Robotix
The Robotix are a race of warring, shape-changing robots: one side of peaceful heroes, the other of sinister villains! They used to all be organic creatures, a reptilian race, but a cataclysm sent most of their population into stasis and four agents each of the heroic Protectrons and evil Terrakors were turned into robots to rebuild their world of Skalorr... but the Terrakor leader wants galactic conquest! Their war is without end, but the arrival of humans into the conflict may save the day!
Parts of this may sound familiar, and it should, for the Robotix are actually the Transformers in the Xobitor universal stream!
No, seriously. <ref>Chapter 5 of Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II</ref>
Their homeworld also includes a race of rock monsters that can transform to and from immobile rocks. Hey, that's also familiar!
Fiction
Two Xobitor dimensions have been recorded, and the Compu-Core of the planet Skalorr is known to be a Vector Sigma node. Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II
Notes
- Robotix were a Hasbro toyline in the 1980s which, of course, got their own Sunbow cartoon and Marvel comic. Unlike some of the other franchises with this arrangement, the comic was just one issue and the cartoon was just fifteen six-minute shorts without a series. The shorts were later collected into "Robotix: The Movie".
- Robotix's comic was run as a back-up strip in Marvel UK's Tranformers from #51-4.
- The cartoon shares several voice actors with Transformers, such as Corey Burton, Peter Cullen, and Frank Welker. Cullen plays the villain leader Nemesis who sounds... oddly Optimus-like. Now the Robotix have been retconned into being Transformers, that becomes a bit sinister...
- The Robotix rock monsters predate GoBot's infamous Rock Lords by a year. Thanks to retcons and homages, there are now three Transformers universes known to have transforming rock creatures in them. See what happens when you let fans run the asylum>
