Optimus Prime as a Gundam!?!: It’s Not That Farfetched

Hello again.

I know it’s been a while since I posted. And for that I apologize. I hope that those of you who have stuck around are doing well during these turbulent times.

Alright, with that out of the way, let’s get into some speculations….

A while back I made an entry connecting THE TRANSFORMERS and MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM into a singular continuity of events.

However, what I failed to include is how Optimus Prime could exist again on Earth in the future of the Universal Century timeline presented in MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM.

The key to this possibility goes back to an old issue of Marvel Comics’s THE TRANSFORMERS (THE TRANSFORMERS #24) where the consciousness of the leader of the Autobots was stored on a floppy disk after his apparent death after refusing to accept victory against Megatron in a virtual reality video game battle.

As stated earlier, Optimus Prime’s consciousness was saved and stored on a floppy disk later to be used to “resurrect” Optimus into the real world by the scientist, Hi-Q.

Here’s the thing, it’s very likely despite all appearances that duplicate copies of the Optimus Prime floppy disk were made.

Same consciousness, several backup copies intended as part of an elaborate contingency plan to make sure that Earth would have Optimus Prime to defend it when all other options were exhausted.

As time went on the war between the Autobots and Decepticons left Earth entirely, and their battles were relegated to the stuff of legends. The humans began to move beyond Earth establishing their own colonies. And the rest is Universal Century history.

However, there is a chunk of history missing between MOBILE SUIT VICTORY GUNDAM and GAIA GEAR. And it is during this missing period of time that I think Optimus Prime (or at least one of his copies) appears in the Universal Century.

Using parts from the Victory Gundam Hexa, the GP03 “Dendrobium Stamen” Gundam, and the backpack and beam rifle of the RX-78-2 Gundam I was able to visualize and construct what this version of Optimus Prime, now as a Mobile Suit, would have looked like years after the events of MOBILE SUIT VICTORY GUNDAM.

It was this version of Optimus Prime that I used as my primary Gunpla (Gundam plastic model) in the Mobile App game, GUNDAM BATTLE: GUNPLA WARFARE (a.k.a. GUNDAM BREAKER MOBILE).

And much like his Powermaster mode, this Optimus Prime needed a copilot similar to Ginrai (who I have theorized as being one of Optimus Prime’s duplicates despite Ginrai’s contrived origin).

Who that copilot would have been is a matter of speculation.

It’s possible that this copilot was a descendant of Shiro Amada or Yuu Kajima, or perhaps both.

What is possible is that this incarnation of Optimus Prime would have a profound effect on the lost period in the Universal Century.

How profound is yet to be uncovered….

Stay tuned.

External links

https://garrettluc.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/is-it-possible-that-the-transformers-and-mobile-suit-gundam-take-place-in-the-same-universe/

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Afterdeath!

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ginrai_(robot)

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ginrai_(human)

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hi-Q

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Powermaster

https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Shiro_Amada

https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Yuu_Kajima

THE IRON GIANT: OF ALIEN DESIGN OR HUMAN INGENUITY?

Before I submit this new entry, I would like to thank those of you who have stuck around with me despite my erratic posting between long periods of time.

It is much appreciated.

Life gets in the way a lot of the time. I just have to manage my time a lot better to get out these entries.

So thank you for your patience.

Alright. Here we go.

For a number of years I have suspected that the Fleischer Studios SUPERMAN serials, SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW, THE DAY THE WORLD STOOD STILL, IRON GIANT, and BIG HERO 6 were set in the same universe. But at different times in that universe’s history.

Please hear me out for a moment.

I submit that the technology used to create Iron Giant goes as far back as SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW and the Fleischer Studios’ Superman serial, “The Mechanical Monsters”.

In “The Mechanical Monsters” serial, Superman is battling giant robots programmed to rob banks and jewelry stores and bring them back to their “inventor”.

There is a reason why I put quotation marks around the word inventor.

It’s because I think that the main villain of that serial was a robotics operator, and not the inventor of the robots used in that serial.

However, he might have been an expelled former member of an ultra secret group of scientists known as “Unit 11” founded by Dr. Totenkopf during the First World War who were hellbent on saving humanity from itself.

Even if that meant building space arks to take the best and brightest away from Earth to preserve human civilization on other worlds, leaving everyone else on Earth to suffer and die (SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW).

Or perhaps they were the ones who created a highly advanced space ship and a giant “alien” robot to scare the world governments into engaging in peace talks (THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL).

Or possibly they were responsible for building a platoon of giant robots to be “alien invaders” to coerce humanity into uniting to defend the planet (IRON GIANT).

I don’t for a moment believe that THE DAY THE WORLD STOOD STILL was an alien flick. More than likely it was a film about a representative of that super secret scientific organization dictating their terms using highly advanced technology constructed from parts made in remote locations across the world. Perhaps as remote and as weird as the Bermuda Triangle.

Moreover, seeing as how Dr. Totenkopf was a genius in the field of biology, genetics, and robotics, primarily when it came to raypunk era androids like his female assassin, played by Bai Ling, it wouldn’t surprise me if Totenkopf escaped death, so to speak, and reemerged as the mysterious Klaatu from THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL.

We are left to believe that after the events of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL that everything was kumbaya around the world.

It wasn’t.

Six years later, Sputnik happened. And around the same time, the events of IRON GIANT take place. The machine later dubbed Iron Giant was, in fact, an updated, much larger, and highly weaponized model of the giant robots seen in “The Mechanical Monsters” and SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW.

The difference being that the scientists were aware that regular people would perceive such advanced technology as extraterrestrial in nature, and banked on it as they launched a second incident similar to the one in 1951.

But something went wrong.

The launch and trajectory of the machine went haywire and wound up in a small town in the United States where a certain little boy and his mother lived. That little boy was Hogarth Hughes, the second cousin to one Howard Hughes. That’s right. That aviation pioneer.

Well we all know how IRON GIANT ended. What we don’t know is what became of Hogarth.

Well, Hogarth grew up and went west to become a robotics engineer, and amateur ham radio operator. He got married and had two daughters. Many years later, one of his daughters married a young Japanese man with the last name of Hamada, and the rest you can figure out for yourself.

I suspect that the older brother to young Hiro Hamada from BIG HERO 6, named Tadashi Hamada, as well as Professor Robert Callaghan, Dean of Advanced Robotics at the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology, were involved in the arson that claimed to have killed Tadashi.

I find a lot wrong with the tragic result of this incident.

The question to ask above all is: where are the burnt remains of Tadashi Hamada? There were no remains recovered for the audience to see. Only a memorial service in the rain.

Therefore, I am left to believe that Tadashi survived the fire on campus that tragic evening, and is in hiding. Probably, as a member of the 21st century incarnation of “Unit 11”.

When Tadashi Hamada will resurface, is anyone’s guess.

Taking another look at the Strange Case of Doc Dare

Originally, I had believed that the Pulp adventuress known as Doc Dare was in fact two women: Bernice Reinstein/Joanna Dare from THE SHADOW AND DOC SAVAGE: THE CASE OF THE SHRIEKING SKELETONS (Dark Horse Comics) and DOC DARE (Eros Comics), and Patricia Clarke Lupin Wildman, the daughter of a certain Bronze-skinned Pulp hero of the 1930s and 1940s, whose exploits were told in “THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE” by Philip Jose Farmer and Win Scott Eckert, and “THE SCARLET JAGUAR” by Win Scott Eckert (Meteor House Press).

https://garrettluc.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/doc-dare-one-part-bernice-bernie-reinstein-alias-joanna-dare-and-another-part-patricia-clarke-wildman/

But I was mistaken.

I have since removed Patricia Wildman from that theory, however, there is still a connection to Doc Savage, but in a very different way.

Doc Dare is solely Bernice Reinstein, alias Joanna Dare, and she came about her rare condition due to her connection to a man who would inspire the tales of the Man of Steel, who himself was the grandson of a man who would become known as the greatest changeling in all of literary fiction.

Dr. Bernice Reinstein, later given the alias “Joanna Dare,” was an accomplished chemist, trained by her adoptive father, Dr. Josef Reinstein, the creator of the Super-Soldier Serum that later transformed Steven Grant Rogers into the American symbol of liberty, Captain America, in CAPTAIN AMERICA #1: “Meet Captain America” (1941) told by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.

Bernice’s biological father was Hugo Danner, an extraordinary man whose life was chronicled by Philip Wylie in his novel, “GLADIATOR”.

Hugo Danner, by way of his own father, Abednego, was the grandson of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll, who, due to a peculiar formula, was able to transform into the uncanny Mr. Edward Hyde.

His story was chronicled by Robert Louis Stevenson in “THE STRANGE CASE OF DOCTOR JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE”.

The reason why Bernice/Joanna became Doc Dare remains the same as what I relayed in my earlier entry.

She was fixated, transfixed, subconsciously and consciously, by the Man of Bronze.

And that fixation transformed her in her most dire need into a certain “Woman of Bronze”.

The nature of the formula she injested has yet to be uncovered, and any samples of that formula were destroyed, along with the room Bernice was in, when Agent D, of the Nazi Gestapo, rigged the room to explode with Bernice tied up, and left for dead.

Thankfully, due to her ancestry, and quick thinking, she swallowed the formula, she survived the explosion, and she literally became a brand new woman.

What became of Bernice Reinstein/Joanna Dare after the end of the Second World War has yet to be told.

Only time will tell if or when that story will be revealed to the public.

Sources:

http://heroheroinehistory.blogspot.com/2012/10/reading-room-doc-savage-shadow-case-of.html?m=1

http://crimeandpunishmentcomics.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-shadow-doc-savage-case-of-shrieking.html?m=1

http://crimeandpunishmentcomics.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-shadow-doc-savage-case-of-shrieking_17.html?m=1

http://heroheroinehistory.blogspot.com/2012/10/reading-room-doc-savage-shadow-case-of_18.html?m=1

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Captain_America_Comics_Vol_1_1

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/doctor-dare/4005-18955/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42914/42914-h/42914-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42/pg42-images.html

http://meteorhousepress.com/the-evil-in-pemberley-house/

http://meteorhousepress.com/the-scarlet-jaguar/

The Punisher: Son of The Black Terror of Nedor Comics!?!

After looking at the biographies of Frank Castle (The Punisher) and Bob Benton (The Black Terror) an interesting connection presented itself to me: There’s a possibility that The Punisher (Frank Castle/Francis Castiglione) might be the biological son of pharmacist Robert “Bob” Benton, a.k.a. The Black Terror, and that Frank was conceived in a moment of passion between Benton and Mrs. Castiglione prior to America’s entry into the Second World War.

Furthermore, it’s possible that Frank was born with Benton’s “formic ethers” in his DNA that made him an above average athelete, and an excellent United States Marine during the Vietnam War.

It’s also possible that Frank eventually found out that Benton was his biological father.

And perhaps this revelation inspired him to create a similar costume to hunt down those affiliated with organized crime after the murder of his wife and children by mobsters in Central Park.

External links:

http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Terror_(Nedor)

http://marvel.com/universe/Punisher_(Frank_Castle)#axzz54lmFlBxn

The second life of Dan Briggs: From MISSION IMPOSSIBLE to ALIAS

After watching all of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE Season One, and Seasons One thru Five of ALIAS, a peculiar thought crossed my mind.

What if Dan Briggs and Jack Bristow were the same man?

Looking at the evidence, it’s highly probable.

Perhaps the reason why Dan Briggs, the first team leader of the Impossible Missions Force, didn’t return in the second season of MISSION IMPOSSIBLE is because he later went under the alias Jonathan Donahue “Jack” Bristow and was reassigned to another division within the Central Intelligence Agency. Probably as part of a long term covert operation.

And as Jack Bristow, Briggs was perhaps a founding member of the Alliance of Twelve in 1991 (perhaps an outgrowth of SPECTRE).

Moreover, as Bristow, Briggs and Arvin Sloane would later form the clandestine “CIA” secret division, SD-6, for the Alliance of Twelve, that was introduced in the first season of ALIAS.

Furthermore, Bristow and Sloane were perhaps the unnamed points of contact for the former Impossible Missions Force team leader, Jim Phelps, portrayed by John Voight, in the 1996 Mission Impossible film.

And its very possible that the NOC List Phelps was employed to steal was meant for the Alliance of Twelve to keep tabs of all known off-the’books agents and assets who could be manipulated into working for them and their version of the CIA.

Irina Dereveko, Jack’s estranged wife, and the mother of their daughter, Sydney Anne Bristow, was perhaps one of several Black Widows employed by the Soviet Union back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. And as well as being a graduate of their Red Room, Irina was possibly one of its noted instructors.

External links:

http://missionimpossible.wikia.com/wiki/Dan_Briggs

http://alias.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Bristow

http://alias.wikia.com/wiki/Irina_Derevko

How to integrate the X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, if or when, the Disney/Fox deal gets approved

This entry is a bit of a divergence from my usual posts, but I figure that I might as well chime in on the apparent impending Disney acquisition of 21st Century Fox and what that might mean for the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole. 

In particular, this entry is my personal idea as to how to integrate the X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe that will make the transition seamless.

With the prospect of Disney buying 21st Century Fox becoming a possibility, and the inclusion of the Fantastic Four and X-Men, as well as ancillary characters associated with those teams, more than likely coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it would be interesting if Marvel Studios held off on introducing the X-Men until the tail end of Phase 4, and make the Fantastic Four the driving force behind Phase 4 of the MCU. The X-Men should figure prominently in Phase 5 of the MCU.

And ever since 2013, I have had an idea as to how to include them. 

So here goes…. 

My pitch:

Professor Charles Xavier was the Program Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Paranormal Superhuman Intelligence (PSI) Division between 1991 to 2000. He was the first S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to figure out that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.. However, being distrustful of S.H.I.E.L.D. having anyone not loyal to Hydra, he initiated a systematic mind wipe of all S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra personnel on a global level, and erases the existence of PSI Division from memory, including all computer mainframes and backup storage units. He then re-allocates all PSI Division training grounds, equipment, and resources, and this material is used to form the foundation of the Xavier Institute.

Knowing that Hydra runs the world from behind the scenes, Xavier creates the Underground Network as his counterintelligence unit to counter Hydra, Leviathan, and Advanced Ideas Mechanics.

And he initiates the Xavier Protocols that gives birth to the X-Men initiative.

And my choice to play Professor X is Colm Feore, the actor who played Lord Marshal from THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK.

The inspiration for this idea came from STRANGE TALES #141 (“OPERATION: BRAIN BLAST”) (February 1966).

Soon after reading this issue, I began to think that maybe Tony Stark wasn’t the only secret backer of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Perhaps Charles Xavier had a hand in the formation of S.H.I.E.L.D. as well. 

Furthermore, it’s possible that Xavier was the founder and first Program Director of the original ESP (PSI) Division before the Program Director that Nick Fury encountered, named Niles Nordstrom, in this issue, and the following issue #142. 

Perhaps Mentallo wasn’t the only mutant telepath employed by S.H.I.E.L.D. 

Perhaps Mentallo was recruited by Xavier himself before Xavier disappeared from S.H.I.E.L.D. records until the debut of the X-Men in UNCANNY X-MEN #1 (September 1963). 

This is all speculation on my part. 

I could be mistaken. 

Nevertheless, it wouldn’t be that big of a retcon if Professor X helped in the formation of S.H.I.E.L.D. back in the early days. 

Morever, he might have distanced himself once he was alerted to the truth behind its formation. 

The same truth revealed to my proposed incarnation of the character.

Are the Dark Spark and Dark Energon from TRANSFORMERS PRIME, and Quintessence from VOLTRON LEGENDARY DEFENDER the same substance?

This week I have been watching TRANSFORMERS PRIME, a computer animated television series taking elements from Michael Bay’s TRANSFORMERS film franchise, and four episodes in, I find that I like it a lot. And as I usually do, I found a possible connection to another beloved animated series I have been watching: VOLTRON LEGENDARY DEFENDER. 

The connection comes in the form of two artifacts called the Dark Spark and the Dark Energon who apparently shares certain similarities to another rare substance in another universe from days of long ago where a legend resides. 

And that unique subtstance is known as Quintessence.

I will leave these three wikia links, and you can decide for yourself. 

Take care. 

Dark Spark:

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dark_Spark

Dark Energon: 

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dark_Energon

Quintessence:

http://voltron.wikia.com/wiki/Quintessence

Was AMERICAN NINJA (1985) a G.I. JOE movie in disguise?

Things that make you go hmmm…. 🤔

Was AMERICAN NINJA a repackaged G.I. JOE: SNAKE EYES movie featuring Snake Eyes, Stalker, and Storm Shadow under assumed identities?

American Ninja (1985) – Trailer – https://youtu.be/YPylYYIanQg

Is it possible that THE TRANSFORMERS and MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM take place in the same universe?

I am seriously beginning to think that THE TRANSFORMERS (GENERATION 1) and the original MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM series take place in the same universe, but at different times in that universe’s history. 

Perhaps the war on Earth, and Cybertron, between the Autobots and Decepticons, led to expansion of the Earth Federation, created a year prior to the events in the MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE miniseries.

And the founding of the first human space colony taking place some 40 years after the events of THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE. 

I could be wrong, but it’s possible that I am not.

Links:

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Generation_1_cartoon_timeline

http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Universal_Century

What connects Solomon Kane and Kent Allard, a.k.a. The Shadow?

Yesterday, as I watched SOLOMON KANE on Amazon Instant Video, a thought crossed my mind: 

What if Solomon Kane and Kent Allard are the same spirit of vengeance that comes around every so often to deal justice in their own way throughout the ages? 

I doubt that there is a familial relation between the two remarkable men.

However, if there were, it wouldn’t surprise me at all.

Links:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Kane

http://thelivingshadow.wikia.com/wiki/Kent_Allard_(Street_%26_Smith)