One of the Japan-only early 2000s lines had Road Rocket as a ninja IIRC
Forgot if it was Car Robots or Robot Masters
Forgot if it was Car Robots or Robot Masters
Whatever might be said about the place of "divinity and mythology" in the Transformers franchise, I'm not sure I'm on board with calling it "a simple war between factions." Whatever else has been proven about the Transformers, they're not simple.Maybe i just dislike the injection of divinity and mythology in a simple war between factions, pretty much GI Joe but robots.
Whatever might be said about the place of "divinity and mythology" in the Transformers franchise, I'm not sure I'm on board with calling it "a simple war between factions." Whatever else has been proven about the Transformers, they're not simple.
Good guys have red frowny face. Bad guys have pointy purple face. We get some exceptions here and there but that’s why they’re exceptions.Whatever might be said about the place of "divinity and mythology" in the Transformers franchise, I'm not sure I'm on board with calling it "a simple war between factions." Whatever else has been proven about the Transformers, they're not simple.
GI Joe has dozens of problems but the good guys vs bad guys premise isn’t one of them.Yeah - and "GI Joe but robots" isn't as convincing a concept as it once was. There's a reason they haven't been able to figure out how to do Joe in the modern era beyond capitalizing on nostalgia.
That's only Aligned Optimus, though, not all the others.I hate that it took Optimus Prime from an Abraham Lincoln, ie a regular person who navigated a war thrust upon them without losing sight of his soldiers or what’s really important because he’s a “merely” a good person into a divinely inspired King Arthur who is only as good as he is because duh he’s a God.
It still doesn't retroactively apply to every Optimus Prime from before Aligned.That seems to be the on-going case in every canon they’ve done since Aligned.
Your ability to state the TF concept in simple terms isn't especially convincing that I should accept TFs as simple.Good guys have red frowny face. Bad guys have pointy purple face. We get some exceptions here and there but that’s why they’re exceptions.
GI Joe has dozens of problems but the good guys vs bad guys premise isn’t one of them.