(SEPT-2013) Cybertron Era Characters - Thoughts and Favourites

[Lint]

Who are your favourite characters in this era, and why?
Thundercracker: The perfect comic foil and a genuine guy even if he chose the 'wrong' side. While he was often shot at, blown up, kicked around and abused as Ransack and Crumplezone's "shuttle" he was still a remarkably valiant combatant, constantly working on his special attacks and even taking down Jetfire in earnest across their series-long "normal-guy rivalry". I say normal-guy as Thundercracker never really recieved a 'real' upgrade unlike many of the core cast.

Scourge: Although he is the 'honourable-bad-guy-turned-good' archetype his character development was very well handled in the show. From a survival-of-the-fittest ruler of Jungle Planet, to the vengeful soul (after being defeated by Optimus Prime), to the realisation that individual strength was not enough (after getting the snot kicked out of him on Giant Planet) and finally joining the fight against Galvatron as the protector of Jungle Planet.

Vector Prime: Yet another Prime but unique. He had a cool design, minicon, sword and served as Optimus' ageless mentor. Although not the greatest combatant and primarily used as a plot mechanism due to his warp capabilities he became a character unto his own with words and presence alone.

Which characters were disappointing or over-used?
Starscream: Although more discreet and cunning than his other incarnations, this Starscream just ended up being mentally deranged in his lust for power and desire to end Megatron. It was kind of creepy.

Soundwave: had 'mysterious motives which simply turned out to be the restoration of their war-planet and the destruction of giant planet

The Humans/Trio of Minicons: I hate to be one of those people but most of the time when they're on screen you're wishing to get back to the real transformer action The story could have been easily written without them.

Thunderblast: She had some great comic moments to begin with but quickly became irrelevant and a walking slap in the face to womens equality.

Who would you have liked to have seen more of in this Series for being under-used?

Metroplex: Appearing so late in the series didn't really help these characters which was really dissapointing as Metroplex was depicted as one of the most power transformers without resorting to combinations/upgrades.

Evac, Crosswise and Override: Didn't really get a lot of decent screentime despite being pretty awesome characters.

Scattorshot: Spent most of the time being the humble tech/communications guy. Even after his super awesome upgrade he was largely confined to data management tasks.

Jetfire: He was Optimus' second-in-command, had the respect of all the other Autobots but never really got to shine. Perhaps he would have been a bigger player in air support if Optimus and Vector Prime could not already fly.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Who are your favourite characters in this era, and why?
Vector Prime would be Number one. Great olde timer thing going on and he looked awesome and majestic. Can't get enough of the guy.

Master Megatron really took my fancy this time as he was totally bonkers and didn't give a crap about anything or anyone but himself. And he had his awesome minigun with which he easily took out 3 Autobots.

Lugnut. Coz he was a hipster and a rather nice looking motorbike.

Noisemaize (sideways ?) Cool design, was an interesting character at the start, until Soundwave came along.

Which characters were disappointing or over-used?
Thunderblast. Ugh, horrible, horrible.
Hot Shot. I found it annoying that he went from being a good back up from Optimus in Energon back to the annoying kid character. Yet another reason why Cybertron shouldn't be part of the Trilogy.

LigerJack and whatever his names was before, I just found that guy really annoying for some reason.
Who would you have liked to have seen more of in this Series for being under-used?
I really liked Landmine in this series and would have liked to see a bit more of him.

[Bartrim]

Who are your favourite characters in this era, and why?
Scourge - I found his character development really interesting
Sideways - I enjoyed his mystique until Soundwave came along and ruined it
Leo Breaker - His trying to supress his animal instincts to kill, character development was interesting to watch

Which characters were disappointing or over-used?
Thunderblast - She just flat out annoyed me
Override - Just too much of a feminist for my liking (I'm not sexist but I just think the strong willed feminist has been overdone)
Ransack and Crumplezone - Again enough with the bumbling bad guys. Crumplezone had awesome shoulder cannons that could of made him real bad ass instead he is comic relief.

Who would you have liked to have seen more of in this Series for being under-used?
Crosswise - I liked the idea of his character and then he just faded away.
The Cybertron Defence Team - Given their upgrades I thought they really should of had more scenes showing what they can do.
Evac - I just saw more potential there.