william-james88 wrote:Caelus wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:Given the sort of similar alt modes, I thought rook would of made a good base for a cw version of movie wreckage (I know that wreckage loses in a way going from an army personnel carrier to a swat team carrier) I think the mold would work well under decepticon orders
Strika, all the way. Not technically a Decepticon, I guess (unless you count Animated?), but still...
Oh really? I always figued she was a decepticon since she was seen as a general from the old war, so I assumed before Maximals and Predecons. But either way, yeah that would be a very suitable mold.
Officially her alignment has bounced all over, from story-to-story. In Beast Machines she and Obsidian were supposed to have been great generals wholly devoted to the defense of Cybertron as a planet, implied not to be involved in the Autobot/Decepticon civil war, but rather focused outward on enemies like the Quintessons. I always found it an interesting idea, something that needed more exploration, and now, looking back, I realize that they would have been a lot like Tolkien's Dunedain or the Brother's of the Night's Watch in Game of Thrones.
Supposedly they served Megatron in Beast Machines without any personality tampering because he had become the only thing that passed for authority on the planet, and their vows precluded them from passing judgment on the planet's governance. As to why they actively helped him track down the Maximals (fellow Cybertronians) rather than remain neutral in that conflict, my impression was that Megatron probably convinced them that the Beast Machine Maximals were, effectively, aliens dirtying up the place - shedding all over everything, leaving techno-organic droppings, etc. - so the two of them went to work ridding Cybertron's current incarnation from the outside threat that was organic contamination. From their perspective, I imagine they were probably doing something akin to containing a group of civilians infected with an extraterrestrial pathogen.
PS: Those were such uderwhelming toys. You would think the greatest generals of history would be a lot more imposing than that but yet that Tankor toy towered over them.
There were a lot of problems with that toyline, and that was one. A Rook retool wouldn't be much bigger than Strika was, but at least it'd be more fun to play with. Of course, I wouldn't say no to a Combiner Wars Onslaught repaint/retool either - maybe as part of a combiner made from crew members of the
Carcer. It'd be less true to her original altmode, but'd have the back cannons and the bulk. (Actually, come to think of it, the Universe Onslaught mold was really a missed opportunity for her.)
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