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*[[Sludge (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Sludge]] (18)
*[[Sludge (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Sludge]] (18)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime]] (19)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime]] (19)
*[[Jazz (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Jazz]] (23)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]] (23)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]] (24)
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*[[Sweep (G1)|Sweeps]] (10)
*[[Sweep (G1)|Sweeps]] (10)
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==Errors==
==Notes==
===Differences with the film===
[[File:FinalBattle-drawnandquartered.jpg|thumb|upright=1.75|Gruesome!]]
The comic adaptation continues to be based on a slightly earlier version of the script than the finished film uses. Alternate scenes, details, and staging derived from the script include:
*Daniel describes the crash on Junkion as being "more fun than a rollercoaster." In the script, he specifically refers to a coaster at "Futureworld," but the comic refers only to "Funworld."
*There's another instalment of the "Ultra Magnus doesn't understand Perceptor" running gag that didn't make it into the finished movie that sees Perceptor describe the makeup of Junkion as "a chaotic amalgam of discarded ferrous and non-ferrous articulations."
*Springer is the one to declare "Showtime's over, we've got work to do!" instead of Ultra Magnus, as in the finished film.
*Ultra Magnus is drawn and quartered by the Sweeps, rather than blown to pieces (right).
*Looking down at the Junkions as their ship descends, Kup reminisces about the [[Crocodillo]]s of [[Strontero]]m (but see "Errors," below).
*Though the dialogue has Hot Rod refer to them as the traditional cubes, the energon he offers the Junkions is in the form of a handful of long, thin sticks, per the script's call for "[[energon stick]]s." In the finished film, he offers them one of the [[energon goodie|small wafers]] previously seen being given to the Allicons on Quintessa.
*Hot Rod also talks some TV to Wreck-Gar, adding "Void where prohibited" after Kup has said his line. In the script, though, this line was attributed to Kup too.
*Instead of simply providing the Autobots with a ship, as in the movie, Wreck-Gar turns the entire planet of Junk into a rocket ship. The finished film features a vestigial reference to this abandoned idea, when Wreck-Gar describes the planet as a "sleek sexy import with turbo handling."
 
Other changes made to the story, usually in the name of condensing and simplifying it, which are ''not'' derived from the script include:
*In the finished film, the Quintesson and Junkion stories run parallel, and the story cuts back and forth between the two narratives. Per the decision to consolidate all the Quintesson scenes into one unbroken story for issue #2, this issue relates the Junkion portion of the story as one similarly-unbroken adventure. The scene of Galvatron returning to Unicron and learning that Ultra Magnus still lives, however, is cut, with Galvatron simply describing for Magnus how Unicron told him this information.
*Writer Ralph Macchio's fondness for expository dialogue requires Wreck-Gar to speak several lines ''without'' "talking TV," which results in the Junkion leader doing "caveman-speak" like a cartoon Dinobot.
*The Autobots' fight with the Junkions is cut, with Hot Rod and Kup's group arriving just as the Junkions begin to approach the others after Magnus's destruction.
*Kup provides an explanation for how his group found Magnus's, noting that they tracked their ship's exhaust.
*After the Autobots crash through Unicron's eye, only Hot Rod's battle with Galvatron is shown; all other scenes of both the Autobots dealing with the dangers inside the planet-eater, and of the Dinobots and Junkions battling him outside, are cut. In particular, this means that Jazz, Cliffjumper, Bumblebee, and Spike are never shown being rescued by Daniel—yet Bumblebee and Spike do appear among the Autobots when they reunite and escape Unicron's body in the final pages.
*Blurr is part of the Autobot group who travel inside Unicron.
 
Visual differences from the film, resulting from incomplete or outdated reference material include:
*Daniel's exo-suit is red and blue instead of white.
 
===Continuity and plotting errors===
 
===Art and technical errors===
*Just like the previous issue, this one is also simply called "Transformers: The Movie" on its cover, without a definite article, even though issue 1 was called "''The'' Transformers: The Movie". The indica for all three issues identify the series' title as "Transformers: The Movie Vol. 1".
*Just like the previous issue, this one is also simply called "Transformers: The Movie" on its cover, without a definite article, even though issue 1 was called "''The'' Transformers: The Movie". The indica for all three issues identify the series' title as "Transformers: The Movie Vol. 1".
*Once again, colors for the characters are all over the place.
*Basically everyone on the cover is off-color to some extent. Especially notable are Hot Rod's grey boots; accurate to the movie itself, but not to either his standard Marvel colors, or to the colors uses in this mini-series.
*When telling how they tracked Ultra Magnus' ship, Kup's speech bubble points to Arcee.
*When telling how they tracked Ultra Magnus' ship, Kup's speech bubble points to Arcee.
*Once Wreck-Gar turns the planet into a giant spaceship, it becomes the same size as Kup and Hot Rod's shuttle from [[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]]. This makes no sense, since their shuttle landed on [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]] a few moments before.
*Once Wreck-Gar turns the planet into a giant spaceship, it becomes the same size as Kup and Hot Rod's shuttle from [[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]]. This makes no sense, since their shuttle landed on [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]] a few moments before.
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*Spike is suddenly wearing the exo-suit he had in the film, instead of the space suit he wore in the previous two issues.
*Spike is suddenly wearing the exo-suit he had in the film, instead of the space suit he wore in the previous two issues.


==Differences between the film and comic==
===Other trivia===
[[File:FinalBattle-drawnandquartered.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Gruesome!]]
*Daniel's [[exosuit]] is red and blue.
*The Sweeps actually pull Ultra Magnus apart as originally scripted.
*Although they begin to threaten the Autobots, the Junkions never actually get a chance to attack.
*Instead of [[energon goodie]]s, Hot Rod gives the Junkions [[energon cube]]s, although they look more like [[Energon Stick|sticks]]. Wreck-Gar even calls him "friend with tasty sticks".
*Kup and Hot Rod offer an explanation on how they found Magnus, involving tracking their ship's exhaust.
*Instead of providing the Autobots with a ship, as in the movie, Wreck-Gar turns the entire planet into a rocket ship in the comic. This would jibe with his line in the film about the Junkion Planet being a 'sleek sexy import with turbo handling'. At least, as much as any Junkion lines jibe with reality.
*Once they crash through Unicron's eye, the scenes with Kup, Springer, the Dinobots, and the others are omitted. Only Hot Rod's scene with Galvatron is shown.
*The scene where Spike, Bumblebee, [[Cliffjumper (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Cliffjumper]], and Jazz are rescued by Daniel is omitted. Spike, Bumblebee, and Jazz are all vaguely seen as the Autobots make their escape from Unicron, but there's no hint of Cliffjumper.
 
==Items of note==
[[File:BlurrTFMMarvel3.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|He sells Micro Machines better than he sells the Autobot cause.]]
[[File:BlurrTFMMarvel3.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|He sells Micro Machines better than he sells the Autobot cause.]]
*Although he appears more in background shots, Blurr finally gets dialogue in this issue. One whole panel.
*Although he appears more in background shots, Blurr finally gets dialogue in this issue. One whole panel.
*Nope, still no [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]].
*According to a 2015 Facebook entry of [[Ask Vector Prime]], the Unicron depicted in this comic was in fact blasted out of this dimension by the Matrix and later became the [[Planet X (Cybertron)|Planet X]] seen in the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Galaxy Force]]'' cartoon.
*According to a 2015 Facebook entry of [[Ask Vector Prime]], the Unicron depicted in this comic was in fact blasted out of this dimension by the Matrix and later became the [[Planet X (Cybertron)|Planet X]] seen in the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Galaxy Force]]'' cartoon.


===Covers (3)===
===Cover===
'''Issue #3:''' The Autobots attack robot-mode Unicron.
<gallery>
<gallery>
File:TFTM3.jpg|'''''The Transformers: The Movie'' #3''' - Unicron salutes the Führer.
File:TFTM3.jpg
File:Tftmadaptukspec.jpg|'''''The Transformers Winter Special'' 1986''' UK printing
File:TFClassicsVol7.jpg|'''''The Transformers Classics'', Vol. 7'''
</gallery>
</gallery>
*'''''The Transformers: The Movie'' #3 cover:''' the Autobots dangle from strings on Unicron's hand.
 
*'''''The Transformers Winter Special'' 1986 cover:''' cropped version of the US ''The Movie'' #1 cover.
===Reprints===
*'''''The Transformers Classics'', Vol. 7 cover:''' [[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]], by [[Guido Guidi]].
<gallery>
File:Tftmadaptukspec.jpg|'''[[Transformers Collected Comics#Winter Special 1986|''The Transformers Winter Special'' 1986]]''' (Marvel UK, 1986)
File:Classic Transformers Vol6.jpg|'''[[Classic Transformers Volume 6|''Classic Transformers,'' Vol. 6]]''' (IDW Publishing, 2010)
File:TFClassicsVol7.jpg|'''[[The Transformers Classics, Vol. 7|''The Transformers Classics,'' Vol. 7]]''' (IDW Publishing, 2014)
</gallery>
 
====Reprint notes====
<big>'''Marvel UK'''</big>
*All three issues of the mini-series were collected into one special for release in the United Kingdom. This reprint edits the date from 2005 to 2006, to keep continuity with the regular weekly comic's recent story "[[Target: 2006]]," which—working from an even older draft of the film than the one on which this adaptation was based—placed the events of the movie in that year.
 
<big>'''IDW ''Transformers Classics'''''</big>
 
Like the regular monthly series, this mini-series also had its colors "remastered" for ''[[The Transformers Classics]]'' series of trade paperbacks, with varying degrees of success. The process was applied less thoroughly to these issues; notably, Hot Rod was ''not'' recolored into toy-accurate red-and-orange, unlike in previous volumes.


===Advertisements===
===Advertisements===
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*Between Pages 7 & 8: East Coast Comics
*Between Pages 7 & 8: East Coast Comics
*Between Pages 8 & 9: Comic Related Ads
*Between Pages 8 & 9: Comic Related Ads
===Reprints===
*[[1986]] — ''[[Transformers: The Movie (Marvel comic)#UK printing|The Transformers Winter Special]]''
*[[2014]] — [[The Transformers Classics, Vol. 7|''The Transformers Classics'', Vol. 7]]


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Revision as of 17:22, 23 December 2018

The name or term "The Final Battle" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see The Final Battle (disambiguation).
« Transformers: The Movie #3

This scale is actually correct. All other depictions are erroneous and should be ignored.
"The Final Battle!"
Publisher Marvel Comics
First published October 1986
Cover date February 1987
Adaptation Ralph Macchio
Breakdowns Don Perlin
Finishes Ian Akin and Brian Garvey
Colors Nelson Yomtov
Lettering Janice Chiang
Editor Bob Budiansky

Unicron attacks Cybertron, but one Autobot is about to light their darkest hour.

Synopsis

Ultra Magnus and the Autobots crash land on Junkion, where Galvatron catches up to Magnus and murders him, stealing the Autobot Matrix of Leadership for himself. He flies off to confront Unicron.

When Hot Rod and the other separated Autobots return from the Quintesson planet, the Junkions, led by Wreck-Gar, repair Ultra Magnus and reveal their planet of junk to be a giant spaceship. They head for Cybertron to combat Unicron.

Galvatron attempts to use the Matrix to make Unicron obey him, but the Matrix will not work for him. Unicron swallows Galvatron whole as he proceeds to attack Cybertron. The Decepticons attempt to fight back, but to no avail.

"And by 'scramble', I of course mean, 'lurch zombie-like in every direction except at Unicron.'"

The spaceship piloted by Hot Rod and Kup flies right into Unicron's eye, and Hot Rod confronts Galvatron from inside Unicron. They battle briefly, and as Galvatron attempts to crush Hot Rod by the neck, the Matrix begins to glow. Hot Rod takes a hold of it, and is changed into Rodimus Prime. Rodimus dispatches Galvatron, and then uses the Matrix to destroy Unicron. Rodimus tracks down the Autobots still inside of Unicron, and they escape out of Unicron's other eye just before he is completely destroyed. Rodimus Prime then leads the Autobots to reclaim their homeworld, easily dealing with the diminished Decepticons, and leading Cybertron into a new age of peace.

'Til all are one.

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Humans Junkions Others

Notes

Differences with the film

Gruesome!

The comic adaptation continues to be based on a slightly earlier version of the script than the finished film uses. Alternate scenes, details, and staging derived from the script include:

  • Daniel describes the crash on Junkion as being "more fun than a rollercoaster." In the script, he specifically refers to a coaster at "Futureworld," but the comic refers only to "Funworld."
  • There's another instalment of the "Ultra Magnus doesn't understand Perceptor" running gag that didn't make it into the finished movie that sees Perceptor describe the makeup of Junkion as "a chaotic amalgam of discarded ferrous and non-ferrous articulations."
  • Springer is the one to declare "Showtime's over, we've got work to do!" instead of Ultra Magnus, as in the finished film.
  • Ultra Magnus is drawn and quartered by the Sweeps, rather than blown to pieces (right).
  • Looking down at the Junkions as their ship descends, Kup reminisces about the Crocodillos of Stronterom (but see "Errors," below).
  • Though the dialogue has Hot Rod refer to them as the traditional cubes, the energon he offers the Junkions is in the form of a handful of long, thin sticks, per the script's call for "energon sticks." In the finished film, he offers them one of the small wafers previously seen being given to the Allicons on Quintessa.
  • Hot Rod also talks some TV to Wreck-Gar, adding "Void where prohibited" after Kup has said his line. In the script, though, this line was attributed to Kup too.
  • Instead of simply providing the Autobots with a ship, as in the movie, Wreck-Gar turns the entire planet of Junk into a rocket ship. The finished film features a vestigial reference to this abandoned idea, when Wreck-Gar describes the planet as a "sleek sexy import with turbo handling."

Other changes made to the story, usually in the name of condensing and simplifying it, which are not derived from the script include:

  • In the finished film, the Quintesson and Junkion stories run parallel, and the story cuts back and forth between the two narratives. Per the decision to consolidate all the Quintesson scenes into one unbroken story for issue #2, this issue relates the Junkion portion of the story as one similarly-unbroken adventure. The scene of Galvatron returning to Unicron and learning that Ultra Magnus still lives, however, is cut, with Galvatron simply describing for Magnus how Unicron told him this information.
  • Writer Ralph Macchio's fondness for expository dialogue requires Wreck-Gar to speak several lines without "talking TV," which results in the Junkion leader doing "caveman-speak" like a cartoon Dinobot.
  • The Autobots' fight with the Junkions is cut, with Hot Rod and Kup's group arriving just as the Junkions begin to approach the others after Magnus's destruction.
  • Kup provides an explanation for how his group found Magnus's, noting that they tracked their ship's exhaust.
  • After the Autobots crash through Unicron's eye, only Hot Rod's battle with Galvatron is shown; all other scenes of both the Autobots dealing with the dangers inside the planet-eater, and of the Dinobots and Junkions battling him outside, are cut. In particular, this means that Jazz, Cliffjumper, Bumblebee, and Spike are never shown being rescued by Daniel—yet Bumblebee and Spike do appear among the Autobots when they reunite and escape Unicron's body in the final pages.
  • Blurr is part of the Autobot group who travel inside Unicron.

Visual differences from the film, resulting from incomplete or outdated reference material include:

  • Daniel's exo-suit is red and blue instead of white.

Continuity and plotting errors

Art and technical errors

  • Just like the previous issue, this one is also simply called "Transformers: The Movie" on its cover, without a definite article, even though issue 1 was called "The Transformers: The Movie". The indica for all three issues identify the series' title as "Transformers: The Movie Vol. 1".
  • Basically everyone on the cover is off-color to some extent. Especially notable are Hot Rod's grey boots; accurate to the movie itself, but not to either his standard Marvel colors, or to the colors uses in this mini-series.
  • When telling how they tracked Ultra Magnus' ship, Kup's speech bubble points to Arcee.
  • Once Wreck-Gar turns the planet into a giant spaceship, it becomes the same size as Kup and Hot Rod's shuttle from Quintessa. This makes no sense, since their shuttle landed on Junkion a few moments before.
  • When eating Galvatron, Unicron's beard actually grows between shots.
  • Spike is suddenly wearing the exo-suit he had in the film, instead of the space suit he wore in the previous two issues.

Other trivia

He sells Micro Machines better than he sells the Autobot cause.
  • Although he appears more in background shots, Blurr finally gets dialogue in this issue. One whole panel.
  • According to a 2015 Facebook entry of Ask Vector Prime, the Unicron depicted in this comic was in fact blasted out of this dimension by the Matrix and later became the Planet X seen in the Galaxy Force cartoon.

Cover

Issue #3: The Autobots attack robot-mode Unicron.

Reprints

Reprint notes

Marvel UK

  • All three issues of the mini-series were collected into one special for release in the United Kingdom. This reprint edits the date from 2005 to 2006, to keep continuity with the regular weekly comic's recent story "Target: 2006," which—working from an even older draft of the film than the one on which this adaptation was based—placed the events of the movie in that year.

IDW Transformers Classics

Like the regular monthly series, this mini-series also had its colors "remastered" for The Transformers Classics series of trade paperbacks, with varying degrees of success. The process was applied less thoroughly to these issues; notably, Hot Rod was not recolored into toy-accurate red-and-orange, unlike in previous volumes.

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