Template:Mort/doc

is a proposed template designed to provide visual context within fiction sections. If adopted it would require a change to the TT1 common.css file.

You will have to copy the code below to your TT1 Monaco file (http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/User:Derik/monaco.css) in order to see 's effects.

span.tt1-mort a, span.tt1-mort_tmp a, span.tt1-mort_final a{	text-decoration:none; padding:0 6px 0 6px; } span.tt1-mort a{	background:url(http://images.wikia.com/transformers/images/1/16/Mort-icons.png) no-repeat -52px center; } span.tt1-mort_tmp a{	background:url(http://images.wikia.com/transformers/images/1/16/Mort-icons.png) no-repeat 0px center; } span.tt1-mort_final a{	background:url(http://images.wikia.com/transformers/images/1/16/Mort-icons.png) no-repeat -26px center; }

Purpose
is a milestone marker designed to make skimming a character's fiction section more interesting. It inserts an icon into the text denoting a death. Since Transformers tend to 'un-die' a lot, the icon can be color-coded to indicate how permanent the death is.

Example usage
During an assault on the Harvest Lords flagship, Mirage sustained multiple wounds to the chest, and was not seen among the ambulatory battle line at Autobot City: Earth, or the list of non-ambulatory patients.

Later it was revealed that Mirage's invisibility circuits, having been boosted by his encounter with his otherdimensional double had actually gone into overdrive and he lay undiscovered in emergency-power mode for several months until the Decepticon prisoner-of-war Reflector (who was able to see him) located his comatose body in exchange for his freedom. This same ability proved to be Mirage's undoing when Reflector detected the still-cloaked Autobot infiltrating Flip Sides's bunker, and impaled him with the Spear of Destiny. Mirage's severed head was subsequently crated and sent to Butch Witwicky by post as a warning.

Much later a electrical surge while Soundwave attempted to probe Donny Finkleberg's memories accidentally imprinted a copy of Mirage's datatrax, though Soundwave did not realize this. Mirage/Finkelberg escaped, bringing the Autobots news of the incoming Quintesson fleet in time to negotiate a cessation of hostilities.

Despite the risks, Mirage volunteered to be the Reverse Pretender test subject project, and was (technically) killed in the process for several minutes. He was later and was named Autobot liaison to I.I.I., where he began a much more private liaison with Lisa Freeman. Sadly, Mirage was among the first casualties when the Transhuman Liberation Front attacked Autobot City.

Because he was killed saving the president of the United States life Mirage was buried in Arlington National Cemetery and granted posthumous American Citizenship, which was extended to the rest of the Ark's original crew. A small crystal statue of him now exists in the Autobot City: Earth arboretum.