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This article is about the canyon that's grand. For the canyon that's big, seeBig Canyon.

TheGrand Canyon is a steep-sided gorge inArizona. Several events in the variousTransformer wars have taken place there.

Fiction

MarvelThe Transformers comics

While filming the finale ofMonster from Mars at the Grand Canyon under directorRollie Friendly,Skullgrin was ambushed and attacked byCircuit Breaker. Thanks to the avarice of Rollie, and the kindness ofCarissa Carr, Skullgrin was left alive.Monstercon from Mars!

Super-God Masterforce cartoon

Devil Z in the body ofBlackZarak, along withHydra andBuster launched their Devil Thunder attacks from the canyon.Ginrai and theHeadmaster Juniors traveled there to confront theDecepticons. While Ginrai fought the two DecepticonGodmasters, the Juniors ended up battlingKrakens andSparkdash drones, and were aided byWilder andBullhorn. Ginrai, combined withGodbomber as God Ginrai, battled the Darkwings to a draw. ThenOverlord arrivedBattle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn and fought at length with Ginrai while the other Autobots hunted for BlackZarak.Lightfoot andRoad King got trapped in a cave, while the others encounteredKing Poseidon. With the help ofGrand Maximus, Ginrai overcame Overlord long enough to join the others, but at that point the Decepticons pulled out anyway.Autobots! Desperate Attack!!

Go-Bots cartoon

TheRattlesnake 500 Desert Road Rally, a race held near the Grand Canyon, was interrupted by the errantGo-Brillium test subjectsRacer-Bot ALPHA andRacer-Bot BETA. They played havoc with the other drivers and the crowd beforeAero-Bot,Hauler-Bot and their team arrived to stop the troublemakers.Racer-Bot Road Rally

Aligned continuity

Prime cartoon

At some point in the distant past, the Grand Canyon became the largest Cybertronian battlefield in the galaxy. WhenMegatron got his hands on someDark Energon, he used it to raise a horde ofTerrorcons from the corpses buried there.Optimus Prime andRatchet were forced to fight them all.Darkness Rising, Part 3 The Dark Energon chunk remained there until Megatron, in possession ofBumblebee's body, retrieved it.Out of His Head

TitanPrime comic

The latitude and longitude for the Grand Canyon were encoded in a copy ofInvasionauts II purchased byRaf Esquivel. When he played the game, it hypnotised him and forced him to open theGroundBridge to those co-ordinates, at which pointVehicons started pouring through.Tinker, Tailor, Gamer, Spy!

After hijackingAir Force One,Starscream took it to the Grand Canyon, and left a ransom message on the black box to let the Autobots know to bringOptimus Prime bound and gagged. This merely resulted in the Autobots turning up in force and beating the tar out of Starscream and his Vehicons in order to rescue thePresident.All the President's 'Bots!