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Dead End and the Fourth Wall
Oct. 27th, 2012 10:55 amDead End has read a lot of fiction and seen a lot of movies and TV. If your character comes from a TV series, movie, comic book or novel published before about 2002 that has any kind of science fiction, fantasy, or horror theme, or features lots of explosions and violent car chases, or was freely downloadable from Project Gutenberg or other sources, he's probably seen or read it and may recognize your name.
The big exceptions are Marvel non-Transformer Comics and non-Marvel Transformers comics, TV series & movies (i.e., Dreamwave, IDW, Devil's Due, TF:AEC, TF:A, TF:Prime, RiD, assorted Japanese-only series and live-action movies). He doesn't know about those because those stories did not exist in his universe, except possibly as very obscure alternate history science fiction.
Marvel Comics Transformers do not have exactly the same history as Dead End's G1 cartoon reality, but there's a lot of cross-over bits and characters that I use in head-canon to fill in the huge blanks in the G1 cartoon-verse, so he may know some erroneous information about Marvel TF characters.
Because his history is shared with the Marvel Transformers universe, which was split off from and separate from the general run of Marvel super-heroes (except for a cameo by Spiderman), Marvel super-heroes did not exist in Dead End's universe as real people. They didn't exist as fictional characters, as there are apparently no Marvel Comics in the G1 Transformers universe.
What definitely, positively does exist in Dead End's history is G.I.Joe as actual events; the G1 cartoon and the 1980s GI Joe cartoon were made by the same company and established as being the same universe. Both the Joes and Cobra are known organizations to the Decepticons. (Head-canon: Starscream copied Cobra Commander's voiceprint because he thought it sounded good)
The big exceptions are Marvel non-Transformer Comics and non-Marvel Transformers comics, TV series & movies (i.e., Dreamwave, IDW, Devil's Due, TF:AEC, TF:A, TF:Prime, RiD, assorted Japanese-only series and live-action movies). He doesn't know about those because those stories did not exist in his universe, except possibly as very obscure alternate history science fiction.
Marvel Comics Transformers do not have exactly the same history as Dead End's G1 cartoon reality, but there's a lot of cross-over bits and characters that I use in head-canon to fill in the huge blanks in the G1 cartoon-verse, so he may know some erroneous information about Marvel TF characters.
Because his history is shared with the Marvel Transformers universe, which was split off from and separate from the general run of Marvel super-heroes (except for a cameo by Spiderman), Marvel super-heroes did not exist in Dead End's universe as real people. They didn't exist as fictional characters, as there are apparently no Marvel Comics in the G1 Transformers universe.
What definitely, positively does exist in Dead End's history is G.I.Joe as actual events; the G1 cartoon and the 1980s GI Joe cartoon were made by the same company and established as being the same universe. Both the Joes and Cobra are known organizations to the Decepticons. (Head-canon: Starscream copied Cobra Commander's voiceprint because he thought it sounded good)