Big Bang (G1)
| This article is about the Generation 1 Autobot. For the Animated Autobot, see Big Bang Prime. |
- Big Bang is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Big Bang (ビッグバン Biggu Ban) 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
Wings Universe
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
Though Big Bang was apparently present at Bruticus's massacre of Elite Guardsmen outside headquarters, he survived and joined Ironfist, Rumbler and Sprocket in coming to the aid of Magnum's team in their battle against Deathsaurus and his troops. The four of them were quickly set upon by Decepticons. Battle Lines, Part 4
Back at base, he, Thunder Clash and Dion wondered why the Gyronian Sentry Team hadn't arrived with the Combaticons yet, only to discover that the Sentry Team had been AWOL for the last decacycle. A week later, Big Bang was at the walls when the Decepticons attacked the city with their new weapon Devastator. Battle Lines, Part 5 The battle was won, but not without casualties. Battle Lines, Part 6
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 led 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.
