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Major continuities
As of 2026, we identify two major continuities in this family, many of which possess a number of notable sub-branches and micro-continuities. The lists below are not meant to be complete guides to every work in that continuity, but provide a quick overview of that continuity's most notable media.
Fun Publications Shattered Glass continuity
- "Shattered Glass" (2008)
- "Dungeons & Dinobots" (2008)
- "Do Over" (2009)
- "Reunification" (2009)
- "The Desert Heat!" (2009)
- "Eye in the Sky" (2009)
- "Blitzwing Bop" (2009)
- "Recordicons" (2010-2015)
- "Transhuman" (2011)
- "Invasion" (2012)
- "Solar Requiem" (2013)
- "Beast Wars Shattered Glass" (2013)
- "Another Light" (2015)
- "Spatiotemporal Challengers" (2016)
The first Shattered Glass universe spun off from the events of the 2007 Crossing Over storyline, and initially followed the "Classics" Cliffjumper as he arrived on the Shattered Glass version of Cybertron. After the obligatory misunderstanding, he teamed up with the heroic Megatron and his Decepticons to foil Optimus Prime's plan to invade Earth aboard the Ark warship. Between 2008 and 2011, the storyline broke into two semi-parallel branches: a series of online prose stories followed Cliffjumper as he travelled to the dystopian Earth of the Shattered Glass universe with Starscream to counter Rodimus and his breakaway faction of Autobots. Following the lead of the immensely popular Shattered Expectations comic, these stories adopted a light-hearted tone, spoofing the tropes endemic to the original Transformers television show and eighties cartoons in general.
Reunification, the 2009 Transformers Collectors' Club magazine comic arc, formed the second branch of the storyline, which saw Alpha Trion lure the dimension-hopping Landquake, Breakaway, Topspin to Shattered Glass Cybertron as part of his plan to depose both Optimus and Megatron. The group escapes with Skyfall's body and encounter the pacifist Quintesson of Aquarius, who allows them to unite into Nexus Prime and defeat Optimus Prime's Omega Doom superweapon.
Between these two major branches, the "Recordicons" comic strip featured the wacky misadventures of Ravage, and the 2010 arc of "Around Cybertron" featured a glimpse at the evil counterparts of Rook and Andromeda.
2012's "Invasion" storyline marked the first major shift for the universe: the evil Ultra Magnus and his evil compatriots crossed dimensions, attacked Cliffjumper's native "Classicsverse", and destroyed the entire universe with the Terminus Blade. A small number of positive-universe refugees escaped into the Shattered Glass reality; the dimensionally transposed "Classicsverse Earth" then became an ancillary setting. A group of Autobots led by the heroic Ultra Magnus somehow materialized in the distant past, and battled their universe's evil Megatron in 2013's "Beast Wars Shattered Glass" story.
In 2015, Fun Publications wrapped up basically all of their dangling plot threads in "Another Light", a bizarro take on The Transformers: The Movie that saw the effective end of the war after this universe's version of Unicron reformatted the evil Optimus Prime into the benevolent Nova Prime. This didn't stop Fun Publications from making a few more glimpses at the universe, however--the "Spatiotemporal Challengers" storyline in 2016 featured a team of GoBots navigating the universe, while "Coalescence", the final Shattered Glass story, served as an interquel between the original prose stories and "Invasion", tying off a long-abandoned plotline regarding the mirror-universe Underbase.
IDW Shattered Glass continuity
- Shattered Glass (2021)
In 2020, after a long hiatus, Hasbro's Generations Selects released an exclusive "Shattered Glass" two-pack that featured Optimus Prime and Ratchet, advertising them as characters from IDW Publishing's Shattered Glass comic. [1] At the time, most members of the fandom assumed that this was just Hasbro mistakenly accrediting IDW Publishing instead of Fun Publications for the original Shattered Glass concept; in May of 2021, however, it was revealed that IDW would launch a full revival of the Shattered Glass concept with the debut of a new five-issue miniseries, a reboot set in a world where the Autobots have triumphed and the heroic Megatron has gone into exile.
Minor continuities
Shattered Expectations
- "Shattered Expectations" (2008)
The first Shattered Glass story, retroactively dubbed "Shattered Expectations", was the product of an April Fools' Day gag gone horribly wrong (or right, depending on how you interpret things. On April 1st, 2008, Fun Publications "leaked" three pages of what was supposedly the upcoming BotCon 2008 set's accompanying comic--a deliberately campy, Generation 2-inspired take on the "evil parallel universe" treatment, which featured ridiculous gags as Grimlock being a genius, Jazz talking like Mr. T, and reverse-Furmanisms all rendered in Derek Yaniger's style.
Fandom response was almost entirely positive, and the fandom was in turn almost unanimously disappointed when the truth came out. Fun Publications took note of the positive reception, however,, and hired authors Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop to punch up the dialogue for the real comic before allowing them to continue the Shattered Glass story in prose form.
Shattered Glass Animated
Derrick J. Wyatt expressed interest in doing a Shattered Glass-themed episode of Transformers Animated, but this idea didn't come to fruition before the show ended in 2009. AllSpark Almanacs alluded to the idea, and featured a few glimpses of a Shattered Glass Animated universe: a reality where Isaac Sumdac, ruler of Detroit, has enslaved the evil Autobots and his "daughter" Sari.
Transformers Legends
- "Shattered Glass" (2014)
The Transformers Legends mobile game featured an event based on the original Shattered Glass comic, although in this adaptation it's Rodimus who launches the Ark for Earth instead of Optimus, who's nowhere to be found.
SD SG
- SD SG (2015-2016)
A series of parodic strips that poke fun at the Shattered Glass universe and the Transformers franchise in general.
"Transfer Point"
- " Transfer Point" (2015)
The original Challenge of the GoBots cartoon featured an episode where the heroic Guardians accidentally travelled to a backwards universe populated by evil doppelgangers. In 2015, the "Ask Vector Prime" Facebook feature retroactively declared this to be just one of many negative-polarity realities, no different from any of the many Shattered Glass universes.
Epilogue Two
- "Epilogue Two" (2017)
Fun Publication's final Transformers story ever includes a glimpse at several new realities—these include "shattered" versions of Axiom Nexus, the 2005 IDW continuity, the Unicron Trilogy, and a backwards look at the original Generation 1 cartoon continuity, all part of a hitherto-unseen "negative multiverse".
Forged to Fight
- "Prime Suspect" (2019)
- "Shattered Bridges"
- "Shattered Lenses"
- "Shattered Fates"
The Forged to Fight mobile game featured a Shattered Glass-themed event that pitted heroic, Generation 1-style Decepticons against evil Autobots from a hitherto-unseen mirror version of the movie continuity family.
