Cultural Appropriation

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"Cultural Appropriation"
Publisher Transformers Collectors' Club (online exclusive)
First published December 9, 2016
By Jim Sorenson and David Bishop
Art Josh Burcham and Christopher Colgin
Continuity Beast Wars: Uprising
Chronology late 24th century
Page count 59pp

It's up to Rampage and a gang of misfits to defend their universe from extradimensional invaders.

Synopsis

Appropriating Combiner Wars and making it better.


(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Maximals Predacons Builders Renegades Others

Terrans

Quotes

"THE DAY WILL COME WHEN EARTH STANDS SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH CYBERTRON, TO FACE ADVERSITY BEYOND GOOD, BEYOND EVIL, BEYOND IMAGINATION."
"Earth? The human world? I thought humans were the enemy?"
"CAN YOUR LEFT HAND BE THE ENEMY OF THE RIGHT? CAN THE LEAVES OF A TREE BE THE ENEMY OF THE ROOT?"

-The Oracle and Overshoot make with the foreshadowing.

Notes

Errors

  • On Page 13, "Predacon" is misspelled as "Predicon".
  • On Page 18 is the phase "we need to focus on next steps." A "the" ought to fall in between "on" and "next".
  • At one point on Page 35, Screwball is referred to by the narration text as "she" rather than as the gender-neutral pronoun of "ze".
  • Page 36 contains the mistyped phrase of "Then there was there was the awful wrenching of the abrupt crash into the ground below."
  • On Page 52, "THE SECRET OF CYBERTRON AWAIT" should be either "THE SECRET OF CYBERTRON AWAITS" or "THE SECRETS OF CYBERTRON AWAIT."
  • Overshoot's name is misspelled as "Overshot" three times on Page 53.
  • Stiletto identifies Magmatron's Resistance cell as being "jurassanoid", except of them only Archadis and Guiledart have alt-modes based on Jurassic animals. Pretty much all of them are from the Cretaceous (except Sling, and his Dimetrodon alt-mode, Dimetrodon originating from the Permian era).

Continuity notes

  • In the opening flashback, Noah wonders if the Decepticons are connected to Cobra, the bad guys of Transformer's sibling series G.I. Joe, which were previously mentioned in the cybertronix text of "Head Games".
  • Continuing on from the previous Uprising story, Megatron's Beast Upgrade has spread like wildfire.
  • Stiletto and Overshoot's story continues on from "Burning Bridges".
  • During their stay in the abandoned MCSF base, Stilleto finds a pack of cy-gars-ettes and starts smoking them in honor of a deceased friend, Wolfang, who Stilleto had served with as shown in one of the flashbacks of "Burning Bridges". She mentions his death was the result of some "Builder murder case", as was shown in "Trigger Warnings".
  • Snapper was arrested by the Builders when he turned on Grimlock's cell back in "Micro-Aggressions". Seems Hot Rod was able to keep his word about keeping the Predacon out of The Games. That the Constructicons are handling him would go with the fact Hot Rod, as mentioned in this story, was the one who convinced them to downsize.
  • Buckethead's inner monologue reveals Thunderwing was the one who invented the Micromasters in this continuity, and that he was responsible for Overlord's short leadership of the Decepticons, something mentioned in "A Brush With Infamy". It's little surprise ol' Thunders is the one responsible for the Micros, given he's been mentioned to have tinkered in science already.
  • Rampage met up with the crew of the Dinosaur in "Intersectionality". His inner monologue as he attacks Buckethead name-drops all the previously established leading members of the Resistance. He dismisses Cybershark as callous, as was demonstrated pretty aptly in Head Games.
  • The Renegades return, last having shown up in the beginning of "Micro-Aggressions", where they traded with Grimlock for information about the humans. Unsurprisingly, they've ignored the Dinobot's warnings about tangling with them.
  • Vamp mentions having heard Ser-Ket complaining about humans and not being able to spread her wings, something the Predacon also did back in "Head Games".

Transformers references

  • The flashback is one giant homage to the Generation 1 cartoon: The Decepticons pulling off another fiendish evil plan, the Autobots trying to stop them, the 'cons operating out of a sunken spaceship... Cliffjumper even uses one of the Cybertronian versions of common phrases that could be found through the first two seasons. Soundwave, meanwhile, is shown speaking more like he did in the comics, rather than his cartoon-self's distinctive speech patterns.
  • The Decepticons refer to their invention as the Egyptian Incantation / Autobot Destroyer, or EI/AD, a not-so-subtle reference to the old fan term for the cartoon's long string of villainous devices of the week.
  • Packrat notes the Museum of Decepticon History has a Legendisc, the central plot device of Transformers Go!.
  • Stilleto mentions she used to annoy the late Wolfang by calling him "Howlinger", the original Wolfang's Japanese name. See what she did there?
  • The symbol on the side of Snapper's prisoner transport is the proto-faction symbol first used by Shockwave in the Dreamwave G1 comics. Author Jim Sorenson has stated that this symbol was designed by Hot Rod, presumably as a way to foster cooperation amongst the Builders, but never really caught on. [1]
  • The Predacon HUD display is reminiscent of the player's HUD in High Moon Studios' Cybertron games.
  • The gang's descent into the lower levels of Cybertron and subsequent discovery of the Oracle is a shot-for-shot recreation of the scene from "The Reformatting". Overshoot plays the role of Optimus Primal, first triggering the legendary supercomputer and subsequently experiencing a series of mystical visions.
  • The Oracle refers to an upcoming struggle for Cybertron as being "beyond good, beyond evil, beyond imagination", paraphrasing the tagline of the original animated movie.
  • The final section notes a "unique digital entity", which was the term used for the Transformers' creator in Armada. His "primal scream" is a reference to the title of issue #61 of the original Marvel comic series that introduced Primus.

GoBots references

  • The Diaspora was first referenced in "Ask Vector Prime" as the reason why GoBots of the "Withered Hope" continuity were fleeing their native universe en masse.
  • Dumper and Fitor receive brief name-drops as Stiletto examine the Monster GoBot files.
  • Stilletto is left confused by the constant mention of "levels" within the same files–as the GoBots cartoon established, GoBots refer to different universes as "levels".
  • The GoBots use modifiers instead of CR chambers to heal their wounds; in the cartoon, the Modifiers were devices that allowed the Renegades and Guardians to adopt new alternate modes.
  • Cybertronians are shocked at the GoBotic ability to fly while in robot mode, referencing how all GoBots, regardless of vehicle mode, were flight-capable. (One can assume, then, that the Transformers cartoon rule that all Decepticons could fly in robot mode doesn't hold true for the BWU timeline.)

Real world references

  • Noah alludes to Abbot and Costello when observing ancient Egyptian artifacts, alluding to 1955's Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.
  • The Oracle notes that "ALL OF THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. ALL OF THIS WILL HAPPEN AGAIN.", a paraphrase of a quote which originally appeared in Peter Pan and was used to great effect in Battlestar Galactica.
  • "Protimax grid Nealed" is named after (in)famous Transformers fan Neale Davidson.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/135257-beast-wars-uprising-cultural-appropriation/?p=3398966
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