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Despite his doubts, Jetfire joined the Decepticons and followed them to a desert on a [[Earth|small blue planet]] to build another solar harvester. This doubts flared up when [[Long Haul (ROTF)|Long Haul]] found [[human|primitive]] life was on this planet... and the Fallen ''did not care''. Jetfire was shocked and finally broke rank, ordering Long Haul to cease work on the harvester. He then pleaded with the Fallen that they couldn't harvest another living world... but since the Fallen had just killed one of the primitives for the hell of it, you can guess how ''that'' went. All the Fallen wanted was for the other Primes to come to this world where he was ready to kill them all, or remain in limbo for eternity. Either way, he wins. Jetfire declared he'd stop him, only to get easily swatted down and left to be killed by the Constructicons... | Despite his doubts, Jetfire joined the Decepticons and followed them to a desert on a [[Earth|small blue planet]] to build another solar harvester. This doubts flared up when [[Long Haul (ROTF)|Long Haul]] found [[human|primitive]] life was on this planet... and the Fallen ''did not care''. Jetfire was shocked and finally broke rank, ordering Long Haul to cease work on the harvester. He then pleaded with the Fallen that they couldn't harvest another living world... but since the Fallen had just killed one of the primitives for the hell of it, you can guess how ''that'' went. All the Fallen wanted was for the other Primes to come to this world where he was ready to kill them all, or remain in limbo for eternity. Either way, he wins. Jetfire declared he'd stop him, only to get easily swatted down and left to be killed by the Constructicons... | ||
But the Primes had arrived, just as the Fallen wanted. Before engaging in battle, he warped Jetfire and his minions away, and the Seeker found himself under attack. Determined to reach the harvester and stop it, he began tearing through the drones: even wounded, he had power and abilities beyond them! One by one, he dispatched the drones until only [[ | But the Primes had arrived, just as the Fallen wanted. Before engaging in battle, he warped Jetfire and his minions away, and the Seeker found himself under attack. Determined to reach the harvester and stop it, he began tearing through the drones: even wounded, he had power and abilities beyond them! One by one, he dispatched the drones until only [[Mixmaster (ROTF)| Mixmaster]] remained standing. Unfortunately for Jetfire, Mimxaster got the drop on him and the only way to avoid being crushed was to teleport into the planet's atmosphere and let re-entry finish him off. Unfortunately, Jetfire was paralyzed and unable to fly; the stunt doomed him as well. | ||
Thousands of years later, Jetfire awoke in a desert. Confused, he wandered it until a spy plane crashed into him. He took its form, and the rest [[Jetfire (ROTF)#Revenge of the Fallen film|is history]]... | Thousands of years later, Jetfire awoke in a desert. Confused, he wandered it until a spy plane crashed into him. He took its form, and the rest [[Jetfire (ROTF)#Revenge of the Fallen film|is history]]... | ||
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| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | October 21, 2009 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | October 2009 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Chris Mowry | ||||||||||||
| Pencils by | Carlos Magno | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | Moose Baumann | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Chris Mowry | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Andy Schmidt | ||||||||||||
| Assistant editor | Carlos Guzman | ||||||||||||
| Associate editor | Denton J. Tipton | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Movie continuity | ||||||||||||
Jetfire works for The Fallen. No, really!
Synopsis
Ages ago, the Seeker Jetfire served directly under the Prime who would become The Fallen, finding for him various stars to harvest; he believed he was serving the Dynasty of Primes as a whole and harvesting non-living systems, not realising he'd been conned by his master into killing a living world.
Reporting back to the not-yet-Fallen, he was surprised to find his master had already located a new world. When he asked questions about this, his master became impressed that he dared seek answers from a Prime, and decided to let him in on the truth: the rest of the Dynasty had betrayed Cybertron, and were leading it to extinction! It was still-not-yet-Fallen's duty to take control and save the planet from this fate! Confused by all this, Jetfire was taken to the Chamber of the Dynasty of Primes, home of seven sarcophagi from which the Dynasty could communicate; he soon became more confused when six of the Primes stated that he'd committed a heinous act that had to be punished!
The almost-Fallen defended both "my Seeker" and his actions, causing the Dynasty to warp into the chamber to ask about this nonsense he was speaking. While they remained adamant that a grave sin had been committed by killing a living planet, he asked how this sacrifice could matter now after they'd gained so much valuable energy for Cybertron? The other Primes were having none of it, and none of the about-to-be-Fallen's arguments that this gained them power far more quickly; one of them made it clear that the whole Dynasty would have to be in congress before the Solar harvester would be used again, and there would be severe consequences if he made this "mistake" again. The from-the-next-page-he's-Fallen assured them there'd be no more mistakes...
Jetfire left the meeting confused: his master had explored that last planet and there'd been no life on it... had there? He was told a mistake had been made, but the important thing was that the Dynasty were allowing Cybertron to die; that they wish to take power; that someone had to stop them. And that someone was the Fallen, and his hand-picked army of construction drones... the Decepticons! Jetfire is left confused by this new name, but is informed that this group is the future of Cybertron... and there's a place in it for him...
Despite his doubts, Jetfire joined the Decepticons and followed them to a desert on a small blue planet to build another solar harvester. This doubts flared up when Long Haul found primitive life was on this planet... and the Fallen did not care. Jetfire was shocked and finally broke rank, ordering Long Haul to cease work on the harvester. He then pleaded with the Fallen that they couldn't harvest another living world... but since the Fallen had just killed one of the primitives for the hell of it, you can guess how that went. All the Fallen wanted was for the other Primes to come to this world where he was ready to kill them all, or remain in limbo for eternity. Either way, he wins. Jetfire declared he'd stop him, only to get easily swatted down and left to be killed by the Constructicons...
But the Primes had arrived, just as the Fallen wanted. Before engaging in battle, he warped Jetfire and his minions away, and the Seeker found himself under attack. Determined to reach the harvester and stop it, he began tearing through the drones: even wounded, he had power and abilities beyond them! One by one, he dispatched the drones until only Mixmaster remained standing. Unfortunately for Jetfire, Mimxaster got the drop on him and the only way to avoid being crushed was to teleport into the planet's atmosphere and let re-entry finish him off. Unfortunately, Jetfire was paralyzed and unable to fly; the stunt doomed him as well.
Thousands of years later, Jetfire awoke in a desert. Confused, he wandered it until a spy plane crashed into him. He took its form, and the rest is history...
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Decepticons | Humans | Others |
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Quotes
- TBD
Errors
- Obviously, this origin clashes a bit with the "Jetfire was sent by the Fallen to look for the Matrix and fell asleep" origin in the film. (And he can't know anything about the Tomb of the Primes or the Dynasty's battle against the Fallen, since here he never sees any of it)
- The Fallen is the only Prime to land on Earth and set up the harvester, instead of all of them. Fun with early script drafts!
Items of note
- Earliest entry into the movieverse fiction, as it occurs before the events in Defiance or Revenge of the Fallen Movie Adaptation.
- Jetfire and the Constructicons are all greyish-brown, which doesn't do the big fight scene any favours.
- The sarcophagi from Defiance turn up, with the Primes living inside them.
- Despite their noble rep, the Dynasty's reaction to deliberate omnicide is little more than wagging a finger and saying "now don't do it again!".
- There are only six other Primes now, despite there being twelve others in Defiance and the comic adaptation. This brings it in line with the film, which only had Seven Primes, except the DVD's bio for the Fallen claims there were thirteen Primes and ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGG.
- This is the first ROTF fiction to say that the Fallen planned in advance to kill off his brothers on Earth.
- The Constructicons all go unnamed here, and are referred to as "construction drones". They also all die. So the Constructicons in the film and later comics have to be different guys, and are apparently a series of drone units rather than individual guys. Or at least they used to be drones. Hell, I dunno.
- Rampage's Cybertronian form looks like almost exactly like his toy, except he has two legs.
Covers (3)
- Cover A: Jetfire; art and colors by Alex Milne
- Cover B: Jetfire and some crazy shit behind him; art by Carlos Magno (and colors by Moose Baumann). This cover can be combined with #4's cover B to form a bigger picture.
- Cover RI: Title-free version of cover A
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Any of you young punks touch my stuff, I'll kill you! -
Aaaagh, what is behind meee? -
Lighten up, Francis!
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