Generation 1 continuity family

This article is about the continuity family. For the franchise that it contains and is named after, see Generation 1 (franchise).

The Generation 1 continuity family is the biggest, oldest, and longest-running family in the Transformers canon. Its core is all of the fiction published under the Generation 1 franchise, which got off to a bifurcated start in 1984 with the Marvel comic and Sunbow cartoon, two distinct universes starring the same cast of characters. Alongside those two main continuities there sprang up a cluster of micro-continuities in the form of books, flyers, and more comics.

As the years went on, many subsequent franchises used strands of Generation 1 lore as the backstory of their own fiction, thus joining and extending the continuity family. Even when the main Transformers franchise is separate from Generation 1, oftentimes secondary "filler" franchises will keep the continuity going. It has also been a favorite with modern comic companies, who have been publishing a relatively steady stream of G1-branded comics for most of this decade.

In Japan, TakaraTomy has not only contributed to the continuity family with unique series of its own, but it even published a controversial "official timeline" that jammed every existing franchise into the Generation 1 multiverse. (Because of the timeline's extreme unfeasibility, this wiki chooses to effectively disregard it... or at least take it with a mineful of salt.)

Franchises

The size and complexity of the various component continuities make them very difficult to list properly. So instead we will list all of the franchises whose fiction makes up this continuity family:

• Generation 1
• Generation 2
• Machine Wars
• Beast Wars
• Beast Wars II
• Beast Wars Neo
• Beast Machines
• Universe (2003)
• Heroes of Cybertron
• Binaltech
• Robot Masters
• Kiss Players
• Classics
• Universe (2008) (Classic Series & Generation 1 Series only)
• Henkei! Henkei!