Canada
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Canada is like the United States of America and Europe, but bigger, politer, and health care-ier. In retaliation, the United States wears Canada like a hat, eh?
Toronto is Canada's largest city, eh? (Yes, there are cities littered aboot the country!)
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Non-fiction, eh?
Canada has had a surprisingly large behind-the-scenes role in producing Transformers. It is the home of Mainframe Entertainment, who produced the Beast Wars (or "Beasties", as it's referred to up there) and Beast Machines television series, and was also home to the now-defunct Dreamwave Productions, who produced the top-selling 2002 Generation 1 revival comic. Several Transformers voice actors and comic artists also currently or formerly called Canada home, with all of the Beast Era and Unicron Trilogy cartoons having been recorded by voice actors based in Vancouver, while the Netflix BotBots cartoon features a Toronto-based cast. The first season of Rescue Bots was animated by Atomic Cartoons of Toronto, and season 3 and onward of the series was animated by the Vancouver branch of DHX Media (in cooperation with their preferred outsourcing studio).
During the tail end of Generation 1, Canada received several toys the U.S. did not, like the Turbomasters. Generally speaking, US exclusives tend to turn up at Canadian retail, with Walmart and Toys"R"Us keeping their exclusives and, until Target stores began opening in Canada in 2013, Target exclusives would wind up at Zellers, a Canadian chain.
Due to Canada being a bilingual country, it's always had multilingual packaging. The toys also required multilingual character names for a long time. This tends to cause problems, as Toys"R"Us has for a long time not produced multilingual packaging for their exclusives, resulting in them being sold in most of Canada but not in the French-speaking province of Quebec. This has changed with the release of the "Masters of Metallikato" two-pack.
Fiction, eh?
Generation 1 continuity family
Marvel Comics continuity
Marvel The Transformers comics
"I've heard just aboot enough out of you, eh! Now get back in the maple syrup mine, or you won't receive any socialised healthcare!"
The remote town of Doonstown had the misfortune to be the battleground for Grimlock and Sludge. The town was destroyed and the Decepticons raided a nearby oil rig. Dinobot Hunt!
After getting caught spying on the Constructicons in Alaska, Hoist had to carry his brain-damaged comrade Jazz back to the United States through Canada. It took him two days. The Mission
When Ratchet blew up the Ark like a shaken-up bottle of beer, it crashed somewhere in northern Canada. The Ark, not the beer, 'cause that'd be a waste of good beer. But Galvatron survived the crash, and since he's like, a big hoser, he killed a bunch of Canadian army guys. Then Spike Witwicky and Fortress Maximus came and beat him up and tossed him in a lake, and that was pretty much it for Galvatron. The Last Autobot, eh?
Earthforce
When Grimlock and his group broke away from the regular Autobot forces, they landed their shuttle near Churchill, Manitoba, an area, like, famed for its polar bears. Once upon a Time...eh?
Wheeljack began construction of a permanent Earthbase nearby, presumably from parts of the shuttle. Mysterious, eh? The Earthforce were then visited at their shuttle by the Autobot Survivors, requesting assistance to rescue Carnivac. Wolf in the Fold, eh? Augmented by the Survivors and the Aerialbots, the Earthforce completed their base, but there were teething troubles with the security system The Howse that Wheeljack Built! and they were attacked by Soundwave's forces before these could be fixed. Fortunately they were able to drive off the Decepticons. Divide and Conquer, guy!
Not long afterwards, Optimus Prime visited the Earthbase for an inspection, while the Dinobots attempted to hide a psychotic defect in Slag's circuitry. The 4,000,000 Year Itch, eh? The Autobot leader left behind Tracks in the Earthforce's Body Shop to Grimlock's great displeasure. Makin' Tracks, friend! After Optimus returned to the Ark, the three Mayhems Bludgeon, Stranglehold, and Octopunch escaped from Earthbase's brig by keeping schtum. Keep it down, buddy!
After assisting the Earthforce in deactivating a cerebro-shell-controlled Superion in New York, the human reporter Irwin Spoon visited the Earthbase to conduct an interview with Grimlock but the interview was interrupted by the Stunticons driving up the only road in Canada to abduct Spoon. Front Line! Though he was rescued, he was implanted with a cerebro-shell himself by Bombshell and ended up writing Decepticon propaganda. End of the Road, eh!
Transformers Comic-Magazin
As a key oil exporter, Canada's harbour cities came under heavy Decepticon attack in their attempt to seize all oil in one go. The Autobots slowly pushed the Decepticons out. Transformers in Action: He Who Laughs Last ...
Marvel Generation 2 comic
Cobra and Megatron moved the Ark from Canada to Milleville in the United States. The Canadians sent an alert to G.I. Joe aboot the Cobra air armada, but if they said "and there's a Transformer spaceship too" the Joes didn't seem to care. Goin' South
Classics
Bug Bite arrived in Primax 207.0 Epsilon to seek out Megatron, who Bug Bite believed to be the cause of his home universe's Cataclysm. His first lead led him to the wreckage of the Ark in Canada, but that turned out to be a dead end. Withered Hope
By 2012, the Autobots maintained the Ark II as a base in Canada. In that year, evil Autobots from Primax -408.24 Epsilon invaded and caused catastrophes to ensue worldwide, including in Canada. The Autobots-based out of the Ark II participated in the response effort. Invasion
Regeneration One
Spike, as Fortress Maximus, tried to protect the wreckage of the Ark for a while, but life as an Autobot in the middle of the Yukon was boring, eh, so he quit and went back to his own life sometime around 1994. Unfortunately, it wasn't long before Megatron was awakened, and using the Ark's computer and the medical knowledge gained from his mental link with Ratchet, created an army of zombie Decepticons, and somehow gained control of the Earth's nuclear arsenal, that knob! Loose Ends, Part 3 Eventually, Spike, as Circuit Smasher, led a team of humans and Wreckers to blow up that computer, which they did right aboot when Optimus Prime yanked the spark right out of Megs' chest, eh? Loose Ends, Part 5
Even though the Autobots were told by the surviving humans to get off the planet, they still left the wreck of the Ark behind in the Yukon. Natural Selection, Part One Optimus, though, decided to stay behind and take care of it himself, but when he got there, that hoser Galvatron had woken up from under the ice in Carmacks, and with Starscream's help, had gotten that old boat up in the air so they could take off, eh? Natural Selection, Part Five After radioing Cybertron, Optimus took off himself, to head for Wyoming and put his fate in the hands of the humans. Destiny, Part One
Super-God Masterforce cartoon
The Autobot group led by Ginrai first met up with Ranger in the vast Canadian forests and Lightfoot at his father's motor company. Both learned aboot their ability to "God On" with their Transtectors soon after. An Enemy, eh? The Third Godmaster, Ranger
Lightfoot's father moved from England to Canada to fulfill his dream of starting a car company, this apparently being more achievable in Canada. The resulting company is the prestigious British Motors, which is a perfectly logical name for a company started in Canada. Lightfoot: A Dramatic Encounter
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
The would-be arms dealer Lazarus set up a secret base in the frozen wastelands of the Canadian northwest territories as part of his plans to sell his reprogrammed Autobots and Decepticons to the highest bidder. He drove a "freedom fighter" named Bishop to the base to unveil the seemingly-controlled Megatron. Prime Directive #1 Lazarus' guests watched from the safety of his base as the mind-controlled Cybertronians laid waste to the Smitco arctic oil refinery, sparking a bidding war. Unfortunately, Megatron revealed he was in control of himself the entire time and attacked, killing most of Lazarus' guests and his men. Prime Directive #2 After Lazarus' control over the other Transformers were broken, Megatron devised a scheme to turn Earth into a new Cybertron by using a mecha-forming cyber-virus, starting with Canada. Prime Directive #3
Once news spread that the Transformers had been sighted, the Canadian military moved in just as Bumblebee and his team were dealing with the cyber-virus. Prime Directive #4 Unfortunately, the Canadians misinterpreted the Autobots' actions and hostile and attacked. With the stakes high and the Autobots unable to resume their operations, Wheeljack drained his power into a nearby satellite dish and saved Canada from the cyber-virus. Prime Directive #5
Hearts of Steel
Optimus Prime was buried under the Mare Rurek Glacier in northern Ontario. Infestation 2 #2
In 1887, an Elder God awoke near Nova Scotia, and sent its minions to invade the nearby village of Port Cenotaph. Infestation 2 #1 To defeat the menace, Tobias Muldoon and Nikola Tesla travelled to northern Canada to reactivate Optimus Prime, who travelled to Nova Scotia in time to defeat the Elder God. Infestation 2 #2
2005 IDW continuity
As Unicron began destroying Cybertron, Shockwave teleported himself to Toronto, claiming it as the capital of his new Decepticon Empire. Road's End Prowl's team later captured him from the city, Ceremony the Torchbearers later helping rebuild the city. Post
Unicron Trilogy
Dreamwave Armada continuity
Base Unit 1 was planned to be installed in Canada. Kicker and Ironhide worked to install it, while the Omnicons didn't help. Meanwhile, Snow Cat had been hiding out in the wilds of the Yukon, until found by the Omnicons when they took a powder. Omni-Potent
An army of Divebomb clones invaded Toronto in a coordinated attack / warning to humanity against allying with the Autobots. Multiplicity A team consisting of Thrust, Red Alert, Beachcomber, Hot Shot and Hoist were sent by Jetfire to fight them. Multiplicity, Pt. 3 However, the Terrorcon numbers were too great (not to mention had the advantage of flying that the largely land-based Autobots did not), and their reserves ran low, Megatron came to their rescue, in the first stop of his "comeback tour". Multiplicity, Pt. 4 He made short work of the Divebombs, then headed to the planned site of Base Unit 1 for an intense battle against Scorponok. No Exit
Mudflap roams aboot the frozen wastelands like a pale blue force of nature, eh?
Spacewarp's Log
In the 31st century, the Canadian Island Territories were part of the global island-based United Kingdom, the only Earth nation to not be overrun by Inhumanoid/Darkling Lord conquest. Spacewarp's Log (2), 5/12/2015
Live-action film series
Titan movie comics
In an alternate universe where the Decepticons won the battle of Mission City, Canada may have been conquered and occupied by Decepticons for a brief period. Revolution Part 1
Canada is a NEST member-state, and NEST Ops Vancouver is located at CFB Comox. Known Canada Forces personnel with NEST include Captain Fraser. Head in the Clouds
Skids and Mudflap arrived on Earth over Toronto, then happily swam to Ball's Falls where they picked up alternate forms. On the way in, Mudflap accidentally hit this big pointy thing, but that won't cause any problems, eh? Dogfight!
Later, the Decepticons tried to rebuild Devastator in British Columbia. Head in the Clouds
Animated cartoon
Canada is very close to Detroit. However, despite what a certain pompous windbag thinks, there are no "international" waters in Lake Erie. Just American and Canadian, eh? The Return of the Headmaster
Prime cartoon
Canada was threatened by tsunamis during Unicron's awakening, EH?! One Shall Rise, Part 1
Notes aboot Canada
- Some episodes of Transformers Animated, Transformers: Prime, Transformers: Robots in Disguise and Transformers: Cyberverse aired earlier in Canada, eh?
- There are no Target stores in Canada, except during a brief period from 2013 to 2015, eh?
- Toys"R"Us is still operating in Canada, eh?
- Transformers Animated toys were released a month sooner, eh?
- Canada had better distribution on the First Edition Prime toys, eh?
- Wings Universe Meanstreak and Animated Hosehead were both written with Canadian accents, eh?
External links
- Wikipedia's entry for Canada, eh?
- Canadian-specific Transformers news and information, eh?
- Canada at the IDW Hasbro Wiki, eh?
