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A one-shot comic leading towards the events of Combiner Wars, taking place after the events of Issue 35 of The Transformers: Robots in Disguise, written by John Barber and with Livio Ramondelli on art duties.Optimus Prime travels to Cybertron for an unfinished business and lands in the middle of a triple-murder mystery. |
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Darker and Edgier |
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Darker and Edgier: Between the extreme vigilante that is Sandstorm, the brutal weapon that is the inferneus bullet, and the copious amounts of Grey-and-Grey Morality, this is quite possibly one of the Darkest and Edgiest of the IDW comics. |
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Died Standing Up |
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Died Standing Up, Disturbingly, Treadshot's corpse stays upright as half his head is blown away and the rest smolders down to an endoskeleton. |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something: It's politically motivated, to be sure, but Starscream participates in the investigation nevertheless. |
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Fantastic Ghetto |
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Fantastic Ghetto: The 'cons live outside Metroplex, and it's explicitly called ghettos. |
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Man on Fire |
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Man on Fire: More like Fire in Robots. The killer's weapon of choice, the infernus bullet, overloads the target's neurosystems and immolates the target from the inside. |
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Vigilante Injustice |
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Vigilante Injustice: The killer pursued by Optimus and Barricade turns out to have been targeting Cybertronians, both Autobot and Decepticon, who carried out war crimes during the just concluded Forever War. However, his actions risked inflaming tensions between the Autobots, Decepticons and Neutrals, to the point that Starscream (in his position of elected leader) gave orders to raze the Decepticon ghettos in an attempt to flush out information, though Barricade refuses to follow said orders and continues the investigation. Optimus himself points out during the final confrontation that due to how terrible the war was, just about everyone was involved with some sort of war crime, and the killer's "justice" was more about how he couldn't come to terms with the idea of such monsters just... settling down peacefully. |
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Grey-and-Gray Morality |
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Grey-and-Gray Morality: None of the characters in this story - save for Optimus, Windblade and surprisingly, Barricade - can't really be described as wholly good or malicious. |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Sandstorm and arguably, the Dinobots, have clearly suffered and then some as a result of the war, to the point that the former snaps and becomes a brutal vigilante. |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Optimus gives two to Slug and the Dinobots for all the trouble they've caused, one of them being the page quote above. The second was a feint in order to draw out the actual culprit. Windblade gives one to everyone about how they all suck for the 4-million year war. |
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Broken Pedestal |
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Broken Pedestal: It's kind of mutual between Optimus and the Dinobots. Optimus can't believe they can't let go of the war, and the Dinobots resent being called out on it. It's never really touched upon if they're able to patch things up towards the end. |
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City Noir |
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City Noir: The Decepticon ghetto wouldn't look out of place in a Cybertronian-themed noir detective story. |
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Token Good Teammate |
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Token Good Teammate: Barricade is easily one of the most heroic characters, but he's also a faithful Decepticon. In addition, Swoop takes on his traditional role as the Dinobots' mediator. |
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No-Respect Guy |
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No-Respect Guy: Barely anyone gives a damn about who Prime is these days. To a lesser degree, Swoop is quite possibly the least respected member within the Dinobots. |
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Do Not Taunt Cthulhu |
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Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Acid Storm tells Sparkstalker that no, intimidating and taunting Optimus Prime is a stupid idea even if he is outnumbered. |
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My God, What Have I Done? |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Sandstorm is horrified when he realizes that he almost executed a defenseless Flamefeather in cold blood. That one's faked, but his reaction to shooting Prime with an Infernus bullet certainly isn't. |
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Spoken word for word by Treadshot in the opening. Brisko and Wilder, being far more intelligent, immediately call him out on this. Not that it helps them. |
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To Be Lawful or Good |
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To Be Lawful or Good: Barricade defies Starscream's order to lay waste to the Decepticon ghetto. |
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Informed Ability |
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Informed Ability: The Firecons are noted to be immensely powerful soldiers, burning a planets atmosphere so severely, thousands of Autobots died. While it's likely the atmosphere was flammable, it's hard to swallow the Firecons as such a huge threat, partly because such an atrocity is just brought up here, partly because the Firecons themselves are fairly standard Decepticon troops, just with a fire-gimmick. |
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Series Continuity Error: Sparkstalker freaks out over attacking Optimus, thinking he'll be out for revenge. It was Flamefeather who shot at Optimus. |
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An Arm and a Leg: When confronting the Firecons, Sandstorm blows off Sparkstalker's legs. |
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Red Herring: The Firecons, the Dinobots, and even Barricade are all suspects in the murder case. It's really Sandstorm. |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Barricade, although he's mid-level management and dealing with 'bots and 'cons in the upper echelon. |
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Varying Competency Alibi |
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Varying Competency Alibi: In issue #4 "The Killing Jar", Optimus is investigating the deaths of several former Autobots and Decepticons. They've been killed by being roasted from the inside out, with the murder weapon being identified as Infernus Bullets (a type of ammo that enters the victim before igniting). The prime suspects are the Firecons, but Optimus clears them by pointing out that the Firecons don't need Infernus Bullets to inflict the kind of damage done to the murder victims: their natural abilities allow them to do that, and the Infernus Bullets were actually an attempt to duplicate those powers. |
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Forever War |
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Windblade gives one to everyone about how they all suck for the 4-million year war. |
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