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
"They say he can use this weird inter-dimensional circuity to syphon from... from a black hole. You know, in space. So."
"With respect, Ratchet, that sounds—that just sounds stupid."
- —Ratchet and Perceptor
"So. How are we going to play this? Are we going to spend the next hour posturing, or are we going to rise to the occasion and actually have a civilised conversation?"
"'Rise to the occasion'? What is this, a summit meeting? I'm bolted to the wall, I'm riddled with inhibitor chips, and I'm precisely one rash gesture away from being electrocuted to death. It's hardly conductive to a frank exchange of views."
"Fair point. [unbolts] Take a seat."
- —Optimus and Megatron
"I look back over the last four million years and recognize that there have been only two constants: hate... and you."
- —Megatron
"Look me in the eye and say you want it ended, and it will end."
- —Optimus
"Do you even feel the slightest remorse?"
"No."
- —Optimus and Megatron
"Understand this. So long as you stand in my way- so long as anybody stands in my way, I will respond by killing. Murder on an industrial scale. Because in the final analysis, I would happily wade across a river of corpses, chest-deep in grease and engine oil just to crush the spark of the last Autobot standing. And I would do so not simply as a means to an end, no. I'd do it, Prime, because it would give me pleasure."
- —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.
- Impactor and Megatron are sitting in Maccadam's NEW Oil House.
- 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.
- Cybertron used to have apartheid based on if you were forged or constructed cold; this was supposed to no longer matter near the end of Nominus' reign.
- 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", Last Stand of the Wreckers, 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 had taken on a gun alternate mode.
- The plot element of Optimus and Megatron having met before the war, and the former agreeing with the latter's ideals, is reminiscent of another Optimus Prime and Megatron.
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. It is also possible however, that Optimus's appearance in these new scenes is his original configuration, whereas his appearance in Megatron Origin is his formal appearance for the funeral, as it is a similar design. In Spotlight: Blurr, a possible explanation is, that he had taken on a new alternate mode, changing his robot form. Than once becoming a Prime, he most likely reverted back to his original configuration.
- Despite Megatron's recollection of being trapped in a gun alt-mode after the Battle for Hell's Point, Prime's recollection of the fight shows Megatron having the Don Figueroa-designed body that transforms into a Cybertronian tank. It is, of course, possible that Megatron was forced to withdraw and swap alt-modes in the midst of that battle, only to return later.
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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