#transformers fight super-robot lifeforms

[antenanotaic3]

little manga bits

I'm gonna post some of my TF manga finds here. Just little things I found neat since I'm not sure how widespread or well known they are

Maskless Nightbird

huh. Either a mixt hot spring or that Megsy is trans(since hot springs are most commonly gender separate; apparently had something to do with the Europeans).

Ahhh he pulled a Minimus

Armada Bulks(big bots) can get high on Minicon power

If it wasn't obvious enough that Minicons are slaves in Armada

Twinkified Springer

Metroplex's ears are in fact guns

And his other guns are in fact bots that can combine

Early mention that a bot can be replaced in a combiner. (I feel bad for Slingshot though, there was no actual reason for him sitting on the bench)

Hey let Sixshot dream

Deathsaurus/Dezras also has a human son

And he's afraid of caterpillars

Is Star Saber cheap or broke idk😭; also yes the Cons tried to bribe the kid

Star Saber x Victory Leo? Power of love 🤔

Btw the manga has a completely different ending for Victory. (I'm not going to give spoilers though)

[bluespider62]

G1 StarBird in a nutshell

This isn't canon to my AU, but I'd like to imagine this is how it goes in G1 or any other universe…

[kamille-is-real]

Everything about this is so fucking funny to me

The little eye glint, Counterpunch's voice, the way Galvatron cuts himself off to laugh and then just stops and walks away without saying anything else

[picsofbluestreak]

Transformers: Battle of Star Gate - Divided Views

[stunticonbreakdown]

:D

[aeonmagnus]

Takara Tomy YouTube Channel Releases The “More Than Meets The Eye” G1 Episodes

As part of the promotional campaign of the new Transformers Missing Link Convoy/Optimus Prime toy, the official Takara Tomy YouTube Channel have just uploaded the Japanese dub of the first three episodes of the G1 cartoon “More Than Meets The Eye”. The Transformers cartoon was titled Tatakae! Chō Robotto Seimeitai Transformers/Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers in Japan with the respective Japanese dub. We have the chance to appreciate how Transformers was released for the Japanese market where kid grew up with Convoy rather than Optimus Prime.

[pocoslip]

I Love the New Transformers Missing Link Arcee Toy and I Hope they do Thundercracker and Sixshot too someday

(I'm still Not Impressed with Missing Link Bumblebee and Cliffjumper)

[iconuk01]

@chrismcfeely's excellent "The Basic on" Transformers series continues with this fascinating look at the final Japanese exclusive Gen1 series: "Fight Super Robot Lifeform; Transformers Victory", or "Transformers Victory" for short, or "Transformers: V" for shorter

[elfdragon12]

Daily female Transformers

Discharge! She's a rescue expert and would rather avoid combat, but can do a lot of damage if you make her angry!

She was initially introduced in the 1992 Fight! Super Robot Lifeforms Japanese toyline, but didn't make a story debut until Micromasters in 2002. She's had some small cameos since then.

I like her firefighter helmet! ... I do wish she had a different name though.

[sulan1809]

Ginrai não é Optimus Prime - Entenda o motivo disso

Na continuidade japonesa de Transformers, houve uma série animada chamada Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers Super God Masterforce(戦え!超ロボット生命体トランスフォーマー 超神マスターフォース) e a pergunta que muitos fizeram é: Seria Ginrai o nosso eterno Optimus Prime?! NÃO!! Quer uma prova?! Considerando os eventos de Transformers o Filme, de 1986, em que Optimus Prime foi assassinado por Megatron, a continuidade nipônica de Transformers produziu Transformers: The Headmasters, com base nos acontecimentos de "The Rebirth", um compilado de três episódios da quarta temporada do cartoon, no entanto, com elementos novos, ignorando completamente o que aconteceu na versão ocidental. Headmasters são um tipo de variação simbiótica no qual uma forma de vida Transformer, pequena em tamanho, frequentemente, mas não exclusivamente orgânica, transforma-se na cabeça de um robô maior.

Em Transformers: Super God Masterforce, Pretenders são humanoides que geralmente se assemelham a seres humanos, e podem ser tanto Autobots quanto Decepticons. Depois dos eventos de Transformers: The Headmasters, a Terra ficou livre dos Transformers por um certo tempo, até o surgimento de Pretenders Decepticons no ano de 2020. Esse grupo de vilões foi perseguido por um grupo de Autobots liderados por Metalhawk, e quando ambas as facções rivais fizeram pouso forçado na Terra pré-histórica, ambas as equipes usaram poderes especiais de "Pretenders" para assumir novos disfarces. MetalHawk e os Autobots assumiram formas humanas para se adequar à crescente humanidade, observando a evolução de sua cultura e sociedade, enquanto os Decepticons atormentariam a hiumanidade primitiva na forma de "demônios". Eventualmente os Autobots derrotaram os Decepticons e os selaram, no entanto, na era moderna, eles foram libertados do selamento por Devil "Z", que seria o novo mentor deles. Os Autobots recrutaram três jovens humanos, que foram imbuídos com o poder da "Masterforce", e se unem a três Transtectors enviados à Terra do planeta Master por Chromedome. Assim se inicia uma guerra acirrada entre o bem e o mal.

Em Transformers Victory, God Ginrai aparece como um segundo em comando para o líder dos autobots, Star Saber, ajudando-o durante a crise com Liokaiser, que tinha o poder equivalente ao de Star Saber. Os esforços combinados de Star Saber e God Ginrai provaram ter um efeito contrário no plano mefistofélico de Liokaiser em assassinar o líder Autobot. Infelizmente, God Ginrai, não poderia ir muito longe, pois ele foi seriamente danificado enquanto salvava Star Saber, que foi apanhado em um esquema meticulosamente calculado por Deathsaurus e Liokaiser. God Ginrai, no entanto, não morreria, ele seria convertido em um novo guerreiro, Victory Leo, e mais tarde, Star Saber e Victory Leo se mesclariam para formar Victory Saber. Para resumir, Ginrai não é Optimus Prime, uma vez que Optimus, no caso, Convoy, não retornou ao final de Transformers: The Headmasters, basicamente, ambos Optimus e Ginrai são personagens separados.

[scruffyplayssonic]

Are the ArchieSonic comics actually an 80's/90's syndicated cartoon? Episode 47: Evil alien invasion (Part 1: The Xorda)

Welcome back to my look at the ArchieSonic comic series, and how it shared a lot of the same story tropes as a typical ‘80s or ‘90s syndicated cartoon! 

I know it’s been awhile since my last episode, but I’ve had a lot to catch up on at work that’s been keeping me occupied. I was expecting to come back to find some of my assigned work had not been done while I was on leave, but I wasn’t expecting none of it to get done. Hoo boy, what a mess. Anyway, let’s get back into it. Today’s episode is:

Episode 47: Evil alien invasion (Part 1: The Xorda)

So this isn’t my first time mentioning alien races in this series...

I’ve already gone over Car-Heem of Wheet pretty extensively, and he wasn’t really evil so much as misguided. We also don’t know if the rest of the Wheetens are like him, as we only saw them in a brief cameo when A.D.A.M. summoned the Chaos Emeralds from their planet, so there’s not much point going into them.

There’s also the Bzzzz which I’ve previously mentioned from Sonic’s Tossed in Space arc. The Bzzzz were an evil race raging war on the peaceful Blodex, and were wiped out by Super Sonic, who appeared as a separate and chaotic entity to Sonic himself due to him using red chaos emeralds.

So those guys have been covered too. But there are two other alien races that I’ve mostly skipped over so far, so today I'm going to have a look at the first of those.

The first evil aliens to invade Mobius were the Xorda, who debuted in the Sonic Adventure 2.5 arc in Sonic #124 and 125.

The story was that thousands of years ago these guys sent an emissary to Earth to make peaceful contact and offer an alliance. But the humans who made first contact  (naturally including an ancestor of the Kintobor clan) captured the emissary and dissected them. The Xorda were justifiably upset about this, but they may have overreacted slightly when they decided to commit planetary genocide. Just a little planetary genocide, as a treat. Bombarding the planet with gene bombs, they left after they assumed that they’d wiped out all life on the planet. But they were unaware that there were pockets of survivors, and the gene bomb radiation resulted in most of mankind slowly evolving into anthropomorphic mammals, aka Mobians. 

In Sonic Adventure 2.5, the Xorda returned to Earth (now known as Mobius) thousands of years later and discovered that they hadn’t wiped out all life on the planet after all, so they started the war anew.

This also marked the return of Shadow the Hedgehog to the comic, who had been missing and presumed dead since the events of Sonic Adventure 2 (partially shown in Sonic #98).

It turned out that Shadow had been saved from his fatal fall from the Ark by an alien race called the Bem (more on them later) who nursed him back to health. When the Xorda attacked, the Bem imbued Shadow with enough energy to become Super Shadow again so that he could fight the Xorda off while they escaped.

…yeah, that didn’t exactly work out. But at least the Bem got away safely.

With the planet under attack by the Xorda, who were still yelling about the murder of their emissary thousands of years ago, Sally and Nicole researched what had happened and found out that all signs pointed to them being truthful - Mobius used to be Earth, and the Xorda’s attack on the planet coincided with history’s accounts of the Days of Fury that ravaged the planet.

Sally tried to plead a case with the Xorda for them to spare the planet, pointing out that humans were no longer the dominant lifeforms on the planet and that the Mobosapiens were inadvertently created by the Xorda’s previous bombing. But the Xorda could not be swayed and continued their attack.

It was Dr. Eggman who brought the solution - a giant robot that was totally not a Transformer and was strong enough to fight back, but needed Sonic’s speed as a power source. 

Just an aside note here, but my headcanon for this mech was that Eggman originally intended to power it with his own people. When a colony of Overlanders (aka humans) suddenly returned from space without warning, Eggman temporarily tricked them into taking refuge with him and his robotic forces in Robotropolis. At the time ("the time" being Sonic #95) Snively was curious about why Eggman hadn’t just roboticised them and been done with it, and so Eggman showed him exactly what he had planned for his guests.

We never did find out exactly what Snively was shown, as Sonic and Sally showed up and evacuated the Overlanders to Knothole (then later, Station Square) before Eggman could go through with his plan. But my theory is that Eggman was showing off his Giga-Bot Prime to Snively, and after losing the Overlanders he converted it to run on the power of one speedy blue boi rather than a hundred odd mediocre humans.

Anyway, back to the Xorda. In desperation Eggman called Knothole proposing a truce, asking them to send Sonic so he could save the day. But King Max had a rare W moment here (yes, he was very occasionally awesome, mostly depending on the writer) and demanded that in return for Sonic’s services, Eggman surrender half of his territories to the Acorn Kingdom. With no other choice, Eggman reluctantly agreed.

Sonic and Sally raced off to Eggman’s base to check out his newest toy, and sure enough, with Sonic powering it the Giga-Bot Prime was powerful enough to beat back the Xorda.

Predictably, as soon as the threat seemed to be gone Eggman turned on Sonic, remotely trapping him inside Giga-Bot Prime to be its eternal fuel source as Eggman used it to conquer the planet. But he didn’t get a chance to do so, as the Xorda dropped off their deadliest weapon: the Quantum Dial, which once activated would create a black hole that would engulf the entire planet.

Both heroes and villains alike across the entire planet travelled to the Quantum Dial to try and stop it, but were unable to get past its defenses.

On top of having sentry turrets that shot at anyone that got close, it also emitted a field that caused all technological weapons that came into range to just fall apart before they could do any harm. Giga-Bot Prime was no exception and disintegrated as soon as it was in range, but on the plus side it at least got Sonic and Sally past the outside defenses. The Quantum Dial had one last defense though, a quantum wave designed to incinerate anyone who got too close. But Sonic and Sally were saved by some literal Deus Ex Machina, as Knuckles came back from the dead in a massive wave of power, stopping the quantum wave.

However Knuckles could not help any further, as returning from the Chaos Force had stripped him of his powers. It was left to Sonic to destroy the Quantum Dial by doing a speedy thing and running around it counterclockwise to reverse the dial’s direction and cause it to implode.

Sonic appeared to have been killed in this last sacrificial act of heroism, but he’d actually been transported across the universe and was completely fine. This kicked off the Tossed In Space arc, which I talked about during the “We’re in space now!” episode.

So that’s the Xorda in a nutshell, but there was one other alien race that caused trouble for Sonic (and to a larger extent, Shadow), not just in the comics but also the games. So come back next time, when I’ll be talking about the Black Arms!

[pudgy-planets]

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers!

This is beautiful by the way.

[silverskywing]

Last night I had a dream about the latest super mario game. It was seemingly made by a bunch of people who had never actually played a mario game and they were just given a 3d model of mario and told to do what they wanted.

Apparently what they wanted was a 3d platforming adventure that took place on a spaceship where Mario ended up kidnapped and having to fight his way through hoards of robots and genetically engineered super soldiers with the handful of power ups, there was your one ups and fire flowers sure but there was also the void leaf which allowed you to throw mini black holes which would suck up various objects and turn them into coins and a sniper flower that let mario shoot a projectile at an enemy from long range. Also, you didn't have the typical health bars that were present in the other 3D platforming mario games like odyssey or Galaxy, but rather a full health bar that meant different hits did different levels of damage.

The main bad gu was basically a pokemon villain who had hopes of harnessing the powers of different worlds to transform into the ultimate lifeform and after you defeat him he takes an experimental power up and begins mutating, resulting in a final chase scene where you're running back through all the main areas of the ship while the guy chases after you, only stopping to devour the mini bosses you defeated on your way who are still lying where you left them, his body transforming into what looked like if someone poured liquid latex over top some mashed potatoes, letting him squeeze into the different areas rather unset tingly.

Eating the mini bosses gives the bad guy their powers and alters the setting a bit more, so one guy had the power to breathe fire and so the air vents started shooting fire, another would have plant powers and thus the villain would enter a room and vines would spread everywhere, some of which would lash out at mario as they passed by so you had to jump over them, another shot acid so several areas that would normally just be an inconvenient little pit are now filled with acid and so on.

Eventually you get to the escape pods and the space ship explodes, but instead of a grand escape cutscene there was just a text box that said "Congratulations! You Won! Would you like to face an optional Super Boss? They may or may not be bowser!" and do note, at this point mario was the only mario character to appear unless you're counting the power ups. And so if you clicked yes it would load you into the mushroom kingdom, one that was clearly modeled after the kingdom from the movie.

There, as the final boss, wasn't a big turtle man, but rather what looked like a bright green Mii with a red backpack that began running around the map, picking up power ups and attempting to use them on you. if you hit him then he lost the power up and ran to the next one, but you couldn't damage him in his unpowered form meaning you had to whittle away at his health bar one power up at a time. I was literally so bored at the very end that I woke up.

[kamille-is-real]

Forgot how gay Transformers Zone was

[picsofbluestreak]

Transformers: Battle of Star Gate - Divided Views

[supernightboy08]

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (1986) Title Card