Talk:...And the Damage Done: Dark Cybertron Finale

Are we sure the Tailgate/Tailpipe thing isn't just an error? Escargon (talk) 21:03, 29 March 2014 (EDT)

Having read the comic, yes. Nightbeat's "error" is specifically addressed in the issue by Cyclonus's retort, so it's not a "fourth wall" mistake in the dialogue. Nightbeat was deliberately written to say Tailpipe instead of Tailgate. --Xaaron (talk) 21:32, 29 March 2014 (EDT)

Moreover, while I can buy Nightbeat wouldn't make that mistake accidentally... it seems pretty clear he made the "mistake" to wind him up, given that's what the rest of the sentence is him doing! The whole note seems a bit... overwrought. - SanityOrMadness (talk) 22:07, 29 March 2014 (EDT)

I don't think it's in Nightbeat's character to feign ignorance for the sake of flippancy. He's a showoff, the "Look at what I know!" type, not the "What was his name...you know who I'm talking about, right?" type. And of all the "misstated" names he could've used, he uses the name of a character introduced at the start of Dark Cybertron as being Cyclonus's crewmate on the first Ark, a roster and mystery we've know Nightbeat is intimately familiar with since Spotlight: Nightbeat.

Could it mean nothing? Sure. But I think it bears noting. --Xaaron (talk) 11:11, 30 March 2014 (EDT)

I agree that it's intriguing and in my mind at least harks back to Cyclonus's words in "Cybertronian Homesick Blues" when he said there was a Tailpipe but no Tailgate on the Ark-1. Nightbeat obviously knows more about Cyclonus than he's letting on though I do think SanityorMadness nailed it when they said he was doing it to wind him up. --Emvee (talk) 16:02, 1 April 2014 (EDT)