History ComicBook / FirstStrike

** For all his long list of evil deeds, and his generally disgusting attitude, Miles Mayhem still thinks what Garrison Kreiger did to Miles Power was awful.

* FiveManBand: Colton's Cybertron strike team:
** BigBad: Joe Colton/Baron Ironblood
** TheDragon: Miles Mayhem
** The EvilGenius: Garrison Kreiger
** TheBrute: Destro and later Shazraella, thanks to her gaining a gigantic Cybertronian body partway into the story.
** TheDarkChick: Storm Shadow

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Centurion, yet again. During the ''Optimus Prime'' tie-in, he attacks the Revolutionaries and sides with Kreiger.

* FiveBadBand: Colton's Cybertron strike team:

* SequelHook: [[spoiler:As Merklynn disappears, he says his Visionaries are coming back to finish what he started, leading to the following ''Transformers vs. Visionaries'' series.]]

->[[spoiler:'''Cybertron: "[[TheStinger Welcome.]] [[WhamLine Death.]]"''']]

** [[spoiler: "Welcome. Death." Unicron cometh.]]

* RedSkiesCrossover: ''ComicBook/MicronautsIDW'' and ''ComicBook/RomIDW'' have tie-ins in this crossover, but they have absolutely no connection to the Cybertron vs. Colton plot besides taking place during the same timespan. Similarly, the ''ComicBook/GIJoe2016'' and ''ComicBook/MASKMobileArmoredStrikeKommand'' tie-ins have little to do with it other than Scarlett and her team being on Cybertron while they take place.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Joe Colton aside, [[spoiler:there's Merkylnn. Already a massive {{Jerkass}} back in the original ''Visionaries'', here the man is willing to outright kill entire planets just to bring about the supremacy of magic.]]

** [[spoiler:Merkylnn, to everyone who's not from Prysmos.]]

* RedSkiesCrossover: ''ComicBook/MicronautsIDW'' and ''ComicBook/RomIDW'' have tie-ins in this crossover, but they have absolutely no connection to the Cybertron vs. Colton plot besides taking place during the same timespan.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Garrison Kreiger isn't really who he says he is. He's not even human. He's Merkylnn. ''That'' Merklynn.]]
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:As Merkylnn disappears, he says his Visionaries are coming back to finish what he started, leading to the following ''Transformers vs. Visionaries'' series.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Joe Colton had no idea Merklynn was using him to get at Cybertron.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Kreiger/Merkylnn:''' Do you [Colton] think I didn't know I was a pawn to you in this?]]

* BullyingADragon: Strika tries pointing a gun at Soundwave for standing with G.I. Joe, apparently not recognising or caring who he is.
* ChekhovsGunman: A purple ant-former is seen in the crowd early on in issue 1. In issue 2, Shazraella [[FusionDance enerchanges]] with her, in order to give the bad guys some extra firepower.

* LegionOfDoom: Baron Ironblood's assembled a team including ''G.I. Joe''s Destro, Major Bludd, Garrison Kreiger, the second Storm Shadow, and Doctor Mindbender, ''MASK'''s Miles Mayhem, and ''Micronauts'' Shazarella. Also involved is Iron Klaw (also from ''Joe'') and Doctor X (from ''Action Man'').
* {{Macguffin}}: The Talisman, the plot device of ''Revolutionaries''. Ironblood plans to use it's abilities, which kill Cybertronians, on the entire planet.

* SequelHook: [[spoiler:As Merkylnn disappears, he says his Visionaries are coming back to finish what he started, tieing in to the following ''Transformers Vs. Visionaries'' series.]]

''First Strike'' is an Creator/IDWPublishing crossover set in their ComicBook/HasbroComicUniverse, featuring characters from Transformers, G.I. Joe, MASK, Rom and Micronauts.

First Strike is a six-issue miniseries, written by Mairghead Scott and David R. Rodriguez, with art by Matt Dumbar. The main series also comes with back-up stories detailing how Ironblood assembled his forces.

* ExactWords: Garrison Kreiger's story to Colton in issue 5. All over the place. [[spoilers:Later on, when he declares he still has "many worlds to conquer", it turns out he's ''not'' being poetical in the slightest.]]

* OutsideContextProblem: Joe Colton was used to the weird science-based heroes of the HCU. [[spoiler:Actual, proper, full-blown magic in the form of one of it's most powerful wielders? Yeah, he's got nothing against that.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: Joe Colton aside, [[spoiler:there's Merkylnn. Already a massive {{Jerkass}} back in the original ''Visionaries'', here the man is willing to outright kill entire planets just to bring about the supremacy of science.]]

** [[spoiler:Merkylnn, to everyone who's not from Prysmos.

* OutOfContextFoe: Joe Colton was used to the weird science-based heroes of the HCU. [[spoiler:Actual, proper, full-blown magic in the form of one of it's most powerful wielders? Yeah, he's got nothing against that.]]

* FantasticRacism: Why Ironblood wants to kill all Cybertronians. He's also not too pleased with Miles Mayheim's prior team-up with the Dire Wraiths (for personal reasons) and Baron Karza.

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Welcome. Death." Unicron cometh.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Miles makes a crack about Scarlett, asking [[TemptingFate how dangerous she can be]] if she's a woman. Destro remarks this isn't worth responding to. Storm Shadow (a woman) ''disagrees''.

** TheBrute: Destro
** TheDarkChick: Shazraella, who also edges in on "The Brute" thanks to her gaining a gigantic Cybertronian body partway into the story.

* FantasticRacism: Why Ironblood wants to kill all Cybertronians.

* LegionOfDoom: Baron Ironblood's assembled a team including ''G.I. Joe''s Destro, Major Bludd, Garrison Kreiger, and the second Storm Shadow, ''MASK'''s Miles Mayhem, and ''Micronauts'' Shazarella. Also involved is Iron Klaw (also from ''Joe'') and Doctor X (from ''Action Man'').
* {{Macguffin}}: The Talisman, the plot device of ''Revolutionaries''. Ironblood plans to use it's abilities, which kill Cybertronians, on the entire planet.