-Kanrabat- wrote:MaximalNui wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:I would really love to see female Starscream make an official appearance. But she should be G1 Starscream at his worst but cranked to 11. Her cowardice, vileness, and sneakiness would be so hardcore, it would make even the Original Starscream wince.
...why, exactly?
Gender equality. Only in Manga and Anime are women allowed to be brain dead annoying idiots AND suffer the consequences of their idiocy. In Western media, females must be perfect or the
woke mob will lynch you.
That's why we will never see her in Western media, nor a toy of her ever being made.
Oh, ok. It's just the way you worded it sounded a bit problematic at first reading, as if a female version of Starscream
had to naturally be more vile than the male one. Thanks for clarifying.
I get what you mean; it's really annoying when a specific group is always portrayed in a single way with no variety as if they're a mass of clones mentality-wise, whether positive or negative. One of the reasons I can't get into anime outside of Ghibli is because women are usually portrayed as mere accessories of the male heroes or to provide fanservice (maybe I'm looking at the wrong shows?), and a trope I absolutely hate in Western sitcoms for its omnipresence is the "dad is a bumbling buffon while mom always has the intellectual & moral high ground even when she really doesn't".
Autobot N wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:Evil Eye wrote:I will say that Transformers does have a lack of truly contemptible, evil female characters. Airachnid is the closest example I can think of. Most others are either tragic villains or not especially evil.
I think Blackarachnia did a pretty good job. Or does her turn in season 3 disqualify her? Otherwise, yeah it's pretty much Airachnid. I think if they made Shattered Glass Windblade she could become quite despicable, seeing as how heroic she is.
She might qualify as tragic given the whole shell program thing
Honestly, I'm not sure how much the shell program really affected her personality. When it was purged by the Transmetal Driver she remained mostly the same; as the character herself said, "Even when I'm good, I'm still bad."
I'd also probably add "mook" level of evil to the most common villain Transformer females, like Strika (both
Beast Machines and
Animated) and
Animated Slipstream: certainly evil and scarily competent, but not sadistic enough to be vile nor proactive enough to be villains on their own (or not enough screentime to show it).
Emerje wrote:What, have we forgotten Shadowstriker already? She was arguably the best thing about Cyberverse season 1. Shame she never got a Warrior figure in either body.
Emerje
Or at all for her second (and ironically most used) form. Which I don't get why they never even tried.
-Kanrabat- wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:o.supreme wrote:Pretty basic, and self explanatory but: SS86 Megatron.
Yup. Even with that good ol' orange safety tip, it's a big no-no.
Not even as an online exclusive? I mean, he would be completely plastic this time around, and they can make him look like a toy while still looking like Megatron. With all his accessories, a voyager class figure at leader or commander price. Or even as a Japanese exclusive that would have to be imported at crazy prices? But at least it would exist.
My guess is only Takara would dare to do it.
We could get something that is like the old Toyworld Egemon but better.
Pretty much only Takara. And even then I highly doubt it.
Speaking of (another) Megatron, if only to give that ridiculously awesome hand mode some actual use: