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A collage of Sideways, from TFWiki.
Sideways is a name used in the Transformers franchise. The first was a heroic Autobot in Robots in Disguise (2001). The first time the name was used for a villain was in the Unicron Trilogy, and later in the Transformers Film Series.
Note: Because of circular reporting, some stories indicate that every version of Sideways are all the same dimension jumping character, while others do try and deconfirm at least some of them being the same character.
- Sideways (Unicron Trilogy), the faction swapping double agent, from Transformers Armada, and Transformers Cybertron.
- Sideways (Transformers Film Series), the minor Decepticon antagonist of Revenge of the Fallen.
- Sideways (Ask Vector Prime), the unafiliated dimension-hopping Cybertronian from Ask Vector Prime.
Transformers Animated[]
General Sideways, with a design reminiscent of Armada and Revenge of the Fallen.
According to the AllSpark Almanac guidebook, a version of Sideways arrived in the Animated universe, and joined the Decepticons, eventually being given the rank of General. General Sideways was responsible for overseeing the Silvart War, where he was captured by Primal Major (the Animated version of Optimus Primal) and prepared for transportation back to Cybertron on board the Axalon. Longarm Prime speculated that thanks to the General's Trans-Phase Generator, Sideways broke free of his restraints and sabotaged the engine, trapping the Axalon and its crew in a black hole. Since Sideways was never seen again, Longarm Prime suspects Sideways was trying to get to some place called "Shanghai", which he frequently mentioned.
When the Ask Vector Prime Facebook page was taken over by an incarnation of Sideways, he claimed to be the Animated Sideways, and planned to use the black hole to slingshot himself into the Movie universe(s). However, as this Sideways is a self confessed liar, it is unclear how truthful this statement is, if at all.
While Animated Sideways does seem to feed into the concept that all Sideways's incarnations are the same character, Jim Sorenson, author of both the AllSpark Almanac and Ask Vector Prime, would later state the references to Sideways's other incarnations were meant to match Transformers Animated's penchant for easter eggs.