San Francisco

Yellow cars this way... green cars that way...

San Francisco, California, seems to be a multiversal sufferer of Transformers-related abuse. It has been targeted for nukes at least twice—once it was hit successfully, and another time it was "only" contaminated by nuclear fallout.

And yet the rent is so high. We don't understand. Makes you long for the days when it was only being savaged by weird robot scorpions that hatched out of asteroids or angry gestalts.

Fiction

Generation 1 continuity family

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformers cartoon

When an asteroid scorpion was accidentally hatched in a battle between the Constructicons and Omega Supreme, it got hungry and flew down to San Francisco to feed. It gnawed on the tip of the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Transamerica Pyramid|{{#if:||Transamerica Pyramid}}]] and caused general mayhem in the city before it was lured back into space by Omega Supreme. The Secret of Omega Supreme

The Headmasters cartoon

Scorponok planted a giant alien carnivorous plant in San Francisco. The local authorities and an Autobot rescue force proved incapable of stopping its rampage until Fortress Maximus arrived and sliced it up. Head On!! Fortress Maximus

Later, after she was injured in a plane crash in the Andes Mountains, Carly Witwicky was transported aboard the Queen World to a San Francisco dock. The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel The Transformers comics

The tourist trade never recovered.

Clifford Dietz, a friend of Spike Witwicky, lived in San Francisco. The Man in the Machine!

Marvel Generation 2 comic

Jhiaxus of the Cybertronian Empire fired upon San Francisco with an energy weapon of some sort, vaporizing the city to a radius of several miles—simply as an "up yours" gesture to Optimus Prime. Dark Shadows!

Regeneration One

Regeneration One continues from the Marvel US series, and does not include the UK stories or any subsequently published stories.

The Wreckers found San Francisco had been destroyed years ago, but in a different cataclysm to the one above. Loose Ends, Part 1

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Events from The Transformers Trilogy novels are in italics.

Great, there go my insurance rates again.

As part of his plan to eradicate Earth and to emphasise to Optimus Prime that humans weren't worth fighting for, Megatron launched a massed assault on San Francisco. Devastator tore through the city before the Autobots arrived to stop Megatron, but the damage was still extensive. Prime Directive #4

Then General Hallo decided to fire a nuclear missile at the city to wipe out all the Transformers, forcing Superion to sacrifice his life to save everyone else. While the actual missile strike was stopped, the shock wave from the blast still hit the city. Prime Directive #6 San Francisco was contaminated with radiation from the fallout. Hardwired

Hearts of Steel

Stanford Merriweather and his daughter Kitty lived in San Francisco in the late 19th century. Their house was destroyed in a battle between Ravage and Mark Twain. Thankfully, that seems to be the only damage the city suffered. Hearts of Steel #3

2005 IDW continuity

Events identical to those of Hearts of Steel occurred in the 2005 IDW continuity. Strange Visitors

In 2008, the Decepticons attacked San Francisco. We didn't see it and nobody seemed bothered, probably figuring "well of course they have". All Hail Megatron #3

Years later, Kup, Ayana Jones, Garrison Blackrock, and Action Man battled Tomax Paoli and his bodyguard Centurion in San Francisco. Astonishingly, the city survived entirely intact. Strange Visitors

After Unicron had been defeated, Jazz oversaw the city's repairs, aided by humans and Space Knights, where Sofía Orozco tried to interview him only to be harshly rebuked. Post

Star Trek vs. Transformers

James T. Kirk attended Starfleet Academy in San Francisco. Prime's Directive, Part Three

Calm Sleep Stories

At a drive-in movie theater, Optimus and the Autobots caught part of a [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Bullitt|{{#if:movie set in San Francisco|movie set in San Francisco|Bullitt}}]]. History of the Transformers

Live-action film series

IDW movie comics

The Decepticons Dead End and Swindle landed in San Francisco, where Swindle blew some crap up to distract the Autobots—geez, now the city isn't even a main target. Alliance #3

Bumblebee film

Bumblebee met up with Optimus Prime on the Golden Gate Bridge. Bumblebee

Shattered Glass

San Francisco, and all of California for that matter, are all but gone. Professor Arkeville said that the '80s were particularly brutal, and the worst damage done to the whole west coast was implied to have happened in 1988. Whether San Francisco was even around at the time is unknown, but based on past experiences, it ain't looking good regardless. Eye in the Sky

EarthSpark cartoon

After the Great War spilled over to Earth, the Battle of the Bay took place in San Francisco. The battle cost Dot Malto a leg and a friendly fire incident by the Autobots blew up the G.H.O.S.T. lab where Meridian was working. Age of Evolution, Part 1

Notes

• According to Jim Sorenson, in the Beast Wars: Uprising continuity, San Francisco was destroyed from space during the Great War.<ref>Post by Jim S on the Allspark Forums, 2016/10/18</ref> They just can't catch a break, even in authorial intent.

References

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External links

• [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}San Francisco|{{#if:San Francisco's non-exploding history|San Francisco's non-exploding history|San Francisco}}]] at Wikipedia