This is Part Nine in a series.
Alright, so now we’re into M.A.S.K. aka Mobile Armor Strike Kommand. And we’ve sort of set up for this series already, we’ve got Matt Tracker as someone who went through GI Joe training but never got his code name, a nod to the 25th Anniversary GI Joe figure released of Matt Tracker. We also set up his brother as another trainee, and then in Season 3 of our treatment of Transformers we mention that there was an accident, Matt’s brother dies in this accident, and Miles Mayhem, who was part of the program that Matt and his brother were brought into after GI Joe was disbanded, steals their technology. Same basic premise as the original M.A.S.K. cartoon.
Miles goes on to form V.E.N.O.M. and Matt feels it is his responsibility to stop Miles, so he re-activates the M.A.S.K. program, or something like that. M.A.S.K. is the next step in Cybertronian technology research. We’ve gotten mass shifting down. We have laser technology. Hard light technology is also now mastered. And in Sky Commanders we started toying with very basic form changing technology. That last category is what the M.A.S.K. project was focusing on. So, we’ve got a car that can then fly, a helicopter that can turn into a jet, so on and so forth. These are the first true transformations that humans develop, where vehicles change form and function in major ways.
And that’s all we really need from M.A.S.K. Again, we end the series with V.E.N.O.M. defunct but not all the members dead or in jail, some are still out there, to spread knowledge and technology to other groups. We maybe see a few scenes on Cybertron during this series, and things seem to be going well, but we don’t really spend much time there. That’s it. On to the next series. We’ll be visiting the Centurions next.
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