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Hi, I'm also active as Alienbot on TFW2005.
Hi, [https://bsky.app/profile/cctabet.bsky.social my name is Chris], and I wrote several Transformers-related articles during my time at Multiversity Comics.


==Do want==
* [http://www.multiversitycomics.com/longform/tfs-at-40/ Transformers at 40: What the Robots in Disguise Taught Me About Being Human] - 2024
*'''[[Scrapper (ROTF)|Scrapper]]'''
* [http://www.multiversitycomics.com/longform/live-action-tf-tv/ Ten Transformers Who Deserve a Live-Action Paramount+ Spin-Off] - 2024
*The following [[Don Figueroa]], [[E. J. Su]], [[Nick Roche]], [[Alex Milne]] and [[Guido Guidi]] designs:
* [http://www.multiversitycomics.com/reviews/transformers-beast-wars-1/ ''Transformers: Beast Wars'' #1 review] - 2021
**''[[:Image:DonJoeTFConcepts.jpg|G.I. Joe]]''
* [http://www.multiversitycomics.com/reviews/bumblebee/ ''Bumblebee'' movie review] - 2018
**[[:Image:Maximum Dinobots 2a.jpg|Dinobots]]
* [http://www.multiversitycomics.com/longform/idw-transformers-ending/ It’s Over, Finished: The End of IDW’s Transformers] - 2018
**[[:Image:Thunderwingidwultramode.jpg|Thunderwing]]
**[[:Image:NovaPrime variousmodes.jpg|Nemesis Prime]]
**[[:Image:Infiltration 5ria.jpg|Seekers]]
**[[:Image:Unused AHM Soundwave.jpg|Soundwave]]
**[[:Image:Megatrong1idwpreearth.jpg|Megatron]]
**[[:Image:IDW SentPrime Apexarmor.jpg|Sentinel Prime]]
**[[:Image:Monstructor-idw1.jpg|Monstructor]]
**[[:Image:Bumblebeeidw.jpg|Bumblebee]]
**[[:Image:AHM2Devastator.jpg|Devastator]]
*''[[Transformers/G.I. Joe|WW2 toys]]''.
*''[[Hearts of Steel]]''.
*A ''Transformers'' photo shoot by [[Wikipedia:Annie Leibovitz|Annie Leibovitz]].
*Screen-accurate [[The Fallen]] and [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] (just scan the ILM models into the mold making machine, I know they do this with CG ''Star Wars'' characters and the characters shouldn't transform anyway).


==Personal canon==
I'm still writing about Transformers FWIW:
Before time began, there was the [[All Spark]] Cube. It created the planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], and life evolved from the [[energon radiation]] that emanated and pooled around the Cube. A powerful race known as the [[Dynasty of Primes|Primes]] led the newly emerged [[Autobot|autonomous robotic organisms]]. They determined similar characteristics in solar energy to energon, and arrived on a planet called [[Earth]] to build a [[solar harvester]] ''to recharge the Cube if its power waned'' {{storylink|Defiance issue 4}} around 17,000 BC. However, [[Dynasty of Primes|six of the Primes]] took pity on the carbon-based lifeforms on the planet, particularly seeing potential for a similar emotional and intellectual range in bipedal primates later known as [[human]]s.


One Prime however, did not care and was ready to activate the device: civil war erupted, and the [[Matrix of Leadership]] ''that was created by the Cube'' {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (novel)}} to power the harvester was stolen from [[the Fallen]] Prime. The others sacrificed their bodies to form a [[Tomb of the Primes|Tomb]] to hide the Matrix. The Fallen sent [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]]s to search the universe for the Matrix, some of whom returned to Earth. The Fallen crashed his [[Nemesis (ROTF)|ship]] and withered, while the descendants of the other Primes established a powerful, peaceful and just Empire on Cybertron. Knowledge of the Primes was lost since no one recorded this information, relying on the All Spark's memory.
* [https://ko-fi.com/post/In-Memoriam-The-TRANSFORMERS-ONE-sequel-well-nev-S6S71LHXH2 Just Imagine: The TRANSFORMERS ONE sequel we'll never get]


The current Prime, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]], befriended Lord [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], to the point he considered him a brother. But Megatron discovered the Fallen and was enraptured with his martial philosophies: he became the new leader of the [[Decepticon]]s, and attempted to claim the Cube so he could sustain his army - and if necessary, create drones from the technologies of worlds he enslaved. Cybertron was ruined, ''Optimus launched the Cube into space for its own good'', {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1}} and so the war spread across the universe as the Autobots and Decepticons searched every world for it. Megatron traced it to Earth, where it had landed in the Colorado River around 10,000 BC ''because it was drawn to the harvester'', {{storylink|Defiance issue 4}} but he crashed in the [[Arctic]] and was entombed in the ice.
And I had work published about Transformers before that:


[[Archibald Witwicky]] found Megatron in 1897 AD, and in desperation he blasted the coordinates to the Cube's location onto his [[glasses]], resulting in Witwicky hallucinating [[Cyberglyphics]] and going insane. The US government investigated his story and found Megatron and the Cube. President Hoover founded [[Sector Seven]], which built the [[Hoover Dam]] to mask the Cube's energy, and conducted energon experiments to give their devices life (though this unnatural life only created [[Allspark Mutation|beasts]] the [[Ratchet (Movie)|Autobots]] had always feared Megatron would create). ''One experiment caused the Three Mile Island accident.'' {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 4}} ''They studied Megatron to build the [[Ghost 1]] in 1969, which alerted the Transformers to Earth. S7 also moved Megatron to the Dam, and he became briefly active''. {{storylink|Ghosts of Yesterday}} All the while, they ignored evidence of the Seekers dotted around the planet in [[stasis lock]]. [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]'s unit arrived on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] in 2003, destroying the [[Beagle 2 Rover]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3}}
* [https://offcolour.org/2017/06/29/transformers-at-10/ ‘Transformers’ at 10: Why I stopped caring about a cinematic universe filled with boundless potential, and how I could again] - 2017


*Events of ''[[Transformers (2007)|Transformers]]''
==Transformers I would like==
*G1 comics Ratchet (complete with realistic ambulance alt mode)
*''Animated'' season four Ironhide, or something like it
*''MTMTE'' Hot Rod
*''MTMTE'' Cyclonus
*Deluxe Rung
*Victorion
*Nautica
*Aileron


The [[United States military]] allied with the Autobots during the attack in [[Mission City]], and they joined with other national miltaries in a group called [[NEST]] to replace S7. It was agreed to continue official government word on the Transformers' existence silent. The Cube was destroyed, and a remaining fragment was kept at [[Diego Garcia]], while a stasis locked Megatron was buried in the [[Laurentian Abyss]]. The Fallen appointed Starscream his steward, and decreed he breed the next generation of Decepticons, who were dying without an energon source. [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] sent more Decepticons to Earth, many of whom were intercepted and killed by NEST, and set a watch on [[Sam Witwicky]]. Optimus began recording their history in a series of messages.
==Surprisingly many thoughts about the Thirteen==


*Events of ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''
I like the Thirteen, who've got me back into collecting the toys, as I'm a big ''Lord of the Rings'' fan; it's nice Transformers effectively has its own take on the Valar, and Megatronus and Solus Prime have huge Sauron/Galadriel energy. (Although I still imagine them being voiced by Virginia Madsen, and the late, great [[Tony Todd]].)
 
I used to think '''Omegatron''' should've have been the name of the Fallen, until I saw ''Transformers One'', and realised it's much easier for a kid to understand how Megatron would be derived from Megatronus.
 
Like many, I'm not a fan of the idea of Optimus being the [[Thirteenth Prime]]. I think IDW '05 did well with the concept, but given how different their cosmology was, it really was an exception that proves the rule. (While on the subject: I think it would've absolutely made sense for the Quintessons to be the Transformers' creators in that continuity, especially with how it skewed older.) If I were overseeing my own Transformers series, I'd pick between the following instead:
 
* [[Rung (G1)|Rung]], bringing them full circle
 
* Rodimus Prime, further preventing the implication a Prime is simply the best because he's a reincarnation
 
* [[Nova Prime]], although like Zeta and Sentinel, I still see him as an interim Prime (also Nova would lie about being the Thirteenth)
 
* [[Solomus|Solomus/Tyrest]], who is a member of the Thirteen in the pre-Aligned continuities now. However, I think it'd be more interesting to treat the [[Guiding Hand]] as Primus's fellow [[Light God]]s.
 
* Omega Supreme, who's certainly old enough, though like Optimus, the character deserves better than the baggage of being an original Prime.
 
* [[Last Autobot]], another official member of the pre-Aligned Thirteen, who's basically what Omega should've been. I think it would make a lot of sense, if only because it would completely explain his absence.
 
I wrote this before I read the notes on the Thirteenth's page, where it becomes apparent Hasbro simply forgot about or weren't aware of the Last Autobot when creating the group, so he may've been them if they had been.
 
In any case, it would be nice if AOTP (or the next toy line) included alternate Primes, including a rerelease of the transforming ''Ark'' as the Last Autobot, as well as the ''Legacy'' version of Alpha Trion.
 
==Some corporate crossovers==
[[:Category:External properties]]
 
*''[[Animorphs]]'' - [[Scholastic]]
*''[[Catching Fire'' - "
*''[[Snoopy]]'' - 39% owned by [[Sony]] Music Entertainment, licensed to Apple, and... holy cow, ''The Peanuts Movie'' is owned by Disney!
 
;Disney
*''[[Old Soldier|Gargoyles]]''
*''[[Princess Merida|Brave]]''
*''[[Buzz Lightyear|Toy Story]]''
*''[[Herbie]]''/''[[The Love Bug]]''
*''[[The X-Files: Conspiracy: The Transformers|The X-Files]]''*
*''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''
*''The [[Fly]]''*
*''[[Armageddon (film)|Armageddon]]''
*''[[Fight Club]]''*
*''[[Titanic]]''* (Par co-production)
*''[[Omacronian|Futurama]]''*
 
<nowiki>*</nowiki> denotes a property acquired from Fox
 
;Par
*''[[Kenny McCormick|South Park]]''
*''[[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]]''
*''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' (1953 and 2005)
*''[[Zulu]]''
*''[[The Honeymooners]]'' ([[CBS]])
*''The [[Twilight Zone]]''
 
;Universal
*''The [[40-Year Old Virgin]]''
*''[[Cats]]''
*''[[Cheers]]''
*''[[Community]]''
*''[[Quantum Leap]]''
 
;Warner Bros.
*''[[Babylon 5]]''
*''[[C-beams|Blade Runner]]''
*''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''
*''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (pre-2009)
 
;MGM
*''[[High Noon (film)|High Noon]]''
*''[[Spaceballs]]''
*''[[Mattel|Masters of the Universe]]'' (1987 and 2026)
 
*''[[Transformers vs. The Terminator|Terminator]]'' - MGM (via Orion), Sony, WB, Par, Fox
*''[[ALF]]'' - co-produced by WB, broadcast by NBC
*''[[Pikachu Car|Pokémon]]'' co-owned by [[Nintendo]], several movies distributed by WB

Latest revision as of 14:52, 20 September 2025

Hi, my name is Chris, and I wrote several Transformers-related articles during my time at Multiversity Comics.

I'm still writing about Transformers FWIW:

And I had work published about Transformers before that:

Transformers I would like

[edit]
  • G1 comics Ratchet (complete with realistic ambulance alt mode)
  • Animated season four Ironhide, or something like it
  • MTMTE Hot Rod
  • MTMTE Cyclonus
  • Deluxe Rung
  • Victorion
  • Nautica
  • Aileron

Surprisingly many thoughts about the Thirteen

[edit]

I like the Thirteen, who've got me back into collecting the toys, as I'm a big Lord of the Rings fan; it's nice Transformers effectively has its own take on the Valar, and Megatronus and Solus Prime have huge Sauron/Galadriel energy. (Although I still imagine them being voiced by Virginia Madsen, and the late, great Tony Todd.)

I used to think Omegatron should've have been the name of the Fallen, until I saw Transformers One, and realised it's much easier for a kid to understand how Megatron would be derived from Megatronus.

Like many, I'm not a fan of the idea of Optimus being the Thirteenth Prime. I think IDW '05 did well with the concept, but given how different their cosmology was, it really was an exception that proves the rule. (While on the subject: I think it would've absolutely made sense for the Quintessons to be the Transformers' creators in that continuity, especially with how it skewed older.) If I were overseeing my own Transformers series, I'd pick between the following instead:

  • Rung, bringing them full circle
  • Rodimus Prime, further preventing the implication a Prime is simply the best because he's a reincarnation
  • Nova Prime, although like Zeta and Sentinel, I still see him as an interim Prime (also Nova would lie about being the Thirteenth)
  • Solomus/Tyrest, who is a member of the Thirteen in the pre-Aligned continuities now. However, I think it'd be more interesting to treat the Guiding Hand as Primus's fellow Light Gods.
  • Omega Supreme, who's certainly old enough, though like Optimus, the character deserves better than the baggage of being an original Prime.
  • Last Autobot, another official member of the pre-Aligned Thirteen, who's basically what Omega should've been. I think it would make a lot of sense, if only because it would completely explain his absence.

I wrote this before I read the notes on the Thirteenth's page, where it becomes apparent Hasbro simply forgot about or weren't aware of the Last Autobot when creating the group, so he may've been them if they had been.

In any case, it would be nice if AOTP (or the next toy line) included alternate Primes, including a rerelease of the transforming Ark as the Last Autobot, as well as the Legacy version of Alpha Trion.

Some corporate crossovers

[edit]

Category:External properties

  • Animorphs - Scholastic
  • [[Catching Fire - "
  • Snoopy - 39% owned by Sony Music Entertainment, licensed to Apple, and... holy cow, The Peanuts Movie is owned by Disney!
Disney

* denotes a property acquired from Fox

Par
Universal
Warner Bros.
MGM
  • Terminator - MGM (via Orion), Sony, WB, Par, Fox
  • ALF - co-produced by WB, broadcast by NBC
  • Pokémon co-owned by Nintendo, several movies distributed by WB
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