Starscream Never Doubt Me Again Soundwave Operation

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"What did it cost?" "Everything."
"Anniversary"
Publisher	IDW Publishing
Outset published	November 14, 2018
Cover engagement	Oct, 2018
Written by	John Barber
Art past	Sara Pitre-Durocher (pg one-ten), Andrew Griffith (pg 11-14, 17, 32, 36) Alex Milne (pg 15-16, 20, 26-29, 33-35, 37-40), Kei Zama (pg 18-19, 21-25, xxx-31)
Colors by	David García Cruz and Joana Lafuente
Letters by	Tom B. Long
Editor	David Mariotte
Continuity	2005 IDW continuity
Chronology	Current era

In the terminal boxing against Unicron and his servants, many of our heroes are called upon to make the ultimate cede in order to show that organized religion and compassion tin can triumph over the fearfulness and chaos born from the legacy of the Primes.

Contents

• 1 Synopsis
• 2 Featured characters
• three Quotes
• 4 Notes
  • 4.1 Continuity notes
  • four.ii Transformers references
  • 4.three Real world references
  • 4.iv Errors
  • 4.5 Deathlist
  • 4.vi Other trivia
  • 4.7 The Lost Colonies of Cybertron
  • iv.8 Covers (6)
  • four.9 Advertisements
  • 4.10 Reprints
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Synopsis

Mount Rushmore has become the new home of all the sparks that were being nurtured within Trypticon, having been removed from the Titan to keep them safe during the battle that now rages in Globe orbit. Equally Marissa Faireborn comforts Buster, Jetfire and Windblade make it with the Aerialbots, who have been brought at the asking of Soundwave to help with a program that may yet relieve the 24-hour interval...

Chaos reigns above the Earth equally an army of Autobots, Decepticons, and everyone in-between—transported into space by Trypticon and Metroplex—attack Unicron and its servants, keeping them occupied in order to permit Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker to transport Optimus Prime, Arcee, and the Talisman down to Unicron's surface. The stubborn Slide is reluctant to join the battle, unwilling to fight and die in the proper noun of Optimus Prime. Punctuating her words, Trypticon becomes the get-go to autumn, slain by one of Unicron's eye-beams.

Down below, all across the World, from Venice to São Paulo, the planet'south heroes and villains fight alongside their alien allies to defend their world against Unicron'south Maximals. In Toronto, Shockwave and Rhinox watch from the CN Tower as Stardrive and G.I. Joe battle the Maximals in the streets below. Shockwave deems the fight a lost cause, and contacts Bludgeon, ordering him to bring his Worldsweeper down from orbit to collect Shockwave and Rhinox and then that they may leave the Earth to its fate, and deal with Unicron some other mean solar day. Bludgeon, even so, refuses; ever a servant of anarchy, he has thrown in his lot with Unicron, rapturous at the notion that he will exist able to sentinel the entire universe be uncreated at the planet-eater'due south hands. Shockwave is dumbfounded at the very idea, just barely has fourth dimension to procedure Bludgeon's expose before he is attacked from backside by Rhinox; this one time-loyal Maximal has also decided to side with Unicron afterward learning that the divine "Onyx Prime" whom he in one case believed in was nothing but a fox played by Shockwave. Shockwave attempts to fire on Rhinox, just to discover that the new cannon-arm the Maximal provided him with will non work on the Maximals. Rhinox overpowers Shockwave and tears the cannon-arm off, preparing to plow information technology on his former chief... simply for his caput to all of a sudden be diddled off past a blast from behind, fired by Prowl!

"You will never be a god."

Upwards in orbit, Thundercracker is hit by Maximal fire and falls behind the rest of his group, finding himself surrounded by enemy forces. After depositing Arcee on Unicron with Starscream and Optimus, Skywarp reluctantly goes to his boyfriend Seeker's aid, teleporting into the path of a Maximal blade to save Thundercracker'due south life so that he can become the Talisman to the others. Refusing to leave Skywarp behind, Thundercracker tosses the Talisman to Starscream down on Unicron'due south surface and dives into the fight. It doesn't seem possible that the 2 can survive, and that poses a trouble to the residue of the group: without Skywarp'south teleporting powers, they can't get through Unicron's miles-thick armor. Starscream hits upon a solution and implements it before anyone tin object; with ane last egotistical grin born of the knowledge that he was the one to save the day, he asks Prime number and Arcee to give Windblade his best, so activates the Talisman, sacrificing his life as its magical energies eat him and brainstorm burning their way down into Unicron.

Watching from the battlefield, Jazz and Aileron are stunned by Starscream's cede, but Bumblebee always knew he had information technology in him. Ironhide isn't interested in debating Starscream's merits right now, every bit the Maximals proceed to attack; a moment later on, 1 of the beasts pounces on Ironhide and tears him in half. Equally Bumblebee fends the Maximal off, Jazz rushes to Ironhide's side, assuring him that he will make information technology through—only Ironhide is besides far gone, and dies in peace in his friend's arms, feeling that he finally understands the meaning of the phrase "'til all are one."

Nearby, Slide continues to find other things to complain and argue near rather than the bodily threat at mitt when the Dinobots approach her. She and Slug immediately start fighting over the tragic outcome of their contempo disharmonism on Earth, simply Swoop interrupts them, motioning toward Bludgeon'southward Worldsweeper as information technology heads downwards to Earth to rain devastation on the planet. Slide relents, and she, the colonists, and the Dinobots head down to the planet to lend their aid.

"A soul... for a soul."

Following the path the Talisman is burning through Unicron, Optimus Prime and Arcee venture into the depths of the planet-eater once more, fighting their way through its antibiotic monsters. Arcee proposes that Prime leave the mission to her, that she may make amends for her part in the devastation of Antilla that began this nightmare, but Prime refuses; every bit "The Arisen," one of the 13 Primes, he ultimately traces all their misfortunes to the failures of himself and his lineage. Arcee is confused; she knew the 13, and knows that Optimus wasn't one of them, merely before she tin can press the issue, the pair go far at Unicron's eye, where the supermassive black hole effectually which the monster planet once orbited at present rests. As they watch, the Talisman disappears into the singularity... and a moment afterward, Optimus bids Arcee farewell and leaps in later information technology. His concrete body is compressed to pure information, and Prime once again finds himself in Infraspace, the transitional limbo between life and death, with the Talisman at his feet. But he is not alone in this twilight realm: from out of the darkness appears the form of the Antillan scientist who created the Talisman, whose rage and want for vengeance is what is driving Unicron from beyond the veil. Prime attempts to talk to the scientist, telling him that his acrimony toward the Cybertronians is justified, but the alien is not interested in words and lashes out at him.

Prowl drags Shockwave out into the street, where Stardrive stands gear up to play her part in the complex plan Prowl and Soundwave take assembled. While Stardrive uses her Wraith magicks to invade Shockwave'due south body and heed, across the continent, Jetfire follows Soundwave's instructions, remotely linking Stardrive into the Enigma of Combination—saved from Cybertron by Soundwave—via their communications systems. Adjacent, the Aerialbots combine into Superion for the commencement fourth dimension since arresting the duplicate Enigma created by Galvatron out of Earth's communications network years ago. The energies of the Globe Enigma fill the air—but they're not all that are in the air, as Bludgeon's Worldsweeper appears overhead, and Monstructor leaps out to set on Superion! As the 2 combiners clash, Heaven Lynx arrives with the Dinobots and colonists. The Dinobots all leap aboard the Worldsweeper, intent on taking the ship down, while Slide and the colonists contend about what to do. Some unexpected help arrives in the course of Pyra Magna and the surviving Torchbearers, who have been clinging to the hull of Bludgeon's ship, and who now boldly attempt to course Victorion, despite the loss of Stormclash, to buy the Dinobots the time demand to enter the transport and defeat Bludgeon. Every bit a partial combiner herself, Slide feels the energies of the Earth Enigma running wild effectually her, and embraces them, joining with the Torchbearers as they merge, condign the new leg of Victorion. Together, Victorion and Superion overpower and finally destroy Monstructor.

Meanwhile, the Dinobots fight their way onto the Worldsweeper'south bridge and seize the Void Scepter Bludgeon is using to control the vessel, sending the transport flight away in the direction of Washington, D.C., in social club to give Soundwave fourth dimension to execute his plan. Snarl and Sludge are slain in the subsequent fight; equally Bludgeon and Slug grapple, the Decepticon tells Slug that their deaths hateful nothing, as Unicron will still destroy them all. Slug disagrees; he has faith that Unicron will exist stopped, and moreover, he knows the Dinobots are relics of the state of war, unable to let go of their old hatred, and so they must dice if the Cybertronian race is to move forward unburdened past them. With that, both Bludgeon and Slug die as the Worldsweeper crashes into the White Firm. Some of the Maximals aboard survive and emerge to menace the President and her G.I. Joe bodyguards Flint and Chameleon, but at the last infinitesimal, Rum-Maj and Wreck-Gar make it with their Sharkticons to end off the beasts and save the humans.

Back at Mount Rushmore, Soundwave senses that the time is right to execute the final footstep of his programme. The Enigma of Combination has always had the power to combine not just bodies, but hearts, minds, and spirits—and at present, by the power of two Enigmas, using his own faith as an ballast, Soundwave is able to brand contact with and unite the spirits of all those who accept died in the war against Unicron, and more. In Toronto, via Stardrive, Shockwave can feel what is happening and begs Prowl to convince Soundwave the program will not work—that "religion" is a fabrication invented by Shockwave himself millions of years agone, incapable of accomplishing anything. But Prowl disagrees; "faith," he says, is merely another name for having the strength to conquer the fears within yourself. And Shockwave... the original false Prime, progenitor of a corrupt lineage that has loomed over Optimus Prime all his life and been the root cause of every disharmonize that has brought Cybertronian history to this climactic moment... Shockwave represents everything that Optimus Prime number has ever feared. Soundwave disintegrates equally the combined spirits of the dead are united with Shockwave's thoughts via Stardrive, and sent by her Wraith magicks, linked to the Talisman, to Optimus Prime.

"He is in anguish... he mourns!"

In Infraspace, all this wonder and terror floods into Optimus; every fearfulness he has ever known, embodied in Shockwave's thoughts, and the retention of everyone who has ever stood behind him, which gives him the strength to face those fears and overcome them. As the Talisman surges back to life and the landscape of Infraspace begins to crumble abroad under its power, Prime number now knows what he must practice: rather than attempting to defeat the spirit of Unicron's creator, he instead extends a hand toward him in peace. Casting bated his assumed title 1 terminal time, the Autobot introduces himself as Orion Pax, and asks for the alien's own proper noun. Dislocated and in pain, the scientist admits that he tin no longer retrieve... but he does recall the name of his girl, who died during Antilla'south war with Cybertron, setting him on this path of death and revenge. Pax pulls the alien into an cover, and calls upon him to remember that name at present, at the finish. Thus exercise they die in peace together, the terminal of the Primes overcoming the legacy of his ancestors by showing pity to the monster birthed past their crimes, as the power of the Talisman collapses Unicron's body into the blackness hole at its own heart.

As Unicron collapses, all the combatants in Earth orbit brand for the planet's surface, save for Bumblebee and Aileron, who fly through the maelstrom to rescue Arcee before she is sucked into the singularity. The trio fix downwards on Earth'south moon, where Aileron and Arcee joyously reunite, and they are presently joined past Buzzsaw, revealed to have survived Bludgeon's assault on Sanctuary Station. At Mount Rushmore, Marissa believes Thundercracker must surely accept perished, but Buster thinks otherwise, and is proven right seconds afterwards when Thundercracker descends from the sky, carrying the damaged merely also-still-living Skywarp with him. As Thundercracker is welcomed by his friends, Skywarp laughs at the ridiculousness of the situation, simply recognizes his blood brother-in-artillery as a true Seeker. Cruise and Stardrive take a despondent Shockwave into custody; Rom and Livia console a young Elonian orphan; Sunstreaker thinks of his brother equally he watches Buster, D.0.C., and Bob play; Windblade and Chromia discuss Windblade'southward future equally the leader of Cybertron on Earth; Swift digs the lone surviving Dinobots, Swoop and Strafe, from the wreckage of the Worldsweeper; and with the survivors of Cybertron and its colonies now destined to be permanent residents of Earth, the President starts making plans for their future together.

Pyra Magna recovers the Mistress of Flame'southward Forgehammer from where she left it, wedged in Metroplex's armor, and realizes now that "faith" is not what others tell you to believe, but what you believe in your own centre. Pyra takes the mantle of Mistress of Flame upon herself, and invites Slide to join the Torchbearers full-time; Slide, overjoyed to know belonging over again, and realizing that she and Pyra were wrong about Optimus Prime number all forth—that he never wanted to dominion them, only to build a better world for them to live in—tearfully accepts.

With Earth at present lit by twin stars of low-cal and darkness—the sun and Unicron'due south black hole in perfect remainder—the Transformers enter a new era on a new homeworld, an era without Primes, without Autobots or Decepticons, without even the distinction betwixt Cybertronian, colonist, or Earthling. Cheers to Optimus Prime, his sacrifice, and his belief in those who followed him...

...all are one.

"Where to, Cap?"
"... domicile."

Featured characters

Characters in italic text appear only in spirit form.
(Numbers betoken guild of appearance.)

Quotes

"Faith. The last refuge of those left behind."

—Marissa Faireborn

"Never earlier take I thought this... but that is a big ane."
"Imagine how I feel. You're the size of a city—I'yard only six feet tall."
"You are 5'ten'', Garrison."

—Metroplex and Garrison Blackrock discuss the size of Unicron

"I never imagined the fate of everything would terminate upwardly in your hands, Starscream."
"That's funny, because I always knew it would."

—Optimus Prime number and Starscream

"Tell Windblade to take good intendance of Earth, will you? Aw, who am I kidding? She probably won't even attempt to conquer the place."

—Starscream's last words

"[Orion] thinks the shadowplay that stripped me of emotion inverse me fundamentally. Merely as Rhinox said, I was e'er pulling strings. I gave Orion the capacity to carry a Matrix. I made him into Optimus Prime number. He was the i who inverse... when he stopped viewing my deportment equally simply."

—Shockwave

"Slug—you won't last a minute."
"Then we'll get this done in forty-five seconds."

—Pyra Magna gives Slug some "encouragement", who takes it in stride

"Faith is a lie! I invented information technology! Faith will not stop the uncreator!"
"Yous still don't see. Soundwave believes in a college power, sure. But guys like y'all and me—we don't have to. All nosotros need to believe in is the inherent practiced of doing proficient... and that anytime, ultimately, that will be plenty to cease evil."
"Logic is neither practiced nor evil. None of u.s. are. We incorporate the capacity for both."
"Faith is just ane path to the ultimate play tricks: confronting the evil in ourselves... and defeating that."

—Shockwave and Prowl discuss conventionalities

"Operation: Absolution."

—Soundwave'south last words

"I am not a piece of your history... I am the end of my ain!"

—Unicron'due south creator

"I was forged Orion Pax. Equally state of war began, I was called Optimus Prime. Now some phone call me The Arisen, the Thirteenth Prime. But the masks are gone now. I am Orion Pax. Before this... who were you lot?"
"Then long agone... I tin can't remember. But I know the proper name of my girl, who your kind murdered..."
"Then that shall exist the word. Rather than the fire of hatred... let her name—her memory—light this night hour."

—Optimus Prime allows Unicron'south creator to die knowing pity

"I thought... I would make us strong..."
"Take it from me: strong doesn't mean right."

—A defeated Shockwave is carted abroad past Stardrive

"Optimus Prime is gone... and with him ends the era of Autobot and Decepticon, Cybertronian and colonist, human and auto. What survives is his faith. Perhaps he never believed in whatsoever college ability guiding our hands... but he believed in united states. I am Pyra Magna... the Mistress of Flame. Spiritual leader of my people; defender of my homeworld... Globe. And we will lite our manner against all our darkest hours... as one."

—Pyra Magna'southward closing monologue

Notes

Continuity notes

"Nosotros take a combiner."

• In the montage of heroes and villains fighting around the Globe, Predaking is seen in the service of Iron Klaw. The Predacons have been under his control since before the events of Revolutionaries #4; it seems he'southward managed to repair Razorclaw after Kup blew his caput off in that story.
• Action Man declares "This is for Kup" as he blasts a Maximal; the pair were buddies in Revolutionaries, until Kup'south death in Transformers vs. Visionaries #1.
• Terrence Salmons is now wearing the Action Man uniform besides. Every bit seen in the Activity Human being comic, he was considered next-in-line for the position until Ian Noble, the current Activity Man, slipped in ahead of him, but information technology looks like extenuating circumstances have seen him accept upwardly the mantle alongside Ian.
• Scarlett has joined Matt Trakker in Detroit, where his squad were located when we last saw them in effect #3'due south redundancy strip.
• Last issue, every bit the battle with the Maximals concluded, it was abruptly noted that Mayday was now in command of the man forces, despite the fact that cipher had been shown to happen to previously established leaders Fasten and Talon on-console. This issue shows that Spike got shot down by the Maximals, and unintentionally took Talon down with him, only both men have survived and are stranded in a jungle somewhere. Fasten notes that he "always figured [he'd] have a bigger role" in the final battle; while well-nigh IDW readers are no doubt glad he doesn't, this hearkens dorsum to the fact Spike leads his life similar he's "the star of an action motion-picture show," every bit originally observed in The Transformers vol. 1 #27.
• Pressed into fighting alongside Strongarm in defence of Earth, Rumble and Frenzy grumble that they "shoulda unionized," a joking reference to the recent success the pair have found in Hollywood, as seen in the 2018 Optimus Prime number almanac.
• Starscream uses the Talisman to burrow through Unicron's surface, in the aforementioned manner every bit information technology burrowed its style downwardly through Cybertron in Transformers vs. Visionaries.
• Slug and the Dinobots continue to clash with Slide following the events of Optimus Prime #23-24, which included the death of her fellow colonist soldier Gimlet.
• Rhinox provided Shockwave with his new gun-arm in event #four. He evidently built information technology himself, indicating this Rhinox shares the engineering abilities of his counterpart in the Beast Wars cartoon.
• Shockwave notes that he didn't only become evil when subjected to Shadowplay, having always been a manipulator with dodgy leanings. He illustrates this with the specific instance that he was the one who gave Optimus a Matrix chamber (which nosotros learned in The Transformers vol. 1 #23), merely the darker side of his pre-Shadowplay life was previously emphasized in More Meets the Eye #xi when Roller and Ratchet dug up some intel on him and learned almost the various covert projects he was investing in, which he was keeping hole-and-corner from his allies.
• Ironhide's dying realization that he now knows the meaning of Pax Cybertronia references his vision of a peaceful futurity Cybertron, as seen in The Transformers #31, and his search for the meaning of this vision formed a significant portion of Ironhide'due south character development during the terminal years of "Phase 2."
• Soundwave got the Enigma of Combination out of storage in issue #3.
• Galvatron turned Globe into a large-scale Enigma of Combination in The Transformers vol. 2 #53. Superion captivated the Earth Enigma lawmaking to forbid it from working in The Transformers vol. 2 #54; this is the first time the team have combined since and then.
• Optimus Prime returns to Infraspace by entering the black hole at the heart of Unicron, the same style he did by entering the singularity in Crystal Metropolis in Optimus Prime #19.
• The Dinobots settle their recurring rivalry with Bludgeon, begun in Redemption and continuing through Conservancy and Optimus Prime #xiii-14.
• Bludgeon previously used his Void Scepter to control Trypticon in Conservancy.
• The ability of the Enigma to combine not just bodies, but hearts and minds, has e'er been implicit in the style combiners work, with a gestalt personality emerging equally Transformers' bodies are merged. However, it was previously established that it was possible for information technology to work in a more than spiritual way, combining minds without combining bodies, dorsum in The Transformers vol. 2 #37, when it was credited with subtly uniting the thoughts and ideas of early on humans, leading to the development of human cities and civilizations.

"Allfathers, let the dark magic menstruum through me i last fourth dimension!"

• The spirits who appear before Soundwave specifically include all those notables who accept died throughout the Unicron mini-series itself (Wheeljack, Cliffjumper, and the Solstar Knights from consequence #0, Dirge and the Mistress of Flame from issue #1, Omega Supreme from issue #2, Scattershot, Fastlane, and Cloudraker from issue #three, Blurr, Elita I, Cosmos, Sky-Byte, and Laserbeak from upshot #iv, and Ironhide from this issue) and its tie-in issues in Optimus Prime (Mainframe and Gimlet), along with other meaning characters who have died during "Phase 2" of the IDW Universe: Alpha Trion (Optimus Prime #xvi), Ambulon (More than Meets the Eye #19), Horri-Balderdash (Robots in Disguise #one), Kup (Transformers vs. Visionaries #1), Metalhawk (Robots in Disguise #16), Pipes (More than Meets the Eye #fifteen), Ravage (More than Meets the Eye #55), Rung (Lost Light #24), Sideswipe (Optimus Prime #x), Skids (More than than Meets the Eye #54), and Trailcutter (More than Meets the Eye #34).
• The president notes that the White House has been reinforced since the "last attack," referring to the Dire Wraith attack in The Transformers: Revolution one-shot.
• Optimus Prime number had a vision of a Worldsweeper crashing into the White House in The Transformers vol. 2 #50.
• Buzzsaw was implied to accept perished in issue #4, only is here revealed to have survived his castor with death.
• The Elonian daughter and her pet creature are presumably the same ones that appeared in Unicron #0, and on the last page they're drawn posed as they were on the starting time page of issue #0.
• The 'reality shards' surrounding Unicron on Embrace A depict notable moments of the 2005 IDW continuity thus far; non-'portrait' sections include Overlord fierce Guzzle in half (Terminal Stand of the Wreckers #five), Devastator collapsing the tunnels of New York (All Hail Megatron #ii), Optimus Prime annexing Globe (The Transformers vol. two #l), Virulina killing Kup (Transformers vs Visionaries #1), and the Vekktral-possessed Ultra Magnus (Shining Armor #4). Of note is that the scenes take not been copied from their respective issues; they were entirely redrawn by Alex Milne.
• Information technology'southward the end of Transformers: Unicron, but not quite the end of the universe; the story continues into Optimus Prime #25, the last issue and epilogue to the entire 2005 IDW continuity.

Transformers references

• The Maximal who kills Ironhide is Icebird, one of the Fauna Wars Mutants, who had two animate being modes, only no robot fashion, relieve for a robot caput hidden within their bodies. Icebird is here drawn with his robot head deployed; notably, the character's head is scarlet per the toy's prototype, rather than the blueish of the mass-market release. But, see "Errors" below.
• Heaven Lynx recalls an adventure on Regulon IV, a planet with several previous mentions in Transformers media, originating in the Generation 1 cartoon episode "The Rebirth, Part 1."
• After Ironhide's death, Aileron rallies the others with a variation on a well-used Furmanism.

Real world references

• Wreck-Gar's archetype habit of peppering his voice communication with snippets of pop culture continues:
  • He greets the humans in the White House with the cry of "Hi-ho, True Believers and Believerettes," the blusterous term Stan Lee regularly used to refer to faithful fans of Marvel Comics.
  • He quotes the opening theme to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, declaring it a "beautiful day in the neighborhood," and hoping they'll "be [the Junkions'] neighbors."
  • He paraphrases the championship of the 1987 motion-picture show Skillful Morning, Vietnam with a whoop of "Goooood Morn, Planet Earth!"
• The Action Men are fighting Maximals outside King'southward Cantankerous station, one of London'due south major train stations.
• Beneath his signature on the final page (pictured above), artist Alex Milne bids the reader bye with a handwritten note of "And so long and thanks for all the fish", the dolphins' famed final message to humanity in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Errors

• The proper name caption for a sure white-clad ninja identifies her equally "Storm Shadow"—which she used to go by in the IDW continuity. However, in Scarlett's Strike Force #3, it was established that—following the render of the original Storm Shadow—she had taken up the name of "Tempest".
• Equally a helicopter, Alpha Bravo is easily identifiable among the Aerialbots arrived on page 1, panel 3, and Air Raid appears roughly-on model as well, only the other Aerialbots don't seem to match their Combiner Wars designs, and aren't actually recognizable as any item members of the group, hence the "?"s in our list higher up.
• On page three, Trypticon is credited as a "Decepticon Titan," merely he hasn't been a Decepticon for ages.
• Rumble and Frenzy's ID captions (or colors!) are swapped.
• Shockwave's conversation with Bludgeon almost beat-for-beat out repeats their exchange from the prior issue: Shockwave observes the deteriorating situation, concludes that alternative measures must be taken to destroy Unicron, and so commands Bludgeon to help bear out this programme, whereupon Bludgeon refuses, stating that his true allegiance is to Unicron rather than to Shockwave himself. Information technology'southward not at all clear why Shockwave is in this issue surprised at Bludgeon's defiance, or why he issued those same orders a 2d time, given Bludgeon's statements in the last issue. We will point out, withal, that the framing of that consequence makes it possible that Bludgeon's line simply came afterward Shockwave cut the transmission, and Bludgeon is just now openly revealing his truthful colors.
  • Additionally, Bludgeon'southward claim that he serves the science of anarchy rather than Shockwave'south science of guild seems rather ignorant of Shockwave's explicit statements during "The Falling" storyline that he now serves "the higher order that is anarchy."
• On page 9, panel 1, Thundercracker states "I'm remember I'm in trouble."
• Unfortunately, information technology seems that no one supplied Andrew Griffith a roster of Maximals who died in previous bug.
  • On page 11, the orbital Maximal team includes Icebird,^[1] drawn with his distinctive "robot way" caput. All the same, Icebird was amid the dead Maximals (single-handedly annihilated by Arcee) seen in Optimus Prime #20.
  • Also in page 11, console i is Antagony,^[i] who pivotally appeared and died as a non-Maximal in Get-go Strike!
  • Transquito^[2] appears in page 17, console 1. While the cake-coloring used in the pages of Optimus Prime made identifying Maximals and discerning between American and Japanese characters tricky, in this case, both Transquito and Bigmos should exist dead, with the remains of ane actualization in Optimus Prime #20, and the other dying on-panel in Optimus Prime #21.
  • As well, Soundwave (the Mutant bat)^[2] appears in the same panel despite Soundwave's severed wing actualization in Optimus Prime #20 among Arcee'due south failed captors.
  • And finally, Snarl^[2] appears in the same panel. This trunk-blazon is also deemed for; i was also among dead remains seen in Optimus Prime #twenty, and his Japanese counterpart Tasmania Kid is a native Eukarian, non a Maximal, who was seen in Optimus Prime number #23.
• As Optimus and Arcee follow the Talisman to the heart of Unicron, Prime tells her "I need you to concord off the Maximals", which she later repeats, when the ii are in fact facing off against Unicron's antibodies.
• Starscream's absence from the spirits of the dead is and then pronounced information technology tin't exist an error, but the fact that Stormclash isn't among them (given the inclusion of nobodies like Fastlane, Cloudraker, and the dead Space Knights) feels like an oversight.
• In the console where Sunstreaker watches Bob and the other "pets" play, his chestplate is colored black instead of yellow. It COULD exist intended as battle harm, only information technology's probably an error.
• 1 concluding fourth dimension, the chart at the end of the issue misspells "Devisiun" every bit "Divisiun."
• The bonus cloth refers to Prion as having been devastated by the Black Box Consortia, which should be the Blackness Block Consortia. It isn't a complete error, though—the Black Box Consortia was the equivalent arrangement in the Functionist Universe, as seen over in Lost Low-cal.
• That same bonus cloth lists the Regenesis ore of charade as growing on "Carcer". This seems implausible: Firstly, the young Shockwave was aiming his Regenesis missiles at planets for the Energon ore to spread out while growing. Fifty-fifty if a Regenesis missile somehow impacted a mobile spacefaring Titan, it seems incredibly unlikely that a subsequent Maximal invasion to harvest ore from Carcer would have gone unnoticed by the incumbent Carcerian Offset or that this major historical event would never accept been mentioned again. Whether this incredibly convoluted concatenation of events really happened, nosotros couldn't tell you. So again, Shockwave is the original "Sorcerer who did it".

Deathlist

"Impale away."

• Trypticon; killed by i of Unicron's center-beams
• Starscream; sacrifices himself activating the Talisman
• Ironhide; torn in half by Icebird
• Rhinox; killed by Prowl
• Optimus Central; finished off by Stardrive and Snake Eyes
• Monstructor; killed by Victorion and Superion
• Broadside; roasted by Strafe
• Sledge; decapitated by Strafe
• Soundwave; gives up his life to combine the spirits of the dead with the Enigma of Combination
• Sludge and Snarl; die in the boxing aboard the Worldsweeper
• Slug and Bludgeon; die in the crash of the Worldsweeper
• Unicron; consumed by the blackness hole at its ain center
• Optimus Prime; sacrifices himself to destroy Unicron

Other trivia

• Intended for release in October, this issue arrived late in the middle of November. Optimus Prime number #25 was consequently pushed dorsum to ensure it was released afterward.
• This super-sized final issue is 48 pages in length, with 40 pages of story. In addition to the 6th and last installment in a series of interviews with creators from IDW history, this time with Unicron author and creative person John Barber and Alex Milne, backmatter for this issue too includes a complete list of all thirteen Cybertronian colonies, complete with Prime number, Regenesis ore, Titan, current status, and (if applicative) representative on the Council of Worlds, filling in several pieces of data that have never been revealed on-panel (like which Prime number goes with which planet, and the names of previously unidentified ores and Titans). Of note is the confirmation that Carcer did somehow possess an ore, despite not beingness based on a planet... though see "Errors" in a higher place.

The Lost Colonies of Cybertron

Part of this result's backmatter is a graphic detailing all of the Cybertronian colony worlds that fills out whatever previously unconfirmed information such equally their Regenesis ores and continued Primes.

Lenocinium Velnero-117 Ore: Time Prime: Vector Prime Titan: Tempo CoW rep: None

Gorlam Prime Ore: Death Prime: Quintus Prime Titan: Quintessa CoW rep: None

Prion Ore: Size Prime: Micronus Prime Titan: Prion CoW rep: None

Caminus Ore: Gravity Prime number: Solus Prime Titan: Caminus Moo-cow rep: Mistress of Flame

Devisiun Ore: Combination Prime: Nexus Prime Titan: Devisiun CoW rep: Vanquish and Fireshot

Arduria Ore: Common cold Prime number: Alchemist Prime number Titan: Metrobase CoW rep: None

Antilla Ore: Modify Prime: Blastoff Trion Titan: Nemesis CoW rep: None

Tsiehshi Ore: Destruction Prime: Megatronus Titan: Metroplex Cow rep: None

Velocitron Ore: Space Prime: Amalgamous Prime Titan: Navitas CoW rep: Knock Out and Moonracer

Carcer Ore: Charade Prime number: Liege Maximo Titan: Vigilem CoW rep: Strika and Obsidian

Eukaris Ore: Evolution Prime number: Onyx Prime Titan: Chela Cow rep: Airazor and Tigatron

Elonia Ore: Protection Prime number: Prima Titan: Emissary Moo-cow rep: None

Globe Ore: Power Prime number: Optimus Prime Titan: Metrotitan CoW rep: Marissa Faireborn

Cybertron Ore: Resurrection Prime: ? Titan: Trypticon CoW rep: Windblade

Covers (6)

• Cover A: Unicron surrounded past shards of reality depicting images from throughout IDW history, by Alex Milne and Sebastian Cheng
• Cover B: Optimus Prime number, Cruise, Ironhide, Doctor 10, and Cobra Commander, by James Raiz and David García Cruz; connects to Raiz's other covers for the serial to class a larger image
• Retailer incentive embrace A: Optimus Prime number, Starscream, Bumblebee, Soundwave, Windblade, and Unicron, by Eastward. J. Su
• Retailer incentive cover B: Jetfire past Francesco Francavilla; connects to Francavilla'southward other covers for the series to class a larger image
• KRS Comics exclusive cover A: Unicron takes the place of Thanos in an homage to the cover of The Infinity Gauntlet #iv, beckoning unseen parties toward him and declaring "You vest to me!" (a line from The Transformers: The Movie) past John Paras
• KRS Comics sectional comprehend B: Paras'southward Infinity Gauntlet homage, merely with a blank white background and a bare speech chimera

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  An entire universe, once and for all.

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  Yibambe!

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  Bring me Unicron!

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  Physician, requite me some juice!

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  We're in the endgame at present.

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  I finally rest; watch the sun ascent on a grateful universe.

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• Optimus Prime #25 and Lost Light #25, with a tagline that reads: "THE TRANSFORMERS Will Return IN 2019."
• Get-Bots #1
• Unicron checklist

Reprints

Other than reprints of the full series

• N/A

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 i.1} Andrew Griffith's lineart for folio eleven
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 two.2} [1] Tweet by Andrew Griffith (@glovestudios), 15 Nov 2018

External links

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