Va'al wrote:Deadput wrote:Actually I don't know my mother's name is Valerie so is Va'al actually my mother?
Yes. Now go to your room and don't play with yourself.
Deadput wrote:But I think we can all agree that Skids or Hauler ain't appearing on these lists anytime soon if we are going by the cartoon.
Deadput wrote:I'm not so sure about this list
But I think we can all agree that Skids or Hauler ain't appearing on these lists anytime soon if we are going by the cartoon.
Va'al wrote:Deadput wrote:Actually I don't know my mother's name is Valerie so is Va'al actually my mother?
Yes. Now go to your room and don't play with yourself.
Kurona wrote:(Also, shouldn't this be in cartoons and comics instead of general?)
Moody magpie wrote:Seriously where's Jazz?
Va'al wrote:Deadput wrote:Actually I don't know my mother's name is Valerie so is Va'al actually my mother?
Yes. Now go to your room and don't play with yourself.
Deadput wrote:Moody magpie wrote:Seriously where's Jazz?
What did Jazz do again outside of the three episode pilot and the episode where the Autobots go evil?
I seriously don't remember Jazz doing anything meaningful.
Moody magpie wrote:Seriously where's Jazz?
Ultra Mad wrote:It's all a matter of opinion.
Ultra Mad wrote:I agree with many choices on this list except one: Rodimus. God do I hate this character. This is probably because I never accepted him replacing Optimus. The grudge of a 7 years old is eternal (I still remember raging at Optimus's death at the movie theater as I watched Transformers the movie lol).
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Sodan-1 wrote:Va'al wrote:huehuehuehuehue the thumbnail huehuehuehue
Yeah, a little bit of click-baiting there me thinks. "What?! WHEELIE?! I'm going to give this article a piece of my mind."
Burn wrote:And let's not forget this panel that may or may not have inspired a similar scene from the first live action movie.
Black Bumblebee wrote:Hmmm... guess the list got changed based on the previous comments (or was a draft).
Ultra Mad wrote:I agree with many choices on this list except one: Rodimus. God do I hate this character. This is probably because I never accepted him replacing Optimus. The grudge of a 7 years old is eternal (I still remember raging at Optimus's death at the movie theater as I watched Transformers the movie lol).
Sodan-1 wrote:
I also liked being presented with a new spin on Grimlock. I had always seen him as a big dumbass. The child-like innocence actually makes more sense.
Kurona wrote:Yeah, what saves Optimus from joining the likes of Star Saber in standard-boring-I-am-ultimate-good central is that he's not just the Autobot Leader, he's the Autobot Leader who's your friend. Your dad. Sure usually he's fighting Megatron and the Decepticons and that of course always takes priority, but when the war's cooled down for a bit he's just as comfortable playing basketball with Spike and the Dinobots. It's that little bit of 80s goofiness that I really miss and wish would be in modern interpretations of the character; Aligned Prime could benefit a lot from this.
Man, I can just tell Rodimus is going to be such an unpopular choice - ESPECIALLY when you place him right above Optimus, oh man are you asking for trouble - but I fully agree. In the cartoon he was easily the best character and the only one that could really truly be said to have character development aside from those moral-of-the-day episodes. It's just a shame that he was finally able to accept and balance both his sense of self and responsibility of leadership right before the episode he gives the Matrix back to Optimus. ... and also a shame he got that horrific episode-ending line in Fight or Flee. What that episode did for Magnus just tore down Rodimus, sheesh.
MTMTE made me fall in love with Rodimus but G1 was a pretty damn good start.
Honourable mention: Laserbeak. In the scene where the Decepticons got drunk - the BEST scene - Megatron orders the Decepticons to attack. Laserbeak flies over and then slowly spins and falls to the ground. He tried. Oh my god does he try.
Burn wrote:Deadput wrote:I'm not so sure about this list
It's like all the lists, Will's personal perspective, which is where the rest of us join in.But I think we can all agree that Skids or Hauler ain't appearing on these lists anytime soon if we are going by the cartoon.
Thankfully we're not going solely by the cartoon.
Because Skids actually had a special place for me as a kid. I found a beat up Skids at the local rubbish dump. He was missing a wheel and his weapons and incredibly loose. He was the first Transformer that I attempted to restore. When you're a pre-teen and have no internet to help you, chances are, you're gonna fail, and I did.
Hence why I snapped up the Takara re-issue.
Character wise ... I also felt for him in the comics when he was shunted to limbo so that Galvatron could arrive from the future. And the subsequent story where he eventually returned from limbo gave character to this little piece of plastic I had rescued.
And let's not forget this panel that may or may not have inspired a similar scene from the first live action movie.
So yeah, Skids may not have been the best of characters, but he meant something to me.
Not having much time to come up with a Top 5 of my own (I'm supposed to be working) for me, the top would be Ultra Magnus.
He's the warrior that finds himself thrust into a position of leadership he didn't feel he was ready for. He suffered self-doubt, both in the cartoon/movie and the comics. But he never gave up. At a time in my life where I struggled to find a place I belonged, here was this character that had his own doubts but fought through them.
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