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WARNING ! Spoilers ahead for Transformers # 4
Optimus Prime has prove his mettle time and time again as the drawing card of the AutobotTransformers , but now he must borrow from his majuscule enemy in parliamentary law to live in the raw Energon Universe . The tardy issue of Skybound’sTransformerssees Prime take the iconic weapon system of Megatron in a shocking twist fan certainly did n’t see coming .
Transformers#4 – from the originative squad of Daniel Warren Johnson , Mike Spicer and Rus Wooten – picks up from the events of the previous topic , in which readers witnessedOptimus Prime lose his arm in a fight with Skywarp .
After using the Matrix of Leadership to restore the energy to a hospital , Prime is left with less resource to repair himself than ever . Autobot Ratchet narrate Prime that he has one choice to supersede his missing branch , and reader discover what that is in an epic splash Thomas Nelson Page : the left branch of Megatron , which has his iconic merger carom attached , in tow .
Optimus Prime Gets A Surprising Upgrade, Courtesy of Megatron
AsTransformersfans will note , this is a major twist , one that could have major repercussions moving ahead . Ever sinceTransformers#1launched in October of last year , readers have enquire where Megatron has been . Transformers#4 finally provide an answer , as we learn that Megatron was thrown from the Ark during a engagement with the Autobots , when it crashed on Earth centuries ago . The Decepticon drawing card landed somewhere in the arctic , where he has been stop dead in the frosting for century . However , before he was thrown from the Ark , Megatronapparently lost his arm , and fusion cannon along with it , which the Autobots escaped with following their flight from the Ark inTransformers#1 .
Megatron ’s coalition shank comes from the original toy , which had an alt - mode as a pistol . The shooting iron had various attachment , including a scope that attached to the barrel . When transformed into a automaton , the scope weave up on Megatron ’s right-hand forearm , which wound up being an iconic piece of the Decepticon leader ’s arsenal . Even when Megatron was later on portrayed as transforming into a tank , he always retained the fusion carom on his branch . It ’s unsung at this gunpoint in time whether Megatron will transform into a gun , like the classic G1 incarnation , although possibility stay thatMegatron might be hiding in spare sightall along in his famous alt - mood .
Taking Megatron’s Arm Will Impact Optimus Prime Moving Forward
Optimus Prime pick out to replace his subdivision with his big enemy ’s could prove to have major ramification for the Energon Universe . This decision could have backlash for Prime ’s personality , or it could stimulate the Autobots under his command to look at him other than . Most crucially , if and when Megatron do his grand return , he will assay to recover the lose part of him . Answers will make out in next issues ofTransformers , but until then , readers should be slaked with the opportunity to have author Daniel Warren Johnson translate Prime ’s hand truck mode with the nuclear fusion cannon thrown in . With any luck , Hasbro will turn Optimus Prime with Megatron ’s nuclear fusion reaction cannon arm into an officialTransformerstoy rather rather than later .
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Transformers # 4
