#g1 29

[allelitewrestlings]

☆ jul. 24, 2019 → jan. 4, 2024 ☆

[swordwing2117]

Shockwave

acryl on purple paper

[apple-teaaa]

decided to do a lil fall themed thing

i havent done lineless art in literally forever, and it's my first time ever drawing a plane lmao

[househuntingscotland]

1 bedroom flat for sale on Chisholm Street, Glasgow

Asking price: £165,000

[talonabraxas]

Lyrid meteor shower 2024: How to watch stunning shooting stars and 'fireballs' during the event's peak this week

The annual Lyrid meteor shower peaks between April 21 and 22 this year, potentially offering views of hundreds of shooting stars and rare "fireballs."

The Lyrids, which were first observed by humans around 2,700 years ago, are one of the oldest meteor showers on record, according to NASA. They are not quite as magnificent as some other meteor showers, such as the Perseids. However, at their best, the Lyrids are known to produce bright exploding space rocks, known as fireball meteors, and leave persistent trails of light, known as meteor trains, that remain in the sky for several seconds.

These meteors come from the dusty trail left behind by Comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher, which orbits the sun every 415.5 years. Once a year, Earth passes through the comet's expansive debris field, causing disconnected chunks of the comet to burn up in our atmosphere, giving the impression of shooting stars racing across the night sky.

The annual event normally lasts for around two weeks in April but is most prominent during a roughly day-long peak. This year, the Lyrids began on April 15 and will continue until April 29. However, they will peak between Sunday (April 21) and Monday (April 22).

Lyrid's by Talon Abraxas

[dolljunk]

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My Top Ten posts for 2023 since I don't think I'll be able to work on anything else for this year. 2023 was a very chaotic year where I had to put a majority of my projects on hold as I had to downsize my entire life to be able to move halfway across the world to be with someone I deeply cared about. It is funny how I was into G1 Monster High when I first moved out of my childhood home and I got back into Monster High collecting when I moved across the world. After 2022 where I experienced a big shock to my confidence and dreams, it made me reevaluate what I was doing with my life in Melbourne, Australia and how I approached dolls in general. It is funny how Monster High came back into my life after so long because it helped me finish a lot of dream projects and past regrets I had when my skills weren't up to my standards. My confidence was pretty badly shaken back in 2022 in a way I didn't think I would have recovered from, but having MH be this emotional touchstone for me has helped put into perspective how much my skills have grown even if things aren't linear. I really hope 2024 will be just as enlightening and that we can all see each other at the other side of a wild year.

[alicefromwhichplanet]

WWII tfa Humanformers Headcanon: Channel World

I got this idea when I was binge watching German war films two months ago (still watching more and more now). I easily came up with a human version of Blitzwing (he’s German, anyway), and then I assigned positions/ nationalities to other tfa characters I made as the main cast in my fiction Heroic Nonsense.

Characters/Relationships:

Blitzwing/Bumblebee

Megatron/Optimus Prime

Strika/Lugnut

The background:

After the war, the Cybertronians became quite conceited and joked about humans’ lives being too short and easy. Sari just made a machine/game that can provide users with immersive experiences as humans in a certain era. She decided to let her friends try human life back in 1944.

The Cybertronians were assigned random roles on earth in 1944 (based on their original identities…). They have video calls once in a while in a special comm link in the game, which they later call “Channel World”, because they’re calling from different parts of the world.

Blitzwing:

Blitzwing is of course thrown into the worst case scenario. He is at the East front, retreating… as a 19-year-old German soldier. He squeaked a lot, wet his pants, ran away and was dragged back, saw many deaths and injuries and was captured by Strika’s troops and let go, because it was Strika that caught him. He cried on the phone to Bumblebee saying he missed him, but refused to stop the game, because he didn’t want to be seen as a coward.

Bumblebee:

Bumblebee is assigned to South America as a Mexican boy, 17. He was quite contented with his identity first, but after seeing Blitzwing’s situation he was desperate to go and meet his lover. He signed up for Mexican Air Forces that fought for the Allies with great efforts, only to find himself bombing Blitzwing’s side…

Strika:

Strika was assigned to Soviet Union. The reason being that she reminds me of experienced Red Army women soldiers with her characterization… She is a leader of a squad, 24 or 25. Fought bravely to Berlin. Captured a German soldier (Blitzwing). But he ran away ( she let him go).

Megatron:

Almost no doubt Megatron was made a high ranked Soviet official, in his 30s, and in the battlefield as well. This is because in tf g1 there is an implication of Decepticons being the Soviet side of the Cold War. Megatron and Strika will be a crucial factor why Blitzwing survived in the POW camp after the war ended.

Optimus:

Of course. He’s an American soldier. White male, 28 or 29. Optimus is closest to the position of an observer. His humanoid character is almost like the “default mode”. He went to Europe to attend the war with his friend Lugnut.

Lugnut:

African American soldier, only a little younger than Optimus. Also fought in the war and laughed at his best friend on Cybertron Blitzwing when he got too immersed and called him “American scum” on video call. Will join civil rights movements in US after the war.

I may put this idea into fiction, or maybe will just post random short stories under this au. It requires a lot of historic backgrounds and I’m still lacking time now. But later. Anything can happen. Let’s call it Channel World AU.

[rowanmutt-afterdark]

Transformers Kinktober 2023

I was inspired by @uselessmicrowave current kinktober and decided I could use the challenge while I work on requests. If you'd like to see a certain bot or con, please don't hesitate to send a suggestion through ask or comment on this post.

Below, I have listed all the days of October and what will be written for that day and the Transformer/Universe for that day. These were all picked out by me. When the day is crossed out, that means it's been written already.

Day 1: Orgasam Denial (TFA Sentinel)

Day 2: Gags (TFA Ratchet)

Day 3: Lingerie (IDW Swerve)

Day 4: Public Sex/Under the Table (IDW Rodimus)

Day 5: Breeding (TFA Optimus Prime)

Day 6: Overstimulation (TFA Blurr)

Day 8: Office Sex (IDW Magnus or TFP Magnus)

Day 7: Virginity (G1/IDW Kup)

Day 9: Collaring/Pet Play (TFP Ratchet)

Day 10: Biting/Marking (ES Starscream)

Day 11: Gang Bang

Day 12: Mirror Sex

Day 13: Pegging

Day 14: Sex Machine

Day 15: Somnophilia

Day 16: Thigh-riding (IDW Fort Max)

Day 17: Possessive Sex (IDW Tarn)

Day 18: Body Worship

Day 19: Tit job

Day 20: Predator/Prey (G1 Vortex)

Day 21: Medical Play (IDW Pharma)

Day 22: Cockwarming (IDW Soundwave)

Day 23: Bondage

Day 24: Shower Sex

Day 25: Chasity (TFP Ultra Magnus)

Day 26: Mutual Masturbation (ROTB Mirage and Noah)

Day 27: Creampie

Day 28: Sleepy/Morning Sex (IDW Skywarp)

Day 29: Pegging

Day 30: Exhibition/Voyeurism

Day 31: Sex Toys

[schadentekkers]

ZSJ v KENTA G1 CLIMAX 29

[anony-man]

Chubformers drabble #29!

Character: Soundwave (G1)

Word count: 460

Both physically and metaphorically, Soundwave had reached his limits.

The telepath sighed as he rolled onto his back, his furious and overstuffed belly protesting every little movement. Tentative servos rested against the swell and slowly began to knead, his desperation far outweighing his desire to keep his composure. It wasn’t like he was hiding his pathetic state from anyone anytime soon, after all.

Indulgence simply wasn’t a word in Soundwave’s vocabulary, first and foremost. While he underwent near constant days of crippling stress responsibilities, Soundwave had learned that throwing himself into his work usually soothed the unpleasant side effects. Today, however, he just couldn’t shake his awful mood.

He hadn’t meant to get himself drunk on the stash of engex stored in his quarters. That day had been the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak, and despite Soundwave’s best efforts, what was supposed to have been a quick reprieve turned into a long-winded binge session spent drinking himself into temporary oblivion.

At the time, letting go had felt really, really good. He needed it after having kept his composure in check for so long. Primus, he was long overdue for a break from being the only responsible mech on their team. Megatron’s intentions were true, and the Decepticon cause was Soundwave’s life devotion, but it was absolutely exhausting sometimes. All inhibitions had been thrown out the window that night, though, and it felt great… until it didn’t.

Soundwave’s optics were shut tight behind his visor, the swirling of the room only helping to make the ache in his helm worse. He was definitely intoxicated, but there was something more to be said for the way his engex sat in his tanks like heavy stones. He felt massive, ready to burst. He’d never been this full before, not once in his life—which is probably why he felt as bad as he did now.

To preserve his peace of mind, Soundwave had banished the two twin cassettes early on. Ravage, he realized, had remained. Her presence was made known by the soft pressure of pedes gently stepping across Soundwave’s bloated belly before she settled in, her engines rumbling low in her frame. It felt nice, he thought. Soothing, in a way.

“Nhgk—“ Soundwave tried to speak, but his voice was a mess of muddled words and slurred sounds. Instead, he lifted a servo and gently pat her helm. His belly gave a grumble in response, angry tanks begrudgingly beginning to acknowledge the heavy weight of fuel that had been pumped inside them as they started to digest.

It wasn’t often that Soundwave’s self-control faltered, and it would be long before it happened again. Right now, though, he was left to suffer the consequences, and consequential they were.

[allelitewrestlings]

njpw g1 climax 29 (2019) → aew continental classic (2023)

[fallynleaf-gifs]

Wherever I go... whatever country I go to... I want the Golden Lovers to fight with the same emotion and one heart. —Kenny Omega

“What would Kota think?”

2019-2021

This is a long-overdue gifset. I meant to finish it in November 2021, then I meant to finish it in early 2022, then, well, May 2022 happened, and the Golden Lovers story effectively got put on ice, so I shelved the gifset, too. But now we have reason to hope again, so here it is. The Golden Lovers’ path has never been a straightforward or easy one.

I’ve seen Kota Ibushi described as a “ghost” that haunted Kenny Omega for those few years, but I don’t think that’s quite accurate. Kota has been part of the fabric of AEW itself since the very beginning. Despite the fact that he has yet to make an actual appearance, he has been present in direct references and allusions, in the Golden Lovers symbol on the shoulder of Kenny’s gear, and in the golden “E” in “AEW”, which originally came from the Golden Elite.

Without Kota Ibushi, AEW as we know it would not exist. Of course, a large part of that is his continuing influence on anything and everything that Kenny does. Kenny Omega only really tells one story. It’s the same story that he has been telling his whole career. Sometimes it’s a quiet, subtle story, and sometimes it’s a very loud one. Sometimes it’s both at the same time.

The first direct, unmistakable reference to Kota in AEW happened in an infamous Undertale-themed VTR on October 30, 2019. In it, Kenny is plagued by his own insecurity (which was not helped by Kota’s recent G1 win, in contrast to Kenny’s recent failures in AEW), and a seductive voice tries to prompt him to let it take control before his other tag partners leave him, too. But Sans steps in to stave off the inevitable, and Kenny manages to keep it together—for about a year or so.

The next reference happens a little over a week later, at Full Gear on November 9. Kenny has an unsanctioned match with Jon Moxley, and he brings out all sorts of weapons, including a horrific bed of barbed wire that Hangman Page and the Young Bucks were reluctant to help him with. But what gets him in the end isn’t any weapon, but a failed Phoenix Splash (Kota’s first finisher) onto the exposed wood of the ring. From there, Mox hits a Paradigm Shift and pins him. Kenny could endure broken glass and barbed wire, but the one pain he couldn’t withstand is the pain of a broken heart.

After that, he tries to retreat back into the only comfort he knows: tag team wrestling. He pressures Hangman into tagging with him, and the two of them set their sights on tag team gold. Miraculously, they manage to make it work, winning the titles a scant month and a half or so before the world shuts down. Kenny’s main focus is on tag team wrestling during this time, but in order to fix one major blemish on his singles record, he ends up wrestling Pac in an ironman match on February 26, 2020. One of the moves he pulls out is unmistakably a Kamigoye (Kota’s current finisher).

A few days after that, on February 29, Kenny and Hangman defend their titles against the Young Bucks at Revolution. It’s a match with quite a few references and callbacks (especially to the Golden Lovers vs Young Bucks match in 2018), but the most striking moment was the Bucks hitting Kenny with a Golden Trigger (the Golden Lovers’ finisher), which Kenny kicks out of after a mere 1-count, prompting a massive response from the crowd. No one can weaponize the Golden Lovers’ own love against him like that.

The end of that match portends division and betrayal between the four men, but before the story can continue as planned, the covid-19 pandemic hits, and everything in the world of pro wrestling changes.

The year that follows is a hard one. Kenny’s AEW tag title run has a cruel symmetry with Kota’s concurrent NJPW tag title run. Just as Kenny and Hangman finally find their equilibrium, FTR arrives to sow conflict, The Elite fractures, Kenny and Hangman drop the titles, and Kenny gives up on tag team wrestling. Everything in the Undertale VTR had come to pass. Having nowhere else to go, he goes to an old family friend: Don Callis.

Then, at Winter Is Coming on December 2, wrestling in frigid 40°F weather at the open-air Daily’s Place, Kenny beats Jon Moxley for the AEW World Championship, thanks to Don Callis helping him cheat. The two of them abscond with the title after the so-called “golden screwjob”, and Kenny takes it somewhere the Young Bucks aren’t willing to follow him—Impact Wrestling.

Thus kicks off the Belt Collector arc. Kenny soon acquires two new/old goons: Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows, both former members of Bullet Club. He starts considering himself part of Bullet Club again, and declares his intent to collect more belts besides the AEW one (and the AAA Mega Championship, which he already had), starting with Impact.

On January 4, 2021, Kota Ibushi wins the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships at Wrestle Kingdom in NJPW. A few days after that, Kenny posts an Instagram story wherein he looks at Sports Illustrated’s list of the top 10 wrestlers of 2020. Kenny is number five on the list, and Kota is number eight. We can see that Kenny was looking at Kota’s entry before he looked at his own.

Then, on January 28, on the three year anniversary of their reunion, Kota tweets at Kenny, proposing that their two companies change the industry together. Kenny replies, using Nak’s translation as a mediator, and says, “Already feeling lonely in the Kingdom I left for you? Shall I destroy it? Take my hand, we’ll build a new one”. Kota responds to him, but receives no answer.

A few days after that, on February 3, Kenta appears on AEW Dynamite, blowing the so-called Forbidden Door between AEW and NJPW wide open. From that point on, we’re truly in uncharted territory.

Kenny challenges for (and wins) the Impact World Championship in April, but leading up to that match, Don simultaneously stokes Kenny’s ego and tries to gaslight him into erasing Kota from his own history. He encourages Kenny to repeatedly say that no one has ever kicked out of the One Winged Angel (only one person actually has: Kota Ibushi. He’s the source of Kenny’s greatest strength and his greatest weakness). However, no matter how much Don tries, Kenny’s age-old insecurity emerges on March 23, when Don names a long list of wrestlers that Kenny is supposedly better than, and Kenny yells out “Bigger than Ibushi!”

Kenny names Kota again in a AAA promo on August 31, listing him among the best high flyers in the world. It’s abundantly clear that to Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi is the greatest wrestler in the world. No matter how far Kenny goes, no matter how many belts he collects, no matter how many accolades he receives, Kota Ibushi will always stand above him in his own mind. Kenny will never be able to outrun him or let go of him. He can’t fill the hole in his heart with a new tag partner, and he can’t fill it with belts, either.

While all of this is happening, Kota is unfortunately not having the greatest summer of his life. He loses the IWGP belt to Will Ospreay on April 4, then gets aspiration pneumonia in July. He participates in the G1 Climax tournament in September and manages to make it all the way to the finals, but he dislocates his shoulder after a failed Phoenix Splash while facing Kazuchika Okada on October 21.

Kenny’s own injuries come back to haunt him, too, but his autumn goes a little bit better.

Adam Cole—an actual ghost from Kenny’s past—comes back to sow trouble for the Elite (though it takes a while to actually manifest), debuting at All Out on September 5 along with Bryan Danielson. Bryan wrestles Kenny a couple weeks later in his first match as an AEW member, on September 22 at Grand Slam. He forces Kenny to fight him with everything he has, and for just a moment, Bryan is able to draw out the Best Bout Machine instead of the Belt Collector. As he always does in his moments of greatest need, Kenny reaches for Kota Ibushi, and once again executes a Phoenix Splash, which, as always, he is unable to actually hit. This time, it doesn’t end in tragedy, though. Instead, the match goes to a full time limit draw.

The death knell for the Belt Collector looms near, however. Hangman Page earns himself a shot at the AEW World Championship at Full Gear on November 13. Three days before the match, they hold a contract signing for it on Dynamite.

Hangman, who knows Kenny very well by this point, is able to read the subtext. He finally figures it out. He realizes that everything Kenny said to him, everything that he did to him and with him, it was never actually about Hangman. It all sprung from a deeper wound that Kenny has carried with him all this time. As soon as Hangman figures this out, nothing Kenny does to him can hurt him anymore. "But if I remember, you once had another tag team partner who maybe you felt like you didn't measure up to either."

That one line also does something else that’s very important: it brings Kota Ibushi out of AEW’s subtext and into the main text. He’s part of the story now. And he always was. (The man himself liked a gif of Hangman’s “you once had another tag partner” line on twitter shortly after it happened. If there was ever any doubt that he’d been keeping up with what Kenny was doing in his absence, it’s gone now.)

Maybe the best illustration of this is a front row sign that a fan brings to Hangman and Kenny’s match at Full Gear a few days later. “What would Kota think?” Kenny stops to stare at it for a long moment before entering the ring. Years earlier, he’d talked about being so surprised and thrilled that the fans had managed to pick up on the Golden Lovers story leading up to their reunion in NJPW. He was so touched by the fact that the fans had known their history, after all that time. I wonder if he felt something similar here. It was in many ways the culmination of his efforts. The story made deeply tangible, here at the climax of its most difficult chapter.

As was always meant to happen, Kenny loses to Hangman and drops the AEW title. He makes one last onscreen appearance on November 17, 2021 before temporarily stepping away from AEW and away from wrestling so that he can recuperate from years of overworking himself. He says, “I feel like... there’s things I gotta fix, there’s things I gotta change, and I can’t do it here.” Is his relationship with Kota one of those things he had to fix?

Here’s where the story gets a bit hazy. Unfortunately, the year that follows does not go particularly well for either of the Golden Lovers, and plans have to get rewritten. Their respective injuries take longer than expected to heal, which leads to Kota having a falling out with NJPW in May 2022 after they try to force him to come back to the ring too soon. Kenny is finally able to make his own return in August 2022, but he returns to a troubled backstage environment, which finally boils over during the media scrum after All Out on September 4. Kenny and the rest of the Elite are forced to vacate their freshly won Trios Championships, and they all get suspended for a few months during the investigation.

But even in the darkest of moments, things aren’t all bad. The Golden Lovers reunite in a restaurant in Japan on September 15. They reunite on their own terms, outside of any company. The future is still a bit unclear for them, but wherever the story goes next, they want to do it right. “Because the tag team with him is more special to me than anything,” Kota says. He asks Kenny to wait for him, and Kenny assures him that he’ll wait as long as it takes. They both proclaim that the Golden Lovers aren’t over.

One day, the stars will align for them again. If it happens in AEW, the stage is already set. "What would Kota think?” was the question posed at the end of 2021. Maybe one day we will get to hear his answer.

[sleepisapriviligethatidonthave]

Around March I got the urge to watch G1, so I opened Youtube and started the episodes in the order in which they were listed on the official Hasbro channel.

Turns out that is not a good idea.

I figured it out around the middle of season 1 and went searching on the internet to find if someone had any idea why is that.

After a while I found a forum of people talking about how they made their own order of the episodes. After a bit of scrolling I found God.

pitt55 shared his entire reconfiguration of all the 98 episodes on the forum. You'll find his reply if you scroll down just a bit.

I used his guide and didn't have a single problem from then on, and I did make a copy of it and pasted it in my notes for easier access so I'm putting it here for anyone who wants to watch G1 and is/was as confused as me.

Season 1

[01] - More Than Meets The Eye - Part 1

[02] - More Than Meets The Eye - Part 2

[03] - More Than Meets The Eye - Part 3

[04] - Transport To Oblivion

[05] - Roll For It

[06] - Divide And Conquer

[07] - Fire In The Sky

[08] - Fire On The Mountain

[09] - SOS Dinobots

[10] - War Of The Dinobots

[11] - The Ultimate Doom - Part 1 [Brainwash]

[12] - The Ultimate Doom - Part 2 [Search]

[13] - The Ultimate Doom - Part 3 [Revival]

[14] - Countdown To Extinction

[15] - A Plague Of Insecticons

[16] - Heavy Metal War

Season 2

[01] - Autobot Spike

[02] - Changing Gears

[03] - City Of Steel

[04] - Attack Of The Autobots

[05] - Traitor

[06] - The Immobilizer

[07] - The Autobot Run

[08] - Atlantis, Arise!

[09] - Day Of The Machines

[10] - Enter The Nightbird

[11] - A Prime Problem

[12] - The Core

[13] - The Insecticon Syndrome

[14] - Dinobot Island - Part 1

[15] - Dinobot Island - Part 2

[16] - The Master Builder

[17] - Auto Berserk

[18] - Microbots

[19] - Megatron's Master Plan - Part 1

[20] - Megatron's Master Plan - Part 2

[21] - Desertion Of The Dinobots - Part 1

[22] - Desertion Of The Dinobots - Part 2

[23] - Blaster Blues

[24] - A Decepticon Raider In King Arthur's Court

[25] - The Golden Lagoon

[26] - The God Gambit

[27] - Make Tracks

[28] - Child's Play

[29]- The Gambler

[30] - Quest For Survival

[31] - The Secret Of Omega Supreme

[32] - Kremzeek!

[33] - Sea Change

[34] - Triple Takeover

[35] - Prime Target

[36] - Auto-Bop

[37] - The Search For Alpha Trion

[38] - The Girl Who Loved Powerglide

[39] - Hoist Goes Hollywood

[40] - The Key To Vector Sigma - Part 1

[41]- The Key To Vector Sigma - Part 2

[42] - War Dawn

[43] - Trans-Europe Express

[44] - Cosmic Rust

[45] - Starscream's Brigade

[46] - The Revenge Of Bruticus

[47] - Aerial Assault

[48] - Masquerade

[49] - Β.Ο.Τ.

[00] - The Transformers: The Movie

Season 3

[01] - Five Faces Of Darkness - Part 1

[02] - Five Faces Of Darkness - Part 2

[03] - Five Faces Of Darkness - Part 3

[04] - Five Faces Of Darkness - Part 4

[05] - Five Faces Of Darkness - Part 5

[06] - The Killing Jar

[07] - Chaos

[08] - Dark Awakening

[09] - Forever Is A Long Time Coming

[10]- Fight Or Flee

[11]- Thief In The Night

[12] - Starscream's Ghost

[13] - Surprise Party

[14] - Madman's Paradise

[15] - Nightmare Planet

[16] - Ghost In The Machine

[17] - Webworld

[18] - Carnage In C-Minor

[19] - The Quintesson Journal

[20] - The Ultimate Weapon

[21] - The Big Broadcast Of 2006

[22] - The Dweller In The Depths

[23] - Only Human

[24] - Grimlock's New Brain

[25] - Money Is Everything

[26] - Call Of The Primitives

[27] - The Face Of Nijika

[28] - The Burden Hardest To Bear

[29] - The Return Of Optimus Prime - Part 1

[30] - The Return Of Optimus Prime - Part 2

Season 4

[01] - The Rebirth - Part 1

[02] - The Rebirth - Part 2

[03] - The Rebirth - Part 3

[glimmette]

NATG XIV - Day 29

Prompt: Draw as many previous prompts in a single picture as you can / Draw a pony feeling nostalgic.

Previous prompts: 1 (standing), 5 (mystery/high place), 11 (stars), 15 (another world), 16 (species swap), 17 (scared), 24 (secret)

Gallus and Smolder find a magic box with some strange powers... Meanwhile, Ocellus (who is now a hippogriff) finds some stars, all while being observed by Mistyglow/Polaris (one of the fairy brights/celestial/fancy swirl ponies from G1).

[avatarvyakara]

Might as well work on this one too…

On Age in Carmen Sandiego (2019)

Or, at the very least, in the timeline of Crimson Shades.

First off, Carmen’s mother, Carlotta Valdez (aka “Vera Cruz”), was supposed to have “died” in 1999. Carmen looked around perhaps a year old at that point in time, giving her a possible birth-date in 1996 to 1997. This in turn suggests that the series takes place some time before the actual date of publication—say, 2017/2018 onwards—to maintain Carmen’s rough age.

Rough age ranges of the characters, taking Carmen’s rough birthdate for estimation:

Team Red

Isabela Valdez/Black Sheep/Carmen Sandiego: 16/17 starting at VILE, 18/19 during the Poitiers Caper, 22/23 by the end.

Fairly self-explanatory.

Pierre Bouchard/Player: 12/13 as a White Hat Hacker, 14/15 during the Poitiers Caper, 18/19 by the end.

Not quite old enough for a learner’s permit (Up Here it’s a G1) during the earlier capers.

Ivy Collins: 19 during the Donuts/Poitiers Capers, 23 by the end.

Zack Collins: 18 during the Donuts/Poitiers Capers, 22 by the end.

Zack is supposed to be around a year younger than Ivy.

Nakamura Suhara/Shadowsan: 23 when sent after Dexter Wolfe, 42 during the Poitiers Caper, 46 by the end.

Young but not too young, as it were.

VILE

Eartha McGlynn/Coach Brunt: 39 upon receiving Black Sheep, 58 during the Poitiers Caper, 61 when arrested, 63 by the end.

Gunnar Stromme/Professor Maelstrom: 37 upon receiving Black Sheep, 56 during the Poitiers Caper, 60 when arrested, 62 by the end.

Oluchi Cleopatra Okorie/Countess Cleo: 26 upon receiving Black Sheep, 45 during the Poitiers Caper, 49 when arrested, 51 by the end.

Saira Dhibar/Doctor Bellum: 33 upon receiving Black Sheep, 54 during the Poitiers Caper, 58 when arrested, 60 by the end.

Sir Nigel Braithwaite/Roundabout: 56 when appointed, 57 when arrested, 59 by the end.

Margherita Picasso/Cookie Booker: 54 when first pelted, 62 when the Hard Drive was stolen, 67 by the end.

Vlad Bobinski: 28 upon receiving Black Sheep, 45 upon letting Black Sheep get away, 50 by the end.

Boris Vladinski: 27 upon receiving Black Sheep, 44 while watching Vlad let Black Sheep get away, 49 by the end.

They may be slightly younger or older, but at least Coach Brunt’s age seems to have been confirmed at 60 by the time of the Fourth Season.

Graham Calloway/Gray/Crackle: 18 starting at VILE, 20 during the Poitiers Caper, 24 by the end.

Jean-Paul Marignan/Le Chèvre: 19 starting at VILE, 21 during the Poitiers Caper, 25 by the end.

Antonio Sánchez/El Topo: 18/19 starting at VILE, 20/21 during the Poitiers Caper, 24/25 by the end.

Sheena Landry/Tigress: 18 starting at VILE, 20 during the Poitiers Caper, 23 when arrested, 24 by the end.

Parker Morris/Mime Bomb: 18 starting at VILE, 20 during the Poitiers Caper, 23 when arrested, 25 by the end.

Sawa Jin/Paper Star: 17 starting at VILE, 18 during the Magna Carta Caper, 22 when arrested at the end.

ACME

Tamara Fraser/Chief: 26 when killing Dexter Wolfe, 45 during the Poitiers Caper, 49 when arresting VILE, 51 by the end.

Inspector/Agent Chase Devineaux: 37 during the Poitiers Caper, 38/39 when arresting VILE, 41 by the end.

Agent Julia Argent: 25 during the Poitiers Caper, 27 when arresting VILE, 29 by the end.

This is going to cause some trouble, I just know it. But the average amount of time it takes to get a university degree in the UK is around three years, and Julia has two of them. She also seems to have jumped right to an associate professorship at Oxford in Season 3, the requirements for which are around 4-6 years of study plus a thesis. Thus Julia would have had to have been in school for at least something like seven to nine years before joining Interpol, with whom she had apparently only been for a fortnight before the Poitiers Caper. The number above assumes that she skipped a year and took a year less to complete her second degree. Or took two years less. Or started two years early. You get my point. Basically, Julia has to be a fair bit older than she looks in order to actually have the qualifications she possesses.

Agent Umaira Zari: 38 during the Poitiers Caper, 40 when arresting VILE, 42 by the end.

Some additional ages:

Nakamura Hideo: 17 when his brother Suhara was born, 36 when his brother disappeared, 63 when his brother returned for good, 65 by the end.

Not an unreasonable age given his looks, I thought.

Carlotta Valdez: 27 when she gave birth to Isabela, 47 when Carmen returned home to her, 49 by the end.

Young but not too long, once again.

Any I missed?

[transformers-villain-tournament]

The final bracket lineup has been decided! There are 64 Transformers villains on the list that'll be fighting for 1st place!

Actual Polls will be tagged with #polls so you can find them easier

Transcript and notes under the cut (as well as the versions of the characters– It's why there are multiple Galvatrons listed, for example)

Notes:

▪︎ This won't be about voting for who you think would win in a fight. It's about who your favorite villains are

▪︎ The specific versions of characters will be made clear in the actual polls (and on the transcript here). If it's not specified, they just represent all versions of them

▪︎ We also allowed some characters to be submitted as duos since there are few of them

Side 1

Match 1: Rampage (Beast Wars) VS. Obsidian & Strika (Beast Machines)

Match 2: Fangry (IDW 2005) VS. Vigilem (IDW 2005)

Match 3: Soundwave (TFP) VS. Lord Imperious Delirious (Beast Wars Uprising)

Match 4: Cryotek (Beast Era) VS. Shadow Striker

Match 5: King Sombra (MLP) VS. Jetstorm (Beast Machines)

Match 6: Tarantulas (Beast Wars) VS. Scorponok (IDW 2005)

Match 7: Vampire (Beast Wars Uprising) VS. Circuit Breaker

Match 8: Skold (Beast Wars) VS. Skywarp (IDW 2019)

Match 9: Thunderwing VS. Megaempress

Match 10: Flamewar VS. Trypticon

Match 11: Overlord VS. Ser-Ket

Match 12: Galvatron II (Marvel G1) VS. Slipstream

Match 13: Straxus VS. Megatron (Beast Machines)

Match 14: Nightbird VS. Lockdown (TFA)

Match 15: Airachnid VS. Goryū

Match 16: Heretech (IDW 2019) VS. Bludgeon (Marvel G1)

Side 2

Match 17: Antagony VS. Leozack

Match 18: Spinister (Marvel G1) VS. Exarchon

Match 19: Deathsaurus (Victory) VS. Shatter & Dropkick

Match 20: Scourge (ROTB) VS. Unicron

Match 21: Steeljaw (RID) VS. Bludgeon (IDW 2005)

Match 22: Galvatron II (Japanese G1) VS. Megatron (Cyberverse)

Match 23: Flame (Marvel G1) VS. Sunstorm

Match 24: Death's Head VS. Cyclonus

Match 25: Scorponok (Marvel G1) VS. Megastorm

Match 26: Clobber & Lockdown (Cyberverse) VS. Starscream & BB (Beast Wars II)

Match 27: Swindle VS. Trickdiamond

Match 28: Pharma VS. Galvatron

Match 29: Quintessons VS. Blackarachnia

Match 30: Soundblaster VS. Sky-Byte

Match 31: Tankor (Beast Machines) VS. Zarak

Match 32: Shockwave VS. Megatron (Beast Wars)