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by **Pyrostrata** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:25 pm

by **Loki God Of Mischief** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:43 pm

News Credits: 23 · by **Prime Evil** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:10 am

by **Stormer** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:02 pm

by **Loki God Of Mischief** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:48 pm

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:05 pm

by **Loki God Of Mischief** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:10 am

Drift's a Canon Sue bro. Canon characters can't be Mary Sues. Mary Sue is a fan fiction term. A Canon Sue is a relatively new canon character to a fiction that comes off as fan fiction Mary Sue. I hate to correct you but it's one of my peeves to see someone misue that phrase.

People do it so often, and sometimes for canon characters that are protagonists. I wanted to digitally bitchslap this one kid for calling Batman a Mary Sue on another site I go to. Mary Sue can only be applied to fan fiction or original characters. It doesn't mean "Canon character I don't like."

by **Shadowarp** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:15 am

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:54 am

by **Dagon** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:30 pm

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:42 pm

by **Dagon** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:50 pm

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:01 pm

Just a quick point about Sunstorm. Sunstorm, while we "never realized it" has been a G1 character since 1984.

He will always get more acceptance than Drift regardless of how the character was re-introduced to us by DW, purely because of his origin as a E-Hobby figure based on his two second appearance in the MTMTE Part 1.

by **Dagon** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:11 pm

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:21 pm

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:30 pm

News Credits: 1 · by **adamassc** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:59 pm

I'll be honest, I've only read the Spotlight issue, so past that I know very little about Drift. That being said, I treat Drift the same way I look at the PCC chars: If the toy is impressive, and the aesthetics of the character are solid, I like him.
His Uber-awesomeness in the comic doesn't bother me. He'll come across an opponent that his loner attitude cannot overcome.

A decepticon that stole what Drift earned. An equal devoid of honor.

Drift will meet his Sabetooth.

He'll fail, he'll learn, he'll become a better team soldier.

Ultimately, All this hatred of Drift makes me happy

Because people aren't hating RiD as hard :grin:

by **Torino_Prime** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:26 pm

Drift chafes at me because he was inserted into Gen One as if he had always been there, and he is looks kinda like a Gundam with that giant sword. I just don't see the need to add him into the Gen One lore. I am probably just too old to accept him now. His presence always disrupts my reading experience. I am glad he is getting his own mini series. If people like him, let them eat cake. Just don't put him in my Gen One continuity, because he is not Gen One. I know that comes off as purist, and maybe if he had been gently assuaged into the story I would have liked him better... but as it is now I just don't want anything to do with him.

News Credits: 668 · by **Autobot032** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:36 pm

by **Torino_Prime** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:59 pm

BTW I Hate Rodimus, Galvatron, the Quintessons, the Junkions, Unicron (sorry Orson), Scourge and the Sweeps, and most everything during and after the 86 movie. I can't believe I forgot Wheelie in that. I hate retarded Grimlock... I like him before the movie....
I like some of the other characters...

Ultra Magnus (whiny, but cool voice, love ya Robert Stack)
Springer
Blurr (annoying, but I can deal)
Arcee (no issues other than that weird Daniel mommy thing going on)
Cyclonus

I will say this I like when the alt modes were Earth based and not futuristic... but even in G1 I don't like the Alpha Trion, Primus, or anything psuedo-religious stuff. Just my tastes... I like to keep my fantasy and sci-fi seperate...just my opinion...

by **Catalyst Prime** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:20 am

I don't know a thing about Drift other than what people have posted here. But from what I gather he's basically a uber munch toon... Super Ninja...

I've never heard this term "Mary Sue" ect... before either so I'm kinda lost there.

As for the whole uberbot thing, I understand how ppl could not like him for that... I tend not to like any character that just appeares out of no where and is somehow more powerful than anyone else... But then that's a common thing in storytelling.

What's more, I can't think of a single transformers G1 Series where this dosn't happen. For example, In MTMTE, Optimus is toted as being the strongest of the Autobots, then you move into Headmasters and suddenly Fortress Maximus, who supposedly has been around just as long if not longer than Optimus is the strongest, then it comes the Masterforce series and God Ginrai is made and he's acclaimed to be the strongest, At the start of Victory One of the first things you hear is that Victory Saber is the Strongest of all Autobots...So what does that make the last 3? Rusted scrap?