It's "Cosmos" and his voice is supposed to be a Russian accent, which Michael McConnohie admits was a painfully difficult voice to do because he had to really careful not to let it slide off into a bad Mexican accent.
Wild random thought: Cosmos' alt mode is an Adamski UFO (hence why Cosmos' Japanese name is "Adams"), and George Adamski was originally from Poland. Poland neighboured the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War (and during the time of G1)... so perhaps in an act of American ignorance they decided that a Russian accent sounded the same as a Polish one?? Probably not.
The flying saucer UFO photographed by George Adamski
Otherwise, I don't see what's wrong with Cosmos. He's actually fairly high-spirited considering how lonely he often feels as a result from the fact that his station requires him to be isolated for extensive periods of time. Not quite as lonely as WALL-E or Kim Jong-Il, but still pret-ty darnronerylonely.
Not really... he does get into doing things, but he won't admit or show it. Same with Gears actually (so I'm surprised you haven't lumped the two whingers together). But both are dedicated Autobots who do their job.Originally Posted by Huffer
But I don't see anything really wrong with either three of these Autobots. They all make reasonable contributions to the story/continuity.
The annoying thing with He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named is that he never really contributed anything of value to Transformers continuity, other than guiding the Dinobots to find Hot Rod and Kup in TFTM... but that was pretty much it. If you could assassinate He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named before Season 3, it would not really alter continuity. If you removed Huffer, Gears or Cosmos from continuity, it would dramatically change the course of events... for example, the Dinobots may never have been recovered from the Savage Land!
I'm gonna say the most annoying character in G1 aside from He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named is Daniel Witwicky!
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