Portland, Oregon
Portland is the most populous city in the state of Oregon in the United States. Situated in the northwestern area of the state at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County. As of 2020, Portland had a population of 652,503, making it the 26th-most populated city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland/Vancouver/Hillsboro, OR/WA metropolitan statistical area, making it the 25th most populous in the United States. About half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area.
Elias and Flora Disney, parents of Walt Disney, lived in Portland since Walt moved to Los Angeles, California. Disney composer George Bruns was also a teacher in the Lewis and Clark College in Portland, and he died in the very city on May 23, 1983.
At the end of the Gravity Falls episode "Soos and the Real Girl", it is revealed that Melody lives in Portland and has to return there after Soos' cousin Reggie's engagement party.
The city is also the main backdrop location of Disney XD's show Crash & Bernstein and Disney Channel's shows Best Friends Whenever and Sydney to the Max.
Fiction[]
Marvel Comics continuity[]
Marvel The Transformers comics[]
Portland was the nearest city to Mount St. Hilary, the site of the crashed Ark. Template:Storylink Specific locations in and around the city included:
- S. Witwicky Auto Repairs & Tow Service
- Greater Portland Medical Center
- Blackrock Aerospace Assembly Plant Number One
- The corporate headquarters of Blackrock Enterprises
- Blackrock Motor Speedway
- Blackrock Chronic Care Institute
- Jake Lomax's suburban estate
- Forbes's Garage
- A ballet school
- Mister O's
- The suburb of St. Petersburg
- A-1 Used Auto Parts
Sparkplug Witwicky and his son Buster lived in Portland's Southeast quadrant, with Sparkplug operating an auto repair shop and junk yard next to his house. When the Ark's crew awoke and resumed their war on Earth, Buster ended up driving the battle-damaged Bumblebee away from a Portland drive-in theater to his father's shop for repairs. Template:Storylink
Stalking the streets of downtown Portland later that night, Ravage learned of this alliance from Buster's friends "O" and Jesse; this led to the Decepticons attacking the Autobots at Sparkplug's garage, Template:Storylink, a battle witnessed by the entire neighborhood. Template:Storylink Later, when Sparkplug suffered a heart attack while at Ark, Ratchet rushed him and Buster to a Portland hospital, Template:Storylink whose paramedic staff were baffled by the presence of the strange ambulance. Template:Storylink
Not long after, a pair of giant robots took over a Blackrock aerospace plant in Portland's suburbs. G.B. Blackrock was in the downtown Portland headquarters of his business empire when news broke; after venting his anger, he visited his injured employee Josie Beller in the nearby Blackrock Chronic Care Institute. Elsewhere in the Portland suburbs, Buster returned to his father's home and garage after his adventures with the Autobots, uncertain how to deal with the backlog of his dad's business. Template:Storylink
Blackrock's aircraft factory was soon surrounded by a military cordon, which was powerless to stop the comings and goings of the giant robots within, a fact Josie Beller witnessed from her hospital bed. Template:Storylink Blackrock's racetrack, where he sometimes drove laps to blow off steam, would shortly become the site of Portland's next robot battle, as he unveiled his anti-robot cannon, only to have a pair of Decepticons attack to destroy it, a pair of Autobots try to stop them, and Josie Beller attempt to destroy them all. Template:Storylink Meanwhile, the captured aerospace plant, still surrounded by the military, saw the creation of the Constructicons Template:Storylink and the failed creation of Jetfire Template:Storylink, before the defeat of Shockwave allowed the workers there to free themselves. Template:Storylink
Two-bit criminal Joey Slick, a Portland resident, became a one-man crime sensation after finding the debilitated form of Megatron and taking control of him. Using gun-mode Megatron's power, Slick robbed his way across Portland and the Pacific Northwest, before finally laying waste to the estate of crime boss Jake Lomax in the Portland suburbs. Template:Storylink
Another robot battle occurred in and around Municipal Stadium, during a Brick Springstern concert. Template:Storylink Following on from that, G.B. Blackrock was once again in his downtown skyscraper when Robot Master made his first broadcast; the following morning his ritzy home in suburban Portland was besieged by reporters looking for a statement. Soundwave was also downtown, concealed in his tape deck mode and monitoring broadcasts from an electronics store, until he, Ravage and Laserbeak dramatically departed to rescue the stranded Megatron. Template:Storylink
Ratchet visited a junkyard off Route 26 in Portland's Southeast area when looking for parts for his fallen comrades, inadvertently getting mixed up in a Portland Police Department sting intended to net a local car thief who called himself The Mechanic. Template:Storylink With tools stolen from Ratchet, the Mechanic stole a radar dish from Portland International Airport; meanwhile, Blaster and Goldbug futilely staked out the Mechanic's former garage, unaware that he'd moved to an abandoned canning factory on the city's outskirts. Template:Storylink Goldbug and Blaster later returned to Portland to track down G.B. Blackrock, finding him departing from one of the city's expensive restaurants with a date. Template:Storylink Goldbug later phoned Blackrock at hi sdowntown headquarters to request some life-saving aide. Template:Storylink
Portland fell victim to a Decepticon scheme to steal gasoline via hypnotic carwashes, causing a gas crisis across the region; Sparkplug was one of many unwitting operators of the Wash and Roll carwashes until Buster and Jesse foiled the scheme. Template:Storylink
Buster and Sparkplug later witnessed the apparent execution of Goldbug and several other Autobots from their Portland home; shortly afterwards they received a visit from Goldbug himself, reduced to a brain module in a toy car, and seeking help in reaching the Ark. Buster and Walter Barnett departed to help the Autobots... and the Predacons subsequently arrived and destroyed Sparkplug's house and garage. Buster, meanwhile, stopped at a suburban Portland mall along the way to get fresh batteries to sustain Goldbug, only to have a skirmish with the Predacons. Template:Storylink Spike Witwicky subsequently arrived at his father's Portland home to find it wrecked but his father alive and unharmed. Template:Storylink With his home destroyed, Sparkplug stayed briefly at the Cascade Vista Motel outside of Portland, where he received a visit from Spike and his new Autobot allies; Template:Storylink later he moved into a decrepit Portland boarding house, Template:Storylink and was still living there when Blaster arrived seeking help in rescuing Buster from the Decepticons Template:Storylink and a short while later when both his sons finally returned home. Template:Storylink With the Ark having departed for space, Portland saw no further giant robot incursions.
Recordicons[]
Ratbat had an award from the Portland Chamber of Commerce on the wall in his quarters. Template:Storylink
Dreamwave Generation One continuity[]
When Ultra Magnus arrived on Earth to enforce Shockwave's edict that the Earth-bound Autobots surrender themselves to the Cybertronian alliance, Optimus Prime ordered a portion of his troops into hiding there. Template:Storylink
Linkage[]
Top Gear hunted down and subdued Tailslide with the aid of two Fixer Bugs in a Portland suburb. Template:Storylink
Transformers/G.I. Joe[]
G.I. Joe and Cobra independently detected the crash of an Autobot shuttlecraft near Portland. Flint was sent to retrieve it with a team of rookies, and managed to repel a Cobra team sent to do the same thing and recover an unconscious Blaster. Template:Storylink
2005 IDW continuity[]
Soundwave was trapped in his cassette player mode and bought by a kid living in Portland. Template:Storylink
Decades later, Arcee and Jazz helped the local humans deal with flooding as part of Optimus Prime's mandate of goodwill to humanity. Unfortunately, G.I. Joe (under the influence of the secret Dire Wraith General Joe Colton) decided that the Cybertronians must have had ulterior motives and attacked the Autobots. Prime arrived with reinforcements and tried to convince the humans to stand down their (ineffective) attack, but this was ruined when Rom arrived and killed Colton and three other Joes. Subsequently, the Autobots departed to chase down the mysterious alien while the Joes were left to call for reinforcements. Scarlett decreed that the apparent murders were a declaration of war upon humanity, Template:Storylink though Mainframe and Agent Helix mulled over the inconsistency in that theory. Template:Storylink
Ask Vector Prime[]
Butch "Spike" Witwicky was born in Portland. Template:Storylink
Games[]
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