Mike Franklin
- Colonel Franklin is a human character from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Colonel Franklin is an officer in an unspecified branch of the United States military.
Fiction
Animated continuity
Cybertron
Years before the start of the series, Franklin was caught in a river rafting accident at the Green River Rapids. A man (presumably his father) tried to save him, but was unsuccessful. Ultimately, however, the Transformer known as Evac came to his rescue.
This instilled a knowledge to understand the creature that had saved his life, and Franklin began a life-long pursuit of this knowledge. He immersed himself in studies of sightings of strange vehicles and beings, and later joined the United States military to have access to classified information.
Sightings of the Earth-dwelling Transformers turned his attention to a town in Colorado. He began to closely watch Coby Hansen, his brother, Bud, and their friend, Lori. In addition, he made contact with Dr. Lucy Suzuki, who had discovered artifacts that ultimately turned out to be remnants of an earth-dwelling Transformer civilization.
Eventually, during the appearance of Starscream's army of Ancient Decepticons, he took the people living in Coby and the other children's town into government custody, and tried to learn the location of the Autobot's base from the children, only for them to be saved by the Recon Mini-Con Team. Franklin also observed battle between the Autobots and Starscream's Decepticons, and noticed that there was a significant tactical difference between the two groups.
Franklin would soon after reveal himself to the Autobots, where he revealed his story and was finally reunited with Evac. He presented himself as a friend, and would attempt to help the three Transformers who would become the Cybertron Defense Team after they sustained near fatal damage from Megatron. Franklin became an indispensable ally, and Earth's main representative to the Transformers.
Franklin also struck up a relationship with Lucy Suzuki, which resulted in her proposing marriage to him (she presumed he was proposing at the time). According to the final credits of the series, she and Franklin did marry, and had a child together.
Trivia
There is some small controversy in regards to Franklin's name. In Galaxy Force, his full name is Mick Franklin. However, in his flashback to his encounter with Evac, the man trying to save him calls him "Franky." So, his full name in the US cannot be detirmined - however, he is formally addressed as Franklin, so it is more likely that Franklin is his surname.
