Meantime (G1)
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| This article is about the Generation 1 watch-Decepticon. For the Movieverse Decepticon, see Meantime (Movie). |
- Meantime is a Decepticon from the Dreamwave portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Meantime apparently likes to watch gladiatorial matches.
Fiction
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
Meantime was there to witness Megatron's execution of Emirate Xeon, amongst a group of Decepticon spectators. The War Within #2
Notes
Origins
- This character originated as a nameless background character in Dreamwave Productions' 2002 comic issue The War Within #2, a story featuring many cameos by obscure Takara toys. In particular, line artist Don Figueroa drew the 1983 Micro Change toy MC-6 Watch Robo (ウォッチロボ), with colorist Elaine To giving him a generic colour scheme. As the mold's sole Transformers-branded release came in 1993's Generation 2, in 2009 a TFWiki user would document the comic cameo on the "Autobot (G2)" page despite the Dreamwave character appearing in an audience of Decepticon sympathizers, not to mention the Generation 2 release having a distinctive silver deco. In 2015, the Facebook edition of Ask Vector Prime would turn all the decoes of Watch Robo into individual Transformers characters, exploiting the Dreamwave character's incidental resemblance to the 1983 black deco which had never been released in Transformers. Conveniently, the 2007 Transformers toyline had also introduced dark-colored Decepticon watch named Meantime. Thus, the Dreamwave character was christened as a Generation 1 incarnation of Meantime.
