Canada

A representative Canadian landscape, eh? (Not shown: milk in a bag.)

Canada is like the United States of America, but bigger, politer, and health care-ier. In retaliation, the United States wears Canada like a hat, eh?

Toronto is Canada's largest city, eh? (Yes, there are cities littered aboot the country!)

Non-fiction, eh?

Canada has had a surprisingly large behind-the-scenes role in producing Transformers. It is home of Mainframe Entertainment, who produced the Beast Wars and Beast Machines television series. It was also home to the now-defunct Dreamwave Productions whose top-selling 2002 Generation 1 revival comic led directly to the production of the 2007 movie. Several Transformers voice actors and comic artists also call Canada home.

During the tail end of Generation 1, Canada received several toys the U.S. did not, like the Turbomasters. Generally speaking, US exclusives tend to turn up at Canadian retail, with Walmart and Toys"R"Us keeping their exclusives and Target exclusives winding up at Zellers, a Canadian chain.

Due to Canada being a bilingual country, it's always had multilingual packaging. The toys also required multilingual character names for a long time. This tends to cause problems, as Toys"R"Us has for a long time not produced multilingual packaging for their exclusives, resulting in them being sold in most of Canada but not in the French-speaking province of Quebec. This has changed with the release of the "Masters of Metallikato" two-pack, but it remains to be seen if it will be the exception or the new rule.

Fiction, eh?

Marvel Comics continuity

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

The remote town of Doonstown had the misfortune to be the battleground for Grimlock and Sludge. The town was destroyed and the Decepticons raided a nearby oil rig. Dinobot Hunt!

After getting caught spying on the Constructicons in Alaska, Hoist had to carry his brain-damaged comrade Jazz back to the United States through Canada. It took him two days. The Mission

When Ratchet blew up the Ark like a shaken-up bottle of beer, it crashed somewhere in northern Canada. The Ark, not the beer, 'cause that'd be a waste of good beer. But Galvatron survived the crash, and since he's like, a big hoser, he killed a bunch of Canadian army guys. Then Spike Witwicky and Fortress Maximus came and beat him up and tossed him in a lake, and that was pretty much it for Galvatron. The Last Autobot, eh?

Earthforce

These stories do not fit into the normal Marvel continuity. See Earthforce for details.

When Grimlock and his group broke away from the regular Autobot forces, they landed their shuttle near Churchill, Manitoba, an area, like, famed for its polar bears. Once upon a Time...eh?

Wheeljack began construction of a permanent Earthbase nearby, presumably from parts of the shuttle. Mysterious, eh? The Earthforce were then visited at their shuttle by the Autobot Survivors, requesting assistance to rescue Carnivac. Wolf in the Fold, eh? Augmented by the Survivors and the Aerialbots, the Earthforce completed their base, but there were teething toubles with the security system The Howse that Wheeljack Built! and they were attacked by Soundwave's forces before these could be fixed. Fortunately they were able to drive off the Decepticons. Divide and Conquer, guy!

Not long afterwards, Optimus Prime visited the Earthbase for an inspection, while the Dinobots attempted to hide a psychotic defect in Slag's circuitry. The 4,000,000 Year Itch, eh? The Autobot leader left behind Tracks in the Earthforce's Body Shop to Grimlock's great displeasure. Makin' Tracks, friend! After Optimus returned to the Ark, the three Mayhems Bludgeon, Stranglehold and Octopunch escaped from Earthbase's brig by keeping schtum. Keep it down, buddy!

After assisting the Earthforce in deactivating a cerebro-shell-controlled Superion in New York, the human reporter Irwin Spoon visited the Earthbase to conduct an interview with Grimlock but the interview was interrupted by the Stunticons driving up the only road in Canada to abduct Spoon. Front Line! Though he was rescued, he was implanted with a cerebro-shell himself by Bombshell and ended up writing Decepticon propaganda. End of the Road, eh!

At which point Marvel UK stopped producing original stories.

Japanese cartoon continuity

The Autobot group led by Ginrai first met up with Ranger in the vast Canadian forests and Lightfoot at his father's motor company. Both learned aboot their ability to "God On" with their Transtectors soon after. An Enemy, eh? The Third Godmaster, Ranger

Lightfoot's father moved from England to Canada to fulfill his dream of starting a car company, this apparently being more achievable in Canada. The resulting company is the prestigious British Motors, which is a perfectly logical name for a company started in Canada. Lightfoot: A Dramatic Encounter

Dreamwave Generation 1 comics continuity

Lazarus has a secret base there, eh? The Canadian army attacked the Autobots for trying to save them, eh? Prime Directive

They have clone armies, eh?!

Unicron Trilogy

Kicker and Ironhide work to install Base Unit 1 with the Omnicons not really helping. Omni-Potent

Later, an evil army of Divebomb clones invade Toronto in a co-ordinated attack. Multiplicity The Autobots defend the city, and when they reserves run low, Megatron comes to their rescue. After purging the world of the Terrorcon clones, Megatron heads to the planned site of Base Unit 1 for an intense battle against Scorponok No Exit

Mudflap roams aboot the frozen wastelands like a pale blue force of nature, eh?

Titan Magazines (2007 Movie)

The following events occur in a splinter timeline where Megatron won the battle of Mission City.

In an alternate universe, Canada may have been conquered and occupied by Decepticons for a brief period. Revolution Part 1

Transformers Animated

Canada is very close to Detroit. However, despite what a certain pompous windbag thinks, there are no "international" waters in Lake Erie. Just American and Canadian, eh? The Return of the Headmaster

Titan Magazines (Revenge of the Fallen)

Skids and Mudflap arrived on Earth over Toronto, then happily swam to Ball's Falls where they picked up alternate forms. On the way in, Mudflap accidentally hit this big pointy thing, but that won't cause any problems, right? Dogfight!

Trivia Aboot Canada

• Transformers Animated episodes aired earlier in Canada, eh?

• There are no Target stores in Canada, eh?

• Transformers Animated toys were released a month sooner, eh?

External links

• Wikipedia's entry for Canada, eh?
• Canadian-specific Transformers news and information, eh?