User:Alientraveller
Hi, my name is Chris, and I wrote several Transformers-related articles during my time at Multiversity Comics.
- Transformers at 40: What the Robots in Disguise Taught Me About Being Human - 2024
- Ten Transformers Who Deserve a Live-Action Paramount+ Spin-Off - 2024
- Transformers: Beast Wars #1 review - 2021
- Bumblebee movie review - 2018
- It’s Over, Finished: The End of IDW’s Transformers - 2018
Surprisingly many thoughts about the Thirteen
I like the Thirteen, who've got me back into collecting the toys, as I'm a big Lord of the Rings fan; it's nice Transformers effectively has its own take on the Valar, and Megatronus and Solus Prime have huge Sauron/Galadriel energy. (Although I still imagine them being voiced by Virginia Madsen, and the late, great Tony Todd.)
I used to think Omegatron should've have been the name of the Fallen, until I saw Transformers One, and realised it's much easier for a kid to understand how Megatron would be derived from Megatronus.
Like many, I'm not a fan of the idea of Optimus being the Thirteenth Prime. I think IDW '05 did well with the concept, but given how different their cosmology was, it really was an exception that proves the rule. (While on the subject: I think it would've absolutely made sense for the Quintessons to be the Transformers' creators in that continuity, especially with how it skewed older.) If I were overseeing my own Transformers series, I'd pick between the following instead:
- Rung, bringing them full circle
- Rodimus Prime, further preventing the implication a Prime is simply the best because he's a reincarnation
- Nova Prime, although like Zeta and Sentinel, I still see him as an interim Prime
- Solomus/Tyrest, who is a member of the Thirteen in the pre-Aligned continuities now. However, I think it'd be more interesting to treat the Guiding Hand as Primus's fellow Light Gods.
- Omega Supreme, who's certainly old enough, though like Optimus, the character deserves better than the baggage of being an original Prime.
- Last Autobot, another official member of the pre-Aligned Thirteen, who's basically what Omega should've been. I think it would make a lot of sense, if only because it would completely explain his absence.
