History ComicBook / TransformersBeastWars2021

Centuries after the end of the Great War, a small squadron of Maximals -- the Autobots' descendants -- pursue a team of Predacons -- the Decepticons' descendants -- who have stolen a spacecraft and an ancient artifact known as the Golden Disk. Both sides end up travelling through time and crashing on a mysterious world. Rebuilt by their ships into organic modes to shield them from the planet's heavy Energon radiation, an entirely new war has begun to unfold.

* AdaptationalExpansion: The theft of the Golden Disk and the Maximal's initial pursuit of the Predacons onboard their respective ships is shown here, as compared to having gone unseen in the cartoon.

* AdaptationDeviation:
** Unlike the original series, Dinobot doesn't defect from the Predacons at the very beginning and spends a few issues on their team before defecting for other reasons.
** In the original cartoon the first protoform to join the Maximals was Tigatron. In this new version however, it's fan-favorite Razorbeast from the original IDW Beast Wars comics.
** Notably, the Maximal CR chambers in this continuity don't appear to be as effective as they were in the show, leading to Dinobot having a GameBreakingInjury as a result of suffering a Predacon NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. In the TV series, the CR chambers the Maximals had were capable of healing nearly all grievous injuries provided a Maximal doesn't override stasis lock and leave them as good as new.

** Nyx's bat mode is based on Optimus Primal's first toy.[[note]]Long story short, his first toy turned into a bat, but at the time, he was intended to be Optimus Prime himself in a new body with a new name, but then the cartoon happened, and it was forgotten about.[[/note]] Similarly, Skold is loosely based off Snapper, a Predacon snapping turtle from the original toyline, possibly along with Megatron's first toy with a crocodile mode.

** Nyx's bat mode is based on Optimus Primal's first toy.[[note]]Long story short, his first toy turned into a bat, but at the time, he was intended to be Optimus Prime himself in a new body with a new name, but then the cartoon happened, and it was forgotten about.[[/note]] Similarly, Skold is loosely based off Snapper, a Predacon snapping turtle from the original toyline.

Due to IDW's pending loss of the Transformers license, the series was cut short, coming to a rushed conclusion after 17 issues and an annual.

Centuries after the end of the Great War, a small squadron of Maximals -- the Autobots' descendants -- pursue a team of Predacons -- the Decepticons' descendants -- who have stolen a spacecraft and an ancient artifact known as the Golden Disk. Both sides end up travelling through time and crashing on a mysterious world. Rebuilt by their ships into organic modes to shield them from the planet's heavy Energon radiation, an entirely new war has begins to unfold.

* PragmaticVillainy: Megatron refuses to let the Predacons leave the remains of the ''Darksyde'' while he's focused on decrypting the Golden Disk. When Scorponok tries to offer his help and mentions the rest of the team is getting bored being stuffed up in the ship, Megatron harshly reminds him they're on an entirely new world with no idea of what defenses the planet or the Maximals have.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In #12, [[spoiler:Optimus is attacked by Polar Claw, who in the toyline was a Maximal and therefore on Optimus's side, although Polar Claw's words suggest he is pursuing an agenda beyond the Maximals and Predacons' conflict]].

** Unlike the original series, Dinobot doesn't defect from the Predacons at the very beginning and is still working with them.

** Notably, the Maximal CR chambers in this continuity don't appear to be as effective as they were in the show, leading to Dinobot having a GameBreakingInjury as a result of a Predacon NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on him. In the TV series, the CR chambers the Maximals had were capable of healing nearly all grievous injuries provided a Maximal doesn't override stasis lock and leave them as good as new.

* DiscontinuityNod: A potentially ''accidental'' one occurred in the form of [[Anime/{{BeastWarsNeo}} Razorback's]] ability to disguise himself with illusions, which was likely a reference to his magical abilities in his source material. The only problem is he ''didn't have'' magical abilities and the widespread fandom conception that he did was due to a combination of mistranslations and a good deal of ''Beast Wars Neo'' and ''Anime/BeastWarsII'' being misrepresented on [=TFwiki=]. His article on the site [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Saberback#Saberback_and_magic even goes into detail about the misconception.]]

* DudeNotFunny: Issue 7 has Rattrap commenting on Tarantulas reputation as "a real backstabber" during Dinobot's report on his former teammates. At this time Dinobot was still [[spoiler:partially crippled from Tarantulas literally stabbing him through the back]]. Rattrap quickly notices the (offscreen) reaction from his team.