Top 100 Moments in TFUK

[spiderfrommars]

Inspired by MV, I'm thinking we should seek out the Top 100 moments from the Marvel UK TF comic. This would include any TF story printed within, including US reprints. It could be a panel, a scene, or an entire comic.

Can we reach one hundred?

Put forward your nominations! I'll keep a running total.

Nominations so far:

Issue 1: War breaks out! ...The Transformers
Issue 8: Shockwave makes his entrance, deactivating the Autobots... The Last Stand
Issue 11: Trailbreaker gets blown to pieces… Man of Iron
Issue 21: Windcharger defeats Megatron… Raiders of the Last Ark
Issue 22: Shockwave defeats the Autobots and hangs them up like slabs of meat in the Ark… The New Order
Issue 32: Grimlock hits Ratchet in the face when asked to test his repaired hand… The Wrath of Grimlock
Issue 32: Swoop is blown up when Guardian explodes... The Wrath of Grimlock
Issue 39: Shockwave's fake-Prime puppet starts blasting the Autobots... Prime Time
1986 Annual: Prowl is taken out by Shrapnel’s splinter bomb… Plague of the Insecticons
1986 Annual: Ravage and Bombshell go insane… Plague of the Insecticons
Issue 41: Ratchet does the letters page… RatChat
Issue 43: Laserbeak drops Bumblebee’s severed arm in front of the stunned Autobots… Crisis of Command
Issue 44: Optimus Prime takes on the whole of the Decepticon army... Crisis of Command
Issue 47: Snarl survives the bomb... Dinobot Hunt
Issue 50: Soundwave's victory over the Autobots… Dinobot Hunt
Issue 59: Buster Witwicky bites off more than he can chew with Frenzy… Robot Buster
Issue 60: Shockwave tears apart an entire mountainside… Robot Buster
Issue 65: Megatron Vs Shockwave... Second Generation
Issue 67: Scrounge dies in the smelting pool… The Smelting Pool
Issue 69: Straxus is blown to pieces on the Space Bridge… The Bridge to Nowhere
Issue 73: Omega Supreme trashes six Decepticons… Command Performances
Issue 78: Introduction of Impactor… Target 2006
Issue 82: Introduction of the Wreckers… Target 2006
Issue 82: A fan writes in to complain about the killing off of six Decepticons in Command Performances… Grim Grams
Issue 83: Trannis executes the Council of Autobot Elders… The Middle Years
Issue 85: Galvatron laughs at the irony of using Starscream to do his evil deeds… Target 2006
Issue 86: Galvatron and Ultra Magnus do battle… Target 2006
Issue 88: Impactor sacrifices himself for Xaaron… Target 2006
1987 Annual… Grimlock slices Megatron in half with his sword… Victory
Issue 97: The Autobots discover Optimus Prime’s corpse… Prey
Issue 106: Optimus Prime commits suicide... Afterdeath
Issue 107: Megatron crushes Brawl's head... Gone But Not Forgotten
Issue 108: Megatron realises that Ethan Zachary could have a floppy disk of Prime's mind and blows up the space bridge with him on it... Gone But Not Forgotten
Issue 112: Wipe-Out's constant grovelling to Trypticon… King of the Hill
Issue 113: Death's Head beats up the bartender... Wanted Galvatron Dead or Alive
Issue 114: Rodimus Prime and his men stare down a swarm of oncoming missiles… Wanted Galvatron Dead or Alive
Issue 114: Rodimus Prime denies a Decepticon mercy and executes him on the spot… Wanted Galvatron Dead or Alive
Issue 116: A pair of park rangers are sent running as their hut is crushed when Galvatron sends Ultra Magnus crashing into it… Burning Sky
Issue 116: Ultra Magnus flies into a rage and temporarily bashes Galvatron into unconciousness… Burning Sky
Issue 120: Galvatron stamps Rodimus Prime's head into the ground... Fire On High
Issue 125: Megatron is revealed as the menace in London’s sewers… Ancient Relics
Action Force 27: Centurion’s sacrifice… Ancient Relics
Issue 133: Rodimus Prime is seemingly destroyed by Death’s Head… Head Hunt
Issue 134: Rodimus Prime uses Death’s Head’s shield against him… Head Hunt
Issue 136: The Dinobots beat up the Predacons… Grudge Match
1988 Annual: Galvatron and Ultra Magnus are engulfed in lava... Vicious Circle
Issue 147: Death of Shockwave... Legacy of Unicron
Issue 148: All out war between the Autobots and Decepticons… Legacy of Unicron
Issue 149: Inferno’s blaze of glory… Legacy of Unicron
Issue 150: Unicron tells Death’s Head the origin of the Transformers… Legacy of Unicron
Issue 160: Richard Branson’s cameo… Salvage
Issue 161: Ultra Magnus beats up Galvatron... Salvage
Issue 164: Flywheels' horror, not at realising he's been captured by the Sparklers and Ultra Magnus, but at the fact he's being held in Zombie infested territory... City of Fear
Issue 165: Magnus spots Flywheels aiming a gun at him and is surprised when the Duocon shoots the zombie behind him… City of Fear
Issue 169: Impactor’s reanimated corpse sacrifices itself for Cybertron… Meltdown
Issue 184: The Autobots are strung up the walls of Autobot City: Earth... Space Pirates
Issue 185: Rodimus Prime reverts to Hot Rod... Space Pirates
Issue 186: Metroplex wakes from hibernation… Space Pirates
Issue 187: Soundwave and Ultra Magnus defeat the Quintessons side by side but then go their separate ways… Space Pirates
Issue 189: Megatron rips Cyclonus’ head off… Dry Run
1989 Annual: Triton the Decepticon spy engineers an Autobot Civil War… Peace
Issue 203: Shockwave sits on his throne, driven mad by the time paradox… Time Wars
Issue 203: Galvatron has half his face blown off... Time Wars
Issue 205: Galvatron is ripped apart by the rift in space and time… Time Wars
Issue 209: Starscream uses the powers of the Underbase to go on a killing spree... Dark Star
Issue 214: Megatron retakes the leadership of the Decepticons... The Fall and Rise of the Decepticon Empire
Issue 225: Megatron flushes out a traitor... Aspects of Evil
Issue 229: The New Mayhem Attack Squad hunt down Autobots in Slaughter City… Hunting Party
Issue 230: Thunderwing hunts down Hosehead… The Big Shutdown
Issue 239: Death of Catilla... A Savage Place
Issue 240: Quickswitch takes on the Meccannibals at Maccadam’s Old Oil House… Out to Lunch
Issue 244: A confused Ravage watches the two Megatrons do battle… Two Megatrons
Issue 246: Face to face with the demons... Demons
Issue 252: Rodimus Prime is revealed to be a saboteur… Edge of Impact
Issue 258: Ravage tries to bargain with Wheeljack… Perchance to Dream
Issue 261: Nightbeat and Hosehead discuss the Detective Handbook in the middle of a shootout… Bird of Prey
Issue 261: Wheeljack predicts he will see a ‘Microheadtargetmaster with a Pretender shell’… Starting Over
Issue 264: Nightbeat returns the idol... Bird of Prey
Issue 265: Grimlock defaces the Autobot Code…Once Upon A Time
Issue 268: Prowl dies at the hands of Underbase Starscream for a second time... Flashback
Issue 270: The Decepticons get drunk at an Enclave… The Bad Guys’ Ball
Issue 272: Carnivac corners Needlenose… Cry Wolf
Issue 275: Soundwave manipulates Wildrider to his death… Secrets
Issue 277: Shockwave and Megatron fight, and then join forces… Internal Affairs
Issue 281: Tracks complains to Grimlock about a little scratch on his bodywork… Makin’ Tracks
Issue 283: Blitzwing and Astrotrain abandon Octane to die… Manouvres
Issue 285: Soundwave uses a prerecorded transmission to talk to Starscream as they fight… External Forces
Issue 286: Grimlock and co make short work of Megatron, Shockwave and Bludgeon’s men… The Lesser Evil
Issue 289: The car chase… End of the Road
Issue 293: The Matrix and Thunderwing become one... Dark Creation
Issue 297: Thunderwing is sucked out into space... All Fall Down
Issue 308: Ratchet and Megatron are discovered welded together… Eye of the Storm
Issue 313: Scorponok Vs Shockwave… All This and Civil War 2
Issue 317: Unicron is coming, and Primus calls together all his children to fight against him... and while he holds a speech to inspire them all, Apeface is eating a banana… The Void
Issue 319: Grimlock flies the Ark right across Unicron’s face, and then chucks out Wheeljack… On the Edge of Extinction
Issue 320: Unicron destroys Xaaron/Primus… On the Edge of Extinction
Issue 321: Death of Scorponok… On the Edge of Extinction
Issue 323: Grimlock and the Dinobots ponder the inevitable nature of the war… Still Life
Issue 328: Ratchet takes on Starscream as the Ark is about to crash on Earth for a second time… A Savage Circle
Issue 330: Fortress Maximus defeats Galvatron... The Last Autobot
Issue 330: The Last Autobot makes his entrance… The Last Autobot
Issue 331: Getaway is blown up… End of the Road
Issue 332: Grimlock punches right through Fangry… End of the Road
Issue 332: Optimus Prime announces the Autobots can go home... End of the Road

[The Last Autobot]

A few moments right out of my head (apart from all the target 2006 mentioned)


Shockwave "Are all dead"
Trannis executing the council
Straxus death
Triton Story and the autobot civil war
Quickswitch against the mechanibles
Zombie Impactor death
Unicron first telling of his and Primus enmity (in legacy of Unicron)
Thunderwing hunting Hosehead
Xaarons death
Scorponok death
The whole scene of Grimlock ("we are two races") and later Swoop ("We are dinobots we stick together, we fight together, we die together if necessary") in Still Life
Ratchet "Full circle" reference against SS after crashing the ark for second time
The Last Autobot appearance

[Impactor returns 2.0]

first impactor death
Cyclonus death at the hands of megatron

lots of death today

Oh - Galvatron luaghing at SS in T2006, before any of us had seen TF:M - brillant!!! gold!

[Hound]

I think the initial Budiansky return to Cybertron story was pretty important.

Scrounge's death being one of the most tragic.

Ratchet and Starscream being found welded together

Rodimus - (to 'please, i beg for mercy') - request denied (or something like that).

[Guest]

Ratchet and Starscream being found welded together

Was this before or after Fixit extracted the Megatron?


Laserbeak 'bombing' the Ark with Bumblebee's severed arm in Crisis of Command.

Soundwave's victory over the Autobots at the end of Dinobot Hunt.

The Autobots' discovery of Optimus Prime's remains at the end of part 1 of Prey.

The return of Megatron at the end of part 1 of Ancient Relics.

Centurion's sacrifice at the end of Ancient Relics.

[sprunkner]

Galvatron getting ripped apart in Time Wars. The art was really a treat there.

[Metal Vendetta]

Spent a long time last night (drunk) writing up three separate "moments" from #82, will post them when I've checked them for typos and, well, just rubbish in general - I kept going off on tangents about the jumpstarters

Introduction of Impactor
Introduction of the Wreckers (in particular Twin Twist and Topspin)
The letter from #82's Grim Grams complaining that in #71 they had killed off six Decepticons, which is pure genius.

[Brendocon]

Space Pirates - Deus Ex Metroplex

[spiderfrommars]

Optimus Prime commits suicide
Megatron crushes Brawl's head
Galvatron and Ultra Magnus' rematch
Galvatron stamps Rodimus Prime's head into the ground
Galvatron and Ultra Magnus are engulfed in lava
Death of Shockwave
Ultra Magnus beats up Galvatron
Splash page in issue 1 when war breaks out
Shockwave deactivates the Autobots in the Last Stand
Transformer zombies crawl out of the ground
Rodimus Prime reverts to Hot Rod
Fortress Maximus defeats Galvatron
Galvatron has half his face blown off
Death of Catilla
Face to face with the demons
Nightbeat returns the Bird of Prey idol
Thunderwing sucked out into space

[Legion]

Damn, most of my faves have already been mentioned, but here's a few i'm particulary fond of:

Shockwave's fake-Prime puppet starts blasting the Autobots - in err... Brainstorm was it?
Thunderwing's possesion by the Matrix "We are Thunderwing"... - Matrix Quest finale
Megatron's realisation that Ethan could had a floppy disk of Prime's mind and subsequent apparent suicide - Gone but not forgotten
Prime taking on the 'Con army - Crisis of Command
The Wrath of Grimlock/Guardian issues - it's all mint.
Dinobot hunt - again it's all good - but in particular Snarl surviving that big bomb (much to the Autobot's surprise!)
Flywheels horror not at realising he's been captured by the Sparklers and Magnus, but at the fact he's being held in Zombie infested territory - City of Fear?

[spiderfrommars]

We've got 50!

[Brendocon]

The image of the defeated Autobots trussed up on the city walls in Space Pirates?

[BB Shockwave]

I also love to list little things that stuck into my mind.

-Grimlock hitting Ratchet in the face when he ask to test his repaired hand... (Wrath of GRimlock)

-Carnivac's appears at the end of 'Cry Wolf' to a frightened Needlenose

-Omega Supreme trashes the whole lot of '84 cons (The Human Factor)

-The little exchange about what the Detective handbook says about these situations between Nightbeat and Hosehead (Bird of Prey)

-Wipe-Out's constant grovelling to Trypticon (King of the Hill)

-When Tracks asks Grimmy to scratch his back... (Making Tracks)

-Shockwave sitting on his throne, gone made due to time paradox (Time Wars)

-Ravage's confusion when seeing the two Megatrons (Two Megatrons) That face is priceless

-The little talk between Wheeljack and Ravage in the old Blackrock factory (Perchance to Dream)

-Magnus spots Flywheels aiming a gun at him and is surprised when the Duocon shoots the zombie, not him (Meltdown)

-Wreckers killing off the Facsimile Cons (Target 2006) - was really surprised at first read until I learned they were just dummies.

-Jhiaxus going primal on Optimus (a Rage in Heavens)

-Megs asking Prime if Grimlock has a muzzle... and then Prowl restraining Grimbo with "Easy! Good boy!" (G2...issue 4? 5?)

-Starscream's thoughts about what Megs means by retiring him... (G2 issue 3)

-Oh and last but not least.... the Chaos bringer is coming, and Primus called together all his children to fight against it... and while he holds a speech to inspire them all - Apeface is eating a banana! (The Void)

[Metal Vendetta]

Here's the bit that stood out for me:

Meet the Wreckers (#82)
From start to finish, a barnstorming, rip-roaring issue - we'd been hanging out with the Earth-based Autobots so long that another story about Bumblebee and his self-doubt would probably have killed my interest in Transformers for good. Sure, we'd met Blaster's Cybertronian crew in #66, but by #69 they were stranded on Earth, and since then we hadn't heard a peep from them. And really, apart from Blaster (maybe Powerglide) they hadn't really distinguished themselves as characters worth following. Suddenly, and following on from last week's mother of a cliffhanger, we were introduced to a bunch of Autobots who were actually soldiers that didn't play by the Autobot code rules, would happily slag any Decepticon who was in their path, then went drinking with their buddies after work and still managed to get into a fight while they were there. More importantly, they counted the jumpstarters amongst their number.

If Mr. Furman hadn't given him a starring role in this issue then I seriously doubt the ubiquitous little toys would have been given any exposure at all in western Transformers media. Or any Transformers media at all, becuase I don't think the Japanese were falling over themselves to promote the jumpstarters either, though I understand they were popular in Mexico. But despite their obvious failings as, well, "Transformers", these are by far the most abundant Transformer on the second-hand market (I have about 20 Twin Twists and Topspins and I've yet to meet a collector who doesn't have more jumpstartes than he can comfortably store, let alone display) I can't help but feel their popularity in the UK was seriously boosted by the way they were respresented here. No collection is complete without a crew of Wreckers, jumpstarters included, and "with customary zest" is a phrase I will probably remember for the rest of my life.

Oh yeah, and then there was the Wreckers' leader, whatsisface, he was in it too, but he's probably a whole "moment" in himself. I'm wary of stepping on Bax's 11 and 10 as I write this, but I think the introduction of Impactor probably merits a whole section to itself. #82 is possibly my favoutie Transformers comic of all time, and re-reading this story brought me to recall:

#82's Grim Grams
I am writing with reference to your comic - The Transformers. Recently, in issue 71, you killed off six Decepticons. Did you have Hasbro's permission to perform this action? I think not, because I wrote to them concerning this matter and they said they knew nothing about it. They suggested I write to you.
I have been collecting Transformers toys and the comic since they first came out, and I have all the Decepticons that were killed. As they were the first characters to be featured in this comic, this action seems a little thoughtless. Maybe I am wrong - perhaps they are not dead after all. Maybe you'll bring them back as you did with Skids. Please let me know what will become of them now.
Sean Stafford,
Swansea.

I'm pretty sure this was the first time this had been addressed in the comic. Grimlock's reply was kind of glib and referred obliquely to Starscream's return in the next but let's face it, after T2006 we wouldn't see those characters again for a long time. Starscream was put back into stasis, Skywarp was killed (seemingly for good) , and while Thundercracker and Frenzy were featured in flashback in #100. it would be at least until #145 that we even saw Starscream again.

[BB Shockwave]

But despite their obvious failings as, well, "Transformers", these are by far the most abundant Transformer on the second-hand market (I have about 20 Twin Twists and Topspins and I've yet to meet a collector who doesn't have more jumpstartes than he can comfortably store, let alone display)

You'd be surprised... they are pretty much unknown here in Hungary (and I'm guessing that's the case with most post-communist countries as well). I still have to get a gun for my Topspin...

Here the most common Transformer is Swindle... I don't know why, possibly because he's ugly, I had about 10 or more Swindles since I started collecting, and only 2 Brawls and 3 Vortex-es. Following him in abundance are Rotorstrom and Stalker... both are common as fleas, not to mention their big brother, Skyquake... I have 3 or 4 in my attic and I cannot even sell them overseas. Damn you, Machine Wars!

Starscream was put back into stasis, Skywarp was killed (seemingly for good) , and while Thundercracker and Frenzy were featured in flashback in #100. it would be at least until #145 that we even saw Starscream again.

I always wondered, did Kup and co remove Skywarp's brain module before repainting him? He did came back later, so he must have survived, but when Galvatron blasts him he seems to be pretty much totalled...

[spiderfrommars]

Great write ups MV!

Does anyone else want to give it a bash?

BB, G2 don't count mate.

[Impactor returns 2.0]

Oh - scrounge dying in the slag pits...

[snarl]

I like the future story that starts with Rodimus Prime and his gang staring up at a load of rapidly approaching rockets. That picture is cool and sticks in my mind. Also like the "request denied" killing a few pages after.

Also, Galvy flattening Magnus on that fat ranger's hut and the severe beats UM gives Galvy after he flies into a berzerker raeg thing.

Prowl getting Shapnel bombed in the annual story with Ronald Reagan in. Ravage and Bombshell going insane in the same story.

Trailbreakers getting ****** up in Man of Iron.

Facsimile Prime's ripped up corpse getting found by the bots.

Branson in TFs.

Grimlock cutting Megatron in half lengthwise in 'Victory'.

[Best First]

Scorponok vs Shockwave and co in All this and civil war 2.

Headhunt - the cliff hanger
Headhunt - Roddy goes all Captain America.

Predacons vs Dinobots where the Dino's just totally own their rubbish con arses. "Easy meat for my Dinobots"

End of the Road - Grimbo punches right through Carnitwat
End of the road - Getaway is got.

Legacy of Unicron - that 2 page battle spread
Legacy of Unicron - Inferno's death - that was freaking brilliant.

[KingMob]

Yay for MV! (#82 is my fave ish)

Old memories may play tricks with the details; my apols if a little off in description or repeating...

-The previously deactivated Earthern Autobots announcing their arrival at the final battle with Unicron by the method of punting the Ark across his face.
-Immediately followed by Grimlock throwing a bitching Prowl out of the door and turning to face down Wheeljack, who would rather- "What?! Have holiday!? Put feet up!? We Autobots, we fight, not worry! And now we kick Unicron's tail across universe!"
Ahhhh. As good as it is to have these big epic moments of planetwide explosions, a gazillion feet tall robotic devil devouring and sushing a bunch of Microheadtargetmasterswithpretendershells, cosmic levels of doom-laden grandeur etc, sometimes you just need a familiar mouthy old bugger to crash a spaceship into someone's face and talk some serious smack.

-"Microheadtargetmaster with a Pretender shell."
Seeing as I mentioned it above, it's always a favourite line. Wheeljack should be cheesed off and sarcastic more often.

-The new Mayhems training with facsimile constructs.
It's not the 'surprise' oh-ho-ho they're not real Autobots thing or the even Spinister and Needlenose thing, but the sheer brutal joy and gamesmanship-attitude of Decepticon killers working out that sparks my imagination.
OK, lots of D-Cons are written up to be lunatic killers, but the Octopunch and Stranglehold get a lot of facetime and damn it, they just like the idea of murdering people ("Big deal! My Grimlock and Fortress Maximus beat your Prime!"). With quite visceral artwork, this moment is both vaguely sickening and yet undeniably cool.

-Soundwave can't bring himself to shake Ultra Magnus' hand after the 'Bots and 'Cons defeat the Quintesson invasion of Cybertron.
Magnus is offering more than a simple handshake here, and Soundwave actually takes a moment to think about what the Autobot is offering...and then realises that "it would never work" with an air of such defeated grace and melancholy...

-The Autobot Code is Rubbish!
Great way to sum up the story so far; the doodles are great but the moneyshot is everyone's face when Grimlock asks them if they believe in the 'happy ending' he's just read them from a certain book...

-Ratchet doing the letters once.
That was cool.

[Brendocon]

#21 - Raiders of the Last Ark (Part the last bit)
Megatron gets his backside handed to him in spectacular style. By Windcharger.

[Best First]

ooh - also, Earthforce goodness:

270 The Badguys ball - pissed Decepticons and Ironhide bing sneakier than a ferret in a balaclava

275 Secrets - Soundwave's manipulation of Wildrider

277 - Internal affairs - Shockers and Megs go from beating each other round the head with planes to teaming up.

283 - Manouvres - Blitwing and Astrotain leave Octane to die, har har.

285 - External Forces - Soundwave uses his video recorder to talk to SS as they beat each other up

285 - and look! its only the sodding Mayhems and Earthforce and ruddy bloddy Shockwave and Megs! Rock and roll baby.

286 - "So? They were tough, we were tougher" or words to that effect - nice double bluff from Furny. I know Megs and I Did It go down a bit easy but to be honest Grimlock co-ordinating a beating of two cons who have both downed his entire team before is something of a guilty pleasure for me.

Oh, and whatever issue it is where Grimmers imagines a brick when someone is talking to him...

oh! and the minto car chase in End of the Road (the lessar known B & W version)

[Legion]

I always wondered, did Kup and co remove Skywarp's brain module before repainting him? He did came back later, so he must have survived, but when Galvatron blasts him he seems to be pretty much totalled...

I reckon they did, otherwise it would've been pretty harsh for Autobots to send a deactivated 'con to his certain destruction - even if they were under Unicron's influence, his meddling seemed fairly minimal (fudging their memories seems to have been the limit, not all out mind-control).

[Metal Vendetta]

Oh, and whatever issue it is where Grimmers imagines a brick when someone is talking to him...

I think it's Slag who's imagining the brick as he's trying to explain something to Grimlock. Is that the one where they send him out to take on a snowman?

[Best First]

ah, maybe its Prowl talking to him actually.

either way...

[Guest]

ah, maybe its Prowl talking to him actually.

either way...

Prowl explaining to Grimlock why they need to take Starscream alive - because he's the only compatible donor for Snarl's terminal illness, Corrodia Gravis.

[Impactor returns 2.0]

So are we going to do some sort of vote for this? then finnaly look back at the No.1 moment via some cool montage of images?

[Impactor returns 2.0]

Im trying to work out how to rank them?

Lets say we hold a weekly vote, on 10 random fav moments, lets say the top 10 moments on the above list.

We open a poll and u vote your fav moment from the list.

we continue this untill we have 12 'finnalists'

then we place these 12 results against each other in a cup knock out style system.

we all vote for each tie, untill we have two finnalists.

and voila we have the best TF:marvel moment G1!

or somthing like that? to complicated?