Chaos Theory Part 1
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| "Chaos Theory Part 1" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | July 20, 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | July 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | James Roberts | ||||||||||||
| Art by | Alex Milne | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | Joana Lafuente | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Shawn Lee | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Andy Schmidt | ||||||||||||
| Assistant editor | Carlos Guzman | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | IDW continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | Current era (2011) | ||||||||||||
Why did Megatron surrender...?
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
"Do you even feel the slightest remorse?"
"No."
- —Optimus and Megatron
Notes
- JAMES ROBERTS!
- The flashbacks takes place before Megatron Origin and fill in a lot of details that the miniseries left out: namely, why Megatron is already so angry and willing to turn to violence.
- Ratchet and Perceptor are discussing a superpower that Megatron was given in his original bio... and which almost every single G1 story since has ignored. Probably because, as Perceptor notes, throwing a black hole around is a little too silly. Ratchet talking about it as "the thing with the eyes" is apparently a reference to the story "Resurrection!", in which Megatron used said power to channel antimatter through his eyes.
- Some graffiti in Megatron's cell reads "peace through tyranny", the motto from original bio.
- The free lab on Kimia that Xaaron mentions is Ironfist's old one.
- That's right, another IDW-created interim Prime! Nominus Prime comes before Sentinel Prime.
- The Transformers are established as a pariah race, shunned by the intergalactic community and Galactic Council.
- The montage of war scenes include: Stormbringer, Infiltration, Spotlight: Arcee, The Transformers: Drift, Escalation, Spotlight: Kup, Spotlight: Shockwave, The Transformers: Ironhide, Devastation, ...For All Mankind, and Heart of Darkness.
- Sherma Bridge is a nod to the infamous Sherman Dam punchup.
- The variable voltage harness comes from the original Marvel comics. Also mentioned are Pathblasters, communicubes and Shanix from the Marvel UK comics.
- The Tremorcons mentioned are from Roberts' "Bullets", while Rung is from the "Last Stand of the Wreckers" Autopedia profiles.
- Based on his recollections of near-death experiences, Escalation apparently wasn't the first time Megatron has taken on a gun alternate mode.
Errors
- Both Megatron Origin and Spotlight: Blurr had a pre-Prime Optimus sporting a body clearly inspired by Orion Pax. Here, before either story, Optimus is already in his usual Cybertronian Optimus Prime form.
Covers (3)
- Cover A: Megatron's head; art by Marcelo Matere and colours by Josh Perez.
- Cover B: Megatron's head from Megatron Origin; art by Milne and colors by Perez.
- Cover RI: Both heads combined into one time-spanning super head; art by Milne.
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