History WMG / TransformersMoreThanMeetstheEye

* [[spoiler: On which leg Ambulon formed may have some significance with the Combiner Wars storyline on the horizon]].

[[WMG: Deathsaurus will be a NobleDemon or outright AntiVillain]]

* The Autobots never developed phase-sixers...or did they? Elita-One (if she appears in IDW's Transformers books again) will revealed to be the Autobot equivalent of a phase-six bot.

* The Autobots never developed phase-sixers...or did they? Elita-One will revealed to be the Autobot equivalent of a phase-six bot.

* Since his Autobot counterpart from TransformersVictory, Star Saber, has been adapted into a fanatical religious zealot who believes he has an OmniscientMoralityLicense and wants to kill all the unbelievers, Deathsaurus will be reimagined into a courageous, honourable warrior. Someone who's actually a pretty decent guy if not for the fact that he was a Decepticon. A nature like that would also explain why the DJD would be after him as well.

* [[spoiler: On which leg Ambulon formed may have some significance with the Combiner Wars storyline on the horizon]].

At some point in the past, Brainstorm predicted (quite correctly) that the timeline would decay into a BadPresent without someone ensuring that the social order was irrevocably altered to prevent the Functionists from gaining control. So began his plan to engineer a revolution, starting with the construction of his briefcase network. He's had experience in creating temporal-affecting devices such as the slow cell, possibly as a springboard for a full blown time machine, and he's shown an interest in the Dead Universe, possibly having arrived at Shockwave's conclusions that the energies of another universe can be tapped into (though its destruction in ''Dark Cybertron'' likely scrapped his plans to use it to fuel his machine).

Having created the means to travel into the past, he starts building his own revolutionary from scratch. Creating Megatron's personality in a lab might have been difficult, but Brainstorm hails from the New Institute and used to work with the best mnemosurgeon alive. Instead, it's finding the superspark that will ensure his toy soldier will be tough enough to survive the living hell the Senate will surely put him through that proves to be the big obstacle. but he gets lucky and essentially has one fall into his lap on Luna-1. Unfortunately, the reality-warping of the Dark Cybertron and Slaughterhouse arcs accelerates the timeline's decay, and with another control case suddenly tapping into his network, Brainstorm knows it's time to put his plan into action.

Though Megatron is the major game changer here, there are multiple minute historical events which need to be occur to achieve the desired timeline. Whether empirically or just as an educated guess, Brainstorm knows he can't count on everyone involved in them just uniting under his lead to screw the past. He needs to galvanize them into making the jump themselves, and what better way to do that that then making himself out as a threat to the timeline? By making himself out as a Decepticon, faking an attempted mass murder, and jumping into the past, he's ensured the crew will drop everything and chase him. He tries hitting hotspots that helped shape Megatron into the Decepticon leader, knowing that the others will follow and bumble into creating StableTimeLoop after StableTimeLoop, and even sets up one himself with whatever the hell he did to past Rung. At one point, much to his panic, they catch up to him and almost derail his plans, but he's able to shake them and leads them back through the past again, where they accidentally start the fight which leads to Megatron's arrest. (Presumably, he was completely nonplussed that the war was indirectly caused by a curly straw, hence his "Unbelievable...") He ultimately travels back to the day of Megatron's creation, and starts off the modifications by killing the spark of Megatron-to-be and replacing it with his Point-One-Percenter.

A ''Generations'' Defensor is indeed in the works, and solicits for ''Combiner Wars'' hint that certain Autobots from the ''Lost Light'' will play a part in the crossover.

At some point in the past, Brainstorm predicted (quite correctly) that the timeline would decay into a BadPresent without someone ensuring that the social order was irrevocably altered to prevent the Functionists from gaining control. So began his plan to engineer a revolution, starting with the construction of his briefcase network. He's had experience in creating temporal-affecting devices such as the slow cell, possibly as a springboard for a full blown time machine, and he's shown an interest in the Dead Universe, possibly having arrived at Shockwave's conclusions that the energies of another universe can be tapped into, (though its destruction in ''Dark Cybertron'' likely scrapped his plans to use it to fuel his machine).

Though Megatron is the major game changer here, there are multiple minute historical events which need to be occur to achieve the desired timeline. Whether empirically or just as an educated guess, Brainstorm knows he can't count on everyone involved in them just uniting under his lead to screw the past. He needs to galvanize them into making the jump themselves, and what better way to do that that then making himself out as a threat to the timeline? By making himself out as a Decepticon, faking an attempted mass murder, and jumping into the past, he's ensured the crew will drop everything and chase him. He tries hitting hotspots that helped shape Megatron into the Decepticon leader, knowing that the others will follow and bumble into creating StableTimeLoop after StableTimeLoop, and even sets up one himself with whatever the hell he did to past Rung. At one point, much to his panic, they catch up to him and almost derail his plans, but he's able to shake them and leads them back through the past again, where they accidentally start the fight which leads to Megatron's arrest. (Presumably, he was completely nonplussed that the war was indirectly caused by a curly straw, hence his "Unbelievable..." He ultimately travels back to the day of Megatron's creation, and starts off the modifications by killing the spark of Megatron-to-be and replaicng it wih his Point-One-Percenter.

** Or he will die at the hands of [[spoiler:Springer, out of his coma and pissed off,]] come to finish the job he started in LastStandOfTheWreckers.

* Because ALL of the members of the Protectobots are now onboard the ''Lost Light'', though First Aid is the only one of them to get any real exposure. But Blades has been a background crewmember since season one, and rather conveniently, the season 2 comics have seen Hot Spot, Groove and Streetwise, the remaining three members of the team sign up as well, though again, the comics haven't called attention to it apart from Groove in the Crewditions gag. Given the 2015 Generations' toyline being heavily combiner focused (with new versions of Superion and Menasor, who also happen to be two of the few current combiners active in the IDW 'verse) AND a duo of multipacks that are non-combining Protectobots who are repaints of various Prime, Universe and Movie toys and, it seems likely that Defensor is in the works. Conveniently, this would also mean that all the major groups of characters across the comics would have something to tie them into the next CrisisCrossover (the Autobots, or perhaps more accurately, Prowl, has Devastator, the Decepticons have Menasor, Starscream's Cybertron would have Superion, and Monstructor is still out there as a WildCard along with Defensor for the ''Lost Light''). This will probably coincide with the announcement of a Defensor toy, probably either at Toy Fair or BotCon 2015, which are when Hasbro likes to do its big reveals.

* Blackshadow: One of the phase sixers, and therefore most powerful, in the only scene he appeared in, he seemed loyal to megatron, besides, it will be another call-back to Wreckers.

Having created the means to travel into the past, he starts building his own revolutionary from scratch. Creating Megatron's personality in a lab might have been difficult, but Brainstorm hails from the New Institute and used to work with the best mnemosurgeon alive. Instead, it's finding the superspark that will ensure his toy soldier will be tough enough to survive the living hell the Senate will surely put him through that proves to be the big obstacle. but he gets lucky and essentially has one fall into his lap on Luna-1. Unfortunately, the reality-warping of the Dark Cybertron and Slaughterhouse arcs accelerates the timeline's decay, and with another control case suddenly tapping into his network, Brainstorm knows it's time to put his plan into action.
Though Megatron is the major game changer here, there are multiple minute historical events which need to be occur to achieve the desired timeline. Whether empirically or just as an educated guess, Brainstorm knows he can't count on everyone involved in them just uniting under his lead to screw the past. He needs to galvanize them into making the jump themselves, and what better way to do that that then making himself out as a threat to the timeline? By making himself out as a Decepticon, faking an attempted mass murder, and jumping into the past, he's ensured the crew will drop everything and chase him. He tries hitting hotspots that helped shape Megatron into the Decepticon leader, knowing that the others will follow and bumble into creating StableTimeLoop after StableTimeLoop, and even sets up one himself with whatever the hell he did to past Rung. At one point, much to his panic, they catch up to him and almost derail his plans, but he's able to shake them and leads them back through the past again, where they accidentally start the fight which leads to Megatron's arrest. (Presumably, he was completely nonplussed that the war was indirectly caused by a curly straw, hence his "Unbelievable..." He ultimately travels back to the day of Megatron's creation, and starts off the modifications by killing the spark of Megatron-to-be and replaicng it wih his Point-One-Percenter.

Though Megatron is the major game changer here, there are multiple minute historical events which need to be occur to achieve the desired timeline. Whether empirically or just as an educated guess, Brainstorm knows he can't count on everyone involved in them just uniting under his lead to screw the past. He needs to galvanize them into making the jump themselves, and what better way to do that that then making himself out as a threat to the timeline? By making himself out as a Decepticon, faking an attempted mass murder, and jumping into the past, he's ensured the crew will drop everything and chase him. He tries hitting hotspots that helped shape Megatron into the Decepticon leader, knowing that the others will follow and bumble into creating StableTimeLoop after StableTimeLoop, and even sets up one himself with whatever the hell he did to past Rung. At one point, much to his panic, they catch up to him and almost derail his plans, but he's able to shake them and leads them back through the past again, where they accidentally start the fight which leads to Megatron's arrest. (Presumably, he was completely nonplussed that the war was indirectly caused by a curly straw, hence his "Unbelievable..." He ultimately travels back to the day of Megatron's creation, and starts off the modifications by

* At some point in the past, Brainstorm predicted (quite correctly) that the timeline would decay into a BadPresent without someone ensuring that the social order was irrevocably altered to prevent the Functionists from gaining control. So began his plan to engineer a revolution, starting with the construction of his briefcase network. He's had experience in creating temporal-affecting devices such as the slow cell, possibly as a springboard for a full blown time machine, and he's shown an interest in the Dead Universe, possibly having arrived at Shockwave's conclusions that the energies of another universe can be tapped into, (though its destruction in ''Dark Cybertron'' likely scrapped his plans to use it to fuel his machine).

Though Megatron is the major game changer here, there are multiple minute historical events which need to be occur to achieve the desired timeline. Whether empirically or just as an educated guess, Brainstorm knows he can't count on everyone involved in them just uniting under his lead to screw the past. He needs to galvanize them into making the jump themselves, and what better way to do that that then making himself out as a threat to the timeline? By making himself out as a Decepticon, staging an attempted mass murder, and jumping into the past, he's ensured the crew will drop everything and chase him Having presumably gleaned everyone's sparktypes from the medibay files, he tries hitting hotspots where a) he has a shot at Megatron, b) the Lost Lighters can follow and thus ensure

Brainstorm begins time-jumping, making sure to land on sociotemporal hotspots the crew are part of and can follow. By this point, he's also figured out Even with the timeline collas

* At some point in the past, Brainstorm predicted (quite correctly) that the timeline would decay into a BadPresent without someone ensuring that the social order was irrevocably altered to prevent the Functionists from gaining control. So began his plan to engineer a revolution, starting with the construction of his briefcase network. He's shown a fondness for Dead Universe research, possibly having drawn similar conclusions to Shockwave's and realzing that and his temporal-affective devices such as the slow cell.

* [[spoiler: Confirmed in issue 37]]

* Because ALL of the members of the Protectobots are now onboard the ''Lost Light'', though First Aid is the only one of them to get any real exposure. But Blades has been a background crewmember since season one, and rather conveniently, the season 2 comics have seen Hot Spot, Groove and Streetwise, the remaining three members of the team sign up as well, though again, the comics haven't called attention to it apart from Groove in the Crewditions gag. Given the 2015 Generations' toyline being heavily combiner focused (with new versions of Superion and Menasor, who also happen to be two of the few current combiners active in the IDW 'verse) AND a duo of multipacks that are non-combining Protectobots who are repaints of various Prime, Universe and Movie toys and, it seems likely that Defensor is in the works. Conveniently, this would also mean that all the major groups of characters across the comics would have something to tie them into the next CrisisCrossover (the Autobots, or perhaps more accurately, Prowl, has Devastator, the Decepticons have Menasor, Starscream's Cybertron would have Superion, and Monstructor is still out there as a WildCard along with Defensor for the ''Lost Light''). This will probably coincide with the announcement of a Defensor toy, probably either at Toy Fair or BotCon 2015, which are when Hasbro likes to do its big reveals.

[[WMG: [[spoiler: Rodimus and crew's time travel shenanigans are creating the DJD]]]]
* Think about it. [[spoiler: Unless it's a RedHerring (which is entirely possible with Roberts), #36 is ''lousy'' with hints and foreshadowing that Roller became Tarn (his face is injured, his friends leave him behind thanks to Chromedome wiping their memories, Orion told him to check out Megatron's writings, he's shown to have an addictive personality). In #37, Whirl uses one of Brainstorm's strange, experimental guns to kill some no-name goon, but the blast enters through his chest and exits ''out his eyes''. And who's the one shown to kill the alternate-timeline Whirl a few issues ago? Kaon. Who has holes for eyes. Hammer and Anvil are gigantic, easily the same size as Helex and Tesarus. While not directly related to the time travel, in Shadowplay, we saw Orion drive ''through'' either Hammer or Anvil, creating a giant hole which could have become Tesarus' grinder. And they were only there because Chromedome told Whirl to let them live. No hints yet as to where Helex and Vos fit in, but if things continue playing out in this way, it seems entirely possible that the Lost Light just ''made'' some of the worst Decepticons to ever live.]]

* Think about it. [[spoiler: Unless it's a RedHerring (which is entirely possible with Roberts), #36 is ''lousy'' with hints and foreshadowing that Roller became Tarn (his face is injured, his friends leave him behind thanks to Chromedome wiping their memories, Orion told him to check out Megatron's writings, he's shown to have an addictive personality). In #37, Whirl uses one of Brainstorm's strange, experimental guns to kill some no-name goon, but the blast enters through his chest and exits ''out his eyes''. And who's the one shown to kill the alternate-timeline Whirl a few issues ago? Kaon. Who has holes for eyes. Hammer and Anvil are gigantic, easily the same size as Helex and Tesarus. While not directly related to the time travel, in Shadowplay, we saw Orion drive ''through'' either Hammer or Anvil, creating a giant hole which could have become Tesarus' grinder. And they were only there because Chromedome told Whirl to let them live.]] No hints yet as to where Helex and Vos fit in, but if things continue playing out in this way, it seems entirely possible that the Lost Light just ''made'' some of the worst Decepticons to ever live.

[[WMG: Rodimus and crew's [[spoiler: time travel shenanigans]] are creating the DJD]]

* Because ALL of the members of the Protectobots are now onboard the ''Lost Light'', though First Aid is the only one of them to get any real exposure. But Blades has been a background crewmember since season one, and rather conveniently, the season 2 comics have seen Hot Spot, Groove and Streetwise, the remaining three members of the team sign up as well, though again, the comics haven't called attention to it apart from Groove in the Crewditions gag. Given the 2015 Generations' toyline being heavily combiner focused (with new versions of Superion and Menasor, who also happen to be two of the few current combiners active in the IDW 'verse) AND a duo of multipacks that are non-combining Protectobots who are repaints of various Prime, Universe and Movie toys and, it seems likely that Defensor is in the works. Conveniently, this would also mean that all the major groups of characters across the comics would have something to tie them into the next CrisisCrossover (the Autobots, or perhaps more accurately, Prowl, has Devastator, the Decepticons have Menasor, Starscream's Cybertron would have Superion, and Monstructor is still out there as a WildCard along with Defensor for the ''Lost Light''). This will probably coincide with the announcement of a Defensor toy, probably either at Toy Fair or BotCon 2015, which are when Hasbro likes to do its big reveals.

[[WMG: The current members of the D.J.D. are [[spoiler: characters who have "vanished" as part of their backstories.]]

* Given the unlikelihood of [[spoiler: TWO autobots being part of the DJD then Roller being ''Tarn'' and Roller being Agent 113 seems quite possible.

* Because ALL of the members of the Protectobots are now onboard the ''Lost Light'', though First Aid is the only one of them to get any real exposure. But Blades has been a background crewmember since season one, and rather conveniently, the season 2 comics have seen Hot Spot, Groove and Streetwise, the remaining three members of the team sign up as well, though again, the comics haven't called attention to it apart from Groove in the Crewditions gag. Given the 2015 Generations' toyline being heavily combiner focused (with new versions of Superion and Menasor, who also happen to be two of the few current combiners active in the IDW 'verse) AND a duo of multipacks that are non-combining Protectobots who are repaints of various Prime, Universe and Movie toys and, it seems likely that Defensor is in the works. Conveniently, this would also mean that all the major groups of characters across the comics would have something to tie them into the next CrisisCrossover (the Autobots, or perhaps more accurately, Prowl, has Devastator, the Decepticons have Menasor, Starscream's Cybertron would have Superion, and Monstructor is still out there as a WildCard along with Defensor for the ''Lost Light''). This will probably coincide with the announcement of a Defensor toy, probably either at Toy Fair or BotCon 2015, which are when Hasbro likes to do its big reveals.

[[WMG: Roller [[spoiler:will eventually become ''Tarn'']].]]

It is very well possible that it will not go down that route, but these little points of evidence are just too noticeable to ignore.

** [[spoiler:Jossed. During the ''Light Light's'' initial launch, a malfunction caused a duplicate ship to appear, with events unfolding differently from the original we've seen. It all ends with the DJD attacking the ''Lost Light'' and massacring the entire crew save fro Rewind.]]