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"Enemy of My Enemy" Part 4
Transformers vs. the Terminator #4
IDW
Story by David Mariotte, Tom Waltz, and John Barber
Written by
David Mariotte and John Barber
Art by Alex Milne
Colors by David Garcia Cruz
Letters and design by Jake M. Wood
Cover A by Gavin Fullerton
September 2020 |
The future of Skynet and humanity hangs in the balance
during the final battle between Autobots and Decepticons.
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summary of this issue at the Transformers Wiki
Didja Know?
Transformers
vs. the Terminator was a
4-issue mini-series published by IDW in cooperation with Dark Horse Comics
(holder of the Terminator comic book license at the
time).
Although the comic-book series itself is titled
Transformers vs. the Terminator, the
story contained in these four issues is titled
"Enemy of My Enemy" (not be confused with the earlier
Terminator comic book mini-series
Terminator: Enemy of My Enemy from 2014).
The image seen on the inside front cover of each issue
depicts what may be a Terminator's eye view of the planets
Cybertron and Earth.
This issue has several references to the 1986 animated film Transformers: The Movie,
including the showdown between Optimus Prime and Megatron
and the Cybertronian chant of "Till all are one."
Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue
Starscream
1100100000 (dies in this issue)
Skynet (mentioned only)
Ravage (dies in this issue)
Sarah Connor
Bumblebee
Wheeljack
Ratchet
Kickback (dies in this issue)
Arcee
Velocity
Soundwave (dies in this issue)
Megatron (dies in this issue)
Optimus Prime
Starscream (dies in this issue)
Skywarp (dies in this issue)
Thundercracker (dies in this issue)
Bombshell
Skrapnel
Chet
Didja Notice?
Panel 3 of page 2 is a flashback in the Terminator's memory of
Starscream's words from
"TvT: Enemy of My Enemy" Part
1.
On page 3, the calendar hanging on the wall behind Sarah in
the Cyberdyne security booth shows an image from the 1982
film Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan of the U.S.S.
Enterprise firing on the U.S.S. Reliant.
Bumblebee uses the nickname "Lotty" for Velocity, which was
used for her in the original Transformers animated series.
On page 16, two garages at the Cyberdyne facility are
labeled T2 and T3, nods to the two films
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
and
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
At the end of the story, Sarah has begun working for
Skywatch, which, it seems, just happens to be headquartered
next to Big Jeff's restaurant in L.A. where she previously worked as a
waitress!
On page 19, Sarah receives a report from Tulsa. This
presumably refers to
Tulsa,
Oklahoma.
On the last page of this issue, Skynet comes online and is
already building T-800s and even a couple of Terminator
Transformers (T-8000s, as identified in the
concept art extras by Alex Milne at the end of
Transformers vs. the Terminator #1).
The Skynet base under Skywatch headquarters at the end of
the issue is referred to as Alpha Base. In the previous
timeline, in 2029 ("TvT: Enemy of My Enemy" Part
1), the same base was called Omega Base. "Alpha and
Omega" is a phrase meaning "beginning and end" (from the
first and last letters of the Greek alphabet). The TvT story
begins at the end of Skynet in a sense, in 2029 in
"TvT: Enemy of My Enemy" Part
1, and ends at the beginning of Skynet at the conclusion
of this issue.
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