Therefore, in honour of Halloween, which is in a week, I decided to list out my top 10 darkest moments in Transformers history. Let me be clear on this though, there are MANY more moments I could have used, but I decided to make this list as condensed as possible, and tries to used what I feel are the darkest moments over all.
The Quintessons
The Quintessons, since their first introduction in the animated movie from 1986 have haunted our nightmares as fans, their idea of justice is very abstract, and take absolute pleasure in killing anyone who gets in their way through kangaroo courts and mock trials, always resulting in their victims being fed to the Sharkticons, so they are eaten alive by a pack of ravenous monsters. Their laughter is the thing of nightmares that will haunt you to your death bed...
Overlord's First Victim
In More Than Meets The Eye #15 Pipes is happily driving around in his adorable little blue truck mode, after finally getting over his aversion to transforming following the harrowing incident at the Delphi outpost, where he almost died just because he transformed. He has just passed on a message for Blaster to send back home to his good pal Hubcap, who he hasn't seen in a few months following his ship, the Lost Light's explosive exit from the planet a few monthss earlier, and is on his way to a movie-night with his best friends on the ship. Happy times :)
Then he accidentally runs into the newly escaped Decepticon Overlord, who immediately stomps on the poor little happy and hapless chap, leaving his to die, without a single word or witty comment as you would have expected.
Unicron's Army of Darkness
Unicron has been reborn in the corpse of Megatron and has made his way to Cybertron where he plans to finish off the newly revived Primus whilst he is still weak, to do this he needs an army, and he comes across a massive graveyard of the ancient Predacons who once walked the planet, so of course he uses his Dark Energon to revive the entire graveyard and creates his frightening and monstrous army, which after a while are defeated and disintegrated with Unicron's overall capture.
What you may not realize from this scene is that this with he destruction of the Predacon corpses from Unicron's tampering, he has also wiped out any real chance for Predaking to rebuild the Predacon species properly (as Shockwave would have most likely helped him clone more since the Decepticons are finished). Whilst Shockwave and Starscream have been collecting more fossils etc for some time, most likley they haven't found enough to truly rebuild the species (unless the Allspark itself births some more naturally)
Transmutate...
(Skip to 2:56 for the scene)
Transmutate has made friends with both Rampage and Silverbolt who feel a kinship towards her and her plight, despite her many defects and hideous appearance. Unfortunately her new friends are on opposing sides of the war, and of course engage in battle very quickly.
The problem with this is that Transmutate wants to end the fight, so she forces her way between the two combatants, and is killed for her troubles, causing a very emotional reaction from everyone involved, but is rarely ever mentioned again afterwards.
Ratchet's Fate
Ratchet is hiding out, as per Optimus Prime's orders, when he is ambushed by the human team Cemetary Wind, and the bounty hunter Lockdown, who very violently, and deliberately slaughter him, then remove his spark for Locdown's own uses.
Later on we find out that they have given his body to KSI, who have been told that he was an evil Decepticon who attacked Chicago, so they happily melt down his body, along with several other ambushed Autobots.
Not a good fate for an innocent medic, even if he never once saved a life through his career in the films or associated comics....
Rust in Peace, Ironhide
The Autobots have returned to the NEST HQ (Nest Egg) after fighting off some Decepticons to rescue Sentinel Prime, whom Sam has realized is a target for them. He is escorted back to base, where quickly reveals to his allies that he knows all about Megatron's plans, as he is in on them, and proceeds to turn on his bodyguard Ironhide, and kills him with his Cosmic Rust cannon, painfully murdering him, then turns his attention on the rest of the assembled forces, leading to a rampage through the base, that eventually leads to the invasion of Chicago.
Also of note, the twins Skids and Mudflap were meant to be killed in this scene too but were removed due to the controversy around them, it is sill in the novels and comics though :)
Wreckers Style
Autobots are normally thought to be the good guys in Transformers, but they do do amoral things some times. In this case, regardless of whether Megatron orchestrated the incident or not, the Wreckers were VERY willing to kill off the Predacon clones being grown in Shockwave's hidden lab, thus slaughtering a new generation of the previously extinct beasts. It's hardly a wonder why Predaking gets so pissed off with Magnus and Wheeljack here huh?
Mini-Con Mutilation
In the Armada comic series, Mini-Cons were depicted in a different way to their cartoon counteerparts, they were just a third race of Transformers who lived on Cybertron in peace, until the Decepticons one day decided to invade their villages, capture them all and perform painful experiments on them to convert them into living batteries for them to use to augment their own powers to conquer the planet.
Following this, both factions essentially saw the Mini-Cons as tools and things to covet rather than another race of their own species, and this struggle continued throughout the Armada comic (until the Worlds Collide storyline anyway)
Shockwave's True Colours
Shockwave has been hiding undercover amongst the Autobots as Longarm Prime for some time now, and has risen to the rank of Head of Intelligence. However by the start of Season Three his role is jeopardized by the Earth-based Autobots knowing his secret, and everyone knowing there is a traitor on Cybertron.
Upon this realization, Shockwave learns that Blurr is close to identifying him, and so he decides to take him out, however, knowing that Blurr is far too fast for him to catch, he instead decides to capture him....by crushing him between two closing walls, seemingly ending his life.
(There is some theories that he did survive, but let's face it, being turned into a cube and all hat trauma is going to have ruined the guy!)
End of an Era
Finally, here is one of the worst things that could happen...the Ultra Magnus of the Negative Polarity universe invades the Classics Universe (their direct opposite) and uses the Terminus Blade to try to destroy Earth! Of course the Autobots succeed in stopping him, or so they think...in fact is target wasn't Earth, it was the ENTIRE Classics Universe, which is very quickly destroyed, all save for Earth, that is left alone in the void that was once an entire universe. The planet is transported to the Shattered Glass universe soon afterwards, but the fact still remains. Everyone they ever knew, who was not on Earth (or a couple of ships that were trapped in a wormhole) were just annihilated.
Worst of all, Cliffjumper has been trapped in the SG universe for some time now, and has just gotten the ability to return home, only to discover that it was just destroyed entirely.
Ultra Magnus is still out there, and now the Transtechs, the self-appointed guardians of the Multiverse are working on resolving these problems...let's hope they can stop him before any more universes are blown up!
I hope you enjoyed this list, and let me know if you have any more opinions on my choices, or any others. Look out for my future blogs by following my page, or just bookmarking it, and have a happy Halloween...be careful of killer robots!
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