The Energon Pub

Overcracker wrote:Just for clarity's sake Gavinfuzzy:

The Energon Downshift GuyIncognito is referring to is:

Clearly Wheeljack.


While you are likely thinking of:


He got the Big Daddy repaint.

He's named Downshift because he's supposed to be the same character as Energon Downshift.

And yes as has been established Energon was a homage line.

That shot of Cybertron Downshift really needs to include the shoulder cannons. It really cements the homage. And they look pretty great!

Overcracker wrote:Just for clarity's sake Gavinfuzzy:

The Energon Downshift GuyIncognito is referring to is:

Clearly Wheeljack.

The alt mode makes it even more obvious that it's a Wheeljack homage:

Now, on to other questions, why does Energon "Prowl" look like Mirage?

Dark Optimum Supreme wrote:Now, on to other questions, why does Energon "Prowl" look like Mirage?

Because apparently he's an homage to every single Prowl who existed previously. Armada Prowl (the mini-con) is blue, g1 Prowl is a police car, Machine Wars Prowl is an F1 racer(using the same mold as Mirage), and kanji from Japanese police cars from RiD Prowl.

RAcast wrote:

Overcracker wrote:Just for clarity's sake Gavinfuzzy:

The Energon Downshift GuyIncognito is referring to is:

Clearly Wheeljack.


While you are likely thinking of:


He got the Big Daddy repaint.

He's named Downshift because he's supposed to be the same character as Energon Downshift.

And yes as has been established Energon was a homage line.

That shot of Cybertron Downshift really needs to include the shoulder cannons. It really cements the homage. And they look pretty great!

Oh, I never knew of a wheeljack in the energon line... or rather Downshift.. That totally looks like WJ

Overcracker wrote:Just for clarity's sake Gavinfuzzy:

The Energon Downshift GuyIncognito is referring to is:

Clearly Wheeljack.


While you are likely thinking of:

Also clearly Wheeljack!...'s head.

In my own made-up fictional universe, Energon Wheeljack (Downshift) got infected with some sort of virus which caused him to slowly lose his mind... in Cybertron he became Downshift, a mad(der)-scientist type character with a new paint scheme and more brute-strength alt-mode, and by Animated he had augmented his form and his mind had degraded so severely that he was now know as...LOCKDOWN!

Lockdown and Wheeljack both existing in the classics continuity is explained by some alternate universe shenanigans or duplicate bodies or something... perhaps the Autobots tried to recover their long-lost ally but in the end the Lockdown persona was too strong to separate from his body and so they were forced to use an earlier backup of Wheeljack's psyche/spark/whatever to download into a new body. And in a dramatic twist, only the mind of Wheeljack himself would be able to come up with such ingenuity to be able to revive himself in such a manner! Man, that would've been an epic story arc.