Comic Title: Finale
Writers: Jesse Wittenrich & Pete Sinclair
Pencils: Dan Khanna
Inks: Jake Isenberg
Colours: Evan Gauntt
Letters: Jesse Wittenrich
Managing Editor: Pete Sinclair
Plot
Ramjet notices Megatron, and immediately engages him in battle, unimpressed with Megatron's use of black holes to give him extra fire-power. The Wreckers wonder if Megatron can handle Ramjet alone, but Impactor doesn't care, since it's Megatron. He has the Wreckers combine into Wreckage, who engages Thunder Mayhem in battle, forcing the force of destruction to drop his captive Optimus Prime.
The battle doesn't go too well for Wreckage, but the human Elisabeth, Spike's girlfriend, reveals that she has the power to use Energon to attack others, and joins the battle against Mayhem.
During the battle, a piece of Mayhem's chest armour is chipped, revealing his Matrix, giving Optimus an idea. He has everyone aim for the chest, and they manage to pierce through his chest, destroying him.
In the chaos, Ramjet gets disillusioned, and escapes, hoping to reunite with Unicron, whilst Megatron returns to his human form and sneaks away to hide once more.
Weeks later, Optimus and Skyhammer have left to hunt down Ramjet, whilst the Wreckers take the Mayhem Attack Squad into custody and leave Earth. The humans and Pretenders get ready to be at peace, when they watch the TV and notice a new wrestler named Stranglehold....
And with that, the final platform is closed off, and the Transtech Rhinox is considering a new job, due to the lack of new arrivals to their Cybertron. Optimus decides that due to the changes to their multiverse, they need to change their policies and have to stop with the separation of Transtech and Offworlders.
Rhinox is shocked when a final group of arrivals turns up, from the long destroyed Classicsverse. Optimus suggests that this is probably due to them taking the "long way round", so he goes to meet them, and introduces himself to Nightbeat and the other new arrivals....
THE END
Characters
Autobot
Optimus Prime - Pick Up Truck
Hi-Q - Jet/Gun
Metalhawk - Fighter Jet
Crossblades - Helicopter
Vroom - Sidecar Motorcycle
Springer - Personnel Carrier
Elita-1 - Speedboat
Nightbeat - Sports Car
Siren - Emergency Vehicle
Huffer - Truck Cab
Snarl
Tyrannitron
Slag - Triceratops
Sludge - Apatosaurus
Swoop - Pteranodon
Skyhammer - VTOL Jet (Mentioned)
Decepticon
Megatron - Tank Self Exiled as a Human Pretender
Spacewarp - Space Shuttle/Gun
Ramjet - Fighter Jet
Thunder Mayhem - Mayhem Attack Squad Combiner Defeated/Destroyed
Stranglehold - Rhino (On TV)
Needlenose - Fighter Jet (On TV) In Wrecker Custody
Windsweeper - Fighter Jet (On TV) In Wrecker Custody
Ruckus - Off Road Truck (On TV) In Wrecker Custody
Other Mayhems (Mentioned) In Wrecker Custody
Wrecker
Wreckage - Wrecker Combiner
Toxitron - Truck Cab
Impactor - Armoured Truck
Bluestreak - Sports Car
Counterpunch - Sports Car
Fractyl - Fighter Jet
Transtech
Optimus Prime - Truck
Megatron - Tank
Rhinox - Construction Vehicle
Human/Nebulon
Elisabeth
Spike Witwicky
Buster Witwicky
Jesse Witwicky
Galen Witwicky
Minerva (Arrived in Axiom Nexus)
Muzzle (Arrived in Axiom Nexus)
Lug (Arrived in Axiom Nexus)
RAAT Pilots
Female Wrestlers (On TV)
GB Blackrock (On Phone)
Random Humans
Neo-Knights (Mentioned)
Other
Unicron - Ringed Planet (Mentioned)
Gaea - Classicsverse Earth (Mentioned)
Notes
- Yup, this is the final issue of the TFCC Magazine! And as per tradition, it ends in a very lacklustre way!
- Since Spacewarp is shown to be sentient, it seems likely that Hi-Q is as well, so...yay?
- Also, Spacewarp is shown to house the black-hole connection in her chest, rather than it being Megatron like it tends to be.
- With her connection to GB Blackrock, and powers, it appears that Elisabeth is actually a Metahuman, and likely a new member of the Neo-Knights. Due to the powers she is using (borrowing energy from Cybertronians for attacks) she is likely in some way related to Dynamo from the original Neo-Knights, who was also able to draw on energy from other sources (though in his case it was Earth and Cybertron themselves)
- Also....THEY LITERALLY USED A HUMAN DEUS EX MACHINA TO DEFEAT THE UNSTOPPABLE ROBOT MONSTER?!? Did I mention how glad I am that this is the last ever issue?
- They don't even bring any closure to this revelation either, they just cover it up, and she pretends it never happened!
- Optimus seems shocked that Thunder Mayhem has a sixth park powering him up, but the prose stories made it clear that this was known about...odd...
- Yeah...Wreckage, the big combiner robot who was the main goal of the final Subscription Service set, and the guy who we spent several prose stories following the creation of was used as a BATTERY for a human to easily defeat the focus of the penultimate Subscription Service set.....AHHHHHHHHHH!!!
- Hey look, Stranglehold is on Earth and is a wrestler now! Considering he would have been sent with the other humans and Pretenders several years prior, it's unlikely he's up to anything bad, so the final cliffhanger is kind of pointless.
- To add more to the joke, Skyhammer is just mentioned as having left Earth with Optimus to hunt down Ramjet, without even an appearance.
- Following the main story, the final platform shuts down for the Transtechs, leaving the Multiverse completely segregated (though as we saw recently in Lost Light, multiversal travel is still happening). This is a reference to this being the final piece of media produced by Fun Publications and their way of saying goodbye,
- In a final bit of nostalgia, the final new arrivals in Axiom Nexus are revealed to be the bulk of the remaining characters we knew from the Classicsverse, which was the first original continuity worked on from the Collector's Club. So that's a nice way to bookend their franchise.
Other Features
Mini-Spies: The First Transformers In-pack Premium - Article on the Mini-Spy toys
End of Days - Pete Sinclair interviews his content creators about the end of the TFCC
Titans Return Masters Kup - Review and reveal of the upcoming Kup toy :)
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