He's Fun-Sized!
Since I love my The Fallens, I was predictably gung-ho about the “Victory of The Fallen” Legends Class five-pack. It’s exclusive to Kmart and it has a tiny adorable version of my favorite The Fallen deco. You know, the bright orange and black one. (La Porte Slicers colors.) It’s also nice that the other four guys he comes with — Prime, Jetfire, Starscream, and Megatron — are all Legends Class figures that I don’t own.
But what I was especially excited for, stupidly, was the “Most-Wanted Decepticons” collectors card that comes in the package. There’s a code on the back that you plug into the official website, promising you the completion to the story which was set up on the back of the packaging. C’mon, the set’s literally named “The Victory of the Fallen!” There’s got to be an awesome finale described where he totally succeeds at killing the Solar System and getting his titular revenge. Maybe this time it’s Optimus Prime who gets his face taken!
Of course not. Once you register for the site and input your code, all it tells you is the ending to the live-action film. Laaaaaaaaaaaaaame. This is not the victory I was promised! Curse you, Hasbro. Your lies sting my gullible soul.
How does this keep happening to a dude who has like two or three Tech Spec stats that are rated infinite?
TWO Fallens? IN THE SAME PLACE?
ALRIGHT, WHO BROKE THE SCIENCE?
One of them is the real Fallen. The other is just a guy who tripped and fell.
Noooo… One of them is an optical illusion. Maybe an afterimage on the retina or something. Or since Walky’s collection represents multiple universes, his home exists in multiple realities at once.
If he ever were to leave his home via the window, instead of the front door. Well his life might never be the same.
One of them is time-traveling.
How does this keep happening to a dude who has like two or three Tech Spec stats that are rated infinite?
Well… doesn’t the Fallen enter a multiversal node in parallel or something? Like he’s experiencing every universe in the ‘node’ of a dozen-or-so worlds simultaneously?
Recalling his fight with Grimlock, where he perfectly anticipates Grimlock’s move, I posit that Mr. The Fallen uses his awareness of parallel dimensions to win– he knows just what Grimlock did in another dimension so he can anticipate him here.
But in RotF he was suddenly simultaneously scorched by an exploding sun-eater, thrown through dimensional portals, flung out into space, impales, beaten, etc etc etc… events were remarkably congruent right up until his battle with Optimus Prime where they exploded into a dozen DIFFERENT defeats, spoiling his ability to tell what was happening.
Easy, that is a Fallen from another time period that spent some time in an smaller universe and is just starting to adapt to this universe environment, though, going by the Universe comics logic, all reality should start to wreck itself and melt. Or the other Fallen has just arrived from Gigantion (which in another dimension) and is going to merge with his past/future self to avoid that universe implosion.
How does this keep happening? I’ll tell you how! He’s a multiversal singularity, so once he’s lost in one universe, he’s lost in all of them… otherwise, he’d be different in different universes, and he’s not, he’s a multiversal singularity.
If he were a cat trapped in a box which would kill him when it was opened… he would still lose, because he’s a multiversal singularity.
That’s not a tiny version of that deco. It’s about 70% a tiny version of a color-reversed version of that deco. Particularly the legs.
Heh, I noticed that too
When you watch Gilligan’s Island, do you keep thinking “hey, this plan to get off the island will work?”
Seriously though, you think they would have come-up with a better ending than one in the movie. Even if they were still going to have him lose.
Those prongs sticking out of the big Fallen’s crotch make it look like he’s got the robot equivalent of vagina dentata. Just sayin’, maybe the Fallen is a masculine fembot with a vicious hoo-hoo.
“How does this keep happening to a dude who has like two or three Tech Spec stats that are rated infinite?”
Maybe he’s like Thanos and he subconsciously plans his defeats too.
More importantly, how did this post make me suddenly need to get an orange The Fallen to go with the blue The Fallen that I will be getting when it is released? I swear, before this post I had no plans to buy either of them. Granted, waiting this long I managed to get it for half the price of what I would have paid had I bought him on the shelves…
Well, he was actually pretty heavily discounted on the shelves cos few people wanted him.
Me, I used him as an excuse to splurge on a Car Robots Black Convoy from toy-arena. I already owned Scourge, so I ‘couldn’t’ justify buying Black Convoy without buying something else at the same online shop. Plus, if I had to have one version of The Fallen, it had to be the one on fire (and since he’s a singularity, he can be my G1 The Fallen since the Titanium is too small!)