LG-EX Blue Big Convoy
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| "LG-EX Blue Big Convoy" LG-EX ブルービッグコンボイ
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| First published | 2019 February 23 | ||||||||||||
| Manga | Hayato Sakamoto | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | G1 World | ||||||||||||
| Packaged with | Legends LGEX Blue Big Convoy | ||||||||||||
Blue Big Convoy teaches the meaning of "Convoy" to his son.
Synopsis
[edit]In a future beyond the 21st century, Cybertron is turned into a technorganic world thanks to Optimus Primal's sacrifice, and with its rebirth Vector Sigma becomes an ultra-computer that governs the planet and creates a new generation of Transformers to protect it. Several of these are "Convoy Type" Maximals, named and patterned after Optimus Primal in honor of his memory, and these end up at the top of Cybertron's hierarchy. However, one of their number—Blue Big Convoy—renounces the notion that Convoys are special and refuses to be part of the their ruling body, whom he accuses of overindulging in the power of their Energon Matrixes. He tells his son, Big Junior, that while he believes that peace between Maximals and Predacons is the only way forward, said peace will someday end when the special treatment afforded by Convoys triggers an uprising by those seeking equality.
Blue Big Convoy and Big Junior fight together in many a battle in defense of peace, until one day, Blue Big Convoy is struck down protecting his son from a force of mysterious energy-seekers. When Junior despairingly asks why it came to this, his father responds that it's because he's a Convoy—a Convoy is nothing special, merely someone who fights to protect others. Before passing away, he asks Junior to take his left arm to replace his own destroyed appendage, then dubs him "Big Convoy" in recognition of his son's ability to protect others as well. Witnessing his father's death because of him leads Big Convoy to adopt a lone wolf nature, unwilling to fight alongside others as he doesn't want them to get hurt. Some time later, while an older Big Convoy is skipping out on Survive's instructions, Vector Sigma summons Great Convoy to tell him that the mysterious enemies were likely searching for Unicron's energy. Expecting a new Great War of the horizon, the computer announces it will prepare for the coming chaos by re-mechanizing Cybertron and asks Great Convoy to focus on educating new recruits.
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
[edit]- This comic is unusual among main-series Legends strips in that it features no Legends World characters or story elements, instead being a straightforward Beast Wars Neo prequel set entirely in the Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity. This is likely due to Legends being in the midst of the heavily serialized "The Road to Legends' Revival" storyline at the time of Blue Big Convoy's release or a desire to explain a continuity discrepancy (see below) before Legends ended.
Continuity notes
[edit]- This story patches up a longstanding continuity discrepancy that existed between Beast Wars Neo and Beast Machines. In the former, Cybertron was depicted in its traditional appearance as a metallic world, just as it had always been in every Transformers series up to that point. In the latter, which takes place tens of thousands of years before Neo, Cybertron becomes a Technorganic planet, with its environments a hybrid of both organic and mechanical. As Beast Wars Neo was made earlier, it could never account for the later developments of Beast Machines, so this inconsistency remained for a good number of years prior to this comic's release.
- The events of this comic span an impressive length of over tens of thousands of years. It begins right as Beast Machines ends, while the rest of the first page takes place at some point prior to Beast Wars II, as Galvatron is implied to have not yet begun his campaign of searching for Angolmois Energy on Gaia. The second page, meanwhile, is set after Beast Wars II but prior to Beast Wars Neo since the Blentrons' hunt for Angolmois Energy occurred after the energy was extracted from Gaia and dispersed throughout the universe in Angolmois Capsules, which happened in the final episode of Beast Wars II. This means that Cybertron was re-mechanized after being Technorganic for tens of millennia.
- The person who reproaches Big Convoy is barely seen, but his visible hand (or, rather, boxing glove) shows him to be Star Upper.
Transformers references
[edit]- The notion of Vector Sigma as the specific creator of the Convoy Transformers originates from a statement given in Episode 25 of Car Robots, wherein Fire Convoy revealed that both he and God Magnus were created by Vector Sigma.[note 1] Plus, in both that episode and the previous one, God Magnus revealed that Vector Sigma is the one who gives the Energon Matrix to its bearer, and later stated in Episode 35 that an Energon Matrix is only supposed to be used by Transformers of the "Convoy Class". The latter notion calls back to an earlier statement first given in Episode 26 of Beast Wars II, wherein Moon revealed that only "Commander Class" Transformers have an Energon Matrix. This story brings everything full circle with Vector Sigma creating the Convoy Transformers and granting each of them their own Energon Matrix.
- The group searching for Unicron's energy comprises Fuzors from the Hasbro Beast Wars toyline, their being energy-seekers affiliated with Unicron effectively repurposing them as Blentrons, who used Fuzor molds.
References
[edit]- ↑ In the English dub version, Robots in Disguise, this was changed to instead credit Alpha Trion as the creator of Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus.
