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- You may be looking for the franchise as it exists in the DWU.
Transformers is a multimedia franchise which began with a range of toys, but later expanded into many other forms of media, including films, television series, and comic books.
These comic books included a Marvel UK series, which went on to have hundreds of issues. Issues #113 - #114 printed the comic story Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!, which marked the first appearance by the "Freelance Peacekeeping Agent" known as Death's Head.
Crossovers with the DWU
The character of Death's Head would go on to become a highly-recurring part of the Marvel Multiverse when Death's Head fell through the time vortex in The Legacy of Unicron!, leading him to encounter the Seventh Doctor in the comic story The Crossroads of Time, with several further crossovers later occurring between Death's Head and the DWU.
Due to legal issues, when Death's Head's backstory was explored in The Incomplete Death's Head, events were kept quite vague so as to avoid copyright infringement. This was explained as the archive having "poor image quality".
The events of The Incomplete Death's Head suggest that the Doctor himself was the one responsible for sending Death's Head into the so-called "robot universe" in the first place, sandwiching his Transformers adventures between ones featuring the Doctor.
References to Transformers in the DWU
In the Faction Paradox novel Against Nature, Gedarra told Primo de la Vega that Yaotl was a member of Faction Paradox, leading him to remark that that information meant as little as if she was a member of the Transformers, robots in disguise.
References to the DWU in Transformers
In the comic To a Power Unknown!, Starscream flies over the English countryside, picking up transmissions involving, among other things, the Doctor.
In one instalment of the Ask Vector Prime series, Vector Prime theorises that the Doctor hails from the Omniverse and occasionally visits the Transformers multiverse. Another instalment, titled Renegade Rhetoric, claims that Re-Volt once dressed as the Doctor while attending a sci-fi convention.
In the film Bumblebee, 2 posters of the Fourth Doctor appear in Memo's room.
In the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic/Transformers crossover miniseries Friendship in Disguise,the the highly-recurring MLP background character of Doctor Hooves, a reference to the Doctor (primarily in their tenth and fourth incarnations) made an appearance in the comic story They Eat Ponies, Don't They?.
Other connections
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