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** Death's Head, the famous bounty hunter from the series, fell into the same issues as Circuit Breaker and is under Marvel's ownership instead of Hasbro's, his transition to the Marvel Universe occurring courtesy of [[Franchise/DoctorWho the Doctor himself]]. Hasbro responded years later by creating the similar character [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Lockdown]] so they could use their own Death's Head.
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** Death's Head, the famous bounty hunter from the UK version of the series, fell into the same issues as Circuit Breaker and is under Marvel's ownership instead of Hasbro's, his transition to the Marvel Universe occurring courtesy of [[Franchise/DoctorWho the Doctor himself]]. Hasbro responded years later by creating the similar character [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Lockdown]] so they could use their own Death's Head.
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* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/SimonFurman, writer for a great number of ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' comics, has a couple favorites:
** Grimlock. By his pen, Grimlock is a cunning warrior who uses HulkSpeak to [[ObfuscatingStupidity make his enemies underestimate him]], while the TV series simply had him be too dumb to string a sentence together.
** Nightbeat, a C-list character whom Furman brought to the forefront by making him a FilmNoir-style HardboiledDetective. In the current IDW-universe that Furman is helping to write, he [[spoiler: killed Nightbeat off fairly early on so fans can know that AnyoneCanDie,]] even his own favorite character. He did something similar in the G2 comics, [[spoiler: killing off Nightbeat as a self-inflicted PlayerPunch]].
** Grimlock. By his pen, Grimlock is a cunning warrior who uses HulkSpeak to [[ObfuscatingStupidity make his enemies underestimate him]], while the TV series simply had him be too dumb to string a sentence together.
** Nightbeat, a C-list character whom Furman brought to the forefront by making him a FilmNoir-style HardboiledDetective. In the current IDW-universe that Furman is helping to write, he [[spoiler: killed Nightbeat off fairly early on so fans can know that AnyoneCanDie,]] even his own favorite character. He did something similar in the G2 comics, [[spoiler: killing off Nightbeat as a self-inflicted PlayerPunch]].
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* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/SimonFurman, writer CreatorsFavorite:
** Bob Budiansky's favorite character was Blaster, seemingly due to the fact that Blaster's storyline was a lot darker and more ambitious than most of what he wrote. In ''Series/TheToysThatMadeUs'', he specifically cites Blaster as a character he would have loved to write more of if not fora great number the MerchandiseDriven needs of ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' comics, the comic shoving him out of the spotlight.
** Creator/SimonFurman has a couple favorites:
** *** Grimlock. By his pen, Grimlock is a cunning warrior who uses HulkSpeak to [[ObfuscatingStupidity make his enemies underestimate him]], while the TV series simply had him be too dumb to string a sentence together.
** *** Nightbeat, a C-list character whom Furman brought to the forefront by making him a FilmNoir-style HardboiledDetective. In the current IDW-universe that Furman is helping to write, he [[spoiler: killed Nightbeat off fairly early on so fans can know that AnyoneCanDie,]] even his own favorite character. He did something similar in the G2 comics, [[spoiler: killing off Nightbeat as a self-inflicted PlayerPunch]].
** Bob Budiansky's favorite character was Blaster, seemingly due to the fact that Blaster's storyline was a lot darker and more ambitious than most of what he wrote. In ''Series/TheToysThatMadeUs'', he specifically cites Blaster as a character he would have loved to write more of if not for
** Creator/SimonFurman has a couple favorites:
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** Hasbro demanded that the comic give attention to every new toy they produced and get routinely remove older or discontinued Transformers. This annoyed the writers, particularly Budiansky, as they regularly had to get rid of major members of the established cast and bring in large rosters of characters they didn't know what to do with.
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** Hasbro demanded that the comic give attention to every new toy they produced and get to routinely remove older or discontinued Transformers. This annoyed the writers, particularly Budiansky, as they regularly had to get rid of major members of the established cast and bring in large rosters of characters they didn't know what to do with.
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* CreatorsApathy: Hasbro didn't really care what kind of stories the Marvel writers told as long as the comic shilled their toys and stayed child friendly. One editor even mentioned that by the end of the comic's run, they didn't have to submit the stories to Hasbro for approval, something that would be unthinkable for any licensed tie-in today.
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* CreatorsApathy: Hasbro didn't really care what kind of stories the Marvel writers told as long as the comic shilled their toys and stayed child friendly. One editor even mentioned that by the end of the comic's run, they didn't have to submit the stories to Hasbro for approval, something that would be unthinkable for any licensed tie-in today. today (this was likely due to the franchise itself being in terminal decline at the time; ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' would not come along to revitalize things for several years).
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** Hasbo at first did not approve Megatron's name, believing that the name evoked images of nuclear bombs. Bob Budiansky responded that this was ''exactly the point'', as Megatron was the series' main ''villain''. Hasbro wisely backed off and approved the name.
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** Hasbo Hasbro at first did not approve Megatron's name, believing that the name evoked images of nuclear bombs. Bob Budiansky responded that this was ''exactly the point'', as Megatron was the series' main ''villain''. Hasbro wisely backed off and approved the name.
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* CreatorsApathy: Hasbro didn't really care what kind of stories the Marvel writers told as long as the comic shilled their toys and stayed child friendly. One editor even mentioned that by the end of the comic's run, they didn't have to submit the stories for approval, something that would be unthinkable for any licensed tie-in today.
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* CreatorsApathy: Hasbro didn't really care what kind of stories the Marvel writers told as long as the comic shilled their toys and stayed child friendly. One editor even mentioned that by the end of the comic's run, they didn't have to submit the stories to Hasbro for approval, something that would be unthinkable for any licensed tie-in today.
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* CreatorsApathy: Hasbro didn't really care what kind of stories the Marvel writers told as long as the comic shilled their toys and stayed child friendly. One editor even mentioned that by the end of the comic's run, they didn't have to submit the stories for approval, something that would be unthinkable for any licensed tie-in today.
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** Circuit Breaker, due to appearing in ''ComicBook/SecretWarsII'' before ''The Transformers'', is owned by Marvel and not Hasbro. As such, for a long time IDW reprints didn't include stories featuring her. The IDW-published ''Regeneration One'' [[WritingAroundTrademarks features her as an unnamed silhouette in a flashback]], while in the present day she's dead, with Spike Witwicky becoming [[LegacyCharacter Circuit]] [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Smasher]].
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** Circuit Breaker, due to appearing in ''ComicBook/SecretWarsII'' before ''The Transformers'', is owned by Marvel and not Hasbro. As such, for a long time IDW reprints didn't include stories featuring her. The IDW-published ''Regeneration One'' ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRegenerationOne'' [[WritingAroundTrademarks features her as an unnamed silhouette in a flashback]], while in the present day she's dead, with Spike Witwicky becoming [[LegacyCharacter Circuit]] [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Smasher]].
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* SequelGap: ''Regeneration One'', the continuation/conclusion of the comic, was released a full 21 years after issue 80's release.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Techno-X'', a proposed 90's revamp of Circuit Breaker and the Neo-Knights by Simon Furman and Andrew Wildman, integrating the team more fully into the Marvel universe. Had the series been picked up, the Transformers would have been {{retcon}}ned as an elaborate training simulation created by G.B. Blackrock (who, supposedly, would've had a dark secret and fought [[Comicbook/IronMan Tony Stark]]). Team member Dynamo would have also been retconned as part of the simulation, since, by Furman's own admission, they had absolutely no idea what to do with him once the Transformers comic ended.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Techno-X'', a proposed 90's revamp of Circuit Breaker and the Neo-Knights by Simon Furman and Andrew Wildman, integrating the team more fully into the Marvel universe. Had the series been picked up, the Transformers would have been {{retcon}}ned as an elaborate training simulation created by G.B. Blackrock (who, supposedly, would've had a dark secret and fought [[Comicbook/IronMan Tony Stark]]). Team member Dynamo would have also been retconned as part of the simulation, since, by Furman's own admission, they had absolutely no idea what to do with him once the Transformers comic ended.ended.
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* ArtistDisillusionment: Bob Budiansky, who has lost all interest in the series even several decades after he left it. According to post-''Transformers'' interviews, while he initially approached the project with complete enthusiasm (even writing the "Tech-Spec" bios for the toys), ExecutiveMeddling and the constant need to feature new toys sapped it away. It doesn't help that his tenure was derided by some fans who consider his stories more juvenile than those of Creator/SimonFurman -- a point that Budiansky agrees with, as [[ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars he was targeting his stories for prepubescent boys]].
* CreatorsApathy: Hasbro didn't really care what kind of stories the Marvel writers told as long as the comic shilled their toys and stayed child friendly.
* CreatorBreakdown: Bob Budiansky (see above) suffered from stress due to trying to constantly shove in new toys, which led to him leaving the comic. He has since said that he has no intention of working on ''Transformers'' again, though that doesn't mean he wouldn't say "no" if Hasbro asked him. His only post-Marvel ''Transformers'' work was IDW's faithful adaptation of the animated movie, which was less stress-inducing for obvious reasons.
* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/SimonFurman, writer for a great number of ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' comics, has a couple favorites:
** Grimlock. By his pen, Grimlock is a cunning warrior who uses HulkSpeak to [[ObfuscatingStupidity make his enemies underestimate him]], while the TV series simply had him be too dumb to string a sentence together.
** Nightbeat, a C-list character whom Furman brought to the forefront by making him a FilmNoir-style HardboiledDetective. In the current IDW-universe that Furman is helping to write, he [[spoiler: killed Nightbeat off fairly early on so fans can know that AnyoneCanDie,]] even his own favorite character. He did something similar in the G2 comics, [[spoiler: killing off Nightbeat as a self-inflicted PlayerPunch]].
* ExecutiveMeddling:
** Hasbo at first did not approve Megatron's name, believing that the name evoked images of nuclear bombs. Bob Budiansky responded that this was ''exactly the point'', as Megatron was the series' main ''villain''. Hasbro wisely backed off and approved the name.
** The reason female Transformers didn't appear from the very start (aside from Marvel's adaptation of the animated movie and Arcee's appearances in UK-exclusive stories). Budiansky was ready, willing and able (Ratchet was even a candidate for an early female character), but the Hasbro execs thought there shouldn't be girls among "toys for boys" in a comic book "for boys" (human female characters were obviously exempt from this reasoning).
** Hasbro demanded that the comic give attention to every new toy they produced and get routinely remove older or discontinued Transformers. This annoyed the writers, particularly Budiansky, as they regularly had to get rid of major members of the established cast and bring in large rosters of characters they didn't know what to do with.
** Marvel had licensed out Spider-Man to Mattel in 1984 and they only agreed to let the character make a guest appearance in the Hasbro licensed comic if he appeared in his black symbiote suit, which had just been recently introduced and would be less identifiable then his classic suit. Ironically, the black suit would become Spidey's standard costume for a few years and Mattel had to produce toys of it.
* ExiledFromContinuity:
** When it comes to reissues of the series, people want readers to forget ComicBook/SpiderMan was in issue 3. The Savage Land is also prominently featured as the resting place of Shockwave and the Dinobots upon their arrival on Earth, but that was nixed as the book was slowly separated from the rest of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.
** Circuit Breaker, due to appearing in ''ComicBook/SecretWarsII'' before ''The Transformers'', is owned by Marvel and not Hasbro. As such, for a long time IDW reprints didn't include stories featuring her. The IDW-published ''Regeneration One'' [[WritingAroundTrademarks features her as an unnamed silhouette in a flashback]], while in the present day she's dead, with Spike Witwicky becoming [[LegacyCharacter Circuit]] [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Smasher]].
** Death's Head, the famous bounty hunter from the series, fell into the same issues as Circuit Breaker and is under Marvel's ownership instead of Hasbro's, his transition to the Marvel Universe occurring courtesy of [[Franchise/DoctorWho the Doctor himself]]. Hasbro responded years later by creating the similar character [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Lockdown]] so they could use their own Death's Head.
* ImageSource:
** BigGood
* SequelGap: ''Regeneration One'', the continuation/conclusion of the comic, was released a full 21 years after issue 80's release.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Techno-X'', a proposed 90's revamp of Circuit Breaker and the Neo-Knights by Simon Furman and Andrew Wildman, integrating the team more fully into the Marvel universe. Had the series been picked up, the Transformers would have been {{retcon}}ned as an elaborate training simulation created by G.B. Blackrock (who, supposedly, would've had a dark secret and fought [[Comicbook/IronMan Tony Stark]]). Team member Dynamo would have also been retconned as part of the simulation, since, by Furman's own admission, they had absolutely no idea what to do with him once the Transformers comic ended.
* CreatorsApathy: Hasbro didn't really care what kind of stories the Marvel writers told as long as the comic shilled their toys and stayed child friendly.
* CreatorBreakdown: Bob Budiansky (see above) suffered from stress due to trying to constantly shove in new toys, which led to him leaving the comic. He has since said that he has no intention of working on ''Transformers'' again, though that doesn't mean he wouldn't say "no" if Hasbro asked him. His only post-Marvel ''Transformers'' work was IDW's faithful adaptation of the animated movie, which was less stress-inducing for obvious reasons.
* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/SimonFurman, writer for a great number of ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' comics, has a couple favorites:
** Grimlock. By his pen, Grimlock is a cunning warrior who uses HulkSpeak to [[ObfuscatingStupidity make his enemies underestimate him]], while the TV series simply had him be too dumb to string a sentence together.
** Nightbeat, a C-list character whom Furman brought to the forefront by making him a FilmNoir-style HardboiledDetective. In the current IDW-universe that Furman is helping to write, he [[spoiler: killed Nightbeat off fairly early on so fans can know that AnyoneCanDie,]] even his own favorite character. He did something similar in the G2 comics, [[spoiler: killing off Nightbeat as a self-inflicted PlayerPunch]].
* ExecutiveMeddling:
** Hasbo at first did not approve Megatron's name, believing that the name evoked images of nuclear bombs. Bob Budiansky responded that this was ''exactly the point'', as Megatron was the series' main ''villain''. Hasbro wisely backed off and approved the name.
** The reason female Transformers didn't appear from the very start (aside from Marvel's adaptation of the animated movie and Arcee's appearances in UK-exclusive stories). Budiansky was ready, willing and able (Ratchet was even a candidate for an early female character), but the Hasbro execs thought there shouldn't be girls among "toys for boys" in a comic book "for boys" (human female characters were obviously exempt from this reasoning).
** Hasbro demanded that the comic give attention to every new toy they produced and get routinely remove older or discontinued Transformers. This annoyed the writers, particularly Budiansky, as they regularly had to get rid of major members of the established cast and bring in large rosters of characters they didn't know what to do with.
** Marvel had licensed out Spider-Man to Mattel in 1984 and they only agreed to let the character make a guest appearance in the Hasbro licensed comic if he appeared in his black symbiote suit, which had just been recently introduced and would be less identifiable then his classic suit. Ironically, the black suit would become Spidey's standard costume for a few years and Mattel had to produce toys of it.
* ExiledFromContinuity:
** When it comes to reissues of the series, people want readers to forget ComicBook/SpiderMan was in issue 3. The Savage Land is also prominently featured as the resting place of Shockwave and the Dinobots upon their arrival on Earth, but that was nixed as the book was slowly separated from the rest of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.
** Circuit Breaker, due to appearing in ''ComicBook/SecretWarsII'' before ''The Transformers'', is owned by Marvel and not Hasbro. As such, for a long time IDW reprints didn't include stories featuring her. The IDW-published ''Regeneration One'' [[WritingAroundTrademarks features her as an unnamed silhouette in a flashback]], while in the present day she's dead, with Spike Witwicky becoming [[LegacyCharacter Circuit]] [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Smasher]].
** Death's Head, the famous bounty hunter from the series, fell into the same issues as Circuit Breaker and is under Marvel's ownership instead of Hasbro's, his transition to the Marvel Universe occurring courtesy of [[Franchise/DoctorWho the Doctor himself]]. Hasbro responded years later by creating the similar character [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Lockdown]] so they could use their own Death's Head.
* ImageSource:
** BigGood
* SequelGap: ''Regeneration One'', the continuation/conclusion of the comic, was released a full 21 years after issue 80's release.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Techno-X'', a proposed 90's revamp of Circuit Breaker and the Neo-Knights by Simon Furman and Andrew Wildman, integrating the team more fully into the Marvel universe. Had the series been picked up, the Transformers would have been {{retcon}}ned as an elaborate training simulation created by G.B. Blackrock (who, supposedly, would've had a dark secret and fought [[Comicbook/IronMan Tony Stark]]). Team member Dynamo would have also been retconned as part of the simulation, since, by Furman's own admission, they had absolutely no idea what to do with him once the Transformers comic ended.
