Talk:Dissolution Part 3: A World Misplaced

Not sure why it's assumed Nova Prime's colors are an error when this is a different timeline. --KilMichaelMcC (talk) 17:33, 22 February 2017 (EST)

It's a divergent timeline. History is the same up to Megatron's creation, then splits off. Escargon (talk) 17:40, 22 February 2017 (EST)

I guess I'm not 100% certain it's as straightforward as that. --KilMichaelMcC (talk) 18:34, 22 February 2017 (EST)

...why wouldn't it be? The issues where it debuted all but state that outright. And for all their time-hopping, Brainstorm and his pursuers never make it to Nova's era. Magaroja (talk) 14:47, 23 February 2017 (EST)

I agree with KilMichaelMcC. When was the last time Nova used his Nemesis Prime colour scheme? It would have been back in the -ation series, right? Seems to me like an odd mistake to make in 2016-2017. I'm of the opinion that the decision to colour Nova in his Nemesis colour scheme was a little nod to the common "mirror universe" trope of alternate colour schemes, and not a colouring error. --LordGigaIce (talk) 16:35, 23 February 2017 (EST)

That doesn't mean it makes sense. - Chris McFeely (talk) 16:39, 23 February 2017 (EST)

First, I think you're taking what was meant to a wink at the audience a bit too seriously. Honestly, not everything needs to dissected down to its base elements. Something about not seeing the forest for the trees and the like. Secondly, we know that Brainstorm's plan to go back in time to kill Megs before he was born had nothing to do with the Functionist Universe's creation. He was always destined to try it, and always destined to lead to Megatron's birth anyway. Likewise the Functionist takeover in the Functionist Universe was the natural outcome of events in that universe. It is by all accounts a self-contained alternate universe, and not a "branched timeline." That being said...it's one guy coloured funny in one panel. I'm not dying on a hill over this, but I think we (a collective "we") need to take a step back at times and just take something for what it was likely intended to be. --LordGigaIce (talk) 16:45, 23 February 2017 (EST)

I have no idea what you're babbling on about. The entire point of the FU is that it's the exact same universe except without Megatron. Nova was before Megatron. Him having his Nemesis color scheme is a continuity mistake; it's not that complicated. Saix (talk) 16:53, 23 February 2017 (EST)

It's not a branched timeline, but it's not just an arbitrary parallel world either - there's a logic to its differences, which is "world in which none of the time travel happened". "World in which none of the time travel happened and also Nova Prime is different colours" wouldn't make a lot of sense? Jalaguy (talk) 16:54, 23 February 2017 (EST)

I'm just saying "an Easter Egg intended as a wink to mirror universe tropes" is probably what it was meant to be. Maybe it doesn't make sense strictly speaking, but sometimes ya gotta take a step back and just accept things for what they are. And Saix, um, what I'm "babbling on about" is the fact that Perceptor confirms in MTMTE#38 that the Lost Light crew's time travelling had nothing to do with the creation of the Functionist timeline. I would argue that it's a self-contained alternate universe that's mostly the same save for a few differences, the key one being Megatron's absence. Still, I'm not getting into this over a G-ddamn colouring choice, but still. Get over yourself and try not to be so insulting next time you stumble across a disagreement. --LordGigaIce (talk) 17:07, 23 February 2017 (EST)