#transformers Overkill

[indragonsaur]

Transformers cybertron chronicles: Overkill and Slugfest

Name: Overkill Gender: Male Species: Cybertronian Status: Online Faction: Decepticon

Alt-Mode: White muscle car Voice actor: No voice actor

Name: Slugfest Gender: Male Species: Cybertronian Status: Online Faction: Decepticon

Alt-Mode: Tape Voice actor: Bradford Jackson - Hannyabal from One piece

[weirdlookingsnakewithlegs]

Do you have any hcs on how the elite trine are with Soundwave’s cassettes?

Yeah >:3

First of all, the trine love the little menaces, but of course they have their favorites. Starscream’s is Ravage, Skywarp’s are Rumble and Frenzy, and Thundercracker enjoys Lazerbeak and Squawktalk.

Despite their favoritism, Skywarp is the one that enjoys the cassettes the most. It’s often that Skywarp ropes the little cons into his pranks or pulls pranks on them. Tussling with Rumble and Frenzy is a favorite pastime of his as well. They may act like they hate each other but Skywarp would rather kiss Tarn than lose these little bastards, and that’s saying something. He also likes Slugfest but that’s because the cassette is easy to nip at.

Thundercracker is mostly indifferent but he enjoys when they hang around. He especially enjoys when Lazerbeak and Squawktalk decide to talk around him, he finds the noise pleasant and offers minimal responses when inquired. Beastbox and him also get along to a lesser degree but they’re on good terms because Squawktalk likes him.

Then there’s Starscream who shows pure favoritism to Ravage. He is all over that kitty cat and if you can’t find her then there’s a good chance she’s happily snuggled in the seeker’s lap while he cleans her. He almost likes Overkill for his brutality but he definitely prefers Ravage because Starscream is a massive sucker for cats.

Ratbat and Buzzsaw aren’t really social cassettes so they stay away from the trine.

And then there’s well Enemy. But no one really gets along with Enemy. Especially Skywarp. Skywarp and Enemy aren’t allowed in the same room anymore.

[blighted-lights]

thinking about how steeljaw was apparently on the lost light but was in exactly one panel in mtmte, giving him just two appearances in all of idw. bro,,, why are you never on screen. also hi overkill

[roninkairi]

So, Who Would Win In A Cosmic Death Battle In Space?

In this corner...

And in this corner...

Futaba: ...

Me: ...

Futaba: And what, specifically, did Starscream ever do to deserve THIS?!!!

Me: The Skybound comics may have had a slight influence in the creation of this poll.

Futaba: Uh huh. So, you know what the third option is.

Me: Yes, I know.

OPTION 3 IS:

Me: To be fair Starscream is not human.

Megatron: Yeah, but even I wouldn't do that to Starscream and I despise him.

Futaba: At least it wasn't Kefka vs Elizabeth!

[transformers-mosaic]

Transformers: Mosaic #642 - "Let's Play Frisbee"

Originally posted on March 26th, 2012

Story - Wout Jut Art - James Cox Colours, Letters - Brandy Dixon

deviantART | Seibertron | TFW2005 | BotTalk

wada sez: In the Shattered Glass universe, the Scrounges are a bunch of disposable, interchangable drones under Blaster’s command; a riff on Scrounge being unique thanks to his “special arm”. This one was actually published as a Mosaic! It was Brandy Dixon’s first ever lettering effort, per a comment on TFW2005.

[jolyne-best-jojo]

What Stands I think the Logical Proposals wavewave family would have:

Soundwave: Hermit Purple. This one's pretty easy, it's got everything a wave of sound could want: break a camera and get photos of a picture anywhere in the world, have a screen to project onto and read minds, just use the vines on a TV screen and get a message like "x is a traitor". Or Moody Blues since being able to see and hear what happened to a singular person would make for great intell depending on who it is.

Shockwave: Gold Experience. Shockwave would love having it, funding becomes a far smaller issue if he can grow the body parts himself. Not to mention the research he'd do testing the limits, how big can the being he grows be relative to the original objects mass? Can he grow an extinct species? And he'd love finding these things out.

Ravage: Harvest. Being the only responsible child is hard, much easier when you have 500 tiny buggers to keep watch on everyone.

Buzzsaw: Kraft Work. Given his weapon building I feel like he'd find some use for being able to store however much kinetic energy in an object he desires then release it all at once.

Laserbeak: Mr. President. With the caveat that he just had the user on him at all times. Laserbeak wants a nap, just pull out Mr. President, hide it, and take a nap in the key room, he can even fill it with all his favourite blankets.

Rumble & Frenzy: Star Platinum & The World. This one's the most obvious, SP and TW stop time for 5 seconds, that's 5 seconds of free prank set up.

Enemy: Survivor. Probably a bit too surface level for his character but it makes sense. He wants enemies, Survivor makes everyone around him so mad they start beating each other to death.

Flip Sides: Sticky Fingers. It's got a pocket dimension to explore long range travel purposes with (idk if it can do that but presumably if Sticky Fingers opened a zipper in one place then went hundreds of miles away and opened another they should connect) and I think Flips would find that interesting.

Beastbox: Man in the Mirror. So long as he has a mirror shard with him he can hide away in the mirror world whenever he's feeling overwhelmed and come back when he feels better.

Slugfest: Pearl Jam. He may not be a cook, but given the positive effects Pearl Jam has on the consumers he'd absolutely learn how to cook to give healing meals to refugees.

Squawktalk: Bohemian Rhapsody. I don't know if It works if it's only audio but it turns fiction to life and what better way to tell your stories then making them real? (Just ignore the part where people are forced to play a part in the stories, usually the one who dies)

Garboil: Earth, Wind and Fire. Technically not a stand (but maybe it is who knows) the shapeshifting would be really handy for painting, don't wanna use a picture or just memory to base a drawing on? Just shapeshift into what you wanna draw.

Overkill: Scary Monsters. It can turn people into dinosaurs. He'd finally have Dino friends that the Autobots don't steal away before begging to hand them back. (Targets of it retain their sentience right? I can't remember)

Howlback: Killer Queen. This isn't because of the fact it's a cat, nor is it about it being able to turn objects into bombs or its tertiary bomb Bites the Dust being able to rewind time an hour. No, this is about Sheer Heart Attack being indestructible and as such the perfect thing to enjoy biting to no end, and honestly what more does Howlback even want in life?

Ratbat: Kiss. Sure, the duplicated objects crash back together after the sticker comes off, but so long as that happens long after he sells them it's not his problem.

Wingthing: I'mma be real, I got nothing, he got killed in the great cassette culling of chapter 36 and he was introduced in that chapter. Weather Report? Because he wanted to know how rain works?

[deepdreamnights]

Overkill and Slugfest

Some experiments using Vidu's reference-to-video feature with the old G1 package art as the character reference.

These were done with a minimum prompt, a standardized live-action film prompt I use for testing.

While clearly not photoreal, I kind of like the odd near-animated look that it provides. Vidu's reference feature can alter the look of the referenced item to a degree, but art style conversion is difficult for it, requiring the changes be made prior to the creation.

Doing so produces a much more live-action look, though less artsy due to it.

Process and some prompts under the fold.

I used midjourney's retexture overpainting process to generate a stack of miscolored overkills that I composited and adjusted into a quick-and-dirty reference.

The prompt I used for this:

full sized mechanical puppet-prop for live-action film, photographed against white background. A robotic dinosaur with angular, body design aesthetics, blue lower jaw, claws, legs, gunmetal body and head, silver missile launcher. 5k, photograph taken with kodak, official media, promotional image, white background/backdrop

I call it a Q&D reference because if you're doing anything more fully realized, you want front/back/side references, model sheet style. Otherwise, your details will shift if the character ever turns around, and the robot is going to be reluctant to do that in general if it doesn't have back-reference.

The backgrounds, too, were reference prompts. This is why Tulsa Gamma Ray is spelled correctly on the sign. This also helps with aesthetics, as your text prompt needs to be robust with anything not shown in an image prompt or else it will take on an uncanny or "on a greenscreen" stage look.

My standard prompt I used is:

live action motion picture film scene, 1989, filmed on 35mm film. directed by stanley kubric and luc besson. ILM, weta digital, stan winston studios, jim henson creature shop, masterful traditional practical special effects, costuming. Professional cinematography and lighting. dramatic and cool. live action film scene, professional lighting and cinematography, masterful practical special effects, costuming and set design. filmed in 1989

These were part of a minimal-influence test, to see what the vidu system would do with minimal direction. It does seem to be able to pick up certain context clues from the reference. It recognizes they're dinosaur-like and makes them move accordingly, for instance.

It understands, to a degree, that they're meant to be machines, and wheere it does add details, it's greebles rather than muscle or scales.

On the other hand, cars sometimes drive backwards. It's a rich tapestry, is what I'm saying.

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime,

Did Soundwave have to remodel to accommodate his cassetey pals? What's it like in there for them? Are they conscious, or is it like a recharge until he gives them the old '____, eject!'

Dear Caring Compartment,

Even though Soundwave's cold behavior is well-known to most Decepticons, most of the cassettes regard Soundwave as the opposite. His tape storage system is something like a pitstop, or a boxing trainer in your corner giving you advice as you get patched up. Soundwave has several auxiliary data transfer cables and capillary energon lines to replenish his cassettes' energy while reading data from them.

Each cassette experiences this restoration differently within his storage system. Frenzy needs to relax and focus, and Soundwave is happy to provide him with media uploads of failed Autobot missions to reassure him of success. For Rumble, Soundwave instead curates a playlist of footage involving demolitions, earthquakes, or any kind of disaster causing large-scale urban destruction, which Rumble enjoys watching while venting to Soundwave about those who’ve wronged him. Buzzsaw likes his "sculptures" to be admired, Laserbeak enjoys reviewing flight plans, and Ravage likes to receive feedback on his assessment of the state of the war, honing and refining strategies and spy tactics that they may need to use against other Decepticons and stay within Megatron's good graces. Squawktalk, who spends more time inside Soundwave than any of the others, never, ever stops talking—in fact, Rumble swears blindly that the reason for Soundwave’s perpetual frown is that he’s always internally trying to tune out this endless stream of chatter.

Thanks to mass-shifting, Soundwave is able to compress many cassettes inside his chest simultaneously, and he himself benefits from all their individual abilities and inclinations: for example, Buzzsaw's precision, Ravage's stealth, Ratbat's fuel conservation, and Overkill's penchant for cruelty.

[sunset-synthetica]

ok I know you don't do free requests so do ignore this if you don't feel like it, but,,, Turbo overkill characters as TFs?

anon ily this was actually a great request

I had soooo much fun with these. I even have notes because of course I do.

Maw's alt. mode is a spider, as per his second phase in his last boss fight. It fits his personality, given he's weaving a web right from the start and herding everyone to get caught in it, and for most of his encounters, his movements are fast, jittery and sudden.

The spider's 'face' also let me emulate that weird mechanical thingy he has on his chest. Some of the spider legs make up his prosthetic arm, and I used the rest to balance out the colors a bit and replace some of the details around his midsection that wouldn't have fit.

For Johnny, I gave him two alts, meaning both his car and the bike he randomly finds during one level. He's fast, and since he uses his leg chainsaw(s) to slide around and quicken his movement, and since the bike specifically is a pretty small vehicle with a limited amount of large parts, I used the wheels for his legs. I also kept the asymmetrical coloring of his hands/arms, so the bike's front portion- mostly the turret and chainsaws- make up his left arm. The bike's turret and laser beam replace his mini rocket launcher upgrade.

Both vehicles also support his grayscale + red color theme so I kept that, and went for a more square, occasionally rounded shape with his silhouette.

Jazz was a pain in the ass, but I ended up going with a weirdly modded sports car, since that fits him overall. He's fast- he has the Turbo Time augment before Johnny takes it for himself- which my friend had the idea of translating into an engine on Jazz's back. I also tried to make his colors more coherent- while the rest of the cast has the classic gray + 2 main colors + minor details look, Jazz is an absolute clusterfuck with yellow, turquoise, pink and a reddish light brown as main colors, and pink, orange, red and purple for details. Not counting like 3 shades of gray. Ouch. I included all of them, but tried to balance out how they're used.

The design does make sense though, as he's more naive, inexperienced, brash and excited than the rest of his team, and quite a bit younger likely, given his voice and over-excited nature.

Finally, Ripper. She's very fast and precise, using the Telefragger sniper rifle as her main weapon, and thrusters to get away from Johnny during their fight, lending her some amount of air capability together with her grappling hook.

I figured a jet would fit all that, plus the resulting shapes would let me keep the curvy lower half / sharper upper half contrast her model somewhat uses. She lost her left arm after Johnny defeated her in ep2, and replaced it with a gun/cannon at some point, and I also retained that.

[birdmenmanga]

even though ideologically I don't agree with the messaging in magnet's lyrics anymore the moment the song comes on it activates a primal node inside my brain that makes me go crazy

[obbystars]

I’m actually working so hard in making that post of my reworked tfp oc like I am neck deep into reading up on lore and rewriting and adding stuff

putting it all into one post HHRRRNRNHGHGB

[h3lgertime]

I’ve never drawn a transformer before

[tallus76-photography]

Slugfest and Overkill

#3rdparty #3rdpartytransformers #transformerscollector #toyphotography #cassetterobots #robotsindisguise #fanstoys #fanstoyscollectors

[acmeoop]

More… Muchmore Than Meets The Ete! (1986) *must’ve snuck by the proof-readers…

Slugfest / Overkill - Transformers (Hasbro)

[hasbr0mniverse]

The Rodimus Corner - Whether talking, terrifying or attacking, Overkill does everything to excess. So busy proving how tough he is by snapping cars in half between his jaws, that he forgets his mission.

[transformers-mosaic]

Transformers: Generation One - "Brothers In Arms"

Originally posted on May 13th, 2012

Story - Wout Jut Art - Mike Ackerman Colours - Lisa Sky Edits - Paul Vromen

deviantART

wada sez: Hey, this ain’t a Shattered Glass story! Apparently, Wout Jut wrote it on request from Ackerman. Overkill’s Universe toy was a redeco of Classics Grimlock, so there’s a direct connection between the characters; you may recall “Upgrades” similarly riffed on that idea. Clean inks below.