Las Vegas
Las Vegas is an ostensibly real human city in Nevada.
Fiction
Generation One
Dreamwave Comics Continuity
The Keepers Trilogy
Starscream staged a hostile takeover of Las Vegas, signing a lucrative (and exclusive) deal with media mogul Darren Norbert to commoditize worldwide interest in a city where humans live side-by-side with Transformers as the backdrop for the reality-television series Real Life—Transformers Style.
Setting up court in the MGM Grand casino, Starscream initiated Project Renewal, designed to turn Vegas into some sort of lurid sideshow paradise more of a lurid sideshow paradise, where the slots pay out more money than they take in (paid for by outside investors,) adventure is in the air, every man a winner, every cop a hero, and anyone can be a star.
He officially rechristened the city New Vegas, though the locals privately refer to it as Dirty Vegas, while loving every minute of it.
Starscream's reign came to an end when the all-powerful Keepers returned with Megatron. Though he resisted Megatron's attempts to re-take the Decepticon forces (appointing Skywarp his second in command after Soundwave left) he was less successful at resisting the Keepers.
New Vegas's era came to an end when the joint Autobot/Decepticon invasion to unseat Starscream reduced much of the casino district to smoking rubble, and the President of the United States attempted to nuke the city. Keepers Trilogy
The engine of commerce that drove New Vegas was publicly said to be its high-profile media coverage, but the real incentive for outside investors was the Decepticon technology Starscream was offering. Long after New Vegas had fallen, it lingered.
Locations
- Palms Grayson Hotel - Fictional hotel where the Decepticon sympathizer Buckingham laid a trap for LVPD officer Ryan O'Brien.
- MGM Grand - Casino Starscream used for his base of operations.
- Mirage - Casino where one of the patrons was goaded into going on a rampage for the cameras.
Unicron Trilogy
Panini Armada comic
In 1957 while excavating to construct a new casino, construction crews unearthed a fragment of the Mini-Con ship Exodus containing the Land Military Mini-Con Team. It was transferred to Area 54 under care of the E.R.T.D..
Movie continuity
Transformers: The Junior Novel
The final battle takes place in Las Vegas, instead of Mission City like it does in the film. For information about the battle, see the Mission City article.
Revenge Of The Fallen film
Leo Spitz confusingly assumed that they had arrived in the Vegas desert after Jetfire teleported him, three other Humans, three Autobots and one tiny, foul-mouthed, recently defected Decepticon there via space bridge. As it turns out, he was wrong and they were actually in Egypt.
Titan Magazines Revenge of the Fallen comics
Las Vegas was the location of an old car with Cybertronian innards and "ancient knowledge". Grindor arrived to carve those innards out, and ended up in battle with a NEST strike team. Learning Curve
External link
- Las Vegas at Wikipedia
