LG-43 Trypticon Project Chapter

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"LG-43 Trypticon Project Chapter" LG-43 ダイナザウラー計画編 (LG-43 Dinosaurer Keikaku Hen)
First published	March 10, 2017
Manga	Hayato Sakamoto
Chronology	late 1980s, 2010, 2015, late 2020s (G1 World)

The history of Trypticon is really that of Full-Tilt.

Synopsis

In the 20th century of the G1 World, Galvatron leads the new Decepticon weapon, Trypticon, into battle with Metroplex. Trypticon bites into his enemy, ripping out his transformation cog, and Metroplex counters with an antimatter projector beam that destroys Trypticon and Galvatron at the cost of damaging his own body. From the wreckage, the Decepticons recover Trypticon's "black box", Full-Tilt, who contains backup data of Trypticon's life functions that will allow them to recreate the cityformer.

In 2010, the Constructicons rebuild a human city into a new Trypticon, with Full-Tilt completing the resurrection by interfacing with the beast to upload his data. Trypticon goes on to battle the Autobots on Earth until he's brought down by Swerve and Tailgate in 2015, though Full-Tilt is again recovered and fully integrated into Trypticon's third, smaller body. While fighting as one of Violengiguar's Nine Great Demon Generals, Trypticon ends up obliterated by Dai Atlas, but the Race Track Patrol is able to find Full-Tilt's personality component among the wreckage and brings it to the Metrosquad. Metrobomb has the component modified to give it its own robot mode, restoring Full-Tilt in a diminutive body until such a time he can be used to rebuild Trypticon again.

Meanwhile, in the Legends World, Weirdwolf concludes that his faction needs Trypticon to counter Metroplex, being unable to rebel against Megatron and exact Scorponok's will as long as Megatron is in control of a cityformer of his own. He recruits fugitive Tarantulas and pressures him into contributing his robotics skills in exchange for shelter, then summons Full-Tilt to the Legends world. A Decepticon civil war is near...

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Notes

• The first scene of Trypticon's battle with Metroplex takes place immediately after Scramble City: Mobilization's cliffhanger ending. The fact that Metroplex lost his transformation cog in this battle was also mentioned in Vol. 27 as the reason why he couldn't transform to robot mode in the movie, and presumably the damage caused by the antimatter projector here is why he was in city mode to begin with.
• The first design used for Full-Tilt as Trypticon's chestplate is lifted straight from the Scramble City: Mobilization OVA, which used an older unfinalized character model for season 3 of the Generation 1 cartoon and was based purely on poorly angled photographs of the toy sample.
• Galvatron II thinks about how he's come from the future; this part of his complex journey through Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity was revealed in the Unite Warriors online manga, which also mentioned his death portrayed here. These manga also introduced the idea of there being two different Trypticons, distinguishing them by the different character models and Japanese names the character had in Scramble City versus Transformers 2010.
• This is the second time in as many months that a Galvatron has been killed in a comic, with his head as the largest fragment left behind, and in both instances, said version of Galvatron was not resurrected as a Headmaster despite a Headmaster-style toy being available on shelves. More proof that great minds think alike.
• Trypticon's first reconstruction takes place during "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4". Humorously, this comic replicates a coloring error from the episode that saw Long Haul colored like the "U-Haul Robot".
• Swerve and Tailgate's battle with Trypticon (with Rattrap present) was depicted in Bonus Edition Vol. 8, appropriately published in 2015.
• Trypticon was destroyed by Dai Atlas in "Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!".
• The design of Full-Tilt's personality component is based on Brawl's as seen in "B.O.T.". As it happens, the chest details on the toy's Headmaster (which was originally based on the Marvel-original character Wipe-Out) match up somewhat well with the personality components' details.