Portland
Portland, Oregon is a city in the United States of America.
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Marvel Generation 1 comics
Portland was the nearest city to Mount St. Hilary, the site of the crashed Ark. The New Order Human friend of the Autobots Sparkplug Witwicky lived there, and was implied to have done so for years before first meeting Transformers in 1984. Specific locations in and around the city included S. Witwicky Auto Repairs & Tow Service, the corporate headquarters of Blackrock Enterprises, Blackrock Motor Speedway, Blackrock Chronic Care Institute, Jake Lomax's estate, Forbes's Garage, a ballet school, Mister O's, and the suburb of St. Petersburg.
Recordicons
Template:Classicsnote Ratbat had an award from the Portland Chamber of Commerce on the wall in his quarters. Recordicons #11
Dreamwave Generation One comics
When Ultra Magnus arrived on Earth to enforce Shockwave's edict that the Earth-bound Autobots surrender themselves to the Cybertronian alliance, Optimus Prime ordered a portion of his troops into hiding there. Brothers' Burden
Transformers/G.I. Joe
G.I. Joe and Cobra independently detected the crash of an Autobot shuttlecraft near Portland. Flint was sent to retrieve it with a team of rookies, and managed to repel a Cobra team sent to do the same thing and recover an unconscious Blaster. Targets of Opportunity
IDW Generation 1 comics
Soundwave was trapped in his cassette player mode and bought by a kid living in Portland. Spotlight: Soundwave
Notes
- It rains a lot in the Portland area, yet the inhabitants are almost always seen to be enjoying clear skies in Transformers. Perhaps rain is just a nuisance to draw.
- Portland is widely considered to be the greenest, meaning sustainable, city in the United States, and possibly the second-greenest in the world.
- Sun-bleached rock formations and dusty desert roads are in short supply in lush, heavily-forested river valleys.
- The dream of the 90s is (still) alive there.
