LG-26 Scourge Prologue
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| "LG-26 Scourge Prologue" LG-26スカージ前日談
(LG-26 Scourge Zenjitsudan) | |||||||||||||
| First published | August 25, 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Manga | Hayato Sakamoto | ||||||||||||
It's the Sweeps! They're a wacky bunch!
Synopsis
The six identical Sweeps, loyal soldiers of Galvatron, are introduced:
- Sweep No. 1 is their self-styled leader, Scourge, a sleazy sycophant. Waspinator chimes in to point out that his voice sounds like that of Thundercracker.
- Sweep No. 2 is a pessimist who thinks bad things are always happening to him. He sounds like Astrotrain.
- Sweep No. 3 is a selfish, forceful jerk who's always ordering others around. He sounds just like Blast Off.
- Sweep No. 5 is calm and thoughtful, always being deep in thought about something, and disapproves of Scourge being the leader. His voice sounds like Skywarp's.
- Sweep No. 6 is a cheerful fella who likes to shout "six!" a lot and gets along with Sweep No. 7. He's got Superion's voice.
- Sweep No. 7 is a natural airhead with a tendency to gasp for breath even though he doesn't need to breathe. He sounds a bit like Blurr.
Galvatron wonders why there's no Sweep No. 4, and Scourge explains 4 is dead, Galvatron himself having told him to "die with dignity". 4 then appears as a ghost behind Galvatron, scaring him.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
- Sweep No. 4 represents a Sweep who died in "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3" after being shot by Wheelie and falling into Jupiter's atmosphere. Indeed, Galvatron ordered him to "meet [his] death with dignity" rather than save him.
- Sweep No. 4 shows up as a ghost. This fits into Japanese superstition regarding the number four (四), which can be pronounced as "yon" (よん) or "shi" (し); the latter of which is a homophone of the Japanese word for "death" (死).
