Return to Cybertron (sticker book)
| This article is about the sticker book. For the Kid Rhino VHS tape, see The Original Transformers. |
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| Return to Cybertron | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Books | ||||||||||||
| First published | 1984 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Suzanne Weyn | ||||||||||||
| Art by | Charles Nicholas | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 20pp | ||||||||||||
Optimus Prime returns to find Cybertron under Decepticon control.
Synopsis
Optimus Prime and Prowl are working on a "mysterious spaceship". Despite their advanced astroengineering know-how, they still need assistance from Sparkplug, who is building a device to track the spaceship's journey. The ship is a single-seater, preprogrammed to take its passenger directly back to Cybertron. Sparkplug gripes that Earth is a perfectly fine planet and he doesn't see any reason to leave, which leads Prime to regale him with yet another retelling of how the Autobots came to Earth in the first place.
Since the Autobots have been gone so long, it is imperative that they re-establish contact, even if it's just to ensure that Cybertron still exists. The discussion is disrupted by a Decepticon assault. Laserbeak and the Seekers blast through the Autobots' encampment, and a direct shot takes Prime out of commission.
Prime awakens to find his comrades slaughtered. Knowing there is nothing he can do alone, he takes the one-man ship back to Cybertron in hopes of finding reinforcements. Unfortunately, the planet is fully under Decepticon control! Prime meets an Ancient Autobot survivor who tells Prime of the Decepticons' conquest of their homeworld. Prime relates that the Autobots of Earth have fallen as well, just as the pair are ambushed by Decepticon police! The Decepticons blast Prime...who awakens in the Autobot repair bay, surrounded by his teammates. Prowl and Bumblebee tell him that IT WAS ALL A DREAM. This only steels Prime's resolve to defeat the Decepticons once and for all.
Quotes
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Notes
- Prowl is described as Optimus Prime's "helper."
- Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, Cliffjumper and Mirage have non-speaking roles. Sunstreaker's appearance consists of "being a corpse."
- Thundercracker refers to himself (and his fellow Seekers) as "beautiful mechanical birds of the sky." Oookay.
- In the flashback to ancient Cybertron, we see a guy who looks like Mirage with a red helmet and a Seeker colorscheme that is entirely original - blue with purple tailfins and trim.
- Megatron is conspicuously absent.
- On the last page, Prime is shown with his arms around his fellow Autobots, Bumblebee and... Soundwave?
- Autobot Soundwave has googly eyes.
- This book was used in the movie Spaceballs with a large Spaceballs sticker over the cover.
