We've come a long way since then. And early G1 has become a lot more overbearing since then.
Now I think we'd be annoyed by G1 dudes showing up in an Armada comic at all.
On the other hand, both kill cases were very Furman-y things for him to do. Could he do no less?
It was shocking how few characters die in the Armada comic. The cartoon was more brutal.
You make it sound like characters were dying left and right every other episode. Armada was no Movieverse.
It had its moments.
We would remember it as one of the better Transformers shows if the dub had been any good.
We would remember it as one of the better Transformers shows if the dub had been any good.
Thrust dies rather brutally in the show, and not at all in the comic. Starscream dies very memorably in the show, and doesn't die in the comic until Energon (very lamely at that). Sideways appears to die in the show, and does nothing whatsoever in the comic. The comic doesn't even temporarily kill Optimus.
And then Energon arrive and **** it all up.
But seriously, I don't think any other cartoon ended up with Prime being told 'you're not that much better than Megatron' and him proving them right. You can certainly not say the Armada writers weren't bold.
Yeah but all that was towards the end of the show, where you would expect such deaths to occur. The only ones who ever died during the middle of the show were Smokescreen and Optimus, both of whom came back rather quickly after their deaths.
The very end of the series is supposed to be dramatically different and exceptional from what all came before, and thus is really not reflective of the entire picture.
Yeah. The comic also has an end where you would expect such deaths to occur, and they just don't. It was surprising.
Armada Thrust is still the most brutal death from a show or movie, IMO.
Just the idea of a giant metal being being crushed under such pressure that it swells like a balloon and pops... the amount of forces at play are terrifying.
Just the idea of a giant metal being being crushed under such pressure that it swells like a balloon and pops... the amount of forces at play are terrifying.
Probably not. Though with his spark being consumed I guess he did have a whole world of pain.
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Was Armada the first comic that killed Gobots for laughs? I feel like it might have been. Still a little raw about that running "gag".