Changes: Scattorshot (Cybertron)

Revision as of 23:36, 4 October 2007

Behind the Beast Wars and between seconds, Razorbeast's Maximal's fight Ravage's Decepticons

Writer: Simon Furman
Penciler: Don Figueroa
Inker: Mark Bristow
Colorist: Andrew Elder & Jeong Joo Park
Letterer: Robbie Robbins
Edits by: Chris Ryall & Dan Taylor

Release date: October 3rd, 2007 (interior date is August)
Perceded by: The Gathering, Part 4
Followed by: The Ascending, Part 2

Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Magmatron, shifted out of existence, monitors reality as a chronal ghost. Able to access and witness all of time but interact with nothing.

In prehistoric times, on earth, Razorbeast, Prowl, and Wolfang consider their place on Earth, fighting Ravage, unsure if there's any chance of rescue.

Elsewhere, Grimlock gets into a battle with Retrax and Manterror, but the fight is just a diversion to draw Grimlock away from Razorbeast's Maximal base. Retrax detonates some explosives that signal the start to a large battle between the two armies.

While Torca kicks tons of ass outside, Ravage sneaks inside of the Maximal base, to access the hardware that would allow himself to shift his place in time so that he might interact with Optimus Primal and Megatron's fight. Razorbeast stops Ravage and deduces from the desperation of the Predacon attack that Primal is close to winning conclusively. While Ravage explains, confirming the news and his intentions, Snarl slips into position to blast Ravage away from Razorbeast. The two Maximals knock the Predacon leader out.

Magmatron, watching the universe move forward, brings his attention back to the transwarp signal sent by the Maximals to request help from Cybertron. Although he's unable to interact with the physical world, he uses his temp oral presence to escort the transwarp radio message though space to arrive at it's intended destination. With his aid, the signal reaches Lio Convoy on Cybertron. The Prime decides to aid his agent on Earth.

In another location, perhaps another time, Shokaract lives.

Appearances

Cybertron Prologue
pg1: Triceradon, Guiledart, Halfshell, Magmatron
pg3: Shokaract pg4: Unicron

Pre-historic Earth
pg4:Razorbeast Prowl Wolfang
pg5: Grimlock
pg6: Manterror, Retrax

pg9 panel 2: Lazorbeak, Injector, Jetstorm, Sky Shadow, Transquito, Buzz Saw, Scourge, and Buzzclaw
pg9 panel 3: Optimus Minor, Bonecrusher, Bantor, Snarl, Polar Claw, Air Hammer, Stinkbomb, Cybershark, a bot that's a bat, possibly Sonar
pg10 panel 3: Insecticon, Powerpinch, Iguanus, [[Drill Bit (BW)| Drill Bit], Spittor, and Manta Ray
pg11: 4 preds and Torca
pg12: Ravage pg 6: Snarl

pg18 panel 2: B'Boom
pg18 panel 4: Ramulus

Cybertron:
pg19: Longrack, Stampy, Apache, Mach Kick pg20: Lio Convoy, Drillnuts

Cybertron (?):
pg19: ?? x2
pg21: Shokaract

Items of Note

This issue was available in 2 different covers.
- Cover A, the left (Maximal) side of an image drawn by Don Figueroa and colored by Josh Burcham
- Cover B, the right (Predacon) side of the same images
- Retailer Incentive A: Sketch cover by Nick Roche
- Retailer Incentive B: An un-colored version the two regular covers combined into a single (wraparound) image.

Modern science suggests we wait and see how this all unfolds before Beast Wars Neo, Beast Wars 2nd, and Reaching the Omega Point.

This issue contains advertisements for:
- Beast Wars: The Ascending, Part 2
- CGC Grading, feat. Grimlock
- Transformers posters
- Transformers movie prequel comic
- Transformers 2007 movie adaptation
- Megatron Origin comic series
- Transformers Trade paperbacks
- Greatest battles of Optimus Prime and Megatron
- The Transformers Cover Gallery Book 2
- Star Trek: Year Four
- Devastation, Part 1

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+'''Behind the Beast Wars and between seconds, Razorbeast's Maximal's fight Ravage's Decepticons'''
-{{disambig3|Scattershot}}
+'''Writer:''' [[Simon Furman]]<br>
-:''Scattorshot is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''
+'''Penciler:''' [[Don Figueroa]]<br>
+'''Inker:''' [[Mark Bristow]]<br>
+'''Colorist:''' Andrew Elder & Jeong Joo Park<br>
+'''Letterer:''' Robbie Robbins<br>
+'''Edits by:''' [[Chris Ryall]] & [[Dan Taylor]]<br>
+*''Release date:'' October 3rd, 2007 (interior date is August)
-[[Image:ScattorshotPromo01.jpg|thumb|300px|He's a little bit country and a lot techno.]]
+*''Perceded by:'' [[The Gathering, Part 4]]
+*''Followed by:'' [[The Ascending, Part 2]]
+==Synopsis==
-A former computer-game programmer, Scattorshot quickly became [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]'s go-to bot for computer work.  But the nervy robot not only doesn't think he's cut out for battle, but believes the mere fact that he's done as well as he has ''in'' battle is just a big setup.  He's convinced his good luck will run out on him, and run out at the worst possible moment.
+{{spoiler}}
-As such, Scattorshot has developed a thing about guns.  He likes altmodes with a ''lot'' of them.  Maybe with enough firepower, he can prolong that whole karma thing.  His companions  find him to be a bit pessimistic, but far from hopeless... he may make a great soldier someday if he can just get over that nervousness.
+Magmatron, shifted out of existence, monitors reality as a chronal ghost. Able to access and witness all of time but interact with nothing.
-Since gaining a new body and joining the [[Cybertron Defense Team]], Scattorshot has  gained more confidence and lost some of his pessimism, now that he has two brothers in arms watching his back. That, and the fact his new body has enough weaponry for him to make his own 'luck'.
+In prehistoric times, on earth, Razorbeast, Prowl, and Wolfang consider their place on Earth, fighting Ravage, unsure if there's any chance of rescue.
+Elsewhere, Grimlock gets into a battle with Retrax and Manterror, but the fight is just a diversion to draw Grimlock away from Razorbeast's Maximal base. Retrax detonates some explosives that signal the start to a large battle between the two armies.
-:''Japanese name:'' '''Backpack''' (normal), '''Backguild''' (Cybertron Defense)
+While Torca kicks tons of ass outside, Ravage sneaks inside of the Maximal base, to access the hardware that would allow himself to shift his place in time so that he might interact with Optimus Primal and Megatron's fight. Razorbeast stops Ravage and deduces from the desperation of the Predacon attack that Primal is close to winning conclusively. While Ravage explains, confirming the news and his intentions, Snarl slips into position to blast Ravage away from Razorbeast. The two Maximals knock the Predacon leader out.
+Magmatron, watching the universe move forward, brings his attention back to the transwarp signal sent by the Maximals to request help from [[Cybertron]]. Although he's unable to interact with the physical world, he uses his temp oral presence to escort the transwarp radio message though space to arrive at it's intended destination. With his aid, the signal reaches Lio Convoy on Cybertron. The Prime decides to aid his agent on Earth.
-==Fiction==
-===Animated continuity===
-====Cybertron====
+In another location, perhaps another time, Shokaract lives.
-[[Image:CDScattorshot_dvd.jpg|left|thumb|200px|"Shoot first and let [[Primus]] sort ' em out!"]]
+==Appearances==
-When Optimus Prime and Scattorshot arrived on [[Earth]], the latter scanned his vehicle mode off of a billboard advertising a war movie. To Prime's surprise, it was a conspicuous military half-track, and berated him for his choice of a disguise. Scattorshot sassed back that Prime's own vehicle mode of a gigantic fire truck armed with huge cannons sure is a good disguise. Then he pretended that Prime had disappeared for the moment, as he was so good at blending in. He finally laid out the advantages of a half-track, such as off-road, all-terrain capability, relatively high speed in difficult conditions and that nobody would ever think to give him a parking ticket.
+'''Cybertron Prologue<br>
-Prime merely replied "Well... a fire truck is bigger." before quickly driving off. {{storylink|Inferno (Cybertron episode)|Inferno}}
+pg1: [[Triceradon (Dinobots)|Triceradon]], [[Guiledart]], [[Halfshell]], [[Magmatron]]<br>
+pg3: [[Shokaract]]
+pg4: [[Unicron]]
+'''Pre-historic Earth'''<br>
-===Cyber Key Code content===
+pg4:[[Razorbeast]] [[Prowl (Transmetal 2)|Prowl]] [[Wolfang]]<br>
-Scattorshot didn't just program video games on Cybertron, he also played them.  A LOT.  Unlike most gamers, his polygon addiction actually came in handy as he used his knowledge of strategy games to help Optimus make plans for fighting the Decepticons.
+pg5: [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]<br>
+pg6: [[Manterror]], [[Retrax]]<br>
+pg9 panel 2: [[Lazorbeak]], [[Injector]], [[Jetstorm (BW)|Jetstorm]], [[Sky Shadow (BW)|Sky Shadow]], [[Transquito]], [[Buzz Saw (BW)| Buzz Saw]], [[Scourge (BW)|Scourge]], and [[Buzzclaw (BW)| Buzzclaw]]<br>
-{{-}}
+pg9 panel 3: [[Optimus Minor]], [[Bonecrusher (BW)| Bonecrusher]], [[Bantor]], [[Snarl]], [[Polar Claw]],  [[Air Hammer]], [[Stinkbomb]], [[Cybershark]], a bot that's a bat, possibly [[Sonar (BW)| Sonar]]<br>
+pg10 panel 3: [[Insecticon (BW)|Insecticon]], [[Powerpinch]], [[Iguanus (BW)| Iguanus]], [[Drill Bit (BW)| Drill Bit], [[Spittor]], and [[Manta Ray (BW)| Manta Ray]] <br>
+pg11: 4 preds and [[Torca]]<br>
+pg12: [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]
+pg 6: Snarl
+pg18 panel 2: [[B'Boom]]<br>
-==Toys==
+pg18 panel 4: [[Ramulus]]
-===Cybertron===
-*'''Scattorshot''' (Scout-class, 2004/2005)
-:''Japanese ID number:'' '''GC-06'''
+'''Cybertron:'''<br>
-[[Image:CybScattorshot_toy.jpg|right|thumb|Lots of guns.]]
+pg19: [[Longrack (BWN)|Longrack]], [[Stampy]], [[Apache]], [[Mach Kick]]
+pg20: [[Lio Convoy]], [[Drillnuts]]
+'''Cybertron (?):'''<br>
-: Scattorshot transforms into a anti-aircraft halftrack of made-up model.  In either mode, he can fire two pressure-launched missiles.  When a [[Cyber Planet Key]] is inserted in either mode, a (non-firing) missile rack opens up on his primary weapons turret. He also comes with a secondary double-barreled blaster accessory.
+pg19: ?? x2<br>
+pg21: [[Shokaract]]
+==Items of Note==
-:He also comes with an [[Earth]]-style Cyber Planet Key; the [[Hasbro]] version has the [[Cyber Key Codes|Key Code]] "'''s67k''' on the back
+* This issue was available in 2 different covers.
-*'''Cybertron Defense Scattorshot''' (Voyager-class, 2005/2006)
+** Cover A, the left (Maximal) side of an image drawn by [[Don Figueroa]] and colored by [[Josh Burcham]]
-:''Japanese ID number:'' '''GC-20'''
+** Cover B, the right (Predacon) side of the same images
+** Retailer Incentive A: Sketch cover by [[Nick Roche]]
+** Retailer Incentive B: An un-colored version the two regular covers combined into a single (wraparound) image.
+* Modern science suggests we wait and see how this all unfolds before [[Beast Wars Neo]], [[Beast Wars 2nd]], and [[Reaching the Omega Point]].
-[[Image:CD_Scattorshot_toy.jpg|left|thumb|Overcompensating?]]
+* This issue contains advertisements for:
-: Cybertron Defense Scattorshot transforms into a Multiple-Launch Rocket System of made-up model mounted on a Merkava 2 tank hull.  The halves of the (non-firing) launcher end up on his arms in robot mode.  In either mode, inserting a Cyber Planet Key in each half reveals a new weapon: one side has a oull-out double spring-loaded missile launcher, while the other has a flip-out non-firing blaster barrel.  He also comes with an extra long blue hand-held rifle that can be mounted in tank mode thanks to his [[Mini-con]]-compatible [[Powerlinx]] plugs.
+** Beast Wars: [[The Ascending, Part 2]]
+** CGC Grading, feat. Grimlock
+** Transformers posters
+** [[Prime Directives|Transformers movie prequel comic]]
+** [[Movie (comics)|Transformers 2007 movie adaptation]]
+** [[Megatron Origin]] comic series
+** Transformers [[Trade paperbacks]]
+** [[Greatest battles of Optimus Prime and Megatron]]
+** [[The Transformers Cover Gallery Book 2]]
+** Star Trek: Year Four
+** [[Devastation, Part 1]]
+[[Category:IDW issues]]
-: The [[Takara]] release has slightly different [[paint application]]s for his chest, and his Cybertron Defense/Vanguard Team symbol tampograph is smaller.
-: He comes with a [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]-style Cyber Planet Key; the Hasbro version has the Key Code "'''v4kt'''" on the back.
-==Trivia==
-* According to [[Aaron Archer]] at [[BotCon 2006]], the reason both versions of Scattorshot came with extra blue guns was because both versions had a little more left on the "per item" budget than the normal plans called for, so they added the guns for a little more value.
-* In the opening-credit roll call of the Cybertron cartoon series, Scattorshot's name is spelled "Scattershot".  This is also the spelling used on his Cyber Planet Key content.
-==External links==
-*[http://www.tfu.info/2005/Autobot/Scattorshot/scattorshot.htm Scattorshot at TFU.info]
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-[[category: Autobots]]
-[[Category: Cybertron characters]]