Quote Originally Posted by Sky Shadow View Post
The problem was that Drift didn't need to be a new character, McCarthy just needed to use Carnivac, Cancer, Star Saber or any other number of Transformers who already would have fit that role. It's fine to make up a character when existing ones don't work (e.g. Rung, Emirate Xaaron, Botanica, Alice, etc) but not when it's a cliché we already have in abundance in the Transformers universe.
I don't know who any of those characters are. I've heard of Star Saber. but i've never seen them on the screen or in any comics, not that I've read much of the original G1 comics.