Texas

Texas is a southwestern state in the United States of America, and borders against Mexico. The state is known for its yellow roses and the stars at night, which are big and bright.

Fiction

Marvel Hardcover storybooks

The Global Building Corporation built the Triplet Towers in Dallas as part of a Decepticon plot to trap humans and hold them for ransom. Battle for Earth

Marvel The Transformers comics

Texas appeared exclusively in the UK portion of the Marvel Comics continuity.

In an attempt to lure out the Survivors, Snarler and the Mayhem Attack Squad set a hellhound loose in Dallas. All that came to the city's rescue was the rogue Decepticon Carnivac, but that was good enough for the Mayhems. Way of the Warrior

IDW Generation 1 continuity

The Machination maintained offices in Dallas through a front company called Epsilon Holdings. Infiltration #4 Hot Rod confronted Scorponok there Maximum Dinobots #1, while Sunstreaker traveled there to find his original head. Maximum Dinobots #2 The captured Hot Rod managed to escape the complex whilst Sunstreaker infiltrated it Maximum Dinobots #3, events that were soon followed by the arrival of the Dinobots and Shockwave. Maximum Dinobots #4 A battle broke out outside the Machination headquarters, and was eventually won by the Autobots. Maximum Dinobots #5

Live-action film series

Titan movie comics

The following events occur in a splinter timeline where Megatron won the battle of Mission City.

Camshaft and his team saved the Texan town of Shallowater from a disaster caused by the AllSpark. Return to Cybertron: Part 2

Titan Revenge of the Fallen comics

NEST set up a secret armoury under the Alamo, that big famous landmark, thinking it would be safe there. Shockingly, it wasn't! Tankor was caught raiding it but he'd taken hostages from the tourists, demanding safe passage out. Using quick thinking and surprise tactics, Springer and Jolt ended the situation. Rules of Engagement

IDW post Revenge of the Fallen comics

NEST had a base in an old nuclear shelter in Odessa, which the Autobots prepared to hold Soundwave. Unfortunately Soundwave's plane crashed. Nefarious #3 NEST continued to use it as a base of operations anyway, until eventually Soundwave turned up there and told them he'd found where the Initiative were hiding. Nefarious #4

Prime cartoon

After Bulkhead damaged the Nemesis's navigation system, Starscream suggested they use the Giant Sized Array in Texas so the space bridge would lock onto Cybertron's coordinates. Soundwave took charge and even slaughtered a human there, but the three human children the Autobots befriended got wise to what was happening and GroundBridged there. Despite their best efforts, Soundwave fended them off and axed a wire, preventing any further disruption to the Decepticon operation. Darkness Rising, Part 5

Shockwave was digging up Predacon remains in a Texan oil field when Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Smokescreen turned up to stop him. The ensuing fight devastated the oil field, and the Decepticons managed to get away with a chunk of the fossil anyway. Project Predacon

Notes

• The Generation 1/Generation 2 Decepticon Clench has "Texas" written on his European license plate.

External links

• Texas at Wikipedia