#merklynn

[hasbr0mniverse]

The Hasbroverse 80’s Morning - Visionaries Knights Of The Magical Light - Season 01 Episode 07 - The Overthrow Of Merklynn

[askvectorprime]

Did the revolutionaries reunite after the end of IDW1?

Dear Revolutionary Reader,

That unlikely team of heroes did indeed have further adventures following Earth's close encounter with Unicron. In fact, recognizing the important role they had played in combating the Iron Ring, the group was formalized as the Special Threats Allied Response Team, an official collaboration between G.I. Joe and the Action Man Programme—although I gather the team themselves still prefer the name "Revolutionaries"!

Thanks to a wholly unlikely series of events, one of the team’s earliest escapades involved none other than their fallen comrade Kup! In Kalistan, the Count van Rani had begun experimenting upon the Talisman simulacrum that had been left in his Iron Castle by the late wizard Merklynn—or rather Garrison Kreiger, as he was known at the time. Seeking to learn more about the device, the “Iron Klaw” recruited a number of experts in the arcane—the Cobra mystic Crystal Ball, Lady Shazraella of Microspace, the stranded Prysmosian warlock Falkama, and the Dire Wraith sorcerer known as “Caleb Awan”—and tasked them with summoning Kup’s spirit from beyond the veil, believing the Autobot’s extensive adventures with the Talisman could provide unique insight. 

Using a mystical artefact known as a Ouija board, the group successfully dragged the elderly Autobot back into the world of the living, but Kup refused to cooperate, instead proceeding to cause gleeful ghostly havoc around the Iron Castle. This chaotic “haunting” drove his villainous hosts away from the fortress, which in turn drew the attention of the Revolutionaries, who infiltrated the castle only to find themselves in an unexpected reunion with their deceased friend. Believing their time with him to be short, Ian, Ayana and Garrison made ready to say their goodbyes, but—stubborn as ever!—the spectral Kup informed them he had no plans to go anywhere.

As it happened, Kup’s final remains had been transported to the Buenos Aires Onyx facility prior to Cybertron’s destruction—in particular his largely-intact head. With a renewed sense of purpose, Blackrock set about reconstituting Kup’s cranium, combining the late Wheeljack’s reverse frequency wave technique with the skills of another practitioner of the mystic arts: amateur magician Tankor. Kup’s spirit was able to inhabit and animate his restored head, although as you can imagine, becoming a talking head was not quite the new lease on life he was hoping for. Before long, however, Garrison would use his own body as a template to reengineer Kup into a pseudo Titan Master, able to transform from head into diminutive robot form. Kup would in fact be only the first of a whole new generation of Headmasters—but that, my friends, is a story for another day.

[starbug]

[brandxspandex]

Aw shit, y’all got punk’d.

[jalaguy]

This was my first thought on seeing Moira, I kid you not.

[askvectorprime]

There are Cybertrons which started off organic and later became technologic. Are there Cybertrons which started off technological only later to become organic?

Dear Biological Baronet,

There are universes in which Cybertron transcended these binaries, achieving a technorganic balance—however, it is much less common for the organic to overwrite the technological entirely. I can offer an example, but I fear that it is not a pleasant tale…

In this splinter reality, Ironhide and his security crew boarded Quickswitch a moment too late and arrived at the planet’s core too late to deploy their counter-wave bomb—and without their interference, the magic of the Talisman was allowed to rampage unchecked across Cybertron. Channeling its power into a powerful transmutation spell, Virulina forcibly remade the entire planet into an image of her lost homeworld.

The genocide proved swift and brutal. Innocent Cybertronians were ensnared by creepers and speared through their Sparks by roots as saplings burst from the ground and sprouted into mighty trees in a matter of seconds. Others were swallowed up by waving fields of amber grain, their bodies crumbling into mounds of iron-rich soil. Still others were battered to pieces as torrential rains filled lowlying basins and dashed Cybertronians upon rocky shorelines

Those few Cybertronians that survived the extinction event briefly rallied, and tried to evacuate their planet via the space bridge with Leoric’s help; however, Virulina’s forces had set an ambush for them, and soon incapacitated them with their magic. The meticulous Shockwave tried to cut a deal with the conquerors, but found that Virulina and Merklynn cared little for his meticulous manipulations of history, and he soon found himself impaled on a magical spear. Within days, Virulina’s captives had been sliced open, lobotomized, and repurposed into magically-enhanced conveyances for their new masters—even Optimus Prime himself, who became little more than an open-topped chariot for Merklynn to ride around on. Virulina’s forces soon rechristened the jungle-encrusted ruins of Iacon as “Valorak Nova”. The remaining Spectral Knights either fell in line with the new order or slipped into the jungles to fight the regime—but the Darkling Lords soon quashed any and all attempts.

Horrified by these atrocities, the remaining members of the Council of Worlds promptly quarantined themselves by shutting off their various space bridges—when Unicron awoke, the planet-eater promptly rampaged across the galaxy, killing world after world, and without a centralised response no single planet could muster enough force to stop the uncreator in its tracks. Thanks to the magic of the Visionaries, however, Unicron did not recognize Cybertron for what it was and proceeded directly to Earth—and although the forces of G.I. Joe and the Junkions put up a decent fight against his Maximal swarms, they were ultimately no match for Unicron himself.

[cultfaction]

Cult Cartoon Essentials: Visionaries - Knights of the Magical Light

Cult Cartoon Essentials: Visionaries – Knights of the Magical Light

Running for only 13 episodes in 1987, Visionaries – Knights of the Magical Light took place on the planet Prysmos  where a once advanced society our forced to rely on old magic following a global phenomenon where all electronics stopped working.

The show followed two groups of Knights, the Spectral Knights (led by Leoric) and the Da…

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