Liege Maximo
- Liege Maximo is a Decepticon from the Generation 2 portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Evil is infinite, a natural counterforce to good in the universe that cannot be truly defeated. So when the first Prime was created, so was, necessarily, the ultimate evil. Having no known name, he is known only by his rank. He is the Liege Maximo, and from him Megatron and the Decepticons were descended.
The Liege Maximo's throne sits at The Hub, a network of planetoids that exists in the outer fringes of known space.
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Generation 2
With the Liege Centuro Jhiaxus destroyed, Jhiaxus's fleet wiped out by The Swarm, and the Autobots and Decepticons united in peace under one banner, Rook reported to the Liege Maximo on the day's devastating events. The Liege Maximo, an ancient and monumental titan, accepted the destruction of Jhiaxus' forces as merely a minor disruption. Sneering at the Transformers' alliance as a fragile thing, the Liege Maximo promised a day of reckoning. A Rage in Heaven!
Convention Stories
Reaching the Omega Point
The Covenant witnessed a vision of the ancient past, in which the Liege Maximo tore the Matrix of Leadership from the defeated Primon. When and why this happened remain unanswered questions.
Alignment
The Liege Maximo's ultimate goal was to ascend to the realm of the Dark Gods. Two Transformer groups, one led by Grimlock and one by Ultra Magnus & Megatron, disrupted this process. Wounded by Megatron, the Maximo panicked and entered his portal early, causing it to collapse and kill him. (This story did not receive Hasbro approval and is of debatable canonicity)
Notes
- Simon Furman intended for the Liege Maximo to be one of the 13 original Transformers, but like Alignment, the exact canonicity of this is unknown.
- The notion of all Decepticons having descended from the Liege Maximo and thus being inherently evil is arguably incompatible with most other iterations of the Transformers mythos which posit the Autobot/Decepticon divide and subsequent conflict as political rather than racial, and being a matter of free will. Furman's retcon flies in the face of instances where characters have changed allegiance, and its "nature vs. nurture" notion is notably absent from his subsequent explorations of the Transformers' (and their wars') origins in other continuities such as the DreamwaveVerse's The War Within and more recently in the IDWverse.
- However, it bares some similarity to the origin in the original G1 animated series which posited that the Autobots and Decepticons were descended from Quintesson consumer goods and military hardware respectively, suggesting that the Decepticon's bellicose tendencies are inbuilt.
- Simon Furman has recently cryptically hinted in comments on his blog that the Liege Maximo may make a return in 2008 in IDW's comics.
