In 2005, when Fun Publications took over the official
Transformers convention and fanclub, they put most of their "Transformers" fiction under the
Transformers Timelines label.
Storywise, the
Timelines storylines are separate from each other, although the events of different stories
do influence each other (sometimes
across different continuities). Also, the stories are not even all in the same
medium. Instead, the storylines are all told via serial installments spanning multiple mediums—mainly
Comic Books and
Web Original short prose stories—which are available for members at
the official fan club website
.
There's also the official fan club
magazine. The magazine issues contain a main serial comic and minicomics which
aren't part of the
Timelines brand. Despite that, the stories within the magazine are interrelated with the
Timelines stories. Events within a
Timelines story would influence or lead to a story in the magazine, and vice versa. Thus, this page is for tropes regarding
both Timelines and the fan club magazine. (Confused yet?)
Fun Publications Transformers fiction involves these continuities/universes that originated in previous fiction:
Continuities/universes original to the fanclub have also been introduced:
Tropes across continuities
- Alternate Continuity: A lot of them, as shown above.
- Alternate Universe
- The Multiverse: Might not contain as many universes as the quote on top of the page suggests. Unicron has been stated to have been destroyed at least 20% of it.
- Apocalypse How: Class X-2. The Unicron Singularity threatened to destroy the Unicron Trilogy Universe and possibly the entire Transformers multiverse. According to the TransTechs, destruction of universes happen a lot. The Challenge Of The Gobots universe (seriously) apparently is also under this threat.
- Arm Cannon: Landquake has one on each arm. Classicsverse Megatron has a large one. Megatron of Shattered Glass carries around a tank on his arm.
- Authority Equals Ass Kicking: Shattered Glass Optimus Prime and TransTech Megatron.
- Badass Crew: The Elite Guard, which shows up in Shattered Glass and Wings Of Honor, albeit in two very different forms.
- Beard of Evil: There's Unicron and Shattered Glass Rodimus and Alpha Trion. Also Wings of Honor Scourge.
- Big Bad: Different stories and continuities have different ones. Some are from earlier series, including Unicron, Beast Wars Megatron, and even Deathsaurus. There's also Shattered Glass Optimus Prime.
- Combining Mecha: Skyfall, Landquake, Breakaway, Topspin, and Heatwave although they originally were one being.
- I Am Who?: From the comic of the fan club magazine: Skyfall, Landquake, Breakaway, Topspin, and Heatwave turn out to be parts of Nexus Prime, one of the Thirteen Original Transformers. This was actually revealed before Topspin and Heatwave were introduced.
- Guardian Of The Multiverse: Vector Prime
- Intercontinuity Crossover: Quite a lot. As of 2010, every subseries of the fanclub magazine has done this in some form:
- Kent Brockman News: The Show Within a Show minicomic "Around Cybertron", which involves the exploits of the journalists in a news program that so far spans three different universes.
- MacGuffin: The Dark Heart of Sandokan in a Unicron Trilogy story, Sari's key in "Bee in the City".
- Merchandise Driven: Quite a bit of the fiction either was produced to promote, or sprang from said promotions for, the annual toysets made for BotCon.
- Prequel/Sequel: A lot of the Timelines fiction consists of either stand-alone stories intended to either predate or continue existing continuities, or entire new continuities that use existing continuities as branching-off points.
- Promoted Fanboy: Many of the regular writers and artists were promoted from the fandom.
- Time Abyss: Some of the more ancient Transformers.
- Transforming Mecha
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