Great War (G1)
| The name or term "Great War" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Great War (disambiguation). |
- The Great War is a historical event that is a prominent feature of the Generation 1 continuity family.
In the Great War, Autobots wage their battles to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons.
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Marvel The Transformers comics
After eons of planning, plotting, and building up strength, Megatron and the Decepticons finally attacked, setting off global conflict of staggering proportions. Decepticon tactics were well-orchestrated, and Autobot casualties continued to mount until Optimus Prime arose from the Autobot ranks to become a warrior of great firepower and leader of great skill. With his help, Autobots were able to hold their own against the Decepticons. The Transformers
The Transformers cartoon
The Great War is known by some chroniclers of Cybertronian history as the Third Cybertronian War. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 It was during a time of peace known as the Golden Age of Cybertron that Megatron re-organized the Decepticons for the purpose of challenging the Autobots for control of Cybertron. War Dawn
Beast Wars cartoon
The key turning point in the Great War was when the Ark crew reactivated in 1984, on Earth. The Predacons Megatron and Blackarachnia have said that the Great War started in 1984, which may be how the Predacons see it as their ancestors lost. (Or it could just be an error/shorthand by Bob Forward!). The Agenda (Part III)
Shortly after the war began, Megatron would encode a message to Cybertron on the Voyager Golden Record (also known as the Golden Disk) just in case he lost. The Agenda (Part 2) The Agenda (Part III) Over time, he was replaced as leader by Galvatron, and the monster Unicron got involved too. Possession In the end, in large part thanks to help from the humans, the Autobots would win the Great War. Code of Hero
The Great War was officially ended by the forming of the Pax Cybertronia with the Autobots the victors and the Decepticons placed under heavy restrictions. A period of uneasy peace followed with the Predacons biding their time in preparation for their chance to challenge the supremecy of the Maximals. A number of Decepticons were granted amnesty.
Beast Wars Neo manga
Longrack mentioned that Unicron was a terrifying lifeform killed by the Transformers in the Great War twenty million years ago. Double Cross
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
IDW Generation 1 continuity
The seeds for the Great War were planted through many years of social stratification by an increasingly entitled upper class, who exploited everyone below them with the aid of a rigid and corrupt police system. The spark to the powder keg was provided when factions within the Senate, the corrupted government of Cybertron, arranged for an attack upon the leading Prime, Nominus Prime. By doing this, in a failed attempt to gain access to the Matrix of Leadership which had been secreted away centuries before, they also gained an excuse to introduce the "Clampdown", a planet-wide security regime which let them crack down on anyone who opposed them. Chaos Theory Part 1 As such, Kup considered the Matrix to be the root cause of it all. All Hail Megatron #6 During the Clampdown, the Autobots served as the Senate's peace-keeping force, enforcing their draconian rules. This caused frictions to rise even more and politically-minded Transformers spoke out loudly against it, only to be silenced brutally; and even now, within the Senate itself, some - specifically Ratbat - tried to exploit even the extreme social unrest for personal gain. An energon miner turned fugitive from justice turned underground gladiator named Megatron rallied a force of gladiators, escaped convicts, and other bots dissatisfied with the current leadership of Cybertron to rebellion based out of the city-state of Kaon. Megatron Origin After Megatron's defeat of Sentinel Prime, and the routing of the corrupt Senate, peace seemed possible when Zeta Prime took over command of the security forces and became the de facto leader of Cybertron; however he revealed himself as the most ruthless dictator of all. Orion Pax and Megatron found themselves working together to stop his army of Omega Sentinels, equipped with weapons of mass destruction, but after Megatron destroyed Zeta Prime with the proverbial 'Shot that started the war', the treaty ended... and the war truly began as Orion Pax - now Optimus Prime, after gaining the Matrix - and Megatron both strove to control Cybertron.Autocracy
The war continued for over four million years, turning Cybertron into a lifeless husk until the "Chaos War" against Galvatron, which ended with the planet's restoration. Most Decepticons were imprisoned, thousands of neutral Transformers who had fled during the war began returning home, and the Great War was considered over. The Death of Optimus Prime
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Foreign names
- Japanese: Great War (グレートウォー Gurēto Wō)
- Indonesian: Perang Besar (Great War)
