What Lies Beneath
| The name or term "What Lies Beneath" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see What Lies Beneath (disambiguation). |
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 I miss my Soundwave! | |||||||||||||
| "What Lies Beneath" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Dreamwave Productions | ||||||||||||
| First published | February 25, 2004 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | February, 2004 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Guido Guidi | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Elaine To, Ferd Poblete | ||||||||||||
| Colors | David Cheung, Elliot Kravchik, Jong-Im Lee | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Ben Lee | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Dreamwave Armada continuity | ||||||||||||
Rad and Carlos attempt to fight off the Terrorcons on Earth. Meanwhile, Unicron's four horsemen begin their attack on Cybertron.
Synopsis
[edit]Kicker flees on a motorcycle from Battle Ravage as the Terrorcons devastate the Alterenergy excavation/drilling operation site in Australia. Carlos reports all of this to Rad via satellite, and Rad reveals to Kicker's father that they have some past experience with the Transformers. As the Australian Air Force flies in to put a stop to them, a group of environmental protesters, led by Alexis, mistakes them for troops sent to disperse them and gets belligerent. That is, until she sees Kicker, with Battle Ravage still hot on his heels. As Rad gets into a hovercraft and heads off to try and rescue Kicker, Alexis shoots a flare directly into Battle Ravage's face, blinding him long enough for the pair to escape as the rest of the Terrorcons shoot down the jets.
On Cybertron, Optimus Prime is trying to convince the Council that Unicron is still alive. Unfortunately, they believe in neither his survival nor Optimus Prime's meeting with Alpha Trion, and refuse to act. They authorize Optimus Prime's request to go to Earth, but only on the condition that Prime goes there alone. The other Autobots grumble about this, but their complaints are cut short as Unicron's Four Horsemen begin their assault!
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Others |
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Terrorcons
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Quotes
[edit]"Transformers?"
"Ye-eh. Transformers. It's...a wild story. Been what, Carlos, ten years?"
"Ten years, two months, three days, and some odd hours and minutes. Not that I've been counting..."
- —Rad and Carlos tell Dr. Jones about their totally normal childhood
"Direct hit on target. Attempting to confirm kill..."
"The killing...STARTS NOW!"
- —Scorponok is not amused by the humans' presumption
Notes
[edit]Transformers references
[edit]- The vehicles used by Alexis and her fellow protesters are pretty clearly inspired by Generation 1 Brawn and Gears.
Errors
[edit]- The Australian Air Force uses "F-19 Viper" fighters, while in reality the F-19 designation has never actually been used for a fighter plane, the "F-19s" here looking like real-world F-22s.
Other trivia
[edit]- Readers' mail is answered by Roger Lee and includes fan art.
- The Wavelengths page advertises "More Than Meets The Eye: Armada" and contains an article from the desk of John Ney Rieber.
Covers (1)
[edit]- Regular Cover: Battle Ravage, art by Guido Guidi.
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[edit]- Generation One #3
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- SD trading card game
- More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada
- Devil May Cry Book Two Superbeast
- Transformers: Generation 1 vol. 2: War and Peace TPB
- The Dark Ages #6
- Energon #21
- Devil May Cry #1
- Duel Masters #4
- Generation One #2
- Transformers/G.I. Joe #6
- The Dark Ages #5
- Neon Genesis Evangelion DVD
- Duel Masters #5 (back cover)
