Talk:The Big Broadcast of 2006 (issue)

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There's no exclamation point in the title of my copy. Was it added for a later printing? It should move to "The Big Broadcast of 2006 (issue)" otherwise. -- Repowers 02:30, 28 June 2009 (EDT)

US continuity "errors"

The errors section added for US continuity was unnecessary.

Rodimus Prime and Galvatron's origins are unexplored.

  • The same is true for dozens of Transformers, in every continuity.

Cyclonus and Scourge are also present, but they previously appeared to US readers without explanation in Brothers in Armor!!.

  • And nothing from that issue makes them being present later unlikely, so what's the problem?

Rodimus Prime mentions a past battle between him and Galvatron inside Unicron. This event is... highly unlikely in the mainline comic continuity, especially if this Rodimus Prime is a Matrix-enhanced Hot Rod.

Slingshot was consumed by Swarm in the Generation 2 A Rage in Heaven! (which happened chronologically before this issue).

  • Here, you were trying to reverse engineer continuity errors, because #43 doesn't fit with stories that happened years after it. If anything, the later stories would be the "errors" because they contradict Big Broadcast.

But seriously, #43 was clearly not meant to be in continuity with the rest of the comic. So just accept it as an alternate timeline, or a micro-continuity, and let's not analyze all the different ways it doesn't quite match up with a story it was never intended to match up with. --Xaaron 22:50, 20 September 2009 (EDT)

Good points, except I personally disagree that it should reflexively viewed as an alternate timeline or micro-continuity. It (the US version) is presented straight-up as an event that happened in 2006. It may be true that the production staff didn't give much thought about continuity, but so what? - Starfield 23:05, 20 September 2009 (EDT)
Well, at the very least, it's definitely set in the future and not in the mainstream Marvel US continuity. We should note that in these articles, like we do with the Rhythms of Darkness! stuff. The fact that this future doesn't interact with the present in any way should be noted too. Finally, articles should NOT repeat the same information verbatim if they happened substantially identically in two different continuities. That's just silly. A one line 'This also happened in an alternate future of the marvel comic' should be fine.--Jimsorenson 16:46, 21 September 2009 (EDT)
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