LG-EX Blue Big Convoy
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漫画トランスフォーマーレジェンズ出張版 第EX話
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| First published | February 23, 2019 | ||||||||||||
| Manga | Hayato Sakamoto | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity | ||||||||||||
| Packaged with | Legends LGEX Blue Big Convoy | ||||||||||||
Blue Big Convoy teaches the meaning of "Convoy" to his son.
Synopsis
In a future beyond the 21st century, Cybertron is turned into a technorganic world thanks to Optimus Primal's sacrifice, and with its rebirth Vector Sigma becomes an ultra-computer that governs the planet and creates a new generation of Transformers to protect it. Several of these are "Convoy Type" Maximals, named and patterned after Optimus Primal in honor of his memory, and these end up at the top of Cybertron's hierarchy. However, one of their number—Blue Big Convoy—renounces the notion that Convoys are special and refuses to be part of the Convoy Council, who he accuses of overindulging in the power of their Energon Matrixes. He tells his son, Big Junior, that while he believes peace between Maximals and Predacons is the only way forward, said peace will someday end when the special treatment afforded by Convoys will trigger an uprising by those seeking equality.
Blue Big Convoy and Big Junior fight together in many a battle in defense of peace, until one day when Blue Big Convoy is struck down protecting his son from a force of mysterious energy-seekers. When Junior despairingly asks why it came to this, his father responds that it's because he's a Convoy—a Convoy is nothing special, merely someone who fights to protect others. Before passing away, he asks Junior to take his left arm to replace his own destroyed appendage, then dubs him "Big Convoy" in recognition of his son's ability to protect others as well. Witnessing his father's death because of him leads Big Convoy to adopt a lone wolf nature, unwilling to fight alongside others as he doesn't want them to be hurt. Some time later, while an older Big Convoy is skipping out on Survive's instructions, Vector Sigma summons Great Convoy to tell him the mysterious enemies were likely searching for Unicron's energy. Expecting a new Great War to break out, the computer announces it will prepare for the coming chaos by re-mechanizing Cybertron and asks Great Convoy to focus on educating new recruits.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Maximals | Predacons/Vehicons | Blentrons | Others |
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Notes
- This comic is unusual among main-series Legends strips in that it features no Legends World characters or story elements, instead being a straightforward Beast Wars Neo prequel set entirely in the Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity. This is likely due to Legends being in the midst of the heavily serialized "The Road to Legends' Revival" storyline at the time of Blue Big Convoy's release.
- The group searching for Unicron's energy comprises Fuzors from the Hasbro Beast Wars toyline, their being energy-seekers affiliated with Unicron effectively repurposing them as Blentrons, who used Fuzor molds.
- The hand of the person who reproaches Big Convoy belongs to Star Upper.
- In Beast Machines, Cybertron became a hybrid environment of both organic and mechanical, but in the subsequent era of Beast Wars Neo, Cybertron appeared to be a planet of machinery only.
