Derailment

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Beast Wars: Uprising
"Derailment"
Publisher Transformers Collectors' Club (online exclusive)
First published December 27, 2016
By Jim Sorenson and David Bishop
Art Guido Guidi, Jesse Wittenrich, Christopher Colgin, Josh Burcham, Matt Frank, and Goncalo Lopes
Editor Jesse Wittenrich
Cover Christopher Colgin
Continuity Beast Wars: Uprising
Chronology Circa 2390
Page count 179pp

It's Galva Convoy's Vehicons versus Cybertron as the Grand Uprising reaches its explosive finale.

Synopsis

Part 1—Drowning in the Depth of the Lethe

Part 2—Burned by the Banks of the Phlegethon

Part 3—Frozen the Flow of the Cocytus

Part 4—Slaughter at the Source of the Styx

Part 5—Succor at the Shores of the Acheron

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Maximals Predacons Builders Others

Vehicons

Quotes

Snapper: It's one 'bot! He's making us look like amateurs!
Crazybolt: We are amateurs!
Bazooka: Talented amateurs!


"No, you were mine! I controlled you!"
"Me Grimlock obfuscating."

—Tarantulas learns a little too late he underestimated someone.


"If there is a more honest mech than Cheetor, I have yet to meet him."
"Thanks."
"It wasn't a compliment."

—Preditron defends Cheetor, sort of.


"This content patch was awesome!"

—Bisk takes the Vehicon apocalypse in stride.

Notes

Errors

Continuity notes

  • Characters mentioned nut not depicted include: Ikard, Longhorn, Pyra Magna, Soundbite, Triceradon, Jeepers, Mega-Dolrailer, Dangar, Wing Saber, Legend Majora, Dragoyell, Solomus, Dynobot, Epistemus, Adaptus, Shutterbug, Skurge, Bigmos, Refute, Trip-Up, Kingbolt, Diablo, Mortilus, Trailcutter, Brim-Stone, Zarak, MegaZarak, Thunderwing, Powerbomb, Dropshot, Optimus Prime, Diac, Apex, Megatron, Nitrostreak, Sky-Byte, and Maxima.
  • It's the finale, so every previous Uprising story gets a nod.
    • The Vehicons were introduced in the previous story, the result of Galva Convoy's work from "Not All Megatrons".
    • Hot Rod, his Micromaster underlings, and Big Grim himself return from "Micro-Aggressions".
    • The kill order on Preditron was also established in "Safe Spaces", as was Preditron's friendship with Cheetor.
    • Stiletto, Snapper, the Constructicons, and what's left of the Dinosaur crew return from "Cultural Appropriation".
    • Megatron, Scorponok, Terrorsaur, Wasp, Leatherhide, and Packrat return from "Not All Megatrons".
    • Tarantulas returns from "Trigger Warnings".
    • A nod is made to Dynobot and the resistance cell from "Alone Together: Prologue", the first nod to Chopperface and the gang in the text stories. Better late than never.
  • In just the previous story, the Resistance were using the lobotomized body of Star-Dasher as a transport. This story reveals the poor glitch wasn't the only unfortunate they've done this to.
  • Queen Rage has been mentioned several times through the text stories, as having seized an entire city state for herself. We finally get to meet her.
  • Megatron and co. have managed to nab Klaws, the last of the Antares Eight left from "Cultural Appropriation", whose fate was left hanging.
  • Galvatron finally reveals the identity of "Triple-Threat Prime", and it is in fact Optimus himself. Galvatron also notes that Diac replaced Optimus' "mangled face", which could be a reference to the state of Optimus per "A Change to the Agenda"... or something else, since ol' Galvatron never actually specifies how Optimus' face got mangled... and he's not remembering all of it properly.
    • This story identifies Diac as having been killed by Galvatron, explaining why he was the only member of the Optimus not to be binary-bonded with Triple-Threat Prime in "A Brush With Infamy".
  • Galvatron's got an immunity to the Vehicon hordes because he owes his origin to the G-Virus, as do the Vehicons themselves, since they're born from Galva Convoy, also created by mucking around with the original Galvatron's remains.
  • Aura and Stiletto's not-so-joyous reunion brings up the events depicted in the flashbacks of "Burning Bridges", namely Stiletto being sent to the mnemosurgeon on Aura's orders, along with Wolfgang's nature and death from "Trigger Warnings".
  • Lord Imperious Delirious turns out to be the mastermind behind the Vehicons, the autonomous mechanical lifeforms which remove the spark of any Cybertronian they come across. He previously expressed distaste with Cybertronian life back in "Intersectionality".
  • The epilogue identifies Artemis, where Thunderwing was said to have found the Underbase back in "Not All Megatrons", as an alternate name for Luna 2, with Luna 1 and Luna 3 receiving the names Hecate and Selene.

Transformers references

  • The Uprising iteration of Big Convoy is named Slammoth, one of the unused possible names for Victorion in the Fan Built Bot program.
  • Magna Stampede identifies as the great-nephew of Pyra Magna, much like how Rattrap once referred to Arcee as his great-aunt.
  • The Uprising version of Steel Jaw leads the Pack, much as his Robots in Disguise counterpart led another pack.
  • Several characters throughout the story swear by members of the Guiding Hand
  • This story introduces Tigatron and Airazor to the mix, the two having been the only members of Beast Wars' main cast not to have appeared previously.
  • Cheetor and Tigatron call one another "big cat" and "little cat" respectively, as their counterparts in the Beast Wars cartoon did.
  • Queen Rage's aide is Flytrap, a character based on an unused concept for a triffid-based Transformer from the Beast Wars Telemocha Series. Her general Manticon is the manticore design, leaving Rage as the third design, a jellyfish (since her original incarnation was, you guessed it, a jellyfish).
  • As he confronts the Builder Assembly, Lio Convoy punctuates his terms for surrender by solemnly *doink*ing his staff on the floor. "*Doink*" enjoyed a short-lived run as a meme in the fandom after 2016's Combiner Wars cartoon, based on the poorly edited SFX of the Mistress of Flame's hammer.
  • Ratbat winds up getting turned into a Diagnostic Drone by the Vehicons.
  • Leatherhide's mad science has now produced such things as the mighty Fuzors and Horrorcons.
  • Goldbug communicates entirely through music clips after his voice box was damaged, just like a more famous Bumblebee.
  • Proving some things just don't ever change, Wasp is "picked" as the guinea-pigatron for Leatherhide and Labrat's little experiment. His just narrowly avoiding becoming a Vehicon himself is a nod to his time as Thrust during Beast Machines, and his new body is based on his Timelines "Thrustinator" toy.
  • Know that Razor-Claw appears, using a speaking pattern based on his memorable speech from "Abduction".
  • The epilogue notes that Optimal, one of the Maximals in the newly-formed Parliament, is an "enormous" orange-and-blue quad changer, i.e. someone with Optimus Primal's "Optimal Optimus" form.
  • The unnamed head of the Maximal Academy who joined the High Council is a reference to the Happy Meal toy from the original Beast Wars, alternately called Lionhead or Under-3. As "Unit-3", he was a previous member of the Council's Magnaboss combination in Dawn of the Predacus. A sideways reference to him is made when Cheetor rejected council membership, and Tigatron said there were "under three" candidates left.
  • Shadow Panther appears, with the mention of rumors suggesting he's a Builder rebuilt into a Predacon body. Pfft! What a foolish idea.

Real-world references

  • Blackarachnia refers to Lio Convoy first as Aslan, then as Mufasa, both of whom are also slagging big lions.
  • "Vehicon General Order 66" is a reference to Order 66 from Star Wars, both of them being contingency measures.
  • Stiletto nicknames Tarantulas "webhead", which is a frequent moniker of Spider-Man's.
  • Run-Over speaks entirely in quotes from The Simpsons, which the narration notes ran for several thousand episodes.
    • "Go out on a Tuesday? Who am I, Charlie Sheen?" is from "Moms I'd Like to Forget."
    • "You know what I blame this on the breakdown of? Society." was spoken by Moe in "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace".
    • "I call the big one 'Bitey'" is from "Marge vs. The Monorail."
    • "Take that, Dick Tracey!" was shouted by a young Ned Flanders in "Hurricane Neddy."
    • "Why you little-" is from too many episodes to name, but (of course) usually signifies that Homer is about to strangle Bart.
    • "I bent my Wookiee" was spoken by Ralph Wiggum in "Lisa's Rival."
  • Bisk's new beast mode is referred to as a "rock-lob," which is surely a reference to "Rock Lobster" by the B-52's.
  • The Ex-Bots repaint a Sweep into the black and yellow-striped "Ex-Jet", referencing the X-Jet from Marvel's X-Men.
  • Fever Dream repurposes the Platinum Edition Blitzwing toy, much as Star Dasher is a repurposing of that toy's package-mate Astrotrain.
  • Dante the Cyberdroid is forced into a job on his day off, complaining all the while how he's "not supposed to be [here] today," just like Dante the human in Clerks.
  • During his spiel on the Ex-Jet's weapons, Bazooka quotes Sergeant Hicks of Aliens fame, namely his boast that they have "knives, they got sharp sticks."
  • As mentioned above, Cybertron's moons are given the names Hecate, Artemis and Selene, who in Ancient Greece were moon goddesses.

References

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