It was a two parter called "Worlds without end" Just like the classic "Mirror Mirror" episode of Star Trek a decade previous, this was one of my first exposures to "parallel worlds" in fiction (I was 9) it was also noteworthy for actualy showing the actual corpses (skeletons) of GI Joe Members....Grunt, Clutch and Steeler, which by the end of the episode, the "real" versions decided to stay behind to carry on the fight (and incidentaly give a reason why their toys are no longer in production, much like how the 1986 Transformers: The Movie did with the original Transformers wave) So why am I bringing this up? Team Rodimus recently got a boost in it's already swelled ranks. Roller, Terminus and likewise Lug and Anode back "home" and unlike the hundreds of crew members who came and went out of crows scenes on the Lost Light, these are major characters I was wonder how many have given the thought that not all of the "away team' are going to return from the functionalist universe in an attempt thin the series ranks?
I'm worried Megatron won't come back because he'll choose to stay. I'd rather him meeting that universe Orion and setting him up as a revolutionary
It does make sense, though since it does I feel probably Roberts wouldn't do something quite so obvious. I could see Terminus staying behind as the revolutionary 'Megatron' of that universe, though that might be even MORE obvious.
Of course obvious isn't bad when it is the logical extension of a story. Twists for the sake of twists tend to be pretty terrible. That said, I'm not sure Megatron's story in the original universe is completely at an end. He has yet to be judged by the Knights, so that leaves Terminus as the most likely candidate to remain.
Yeah, the thought has crossed my mind. Hope its not Terminus though. Get the feeling Rung might HAVE to stay behind, Rewind and Chromedome too perhaps. But it does seem to be set up for the "dissapeared" to stay in the functionis-verse.
I don't think Rung made the trip to the functionalist universe, the Rung seen on the last page is "that" universe's version
I recall when the Functionist Universe first happened, people were calling that the end point of Megatron's redemption; he gets to fight the war he needed to fight the right way and free another Cybertron without turning it into the mess that he did the first time around. While that would be an interesting quirk of fate, I don't think that's where this is going; though losing Ravage does strengthen the argument. I'm thinking that the important takeaway from the Functionist Universe is going to be what Rung does and the implications it'll have on "our" universe.
Never really considered someone staying behind, but I did sort of consider Roller biting the dust sometime after reading issue 1. Something about the tragedy of never re-uniting with Orion/Optimus made that speculation seem reasonable.
I would have loved the idea and was one of the guys who supported that idea back then. But we had Galvatron at that time, who's now dead. They don't really have a big bad right now without Galvatron. No one who opposes the Transformers. I don't know how the comics should go on without a villain or two.
There's always the Quints. I think that would be a good place to have a villian. Other that or there will be a completely new villan, which I think could be very interesting.
As theorized, and revealed by the five page preview for issue 3, it wasn't just the small crew who jumped. It was the ENTIRE NECROWORLD, courtesy of the GeoBomb. Rather than obliterate the planet, the GeoBomb shunts Necroworld (and all on it) into a parallel/alternate universe. Brainstorm's teleportation "den" worked perfectly. It teleported the crew directly to Cybertron at its proper coordinates within the ALTERNATE universe. Thus, original Rung is on Necroworld (with whatever's going on inside him), while Functionist Rung has been captive on Cybertron for thousands (millions?) of years. Both Rungs exist in the same universe for the time being. We don't know if any other guys have dupes on Cybertron. Not Megatron, since he never came online. Rewind's dead. Minimus technically was alive at the end of our previous FU universe, watching Rewind die, but we don't know if he survived much longer.
Whoever stays behind is essentially "dead" in the main universe. Unless they could come up with a way for him to come back later, they'd be killing off Megatron if he stayed. I doubt they'd do that. I could see Terminus or maybe Rung staying behind.
