Unreliable Narratives
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| "Unreliable Narratives" | ||||||
| Original presentation | 10:00am June 30, 2013 (BotCon) | |||||
| Written by | Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop | |||||
| Continuity | Aligned continuity family | |||||
Kup tells Hot Shot a story. And then another one.
Synopsis
In the middle of a pitched battle, Kup has just finished telling Hot Shot one of his trademark war stories, much to the younger Autobot's chagrin. The elder of the two Wreckers notices that their Decepticon opponents are not standard Vehicons, but instead sport experimental Enemy-class drone bodies. Kup was in fact present when that design was first tested, and, despite his companion's protests, he decides to tell that tale...
It is the midst of the war for Cybertron. Ultra Magnus has just taken over the Wreckers, Megatron is fueled by Dark Energon, and boxy shapes and glowing stripes are in fashion. The war isn't going so well for the Autobots, so new Wrecker Kup decides to decides to try and bring Wheeljack, who had left after a falling out with Ultra Magnus, back into the team. He finds the warrior engineer sitting on a pile of dead Decepticons, and the pair exchange tough guy banter until Wheeljack finally opens up. He has been scavenging the wreckage of newly-minted Decepticon heavy troops, and has found that they're clad in nanocrystal lattice armor created in his old laboratory in Ankmor. Kup expresses surprise that the surly loner Wheeljack is a scientist, but nevertheless agrees to join him in a strike on the Decepticon science installation that has set up shop there.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
Notes
Transformers references
- Kup mentions Regulon Four, a planet originally established in one of Generation 1 Kup's stories in "The Rebirth, Part 2".
- Kup quotes his Generation 1 counterpart's line about appreciating experience from The Transformers: The Movie.
- Hot Shot bemoans being in constant jams.
- Hot Shot notes that Optimus Prime is unlikely to "put [them] on his shoulder and fly [them] away", in reference to Tommy Kennedy's interaction with Optimus in "Season 5" of the Generation 1 cartoon.
- The Enemy-class drones are named after Enemy, who shared a body with Generation 1 Rumble and Frenzy.
Real-world references
- Wheeljack paraphrases the "layers" line from DreamWorks film Shrek.
