Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Convobat)

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漫画トランスフォーマーレジェンズ出張版 第EX話
First published	December 19, 2016
Manga	Hayato Sakamoto
Packaged with	Legends LGEX Convobat

Optimus Primal and his friends star in a movie about Convobat.

Synopsis

After a day of being annoyed at his friends calling him "Yvonco", Optimus Primal awakens in the form of gorilla robot, having contracted Transformers sickness again. His new appearance attracts the attention of Nightscream, who works a side job as a movie director and is looking for people to star in his newest work, Transformers: Convobat Amazon Showdown. He accepts and arrives at the set where he's greeted by Megatron, who will be playing the role of Megalligator. To Nightscream's annoyance, however, Megatron is quick to start ad-libbing lines and the other actors follow suit. Optimus Primal's big scene where he combines with Megatron goes awry when Megatron gets his head stuck, and then the living bat transtector borrowed from Mindwipe to serve as Convobat's body starts protesting. As Nightscream himself dons the Convobat costume and wrangles the transtector, Megatron convinces Primal to use his new body's firepower to help, combining with him again and blasting the bat into submission. Nightscream is able to transform the transtector and act as its head, completing Convobat, and eventually the movie is completed.

When Convobat is released, Hardhead and Highbrow watch it and ponder that if they exist as fictional characters in the Legends World, does that mean the story of Convobat and Megalligator portrays actual events happening in some other universe? Highbrow believes so, having realized that knowledge of their war somehow enters the minds of the Legends World's media creators, who make entertainment that in turn causes its consumers to produce the spirit energy that keeps the universe going. Hardhead wonders if this means Convobat might visit the Legends World someday, as meanwhile a portal opens in the sky and "Mindwipe's transtector" departs...

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Notes

• "Yvonco" ("Convoy" read backwards in Japanese) is a joke name for Optimus Primal originally from the Japanese dub of the Beast Machines episode "Fallout". Several characters call out "Yvonco is flat!" because of Primal's flattened body in that episode.
• The film covers the events of the Cybertron Convobat prequel comic. The scene watched by Hardhead and Highbrow shows that it's not fully accurate, however, as Megatron delivers the "My name is Megalligator!" line in a more playful manner than the comic.
• Megatron and the rest are obsessed with ad-libbing funny lines instead of following the script, a reference to the extremely jokey, ad-libby nature of the Japanese Beast Wars cartoon (and many other Japanese Transformers dubs directed by Yoshikazu Iwanami).