Omega Supreme

[laughs]

Um, like I, I was, I was thinking just randomly, like, where the heck are Omega Supreme and Trypticon?

Yeah, good.

Trypticon crawled over to Spacebridge and walked back from the Spacebridge into Cybertron.

Thundercracker, Skywarp, Thrust, and whatever leftover planes they have, they launch.

And you're like, well, wait, Omega Supreme took all those guys out and they really shouldn't be there because this is post-Omega Supreme.

So I can see your guys' point.

There was some carelessness in terms of some of the Transformers stuff on that side of it.

And any like normal writer, like a Budiansky is like, man, I already got enough.

crap to worry about I ain't gonna do this but you know Higgins was like yeah I'll figure it out and I'll make it work and that's where like that's why you would see Optimus Prime and Megatron in issue one and if I'm a Transformers fan I'm excited about that and then the rest of the way you get Shockwave In Blaster slash

Omega Supreme? Yeah, slash Omega Supreme.

I found that interesting because it really did seem like that they they didn't know, you know, and that's what I mean by there was such a major shakeup because from issue 23 to 26 in the ongoing Marvel Transformers book, like that's when.

They're going to have a guy that they can plug and play as a backup next season if they do keep McCarthy under contract.

Jameis Winston, Omega Supreme.

I'm going to get to some of the questions in the chat as well.

And I like this one with Omega Supreme because in college, like you said, we don't really know what J.J. McCarthy was because of the style.

It was ground and pound.

It was play good defense.

Right.

What about some of the other old Transformers, like Omega Supreme back in the day? Yeah.

He was a whole set by himself.

He probably cost like $200.

You go get this as they call them.

um so that's and that's how we got like omega supreme and uh skylinks came from toybox toys which is another japanese toy company um

but yeah like inferno i don't remember the name of the anime but he he was a toy from an anime same thing with um roadbuster and world oh yeah the

deluxe yeah and then same thing with the the beatrice which are the deluxe insecticons

In Command Performances, Starscream, Skywarp, Thundercracker, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Rumble, and Frenzy accompanied Megatron to mount an attack on the Ark, which Megatron assumed would be empty or poorly defended given that the Autobots were, at the time, attacking the then-in-construction Decepticon base.

What they didn't know was that the Autobots had built themselves a colossal new ally, Omega Supreme, who easily fended off the Decepticons, taking all of them out besides Megatron, who, in true Megatron style, retreated, leaving the rest to their fates.

Acknowledging the fallout of Omega Supreme's defense of the arc, but opting not to include Omega Supreme in the story is a strange choice, and I don't know, perhaps he'll feature later.

But as of now, he hasn't appeared, when really, it would have made much more sense for him to do so.

That said, I think the omission is actually there to allow Ultra Magnus to be as important to the Autobots as he is at this moment in time.

Remember, there were sometimes orders from Hasbro to promote certain toys, and with the movie coming up, this comic is certainly making sure that Galvatron, Ultra Magnus, Scourge, and Cyclonus are getting plenty of time to shine.

Personally, I'd have written in an aside to say that the skirmish with the Decepticons damaged Omega Supreme, and because it was the first attempt the Autobots had made at building anything so large, the design just wasn't perfected yet.

So for now, he's out, getting critical structural repairs.

Not only flexing his space superiority by shooting down the UFO-themed Autobot Cosmos, but literally conning an entire alien civilization into worshiping him as a sky god so they'll mine energy crystals for the Decepticons.

But when the rest of the Autobots show up aboard Omega Supreme, Astrotrain and company skedaddle, but not before destroying the Mind Crystals out of spite, establishing him as not just opportunistic and deceptive, but genuinely petty when his plans get thwarted.

His most memorable episode, though, is the appropriately titled Triple Takeover, where he and fellow Triple Changer Blitzwing momentarily take over the Decepticon leadership after luring Megatron and Starscream into an underground sewer trap and freezing them both.

And while you'd think that two triple changers staging a coup together would have a unified plan for world domination, they go their separate ways.

Great for those who want them, but I was good with my dark gray toon-colored Thomas.

Ready to rumble down the tracks or blast off into space.

Let's just hope he doesn't run into the Autobot rocket base Omega Supreme out there.

Thanks for listening to Stories from Cybertron.