Transformers/Back to the Future
Cover A for issue #1 by Juan Samu.
Publication information
Publisher	IDW Publishing
Format	Limited series
Genre	Crossover Science fiction
Publication date	October 7, 2020 — May 12, 2021
No. of issues	4
Main character(s)	Transformers (Hasbro) Back to the Future (Universal Pictures)
Creative team
Written by	Cavan Scott
Penciller	Juan Samu
Letterer	Neil Uyetake
Colorist	David García Cruz
Editor(s)	David Marriotte Chase Marotz

Transformers/Back to the Future is a four-issue crossover comic miniseries from IDW Publishing that debuted in October 2020. The series is a crossover event to celebrate the 35th anniversary of theTransformers franchise byHasbro and theBack to the Future films byUniversal Pictures.^[1][2]

Following the events ofthe first film,Marty McFly finally returns home to Hill Valley in 1985, whileDoc Brown departs for 2015 in theDeLorean time machine. Meanwhile, theAutobots andDecepticons scuffle for the time machine. Marty unexpectedly wakes up in a dystopic present when theDecepticons killed most of theAutobots and successfully conqueredEarth, withMegatron havingBiff Tannen as his second in command. Luckily, a time-traveling Cybertronian named Gigawatt locates Marty for help.

After a tough and confusing encounter withStarscream, Marty decides to trust Gigawatt, who is joined by Skilz, another Cybertronian disguised as Marty's skateboard. The group meets the surviving Autobots led by Rodimus Prime, who reveals that Doc was unintentionally responsible for the chain of events: when he traveled forward to the year 2015, he met Decepticon Rumble, who survived his encounter in 1985. Doc befriended Rumble, unaware of the latter's agenda. When the DeLorean was completely repaired, Rumble used it to travel back to 1974, using Biff to develop Energon supplies for Megatron's arrival. Gigawatt then reveals he used to be a Decepticon, but after having enough with Megatron abusing and murdering other human workers, he trans-scanned the DeLorean and escaped, but his flux capacitor was damaged in the process and in order to fix it, they need Doc, who is somewhere forming his own resistance.

Back on Hill Valley, Doc manages to save Biff and Marty's parents from the Constructicons, planning to reunite the last standing Autobots, but Biff double-crosses them and attempts to execute them. Marty and the Autobots arrive in time to save them, defeating all the Decepticons. However, they are confronted by a giant Decepticon disguised as Hill Valley's courthouse named Watchtower.

While battling Watchtower, Doc fixes Gigawatt's flux capacitor, and with Skilz, they both help Marty and Gigawatt enough speed to travel back to 1984, preventing Rumble from awakening Megatron. However, Gigawatt gets critically injured from his previous battle. Marty uses the original time machine to go back to 2015, where Doc and Biff repaired Gigawatt and the Autobots are still protecting Earth and humanity. After returning to 1985, Marty gets a new pickup truck from his parents, unaware it is a Decepticon in disguise.

TheTransformers/Back to the Future series is written byCavan Scott, and illustrated by Juan Samu, as part of the 35th anniversary ofHasbro'sTransformers andUniversal Pictures'Back to the Future.^[1]

As part of the Transformers Collaborative toy line, Hasbro released a toy figure based on the original character Gigawatt, which is based on theDeLorean time machine.^[2]

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