All Hail Megatron Coda #13 to #16

[kup]

I understand what you mean but still, Thuderwing was a Pretender with an innerbot in both UK and US even if we never saw it in the former but it was clearly established in dialogue that it exists. Kup on the other hand does not have an inner bot and what makes him a Pretender is not a never to be seen inner bot but a Pretender tech based neural interface that connects his damage 'old' brain to the 'new' one of his body making it 'whole' again.

Yeah with Kup just as Marvel US Thunderwing, we will not get to see an inner bot but the difference here is that Thunderwing was established to have an inner bot and Kup has been established that he doesn't - The 'shell' is his only body so readers should be fine accepting it as he is a regular transformer like any other only that his brain uses pretender tech.

I also have to remember that although the concept is pretty cool, we would likely not hear of it again as its only purpose was to fix McCarthy's continuity mess up. We will see the Prowl side of this subplot but I doubt that we will ever hear of the Pretender concept again as it has already served its purpose to explain Kup's miraculous recovery