Blue Big Convoy

Blue Big Convoy is a Maximal from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Kokoro ni tsurugi, kagayaku yuuki!

Blue Big Convoy (ブルービッグコンボイ Burū Biggu Konboi) is an inspiring figure across universes. Though his background varies between universal streams, he is characterised by a willingness to overlook faction lines in a desire to see the best everyone and the willingness to sacrifice himself for the safety of others.

Fiction

e-HOBBY/Generations Selects

Blue Big Convoy (ブルー偉大なる (ビッグ)司令官 (コンボイ), lit. "Grand Commander Blue") was chosen by Brightes to succeed him in leading the great multiversal Primus Vanguard against dark armies and nefarious extra-dimensional invaders. God Neptune comic 1 As befitted his position, he carried the α Matrix and wielded the evil-vanquishing Matrix Sword inherited from leaders past. At one point he saved his comrade Straxus from three Specters, using the Matrix energy coursing through his body to vanquish the otherwise untouchable foes. Blue Big Convoy comic

When a battle between dimensional interlopers Star Convoy and Ultra Megatron came to a city on the Blue Planet, Blue rallied the Blue Order to defend the fallen hero. Blue put up a good fight against the Silver Matrix-empowered Megatron, but was left drained when Megatron stole the Star Power from his own Matrix.Super Megatron comic 3 Super Megatron comic 4 This gave Straxus, jealous of Blue for being chosen by Brightes, the opening he needed to activate a rage program implanted within the Order by his twin Straxus. As the Blue Order tore itself apart, Blue used the Matrix Sword to take his own life before he could harm his comrades.

Having plundered five more of the Primus Vanguard's Matrices in the subsequent commotion, the pirate combiner God Neptune set out to use their power to seize the Purple Matrix and the Silver Matrix (carrying with it the blue Star Power of the α Matrix pilfered from Blue) from the now allied Megatron Omega, Straxuses, and Purple Wicked Convoy. Straxus attempted a swipe with the stolen Matrix Sword to defend his new liege Omega, but was disarmed by God Neptune with the Matrix Saber. The Matrix Sword wasn't without surprises, however, and Blue's spirit emerged, revealing that he had placed a portion of his spark into the sword when he committed suicide. Blue linked to the Matrix Buster to give God Neptune a good blast in support of his surviving Vanguard comrades before receding back into the blade. God Neptune comic 3

Blue's gambit revealed, the traitorous Straxus eventually managed to extract the energy from Blue's lingering spark within the Matrix Sword to create a clone, Convobat. After evolved Order drone Magna Convoy retrieved a broken Matrix Sword from Straxus, Cybertron Magna Convoy prequel comic Blue's essence within the sword appeared to Magna Convoy and entrusted him with his final "Blue Order", a responsibility to guide and support his clone, before fading away. Cybertron Magna Convoy

Legends comic

Blue Big Convoy was a Convoy Type, a Transformer created by Vector Sigma in the image of Optimus Primal, but, unlike his peers, he did not believe this earned him a spot on the Convoy Council and expected that the inequality caused by glorifying Convoys would eventually lead to rebellion. He believed in peace between Maximals and Predacons and fought many battles to defend that peace together with his son, Big Junior, until he fell defending Junior during a battle with mysterious foes. On his deathbed, he taught his son that a Convoy isn't something special you're born as, but something you become when you choose to fight to protect others. Asking Junior to take his left arm for himself, he dubbed him "Big Convoy" before passing away. Bonus Edition Vol. EX

Toys

Beast Wars Neo

• Blue Big Convoy (1999)
  • Accessories: Big Cannon, two missiles, two Mammoth Haken missiles, Energon Matrix

A redeco of the Ultra-sized Big Convoy in blue, this figure is a Lucky Draw item.

Legends

Bear in the Big Blue Convoy

• Blue Bigconvoy [sic] (February 23, 2019)
  • ID number: LG-EX
  • Accessories: Big Cannon, two missiles, two Mammoth Haken missiles, Energon Matrix

Legends Blue Big Convoy is another redeco of the original Ultra-sized Big Convoy toy, this time recreating the above prize figure.

Notes

• The Primus Vanguard version of Blue Big Convoy gives his name as "Blue" alone, with the title of "Big Convoy" given as an alternate reading of his title "Grand Commander" (偉大なる司令官 Idainaru Shireikan). This is a common trope in Japanese media, whereby the author is able to communicate the meaning of a name or concept originating in another language while preserving the pronunciation of the word. Other leaders within the Primus Vanguard would preserve this naming scheme when they appeared in the Generations Selects Special Comic.