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cartoon ideas:Transformers: Part two
5 years ago
So last time I discussed initial characters at the beginning. Now I'm gonna go into who I want for extended cast in this dumb idea
AUTOBOTS
-Alpha Trion (I think it would be cool if Trion arrived on earth before the bots/cons and that he's kind of been hole'd up in Area-51 all this time. He would mainly spend his initial appearances using a holomatter avatar of an old man that the human kid sees every now and then before joining the team proper. Quintessons ultimately would kill him, but not before he forges a super mode for Prime)
-Elita One (So what if Elita kind of hated Optimus for being a Megatron fanboy that got their mutual friend killed and almost the two of them as well? She would mostly be the aloof ally who mainly takes orders from Alpha Trion. She slowly warms up to Prime around the Overlord arc and then around the end of the series would forgive him)
-Wreck-Gar (Basically kind of aping his origins from Animated, where some kind of allspark fragment or whatever brings him to life on earth, but it's G1 Wreck-Gar so he talks in TV and movie quotes. Also he gets a little family of Botbots and they live in the junkyard together)
-Drift (Oh shit here we go. So Drift in this would start out as the apprentice of BLUDGEON who is one of Megatron's phase sixers. He goes weeb when he observes Japanese culture and instead of just outright joining the Autobots decides to travel the earth to discover himself and what he wants to fight for before coming back and ultimately getting into a samurai showdown with Bludgeon)
-Ultra Magnus (Magnus shows up some time after the phase sixers and does his thing where he fills in for Optimus while he's out on injury. He starts out as a major hardass, but human kid spends an episode with him and he learns to be a bit more lenient. The reveal that he looks like Prime underneath and that he was contacted by Alpha Trion to come to earth is never really followed up on.)
-Skids (So Skids would just kind of show up as an amnesiac autobot and have a thing where Prowl doesn't trust him but the other autobots all want to help him recover, but THEN it turns out he's a sleeper double agent working for the quintessons, and Prowl is the guy to convince him to shape his own identity or something and he joins for good I guess. )
DECEPTICONS
-Shockwave (Shockwave shows up around the same time as Megatron when it's time for Starscream's role as "Acting leader" to be dunked. He doesn't really do anything except help build the space bridge, and then team up with Soundwave to try to get rid of fucking Overlord. I guess he could defect to the quintessons and get murdered by super megatron. idk)
-Seeker clones (These guys show up after Starscream finds like five or six protoforms tucked away and then has them scan his image to make the seekers, who all have their own distinct personalities, so it's not just direct starscream clones. Anyway they turn on him the same episode they're introduced and bolster the con ranks for a while before most of them get wiped during the space bridge explosion)
-Nightbird (So like...I thought about possible human antagonists for the autobots aside from the decepticons, and I kind of thought about a dude with a sassy computer AI who helps him try to capture an Autobot to experiment on or something. Eventually he tries to capture MEGATRON, and Megatron winds up wooing the AI before killing her human master, and then having Shockwave turn her into Nightbird. She can have something of a split rivalry between Elita and Shatter. Ultimately she dies fighting alongside Megatron until the end)
PHASE SIXERS
-Overlord (Overlord takes over as leader of the decepticons after Megatron is presumed dead from the space bridge blowing up at the end of season one. He's powerful but also batshit insane and does dumb shit like invade wrestling shows to challenge Optimus. Most of the arc is Starscream trying to keep him from finding out Megatron is dead, or that Starscream was the one that killed him. He dies when Shockwave eventually just speaks his killcode implanted into him and his head asplodes)
-Sixshot (I already went into this in part one, but Astrotrain is super jelly of Sixshot, even though sixshot doesn't really give a shit. They become friends after an episode I guess? Also he mostly develops a rivalry with Ultra Magnus BECAUSE FANSERVICE!)
-Bludgeon (See Drift's thing because I don't feel like typing it again. Although Bludgeon would also go out of his way to help Starscream cover up Megatron's death, partly because he doesn't really like Overlord, partly because he wants to stealth mentor Starscream into having a little more competence in his leadership skills. He's also quite happy when Drift kills him at the end since it means his student surpassed him I guess)
-Skyjack/Skyshadow/blackshadow/who cares? (Just there to fill out the phase sixers. Gets killed off after a few episodes. Next!)
QUINTESSONS
(So the Quintessons are kind of complicated this time around. Like they weren't THE FIRST beings on cybertron, but they definitely colonized the planet and created cybertronians from it to sell to other civilizations for labor and war and stuff. They show up shortly after Overlord is taken care of and are kind of a major threat. Also their tech is what's used to bring Megatron back to power, so there's that. Also they have decepticon bounty hunters)
-Lockdown (One of the bounty hunters the quints employ to get shit done. More in line with his Animated persona as opposed to movies/cyberverse which were both fucking terrible.)
-Fracture (Fracture was one of the wasted things about RiD 2015, so I'mma pair him with Lockdown. The two of them can banter about getting paid and how they both want to kill eachother but not really. Both also get kowtowed into joining Megatron after he blows up their original employers. Ultimately they get fragged by Skids and Prowl)
And that's pretty much my character pitches for a transformers series. There's a few I left out, but they're mostly just filler characters that don't really serve any purpose other than to sell more toys. idk. Might do a part three to outline each season's plot and then go into the sequel series.
AUTOBOTS
-Alpha Trion (I think it would be cool if Trion arrived on earth before the bots/cons and that he's kind of been hole'd up in Area-51 all this time. He would mainly spend his initial appearances using a holomatter avatar of an old man that the human kid sees every now and then before joining the team proper. Quintessons ultimately would kill him, but not before he forges a super mode for Prime)
-Elita One (So what if Elita kind of hated Optimus for being a Megatron fanboy that got their mutual friend killed and almost the two of them as well? She would mostly be the aloof ally who mainly takes orders from Alpha Trion. She slowly warms up to Prime around the Overlord arc and then around the end of the series would forgive him)
-Wreck-Gar (Basically kind of aping his origins from Animated, where some kind of allspark fragment or whatever brings him to life on earth, but it's G1 Wreck-Gar so he talks in TV and movie quotes. Also he gets a little family of Botbots and they live in the junkyard together)
-Drift (Oh shit here we go. So Drift in this would start out as the apprentice of BLUDGEON who is one of Megatron's phase sixers. He goes weeb when he observes Japanese culture and instead of just outright joining the Autobots decides to travel the earth to discover himself and what he wants to fight for before coming back and ultimately getting into a samurai showdown with Bludgeon)
-Ultra Magnus (Magnus shows up some time after the phase sixers and does his thing where he fills in for Optimus while he's out on injury. He starts out as a major hardass, but human kid spends an episode with him and he learns to be a bit more lenient. The reveal that he looks like Prime underneath and that he was contacted by Alpha Trion to come to earth is never really followed up on.)
-Skids (So Skids would just kind of show up as an amnesiac autobot and have a thing where Prowl doesn't trust him but the other autobots all want to help him recover, but THEN it turns out he's a sleeper double agent working for the quintessons, and Prowl is the guy to convince him to shape his own identity or something and he joins for good I guess. )
DECEPTICONS
-Shockwave (Shockwave shows up around the same time as Megatron when it's time for Starscream's role as "Acting leader" to be dunked. He doesn't really do anything except help build the space bridge, and then team up with Soundwave to try to get rid of fucking Overlord. I guess he could defect to the quintessons and get murdered by super megatron. idk)
-Seeker clones (These guys show up after Starscream finds like five or six protoforms tucked away and then has them scan his image to make the seekers, who all have their own distinct personalities, so it's not just direct starscream clones. Anyway they turn on him the same episode they're introduced and bolster the con ranks for a while before most of them get wiped during the space bridge explosion)
-Nightbird (So like...I thought about possible human antagonists for the autobots aside from the decepticons, and I kind of thought about a dude with a sassy computer AI who helps him try to capture an Autobot to experiment on or something. Eventually he tries to capture MEGATRON, and Megatron winds up wooing the AI before killing her human master, and then having Shockwave turn her into Nightbird. She can have something of a split rivalry between Elita and Shatter. Ultimately she dies fighting alongside Megatron until the end)
PHASE SIXERS
-Overlord (Overlord takes over as leader of the decepticons after Megatron is presumed dead from the space bridge blowing up at the end of season one. He's powerful but also batshit insane and does dumb shit like invade wrestling shows to challenge Optimus. Most of the arc is Starscream trying to keep him from finding out Megatron is dead, or that Starscream was the one that killed him. He dies when Shockwave eventually just speaks his killcode implanted into him and his head asplodes)
-Sixshot (I already went into this in part one, but Astrotrain is super jelly of Sixshot, even though sixshot doesn't really give a shit. They become friends after an episode I guess? Also he mostly develops a rivalry with Ultra Magnus BECAUSE FANSERVICE!)
-Bludgeon (See Drift's thing because I don't feel like typing it again. Although Bludgeon would also go out of his way to help Starscream cover up Megatron's death, partly because he doesn't really like Overlord, partly because he wants to stealth mentor Starscream into having a little more competence in his leadership skills. He's also quite happy when Drift kills him at the end since it means his student surpassed him I guess)
-Skyjack/Skyshadow/blackshadow/who cares? (Just there to fill out the phase sixers. Gets killed off after a few episodes. Next!)
QUINTESSONS
(So the Quintessons are kind of complicated this time around. Like they weren't THE FIRST beings on cybertron, but they definitely colonized the planet and created cybertronians from it to sell to other civilizations for labor and war and stuff. They show up shortly after Overlord is taken care of and are kind of a major threat. Also their tech is what's used to bring Megatron back to power, so there's that. Also they have decepticon bounty hunters)
-Lockdown (One of the bounty hunters the quints employ to get shit done. More in line with his Animated persona as opposed to movies/cyberverse which were both fucking terrible.)
-Fracture (Fracture was one of the wasted things about RiD 2015, so I'mma pair him with Lockdown. The two of them can banter about getting paid and how they both want to kill eachother but not really. Both also get kowtowed into joining Megatron after he blows up their original employers. Ultimately they get fragged by Skids and Prowl)
And that's pretty much my character pitches for a transformers series. There's a few I left out, but they're mostly just filler characters that don't really serve any purpose other than to sell more toys. idk. Might do a part three to outline each season's plot and then go into the sequel series.
