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Just wanna see what peoples general thoughts are about who the coolest characters are so far. How about your favorite Autobot, Decepticon, and the character you are looking forward to the most.

From what I've seen my favorite Autobot has got to be Bulkhead. He just reminds me way too much Gutsman, and for me thats a good thing. His toy looks pretty badass as well,making him a buy for me.

As for decepticons, Blitzwing, hands down. A german,AHNULD, and a singing Joker? Thats spells awesome for me.

And I'm really psyched for Jazz. That lineart made him look awesome, and if its G1 colors I'm sold. Actually I just wanna see the whole Cybertron Elite Guard.

Favorite Autobot: Prowl....he's just got 'tude!

Favorite Decepticon: Starscream (DUH!)




Least Favorite Autobot: Bumblebee....always has been, always
will be...yay consistancy!
Least Favorite Decepticon: Blitzwing...I was like "wtf!?" when I heard that HORRID quasi-German/Austrian accent!!! And that dancing??? "WTF??!!"


I am sure, with proper development, or lack thereof, these choices will change.

Yeah, it seems as though Blitzwing is a you either hate him or love him character. Well to each his own.

I'll put it in a list.
Autobots
1.Bumblebee
2.Prowl
3.Ratchet
4.Optimus
5.Bulkhead(Though that doesn't mean I hate him, I love him)

Decepticons
1.Starscream
2.Megatron
3.Blitzwing
4.Blackarachnia
5.Lugnut

I want to watch the special again before I make any major comments on it in the other thread, but I think I have some opinions I can make here.

Favorite Autobots:

I think Ratchet is awesome; he's the Geekbot, Voice of Reason, and Endearing Curmudgeon all in one. Sort of like a fun blend of G1 Ratchet and Kup.

Prowl is also a lot of fun. When I initially heard about him, I was like, "A robot ninja? Ehhh...", but his attitude "problem" is interesting, and his Robot Fu is cool to watch. Finally, the quiet, laconic, pseudo-British accent sounds pretty weird coming from a robot ninja, yet it still manages to work perfectly.

Favorite Decepticons:

Holy wow, Starscream is *beyond awesome* in this one. It's like they took all the cool aspects of G1 Starscream without the lame parts. (Actually, I think that's a pretty good summary for the series in general so far.) The last battle where he's busy laughing maniacally and spouting all sorts of pompous, scenery-chewing threats and trash-talking while blowing up the hell out of everything and being generally nasty and dangerous was pure, well, awesome. And Kenny does a good job of imitating the general voice without the screechiness.

Megatron, on the other hand, is almost the opposite end of things: the quietly calm and menacing badass who doesn't need a lot of talk to be really creepy and scary. Burton's voice helps a lot here as well.

Favorite humans:

I like Captain Fanzone. He's a fun dryly cynical counterpoint to the overall seeming "Yay, robots!" attitudes of the rest of humanity. I could see him being an entertaining good-guy-but-a-thorn-in-the-side to the Autobots.

Autobots I didn't like:

Well, none, really. Bumblebee turned out to not be as annoying as he first seemed in the previews (although the potential is still there, admittedly). Bulkhead is sort of endearingly dopey, and I like the younger, more rookie take on Prime, since G1 Optimus' paladin-bot tendencies had me rolling my eyes at times.

Decepticons I didn't like:

None of the other Decepticons get enough screen time for me to say definitively either way. But so far, while Blitzwing's "normal" head is very cool, his "Ahnold" one was kind of lame, and the "crazy" one, well, let's just say that Decepticons should not sing. Ever. The last two personas might have worked in the old series, but they seem out of place in an episode that had far more cute or witty humor than outright goofy humor. Eh, I'll wait and see until he gets more screen time.

Humans I didn't like:

Personality-wise, Sari is OK... she manages to come off as a precocious but fairly likeable kid. But they seriously need to tone down her Mary Sue Powers, or she's going to end up turning into a Wesley Crusher.

Characters I'm looking forward to:

I'll agree that I can't wait to see what they do with Jazz. And on the Decepticons side, Soundwave, of course, and I'm hoping that they make Shockwave less, um, dorky.

Autobots: Bumblebee

Decepticons: Starscream

Jeysie wrote:Decepticons should not sing. Ever.

truer words have never been posted!!!

Pyrostrata wrote:

Jeysie wrote:Decepticons should not sing. Ever.

truer words have never been posted!!!

I can sing!

im lovin bumbel bee. he got alot of good lines in. although ratchet was obscenly close. just because of the way he sounded so much like g1 ratchet/gears smacked together. its like don messick lives

as for decepticons. blitzwing without a doubt.

EDIT doubel post, sorry

I think it would be too early in the series for me to choose a fav character. From what I understand of this series there will be more character development to be had as it progresses. If I had to choose right now I think Prowl or Ratchet really stick out right now.


-Aerrow

Sadly I have only been able to watch G1

Autobot Favorites
Prowl
Wheeljack
Ironhide
Hotrod

Decepticon Favorites
Starscream-duh!
Soundwave
Rumble
Cyclonus

Carrean wrote::-( Sadly I have only been able to watch G1

Autobot Favorites
Prowl
Wheeljack
Ironhide
Hotrod

Decepticon Favorites
Starscream-duh!
Soundwave
Rumble
Cyclonus

Hrrm, out of place in this topic much

No offense meant by this at all, but this is a topic about the new Animated series (titled Animated, not just an animation), discussion about fav G1, movie, or Beast Wars characters, etc, should take place in topics devoted to this.

On the off note, seriously? You've never seen any transformers other than G1?

Justicity wrote:

Carrean wrote::-( Sadly I have only been able to watch G1

Autobot Favorites
Prowl
Wheeljack
Ironhide
Hotrod

Decepticon Favorites
Starscream-duh!
Soundwave
Rumble
Cyclonus

Hrrm, out of place in this topic much

No offense meant by this at all, but this is a topic about the new Animated series (titled Animated, not just an animation), discussion about fav G1, movie, or Beast Wars characters, etc, should take place in topics devoted to these topics.

On the off note, seriously? You've never seen any transformers other than G1?

Autobot: I am obliged to say that Autobot Supreme Commander Ultra Magnus is my favorite character in animated.

Ratchet comes in at a very close second.

Decepticon: Blitzving, I find all his faces entertaining.
I am looking forward to seeing him fight.

Humans: ummm... Isaac maybe?
I'm ok with humans being in the story, I just don't pay that much attention to them.

I'm fond of the Bumblebee/Sari interaction. Depending on how Sari shapes up, she might be my first human favorite character in any series. For that matter, she'll be the first human character I even liked much! After that, Ratchet. And has anyone noticed how the Allspark itself is a character? It clearly makes decisions and has a will of its own.

Starscream got the most screen time, and he merited every second of it. If not for the Allspark opening, he clearly would've won. I'll have to see more of the other 'cons; I like having Blackarachnia and Blitzwing back on the screen.

well so far my favorite auto bot would have to be bulkhead because he is just awesome

and my favorite decepticon is starscream because he is a badass and then after him it would be blitzwing with his different faces
but i think all of this will change later

Con wise it's gotta be Blitzwing, why should you ask?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5dNJrP2gBSI

And Bot wise I really like Ratchet and Bulkhead.