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Optimus Prime ; Transformers ☆ Kotobukiya

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[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime,

What became of Megaligator after he came into possession of the Creation Matrix? Was it ever retrieved by Megatron and the rest of the Green Order?

Dear Vernal Venturer,

I believe I gave you a very truncated version of events before, that Megalligator reconciled with Megatron to become the joint Green Compassionate Convoys, but I suppose I never told you the full story.

After once again evading the judgmental fist of his brother Convobat, Megalligator continued on his quest to kill all Megatrons. The silent Golden Ager Soundwave had taken him to the Green Planet for a reason, and soon it became clear. They found a great pyramid, its Bulkhead guards having long since abandoned the Green Temple in grief over the loss of their commander, Green Tender Convoy. All save one: a large BotBot (large by BotBot standards, about as tall as Megalligator), who introduced himself as Bulk Gulp.

Bulk Gulp showed deference to Soundwave, but initially was wary of Megalligator, butting heads with him almost immediately—each considered the other’s alt-form useless! What’s more, Bulk Gulp darkly noted, Megalligator reminded him of “the new guy”.

Under duress, Bulk Gulp would lead the two visitors up the pyramid. Translating from Soundwave’s total silence, he explained that the weapon Megalligator needed for his quest was contained in the temple, and they would need to get it from its protector. Heartened by his plans finally moving along, Megalligator’s confidence quickly turned to dismay as he found none other than a Megatron- no, the Megatron, hunched in a corner, contemplating the Green Matrix enshrined at the top of the pyramid. Megatron could only note that he wasn’t able to get the Green Matrix to open before Megalligator lunged at him, raining blows upon his face.

Megalligator shouted what he had always known: that he and his brothers were clones, and while Convobat had been born “good”, the clone “son” of a Convoy, Megalligator had been born “evil”, forged from samples the Straxus twins had stolen from Megatron Omega. Megatron said nothing, realizing that his millennia of ambition had left him alone in an unfriendly past, separate from his dearest friend. Bulk Gulp and Soundwave watched in despair. Soundwave had never been good at communication or interpersonal relationships, and his bringing the two green warriors together had only brought further misery. The Green Order had fled the temple not just in grief, but in disappointment that a former tyrant was to be their new leader.

It was at this moment that Sideways attacked the temple, the space biker having been hired by the Straxuses to track and destroy Megalligator. Sideways handily took on both him and Megatron, cruelly declaring that no matter what anybody said, they’d both always be monsters. Then, a voice called out from the Green Matrix. To be a Green Warrior was to defend nature and nature was not something to be defined by others, but by understanding both our roots and the skies our branches reached for. It was here that Megalligator understood his true power: to super-robot lifeforms, his techokinesis was control over life itself. Using the same connection to his progenitor that connected Convobat to Blue Big Convoy, Megalligator synced his Spark to Megatron’s, suffusing him with life energy and giving him the strength he needed to defeat Sideways with a Mega Fusion Buster drill attack.

From the Creation Matrix came a vision of Green Tender Convoy. He explained that neither Megatron or Megalligator were suited to be his successor. Megatron was a being of half-life, an irradiated Spark piloting the unliving body of an abomination created by his past self. Megalligator was a being of death, an assassin overflowing with energy, whose only goal was the death of his foes to prove his life. But half-life and living for death are both forms of life, and their duality would allow them to surpass Green Tender Convoy as joint commanders: Green Compassionate Convoys. With his blessing, both took hold of the Green Matrix, and lit the beacon at the top of the pyramid.

Soundwave could only smile. His was not a perfect plan, but he would see Primus saved. As he took a triumphant swig from Bulk Gulp, he knew that His will had been passed down.

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Tonight’s painting progress! Bat primal bonus print :) finalizing real soon with his brother megaligator up next :) - - - - - - - - - - #beastwars #transformers #optimusprimal #optimus #primal #bat #convobat #vampire #batman #maximal #instaart #igart #watercolor #painting #watercolorpainting #idw #comic #instartist (at DeLand, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMVsSzOhAdl/?igshid=j4dat0pa70qi

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Optimus Primal Convobat artwork by Don Figueroa.

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Convobat, Megalligator, & Ape X | Transformers Legends | | Tomy | 2017 |

[ayellowbirds]

After saving up side money and waiting almost an entire month due to cheap shipping speeds, I got my hands on Convobat, AKA “Chiroptimus Primal”, the Japanese-exclusive retooling of Titans Return Mindwipe as a new character based on the original pre-gorilla Optimus Primal toy. And then i completely failed to realize there was an extra comic i hadn’t seen online, hidden in the instructions. Because i never read the damn instructions.

It’s part of the gag comic continuity of the Transformers Legends webcomics, which are built on the (awful) Japanese dub of Beast Wars. All the Maximals and Predacons work in offices that somehow interact with regular transformers, and the beasts are drawn as adorable chibi cartoon versions of their animal selves... in this case, acting out a movie after Primal wakes up one day as a more-robotic-than-usual gorilla.

Note that, in Japan, Nightscream was dubbed as an offensive stereotype of a gay man, which has developed into him being characterized as a cross-dresser for a double dose of homophobia and transphobia.

I’m... I’m just going to pretend I don’t know that, and imagine that this is Nightscream finally presented as a girl, as was originally planned by Bob Skir.