Crystal City Metrotitan
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- The Crystal City Metrotitan is an ancient Transformer from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The "Crystal City Metrotitan" lays dormant beneath the Crystal City—originally the ancient Crystal City of Cybertron, and later the Circle of Light's new Crystal City on Theophany—waiting to be awakened by a Cybertronian destined for greatness.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
This Metrotitan was one of two who remained behind on Cybertron after the rest departed, slumbering beneath Crystal City and guarded by Omega Supreme. When Nova Prime discovered the upper city and allied himself with Omega, the guardian hid the Titan's existence from the Prime. 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 more respectful former follower, Dai Atlas. Omega explained that the Titan would only awaken in the presence of a great Cybertronian, but that it would be Dai Atlas's task to protect it until then. When the Cybertronian Civil War subsequently broke out in the following millennia, Dai Atlas became a conscientious objector and gathered together many 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
At some point, Crystal City was razed by Tyrest's 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. 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 obliterated soon after as reality erupted in an antimatter explosion. All Good Things
When the Necrotitan appeared near Crystal City, many Transformers including Starscream himself mistook it for the Crystal City Metrotitan. Winners & Losers
Notes
- The Necrotitan would later appear in the Dark Cybertron storyline in a color scheme that was a desaturated version of the Crystal City Metrotitan, as artist Andrew Griffith mistakenly believed they were the same 'bot.
