Titan (group)

This article is about the tremendously huge and powerful Transformers. For the ruined Cybertronian city, see Metrotitan (ROTF). For a list of other meanings, see Metrotitan (disambiguation).

Metrotitans are a type of Transformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Gotta catch'em all!

Metrotitans are giant city-sized bots, created millions of years ago by the Knights of Cybertron to act as their living ships, and capable of tremendous feats such as teleporting across vast distances. Some claim they had Super Sparks that allowed them to straddle multiple planes of existence where they communed and divined, but certainly even their sparkless remains stay interconnected, allowing the unscrupulous to hunt them.

Known Metrotitans include:

• Metroplex
• "Metrotitan"

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

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Cyclonus claimed that the Metrotitans still existed on Cybertron during his time, and that he used to pray in their shadow. You, Me, and Other Revelations Ultimately, most of them departed with the Knights of Cybertron aboard, and by the time Cyclonus had become part of Nova Prime's inner court, only two "Titans" remained on Cybertron, both in hiding. One slumbered in secret beneath Crystal City, and was guarded by Omega Supreme. When Nova discovered the city and allied himself with Omega, the guardian hid the titan's existence from him. His recalcitrance paid off when Nova fell into megalomania and departed Cybertron to conquer other worlds, at which point Omega revealed the Metrotitan to Nova's abandoned former follower, Dai Atlas. Omega explained that the titan would only awake in the presence of a great Cybertronian, but that it would be Dai Atlas's task to protect it until then. When the Autobot/Decepticon war subsequently broke out in the following millennia, Dai Atlas became a conscientious objector and gathered together several like-minded Transformers to form the Circle of Light, and used the energies of the Metrotitan to power their departure from Cybertron. All Good Things Settling on the planet Theophany, the Circle built a new Crystal City atop the still-sleeping titan, continuing to use its energies to power their new home. You, Me, and Other Revelations

The other remaining Metrotitan, Metroplex "the first Titan" The Reluctant Specialist, remained slumbering as the "Acropolex" for millennia more, until the early days of the Autobot/Decepticon War when the new Prime, the former Orion Pax, woke him with the Matrix of Leadership to aid him against Zeta Prime and Megatron. Rise After the battles were done Endgame, he served as Autobot headquarters for some time until he departed the planet mysteriously. One group of Decepticons, led by Bludgeon, attempted to follow, and travelled to a planet where he was refuelling, but Thundercracker woke him rather than inform his superior, and prompted Metroplex to teleport onward before Bludgeon discovered his presence. The Hunting Party

At some point afterward, Shockwave obtained his space bridge nodes to install them in Megatron's new body Spotlight: Megatron, apparently forcing him to travel physically through space thereafter.

Millions of years later, the few remaining Metrotitans were growing increasingly decrepit and weak from underfuelling, and were easy prey for Lockdown and his group of Titan hunters, who killed them, then took them to be stripped down for profit before using the remains to find the next one. Following a signal to the Lost Light, which had a sloughed-off piece of Metroplex aboard that had recently struck the ship, they aimed to use it to detect Metroplex himself, before being forced off by Trailcutter without their prize. The Reluctant Specialist

At some point, Crystal City was razed by the mysterious Legislators, leaving no sign of life, save the Metrotitan slumbering underneath. When the crew of the Lost Light arrived to investigate, a subsidence sent them tumbling into the cavern beneath the city where the titan lay, and they decided to enter its very body so that the their resident mnemosurgeon Chromedome could tap its brain and hopefully find out what had befallen the Circle of Light. Doing so, Chromedome discovered that the titan's mind was still alive and screaming in frustration—it had heard the call sent out by Cybertron upon the planet's reformatting to "come home", but having been drained by the Circle for so long, it lacked the necessary power to teleport its giant bulk across space. With the titan willing to destroy itself to separate its spark from its body in order to return home, Brainstorm used miniaturization technology to shrink the giant down to a size that its reduced power could teleport away from the planet. You, Me, and Other Revelations

The shrunken titan successfully quantum jumped back to Cybertron, to its old home in Crystal City, but wound up physically enmeshing its molecules into those of the city, causing a destabilization of local reality. As Autobot scientist Wheeljack worked to contain the impending disaster, Prowl and Starscream got closer to the titan, and were shocked when it awoke, crediting Starscream's presence as the reason. The titan dubbed Starscream the conqueror who would unite Cybertron and thanked him for allowing him to awaken one last time, then bid the Transformers to depart so that they would not be destroyed along with it. The titan was then obliterated as reality erupted in an antimatter explosion. All Good Things

Toys

Generation 1

Yeah, I saw Big and I went against it.

• Metroplex (Autobot City, 1986/2008)
  • Japanese ID number: C-70
  • Accessories: Scamper, Scamper's arms/cannons (x2), Scamper's small laser pistol, Slammer, Slammer's turret, Sixgun's body/tower, Sixgun's chestplate/tower top 2 red cannons/Sixgun's legs, 2 black cannons/Sixgun's arms, Sixgun's laser pistol, double-barreled cannon, rear tower, shoulder antenna, 2 fists, 2 kneecaps, 3 missiles

Metroplex transforms from a large robot to a multi-leveled "city" mainly for use with the smaller Generation 1 toys. This mode includes a service bay with launching mechanism, a helipad, and "parking" for four vehicles in whatever his legs fold out to be. He also has a third mobile battle station mode; a more compact wheeled form that incorporates his many weapons. Additionally, his weapons are all moulded with universal-sized pegs that allow them to attached in several different configurations and locations (for example, in the otherwise-pointless holes in his kneecaps in city mode). Metroplex came with Six-Gun, Slammer, and Scamper; the first two formed various parts of Metroplex's alternate modes. Metroplex's kneecaps also connect in various places in slots on his legs, both in mobile mode, and in city mode on the opposite side (near the knee joint).

• See Metroplex (G1)#Toys for more information

Zone

• Metrotitan (Decepticon, 1990)
  • Japanese ID number: D-340

A redeco of the Autobot Metroplex, Metrotitan transforms from a large robot to a multi-leveled "city". This mode includes a service bay with launching mechanism, a helipad, and "parking" for six vehicles in whatever his legs fold out to be. He also has a third mobile battle station mode; a more compact wheeled form that incorporates his many weapons. Additionally, his weapons are all molded with universal-sized pegs that allow them to be attached in several different configurations and locations (for example, in the otherwise-pointless holes in his kneecaps in city mode). Metrotitan came with Metroshot, Metrotank, Metrodash and Metrobomb; the first two formed various parts of Metrotitans's alternate modes. He was retooled to include a special Micromaster-style ramp with a unique attachment at one end, meant to utilize the attachment bracket for the "Scramble City" leaders' base modes.

• See Metrotitan (Zone)#Toys for more information

Transform Jr

• Metroflex (1987)
  • Japanese ID number: C-70
  • Accessories: Black gun

The Transform Jr version of Metroplex shrinks and simplifies the original toy, omitting his city mode, all of his partners, his antennae, and his entire armament save for one black rifle. Toy be plaaaaain.

Encore

• Metroflex (2008)
  • Encore number: 12

In September 2008, Metroplex was reissued in Japan in Takara's Encore line. This version features a minor retool to allow Slammer's gun turret to become the top of a building in city mode. The Encore version also has the chrome upper legs and rubber wheels of the initial releases.

Generations

He really wants your Money. Big time.

• Metroplex (Titan Class, 2013)

The centerpiece of Hasbro's 'Thrilling 30' anniversary campaign, Generations Metroplex stands 24 inches tall in robot mode, snatching the title of "tallest Transformers toy ever produced" from the original Fortress Maximus toy by a two inch margin. Like his original incarnation, he can assume rolling battle station and city alternate modes, and he is scaled to interact with any Legends Class and Cyberverse sized toys, although the concurrently released Generations Legends class two-packs are specifically intended to work nicely with him. He boasts voice clips and lights, including light-up pupils which can be 'posed' to look in different directions, a flip-down visor to emulate his 1980s cartoon appearance, and has the many ramps, repair bays, and launch pads one would expect of a city-bot.