Transformers Legends (comic)

The name or term "Legends" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Legends (disambiguation).

Japanese G1 continuity « Legends » Toyline Comics

It's like Kiss Players, but with more transphobia.

Transformers Legends (トランスフォーマーレジェンズ Toransufōmā Rejenzu) is a series of comic strips by Hayato Sakamoto, showcasing the adventures of toy otaku Rattrap. It is published online to promote TakaraTomy's Transformers Legends toyline. Special Bonus Edition (出張版 Shutchōban) chapters of the comic come packed with the Legends toys.

	Transformers Legends volumes
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 Bonus #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 Bonus #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 Bonus #23 #24 #25 #26 #27 #28 #29 #30 #31 #32 #33 #34 #35 #36 #37 #38 #39 #40 #41 #42 #43 #44 #45 #46 Special #47 #48 #49 #50 #51

	Transformers Legends Comic: Bonus Edition volumes
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 EX (Black Convoy 2015) EX (Armada Megatron) #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 EX (Deadlock) EX (Rattrap) EX (Waspinator) EX (Rhinox) #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26 #27 #28 #29 #30 #31 #32 #33 #34 EX (Convobat) #35 #36 #37 #38 #39 #40 #41 #42 EX (Black Convoy 2017) EX (Magna Convoy) #43 #44 #45 #46 #47 #48 #49 #50 EX (God Ginrai) #51 #52 #53 #54 #55 #56 #57 #58 #59 #60 EX (Metroplex) #61 #62 #63 #64 #65 #66 EX (Greatshot) EX (Grand Maximus)

	Other
Deadlock "The Beast Wars Road Map" Convobat (prequel) Magna Convoy (prequel) "Rescue the Monorail!"

Overview

Legends is a four-panel comic strip set in a world known as the "Legends Universe", where Transformers is a franchise of toys and fiction—essentially the real world, but instead of people it's populated by super deformed Beast Wars characters who don't consider themselves Transformers. The main characters of the comics are the Beast Wars Maximals, reimagined as a group of salarymen working at the "Axalon Trading Company" in Japan. They retain their quirky speech patterns from the jovial Japanese dub of the show. Jokes revolve around the characters being Transformers fans themselves, each representing a different facet of the fandom, the main cast being:

• Rattrap, the company's new recruit who grew up with and unconditionally loves Beast Wars
• Rhinox, a middle-aged man who doesn't care for anything newer than the Generation 1 of his childhood
• Optimus Primal, the serious-minded boss who has no interest in toys himself, but does buy them for his son Minor
• Silverbolt, a young excitable part-timer and fan of the recent live-action film series
• Tigatron, a moe otaku who only likes Transformers franchises with cute girls, like Kiss Players
• Waspinator, an employee of Tera-Kura Co., fan of all things Transformers and expert on minor trivia, he serves to fill the other characters (and readers) in on the more obscure portions of the franchise

Other recurring characters include the lazy, irresponsible Cheetor, hungry Dinobot, and gender-ambiguous office ladies Airazor and Nightscream. Later strips introduce the Axalon Co.'s rivals, the "Tera-Kura Co." led by Megatron. Various other inhavitants of the Legends Universe are versions of Beast Wars II, Beast Wars Neo, and Car Robots characters.

Early comics, preceding the launch of the Legends toyline, revolve around the Axalon employees' misadventures at the office and their visiting various real-life events. As the toyline got going, the pack-in Bonus Edition comics began telling stories about the specific characters they were packed with, often creating storylines spanning several comics. The webcomic then shifted to expanding on these characters and storylines through various prologues and epilogues.

Notes

• As is to be expected, the characterizations for the cast are derived from the Japanese version of Beast Wars and Beast Machines. In most instances, these characterizations were extremely different from their Western counterparts. As such, some of the "gags" might fly over the heads of those unacquainted with the radically different Japanese version of the show.

External links

• Transformers Legends web comic