Go! Go! issue 42 - Revision history

Autoboty at 06:28, 18 January 2026

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			'''Bumblebee discovers the shocking truth behind how Optimus and Megatron went from best friends to bitter enemies.'''

	==Synopsis==		==Synopsis==

AzimuthAcolyte: Transformation cog -> Transformation cog (biology) update

2025-09-13T16:44:17Z

Transformation cog -> Transformation cog (biology) update

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	*Oda largely dispenses with her usual [[Show-accuracy\|toy-accurate]] approach to character design to pull "baby" forms of the cast from a variety of sources:		*Oda largely dispenses with her usual [[Show-accuracy\|toy-accurate]] approach to character design to pull "baby" forms of the cast from a variety of sources:
	**[[Optimus Prime (G1)\|Orion Pax]] (the artist ultimately known as Optimus Prime) sports a design mostly based on his appearance in "[[War Dawn (episode)\|War Dawn]]," the episode of [[The Transformers (cartoon)\|the original Generation 1 cartoon]] detailing the origin of Optimus Prime, with the prominent exception of a head pulled from [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Thrilling 30\|first bespoke Orion Pax mold]] in the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Thrilling 30\|Thrilling 30]]'' toyline.		**[[Optimus Prime (G1)\|Orion Pax]] (the artist ultimately known as Optimus Prime) sports a design mostly based on his appearance in "[[War Dawn (episode)\|War Dawn]]," the episode of [[The Transformers (cartoon)\|the original Generation 1 cartoon]] detailing the origin of Optimus Prime, with the prominent exception of a head pulled from [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Thrilling 30\|first bespoke Orion Pax mold]] in the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Thrilling 30\|Thrilling 30]]'' toyline.
	**The young [[Elita One (G1)\|Elita One]] sports a hybrid design composed of the distinctive "ponytail" head crest and shoulder pads of her "[[:File:ArielWarDawn1.jpg\|Ariel]]" form in "War Dawn" combined with the [[Arcee (G1)\|Arcee]]-style "earmuffs" specific to the "[[transformation cog\|cog]]-less" version of her [[Elita-1 (One)\|''One'' incarnation]], all done up in a color scheme reverse engineered from "adult" Elita's usual appearance, itself derived from her [[Elita One (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' toy]].		**The young [[Elita One (G1)\|Elita One]] sports a hybrid design composed of the distinctive "ponytail" head crest and shoulder pads of her "[[:File:ArielWarDawn1.jpg\|Ariel]]" form in "War Dawn" combined with the [[Arcee (G1)\|Arcee]]-style "earmuffs" specific to the "[[transformation cog (biology)\|cog]]-less" version of her [[Elita-1 (One)\|''One'' incarnation]], all done up in a color scheme reverse engineered from "adult" Elita's usual appearance, itself derived from her [[Elita One (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' toy]].
	**Megatron, lacking a larval form in the Generation 1 cartoon, sports a design based on the "[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#RiseofTyranny\|Miner Megatron]]" retool of his [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#War for Cybertron: Siege\|War for Cybertron: ''Siege'' toy]] found in the [[Transformers: Legacy#Legacy: Evolution\|''Legacy: Evolution'']] toyline, now done up in the colors of [[Megatron (One)\|''One'' D-16]].		**Megatron, lacking a larval form in the Generation 1 cartoon, sports a design based on the "[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#RiseofTyranny\|Miner Megatron]]" retool of his [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#War for Cybertron: Siege\|War for Cybertron: ''Siege'' toy]] found in the [[Transformers: Legacy#Legacy: Evolution\|''Legacy: Evolution'']] toyline, now done up in the colors of [[Megatron (One)\|''One'' D-16]].
	**This unusually irascible incarnation of the kids' prewar mentor [[Alpha Trion]] appears here in a design that is pretty much his Generation 1 cartoon character model verbatim.		**This unusually irascible incarnation of the kids' prewar mentor [[Alpha Trion]] appears here in a design that is pretty much his Generation 1 cartoon character model verbatim.

AzimuthAcolyte: Alpha Trion (G1) -> Alpha Trion update

2025-05-23T00:17:51Z

Alpha Trion (G1) -> Alpha Trion update

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	Returning to [[Autobot]] headquarters after a patrol, [[Bumblebee (G1)\|Bumblebee]] spots [[Optimus Prime (G1)\|Optimus Prime]] and [[Elita One (G1)\|Elita One]] looking over an old photo album. After a brief look at his own baby pictures, Bumblebee finds something unexpected – a picture of Optimus and Elita as much younger bots, posing with a bot he realizes is the younger self of their enemy [[Megatron (G1)\|Megatron]]! Optimus regales the tale of how he and Megatron went from friends to enemies...		Returning to [[Autobot]] headquarters after a patrol, [[Bumblebee (G1)\|Bumblebee]] spots [[Optimus Prime (G1)\|Optimus Prime]] and [[Elita One (G1)\|Elita One]] looking over an old photo album. After a brief look at his own baby pictures, Bumblebee finds something unexpected – a picture of Optimus and Elita as much younger bots, posing with a bot he realizes is the younger self of their enemy [[Megatron (G1)\|Megatron]]! Optimus regales the tale of how he and Megatron went from friends to enemies...

	''Back when they were in school, Optimus (then Orion Pax) and Megatron were best friends. Megatron often accompanied Orion on his reckless pranks that angered their teacher [[~~Alpha Trion (G1)\|~~Alpha Trion]] to no end, such as making topiaries out of the school's bonsai trees. One of those pranks involved drawing all over a bronze bust of Alpha Trion, a task both friends enjoyed with great gusto until they were caught red-handed by Trion himself. Lecturing Orion for being a bad influence on his studious friend Megatron, the old teacher punished his students by making them wipe the statue clean. Needless to say, they didn't really put their sparks into it and Orion even broke one of the bust's horns off by accident. A passing Elita remarked that such carelessness is going to get someone hurt... an idea that Orion went to town on, as he formulated a plan to get revenge on their teacher by making him slip and fall on slippery oil balloons.''		''Back when they were in school, Optimus (then Orion Pax) and Megatron were best friends. Megatron often accompanied Orion on his reckless pranks that angered their teacher [[Alpha Trion]] to no end, such as making topiaries out of the school's bonsai trees. One of those pranks involved drawing all over a bronze bust of Alpha Trion, a task both friends enjoyed with great gusto until they were caught red-handed by Trion himself. Lecturing Orion for being a bad influence on his studious friend Megatron, the old teacher punished his students by making them wipe the statue clean. Needless to say, they didn't really put their sparks into it and Orion even broke one of the bust's horns off by accident. A passing Elita remarked that such carelessness is going to get someone hurt... an idea that Orion went to town on, as he formulated a plan to get revenge on their teacher by making him slip and fall on slippery oil balloons.''

	''This ambitious plan promptly went wrong when the cloth Orion was using to carrying the balloons came undone, causing him, Megatron, and Elita to trip and slip out of control. The trio were sent sliding straight out through a window and down the side of a building... which was when the sparks caused by the friction between Orion's metal body and the building ignited the oil covering Megatron and set the poor bot on fire! A furious Megatron declared that he hates Orion just as the trio all fell into a pond.''		''This ambitious plan promptly went wrong when the cloth Orion was using to carrying the balloons came undone, causing him, Megatron, and Elita to trip and slip out of control. The trio were sent sliding straight out through a window and down the side of a building... which was when the sparks caused by the friction between Orion's metal body and the building ignited the oil covering Megatron and set the poor bot on fire! A furious Megatron declared that he hates Orion just as the trio all fell into a pond.''
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	**The young [[Elita One (G1)\|Elita One]] sports a hybrid design composed of the distinctive "ponytail" head crest and shoulder pads of her "[[:File:ArielWarDawn1.jpg\|Ariel]]" form in "War Dawn" combined with the [[Arcee (G1)\|Arcee]]-style "earmuffs" specific to the "[[transformation cog\|cog]]-less" version of her [[Elita-1 (One)\|''One'' incarnation]], all done up in a color scheme reverse engineered from "adult" Elita's usual appearance, itself derived from her [[Elita One (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' toy]].		**The young [[Elita One (G1)\|Elita One]] sports a hybrid design composed of the distinctive "ponytail" head crest and shoulder pads of her "[[:File:ArielWarDawn1.jpg\|Ariel]]" form in "War Dawn" combined with the [[Arcee (G1)\|Arcee]]-style "earmuffs" specific to the "[[transformation cog\|cog]]-less" version of her [[Elita-1 (One)\|''One'' incarnation]], all done up in a color scheme reverse engineered from "adult" Elita's usual appearance, itself derived from her [[Elita One (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' toy]].
	**Megatron, lacking a larval form in the Generation 1 cartoon, sports a design based on the "[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#RiseofTyranny\|Miner Megatron]]" retool of his [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#War for Cybertron: Siege\|War for Cybertron: ''Siege'' toy]] found in the [[Transformers: Legacy#Legacy: Evolution\|''Legacy: Evolution'']] toyline, now done up in the colors of [[Megatron (One)\|''One'' D-16]].		**Megatron, lacking a larval form in the Generation 1 cartoon, sports a design based on the "[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#RiseofTyranny\|Miner Megatron]]" retool of his [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#War for Cybertron: Siege\|War for Cybertron: ''Siege'' toy]] found in the [[Transformers: Legacy#Legacy: Evolution\|''Legacy: Evolution'']] toyline, now done up in the colors of [[Megatron (One)\|''One'' D-16]].
	**This unusually irascible incarnation of the kids' prewar mentor [[~~Alpha Trion (G1)\|~~Alpha Trion]] appears here in a design that is pretty much his Generation 1 cartoon character model verbatim.		**This unusually irascible incarnation of the kids' prewar mentor [[Alpha Trion]] appears here in a design that is pretty much his Generation 1 cartoon character model verbatim.
	**The one bit of slavish toy accuracy comes to us in the form of the young [[Ironhide (G1)\|Ironhide]], here drawn as his own [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege\|''Siege'' toy]].		**The one bit of slavish toy accuracy comes to us in the form of the young [[Ironhide (G1)\|Ironhide]], here drawn as his own [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege\|''Siege'' toy]].
	**Finally, young [[Jazz (G1)\|Jazz]] comes to us with an interesting character model referencing his appearance in the opening scene of the [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1\|pilot of the Generation 1 cartoon]], but reverse engineered from applying his usual transformation scheme to his [[:File:Cybertronjazz.jpg\|pre-Earth vehicle mode]] rather than using the (bluntly recycled from his Earth character model) robot mode seen in the original story.		**Finally, young [[Jazz (G1)\|Jazz]] comes to us with an interesting character model referencing his appearance in the opening scene of the [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1\|pilot of the Generation 1 cartoon]], but reverse engineered from applying his usual transformation scheme to his [[:File:Cybertronjazz.jpg\|pre-Earth vehicle mode]] rather than using the (bluntly recycled from his Earth character model) robot mode seen in the original story.

Autoboty: /* Synopsis */ Tense

2025-01-31T18:24:43Z

Synopsis: Tense

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	''Back when they were in school, Optimus (then Orion Pax) and Megatron were best friends. Megatron often accompanied Orion on his reckless pranks that angered their teacher [[Alpha Trion (G1)\|Alpha Trion]] to no end, such as making topiaries out of the school's bonsai trees. One of those pranks involved drawing all over a bronze bust of Alpha Trion, a task both friends enjoyed with great gusto until they were caught red-handed by Trion himself. Lecturing Orion for being a bad influence on his studious friend Megatron, the old teacher punished his students by making them wipe the statue clean. Needless to say, they didn't really put their sparks into it and Orion even broke one of the bust's horns off by accident. A passing Elita remarked that such carelessness is going to get someone hurt... an idea that Orion went to town on, as he formulated a plan to get revenge on their teacher by making him slip and fall on slippery oil balloons.''		''Back when they were in school, Optimus (then Orion Pax) and Megatron were best friends. Megatron often accompanied Orion on his reckless pranks that angered their teacher [[Alpha Trion (G1)\|Alpha Trion]] to no end, such as making topiaries out of the school's bonsai trees. One of those pranks involved drawing all over a bronze bust of Alpha Trion, a task both friends enjoyed with great gusto until they were caught red-handed by Trion himself. Lecturing Orion for being a bad influence on his studious friend Megatron, the old teacher punished his students by making them wipe the statue clean. Needless to say, they didn't really put their sparks into it and Orion even broke one of the bust's horns off by accident. A passing Elita remarked that such carelessness is going to get someone hurt... an idea that Orion went to town on, as he formulated a plan to get revenge on their teacher by making him slip and fall on slippery oil balloons.''

	''This ambitious plan promptly went wrong when the cloth Orion was using to carrying the balloons came undone, causing him, Megatron, and Elita to trip and slip out of control. The trio ~~are~~ sent sliding straight out through a window and down the side of a building... which is when the sparks caused by the friction between Orion's metal body and the building ~~ignites~~ the oil covering Megatron and ~~sets~~ the poor bot on fire! A furious Megatron ~~declares~~ that he hates Orion just as the trio all ~~fall~~ into a pond.''		''This ambitious plan promptly went wrong when the cloth Orion was using to carrying the balloons came undone, causing him, Megatron, and Elita to trip and slip out of control. The trio were sent sliding straight out through a window and down the side of a building... which was when the sparks caused by the friction between Orion's metal body and the building ignited the oil covering Megatron and set the poor bot on fire! A furious Megatron declared that he hates Orion just as the trio all fell into a pond.''

	In the present day, a bashful Optimus concludes his story by remarking things have been awkward between him and Megatron since then, leaving Bumblebee aghast to discover the truth behind the two leaders' bitter rivalry.		In the present day, a bashful Optimus concludes his story by remarking things have been awkward between him and Megatron since then, leaving Bumblebee aghast to discover the truth behind the two leaders' bitter rivalry.

Autoboty: /* Synopsis */

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Synopsis

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	==Synopsis==		==Synopsis==
	~~{{issuestub}}~~		Returning to [[Autobot]] headquarters after a patrol, [[Bumblebee (G1)\|Bumblebee]] spots [[Optimus Prime (G1)\|Optimus Prime]] and [[Elita One (G1)\|Elita One]] looking over an old photo album. After a brief look at his own baby pictures, Bumblebee finds something unexpected – a picture of Optimus and Elita as much younger bots, posing with a bot he realizes is the younger self of their enemy [[Megatron (G1)\|Megatron]]! Optimus regales the tale of how he and Megatron went from friends to enemies...

			''Back when they were in school, Optimus (then Orion Pax) and Megatron were best friends. Megatron often accompanied Orion on his reckless pranks that angered their teacher [[Alpha Trion (G1)\|Alpha Trion]] to no end, such as making topiaries out of the school's bonsai trees. One of those pranks involved drawing all over a bronze bust of Alpha Trion, a task both friends enjoyed with great gusto until they were caught red-handed by Trion himself. Lecturing Orion for being a bad influence on his studious friend Megatron, the old teacher punished his students by making them wipe the statue clean. Needless to say, they didn't really put their sparks into it and Orion even broke one of the bust's horns off by accident. A passing Elita remarked that such carelessness is going to get someone hurt... an idea that Orion went to town on, as he formulated a plan to get revenge on their teacher by making him slip and fall on slippery oil balloons.''

			''This ambitious plan promptly went wrong when the cloth Orion was using to carrying the balloons came undone, causing him, Megatron, and Elita to trip and slip out of control. The trio are sent sliding straight out through a window and down the side of a building... which is when the sparks caused by the friction between Orion's metal body and the building ignites the oil covering Megatron and sets the poor bot on fire! A furious Megatron declares that he hates Orion just as the trio all fall into a pond.''

			In the present day, a bashful Optimus concludes his story by remarking things have been awkward between him and Megatron since then, leaving Bumblebee aghast to discover the truth behind the two leaders' bitter rivalry.

	==Featured characters==		==Featured characters==

Autoboty: /* Transformers references */

2025-01-31T18:06:20Z

Transformers references

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	===Transformers references===		===Transformers references===
			*Bumblebee's baby photo sports stubbier, squared-off horns and a pacifier in his mouth, making him resemble his [[Bumblebee (Movie)\|counterpart]] in the ''[[Bumblebee (film)\|Bumblebee]]'' movie.
	*Oda largely dispenses with her usual [[Show-accuracy\|toy-accurate]] approach to character design to pull "baby" forms of the cast from a variety of sources:		*Oda largely dispenses with her usual [[Show-accuracy\|toy-accurate]] approach to character design to pull "baby" forms of the cast from a variety of sources:
	**[[Optimus Prime (G1)\|Orion Pax]] (the artist ultimately known as Optimus Prime) sports a design mostly based on his appearance in "[[War Dawn (episode)\|War Dawn]]," the episode of [[The Transformers (cartoon)\|the original Generation 1 cartoon]] detailing the origin of Optimus Prime, with the prominent exception of a head pulled from [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Thrilling 30\|first bespoke Orion Pax mold]] in the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Thrilling 30\|Thrilling 30]]'' toyline.		**[[Optimus Prime (G1)\|Orion Pax]] (the artist ultimately known as Optimus Prime) sports a design mostly based on his appearance in "[[War Dawn (episode)\|War Dawn]]," the episode of [[The Transformers (cartoon)\|the original Generation 1 cartoon]] detailing the origin of Optimus Prime, with the prominent exception of a head pulled from [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Thrilling 30\|first bespoke Orion Pax mold]] in the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Thrilling 30\|Thrilling 30]]'' toyline.

AzimuthAcolyte: Up on Comic-Days!

2024-12-24T06:59:08Z

Up on Comic-Days!

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	==External links==		==External links==
	*[https://cocreco.kodansha.co.jp/telemaga/news/feature/tfgogo/s5RjY Issue 42] at ''TV Magazine''		*[https://cocreco.kodansha.co.jp/telemaga/news/feature/tfgogo/s5RjY Issue 42] at ''TV Magazine''
			*[https://comic-days.com/episode/2550912964668119935 Issue 42] on Comic-Days

	[[Category:Go! Go! issues]]		[[Category:Go! Go! issues]]

AzimuthAcolyte: New issue!

2024-10-15T20:29:58Z

New issue!

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AzimuthAcolyte: /* Transformers references */

2024-09-20T18:52:28Z

Transformers references

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	===Transformers references===		===Transformers references===
	*Oda largely dispenses with her usual [[Show-accuracy\|toy-accurate]] approach to character design to pull "baby" forms of the cast from a variety of sources:		*Oda largely dispenses with her usual [[Show-accuracy\|toy-accurate]] approach to character design to pull "baby" forms of the cast from a variety of sources:
	**[[Optimus Prime (G1)\|Orion Pax]] (the artist ultimately known as Optimus Prime) sports a design mostly based on his appearance in "[[War Dawn (episode)\|War Dawn]]," the episode of [[The Transformers (cartoon)\|the original Generation 1 cartoon]] detailing Optimus Prime with the prominent exception of a head pulled from [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Thrilling 30\|first bespoke Orion Pax mold]] in the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Thrilling 30\|Thrilling 30]]'' toyline.		**[[Optimus Prime (G1)\|Orion Pax]] (the artist ultimately known as Optimus Prime) sports a design mostly based on his appearance in "[[War Dawn (episode)\|War Dawn]]," the episode of [[The Transformers (cartoon)\|the original Generation 1 cartoon]] detailing the origin of Optimus Prime, with the prominent exception of a head pulled from [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Thrilling 30\|first bespoke Orion Pax mold]] in the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Thrilling 30\|Thrilling 30]]'' toyline.
	**The young [[Elita One (G1)\|Elita One]] sports a hybrid design composed of the distinctive "ponytail" head crest and shoulder pads of her "[[:File:ArielWarDawn1.jpg\|Ariel]]" form in "War Dawn" combined with the [[Arcee (G1)\|Arcee]]-style "earmuffs" specific to the "[[transformation cog\|cog]]-less" version of her [[Elita-1 (One)\|''One'' incarnation]], all done up in a color scheme reverse engineered from "adult" Elita's usual appearance, itself derived from her [[Elita One (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' toy]].		**The young [[Elita One (G1)\|Elita One]] sports a hybrid design composed of the distinctive "ponytail" head crest and shoulder pads of her "[[:File:ArielWarDawn1.jpg\|Ariel]]" form in "War Dawn" combined with the [[Arcee (G1)\|Arcee]]-style "earmuffs" specific to the "[[transformation cog\|cog]]-less" version of her [[Elita-1 (One)\|''One'' incarnation]], all done up in a color scheme reverse engineered from "adult" Elita's usual appearance, itself derived from her [[Elita One (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' toy]].
	**Megatron, lacking a larval form in the Generation 1 cartoon, sports a design based on the "[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#RiseofTyranny\|Miner Megatron]]" retool of his [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#War for Cybertron: Siege\|War for Cybertron: ''Siege'' toy]] found in the [[Transformers: Legacy#Legacy: Evolution\|''Legacy: Evolution'']] toyline, now done up in the colors of [[Megatron (One)\|''One'' D-16]].		**Megatron, lacking a larval form in the Generation 1 cartoon, sports a design based on the "[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#RiseofTyranny\|Miner Megatron]]" retool of his [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#War for Cybertron: Siege\|War for Cybertron: ''Siege'' toy]] found in the [[Transformers: Legacy#Legacy: Evolution\|''Legacy: Evolution'']] toyline, now done up in the colors of [[Megatron (One)\|''One'' D-16]].

AzimuthAcolyte: Throwing up a skeleton for Go! Go! web issue 42!

2024-09-20T18:50:54Z

Throwing up a skeleton for Go! Go! web issue 42!

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|publisher=[[Kodansha]]
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==Synopsis==
{{issuestub}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
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*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (1)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (2)
*[[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] (3)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime / Orion Pax]] (4)
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (5)
*[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (6)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (9)

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*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (7)

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*[[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] (8)
}}

==Notes==
*This very special prequel story was published as the September 2024 issue of the web comic and pointedly pushed back from ''Go! Go!''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s usual "15th of the month" publication date to coincide with the Japanese premiere of the year's blockbuster film ''[[Transformers One (film)|Transformers One]]''.
*The issue eschewed the usual advertisements with the exception of plugging the comic itself in the form of the ''[[Transformers Fan Book 2024]]'' and the [[Transformers Go! Go!#Collections|first collected edition of ''Go! Go!'']].

===Transformers references===
*Oda largely dispenses with her usual [[Show-accuracy|toy-accurate]] approach to character design to pull "baby" forms of the cast from a variety of sources:
**[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]] (the artist ultimately known as Optimus Prime) sports a design mostly based on his appearance in "[[War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn]]," the episode of [[The Transformers (cartoon)|the original Generation 1 cartoon]] detailing Optimus Prime with the prominent exception of a head pulled from [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Thrilling 30|first bespoke Orion Pax mold]] in the ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#Thrilling 30|Thrilling 30]]'' toyline.
**The young [[Elita One (G1)|Elita One]] sports a hybrid design composed of the distinctive "ponytail" head crest and shoulder pads of her "[[:File:ArielWarDawn1.jpg|Ariel]]" form in "War Dawn" combined with the [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]-style "earmuffs" specific to the "[[transformation cog|cog]]-less" version of her [[Elita-1 (One)|''One'' incarnation]], all done up in a color scheme reverse engineered from "adult" Elita's usual appearance, itself derived from her [[Elita One (G1)#War for Cybertron Trilogy|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' toy]].
**Megatron, lacking a larval form in the Generation 1 cartoon, sports a design based on the "[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#RiseofTyranny|Miner Megatron]]" retool of his [[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|War for Cybertron: ''Siege'' toy]] found in the [[Transformers: Legacy#Legacy: Evolution|''Legacy: Evolution'']] toyline, now done up in the colors of [[Megatron (One)|''One'' D-16]].
**This unusually irascible incarnation of the kids' prewar mentor [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] appears here in a design that is pretty much his Generation 1 cartoon character model verbatim.
**The one bit of slavish toy accuracy comes to us in the form of the young [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], here drawn as his own [[Ironhide (G1)/toys#War for Cybertron: Siege|''Siege'' toy]].
**Finally, young [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] comes to us with an interesting character model referencing his appearance in the opening scene of the [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1|pilot of the Generation 1 cartoon]], but reverse engineered from applying his usual transformation scheme to his [[:File:Cybertronjazz.jpg|pre-Earth vehicle mode]] rather than using the (bluntly recycled from his Earth character model) robot mode seen in the original story.
*The prank gone wrong that leads to Megatron and Orion's initial falling out in the world of ''Go! Go!'' features a brief sight gag wherein Megatron takes on the appearance of cosmic arch-villain [[The Fallen|the Fallen]] when inadvertently lit on fire.

==External links==
*[https://cocreco.kodansha.co.jp/telemaga/news/feature/tfgogo/s5RjY Issue 42] at ''TV Magazine''

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