Big Bang (G1)
- Big Bang is an Autobot from the Return of Convoy portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Big Bang is the Elite Guard's Communications Officer, aided by the fact that his lack of an indoor voice ensures everyone in audioshot will be paying attention when he speaks. Though he's certainly big enough to give any Decepticon pause, he spends his time at headquarters performing duties such as helping with mission briefings, rather than serving on a field team.
Like many of the Elite Guard, he's a bit dismissive towards anyone who isn't a fellow soldier.
Fiction
Timelines: Wings of Honor continuity
Before the Great War with the Decepticons began, Big Bang operated as part of the Autobot Guard in an infantry team named the "Advanced Observation Unit." After the battle on Beta Nine, the AOU would be reconfigured into the new Elite Guard. Sentinel Major's Wings of Honor profile
Comm Officer Big Bang ran a mission briefing for the Combaticons and Metalhawk's strike team alongside civilian attache, Alpha Trion. Despite his own feelings on the matter, Big Bang instructed the Elite Guardsmen that they were to report to Median and assist in the excavation of an archeological find by a group of civilian historians. Their discovery included a long-abandoned factory designed for parallel production of Cybertronian mechanoids. While Alpha Trion "concluded" these factories may have been the answer to the growing divide between Autobot and Decepticon factions, Big Bang was quick to point out that Alpha Trion's conclusions were not officially recognized by council authorities. Flames of Yesterday
Notes
- Big Bang was an Autobot originally designed to act as the new Supreme Commander during the post Zone storyline which eventually turned into Return of Convoy. Big Bang would have been the successor to Dai Atlas and lead Iron Baron and Star Garry against the forces of Dark Nova, or possibly Unicron (Unicron was shown as the line's villain in early production sketches). Big Bang was later discarded in favor of the Return of Convoy angle, which resurrected Optimus Prime as Star Convoy.
- Until 2010, Big Bang had never appeared in any official, finalized Transformer media, although what scant information there was on him could be found in the Japanese Transformers Generations Deluxe guidebook.
