Every Transformers Easter Egg In War For Cybertrons Earthrise
Every Transformers Easter Egg In War For Cybertron’s Earthrise
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From the hate plague to Nemesis Prime, Transformers: Earthrise is brimming with callbacks to the rich history of the robots in disguise.
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Transfomers: Earthrise is brimming with references and easter eggs that nod to the rich history of the robots in disguise franchise. The second chapter in the War For Cybertron trilogy, Earthrise finds the Autobots and Decepticons departing Cybertron for the dangers of space as they attempt to locate the Allspark, the life-giving artifact that Optimus Prime was forced to jettison from Cybertron in the previous chapter, Transformers: Siege.
Rather than a quick jaunt to Earth, however, Earthrise finds the Autobots under siege from mercenary Cybertronians, nightmarish monsters, and even Unicron himself. Along the way the show manages to honor much of what’s come before in Transformers lore, putting its own spin on some of the bedrock tropes of the franchise, as well as nodding to some more obscure possibilities.
War For Cybertron may be a fresh, gritty take on the world of the Transformers, but it’s aware of its history and utilizes it in some surprising ways. Here’s every Transformers Easter egg In War For Cybertron’s Earthrise.
The Mercenaries
The Mercenary faction in Earthrise tracks down the Ark and captures the Autobots. Some of these characters are fairly well known, like Dirge, Thrust, and Ramjet, collectively known as the Coneheads, who are traditionally Decepticon jobbers. The Mercenaries are led by Doubledealer, who in the original G1 toyline switched sides between the Autobots and Decepticons.
Their ranks also include Exhaust, a redeco of Wheeljack’s toy who originally featured a deco based on the Marlboro cigarettes logo (the 80s were a different time), and who hilariously features a weapon that looks a lot like a massive cigarette lighter in Earthrise. Also included is Bug Bite, a redeco of Bumblebee, who actually has his origins in the competing GoBots line, which also featured a VW Beetle robot.
Nebulan Station
The Autobots eventually make their way to a space station that’s stuck halfway through a space bridge, and which contains a horrible secret. Nebulan Station is named after Nebulos, the planet in the original Generation 1 cartoon and comics that was home to the Transformers’ Headmaster partners, essentially humanoids who took up residence in Transformers’ heads. Fittingly, Nebulan Station’s dark secret is Scorponok, an insane, massively powerful monster Transformer who, along with Fortress Maximus, was the main attraction of the original Headmasters toy line in 1987.
Dead Universe
The Ark finds itself caught in the Dead Universe, where Optimus Prime must commune with the exiled Autobot Sky Lynx to escape the purgatory dimension. The Dead Universe is a fairly new concept to the mythos, having debuted in the recent IDW comics. Beyond the name, the two versions of the Dead Universe don’t have much in common. The IDW version was accidentally created by Shockwave and featured heavily in the Transformers millennia-spanning mythology. The Dead Universe of Earthrise, however, seems to be more of a prison dimension, as Alpha Trion banished the arrogant and power hungry Sky Lynx to the dimension years prior.
Nemesis Prime
While communing with Sky Lynx in the Dead Universe, Optimus Prime gets a glimpse of a dark possible future – he sees a black colored version of himself covered in a nightmarish haze, his red eyes burning through the mist. This is Nemesis Prime, who does have some presence in past fiction, but has been a stalwart on toy aisles for the last few iterations of the franchise; “evil Optimus Prime” is an easy repaint, after all.
The Hate Plague
When visited by his Galvatron – his future self – Megatron is encouraged to “unleash a plague of hate” upon the universe, as a red dust begins to collect around his hand. This is a reference to the two-part season three finale of the Generation 1 cartoon, “The Return of Optimus Prime.” In that episode, two scientists recover the lifeless body of Optimus Prime from space, but inadvertently bring back alien spores that cause all life forms to go insane with rage. The plague eventually overtakes most of the galaxy, including the lion’s share of Autobots and Decepticons.
The lone surviving Autobots track down a Quintesson to repair Optimus Prime in hopes that their long dead leader can light their darkest hour. The gambit pays off – Optimus Prime is returned to life and, after ripping the Matrix of Leadership out of a crazed Rodimus Prime, is able to eradicate the hate plague.
The Golden Disk
Just before he’s pulled back to his own time, Galvatron pleads with Megatron to change the future with the help of the Golden Disk. The Golden Disk – based on a real world disk that was launched with the Voyager I spacecraft in the 1980s – has its origins in the much-beloved Beast Wars cartoon. Set a few hundred years after the Autobots defeated the Decepticons, Beast Wars sees an upstart Predacon who has dubbed himself the new Megatron – no relation – steal the Golden Disk from Cybertron and depart for prehistoric Earth, his intentions not immediately made clear.
It’s eventually revealed that the Golden Disk was Generation 1 Megatron’s contingency plan in case he lost the war. G1 Megatron encoded a secret message on the disk intended for future Decepticon descendants with a grave instruction – kill the dormant Optimus Prime aboard the crashed Ark before he awakens in 1984 and win the war for the Decepticons. It’s unclear what War For Cybertron’s Megatron might do with the disk, but it’s one of the single most powerful artifacts in all of Transformers lore.
Unicron
Unicron, the chaos bringer, is arguably the most fearsome entity in all of Transformers lore. Depending on the continuity, he’s either an elemental demigod or a mad scientist’s experiment gone horribly wrong, but he always signifies the same thing – destruction on a planetary scale. In The Transformers: The Movie – likely his most well-known appearance – Unicron reformats Megatron and the remains of some fatally injured Decepticons into a Galvatron and a new army with the goal of destroying the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, the mystical artifact that Optimus Prime passed on to Ultra Magnus.
It’s unclear what Unicron’s endgame is in Transformers: Earthrise. It’s hard to believe the series would tease such a massive player without properly introducing him in the trilogy’s final chapter. Whatever his goal this time, Unicron’s arrival means we’re likely in for a truly epic finale to War For Cybertron.
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