I read GI Joe (A Real American Hero!) vs the Transformers yesterday, the miniseries by Devil's Due. Unexpectedly entertaining and really hilarious. I was somewhat disconcerted by Starscream's black repaint; it made him look like Skywarp. Also: Thundercracker gets no love. NONE.

But the most entertaining aspect was the revelation that energon, if hit by a nuclear blast, is capable of cracking the planet in half.

Now, let's think about that. Energon, to Transformers, is like delicious cake crossed with booze crossed with nitroglycerin. It is simultaneously fuel, intoxicant, and high explosive. Already we can see that the Quintessions really hated the Transformers when they decided to make Transformers run on energon, and to be honest I'm not sure how they can take so many laser blasts to the chest without exploding. They must be gas-sippers when not trying to get smashed.

Now we learn that the explosive aspect of it is even more extreme than previously believed. CRACKING THE PLANET IN HALF. Just add a nuclear device and you have planet-destroying capability. We're not even talking about all that much energon, here. I'd say that it was about as much as Prime could carry in his trailer (if he had a trailer, which he didn't in this miniseries, which was just wrong). That's not a lot of energon.

I'm trying to think of a legitimate reason to build a robot that runs on something that is capable of destroying worlds if, like mixing bleach and ammonia, you add the wrong stuff to it. I'm willing to buy energon being explosive in the ordinary sense, since we are stupid enough to run our vehicles on explosive chemicals. But come on. Seriously. Cracking the planet in half? Really?