Who was your favorite character from this series? If you say Cheetor, go screw

Who was your favorite character from this series? If you say Cheetor, go screw

Inferno

FOR THE ROYALTY!

>choosing a favorite character in this show of all shows.

Impossible task.

WWWWASSSPINATOR ISSS THE BESSSST!

Poor fucking Red Shirt Waspinator, best intentions with the worst outcome.

>My queen

Dinobot. Both versions.

Megatron.

Rinox. He was just an all around good guy who got things taken care of. Everyone else on The maximal team had some childish personality flaw.

anyone but the damn pterodactyl.
his voice is like nails on a chalkboard

Be careful or that one autist will show up with their transphobia troll

>Implying we don't know.

Then: Silverbolt cause i grew always idolizing the dorky altruist.
Now: rat-trap, he fucking earned being the best

Pretty much inferno or waspinator. You could go for dinobot because he simply refused to admit he was in a kids show.

Rampage. An interesting character and about as dark as you can get for a kid's cartoon. Transmutate made him somewhat sympathetic, too.

war is hell and rampage was a dick but man it's like the Matrix made him that way just to see how all the transformers would react to an unstoppable force

Yeah. He's at least aware that his existence is a fucking nightmare and that all he really knows how to do is inflict pain.

Loyalty is best bot.

The Maximals made him

The Hero The Maximals Deserve...

Shame the toy sucks

there's a masterpiece coming and the only issue the original mold has is the robot legs in beast mode. shame about never ever getting the deco right

Fuck you buddy.

The original mold has those dumb 'mutant face' halves that do nothing but get in the way and the proportions were goofy as fuck

I do have the Fox Kids redeco which at least has a cool paintjob

It only took until 2009 for us to get a dinobot in the right colors!
the proportions are fine and the mutate mask is easy to get rid of if it bothers you.

Cheetor.
Fight me.

I probably would have said Rhinox before Beast Machines

I was a dinobot kinda guy.

Dinobot for sure
Or maybe some optimal optimus..


FOR THE ROYALTY!!!!!!!
is a hard choice


Fuck Depthcharge was such a badass. Loved that toy. He and Luke Skywalker in a big add x wing had epic battles against g1 Megatron and Mr freeze in the wars I made as a kid

TERASAUR RAAAAHHHHHKKKKK

Lots Jesus when Rhinox fought I would freak out

.... then breast machines... my first experience with the feeling of JUST

>Lots Jesus when Rhinox fought I would freak out
>.... then breast machines... my first experience with the feeling of JUST

Oh autocorrect, you crazy

Blackarachina she made robots and spiders sexy

But everything got fucked in Beast Machines. It was like they attempted to screw the design and more everyway possible.

Dinobot, although Inferno was close second

Ahhh good God when she was transmetal
Never got the Silvetbolt thing though... fuzor was a bitch

...

She's a bitch.

She stole my hasbando from me.

The better Starscream

>that time Starscream was in Beast Wars

Whoops

i thought they just experimented on him making his spark immortal?

Something X. I believe he was an experiment....

Any answer other than Rattrap is objectively wrong.

I beg to differ cheese lips!

>there's a masterpiece coming
Citation needed

I always thought White Tiger was underrated, but I'm black so mission accomplished I guess.

I would have liked Optimus the best if he wasn't gone so much. So it's probably Black Arachnia for me.

i liked rhinox because he was the biggest character and also the smartest

but for whatever reason, he's just not comfortable in the leadership role

I'll have to say Rampage. I know he got a majority of his characterization from one episode, but Transmutate just so happens to be the absolute best episode of the series so I'm fine with the pick.

honorable shoutout to based Rhinox and Rattrap.

My brother's favorite was Cheetor but he was 4 or 5 when it first starting airing. So that's understandable, he was the kind of person they pandered to with Cheetor.

Mine was always Rinox. For some reason I always like the characters whom's job is to fix all the shit that gets fucked. For Rinox it let him be useful/relevant even when they were handing out upgrades like candy to everyone but him. I kind of like that he didn't get an upgrade though, required him to use his brains when shit hit the fan and I like his design. Transmetal would have probably ruined his look.

I think it just felt that way due to how long optimus was gone. Like he was either dead or transforming for 3 episodes 3 times

While I like Tigertron I think if he showed up more he might have come off as annoying.

>anything other than Megatron
For what reason

Yeah I was oddly ok with him not being transmetal.
He just had that something that separates him from everyone. You always knew he could handle his shit or would come up with a solution.

I remember him saying he didn't her an answer one time or being unsure and I was line OK OH FUCK WHAT NOW as a kid

The Rampage Depth Charge relation was of my favorite plot points of the later season.
I just felt line it was 2 crazy powerhouses that would destroy others in skirmishes but would drop other fights when they Saw each other like Raaaaah shit it's you motherfucker!!!!!

Protoform X, yup youre right made by the maximals, fuking hell bunch a idjits

Another reason I like the Transmutate episode so much is it reveals Depthcharge is pretty much a gigantic piece of shit all around and probably a worse person than Rampage.

I always liked to think he was so drivrn to destroy Rampage because he thought it was some form of redemption.

I think he really accepted everything when they died

What was the predacon cowboy?

Quickstrike?

Did.... Did scorpinok due? What happened to terasaur...i can't remember these things

> (You)
>I think it just felt that way due to how long optimus was gone. Like he was either dead or transforming for 3 episodes 3 times

I think you're right. It led to one of my favorite episodes; when Maximals and Predicons had that shootout at the Maximal ship which nearly wrecked them for good until Optimus came just in time. But man between him being gone, and the Maximals usually just barely edging out Predicon schemes, it felt like Optimus was ineffective.

Aww dude but he ravaged the predacon forces every new transformation.

Was that the super western episode where the maximals are in over ammoed last stand mode?

RRRRAAAAHHHHKKKK

KKKAWWWW

Even as a kid I was like wooh wtf

Megatron and Rattrap.

Easy my favorite characters were Rattrap, Black Arachnia, Silverbolt, and Tarantulous. Inferno was fun.

>Rampage
You sickening piece of slag!

Lol.
Seriously dinobot was on anotber level.
>that time Dinobot was fully considering seppuku
Went so far over my head

When I rewatched the show with a buddy, I'll nerve forgot we had just smoked and we're eating ceral and both just pause and our down... like holy shit this is some deepness for a kids show

I hear the voice!

>The original script includes an extra line from Rampage in the last scene, in which he threatens to eat Megatron's "living brain on a plate with fava beans". No doubt cut because it was just a little too on the nose regarding Rampage's Hannibal Lecter-esque characterization.

But have you rewatched Beast Wars?

Silvetbolt is only ever implied to be badass.
He jobs like baby's first JL Martian Manhunter.
Literally I'LL SAVE YOU MY FAIR LADY-BOOM uuhgggg

>that time Megatron commands Rampage to destroy a mountain for golden disk fuckery and Rampage targets Megs face with a cannon for so long

...

>Megatron just cooly taps where he's keeping Rampage's spark

Such an OG.

I rewatched it recently and discovered that Blackarachnia is just a fucking dork in a hot body.
>This is just like I read in the chronicles!

NEEEERRRRDDDDD

> (You)
>Aww dude but he ravaged the predacon forces every new transformation.
>Was that the super western episode where the maximals are in over ammoed last stand mode?


Yeah! Dinobot throws that rock up that gets lit up by the Predacons. Iirc they were literally falling apart. Such a good episode.

This guy gets it

I've never loved a Megatron like Beast Wars. He such a perfect mix of all things epic villain. Like his speech about the desctrution of the autobots on the arc. Fucking chills every time.

Fun fact in France the next portion of "The Agenda" didn't air the same as other countries and they were left with one of the worst cliffhangers I'm history

Megatron, hands fucking down one of the best villains ever in kids fiction
>Was given a "mission" by stumbling on a message from the original Megatron
>Says "nah, fuck that" and just hijacks the plan with he cronies for his own ends
>Constantly scheming, makes plans within plans, only really looses due to out of nowhere factors or his own men's incompetence
>actually keeps tabs on his Starscream (Tarantulas) throughout the show, knowing full well the little shit could turn on a dime
>Actually succeeds in offing his rival by forcing the heroic sacrifice trope upon him
>Talks Ravage over to his side with a pep-talk and a message from Daddy Megatron
>When pushed into a corner, he was willing to ERASE EXISTENCE ITSELF just to win
>And he does this by waltzing into the Ark and BLOWING OFF OPTIMUS PRIME'S HEAD
>Just stares down Rampage with a smirk cause he knows the psycho-bot can't do shit

I shudder to think what his character would be if the kids gloves came off

Yeah Man! like they all strap in and stand out /slow walk and out was so classic standoff

He was so dam amazing!!@
When He let terrasaur be the leader, no go ahead.

That shit in the arc BLEW MY MIND
I was like WHAT ISN'T HE CAPABLE OF PLANNING DAMNIT

...

Tarantulas

...

Blackarachnia had a lot of subtle characterisation.

Like how she was always afraid of Tarantulas, but would also not let anyone think he wasn't totally in control. Like when Rattrap just wrote him off as some dumb loon, and Blackarachnia was like "no, dude's hella smart."

>When they are so CAPABLE and badass you actually play with them in various modes

Oh yeah man, she had a real primal fear of Tarantulus.

Like, no guys you have no clue what he is willing to do or how far

That's exactly why I loved Silverbolt and Black Arachnia. He was a goodie two shoes boy scout and she was inexplicably turned on by his naive charm.

Silverbolt's charm for me was his dorky altruism and code of ethics.

>those cards

>those heart sensitive maximal/predacon symbols

***heat sensitive

The whole Tarantulas/Blackarachnia relationship was pretty dark for a kids show. He keeps a psychic link with her just to fuck with her, and when it came time for her to have life saving "surgery" done, he personally led the charge to botch it and kill her. Dude was a god damn mad genius with a vendetta streak. Plus, he's a fucking spider.

>Megs toy had roller skates in beast mode
>only uses it like twice in the show

Shame, really

And all the cast are painfully OOC.

I just think in so many aspects they took the easy way out rather than the far more complex characters we had in BW. The planned and deeper story allowed for a much more character-driven experience, but instead we got trash.

Like, was that really where the character development of Beast Wars was leading?

He was the perfect spider. Those are all excellent horror things he did. I remember now the link he would use to be like no bitch you remember I will always torment your mind.

When he was like, no go ahead kill everyone, I am council descendant and neither autobot nor decepticon I will RULE whatever is left

I'll never forgive them for what they did to Rhinox. He never did too much after Season 1 of BW, but he always seemed like the most consistent, like he'd always be there. Then it was just NOPE LOL HE'S EVIL EXCEPT HE'S NOT BUT HE'S DEAD

Scorponok and Terrorsaur were both knocked into lava by Megatron when he was going through the Transmetal process in Season 2, Episode 1, Aftermath.

Tarantulas was like what every abused child thinks an abusive parent is, what with the constant psychic link meaning you could never escape or hide. It's really sinister when you imagine it through that lens.

How good was the stuff with the Vok? I know Season 1 was a lot lighter than 2 and 3, but all the foreshadowing and little hints towards some unknown third party out there were great.

Dude was a fucking boss though. He was pretty much Optimus' Samwise Gamgee.

Rhinox loved nature in Beast Wars, if anything he'd be just a counter-voice to a pro-tech character from which Optimus had to form a neutral path.

EXACTLY
When we went back and tried to rewatch it, we agreed we could get through the new art style, sure.
But EVERYONE was just just miles off character. Why the fUCK is rhinox an evil tank minion with no solid redemption arc?
Good God it was so disarming, ok it's the same voice but.... but they would never say that!?!!

Probably one of the biggest show let downs I've had

Oh ok a bar character this could be coo- no goddamnit he sucks too

I just want to sit on on a beast machines meeting one day... Like was the burnt out temp in charge a day? That couldn't her been EVERYOMES vision

The worst part is that they could have done something really interesting with them returning to Cybertron.

They could have easily have made it a new series without needing to see the previous one, but instead they made it essential despite being told not to.

I love how when Megatron turns Rhinox into a Predacon in S1 he immediately starts running the show. He could have been in charge of the Maximals if he only had the ambition to be a leader. He was content just being the domestics.

Eh, they don't really come into play until close to the series end. They sent Tigerhawk, a fusion of Airazor and Tigertron (who were "killed" by the Vok eariler), who was basically a Cybertronian Super Saiyan, and he royally fucked up Dragon-Megatron for mucking with the timestream so much.

Then he gets killed an episode later because he was such an OP character.

>BW Rhinox
>Cool tech-savy dad figure who don't take no shit
>BM Rhinox
>FUCK IT WE'RE ALL FUCKING EVIL IMMA KILL YOU ALL HAHAHAHA

There were many sins brought upon the world by that show, but that was the most damning. Fuck the team that made that show.

IIRC one of the story planners had lots of great ideas that never materialized. Like Nightscream was going to basically be Newt to Blackarachnia.

Lol that's right.

Aaaand dead FUCK you traitor bird.

But seriously Transmetal terrorsaur was one my go to villians in my beast wars battles. Such an excellent transformer design

Nah man, the Vok were there all throughout the show. Fucked up the Earth in the finale of S1, had their weird Metal Hunter ship in S2 and sent down a new to- Tigerhawk near the end of the Beast Wars. They were a constant.

Dinobot because the honor