The Four or Five or So sounds much less epic.
But seriously, if you list out separate aspects/attributes for each invidual of the However Many (combiner, bad one, beast guy, inventor, etc) it does all add up.
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But seriously, if you list out separate aspects/attributes for each invidual of the However Many (combiner, bad one, beast guy, inventor, etc) it does all add up.
Personally, I'd merge the functions of Solus and Alchemist together. Being able to transmute and create elements would help explain away the quasi magical aspect of the godly artifacts. Liege Maximo and Amalgamous I'd put together as well, seeing as they basically made Liege Loki, the trickster having superior shapeshifting makes sense. Vector and Alpha Trion's roles I'd combine because controlling time would make the ultimate historian.
I'd also remove Quintus altogether since having the Quintessons origin also be Cybertron just complicates matters in general. If organic life can spring up simultaneously all over the universe, I'd posit that mechanical life can too.
I'd also remove Quintus altogether since having the Quintessons origin also be Cybertron just complicates matters in general. If organic life can spring up simultaneously all over the universe, I'd posit that mechanical life can too.
If we must have a 13 (or equivalent), I'd rather them turn out to have all been normal Cybertronians from the early, lost to history days of Cyberton. Any mystical abilities or origins are just legends that have grown up around their relatively humble actual stories. Maybe most of them are actually from different (though still ancient) time periods and never even interacted.
Basically the way there was a real King Arthur in what is now England, but the stories that we tell about him today bear almost no similarity to him.
Basically the way there was a real King Arthur in what is now England, but the stories that we tell about him today bear almost no similarity to him.
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The Fallen, I guess.
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The Fallen, I guess.
The problem is despite being so prominant, there's actually not a lot of fiction done for a lot of them. You get one or two here or there, usually popping up in cryptic roles, but aside from the Covenant of Primus and some IDW stuff, many of them still just "exist."
The Greek gods are just their "one big thing" without the stories and tales to go along with them, giving them character.
Which was my point, yes. I can look at, say, Vector Prime or the Fallen and remember seeing them in a story, but when have Amalgamous or Quintus actually done anything on-screen (or on-page)? They just don't mean anything to me.
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Quintus was an important figure in Earthspark.
Like, in the backstory; he's barely a presence in the actual show and basically gets zero characterization beyond "deadbeat dad."
Love that take on it.
In my defense, I lost interest in Earthspark halfway through the first season and never got back to it.
