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tarZen wrote:I like the toned down animated look. Megatron looks amazing.

Thanks!

Chupacabra Convoy wrote:

Caelus wrote:So... Optimus Prime is a Green Lantern.

Windsweeper wrote:An old Grimlock could actually be great if he was done like old Bruce Wayne in Batman Beyond where he still has the attitude but you can see he's embittered because he's not capable of the feats of his youth. He still manages to be badass on occassion though.

If that's the case here's hoping there's some Autobot (preferably Dinobot) equivalent of Terry McGuiness in there. Or would that just be Jazz?

Hmm... Jazz strikes me as having too much finesse. Hmmm.... Roadbuster? I want to say Swoop.

Oooh... Swoop would be good. I mean, so long as your reinventing characters, Swoop always looked younger than the others, although his characterization didn't necessarily match up with that.

If we were superheroizing TFs though, I'd have to go with Roadbuster = Ultimate Nick Fury.

Although I guess IDW already has Kup running around playing Sgt. Fury.

craggy wrote:umm...Prime's Ark crew in G1 was all superheroes. We had a guy who could go invisible, a guy who could make holograms, a guy who had somehow survived as a spy for millions of years whilst being painted bright yellow, a guy who could punch through rocks, a guy who could make any kind of machine, a guy who shot freeze rays and a whole lot more.

Does Cliffjumper's ability to produce oversized weapons from nowhere count?

There've been Justice Leagues with less powers than that lot, and the Decepticons were just as obviously products of a superhero publisher handling the character designs, with a teleporter, mind-reader, guy who causes earthquakes...

... guy who can induce insanity, guy who can cut through anything, guy with deadly optic beams, guy who can create damaging sonic booms, guy who can tap into the antimatter generated by black holes, guy who reflects no light, guy who can kick through concrete, guy who can control electricity, guy who can plant brain parasites in people and clone himself and his friends, and... three guys who can...? Wow, the reflector triplets really got shafted. Of course, thanks to animation errors, maybe they're Decepticon versions of Jamie Madrox?

I actually always liked the superhero aspect of the first season - the Nemesis and Ark crews were supposed to be the best of the best, so it made sense that they would be the Cybertronian equivalent of Metahumans. It also gives the other, later characters their own appeal, in that they're the 'normal' guys (Blurr excepted).

Of course, it does bother me that Windcharger and Shrapnel didn't rule Cybertron.

*Looks at Grimlock design*
*Looks at the title*

So... this will be the Transformers equivalent of a story in an elders home, and the others are Optimus Jr, Megatron Jr, etc..., with old Grimlock rumbling "Get off my lawn!!!" ?

"Me Grimlock say - stay away from my bins!"

I think it would be totally appropriate to call optimus prime's vehicle mode an armored convoy,
Both because it looks like a cross between a tank and a truck, and because Optimus prime's name in japan is usually convoy (or _____ convoy, depending on what it looks like, like burning convoy for example)

"Me Grimlock want prunes!"