Destiny, Part Four
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| "Destiny" Part Four | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | August 28,2013 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | August 2013 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Penciler | Guido Guidi | ||||||||||||
| Inker | Stephen Baskerville | ||||||||||||
| Colorist | John-Paul Bove | ||||||||||||
| Letterer | Shawn Lee | ||||||||||||
| Editor | John Barber | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity | ||||||||||||
It's a knock-down, drag-out slugfest for the ages as Ultra Magnus and Galvatron square off in the midst of Bludgeon's attack on Cybertron!
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Synopsis
Galvatrondescends through the skies overCybertronlike a comet, streaking straight towardUltra Magnus.A momentary sense ofdéjà vucauses Magnus to hesitate, and Galvatron rockets into him, toppling both of them off a bridge, through a building and into the traffic below. Galvatron boasts of having slain Magnus before, causing Magnus to suspect he is insane—but regardless of his foe's mental stability, his strength is self-evident, and Magnus's reputation as "Cybertron's greatest warrior" is set to take a beating at the time-displaced Decepticon's hands!
Deep beneath Cybertron's surface, inPrimus's chamber, the Transformers' creator-god communicates withHot RodthroughGrimlock's body, explaining that heexists across all space and time,and thus did not perish during the battle withUnicronas his children believed. Primus informs Hot Rod that he is "Prime", and that in order to fulfil that destiny, he must come to understand a "disease" eating away at reality. Primus casts Hot Rod through a portal to the mysterious realm ofZero Space,before departing Grimlock's body, leaving the onlookingDinobotswith no memory of what has happened.
As Ultra Magnus and Galvatron grapple, the Autobot commander hurls his foe off him by firing one of his shoulder-rockets into him at point-blank range, hurling him off the overpass they are fighting on.Bladesthen appears, having been sent to find Magnus when he failed to respond to the call to arms against the Decepticons'Warworld,which floats overhead. TheWarworlddisgorges a swarm ofBlitz Engines,which begin tearing through the Autobots that attempt to stop them, but when Magnus transforms to roll out so that he can join the fight, Galvatron bursts from the rubble and lands atop thevehicle modeAutobot.
At the Autobots' command center in thePresidium,Prowl,KupandPerceptortry to co-ordinate a counterattack against the Blitz Engines. Kup insists that he and theWreckersbe allowed to take the field, but Prowl refuses, insisting that the commando squad needs to be applied strategically, only he does not yet knowwhere.Perceptor, at least, has an idea: his scans have revealed that the Blitz Engines are not self-sustaining, and are, in fact, being powered byMatrixenergy from a remote source. This source has to be aboard theWarworld,and that is where the Wreckers will strike.
Ultra Magnus barrels down the highway with Galvatron atop him, angrily declaring that he has no time for the Decepticon with the greater threat of theWarworldand its forces hanging over them. Galvatron insists that he will destroy the other Decepticons once he is done with Magnus, but Magnus is above caring—he blasts the road bridge ahead, and slams on his brakes, screeching to a halt at the bridge's broken edge, momentum hurling Galvatron's forward. But as he falls, Galvatron manages to grab Magnus's bumper, and drags him over the edge with him.
Up above, aboard theWarworld,Krokadvocates the use of the vessel's own weapons, and althoughBludgeonis opposed to devastating the world he wishes to rule, he agrees that a single, symbolic strike is a good idea, selecting the fallen Magnus and Galvatron as his target. The resultant blast is miles in diameter, wiping out whole city blocks... but the Autobots have some "big guns" of their own to roll out in retaliation, as Prowl activatesOmega Supremeto take on the Blitz Engines! However, Bludgeon has anticipated Omega's involvement, andSoundwaveis on hand to orderMonstructorinto the fray to take on the giant Autobot. Soundwave is about to withdraw before the titanic conflict kicks off, but finds his way barred byBlaster!
Fire sweeps the Cybertronian landscape, theWarworld's blast having set it ablaze. For long moments, the inferno rages unabated... until at last, a victor emerges from the conflagration...
...and it is Ultra Magnus, who has decided it's time to start living up to his own hype!
Featured characters
(Characters initalic textappear only in flashbacks or visions.)
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
"Blades! About time! Did nobody notice me fighting for my life here?"
"Uh....no."
- —Ultra MagnusandBlades
"Just like Bludgeon said..."
"Indeed, Wingthing. Every move the Autobots have made, he has anticipated...and countered.Monstructor,terminate Omega Supreme- with extreme prejudice! "
"Hold up, Soundwave- this is one party youain'tleavin'..least not 'til the fat lady sings! "
- —WingthingandSoundwave,the latter of whom is caught monologuing byBlaster.
Notes
Continuity errors
- Despite being shown making it to safety under Primus's visage in the last issue, along with the other Dinobots and Hot Rod,Snarlis nowhere to be seen in this issue. (AnotherTFTMhomage, maybe?)
Continuity notes
- Ultra Magnus remarks that it was possiblyEmirate Xaaronthat coined the term 'Cybertron's greatest warrior'. That term (and a relationship between Magnus and Xaaron) originates from the Marvel UK comics also written by Furman. Although the UK comics as a whole are not in-continuity with Regeneration One, this line suggests a similar relationship may have nevertheless existed between the two Autobots in this timeline.
- In Simon Furman's original Marvel UK stories, Galvatron and Ultra Magnus had a running rivalry that never got the chance to be fully resolved. In a spiritual sense, this story serves as that resolution, even though a) the Marvel UK stories aren't part ofRegeneration Onecontinuity (as made clear by Magnus's comments in this issue that he's never met Galvatron), and b) even if they were, this is a different Galvatron from another timeline and not the one who fought Magnus (however, it seems that this Galvatron has previously defeated Magnus in his own timeline).
- This issue is full of subverted homages to Galvatron and Magnus's classic blow-out brawl from the eighth chapter of "Target: 2006".As in the original story, Galvatron clings to the roof of Magnus'svehicle mode,and Magnus screeches to a halt to throw him off a broken overpass... except where Galvatron was sent flying in the original story, here, he seizes Magnus's bumper on the way down and drags him with him. Then, at the issue's climax, both combatants are consumed in a fireball, but where "Target: 2006" saw Galvatron emerge triumphant, here, Magnus is the victor, appearing through the flames in a direct full-page, three-panel homage.
- Zero Spacehas been lurking on the fringes of theRegeneration Onestoryline since the very beginning, withissue #80.5.
- Little-seenAction MastercharacterKrokputs in another brief appearance serving as confidant and adviser to Bludgeon, as he did in the last few issues of the original Marvel series.
- Prowl swears byStraxusand hissmelting pools,artifacts of Marvel continuity from back in issues#17and#18.
- Omega Supreme's got his reputation back as a world-shakingly powerful tool of destruction, as he was back in his debut inissue #19;this rep took abit of a beatingas the original series rolled on.
- Wingthing not only gets another appearance in this issue but even gets totalk,something Soundwave's other beast-form minions were rarely shown to do in the US series after the first few issues.
- The idea that Primusexists simultaneously across all of time and spacehas been knocking around for a while, and is here used as an explanation for his continued existence after his apparent death inissue #75—which was something most fans hadtaken as readfor a while, too.
Real-life references
- When Windbreaker is killed by a Blitz Engine, his death is accompanied by the sound effect "PARP". That's... a-heh... that's a bit of British onomatopoeia for farting. 'cause, well... y'know.Windbreaker.(giggle)Simon Furmannoted on his blog that it was an homage to long-running characterJohnny Fartpantsfrom the "adult" comicVizand that he had considered "HONK", "CHUFF" and "QWOFF" as alternatives.[1]
Transformers references
- ThemissilestheWarworldfires on page 9 are drawn to resemble thesafety"bopper"missilesused by Italian toy companyGiGfor theirPre-TransformersTrasformer[sic]line, down to the coloring. Italian artistGuido Guidi,who drew this issue, grew up with the GiG toys.
- Galvatron threatens to "crush the life from [Magnus] with [his] cold bare hands!", an extended paraphrasing of Megatron/Galvatron's famous line fromThe Transformers: The Movie:"I will crush you with my bare hands!"
- Ultra Magnus swears by the "Great God Ginrai", the story repurposing theSuper-God Masterforcecharacter's name as that of some kind of deity (since we assume he's not swearing by ateenage human truck driver).
- Omega Supreme going up against Monstructor seems to be a reference to the characters' history together over the in the mainstreamIDW continuity,as established in Furman's ownSpotlight: Optimus Prime(and later in more detail inthe 2012Robots in Disguiseannual).
Furminated
- A couple of generics are killed in the Blitz Engines' initial volley.
- Catilla gets fried by a Blitz Engine; maybe Chainclaw too.
- Windbreaker gets a huge spike shot through him by a Blitz Engine.
Covers (3)
Cover A
Cover B
Cover RI
- Cover A:The Aerialbots attack theWarworld,byAndrew WildmanandJason Cardy.
- Cover B:Omega Supreme versus the Blitz Engines, byGuido Guidi.
- Cover RI:Galvatron atop avehicle modeUltra Magnus, byGeoff SeniorandJosh Burcham.
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