To Die Game!
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| "To Die Game!" | |||||||||||||
| First published | October 1, 2009 | ||||||||||||
| Story | Hirofumi Ichikawa | ||||||||||||
| Art | Hirofumi Ichikawa | ||||||||||||
| Packaged with | Megatron Diamond Black | ||||||||||||
Potentially the most amazing fanwank in the history of the universe.
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Synopsis
Across the universal streams of Primax 406.3 Eta and Tyran 407.1 Beta, two iterations of Optimus Prime and Megatron engage in a cross-dimensional battle. Prime loses an arm to Megatron's tesseractal swords, but remains undeterred and observes that Megatron is fighting from the year 2009, suspecting an ulterior motive for his being in that time period. Amused by Prime's observation, Megatron proposes a wager: If Prime can defeat him in a game of his choosing, he will answer honestly any question Prime asks him.
The game Megatron proposes exploits the fact that the Alternity are unable to enter time periods prior to 2007 and involves manipulating the occupants of his home dimension in the year 2005, pitting them against each other in a "game full of death and suffering". While Megatron distributes a portion of his power through legions of this universe's Decepticons, Prime can only infuse his power into one being to send against them, who will be forced to navigate space loops and time tunnels to accomplish this goal. Prime dismisses the rules as nonsense and refuses to manipulate another being like that, but Megatron warns him that the inhabitants of the dimension will only suffer if he does not play along. Prime chooses Ultra Magnus as his playing piece, and the game begins!
Featured characters
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Notes
- Okay, okay, are you ready for this? This whole strip is a reference to the Japanese Famicom video game, Mystery of Convoy, in which Ultra Magnus went up against legions of Decepticons. The three shadowed Decepticons seen in this strip (Menasor, Bruticus, and Trypticon) are three of the bosses in the game (also, the planets/moons with yellow spots on them seen above the Decepticons were another type of boss from the game), and the "space loops and time tunnels" refer to a particularly infuriating level in the game that was a confusing maze that repeated over and over unless the player took a specific route. Mystery of Convoy is infamous for its difficulty, and the frequency with which the player died—a "game full of death and suffering" indeed!
- The three beams of energy that Silver Prime sends to Magnus in this comic recreate Mystery of Convoy's title sequence, where three energy balls emit from a disembodied Optimus Prime head and enter Ultra Magnus. This is just getting dorkier and dorkier.
- "Primax 406.3 Eta" is the universe of the Kiss Players radio drama, while "Tyran 407.1 Beta" is the world of the live-action movie series Tech Specs, which began with protoform Optimus Prime and Starscream, released on April 1, 2007.
- The Optimus Prime who appears in this story, represented by the "Ultimate Silver" auto-avatar, is the same Prime who appeared in the first Alternity story (a divergent version of the Generation 1 cartoon incarnation of the character). The Megatron, however, is a new one: He is the Megatron who appears as a boss in the Mystery of Convoy game (and claims he is putting his past self in danger in reference to this).
