Portland
Portland, Oregon is a city in the United States of America.
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Marvel The Transformers comics
Portland was the nearest city to Mount St. Hilary, the site of the crashed Ark. The New Order Human friend of the Autobots Sparkplug Witwicky lived there, and was implied to have done so for years before first meeting Transformers in 1984. Specific locations in and around the city included S. Witwicky Auto Repairs & Tow Service, the corporate headquarters of Blackrock Enterprises, Blackrock Motor Speedway, Blackrock Chronic Care Institute, Jake Lomax's estate, Forbes's Garage, a ballet school, Mister O's, and the suburb of St. Petersburg.
Recordicons
Ratbat had an award from the Portland Chamber of Commerce on the wall in his quarters. Recordicons #11
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
When Ultra Magnus arrived on Earth to enforce Shockwave's edict that the Earth-bound Autobots surrender themselves to the Cybertronian alliance, Optimus Prime ordered a portion of his troops into hiding there. Brothers' Burden
Transformers/G.I. Joe
G.I. Joe and Cobra independently detected the crash of an Autobot shuttlecraft near Portland. Flint was sent to retrieve it with a team of rookies, and managed to repel a Cobra team sent to do the same thing and recover an unconscious Blaster. Targets of Opportunity
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Soundwave was trapped in his cassette player mode and bought by a kid living in Portland. Spotlight: Soundwave
Decades later, Arcee and Jazz helped the local humans deal with flooding as part of Optimus Prime's mandate of goodwill to humanity. Unfortunately, G.I. Joe (under the influence of the secret Dire Wraith General Joe Colton) decided that the Cybertronians must have had ulterior motives and attacked the Autobots. Prime arrived with reinforcements and tried to convince the humans to stand down their (ineffective) attack, but this was ruined when Rom arrived and killed Colton and three other Joes. Subsequently, the Autobots departed to chase down the mysterious alien while the Joes were left to call for reinforcements. Scarlett decreed that the apparent murders were a declaration of war upon humanity, Concorde Hymn though Mainframe and Agent Helix mulled over the inconsistency in that theory. The Divine Source of Liberty
Armada cartoon
Top Gear hunted down and subdued Tailslide with the aid of two Fixer Bugs in a Portland suburb. Linkage Part 2
Notes
- It rains a lot in the Portland area, yet the inhabitants are almost always seen to be enjoying clear skies in Transformers. Perhaps rain is just a nuisance to draw.
- Portland is widely considered to be the greenest, meaning sustainable, city in the United States, and possibly the second-greenest in the world.
- Sun-bleached rock formations and dusty desert roads are in short supply in lush, heavily-forested river valleys.
- The dream of the 90s is (still) alive there.
