Rodimus Jr. Does His Part! Defeat the Beast of Legend
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| "Rodimus Jr. Does His Part! Defeat the Legendary Evil Beasts" ロディマスJr.が大活躍! 伝説の魔獣をやっつけろ
(Rodimus Jr. ga Daikatsuyaku! Densetsu no Majū o Yattsukero) | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Kodansha | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Super BomBom | ||||||||||||
| First published | May 1987 | ||||||||||||
| Manga by | Ikuo Miyazoe | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Generation 1 continuity family | ||||||||||||
Rodimus Jr. must follow a prophecy to defeat the Decepticons.
Synopsis
After a survey out in space, Rodimus Convoy Jr. and Yūji initiate a warp back to Earth. In the meantime, Galvatron commands a spaceship nearing the planet. With the vessel's Dimensional Cannon, the Decepticon leader seeks to bring Earth to chaos and finally succeed against the Autobots. But when the cannon fires, Rodimus Jr.'s spaceship completes its warp just in time to catch the full brunt of the beam, enveloping its inhabitants with a strange light. Galvatron is baffled at nothing happening while an underling notes that something must have got in the way. It'll take three hundred hours to recharge the cannon's energies before it can fire another shot. Rodimus Jr. doesn't feel anything out of the ordinary until he turns and sees Yūji gone... and his voice comes from within Rodimus—the strange light must have merged human into the Transformer's body! They finally notice the gigantic Decepticon ship, awed by its size.
Seeing Blitzwing fly out, Rodimus Convoy Jr. realizes they must be in the midst of the enemy's headquarters and decides to stick closely to the battleship, lest they be spotted. Galvatron orders the battleship to fly out, promising to attack again once the cannon is recharged. Rodimus Jr.'s smaller ship, however, ends up being dragged to a planet by its gravity when the Decepticon ship flies nearby. Rodimus Jr. comes to underwater, only to find that he's actually in the boiling cauldron of absolutely gigantic aliens! Seeing the robot, the aliens immediately kowtow to the Transformer and Rodimus Jr. turns on his translator to understand their constant utterances of "piki", finding that he's regarded as the "small giant" and a "messenger from god". While Rodimus Jr. is seated on a fancy chair (that's too big) and served some fine food, the elder of the giant alien tribe introduces legendary stone tablets passed down through the generations. Yūji notices the tablet is adorned with the visage of Rodimus Jr. and even their ship—legend states that when suffering comes to the tribe, a "small giant god" would come to their aid. When asked what ails them, the elder explains that devils calling themselves the Decepticons have been taking members of their tribe as slaves thanks to their planet having raw materials like energon cubes that the villains require. Rodimus Jr. can't let this stand and asks about the other figure on the tablets, who is said to be a demonic monster who spurns god and possesses five faces. The Autobot figures that if he defeats this beast, peace will return, but the elder isn't too sure how to bring that about and brings their supposed savior to the entrance of a small cavern shrine that serves as a shortcut to the Decepticon base—the giants are too big to enter it themselves.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Others |
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Notes
- "Rodimus Jr. Does His Part! Defeat the Legendary Evil Beasts" is likely just a tagline for the title page, but we need a better title than "Transformers 2010", so.
Real-world references
- Galvatron's ship is visually based on the Jawa Sandcrawler from Star Wars.
- The "giant aliens" are blatantly based on the Tusken Raiders, also from Star Wars.
