User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Alpha Trion/Conceptual History
This is a sandbox to draft a "Conceptual history" section for Alpha Trion.
Outline
- Introduced in Sunbow 1985
- Founder of Cybertron via Quint rebellion
- Keeper of Vector Sigma
- Doesn't really cross over to Marvel etc
- Mystical angle played up via the Vector Sigma thing going forward after The Transformers
- Becomes strongly associated with Primus
- Uncommonly consistent across incarnations
- Founder angle brought back in 2010s in a big way while leaning into the mystic stuff even harder with Thirteen integration
- Fun Pub junk about not being a multiversal singularity and then being promoted to multiversal singularity and then immediately demoted again when those stop being a thing and yadda yadda
- consistently Thirteen guy from then onward
Conceptual history
Alpha Trion makes for quite the exquisite corpse for a guy whose whole thing is being the last old fart standing. First created by writer Beth Bornstein and character designer Floro Dery for the eponymous 1985 Generation 1 cartoon episode "The Search for Alpha Trion," he was initially presented as a thinly sketched hermit acting as a deus ex machina of sorts for the debut adventure of Elita One and her Female Autobots, described in the script as "implicitly the creator of several of the Autobots."[1] Subsequent retcons by a revolving door of writers throughout the cartoon would build up to make him comically vital to the entirety of Transformer history, building Optimus Prime and Elita One,[2] overseeing the life-giving supercomputer at the heart of Cybertron,[3] bearing (albeit not using) the Matrix of Leadership of leadership for generations before it found its way to Optimus,[4] and finally, proving pivotal to the founding of Transformer society itself as a co-leader of the original rebellion against their Quintesson creators.[5]
It would ultimately be that second one that stuck, as Trion found himself backgrounded as the "mystical exposition" guy for much of the next twenty-five years beginning with BotCon purveyor 3H Productions' post-Beast Machines fiction couching him as the earthly representative of Generation 1 Marvel comic-derived creator deity Primus through his connection with aforementioned computer Vector Sigma in 2001. A conspicuous outlier came in the form of his 2009 appearance in the more ground Animated cartoon, where the hermit thing was thrown out to depict him as a leading Cybertronian politician on the Autobot High Council.
References
- ↑ Script, "The Search for Alpha Trion"
- ↑ "War Dawn"
- ↑ "The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1"
- ↑ "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4"
- ↑ "Forever Is a Long Time Coming"
