The Final Battle!

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"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.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans	Junkions	Others
Arcee (1) Ultra Magnus (2) Springer (3) Perceptor (4) Blurr (5) Kup (12) Grimlock (13) Wheelie (14) Sludge (15) Hot Rod (16) Jazz (20) Bumblebee (21)	Scavenger (8) Shrapnel (9) Cyclonus (10) Galvatron (11) Shockwave (18)	Daniel Witwicky (6) Spike Witwicky (19)	Wreck-Gar (7)	Unicron (17)

Errors

• Once again, colors for the characters are all over the place.
• On page 17, a narrative caption describes the Decepticon attack against Unicron as "litterly futile." Not only is the word spelled incorrectly, but the sentiment is redundant, as futile is not a metaphor. Chances are it was supposed to be "Utterly futile".
• 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.

Differences between the film and comic

Gruesome!

• Daniel's Exo-Suit 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 goodies, Hot Rod gives out Energon 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, 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.

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Items of note

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.

• Nope, still no Snarl.