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* KarmaHoudini: Virulina [[spoiler: killed Kup in cold blood and tortured Waspinator until he became a mindless beast of burden. She, the other Darkling Lords, and the New Prysmosian refugees who were shown cheering for the Darkling Lords all get off scot-free.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Virulina [[spoiler: killed Kup in cold blood and tortured Waspinator until he became a mindless beast of burden. She, the other Darkling Lords, and the New Prysmosian refugees who were shown cheering for the Darkling Lords all get off scot-free. ''ComicBook/TheTransformersUnicron'' only made it worse as they even survived and escaped Unicron.]]
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* ContinuitySnarl: ''First Strike'' has Merklynn creating the energy barrier around New Pyrosmos to keep outsiders out. Here, it's treated as a security field the Transformers are in control of with Fat Tankor manning a control booth that allows him to open a hole in it and it's claimed to be "containing" the Talisman's energy.
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* GenderFlip: This continuity's version of Feryl is a woman.
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* NotSoDifferent: Cybertronians and Prysmosians when it comes to civil war. The former eventually learned from their mistakes. Sadly the latter never got the luxury as their own planet was destroyed.
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Part of the HasbroComicUniverse, ''Transformers vs. Visionaries'' is a 5-issue miniseries written by Magdalene Visaggio (''[[ComicBook/KimAndKim Kim & Kim]]'') and illustrated by Fico Ossio (''ComicBook/{{Revolutionaries}}''), featuring the introduction of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}'' into the universe while delving deeper into the mysteries of the always-enigmatic Talisman.
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Part of the HasbroComicUniverse, ComicBook/HasbroComicUniverse, ''Transformers vs. Visionaries'' is a 5-issue miniseries written by Magdalene Visaggio (''[[ComicBook/KimAndKim Kim & Kim]]'') and illustrated by Fico Ossio (''ComicBook/{{Revolutionaries}}''), featuring the introduction of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}'' into the universe while delving deeper into the mysteries of the always-enigmatic Talisman.
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*** [[spoiler:Waspinator's mutated form, with its asymmetric blend of organic and cybernetic parts, is reminiscent of the Transmetal 2 model Cybertronians from his native WesternAnimation/BeastWars setting.]]
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*** [[spoiler:Waspinator's mutated form, with its asymmetric blend of organic and cybernetic parts, is reminiscent of the Transmetal 2 model Cybertronians from his native WesternAnimation/BeastWars ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' setting.]]
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* RaceLift: Most of the Visionaries got drastic makeovers for their debuts in this universe; in particular, Leoric, previously a Tom Selleck lookalike, is now a younger African-American.
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* RaceLift: Most of the Visionaries got drastic makeovers for their debuts in this universe; in particular, Leoric, previously a Tom Selleck Creator/TomSelleck lookalike, is now a younger African-American.
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* WorldHealingWave: [[spoiler:In issue #5, Galadria attempts to heal a dying Ironhide with a magical spell, which somehow combines with the counter-wave bomb's explosion to restore New Prysmos and place it on Cybertron's surface at the center of a comparatively small portion of organic terrain. It also healed Waspinator, Ironhide, Virulina and Leoric of their respective maladies.]]
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* WorldHealingWave: [[spoiler:In issue #5, Galadria attempts to heal a dying Ironhide with a magical spell, which somehow combines with the counter-wave bomb's explosion to restore New Prysmos and place it on Cybertron's surface at the center of a comparatively small portion of organic terrain. It also healed Waspinator, Ironhide, Virulina and Leoric of their respective maladies.]]]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Virulina [[spoiler: killed Kup in cold blood and tortured Waspinator until he became a mindless beast of burden. She, the other Darkling Lords, and the New Prysmosian refugees who were shown cheering for the Darkling Lords all get off scot-free.]]
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Part of the HasbroComicUniverse, ''Transformers vs. Visionaries'' is a miniseries written by Magdalene Visaggio (''[[ComicBook/KimAndKim Kim & Kim]]'') and illustrated by Fico Ossio (''ComicBook/{{Revolutionaries}}''), featuring the introduction of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}'' into the universe while delving deeper into the mysteries of the always-enigmatic Talisman.
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Part of the HasbroComicUniverse, ''Transformers vs. Visionaries'' is a 5-issue miniseries written by Magdalene Visaggio (''[[ComicBook/KimAndKim Kim & Kim]]'') and illustrated by Fico Ossio (''ComicBook/{{Revolutionaries}}''), featuring the introduction of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}'' into the universe while delving deeper into the mysteries of the always-enigmatic Talisman.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: In issue #5, the Prysmosans willing to follow Virulina have red armor, whilst those willing to follow Leoric have blue armor. When they switch sides to serving Leoric, his touch causes their armor to spontaneously change color.
*** [[spoiler:Waspinator's mutated form, with its asymmetric blend of organic and cybernetic parts, is reminiscent of the Transmetal 2 model Cybertronians from his native WesternAnimation/BeastWars setting.]]
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Sure, Merklynn and his loyalists are cheerfully going to kill everyone and everything on Cybertron, but if it means bringing back their home planet....
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* ShoutOut: In issue #5, Mortdred suggests that Witterquick could use his super-speed to vibrate his molecules and phase out of his bindings, referencing a common trick of DC's ''ComicBook/TheFlash''.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Sure, Merklynn and his loyalists are cheerfully going to kill everyone and everything on Cybertron, but if it means bringing back their homeplanet....planet....
* WorldHealingWave: [[spoiler:In issue #5, Galadria attempts to heal a dying Ironhide with a magical spell, which somehow combines with the counter-wave bomb's explosion to restore New Prysmos and place it on Cybertron's surface at the center of a comparatively small portion of organic terrain. It also healed Waspinator, Ironhide, Virulina and Leoric of their respective maladies.]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Sure, Merklynn and his loyalists are cheerfully going to kill everyone and everything on Cybertron, but if it means bringing back their home
* WorldHealingWave: [[spoiler:In issue #5, Galadria attempts to heal a dying Ironhide with a magical spell, which somehow combines with the counter-wave bomb's explosion to restore New Prysmos and place it on Cybertron's surface at the center of a comparatively small portion of organic terrain. It also healed Waspinator, Ironhide, Virulina and Leoric of their respective maladies.]]
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* UnexpectedCharacter: Pretty much nobody expected Quickswitch to make an appearance in the IDW universe, though he winds up as something of a RedShirt.
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Kup sacrifices himself to save Ironhide's life.]]
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Kup sacrifices himself to save Ironhide's life.]]]]
* UnexpectedCharacter: Pretty much nobody expected Quickswitch to make an appearance in the IDW universe, though he winds up as something of a RedShirt.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Sure, Merklynn and his loyalists are cheerfully going to kill everyone and everything on Cybertron, but if it means bringing back their home planet....
* UnexpectedCharacter: Pretty much nobody expected Quickswitch to make an appearance in the IDW universe, though he winds up as something of a RedShirt.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Sure, Merklynn and his loyalists are cheerfully going to kill everyone and everything on Cybertron, but if it means bringing back their home planet....
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* DependingOnTheWriter: Merklynn is a bad dude no matter how you slice it, but different authors have left the nature of his evil up to authorial interpretation. In ''ComicBook/{{Revolutionaries}}'', "Kreiger" was a PragmaticVillain who saw the Talisman as a source of personal profit; in ''[[ComicBook/FirstStrike First Strike]]'', he was played up as a VisionaryVillain with a god complex, and under Visaggio's pen, he's a spiteful WellIntentionedExtremist, with a hint of TricksterMentor.
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** After being magically mutated by Virulina, [[spoiler: Waspinator's is transformed into his "Thrustinator" form from the Transformer's Collector's Club.]]
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* AdaptationalIntelligence: Cindarr goes from being DumbMuscle to a [[DistinguishedGentlemansPipe pipe-smoking]] WickedCultured GeniusBruiser and intellectual, who acts as an advisor to Virulina.
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* AdaptationalIntelligence: Cindarr goes from being a DumbMuscle MinionWithAnFInEvil to being a [[DistinguishedGentlemansPipe pipe-smoking]] WickedCultured GeniusBruiser and intellectual, who acts as an advisor to Virulina.Virulina.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Merklynn goes from an amoral JerkAss who merely profited from the [[InferredHolocaust implicitly highly destructive]] [[TheMagicComesBack return of magic]] to having actually ''caused'' said return for his own benefit. Also, whilst there may be other reasons behind his choosing to create New Prysmos through HostileTerraforming of Cybertron, it's made quite clear through his dialogue and actions that his primary justification is sheer [[FantasticRacism disgust at the idea of a free-willed, sapient machine race]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: Merklynn goes from an amoral JerkAss who merely profited from the [[InferredHolocaust implicitly highly destructive]] [[TheMagicComesBack return of magic]] to having actually ''caused'' said return for his own benefit. Also, whilst there may be other reasons behind his choosing to create New Prysmos through HostileTerraforming of Cybertron, it's made quite clear through his dialogue and actions that his primary justification is sheer [[FantasticRacism disgust at the idea of a free-willed, sapient machine race]].
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* FantasticRacism: In addition to the return of Transformers disliking organics, many of the inhabitants of Prysmos regard the Transformers with disdain, either refusing to believe they are any more intelligent than the robot slaves they had on their old world before the three suns aligned, or else finding their existence as free-willed machines inherently wrong, if not blasphemous.
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* NotSoDifferent: Cybertronians and Prysmosians when it comes to civil war. The former eventually learned from their mistakes. Sadly the latter never got the luxury as their own planet was destroyed.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Leoric's reaction to Kup's murder.]]
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Leoric's reaction to Kup's murder.]]
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* AscendedExtra: Breakdown was previously a bit character in ''Till All Are One'', but here he's a main member of the cast and serves as Wheeljack's new lab assistant.
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* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Once a minor character, Breakdown gets a mention in the opening roll call.
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As Cybertron's new government struggles to pick up the pieces, the Transformers turn their attention to the colony of "New Prysmos" underground, populated by the last vestiges of the Prysmosian race. But the Darkling Lords aren't pleased with the prospects of having to ''share'' their new home with a civilization of mechanical beings, and - urged on by Merklynn - plan to remake Cybertron into a copy of their lost homeworld with the power of the arcane Talisman... and not even the vaunted super-science of Cybertron can stand up against such an onslaught. The only hope for the Transformers lie with Leoric and his Spectral Knights, but can two such diametrically opposed powers put their differences aside?
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As Cybertron's new government struggles to pick up the pieces, the Transformers turn their attention to the colony of "New Prysmos" underground, populated by the last vestiges of the Prysmosian race. But the Darkling Lords aren't pleased with the prospects of having to ''share'' their new home with a civilization of mechanical beings, and - -- urged on by Merklynn - -- plan to remake Cybertron into a copy of their lost homeworld with the power of the arcane Talisman... and not even the vaunted super-science of Cybertron can stand up against such an onslaught. The only hope for the Transformers lie with Leoric and his Spectral Knights, but can two such diametrically opposed powers put their differences aside?
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Cindarr goes from being DumbMuscle to a [[DistinguishedGentlemansPipe pipe-smoking]] WickedCultured GeniusBruiser and intellectual, who acts as an advisor to Virulina.
* AdaptationDistillation: Rather than separate animal totems and animal-based [[MagicStaff Power Staffs]], the Visionaries now just have a single magical totem that they draw power from.
* AdaptationDistillation: Rather than separate animal totems and animal-based [[MagicStaff Power Staffs]], the Visionaries now just have a single magical totem that they draw power from.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Part of the ethos of the redesigned characters was to give them a resemblance to the animals of their totems; this is most apparent with Leoric, whose [[BarbarianLonghair barbarian]] [[DreadlockWarrior dreadlocks]] resemble a lion's mane.
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* DaysOfFuturePast: Merklynn's ultimate goal - to topple technology and force his people to return to the old ways.
* DeathByAdaptation: Darkstorm - leader of the Darkling Lords in the original cartoon and the primary antagonist of said show - apparently didn't make it off Prysmos in time. Instead, the Darkling Lords are now led by Virulina.
* DeathByAdaptation: Darkstorm - leader of the Darkling Lords in the original cartoon and the primary antagonist of said show - apparently didn't make it off Prysmos in time. Instead, the Darkling Lords are now led by Virulina.
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* DaysOfFuturePast: Merklynn's ultimate goal - -- to topple technology and force his people to return to the old ways.
* DeathByAdaptation: Darkstorm- -- leader of the Darkling Lords in the original cartoon and the primary antagonist of said show - -- apparently didn't make it off Prysmos in time. Instead, the Darkling Lords are now led by Virulina.
* DeathByAdaptation: Darkstorm
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* HostileTerraforming: Merklynn's end goal is to use the Talisman to remake all of Cybertron into a copy of his old homeworld. Which won't end well for the Transformers - see "Magic Versus Science" below....
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* HostileTerraforming: Merklynn's end goal is to use the Talisman to remake all of Cybertron into a copy of his old homeworld. Which won't end well for the Transformers - -- see "Magic Versus Science" below....
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* MagicVersusScience: The central crux of the conflict - magic of the Prysmosian variety is anathema to Transformer life, and even brief exposure to its energies causes their bodies to crumble and die... as several of them learn the hard way.
* MythologyGag: The entire backstory of the Visionaries - where three suns aligned, shutting down all technology on the planet and plunging the world into a new feudal age, prompting the reawakening of Merklynn - is a straight adaptation of their origin tale in the 1980s cartoon. The new twist for their 2018 update, however, was that Merklynn himself deliberately caused said solar alignment... and that he didn't forsee the suns moving back out of alignment and destroying the planet as they did so.
* RaceLift: Most of the Visionaries got drastic makeovers for their debuts in this universe; in particular, Leoric, previously a Tom Selleck lookalike, is now a younger African-American.
* MythologyGag: The entire backstory of the Visionaries - where three suns aligned, shutting down all technology on the planet and plunging the world into a new feudal age, prompting the reawakening of Merklynn - is a straight adaptation of their origin tale in the 1980s cartoon. The new twist for their 2018 update, however, was that Merklynn himself deliberately caused said solar alignment... and that he didn't forsee the suns moving back out of alignment and destroying the planet as they did so.
* RaceLift: Most of the Visionaries got drastic makeovers for their debuts in this universe; in particular, Leoric, previously a Tom Selleck lookalike, is now a younger African-American.
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* MagicVersusScience: The central crux of the conflict - -- magic of the Prysmosian variety is anathema to Transformer life, and even brief exposure to its energies causes their bodies to crumble and die... as several of them learn the hard way.
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**The entire backstory of the Visionaries- -- where three suns aligned, shutting down all technology on the planet and plunging the world into a new feudal age, prompting the reawakening of Merklynn - -- is a straight adaptation of their origin tale in the 1980s cartoon. The new twist for their 2018 update, however, was that Merklynn himself deliberately caused said solar alignment... and that he didn't forsee the suns moving back out of alignment and destroying the planet as they did so.
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**The Darkling Lords' statue of Darkstorm, rather than being redesigned as all the other characters have, is entirely based on his design from the original cartoon.
* PostApunkalypticArmor: The Visionaries sport "techno-barbarian" designs, rather than their original power armor/full plate look.
* RaceLift: Most of the Visionaries got drastic makeovers for their debuts in this universe; in particular, Leoric, previously a Tom Selleck lookalike, is now a youngerAfrican-American.African-American.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Kup sacrifices himself to save Ironhide's life.]]
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**The entire backstory of the Visionaries
**The Darkling Lords' statue of Darkstorm, rather than being redesigned as all the other characters have, is entirely based on his design from the original cartoon.
* PostApunkalypticArmor: The Visionaries sport "techno-barbarian" designs, rather than their original power armor/full plate look.
* RaceLift: Most of the Visionaries got drastic makeovers for their debuts in this universe; in particular, Leoric, previously a Tom Selleck lookalike, is now a younger
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Kup sacrifices himself to save Ironhide's life.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Do ''you'' believe in magic?]]
-> ''"Consider this a '''warning''', Transformer. Cybertron will be '''ours'''."''
-->-- '''Virulina'''
''[[ComicBook/FirstStrike First Strike]]'' ended with Garrison Kreiger revealed as the magical Merklynn, scion of the lost world of Prysmos and hell-bent on restoring his culture to its former glory by any means nessecary. He got his wish... kind of.
As Cybertron's new government struggles to pick up the pieces, the Transformers turn their attention to the colony of "New Prysmos" underground, populated by the last vestiges of the Prysmosian race. But the Darkling Lords aren't pleased with the prospects of having to ''share'' their new home with a civilization of mechanical beings, and - urged on by Merklynn - plan to remake Cybertron into a copy of their lost homeworld with the power of the arcane Talisman... and not even the vaunted super-science of Cybertron can stand up against such an onslaught. The only hope for the Transformers lie with Leoric and his Spectral Knights, but can two such diametrically opposed powers put their differences aside?
Part of the HasbroComicUniverse, ''Transformers vs. Visionaries'' is a miniseries written by Magdalene Visaggio (''[[ComicBook/KimAndKim Kim & Kim]]'') and illustrated by Fico Ossio (''ComicBook/{{Revolutionaries}}''), featuring the introduction of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}'' into the universe while delving deeper into the mysteries of the always-enigmatic Talisman.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Breakdown gets his arm amputated by Wheeljack to halt the magical infection.
* ApocalypseHow: Prysmos suffered a class X as the gravitational forces exerted by its three suns tore it apart. Merklynn and his forces stand poised to enact a Class 4 on Cybertron as part of their attempts to terraform the world into a copy of old Prysmos.
* ContinuityNod: As per ''Revolutionaries,'' Kup tries out the universal greeting on the Prysmosians. Unlike the Micronauts, it doesn't work.
* DaysOfFuturePast: Merklynn's ultimate goal - to topple technology and force his people to return to the old ways.
* DeathByAdaptation: Darkstorm - leader of the Darkling Lords in the original cartoon and the primary antagonist of said show - apparently didn't make it off Prysmos in time. Instead, the Darkling Lords are now led by Virulina.
* HomeworldEvacuation: Only a handful of Prysmosians managed to escape Prysmos before it self-destructed, and their search for a new home led them right back to Merklynn's new colony on Cybertron.
* HostileTerraforming: Merklynn's end goal is to use the Talisman to remake all of Cybertron into a copy of his old homeworld. Which won't end well for the Transformers - see "Magic Versus Science" below....
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Kup gets stabbed by Virulina's magical spear and disintegrates.]]
* MacGuffin: Carrying on from ''Revolutionaries'' and ''First Strike'' Talisman continues to uphold its role as the chief source of conflict in the plot.
* MagicVersusScience: The central crux of the conflict - magic of the Prysmosian variety is anathema to Transformer life, and even brief exposure to its energies causes their bodies to crumble and die... as several of them learn the hard way.
* MythologyGag: The entire backstory of the Visionaries - where three suns aligned, shutting down all technology on the planet and plunging the world into a new feudal age, prompting the reawakening of Merklynn - is a straight adaptation of their origin tale in the 1980s cartoon. The new twist for their 2018 update, however, was that Merklynn himself deliberately caused said solar alignment... and that he didn't forsee the suns moving back out of alignment and destroying the planet as they did so.
* RaceLift: Most of the Visionaries got drastic makeovers for their debuts in this universe; in particular, Leoric, previously a Tom Selleck lookalike, is now a younger African-American.
[[caption-width-right:350:Do ''you'' believe in magic?]]
-> ''"Consider this a '''warning''', Transformer. Cybertron will be '''ours'''."''
-->-- '''Virulina'''
''[[ComicBook/FirstStrike First Strike]]'' ended with Garrison Kreiger revealed as the magical Merklynn, scion of the lost world of Prysmos and hell-bent on restoring his culture to its former glory by any means nessecary. He got his wish... kind of.
As Cybertron's new government struggles to pick up the pieces, the Transformers turn their attention to the colony of "New Prysmos" underground, populated by the last vestiges of the Prysmosian race. But the Darkling Lords aren't pleased with the prospects of having to ''share'' their new home with a civilization of mechanical beings, and - urged on by Merklynn - plan to remake Cybertron into a copy of their lost homeworld with the power of the arcane Talisman... and not even the vaunted super-science of Cybertron can stand up against such an onslaught. The only hope for the Transformers lie with Leoric and his Spectral Knights, but can two such diametrically opposed powers put their differences aside?
Part of the HasbroComicUniverse, ''Transformers vs. Visionaries'' is a miniseries written by Magdalene Visaggio (''[[ComicBook/KimAndKim Kim & Kim]]'') and illustrated by Fico Ossio (''ComicBook/{{Revolutionaries}}''), featuring the introduction of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}'' into the universe while delving deeper into the mysteries of the always-enigmatic Talisman.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Breakdown gets his arm amputated by Wheeljack to halt the magical infection.
* ApocalypseHow: Prysmos suffered a class X as the gravitational forces exerted by its three suns tore it apart. Merklynn and his forces stand poised to enact a Class 4 on Cybertron as part of their attempts to terraform the world into a copy of old Prysmos.
* ContinuityNod: As per ''Revolutionaries,'' Kup tries out the universal greeting on the Prysmosians. Unlike the Micronauts, it doesn't work.
* DaysOfFuturePast: Merklynn's ultimate goal - to topple technology and force his people to return to the old ways.
* DeathByAdaptation: Darkstorm - leader of the Darkling Lords in the original cartoon and the primary antagonist of said show - apparently didn't make it off Prysmos in time. Instead, the Darkling Lords are now led by Virulina.
* HomeworldEvacuation: Only a handful of Prysmosians managed to escape Prysmos before it self-destructed, and their search for a new home led them right back to Merklynn's new colony on Cybertron.
* HostileTerraforming: Merklynn's end goal is to use the Talisman to remake all of Cybertron into a copy of his old homeworld. Which won't end well for the Transformers - see "Magic Versus Science" below....
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Kup gets stabbed by Virulina's magical spear and disintegrates.]]
* MacGuffin: Carrying on from ''Revolutionaries'' and ''First Strike'' Talisman continues to uphold its role as the chief source of conflict in the plot.
* MagicVersusScience: The central crux of the conflict - magic of the Prysmosian variety is anathema to Transformer life, and even brief exposure to its energies causes their bodies to crumble and die... as several of them learn the hard way.
* MythologyGag: The entire backstory of the Visionaries - where three suns aligned, shutting down all technology on the planet and plunging the world into a new feudal age, prompting the reawakening of Merklynn - is a straight adaptation of their origin tale in the 1980s cartoon. The new twist for their 2018 update, however, was that Merklynn himself deliberately caused said solar alignment... and that he didn't forsee the suns moving back out of alignment and destroying the planet as they did so.
* RaceLift: Most of the Visionaries got drastic makeovers for their debuts in this universe; in particular, Leoric, previously a Tom Selleck lookalike, is now a younger African-American.
