Specifically the orange/black one from cybertron pleas

Old mechy style

[92/100] Very ambiguous.

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Sideways from Armada would be cool too but I can't really find anything for Noisemaze. Haha.

Thanks in advance! You're so awesome for always hunting down pics for everyone. 💙💙💙 I appreciate all the comic panels you post! I've saved so many. Hahaha.

Truth be told I've never seen any of galaxy force nor much of armada (which I really need to fix, I know. I plan on doing so after I finish a bunch of other tf shows) soo no idea who you are talking about. However I shall go check their wiki and when I see what they look like.... I shall get you, your references. Thank you for the kind words and may my horde of panels and screenshots continue to help you🩷🩷🩷!

I’m not the only one who sees the similarities here, right?

Thundercracker Ignores Two Annoying Cons who are Arguing which Gimmicky Weapons are Better

Are sideways and mirror the same entity? Or is there something weirder going on with those two

Dear Sideways Stumped,

Even all this time after having passed on from that reality… I’m sorry to say that Sideways confounds me still. In my attempts to disentangle the origins and nature of this particular foe of mine, I have sought guidance from my multiversal brother, Alchemist Prime. But when he turned the Lenses on that particular universal stream, and focused them on Sideways… he saw only static, like a television tuned to the wrong channel, the cosmic microwave background of the universe. Prior to Sideways’ first appearance before the Autobots and Decepticons, that fateful day on the interstate highway… we could find no trace of him.

However, Runway was convinced he had met Sideways long ago, back on Cybertron, during the war—or rather, Sideways’ rider, who Runway claimed was not one Mini-Con, but two combined, their names Rook and Crosswise. Many of the other Mini-Cons corroborated their existence, and I have seen these figures crop up in alternate realities elsewhere in the multiverse. What the Mini-Cons seem unable to agree on is who Rook and Crosswise were—how they acted, what they did. Were they class traitors, working to sabotage the Mini-Cons’ efforts to escape Cybertron? Were they reactionaries, sowing discontent towards the Autobots, or the opposite? Was it Rook who suggested surrendering to the Decepticons, or Crosswise? If even a small number of these conflicting accounts are accurate, then it seems that these Mini-Cons were capricious indeed. Runway would have it that the Sideways we knew was nothing but a drone, that it was these Mini-Con steering him all along. Runway can be narrow-minded—why, he made similar remarks about Overload, whose relationship with Rollout was, in truth, vastly more complex than that—but his theory has a ring of truth to it. For when Sideways’ rider spoke, it was with the same voice, as though it was only through some act of ventriloquism that the bike could speak at all.

In one of his final reports, Rhinox hypothesised that Sideways was the successor to the race of Mini-Cons created by Unicron: not one entity, but rather a cloud of Nano-Cons, capable of infecting all forms of computerized life, undergoing constant transformation at a near-molecular level. In a combined state, it would be able to change appearance entirely—which would certainly explain his radical makeover by the time of his reappearance during the search for the Cyber Planet Keys.

Still, this fails to explain where Sideways came from in the first place—not as a collection of matter, but as a set of ideas: a name, a voice, a vehicle, a personality. The Unicron I know is not possessed of the spark of creativity. There must have been someone, at some point in history, who looked like that, and behaved like that… On Earth, there must have been a purple motorcycle, but I have not been able to locate it. Who did it belong to? What happened to them?

If Sideways, Rook, and Crosswise truly did exist… then what became of them? Did Unicron destroy them, and fashion a mirror from their shattered remains, a figurehead for bad luck? Or did he keep them alive, enslaved, at times reduced to mere puppets? In those moments where that cool, aloof temperament yielded to a more sinister and chaotic demeanour… was this simply a mask being removed, or a hand slipping into a glove? I wonder if they gave themselves willingly, as Thrust later tried, in his folly.

The Sideways I knew seemed almost like a different person entirely, a brazen buffoon who delighted in stoking the mistrust of others, and whose final act seemed to serve no greater purpose than simple patriotism. Unicron, by that point, had already been all but defeated; whatever fragment of his essence remained in Megatron’s body, and in the black hole, was little more than an echo, a rerun. If Sideways was still a pawn of the chaos bringer, then he was removed from play before he could make his final move.

But I have walked the streets of Planet X. I have met the gaze of passers-by, so similar in their construction, and thought—“Are you him?” Later, when Alchemist Prime looked, he could only confirm what I already suspected. It’s just a maze of white noise.