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**[[Primax 498.1 Alpha]]—the [[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|''Beast Wars II'' cartoon]] continuity.<ref>[[Transformers I.Q.|Transformers I.Q. #8]]</ref> | **[[Primax 498.1 Alpha]]—the [[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|''Beast Wars II'' cartoon]] continuity.<ref>[[Transformers I.Q.|Transformers I.Q. #8]]</ref> | ||
**[[Primax 509.28 Epsilon]]—the ''[[Transformers: Wings Universe|Wings Universe]]'' continuity.<ref>"[[Invasion: Epilogue]]"</ref> | **[[Primax 509.28 Epsilon]]—the ''[[Transformers: Wings Universe|Wings Universe]]'' continuity.<ref>"[[Invasion: Epilogue]]"</ref> | ||
**[[Primax 512.5 Gamma]]—the ''[[The Transformers: Regeneration One|Regeneration One]]'' comic series.<ref name=completealmanac>''[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac]]''</ref> | |||
**[[Primax 698.20 Theta]]—the world of "[[Visitations]]".<ref name=almanacII/> | **[[Primax 698.20 Theta]]—the world of "[[Visitations]]".<ref name=almanacII/> | ||
**[[Primax 703.02 Gamma]]—the world of the [[Devil's Due Press]]'s [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity]].<ref name=almanacII/> | **[[Primax 703.02 Gamma]]—the world of the [[Devil's Due Press]]'s [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity]].<ref name=almanacII/> | ||
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**[[Primax 1291.0 Zeta]]—the "[[Another Time & Place]]" text story continuity, a dead-end splinter thread of the Marvel Comics continuity.<ref name="witheredhope"/> | **[[Primax 1291.0 Zeta]]—the "[[Another Time & Place]]" text story continuity, a dead-end splinter thread of the Marvel Comics continuity.<ref name="witheredhope"/> | ||
**[[Primax 1286.3 Kappa]]—the ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|Mystery of Convoy]]'' game.<ref name=todiegame/> | **[[Primax 1286.3 Kappa]]—the ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|Mystery of Convoy]]'' game.<ref name=todiegame/> | ||
**[[Primax "whatever" Zeta]]—the [[Big Looker | **[[Primax "whatever" Zeta]]—the [[Big Looker Storybook]] universe.<ref>[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 61|Hot Shot's Bot Thoughts]]</ref> | ||
* [[Quadwal]]—a [[Transformers timeline|strangely divergent]] continuity family. | * [[Quadwal]]—a [[Transformers timeline|strangely divergent]] continuity family. | ||
Revision as of 01:49, 11 May 2015
| The name or term "Universal" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Universal (disambiguation). |
The Transformers multiverse consists of at least 15,962,782 cataloged universal streams (1,176,325 of which have "come to termination"), according to the TransTech Cybertronians' exhaustive records.[1] There are at least 59,927,225 realities that the TransTech Cybertronians have yet to catalog.[2] Bug Bite claims that there are over fifteen quadrillion concurrent realities.[3]
Deciphering the terminology
Each universal stream's name consists of three parts, beginning with a noun which refers to the continuity family of origin, a number that indicates the "real world" date of creation, and a Greek letter that denotes the form of media. For example, "Primax 984.0 Gamma" refers to the Generation 1 Marvel Comics continuity, with "Primax" referring to the Generation 1 continuity family, "984.0" indicating a publication date of September 1984 (with "0" indicating an unknown day of publication), and "Gamma" denoting a comic book series.
List of known continuity family indicators:
- Aurex—the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.[4]
- Gargent—the GoBots continuity family.[5]
- Iocus—the Hero Mashers continuity family.
- Malgus—the Animated continuity family.[6]
- Nexus—the cluster where the TransTech world of Axiom Nexus resides.[5]
- Primax—the Generation 1 continuity family.
- Quadwal—the "real world".[7]
- Tyran—the live-action movie continuity family.
- Uniend—the Aligned continuity family.
- Viron—the 2001 Robots in Disguise franchise continuity family.[5]
- Xobitor—the, uh, Robotix family.[5]
- Yayayarst—the Go-Bots continuity family.[5]
Supplied by writers Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop, a list of Greek letters and the media to which they refer:
- Alpha—animated series
- Beta—tech spec/toy/pack-in comic only ("box")
- Gamma—comic book series
- Delta—motion picture/live action
- Epsilon—club/convention fiction
- Zeta—text stories, storybooks and other prose works (printed)
- Eta—radio/audiocentric universes, books on tape
- Theta—live performance/spoken word
- Iota—Internet-only information (not involved with club/convention)
- Kappa—games (video and otherwise)
Using this information, we could, in theory, determine the names of yet-unnamed universes on our own. For example, Dreamwave's Transformers: Armada comics continuity would be Aurex 702.10 Gamma. The exceptions to this are the Kre-O continuity, the Bot Shots continuity, the Construct-Bots continuity, and the Cloud continuity, for which the number and Greek letter may be determined, but whose clusters are thus far unnamed.
Officially-designated universal streams
These are the officially-named universal streams and the continuity family or individual continuities they refer to:
- Aurex—the Unicron Trilogy continuity family
- Aurex 103.10 Alpha—the Micron Densetsu cartoon.[8]
- Aurex 503.21 Gamma—the Panini Armada comic.[9]
- Aurex 603.0 Kappa—The Energon Within video game.[5]
- Aurex 802.23 Alpha—the Armada cartoon.[5]
- Aurex 1107.23 Beta—the Tech Specs from the Black Friday release date of the Cannonball/Downshift "Search for the Pirate Moon" two-pack.[10]
- Gargent—the GoBots continuity family
- Gargent -1084.22 Alpha—an evil GoBots mirror universe from the cartoon episode "Transfer Point".[5]
- Gargent 984.08 Alpha—the Challenge of the GoBots cartoon.[5]
- Malgus—the Animated continuity family
- Malgus -411.27 Zeta—the "Shattered Glass Animated" universe.[11]
- Malgus 1207.26 Alpha—the Animated cartoon continuity.[12]
- Primax—the Generation 1 continuity family:
- Primax -408.24 Epsilon—if one breaches "the dimensional barrier between the Positive Polarity Universes" and the Negative, one can reach the Shattered Glass universe.[13]
- Primax 095.0 Beta—the universal stream that's home to Generation 2 Bullet Bike's Tech Spec bio.[14]
- Primax 109.0 Beta—the original home of Alternity Convoy Vibrant Red.[15]
- Primax 207.0 Epsilon—the Classics continuity, a splinter timeline of the Marvel Comics US continuity continuity.[16]
- Primax 209.0 Gamma—a universe where the Great War never stopped, and the Maximals and Predacons are used as proxies for the Autobot and Decepticon armies.[17]
- Primax 388.0 Gamma—Japanese Generation 1 manga continuity, which branches off from cartoon continuity with the Super-God Masterforce manga.[5]
- Primax 406.3 Eta—the Kiss Players radio drama.[8]
- Primax 498.1 Alpha—the Beast Wars II cartoon continuity.[18]
- Primax 509.28 Epsilon—the Wings Universe continuity.[19]
- Primax 512.5 Gamma—the Regeneration One comic series.[20]
- Primax 698.20 Theta—the world of "Visitations".[5]
- Primax 703.02 Gamma—the world of the Devil's Due Press's G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity.[5]
- Primax 787.3 Alpha—the Japanese The Headmasters cartoon continuity.[14]
- Primax 798.0 Gamma—the Beast Wars manga continuity.[21]
- Primax 895.0 Gamma—the world of "The New Battle!!"[22]
- Primax 903.0 Beta—the Binaltech continuity.[23]
- Primax 905.0 Beta—the Binaltech Asterisk continuity.[24]
- Primax 984.0 Gamma—the Marvel Comics US continuity.[16]
- Primax 984.17 Alpha—the Generation 1 cartoon continuity.[5]
- Primax 1005.19 Gamma—the IDW Generation 1 continuity.[25]
- Primax 1087.09 Alpha—the Video Challenger opening of the Headmasters.[5]
- Primax 1291.0 Zeta—the "Another Time & Place" text story continuity, a dead-end splinter thread of the Marvel Comics continuity.[16]
- Primax 1286.3 Kappa—the Mystery of Convoy game.[8]
- Primax "whatever" Zeta—the Big Looker Storybook universe.[26]
- Quadwal—a strangely divergent continuity family.
- Quadwal -3760.925 Theta—the world in which Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster were recruited to write the AllSpark Almanac.[12][27]
- Tyran—the live-action film continuity family
- Tyran 307.27 Zeta—the world of Ghosts of Yesterday.[5]
- Tyran 407.1 Beta—the world of the movie toyline's Tech Specs.[8]
- Tyran 607.07 Kappa—the world of Capture the Cube.[5]
- Tyran 707.04 Delta—the Transformers film.[16]
- Uniend—the Aligned continuity family
- Uniend 610.23 Zeta—the Aligned book series begun by Transformers: Exodus.[9]
- Viron—the Robots in Disguise continuity family
- Viron 403.0 Beta—home stream to Dreadwing and Smokejumper.[5]
- Viron 901.8 Alpha—the Robots in Disguise cartoon.[10]
- Xobitor—the Robotix continuity family
- Xobitor 286.0 Gamma—the Robotix comic.[5]
- Xobitor 1085.06 Alpha—the Robotix cartoon.[5]
- Yayayarst—the Go-Bots continuity family
- Yayayarst 201.11 Beta—the only known stream in this family.[5]
References
- ↑ This information, and most of the bulk of the article, comes from the text story "Withered Hope".
- ↑ In "Worlds Collide, Part 4", the Autobots scanned 75,890,007 realities in addition to their own before locating Optimus Prime, adrift in the multiverse.
- ↑ "Games of Deception"
- ↑ Mentioned in "I, Lowtech" as the origin cluster of the Omnicons.
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 5.20 Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II
- ↑ Mentioned in "Withered Hope", but confirmed as Animated in "Bee in the City" and Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac.
- ↑ Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac. "Quadwal" is a pun on the term "fourth wall", the barrier between fiction and reality which is "broken" when characters in a work of fiction acknowledge either the audience or their fictional nature.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "To Die Game!"
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter"
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Transformers I.Q. (issue #56)
- ↑ Transformers I.Q. (issue #58)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac
- ↑ SG Aquarius' bio
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "I, Lowtech"
- ↑ From Here to Alternity
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 "Withered Hope"
- ↑ Depth Charge bio
- ↑ Transformers I.Q. #8
- ↑ "Invasion: Epilogue"
- ↑ Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac
- ↑ Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter
- ↑ Optimus Prime bio
- ↑ "To Mega Therion"
- ↑ "The World Is Flat!"
- ↑ "Timeless"
- ↑ Hot Shot's Bot Thoughts
- ↑ The origin date of September 25, -3760 is also a reference; September 25, 3760 BC is the first day of the Hebrew calendar That answers THAT question.
