||||||||||
Enter the Vehicons.
Synopsis
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Reports come in revealing the deaths of the rogue Peace Marshals. The Wreckers receive numerous calls of attackers swarming the streets en masse. Rodimus has Apelinq remain behind at the base while he and the rest of the team go to face this new menace. Apelinq's parting words to Rodimus: "Wreck and Rule!"
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
Notes
[edit]- Mentioned characters: the Peace Marshals, swarms of attackers, Rodimus, the remaining Wreckers
Continuity notes
[edit]- The true nature of Megatron's attacks is revealed to be "swarms of attackers". These are none other than the Vehicon drone armies from Beast Machines which spread across Cybertron in droves during Megatron's conquest of the planet (as first seen in a flashback in the episode "Forbidden Fruit"). Though, as of this point, there's been no mention Megatron's virus that the episode showed to be released across the planet before the Vehicon armies came along. Journal 8 will later shed some light on this.
- After a making minor appearance in "VEHICON ALERT!", Rodimus is formally reintroduced here as a member of the Wreckers for the first time ever. He originally appeared as "Hot Rod" in The Transformers: The Movie, in which he inherited the Matrix of Leadership and became "Rodimus Prime". Here, he is simply named "Rodimus". The in-fiction reason for this name change would later be given in the BotCon 2001 comic story "Departure", but for a real-world reason, Hasbro had lost the trademark for the name "Hot Rod" at the time of this story's release, and would go on to use "Rodimus" as a substitute for the non-Prime version of the character. The usage of the name here would be the first sign of things to come for over a decade.
Transformers references
[edit]- Both the title of this story and Apelinq's parting words to Rodimus are the Wreckers' signature battle cry of "Wreck and Rule!" first introduced in the Marvel UK comic story "Target: 2006". Its first use in American fiction was back in Apelinq's own debut in the BotCon 2000 comic story "Terminus", in which it was uttered by Apelinq himself as the biggest hint of his being a Wrecker (before he was fully confirmed as such in Journal 1 of this series).
