Sabrblade wrote:It was later in the Exodus novel that the Aligned continuity's Constructicons were revealed to be HUGE in number. In that iteration, the Constructicons were an entire social class, with High Councilor Drivetrain a their patriarch. Anyone who worked in construction as part of the construction guilds was considered a Constructicon, regardless of whether or not they were among the specific seven (yes, seven) who formed Devastator. This suggests that Bulkhead might have once been considered a Constructicon before the war. But during the war, there were vast
swarms of Constructicons; an entire army of them alone destroyed Crystal City. And the Retribution novel would eventually give us the name of the main seven who form Devastator: Scrapper, Mixmaster, Hook, Scavenger, Bonecrusher, Frontloader, and Long (not "Long Haul", just "Long").
Also in both the novels and the WFC/FOC video games, an Aerialbot was basically any Autobot who both could fly and had a jet-like altmode. Even Jetfire was considered an Aerialbot (even if he himself did not think so, still regarding himself as a Seeker, but an Autobot one). Same went for the Seekers, who were likewise just flying Decepticons with jet-like altmodes. In fact, according to the novels, all Aerialbots were ex-Seekers who had chosen to side with the Autobots when the time came to picking sides in the war. Jetfire was the only one who actually defected rather than having first gone with the Autobots, though the games seem to have shown him having chosen to remain a neutral for as long as he could before he ultimately chose the Autobots. Though, for the five specific Aerialbots who form Superion, they're all named after their G1 counterparts, even if Fireflight has a similar body-type to Shockwave.
So in a way, with the latest additions of Alpha Bravo and Powerglide to the Aerialbots, Offroad to the Stunticons, and Rook to the Protectobots, Hasbro seems to just be keeping up with this mentality of having a great number of members for each subgroup, whether they're necessary for gestalt combination or not.
Desslok2201 wrote:Also, Alpha Bravo is a stupid name, which glaringly doesn't fit with the rest of the team's names. I mean, you can have the rest of the teams change their names endlessly due to copyrights, and they still seem to fit. And why Alpha Bravo? Why not Charlie Delta or Whiskey X-Ray?
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And I'm expecting Bombshell and Skrapnel to match in shades, unlike the Hasbro versions:
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