Problem there is that you're equating two different terms, to be one.
'Retcon' and 'canon' are two very different terms.
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That is not right at all, Goktimus. Bombshell is reformatted into Cyclonus in the movie itself. That is how it was storyboarded* Are you honestly going to argue that because some recent pack-in comic suggests that Cyclonus was Skywarp it changes the film itself, contradicting common sense, author intent and the way it is visually narrated? That means the Dinobots must have always been a combining gestalt because a comic pack-in says so and it hasn't been retconned since. Or that Hot Rod was in his Classics form in Transformers: The Movie because that too was in a recent pack-in comic.
If "the law of retroactive continuity says that the latest version is the most correct" then the "correct" answer is that Cyclonus is not Skywarp, since the most recent G1 retcon was More Than Meets The Eye #3 which came out yesterday and explicitly states that Cyclonus is an ancient Transformer who was never reformatted from Skywarp or Bombshell, since they are both still around.
Goktimus, what you are saying makes no sense.
*http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/414...clonusstor.jpg
Doesn't 'retcon' mean 'retroactive canon'?
Close enough :P
This has been discussed to death over the past decade and then the decade before that. However, I feel very much for it and have put my thoughts down permanently.
This is what I think and a full explanation of why - in a nutshell Cyclonus = Skywarp and Scourge = Thundercracker. (the article is actually the very first result in google if you type "who became cyclonus", wow).
Therefore, in my world, the below is just wrong! :D
I accept that G1 continuity is messy and inconsistent and all that. However, my BIGGEST gripe is that Bob Budiansky didn't take the opportunity to set the score straight when he 'wrote' The Transformers Animated Movie for IDW (aka the modern adaptation of TFTM).
If there is one person that could authoritatively conclude this issue one way or another, it is Bob, one of the key creative talents behind the original Transformer profiles and stories. This was the perfect opportunity to set the Cyclonus record straight but sadly no move was made to clarify Cyclonus’ reformatting. Don Figueroa drew the reformatting scene as an almost exact reproduction of TFTM (1986), that is with Bombshell and Skywarp being reformatted into 2 Cyclonus’.