TRANSFORMERS
WAR for CYBERTRON
TRILOGY
STEGE
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War for Cybertron - Siege is just overloaded with Transformers references
Hey folks! I did an article for POLYGON about all the lovely Transformers lore you can find in Transformers: War for Cybertron: Chapter One: Stege Siege, the new Transformers cartoon that popped up today on Netflix!
There are spoilers! So go watch it before you read this.
GOD STARSCREAM
ikindamaybewanthertositonmyface asked:
Hey, do you think Armada might be what eventually led to IDW Megatron turning good, and Starscream, well he's a politician, but he's not mwa haha evil anymore. Cause I may be wrong, I haven't seen everything Transformers, but as far as I know Armada was the only time Starscream, if fleetingly, turned good, and Megatron helped the Autobots fight Unicron in the end and even sacrificed himself to stop him.
itswalky answered:
Starscream also turned good at the end of the Marvel Generation 2 comics, due to the influence of the Creation Matrix that he stole. And as for Megatron, he turned benevolent and allied with Optimus Prime for a while during a time of peace while the two were Action Masters over in Japanese continuity. Megatron also kinda wandered off with a change of heart at the end of the Prime cartoon. Plus Megatron WOULD have renounced his evil ways and truce it up with Optimus at the end of Dark of the Moon, but they changed the ending after earlier drafts to the ending we got where Optimus kills him instead of going “well okay.” Both Starscream and Megatron are generally non-evil politicians in TransTech fiction. And, of course, both are good guys in Shattered Glass.
Wait, there was an alternate draft of DOTM that didn’t end with Michael Bay shoving his bullshit post-9-11 definition-of-heroism in our faces?
Oh, wait, that must have been what happened after he saw the script.
“What?! Heroes don’t act like that! They don’t grant their enemies mercy or truces! They perpetuate cycles of violence and hate above all else! Now where’s Megan? I need to sexually humiliate someone.”
The best part of the new ending for me was that the IDW preview comics were seemingly leading up to the original ending. John Barber was writing this story about how Optimus Prime was becoming too bloodthirsty from years of war and Elita-One was trying to pull him back from the edge. The idea, I believe, was to culminate in the original ending of Dark of the Moon, where Optimus would accept Megatron’s offer of a truce, ending the cycle of violence.
But instead, Optimus Prime responded to Megatron’s offer by putting an axe through his head.
So.
Y’know.
Ah-heh.
- Transformers - More Than Meets The Eye # 30 Preview
Oh, Starscream. You done fucked up. You done fucked up BAD.
In other words… you were Starscream.
Cross-contributed to Disciples of Boltax…
Fresh from 1984 - and imported over the Atlantic, besides - have a trio of promotional mini-posters featuring Soundwave, the Decepticon jets, and Megatron, made using stills from the earliest Transformers comic and toy commercials. These ridiculously high-resolution scans were made, respectively, from Marvel UK’s Transformers #4, #5 and #6.
I actually scanned these some time ago, but at the time wrote them off as being useless because, due to the terrible color reproduction involved, they were incredibly red-tinged. However, I recently learned about Photoshop’s “Variations” tool (which is kind of embarrassing, given how long I’ve had the program), and my new stab at fixing them up produced much better results. Megatron is still terribly yellowish, though.
Fun fact: in these scans, Starscream is the one with the grey chest and white/red wings! These early ads seem to have been the source of his first Marvel Comics color scheme, which appears to have switched the grey to blue because of comics’ limited color palette at the time.
There were also mini-posters featuring Optimus Prime and the Autobot cars, but their animation designs didn’t change as drastically, so I didn’t scan them at the time. Might go back and do them anyway now…
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