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| This article is about the 2016 story. For the 2017 story, see LG-EX God Ginrai. |
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| "LG35 Super Ginrai" LG35 スーパージンライ
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| First published | 2016 December 28 | ||||||||||||
| Manga | Hayato Sakamoto | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Legends World | ||||||||||||
| Packaged with | Legends LG35 Super Ginrai | ||||||||||||
If Devil Z is back, then so is Ginrai!
Synopsis
[edit]A mysterious meteor has landed in the Legends World and begins glowing, much to the interest of the Autobot Headmaster Juniors.
At Decepticon Co., Devil Z reveals that not only is he still alive, he's used his and Mindwipe's brainwashing powers together to buy up all the company's stocks! Weirdwolf is angry with Mindwipe for resurrecting the evil entity, reminding him that Devil Z had already caused them trouble previously by stealing the body of their leader, BlackZarak. As "Master Shareholder" Devil Z begins working the Decepticons to the bone, however, he sees on the news that the meteor has turned into a familiar trailer. He recalls the Godmasters, living but soulless bodies discovered in the G Nebula long ago by warriors from Master. Before they could learn to combine with the bodies, Devil Z stole them away to Earth, where he hoped to use the energy from human souls to turn the Godmasters into his loyal troops.
Though his plan ended with his defeat, Devil Z swears not to let the same thing happen again and sends the Decepticon Headmasters to destroy the trailer, only for it to regenerate immediately. This confirms to him that it's a real Godmaster body, but before he can claim it for himself instead, Ginrai shows up, recognizing it as his. Finding a pair of Master-Braces in a compartment just like last time, he transforms the trailer into Super Ginrai, this time by forming the robot's head. Devil Z orders the Headmasters to destroy Ginrai, powering them up with Devil Power when they are initially outclassed by their opponent's mastery of Chōkon Power. As an overpowered Ginrai is brought to his knees, he is contacted by the computer of the G Nebula factory where the transtector was created, which tells him his new body contains a secret beyond Headmaster and Godmaster technology: it is also a Getmaster! This technology is activated if a Master Warrior is placed in its chest cavity, further powering up Ginrai and making him a Triplemaster.
Super Ginrai initiates a Get On, but instead of a Master Warrior he ends up sucking a passing-by Rattrap into his chest. This turns out to be a blessing in disguise as the rat is emitting a new form of Chōkon Power, Jūchōkon! Despite his power up, the Headmasters blow a hole in him with their Trio Formation Devil Attack, but his apparent defeat is actually his transformation into a base mode. Ginrai and Rattrap let loose with a God Fire Base Attack barrage that sends the Headmasters and Devil Z fleeing, and the Autobot Headmaster Juniors celebrate, revealing that they summoned Ginrai here after seeing the transtector appear. He intends to stick around the Legends World until Devil Z is defeated, but finds to his annoyance that all the locals keep referring to him as "Optimus Prime".
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
[edit]Continuity notes
[edit]- Production on Ginrai's new transtector began back in "LG24 Shockwave & Cancer Prologue", then as a way to resurrect Optimus Prime. Presumably it was sent to deal with Devil Z instead after the Unite Warriors comics resurrected Prime through other means (and then killed him off and established that it was impossible to revive him again without the Zodiac).
- This story seeks to address some of the longstanding continuity puzzles surrounding the Godmasters leftover from Super-God Masterforce. Exactly when and why the transtectors that became the Godmasters were built has never been clear, and Devil Z expands on the story originally told in "Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!" to explain that the were not built by the Transformers, but found thousands of years ago in the G Nebula. This new mystery will be further fleshed out in the Legends Grand Maximus chapter.
- As Super Ginrai was contacted by the computer of the G Nebula 89 factory, a shadowy form is shown, that of Synapse, which wouldn't be touched with proper context until Legends Grand Maximus chapter, again.
- The Decepticon Headmasters use a more effective version of the Trio Formation from "The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)".
Transformers references
[edit]- The characters who find the transtectors are the Masterforce Warriors, Japanese-exclusive recolours of the three Autobot Powermaster/Godmaster engines, who were sold separately as new characters without transtectors of their own. Before now, it was logical to believe these characters were humans (as all Godmasters were), and artwork of the trio used on the Transformers Tapestry was definitely drawn to depict them as such, but their appearance here, thousands of years ago, recasts them as tiny Transformers from the planet Master.
- Ginrai finds Master-Braces in a compartment to his right, much like how he found them in the glove compartment of his original transtector in "A Hero Is Chosen - His Name Is Ginrai". The transtectors pictured are those of Ginrai, Hydra, Ranger, and Overlord.
- The introduction of Getmasters is a strange reference to "Chōjin Masterforce no Theme", the theme song of Super-God Masterforce, which contains the lyrics "Get On, God On, Head On". While "God On" and "Head On" were transforming phrases in the show, "Get On" was merely there for the rhyme. Now after 28 years, it finally makes sense in the fiction. Perhaps coincidentally, "Getmasters" were also featured in "Headmasters VS Masterforce", which was shortly released before this comic, albeit as limb add-ons for other Transformers.
- The concept of the Triplemaster is coincidentally similar to the Triple-Threat Master in Beast Wars: Uprising, which also took cues from the toy molds of the concurrent Titans Return line.
