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69-602: Grimlock is the name of several fictional robot characters in the Transformers robot franchise. He is usually portrayed as the leader of the Dinobots , which are a subfaction of Autobots who can transform into metal dinosaurs. Grimlock is known for his dialogue being spoken in the third person . He appeared on screen along with other Dinobots in the fourth installment of the Transformers film series. Grimlock
138-588: A USA Today online fan poll, Grimlock was one of the 10 Transformers that the fans wanted in the sequel, tied for second with 16% of the votes. Later reports revealed that Grimlock and other Dinobots would be featured in the fourth film, with images surfacing of Optimus Prime riding Grimlock into battle in Hong Kong . In Transformers: Age of Extinction , Grimlock and the Dinobots are captured by Lockdown as trophies, referred to as legendary knights. After
207-760: A 1990 series of short stories about the Vietnam War . Fictional works that explicitly involve supernatural, magical, or scientifically impossible elements are often classified under the genre of fantasy , including Lewis Carroll 's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings , and J. K. Rowling 's Harry Potter series. Creators of fantasy sometimes introduce imaginary creatures and beings such as dragons and fairies. Types of written fiction in prose are distinguished by relative length and include: Fiction writing
276-620: A baby dinosaur, also appears in The Last Knight as one of the Autobots in Cade's junkyard. It gains Grimlock's fire breath, which it uses in Cade's trailer. Mini-Grimlock is seen snuggling with Izabella and around the other Autobots. The Sector 7 viral marketing web site featured several videos recording supposed evidence of Transformers on Earth. These featured cameos by Generation 1 Transformers, including scenes of Grimlock destroying
345-607: A biography printed in the Beast Wars Sourcebook by IDW Publishing . Grimlock also features briefly in the comic story "Dawn of the Predacus," in which his exposure to transmatter turns him into a protoform, heralding his eventual role in Beast Wars fiction. As he is placed in a stasis pod, he is looked upon by Predacon-and future Maximal-Dinobot, possibly indicating where the warrior took his future name. In
414-404: A certain point of view. The distinction between the two may be best defined from the viewpoint of the audience, according to whom a work is non-fiction if its people, settings, and plot are perceived entirely as historically or factually real, while a work is regarded as fiction if it deviates from reality in any of those areas. The distinction is further obscured by a philosophical understanding, on
483-664: A commercial art studio and a small press comic-book publisher. The company soon shifted its focus to comic books, becoming one of the top ten publishers in North America. In 2004 Pat Broderick revived Micronauts at Devil's Due, although the title was cancelled after ten issues. DDP produced an American comic book version of Vampire Hunter D . It was written by Jimmy Palmiotti and titled American Wasteland . Devil's Due also republished Je suis légion by Fabien Nury [ fr ] and John Cassaday as an eight-issue miniseries, I Am Legion , as part of
552-447: A completely imaginary way or been followed by major new events that are completely imaginary (the genre of alternative history ). Or, it depicts impossible technology or technology that defies current scientific understandings or capabilities (the genre of science fiction ). Contrarily, realistic fiction involves a story whose basic setting (time and location in the world) is, in fact, real and whose events could believably happen in
621-613: A construction site, as well as scenes of Kickback and Laserbeak being video taped by people accidentally, and a security video showing bits of a robot looking a lot like Generation 1 Bumblebee transforming in a parking garage. Grimlock's Age of Extinction incarnation is a playable character in Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark . In the earth story, he helps out Optimus, Bumblebee, and Drift destroy Lockdown's mercenary grunts and only makes growling and roar sounds in
690-446: A feral look. His beast mode now looks more like how an actual Tyrannosaurus is thought to look and his roar sounds much like the T. rex' s roar from Jurassic Park . Fiction Fiction is any creative work , chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals , events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history , fact , or plausibility. In
759-475: A figure from history, Bonnie Prince Charlie , and takes part in the Battle of Prestonpans . Some works of fiction are slightly or greatly re-imagined based on some originally true story, or a reconstructed biography. Often, even when the fictional story is based on fact, there may be additions and subtractions from the true story to make it more interesting. An example is Tim O'Brien 's The Things They Carried ,
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#1732783211514828-515: A government agency that knew about Transformers, took over the site. Later, following escalating Transformer activity on Earth (as seen in The Transformers: Devastation ) and losing control of their other captive Transformers Ravage and Laserbeak , Skywatch reactivated Grimlock as a response. Following their acquisition of the Transformers licence in 2005, IDW Publishing released a comic book series that takes place during
897-532: A larger deal to reprint work with Humanoids Publishing , including titles like The Zombies That Ate The World . Devil's Due restructured itself in December 2008, including changes in editors, marketing managers, and a new CEO. In 2009, Devil's Due was accused of not paying several creative teams. In an article on the website Bleeding Cool , Rich Johnston wrote to the company's CEO, Joshua Blaylock, and reported that only Tim Seeley had gone unpaid. DDP
966-700: A major impact on the creation and distribution of fiction, calling into question the feasibility of copyright as a means to ensure royalties are paid to copyright holders. Also, digital libraries such as Project Gutenberg make public domain texts more readily available. The combination of inexpensive home computers, the Internet, and the creativity of its users has also led to new forms of fiction, such as interactive computer games or computer-generated comics. Countless forums for fan fiction can be found online, where loyal followers of specific fictional realms create and distribute derivative stories. The Internet
1035-739: A member of the Maximal-Predacon resistance movement instigated by Lio Convoy . In a flashback in Maximum Dinobots #1 Grimlock leads the Dinobots in taking a Decepticon energon silo in Sub-Sector Nine on Cybertron. In the Transformers Spotlight issue on Shockwave, Grimlock and the 'Dinobots' (sporting Cybertronian designs much like their War Within designs) appear in a story that partially pays homage to their Marvel G1 origin. Following this, Skywatch,
1104-593: A motorcycle. Japanese : The first completely different character to bear the name of Grimlock was one inhabiting the alternate universe of the 2001 Transformers toyline, Transformers: Robots in Disguise . Grimlock first appeared in episode #18, "Wedge's Short Fuse," and last appeared in episode #38, "The Final Battle Part 2". Robots in Disguise Grimlock (in Walmart yellow repaint colors) appeared in
1173-464: A powerful, cunning warrior who values strength of body and character. Through Transformers: The War Within , the company shaped a background on Cybertron for Grimlock, which showed that he had participated in the planet's underground gladiatorial game in order to unleash the rage and anger he had always overflowed with. Dreamwave's closure meant that they would tell no further stories of their Grimlock, although his "War Within"-era design did appear in
1242-570: A subset (written fiction that aligns to a particular genre ), or its opposite: an evaluative label for written fiction that comprises popular culture , as artistically or intellectually inferior to high culture . Regardless, fiction is commonly broken down into a variety of genres: categories of fiction, each differentiated by a particular unifying tone or style ; set of narrative techniques , archetypes , or other tropes; media content ; or other popularly defined criterion. Science fiction predicts or supposes technologies that are not realities at
1311-430: A traditional narrow sense, "fiction" refers to written narratives in prose – often referring specifically to novels , novellas , and short stories . More broadly, however, fiction encompasses imaginary narratives expressed in any medium , including not just writings but also live theatrical performances , films , television programs , radio dramas , comics , role-playing games , and video games . Typically,
1380-501: A university or a similar institution, and with the continuation of such positions determined not by book sales but by critical acclaim by other established literary authors and critics. On the other hand, he suggests, genre fiction writers tend to support themselves by book sales. However, in an interview, John Updike lamented that "the category of 'literary fiction' has sprung up recently to torment people like me who just set out to write books, and if anybody wanted to read them, terrific,
1449-434: A written work of fiction that: Literary fiction is often used as a synonym for literature , in the narrow sense of writings specifically considered to be an art form. While literary fiction is sometimes regarded as superior to genre fiction, the two are not mutually exclusive, and major literary figures have employed the genres of science fiction, crime fiction , romance , etc., to create works of literature. Furthermore,
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#17327832115141518-527: Is a notable disparity in Grimlock's speech patterns between the second and third series. In the second series, he is seen to speak normally, referring to himself as "I.". However, in the third series he speaks in his more normal "Me Grimlock" speech. The 21st century re-imagining of the original universe by Dreamwave Productions depicted Grimlock in a manner similar to his depiction in Marvel Comics:
1587-508: Is a part of media studies. Examples of prominent fictionalization in the creative arts include those in the general context of World War II in popular culture and specifically Nazi German leaders such as Adolf Hitler in popular culture and Reinhard Heydrich in popular culture . For instance, American actor and comedian Charlie Chaplin portrayed the eccentric despot Adenoid Hynkel in the 1940 satirical film The Great Dictator . The unhinged, unintelligent figure fictionalized real events from
1656-602: Is able to breathe fire and shoot an energy ray from his mouth. He has no significant weaknesses, except for a relatively slow top speed and arrogance. Grimlock was ranked by IGN as one of their favorite Autobots. According to X-Entertainment, Grimlock was the 2nd best Transformers figure of all time. One of the original Grimlock toys was on display in the Natural History Museum, London . It has since been removed. The original character profiles written by Bob Budiansky and Dan Bobro indicate that Grimlock and
1725-446: Is also used for the development of blog fiction , where a story is delivered through a blog either as flash fiction or serial blog, and collaborative fiction , where a story is written sequentially by different authors, or the entire text can be revised by anyone using a wiki . The definition of literary fiction is controversial. It may refer to any work of fiction in a written form. However, various other definitions exist, including
1794-776: Is best known for its wide selection of genres, including licensed and original creator-owned properties which populate its monthly comic book series and graphic novels. Though principally a publishing company, DDP has also produced a stage play based on the Hack/Slash comic series, Stagefright , in conjunction with the New Millennium Theatre Company that played at the National Pastime Theater in Chicago from September 23 to October 29, 2005. In 1998 Devil's Due Publishing started as both
1863-439: Is characterized by a lesser degree of adherence to realistic or plausible individuals, events, or places, while the umbrella genre of realistic fiction is characterized by a greater degree. For instance, speculative fiction may depict an entirely imaginary universe or one in which the laws of nature do not strictly apply (often, the sub-genre of fantasy ). Or, it depicts true historical moments, except that they have concluded in
1932-496: Is known as fictionalization . The opposite circumstance, in which the physical world or a real turn of events seem influenced by past fiction, is commonly described by the phrase " life imitating art ". The latter phrase is popularity associated with the Anglo-Irish fiction writer Oscar Wilde . The alteration of actual happenings into a fictional format, with this involving a dramatic representation of real events or people,
2001-446: Is known as both fictionalization , or, more narrowly for visual performance works like in theatre and film, dramatization . According to the academic publication Oxford Reference , a work set up this way will have a "narrative based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction" such that "[f]ilms and broadcast dramas of this kind often bear the label 'based on a true story'." In intellectual research, evaluating this process
2070-492: Is most long-established in the realm of literature (written narrative fiction), the broad study of the nature, function, and meaning of fiction is called literary theory , and the narrower interpretation of specific fictional texts is called literary criticism (with subsets like film criticism and theatre criticism also now long-established). Aside from real-world connections, some fictional works may depict characters and events within their own context, entirely separate from
2139-427: Is often described as "elegantly written, lyrical, and ... layered". The tone of literary fiction can be darker than genre fiction, while the pacing of literary fiction may be slower than popular fiction. As Terrence Rafferty notes, "literary fiction, by its nature, allows itself to dawdle, to linger on stray beauties even at the risk of losing its way". Based on how literary fiction is defined, genre fiction may be
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2208-404: Is one of those he displays to the Autobots. He is identified as a Decepticon. Grimlock also appeared in several of the G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers series from Devil's Due Publishing . Grimlock returned in the third series as a main character. Grimlock, Arcee, Bumblebee, and Perceptor were sent to Earth to aid G.I. Joe in removing the influence of cybertronian technology on the planet. There
2277-456: Is represented in Hollywood by Alter Ego Entertainment and Prime Universe, who share a first-look deal with the publisher for film, television and video games. Currently the three parties are in discussion with numerous studios about expanding Devil's Due properties into other media. In 2010, DDP and Checker Book Publishing Group (owned and operated by Mark Thompson) opened Devil's Due Digital;
2346-597: Is the leader of the Dinobots . Grimlock can be merciless and contemptuous of those he considers beneath him, such as human beings and, at times his fellow Autobots . The character's initial sense of superiority was changed by the relationships he formed with Spike and Wheelie, as he got to know them on a personal level and started to see them as equals. Grimlock is among the strongest of the Transformers, possibly equal to or even superior to Optimus Prime and Megatron in most continuities. In Tyrannosaurus rex mode, his jaws can snap virtually anything that comes between them. He
2415-407: Is the process by which an author or creator produces a fictional work. Some elements of the writing process may be planned in advance, while others may come about spontaneously. Fiction writers use different writing styles and have distinct writers' voices when writing fictional stories. The use of real events or real individuals as direct inspiration for imaginary events or imaginary individuals
2484-515: The Beast Wars animated series but features the toys and characters who did not appear in the show itself. The Beast Wars incarnation of Grimlock appeared as a gigantic white Velociraptor -type dinosaur, and it was revealed that Grimlock was among those in protoform stasis on the Axalon and, like the others was launched into space in the series pilot. He appears among the Maximals on the cover of
2553-539: The TFcon 2008 voice play "Primitive Recall." The Classic line appeared in a simple Flash -based video game on the Hasbro web site called Transformers Battle Circuit . In this one-on-one fighting game, you press the right and left arrow keys to try to overpower your opponent. In the game, you can play Rodimus, Bumblebee, Grimlock, Jetfire, Starscream, Astrotrain, Trypticon or Menasor. Optimus Prime and Megatron each appear as
2622-698: The Transformers: Universe comic book exclusive to BotCon . Grimlock also appeared in the Dreamwave Transformers/G.I. Joe comic. Although not one of the Dinobots in this continuity, transforming into a Sherman Tank, this Grimlock shared the rebellious attitude and speech mannerisms of other incarnations of the G1 character, although he had a softer attitude towards humans. Based on the Transformers Classic toy line,
2691-539: The boss you must defeat to win the game. Grimlock is featured in the webcomic Twisted Kaiju Theater . Grimlock appears as a play on the word gridlock in the popular webcomic Least I Could Do . Grimlock is portrayed as Hal the Boomerang Bird in Angry Birds Transformers . This version is not a humanoid who can change into a Tyrannosaurus, but rather a Tyrannosaurus who can change into
2760-422: The human condition . In general, it focuses on "introspective, in-depth character studies" of "interesting, complex and developed" characters. This contrasts with genre fiction where plot is the central concern. Usually in literary fiction the focus is on the "inner story" of the characters who drive the plot, with detailed motivations to elicit "emotional involvement" in the reader. The style of literary fiction
2829-521: The 18th and 19th centuries. They were often associated with Enlightenment ideas such as empiricism and agnosticism . Realism developed as a literary style at this time. New forms of mass media developed in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, including popular-fiction magazines and early film. Interactive fiction was developed in the late-20th century through video games. Certain basic elements define all works of narrative , including all works of narrative fiction. Namely, all narratives include
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2898-752: The 1986 story and coloring book The Lost Treasure of Cybertron by Marvel Books. Grimlock was featured in the 1993 Transformers: Generation 2 coloring book " Decepticon Madness " by Bud Simpson. Both Grimlock and his Transformers: Robots in Disguise counterpart appeared in the storyline. The Autobots returning to Cybertron, along with Blackarachnia and Silverbolt were then abducted via teleportation beams and taken to Unicron. Tap-Out, Transformers: Armada Megatron , Brawn , War Within Grimlock and Snarl were also abducted from various timelines (Transformers: Universe #1). Within Grimlock, Armada Megatron and Universe Optimus Primal are each transported to
2967-581: The 2004 BotCon voice actor play. Another alternate-universe incarnation of Grimlock entered the fray in the Transformers: Energon line. Grimlock's toy, packaged with the similarly redesigned Swoop, was a modern updating of his original figure. It comes as no surprise that longtime Grimlock fan Simon Furman intended to feature the characters in Dreamwave's Energon comic book, but the company's closure prevented this. Grimlock appeared in
3036-487: The Autobots escape with the part of the ship holding them, Optimus releases the Dinobots for backup and engages in a battle for dominance with Grimlock which Optimus wins. Grimlock returned in Transformers: The Last Knight . Grimlock is among the Autobots taking sanctuary at Cade Yeager's junkyard. He has taken up the personality of a dog, often eating the local police chief's car. Mini-Grimlock,
3105-550: The Dinobots were intended to come from Cybertron to Earth like most of the other Transformers. However, the cartoon would disregard this entirely. After the animated series ended in the US Grimlock appeared in animated form one last time in the commercial for the Classic Pretenders. Grimlock was featured in the 1985 Find Your Fate Junior book called Dinobots Strike Back by Casey Todd. Grimlock appeared in
3174-709: The Japanese manga "Big War" #2, the Autobots Rodimus Prime , Grimlock, Kup, and Wheelie , along with their human allies Spike Witwicky and Daniel Witwicky send Computron into battle against Galvatron 's new warrior combiner Abominus . The Terrorcons spit "corrosive control liquid" against Computron, taking control of him and turning him into a Decepticon. Spike luckily uses his new Exosuit to free Computron with "defense spray". Defeated, Galvatron retreats. Since Marvel Comics ' Transformers series were primarily written by Bob Budiansky in its early years,
3243-543: The Sky Scorcher Mini-Con Team. Grimlock and Swoop were sent to stop an attack by Predacon on the ship. Producer Tom DeSanto has stated that he had an idea on how to include the Dinobots and Constructicons in a possible sequel, although director Michael Bay has confirmed that they will not be. However, the Constructicons and their combined form, Devastator, do appear in the 2009 movie. In
3312-739: The Timelines 2007 story is set 15 years after the end of the Marvel Comics story (ignoring all events of the Marvel UK and Generation 2 comics). Grimlock appears in "Beast Wars Shattered Glass, Chapter One: Shattered Time" by Fun Publications . Kup told the Dinobots and Rodimus the story of how he became a member of the Autobot Elite Guard. Grimlock was also featured in the Beast Wars: Uprising storyline as
3381-615: The Unicron world, where they eventually team up and fight Striker and Reptilion . Note: There is a small continuity error in that this story ends with Grimlock, Megatron and Primal standing over Reptilion, but issue #2 of the comic starts with them standing over Striker (2003 Botcon Voice Actor Play). After the events of the Botcon 2003 voice actor play, Optimus Primal is able to use his spark telepathy to free Striker from Unicron's influence. Optimus Primal, Megatron, and Grimlock help break free
3450-604: The audience's willing suspension of disbelief . The effects of experiencing fiction, and the way the audience is changed by the new information they discover, has been studied for centuries. Also, infinite fictional possibilities themselves signal the impossibility of fully knowing reality, provocatively demonstrating philosophical notions, such as there potentially being no criterion to measure constructs of reality. In contrast to fiction, creators of non-fiction assume responsibility for presenting information (and sometimes opinion) based only in historical and factual reality. Despite
3519-415: The audience, including elements such as romance , piracy , and religious ceremonies . Heroic romance was developed in medieval Europe , incorporating elements associated with fantasy , including supernatural elements and chivalry . The structure of the modern novel was developed by Miguel de Cervantes with Don Quixote in the early-17th century. The novel became a primary medium of fiction in
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#17327832115143588-581: The context of the real world. One realistic fiction sub-genre is historical fiction , centered around true major events and time periods in the past. The attempt to make stories feel faithful to reality or to more objectively describe details, and the 19th-century artistic movement that began to vigorously promote this approach, is called literary realism , which incorporates some works of both fiction and non-fiction. Storytelling has existed in all human cultures, and each culture incorporates different elements of truth and fiction into storytelling. Early fiction
3657-442: The elements of character , conflict , narrative mode , plot , setting , and theme . Characters are individuals inside a work of story, conflicts are the tension or problem that drives characters' thoughts and actions, narrative modes are the ways in which a story is communicated, plots are the sequence of events in a story, settings are the story's locations in time and space, and themes are deeper messages or interpretations about
3726-474: The fictionality of a work is publicly expressed, so the audience expects the work to deviate to a greater or lesser degree from the real world rather than presenting, for instance, only factually accurate portrayals or characters who are actual people. Because fiction is generally understood as not adhering to the real world, the themes and context of a work, such as if and how it relates to real-world issues or events, are open to interpretation . Since fiction
3795-407: The first issue of the sequel story, Beast Wars: The Ascending . In the beginning of Beast Wars, The Ascending Razorbeast speaks to Prowl and Wolfang about how he feels there is no rescue mission coming for them from Cybertron as Grimlock hunts in the nearby woods. In Beast Wars: The Ascending #4, Grimlock was among the Maximals and Predacons returned to Cybertron to battle Shokaract. Grimlock had
3864-574: The imperial period. Plasmatic narrative, following entirely invented characters and events, was developed through ancient drama and New Comedy . One common structure among early fiction is a series of strange and fantastic adventures as early writers test the limits of fiction writing. Milesian tales were an early example of fiction writing in Ancient Greece and Italy. As fiction writing developed in Ancient Greece, relatable characters and plausible scenarios were emphasized to better connect with
3933-441: The known physical universe: an independent fictional universe . The creative art of constructing such an imaginary world is known as worldbuilding . Literary critic James Wood argues that "fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude ", meaning that it requires both creative inventions as well as some acceptable degree of believability among its audience, a notion often encapsulated in the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's idea of
4002-703: The main story. In gameplay, his controls are very identical to his counterpart in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron . Grimlock is one of the main playable characters in Transformers: Devastation , and the only one who does not transform into a motor vehicle. Japanese : A character named Grimlock appears in Transformers: Animated , which began airing in 2007. He is similar to his animated Generation 1 incarnation in persona and form, but with his face modified to have
4071-508: The more the merrier. ... I'm a genre writer of a sort. I write literary fiction, which is like spy fiction or chick lit". Likewise, on The Charlie Rose Show , he argued that this term, when applied to his work, greatly limited him and his expectations of what might come of his writing, so he does not really like it. He suggested that all his works are literary, simply because "they are written in words". Literary fiction often involves social commentary , political criticism , or reflection on
4140-493: The one hand, that the truth can be presented through imaginary channels and constructions, while, on the other hand, works of the imagination can just as well bring about significant new perspectives on, or conclusions about, truth and reality. All types of fiction invite their audience to explore real ideas, issues, or possibilities using an otherwise imaginary setting or using something similar to reality, though still distinct from it. The umbrella genre of speculative fiction
4209-474: The slaves from various timelines that are held there and gets them to Cybertron (Transformers: Universe #2). In a story called "By their Blasters, you shall know them...!" from Transformers Comic-Magazine issue #12 by German comic publisher Condor Verlag, Optimus Prime instructs Backstreet , Bumblebee and Ruckus on how to identify Autobots from Decepticons in battle using the Ark's computer. Pretender Grimlock
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#17327832115144278-541: The story that its audience is left to discuss and reflect upon. Traditionally, fiction includes novels, short stories, fables , legends , myths , fairy tales , epic and narrative poetry , plays (including operas , musicals , dramas, puppet plays , and various kinds of theatrical dances ). However, fiction may also encompass comic books , and many animated cartoons , stop motions , anime , manga , films , video games , radio programs , television programs ( comedies and dramas ), etc. The Internet has had
4347-448: The study of genre fiction has developed within academia in recent decades. The term is sometimes used such as to equate literary fiction to literature. The accuracy of this is debated. Neal Stephenson has suggested that, while any definition will be simplistic, there is today a general cultural difference between literary and genre fiction. On the one hand literary authors nowadays are frequently supported by patronage, with employment at
4416-639: The text story from Fun Publications called " Force of Habit ". This story explains where he was during the events of the Cybertron story. Ultra Magnus was the commander of various Autobot ships sent to other planets in search of the Cyber Planet Keys . He also served as captain of the Iron Hope which was crewed by Bonecrusher , Grimlock, Ironhide, Knock Out, Overcast, Prowl , Quickstrike , RipTide, Skyblast , Smokescreen , Swoop, Wreckage, and
4485-561: The then ongoing Second World War in a way that presented fascist individuals as humorously irrational and pathetic. Many other villains take direct inspiration from real people while having fictional accents, appearances, backgrounds, names, and so on. Devil%27s Due Publishing Devil's Due Publishing (often abbreviated as DDP ) is an independent comic book publisher in the United States. Based in Chicago, Illinois, DDP
4554-509: The time of the work's creation: Jules Verne 's novel From the Earth to the Moon was published in 1865, but only in 1969 did astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to land on the Moon. Historical fiction places imaginary characters into real historical events. In the 1814 historical novel Waverley , Sir Walter Scott 's fictional character Edward Waverley meets
4623-535: The traditional view that fiction and non-fiction are opposites, some works (particularly in the modern era) blur this boundary, particularly works that fall under certain experimental storytelling genres—including some postmodern fiction , autofiction , or creative nonfiction like non-fiction novels and docudramas —as well as the deliberate literary fraud of falsely marketing fiction as nonfiction. Furthermore, even most works of fiction usually have elements of, or grounding in, truth of some kind, or truth from
4692-435: The writer was able to present his origin for the Dinobots as he had originally conceived it. Grimlock appeared in his blue Generation 2 form in the short-lived UK. Generation 2 comic series. Grimlock appears in the TFcon 2008 voice-play prelude comic called "Ground Effects," where Perceptor informs him about a repeat repeat wave. Grimlock orders the other Dinobots to dig up a Transformer on Dinobot Island. Grimlock appeared in
4761-472: Was closely associated with history and myth . Greek poets such as Homer , Hesiod , and Aesop developed fictional stories that were told first through oral storytelling and then in writing. Prose fiction was developed in Ancient Greece , influenced by the storytelling traditions of Asia and Egypt. Distinctly fictional work was not recognized as separate from historical or mythological stories until
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