Head Games

Transformers Timelines « Beast Wars: Uprising
"Head Games"
Publisher	Transformers Collectors' Club (online exclusive)
First published	March 16, 2015
By	David Bishop & Jim Sorenson
Illustrations by	William Mangin
Continuity	Beast Wars: Uprising
Page count	30pp

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Maximals	Predacons	Builders	Others
Armordillo (2) All-terrain vehicle (7) Knockdown (9) Backstop (10) Cybershark (11) Lio Convoy (12) Bighorn (14) Survive (15) Corahda (16)	Buzzclaw (1) Ser-Ket (4) Wreckloose (8)	Supersonic (3) Fortress Maximus (13) Squeezeplay (17) Crumplezone (18) Growl (19) Windsheer (20) Bulge (21) Blackjack (22) Gran (23) Plasma (24) Kord (25) Crack (26) Shock (27) Bomb (28) Thunderblast (29) Wreckage (30) Steamhammer (31) Bonecrusher (32) Broadside (33) Tankor (34) Motorhead (35) Roller Force (36) Ground Hog (37) Barricade (38) Spark Grid (39) Dirt Digger (40)	Dipole (5) "hunched, crab-looking thing" (6)

Notes

Errors

• "Hear" is used in place of "here" in the sentence "This Fortress Maximus is no more a Builder than the transport that brought you hear is part of you."

Transformers references

• The given origin for Fortress Maximus is broadly in line with "The Rebirth".
• The following characters are mentioned or referenced, but do not appear in the story proper: Diver, Drancron, Frostbite, Vamp, Omega Sentinel, Rage, Autostinger, Nightviper, Scourge, Razorclaw, Megatron, Liege Maximo, Trypticon, Cerebros, Spike Witwicky, Daniel Witwicky, Galen Witwicky, Zebres, Emissary, Gasket, Grommet, Cog, Cog, Koka, Onomisu, Cheetor, Grimlock, Preditron, and the Tripredacus Council. The "Titans" are also referred to as a group.

Real world references

• Wreckloose (or his fragments, to be specific) is described as being "green and purple." This does not accurately describe the pre-existing character/toy that the Wreckloose in this story repurposes... but it does accurately describe the color layout for Undermine. This, coupled with the fact that Buzzclaw can't get Wreckloose's name quite right seems to be a sort of in-joke about the Collector's Club itself. An early announcement from the Club mistakenly swapped the two names for the Cybertron iterations of these characters. Said announcement was also filled with mispelt character names. Just when you thought they couldn't find more ways to slip in obscure references in their stories!

External links

• "Head Games" PDF at transformersclub.com (no membership required to download)