Sabrblade wrote:Is that a trick question?Rated X wrote:Why cant Hasbro create a movie or cartoon where Bumblebee finally gets killed off ?
When I had written this, I clearly had forgotten that they HAVE created a story in which Bumblebee gets killed off.
..Except that it's just not a cartoon or a movie. It was the G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: The Art of War comic series, in which he was killed by Serpent O.R. (Serpentor), the Son of Megatron.
He dies, and doesn't come back. It's not even a heroic sacrifice, but a quick, cold-hearted murder.
And it's near the middle of the story, so the Autobots really don't have that much time to focus on his death, what with the then-current crisis at hand.
Though, they do manage to hold a funeral for him by his memorial at the very end of the final issue, but it too is quite a small and brief moment: