Metroplex

Oh, yeah, the melting of the bars.

He's like Metroplex size already.

Right.

Dad, these bars are too far apart.

Who are the title characters? The three big monsters, right? It's Metlar, it's Decompose, and it's Tendril.

You know what the price point of one of those was? It was the same price as Metroplex.

So you had to buy three Metroplexes just to buy in.

I mean, I suppose, you know, you could have bought, you know, perk armstrong you could have bought

you know

Because for me, it was like...

I feel like we all come from the same, I don't know, the same economic background where Trypticon and Fortress Maximus were just too much money.

But if you were really good, then you could get a Scorponok or a Metroplex because those were the $30 to $35 price point, whereas...

But, like, there, there really isn't a reason given, stated why Arcee and Springer have to do all of this process manually.

I mean, to say nothing about, you know, whether this is Metroplex or Fortress Maximus or, or whether this is even a sentient Transformer at all, or r- rather it's just, like, a, um, traditional city that itself, uh, has a, has a secret [laughs] like everything else in this movie.

As the hatch begins to close, you can still see that, uh, presumably it's Starscream.

I mean, like, I don't think it's anybody else.

He somehow righted himself just in time for Kup to run him over and knock him into the moat below separating Autobot City from wherever this, uh, this, this bridge is retracting to.

And then this i- this is a cool shot here where you, you get to see deeper into a matte painting as Kup, uh, goes into the fortress, spins, and turns to the right just as two more fortified doors snap shut.

From there we get this gorgeous aerial shot, top-down shot of the now fortified Autobot City that looks neither like Metroplex nor Fortress Maximus.

But you could see, like, all these, all these guns, and it's, um...

Let's just call him an early precursor of what was to come.

And so in 1986, the Autobots got Metroplex, their very own city bot.

And the Decepticons? Well, the Decepticons had never really been the city planning type, so they went with something tailor-made for destroying cities instead.

A Kaiju, their very own Mechagodzilla.

who's really, really, really good at it.

In the cartoon, Trypticon first appears in Five Faces of Darkness, the five-part premiere of Season 3.

It's the far-off future year of 2005, and the Decepticons need an answer to Metroplex.

So the Constructicons, including an unusually colorful...

Which the only thing I can think of, and I really wanna get your guys' opinions on this, is, like, would they be crazy and do, like, a, a Autobot base or something like that?

Yeah, called Metroplex.

Oh, my fear is Primus.

Yeah, I-

if it's gonna be something like that.

Yeah.

I think Metroplex.

Yeah.

for him.

See, he tracks down the Throttlebots to an abandoned city and manages to kill a few of them, but before he can finish the job, the city wakes up and transforms into the Autobot Titan Metroplex, who doesn't mess around and simply steps in him.

Sixshot survives that, somehow, but not for long.

The story fast-forwards a year or so later with the remaining Throttlebots stranded on another planet, and recalling the events that got them there.

Goldbug recounts Metroplex leaving them, and they, the Throttlebots, manage to finish off an injured Sixshot, which...

I kind of find hard to believe, but that's pretty much all there is to Sixshot and IDW's story.

And yeah, I know what you're thinking, no definitive final panel showing an actual death is kind of a cop-out for the much vaunted Phase Sixer.