That Bot wrote:I've been a little confused on this since I started reading MTMTE and RID. What's the backstory on the Dinobots in IDW? Why aren't they together anymore?
They've always been a sort of dysfuctional family. From the top of my head I remember that they were originally a six piece strike team called the Dynobots, who never quite got over the death of their sixth member, Skar. They've always been Autobots who don't really class themselves as Autobots. They see themselves being different due to their heavy handed, overly aggressive nature. It also didn't help that they were cursed with some alt mode disease type thing where they would become enraged beasts. They were eventually cured of it though.
They followed Shockwave to pre-historic Earth (where they adopted dinosaur alt modes and thus becoming 'Dinobots') where they were caught up in a battle with him which resulted in them all getting preserved in molten lava. They were rediscovered millions of years later, during the whole Earth portion of IDW TF where they fought both Scorponok and Shockwave. It was revealed that Grimlock was at fault for them getting preserved in lava as he hit some sort of killswitch on their ship that created a volcanic eruption. The rest of the crew were p****d off with him for it and there's been a frosty relationship since. At the end of it Grimlock gets arrested by Magnus. I'm not actually sure why, perhaps destruction of property on Earth, or perhaps abandoning his post when they followed Shockwave millions of years earlier, I can't quite remember. Slag becomes the leader and Grimlock is sent to Garrus-9, the Autobot penal colony.
During 'Last Stand Of The Wreckers' which is set on Garrus-9(which you totally must read if you haven't already), you're told that Grimlock was driven mad by Overlord, as he forced him to constantly watch footage of all the awful stuff that happened in the prison upon Overlord's arrival. Grimlock apparently went nuts as a result and disappeared. His mysterious appearance in the DJD/Scavengers episode of MTMTE is the first we've seen of him since, so no idea how he got there.
