Black Shadow: "Pfft, you bozos ain't fit to join the Space Mafia."
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Just so you know (since you haven't seen Victory), there is no "Space Mafia". That was just me riffing on an old fandom misconception.
I do wish (despite not having one) that the option had been there to get an extra stand/spear parts set on the side, as DeathCobra looks like he'd benefit from both.
Can his nose-gun be hand-held?
Can his nose-gun be hand-held?
The short version is that Black Shadow's original toy bio had the character Function of "Space Gangster", which was mistranslated back in the early 90s in a way that led people to believe that he and fellow Crossformer Blue Bacchus (whose toy bio gave him the Function of "Space Gunman" instead) were members of a clandestine "Space Mafia".I knew I had heard the term before, so I thought I was just missing something from the fiction. I would have totally believed you.
This is Transformers, nearly anything is believable. The Space Mafia could hire the Ninja Consultant to front the Maid Cafe from the Legends Manga to launder the money that Swindle made in the Axiom Nexus on Dark Tai themed merchandise sold from his storefront in the rebuilt Trypticon for all I know and I would have no idea if I was joking or not. Seriously, that might have happened in some continuity.
Sure, but only in a picture book sold exclusively by the corner store in Botswana.
This is one time I wish Hasbro would cluelessly canonize a fandom misconception.
Mercenaries are still cool.
I almost thought that was my collection for a moment, but then I remembered that A) I don't have a Liokaiser, and B) the door on my storage unit is orange.
Fixed that for you.
I do enjoy the many ways you can combine the chain-spear bits to make different weapons
"I modeled it after the most terrifying torture implement in Earth's history! They called it the 'Covid Swab'...".
I'm gonna be real. If the intention isn't to suggest membership in some form of Space Organized Crime, then "Space Gangster" is not a meaningfully better translation than "Space Mafia."
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I blame the mass media and children's animation.
All frogs have this problem. Spittor never hopped when people were watching.
All frogs have this problem. Spittor never hopped when people were watching.
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