Withered Hope

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Six mysterious travelers unwittingly end up on Axiom Nexus.

Synopsis

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Writers: Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop<br /> Pagecount: 47pp<br /> Originally published: online exclusive for the Transformers Collectors' Club on May 8, 2008 <br /> Illustrations: Matt Kuphaldt


(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Humans

Quotes

Notes

Errors

  • On page two, "calmed" is mistyped as "clamed."

Transformer references

  • As you might expect, what with this being a GoBots story, there are several references to various characters and concepts from the Challenge of the GoBots cartoon.
  • The basics of GoBot physiology are repeatedly noted, including their organic brains, race-wide robot-mode flight systems, built-in weapons systems which operate on "power packs" and self-repair capabilities.
  • While Leader-1 is the only GoBot outside of the main cast of the story who identifies himself by name, Renegade leader Cy-Kill and Turbo are easily recognisable by their descriptions.
  • "The doctor" who delivers the address that opens the story (later referred to as "Doctor B" by Bad Boy) is Doctor Braxis, the evil human ally of the Renegades.
  • The GoBots' "level" system for classifying parallel universe originates in the two-part cartoon story, "Invasion from the 21st Level", in which insectoid monsters from another dimension are brought into the GoBots world using the "Dimensional Interfacer" device that plays a role in this story. The GoBots classify the Marvel Comics coninuity as the twenty-second level.
  • The Astro-Beam is a space bridge-esque teleportation system used by both the Guardians and Renegades to transport their troops from Gobotron to Earth.
  • The TransTechs have cataloged 15,962,782 universal streams, and they have a sophisticated classification system for all the timestreams they've cataloged. Each universe they mention refers to a specific existing Transformers continuity. The classification listing begins with a noun that describes the continuity family, a number which refers to the date of origin (in the real world), and a Greek letter that indicates the form of media. For example, the "Primax 984.0 Gamma" thread refers to the Generation 1 Marvel Comics continuity, the first issue of which was cover-dated September 1984.


  • Tyran - the Movie continuity family


  • Malgus - The Animated continuity family.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup>


  • The GoBots only wind up on Axoim Nexus after being caught in the wake of a group of dimensional travelers from the Malgus (Animated) family. As the story notes that travelers from Malgus are rare, this particular group is presumably Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Sari Sumdac making the trip seen in "Bee in the City".
  • Cheetor and Cryotek both make reference to the death of Black Shadow, which happened in the previous prose story "Gone Too Far".
  • When Bug Bite fixes himself up with a replacement head at the conclusion of the story, he remarks that he has failed to "match the shade" on his new noggin, referring to the fact that the Bug Bite toy's head is a distinctly brighter, whiter color than the rest of its body.

Real-world references

  • "Withered Hope" is a song by They Might Be Giants. References to TMBG are one of Greg Sepelak's trademarks.
  • Based on his description, the robot that Treds and Bad Boy question on the whereabouts of Bug Bite is (a version of) T-Bob, the neurotic kid-appeal robot character from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.A.S.K." class="extiw" title="wikipedia:M.A.S.K.">M.A.S.K.</a>.
  • Bug Bite announces that "the jig is up, the news is out, they finally found me", a line from the Styx song... "Renegade". See what they did there?

References

<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0"><a href="#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> Malgus was only mentioned in the story without revealing the continuity family it represented. "Bee in the City" would later confirm it was the Animated family.</ol>

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