Hasbroverse Worldbuilding post one: The setting

Greetings and welcome to the first of a series of worldbuilding blog posts, which will hopefully flesh out my little 'verse and have it make even the slightest bit of sense. This information pertains to the stories The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds, Side-Stories of First Contact, The Conversion Bureau: United We Stand and, to a lesser extent, Culture Clashes

1. What's the story, morning glory?

The various Hasbro cartoons of the 1980s'-Transformer Generation One, GI Joe, A real American hero, Jem and the Holograms, My Little Pony, Dungeons and Dragons anbd Inhumanoids semi-offically take place, or can be seen, as taking place on the same Earth. Hector Ramirez is a recurring character in various series. Marissa Faireborn of the Earth Defense Command is the daughter of Lady Jaye and Flint of GI Joe. The My Little Pony movie had an early scene of one of the ponies finding some Transformers or Joes. Although the connections were somewhat loose.

What I'm attempting to do, and even semi-succeeding, is attempting to forge order out of chaos, to quote Egg Shen from 'Big Trouble in Little China'. It won't be perfect, and there will probably be plot holes large enough to swallow a Dyson's Shell, but dang it if I'm not gonna make a go of it. ;)

What's canon?

I am using information from the following series in the Habroverse, to greater or lesser extents:

My Little Pony G1
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic
Transformers
GI Joe
Jem and the Holograms
Dungeons and Dragons
Inhumanoids
Doctor Who-at least the Doc in his final incarnation.

For Transformers and GI Joe, I'm taking a more 'broad strokes' approach. Transformers is mostly from the original animated cartoon, with the Great War reigniting in 1984, heroic Autobots, evil Decepticons and the like. Of course, I'm also using sparks, which weren't introduced until Beast Wars. And if you'd like to imagine a young space bridge technician or an infiltrator being among the newly-sparked Autobots, who am I to argue? ;)

For GI Joe, the vast majority comes from the Marvel comic, such as most of the background. Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow and Stalker were all part of the same LLRP in Vietnam. Snake and Stormy trained as Sword Brothers in Japan as part of the Arashikage ninja clan. So on and so forth.

For Cobra Commander, I'm welding together his comic and movie origin. He was a used car salesman, but during a trip to Nepal he got lost, and ended up in Cobra-La's colony. Golobulous saw an opportunity and bio-engineered Old Snake to look like a Cobra-La citizen, and concocted the whole story there.

Admittedly, most of this stuff might not get written. Or might get written for other websites like Spacebattles.

And for My Little Pony, of course it's the original series and Friendship is Magic, with about 1500 years taking place between them.

So, that's it for now. Next week, the basic history of Ponyland and Equestria!

Comments

[Paleo Prints]

I am personally excited at the idea of Optimus Prime and Celestia dealing with Tendril and Venger.

So, why do I keep hearing about this Spacebattles place in regards to ponies?

[Ack Sed]

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It's the place to go if you want to write crossovers (e.g. Louise summons Godzilla) and it's the incubator for 3 or 4 'big' ponyfics, such as This Platinum Crown or Magical Pony Lyrical Twilight.

[Tito-Mosquito]

I like that you're also using concepts and elements from the other cartoons and comics. Like the inclusion of sparks and Marvel Comics' more lethal and competent (sort of) Cobra Commander. Though the cartoon version did had his moments.