Unite Warriors UW-EX Mega Empress and Flowspade - New Images

Shauyaun wrote:Is that a female Megatron?!
I hope she can transform into a gun!

Mega Empress turns into a Rosenbauer Panther 6x6

Flowspade turns into a Ferrari 458 Italia

It's Luna club not clover.

Luna Clover's a better name tbh

RAR wrote:I wonder if the shorted version of Trick Diamond's name is
said

Di-a
Dyer
Or
Deer
or Dee-ear

or what ?

"Dai-ya" (think "Diaclone"), as it's the first part of "diamond".

Wolfman Jake wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Mega Empress: Megatron's "husband" (though she's apparently into polygamy by proposing to Optimus Prime as well)

I think you mean to say that Mega Empress is Megatron's "wife," correct?

Bah, I really need to start drinking coffee... "Considers Megatron her "husband"" sounds a lot better.

Kurona wrote:I mean, the mold did start off life as Hot Spot...

They all started out as male... At the very least they're not showing any Scrambling tendencies with other Combiners, unlike BWII Scylla who is the only female Space Pirate Seacon...

I'll shut up now.

Kurona wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Kurona wrote:I mean, the mold did start off life as Hot Spot...

They all started out as male... At the very least they're not showing any Scrambling tendencies with other Combiners, unlike BWII Scylla who is the only female Space Pirate Seacon...

I'll shut up now.

Honestly, I think a combiner made up of different-gendered components could be fun and interesting. Proooobably something a bit too complicated for Hastak to start selling though lol.

Some of the Micromaster Six-combiners from Operation Combination have female members.

Why, Overlord himself is a combination husband-and-wife Transformer (with the husband simply speaking on behalf of the whole's identity in robot mode).

Luna Club - is that like 2 stages higher than the Mile High Club ?

Emerje wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Trick Diamond's Japanese name is Trick Dia

トリックダイヤ Torikkudaiya

ダイヤ daiya on its own is also Japanese for diamond, think of it as an abbreviation that still translates properly. So it's Trickdiamond in both languages, not Trick Dia.

Might as well point out that Lunaclover is technically proper since it's ルナクローバー Runakurōbā, but as we know the official English translation is Lunaclub which is weird because even the Japanese don't call the card suit clover, they call it club (クラブ kurabu) so you'd think her name would be ルナクラブ Runakurabu.


Emerje

Proper nouns usually get transliterated as is, so "Trick Dia" still stands regardless, as does "Luna Clover". That doesn't automatically make it their official English name however, as Convoy vs. Optimus Prime have shown. As you may already know, Unite Warriors as well as Legends give different English names where applicable, hence the "Trick Diamond" and "Luna Club" for greater familiarity for the Anglophone audience. Don't see it as a translation, more like providing proper analogs.

"Clover" for the Suit of Clubs is used a lot in pop culture, but not all the time. For instance, in the card-themed Sentai JAKQ Dengekitai the Club-themed member is "Clover King", and in the Shugo Chara anime, the Club-themed persona is called "Amulet Clover". On the flipside however, in Kamen Rider Blade when the "4 Card" (4-of-a-kind) attack is initiated, the Club suit is called out as "Club". They're pretty much interchangeable terms.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Proper nouns usually get transliterated as is, so "Trick Dia" still stands regardless, as does "Luna Clover". That doesn't automatically make it their official English name however, as Convoy vs. Optimus Prime have shown. As you may already know, Unite Warriors as well as Legends give different English names where applicable, hence the "Trick Diamond" and "Luna Club" for greater familiarity for the Anglophone audience. Don't see it as a translation, more like providing proper analogs.

Problem is Transformers tend to complicate things by using common nouns as proper nouns rather than the proper nouns written with common nouns in typical Japanese names. And further complicated by the use of borrowed English common nouns which you wouldn't typically see used as Japanese proper nouns outside of things like Transformers. So Torikkudaiya, two borrowed English words, is literally the word trick and the word diamond (daiya being short for daiyamondo).

And it is daiya, not dia which is pronounced dee-ah and is another borrowed word meaning deer or dear.

Emerje