Metroplex (FOC)
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- Metroplex is an Autobot Titan from the Fall of Cybertron portion of the Aligned continuity family.
Metroplex is a gigantic Autobot whose alternate mode is a city. A more than capable arsenal in the Autobot ranks, Metroplex doesn't care for his own safety and is more than willing to sacrifice anything if it means securing the victory for his fellow comrades in the war. He has tremendous power, is loaded with rockets and isn't afraid to crush Decepticon leaders with his fist. In other words, don't piss him off.
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Fiction
The Covenant of Primus
Metroplex awakened in order to buy Optimus Prime time to retrieve the Matrix of Leadership from Cybertron's core, and later stood with the Autobots against the Decepticons. He sustained wounds which would cause him to return to city mode, with his spark returning to the core of Cybertron to help cleanse it. The Covenant of Primus
Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe
Metroplex is the single largest Autobot in existence. He can act as a mobile fortress for his allies. The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe
Rescue Bots Academy cartoon
Metroplex was featured on a card in the Heroes of Cybertron trading card series which Wedge owned. Battle of the Bots
Games
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
- Voice actor: Fred Tatasciore (English)
Metroplex had been lying dormant in what would become Autobot City for thousands of years, and inadvertently became a part of the battlefield when Megatron attacked the Ark. After pulling a switch or two, Autobot leader Optimus Prime observed the interior of Metroplex constantly shifting and transforming to accommodate him. After using a turret to help fight the Decepticons, Optimus found himself herded to a mysterious bright light by the shifting interior. Sensing a Cybertronian presence, Optimus desperately ordered the entity to help the Autobots in their time of need. After a final switch, an entire city began to transform into an immense, powerful Autobot—Metroplex, who had heeded the call of the Last Prime.
Metroplex's presence on the battlefield proved invaluable to the struggling Autobots. The titan easily wiped out much of the Decepticon army, including the deadliest of foes such as Marauders. Metroplex would launch a devastating air strike on whatever target Optimus marked for destruction, and the colossus was able to wipe out Megatron's equally massive guns that were giving the Autobots a hard time. However, just as he was to destroy the last of the towers, it shot Metroplex point blank in the chest, felling the mighty giant. Fearing for the worst, Optimus pushed on, but was captured by the Decepticons, and brought to Megatron, who mocked and berated the helpless Autobot leader.
However, the villain gloated too much, and Metroplex revealed his survival by ominously approaching from the back of Megatron's base. After Metroplex breached the walls of the base, the Decepticons were quick to back away from the huge threat, but Megatron ordered them to stand their ground. It was at this point that Metroplex had enough of the tyrant, and crushed him several times with his enormous fist, killing Megatron to the shock of the Decepticons, who were soon led in a retreat by Starscream. Unfortunately, the energon used to fuel Metroplex and the Autobots' defense of Autobot City drained their supply, preventing the Ark from being launched. Still, Optimus was glad to have an ally like Metroplex on their side.
Days later, after the Autobots located another source of energon—only for it to be halved thanks to the Decepticons—Metroplex offered to sacrifice his life, donating the energon inside him to give the Ark enough juice to launch. Optimus protested, but Metroplex had made his choice. Connecting his Spark to the Ark's fuel tanks, there was enough energon to launch the ship. The heroic titan collapsed for a final time, but was happy to see the Autobots finally leaving Cybertron, and in his dying moments, Metroplex's last words were, "'Til all are one."
Optimus Prime sadly swore that Metroplex's sacrifice would not be in vain. Fall of Cybertron
Commercial appearances
- On a battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons partially on top of Metroplex's dormant city form, Optimus slammed his hand to the ground, awakening the city to help the Autobots. Metroplex, heeding the call of the last Prime, subsequently transformed into his robot mode and started blasting the Decepticons.
Toys
Generations
- Metroplex (Titan Class, 2013)
- Holy Frijoles, dudes.
- The centerpiece of Hasbro's Thrilling 30 anniversary campaign, Generations Metroplex stands around 24 inches tall in robot mode, snatching the title of "tallest Transformers toy ever produced" from the original Fortress Maximus toy by a two inch margin. His packaging is a wonderful testament to this fact, sporting numerous "Over 2 ft. tall!" call-outs, a measuring scale down its edge, and the statement of "BIGGEST EVER!" in huge letters.
- His robot mode is highly articulated, even featuring individually-jointed fingers, as well as articulated pupils that can move from side-to-side when a lever behind his head is moved. He also has a cartoon-accurate visor which flips down when his antennae are twisted forward, and can be flipped back up when the antennae are twisted back, or when one pushes the visor up with their fingers.
- He comes with a large, spring-loaded, missile-firing gun that can be held by his hands, or mount onto a 5mm port on his back to serve as a shoulder-mounted weapon. The gun itself is so large that it's sculpted with a bridge and numerous tiny turrets to resemble a starship, and its barrel tip is cast in orange plastic for safety reasons. He also comes with two smaller cannons which are meant to peg onto the cannons on his shoulders, but can also be hand-held. Metroplex is covered with numerous 5mm peg-holes for weapons mounting, and his weapons also feature 5mm pegs.
- When the center portion of his chest is pressed down, his eyes and chest light up, and he plays an alternating series of seven voice clips and five sound effects of him eliminating a Decepticon threat, all from the Fall of Cybertron video game. Batteries are not included.
- He can transform into either a multi-wheeled aircraft carrier or a city mode, and both modes are specifically designed and scaled to interact with the Thrilling 30 Legends Class toys. For both modes, Metroplex's head transforms into a turret with 5mm handles, and a ramp extends from the right side of his chest. His aircraft carrier mode is armed with the (now-extended) cannons on his shoulders, has an articulated repair claw arm attached via 5 mm post at the end of the runway, and has both a flip-out double-barreled turret and a mini heli-pad on the left shoulder. Meanwhile, his city mode has numerous roadways, ramps, and compartments, is armed with a flip-out turret on his right forearm, and the left side of his chest opens up, revealing hidden sculpted weaponry at the bottom half, as well as a larger heli-pad and two flip-out pillars of unknown purpose at the top half.
- To complete his deco, Metroplex comes with a sticker sheet composed of over 100 stickers depicting, among other things, computer terminals, readouts, and interfaces, hazard-striped caution signs (for his moving parts), and stickers for the windows on his chest, which depict Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, and Arcee. Many of these stickers contain Cybertronian text, such as signs that indicate rooms as being used to store ammo and energon cells, an Autobot symbol with Soundwave's name graffitied over, a schematic of Scamper labeled as "Slammer", and even a sign that says "INTERLOCK, DYNOTHERMS, MEGA THRUSTERS" in an apparent reference to Voltron. Unfortunately, the sticker sheet swaps the numbers of stickers 31 and 77, while the sticker instructions list sticker 13 twice, with "13" being located on both a runway panel (which is correct) and on the repair claw (which isn't).
- He comes with Legends Class Scamper. In order for this version of Metroplex to fit in his packaging, he is packaged with his right arm detached. Some assembly required. The version released in various multilingual packaging variants (notably in Canada and the UK) has a different soundbox, omitting all of Metroplex's voice clips. Oddly, the front and back of the packaging is lacking the Generations moniker, instead being simply branded Transformers. The top and bottom of the packaging do sport the Generations logo, however, as do the instructions.
- The TakaraTomy version, part of the ninth wave of Japanese Generations toys, has two guns and missiles. Among other deco changes, he also replaces much of his black plastic (such as his runways and city compartments) with white, features a vacuum-metallized face, replaces the "safety orange" on his guns with black, and features a slightly different shade of red. He gains numerous additional paint operations, mostly for his guns and robot mode, which are either meant to replace stickers on the Hasbro version, or are meant to mirror details on the original G1 toy. As a result, he has fewer stickers overall, although they are metallic, and he does have some additional sticker details not on the Hasbro version. The instructions are also more thorough and complete, telling one about the features of the toy, and how to attach the two guns and shoulder cannons for all three modes. His soundbox is the unchanged English version with the voice clips, and he comes with his arm assembled in the (much larger) box. The package art has also been modified, altering Metroplex's deco, and removing the various Autobots moving around on his person. If purchased in Asian countries outside Japan, this version also included an exclusive Metroplex-themed cord/cable holder.
Notes
- Metroplex's head is available in Fall of Cybertron multiplayer as a Tyrant-type component for Scientist-class characters.
- In the second chapter of Fall of Cybertron, Metroplex can be seen in his alternate form at the beginning of the level.
- According to his Heroes of Cybertron card, Metroplex can lift seventy thousand tons.
