Transformers: Exodus
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 Apparently the war for Cybertron is all Sideways' fault. Fitting! | |||||||||||||
| Transformers: Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Del Rey Books | ||||||||||||
| First published | June 22, 2010 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Alexander C. Irvine | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Unknown (see Notes) | ||||||||||||
| ISBN | ISBN 034551985X ISBN 978-0345519856 | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 288 | ||||||||||||
| Price | $27.00 USD $32.00 CAD | ||||||||||||
The relationship between Orion Pax and Megatron before the war is explored. Also, enjoy meeting one of the original 13 Transformers.
Synopsis
Further information in this article is coming soon as it pertains to information that may not yet have been officially released. |
Featured characters
- Orion Pax/Optimus Prime
- Megatron
- Alpha Trion
- Jazz
- Sentinel Prime
- Starscream
- Omega Supreme
Errors
- Early on Bruticus Maximus and Onslaught are referred to as "Constructicons." The Constructicons here are a larger team than normal, but given that this description shortly follows a paragraph talking about definite actual Constructicons and that the Combaticons team name IS mentioned later, this seems a likely typo/error.
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Notes
- Transformers: Exodus has been confirmed to tie-in with the Transformers: War for Cybertron video game and will also be getting partially adapted into IDW's War for Cybertron comic.[1]
- Despite this intended tie-in, the stories of Exodus and War for Cybertron are completely incompatible, other than sharing a MacGuffin and some set pieces. Even the name of the Prime before Optimus differs between the two. (Sentinel versus Zeta.)
- The synopsis boldly declares "everything that happened before Optimus and Megatron arrived on planet Earth—has always been a mystery", which is a bit of a fib: various Marvel UK strips since the 80s (especially 1986's State Games), several cartoon episodes, and reams of Dreamwave and IDW comics have been set pre-Earth. Two recent stories set in the past, Megatron Origin and The War Within, appear to be contributing elements (Megs as a working class rebel gladiator and Optimus as a former data clerk, respectively), while Megatron founding the Decepticons due to his gladiatorial fame comes from State Games and previous stories have implied a corrupt or weak pre-war government.
- Apparently, the Fallen's original name (according to this book) is Megatronus Prime, presumably where Megatron himself got his name. In most fictions, The Fallen's name was lost to history, or changed. Jetfire states in Revenge of the Fallen that after one of the Primes (the one who would become the Fallen) betrayed them, "His name forevermore was The Fallen."
