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A City Commander is a Transformer tasked with overseeing the operations of a given city. Considering the state of war, "cities" can vary from full habitats expected to house civilians and soldiers to little more than a fortress with living quarters.

Fiction

Generation 1 toy bios

Ultra Magnus and Galvatron were City Commanders of the Autobot and Decepticon forces, respectively.

The Transformers cartoon

The Autobot City Commander, Ultra Magnus, was the commanding officer of Autobot City. Although he was not specifically referred to as the commander, he took a steady hand during the Battle of Autobot City, overseeing the mobilization of the base defenses and attempting to contact reinforcements. However, Magnus clearly didn't feel comfortable in a command position, as despite being the commander of the largest concentration of Autobot power at the time he felt he was unsuitable as the next leader of the Autobots. The Transformers: The Movie

Following these events, Ultra Magnus largely abandoned the post of City Commander in favor of acting as a second-in-command to Rodimus Prime, handing the job of running the city on to Blaster. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1

Wings Universe

After being placed in charge of planetary defense, Obsidian promoted Guzzle, Dogfight, Clamp Down, Jazz, Backstreet, and Hardhead to City Commanders. Termination

Japanese cartoon continuity

The Galvatron of another dimension traveled back in time to the late 1980s and was appointed City Commander of the first Trypticon. His tenure was short, as both he and Trypticon were destroyed in their first battle with Metroplex. Ruination Chapter, Part Two LG-43 Trypticon Project Chapter

Long after moving on, Blaster would look back at his time as City Commander and lament that the responsibilities of the post had suppressed his party-loving personality. Bonus Edition Vol. 27

The Headmasters cartoon

By 2011, Ultra Magnus had returned to his post as City Commander of Metroplex and worked to coordinate a variety of Autobot operations on Earth. His opposite number was Sixshot, head of the of Decepticons' Earth-based forces who operated out of Trypticon, though Sixshot went by the title "Ninja Staff Officer" rather than City Commander. Four Warriors Come out of the Sky Their rivalry ended with Ultra Magnus perishing at Sixshot's hands. Ultra Magnus Dies!!

Masterpiece toy bios

Following the death of Ultra Magnus, Delta Magnus was transferred to Earth and appointed City Commander of a newly built Autobot City. Masterpiece Delta Magnus bio

Notes

• Galvatron's function as Decepticon City Commander on his toy tech specs was likely done to avoid spoiling the events of the animated film before its release; no reference is made to his status as a rebuilt Megatron for the same reason. Neither Trypticon nor any other Decepticon city feature in the film, and by the time Galvatron is commanding the Decepticons in the animated series, there aren't really any Decepticon cities left to be commanded. (Though he technically would be their commander.) In Japan, Galvatron did appear as a City Commander in the Scramble City stop-motion diorama, a result of it being produced when the Japanese production staff was still unaware of Galvatron's role in the movie. Later fiction jumped through hoops to retcon the Galvatron that appeared in such early Japanese fiction into a dimension-hopping Galvatron II.