Top 100 Countdown – TRANSFORMERS CHARACTERS – Part 2 – #100-76

You got the touch! This is Stan Bush, and you're

about to transform and roll out here on the Top

100 Transformers Characters Countdown. Yeah!

Ba -weep -grana, weep -nitty -bong. Ba -weep

-grana, weep -nitty -bong. As Rekgar just said,

a universal greeting to everyone. Wow. No! From

that burnt -out planet of Char, we have Optimus

Solo. Why do I gotta be from Char? Hey, he was

in a plasma bath. He was getting re -energized.

Okay, fine. You don't want to be re -energized?

You can be from the planet of Junk. Yes. Oh.

They fixed themselves. That's right. Surrounded

by my collection of Junk. I like it. They're

indestructible, and they're everywhere. And rolling

to our rescue is Peacon Gord Michael. How's it

going? It's going. Sometimes I wish it would

stop. Dark. He says that every week. Technically,

he says that every day. Well, yeah. I have summoned

you here for a purpose. Nobody summons Megatron.

No. Ah, yes. The purpose of our episode today.

Today we begin to discover the fates of Transformers

characters. Don't worry, you home -wrecking fool,

Springer. No one is going to die tonight. But

we're going to be revealing our top 100 Transformers

characters. So how exactly do we do that? Good

question. Well, Mirage, we have collected rankings

from 33 of the biggest Transformers fans around

the Internet. Really? Yes, really, we've obtained

rankings from the four people we have here tonight,

Optimus Solo, Steve Megatron, myself, and, of

course, speaking of Carl Michael, along with

TV's Mr. Neil, DJ Valentine from Simplistic Reviews,

Alex Ricci from This Week in Geek, the crew over

at Moonbase 2 Podcast, my fembots, Amy, Heather,

and Nicole, Transformers ADJ, Transformers Reanimated

Yoshi and Greg. Collection. CollectionToys .com.

Bondo Mike, who is a super fan of ours. The AllSpark

actually donated a list to us. Thank you so much.

Some guy named Joel. Don't know who that guy

is, but okay, sure. TFU .info from Anthony over

there. Cool Krishna. So that is Autoboticon 97

reviews on YouTube. Along with another big fan

of ours for the 12 years that the GCN has been

around, Mr. Tim Silvers, John over at Iacon Dispatch,

the comic concierge, Dan Clark, who is another

contributor, longtime producer here at the Geekcast

Radio Network, Robo Apollo from Iacon Online,

another superfan, Scanner51, the guys from Triple

Takeover, which is a new Transformers toy. discussion

podcast that I've been listening to. Love those

guys. They have a great episode on being a completist.

The TFLYP crew, Lucas and all of them over there,

Solitron, Sam's Forge, and we have some superstars

for the first time. Actually, I need to mention

the other two YouTubers, Rodimus Primal and Pia,

longtime friend Pia of the network. I actually

just recorded with him a little while ago. We

also have some superstars. A few names in the

Transformers creative fandom that you all will

know. Mr. Benson Yee, who basically helps in

the savior of Transformers with Beast Wars. He

submitted a list. That's a good guy. That's right.

Writer Tyler Blazinski. who wrote the four -issue

arc of Constructicons Rising for Transformers

Galaxy, Friday W Publishing, and artist extraordinaire

Casey W. Collar. So thank you to everyone who

submitted lists. And to those of you who decided

not to participate in the program, well, you

can just go Kremzik off. That's rude. Not really.

They were rude to me first. Here, I'm going to

cram this spreadsheet right up your backside.

Thank you to everyone who submitted a list. Yes.

We appreciate it, and we know that we are glad

and grateful for fans like you. Nope. Never seen

anything like this before. Absolutely. We provided

these kind folks with a list of over 800 characters.

And ask them to help us narrow that list down

to a top 100 list. In that case, I say it is

survival of the fittest. Do I hear a second on

that? Aye. And against? Nay. The eyes have it.

Yet. Make room for others. Don't. Seems me to

do this. Wait, I still function. Wanna bet? Well,

as Megatron has, how shall we say, departed...

I nominate myself as the new leader. Wait, the

Constructicons form Devastator, the most powerful

robot. We shall rule. Soundwave superior, Constructicons

inferior. Who are you calling inferior? Nobody

would follow an uncharismatic boar like you.

Hey, nobody calls Soundwave uncrasomatic. Yeah,

let's kick tailgate. Constructicons unite! these

Decepticons, they gotta shut up already. You

don't get to decide who gets ranked where, and

anyway, all the rankings have already been completed.

In fact, a grand total of 450 total votes of

characters received. Wow. All the rankings...

Incredible. Absolutely incredible. All the rankings

have been compiled by Optimus Solo into one master

list. We let him do all the meth because he's

crazy and actually enjoys all that nonsense.

Exactly. So he is the only one at this point

who knows who ranks where. The rest of us will

be learning of the rankings for the first time

along with you. Will Autobots rule the countdown,

or will Decepticons take it over? In the end...

And who? Who will be the number one character

overall? And who will be the number one character

overall? It will be me. Megatron, yes. A lot

of time and effort has been dedicated by everyone

who submitted rankings, and many times, tough

decisions had to be made. Just remember, there's

a thin line between being a hero and being a

memory. Exactly, Optimus. But without further

ado... Time to find out. All right, that's right.

It's time once again for another Top 100s. Hopefully

you enjoyed that intro and got the gist of what

we are doing here. We also had the whole intro

episode to kind of explain it. But before we

get going into the actual rankings, I just want

to real quick get a little bit of business out

of the way. First of all, as he said in the intro,

I'm the only one with all of the information.

And because of that, I apologize. For any types

of stuttering, delays, or clicking, you might

hear from my end. But just let's face it, I am

dealing with a whole lot of information and spreadsheets

and Internet tabs and stuff like that on my end.

So I apologize as I try to keep this thing in

line and going on the correct path and getting

the information to you guys. Hopefully, Mike,

Steve, and Michael will help me out with doing

mostly talking so I can do the navigating. So

that's kind of how that will work. Hey, Michael.

He does a lot of what? Meth. That's right. Meth.

It's a Phineas and Ferb jokes, folk. It's a Phineas

and Ferb jokes, folk. Joke, folks. God, I can't

talk tonight. There's probably a very small Venn

diagram that overlaps Transformer fans and Phineas

and Ferb fans. And it probably includes, like,

me and Blanchard. Yeah. No, there's a few more

in that little pie. But anyways, we're going

to be going over numbers 100 through 76. And

we'll have some future episodes where we're going

to be going over the other sets of 25 as we make

our way to number one. Steve, it's been a week

since we recorded the introduction episode. Now

that we're kind of focused in on just 100 through

76, you've been through some of these countdowns

before. You kind of know what to expect in that

first set of 25. So is there anything that you're

interested in seeing come in this quarter of

the countdown? Well, I know G1 is going to be

pretty much splattered across all of them, as

well as probably some of the Japanese areas of

the franchise and probably some of the comics.

I expect some of the Beast Wars characters, but

I don't expect many of them in this portion of

the countdown. But I could be wrong. I could

totally be wrong. I don't know, man. There are

those diehard G1 fans that go into fan groups

with other creators and just completely crap

all over Beast Wars on Facebook. And you know

what's funny? We've gotten crapped on by G1 for

the last 20 years since they can't seem to move

off of G1. Yep. um it's good we talked about

a little bit in the introductory about some of

the different categories that we might be looking

out for guys and i did do my work uh within this

last week so i do have tallies of what we're

going to see as far as um different uh kind of

continuities whether it be beast wars g1 etc

i also have a male female tally i have bad guys

good guys tallies i have also the kinds of transformers

so i have tallies of how many seekers you know

uh and the different types of uh kind of uh types

of of transformers that you had whether it be

cassettes cars you know um triple changers headmasters

pretenders whatever it is i have all those tallies

so we'll be looking at that as we kind of go

through um one of our contributors is probably

going to be upset after this episode maybe i

don't know because we're going to go over his

um Almost his entire top 10 in this episode.

Oh, no. Is it like? No, but there is somebody

that is going to lose quite a few of their top

10 picks just in this first introductory episode.

We're also going to be revealing one person's

number one pick overall today. So that will fall

in the 100 through 76 slot. So it's going to

be interesting. I have as much of the data as

I can, and we'll try to sift through that and

make it some fun. But hopefully between the four

of us, we don't have too many blind spots. The

Transformers fandom and the history of Transformers

is huge. Whether it's G1, whether it's Unicon

Trilogy, the Beast Wars Beast Machines era, the

more modern stuff with War for Cybertron and

Prime, and all of the comic goodness and the

stuff from across the seas, you know, all the

Japan stuff. So there's a lot to try to know,

and I don't know how many people have a... have

been genius level across the entire board. We

all seem to have our little spots that we are

specialized in or that we gravitate towards.

So we'll see how much we can cover, but it's

going to be interesting. Mike, any last words

for you before we get into the actual numbers?

I'm just wondering if that person's top 10 list

is the writer. Anyway. Uh, it's going to be interesting

to see who falls where, because the bottom half

of a top 100 is always like who, who barely scraped

by and who didn't even like, I know you do this

sometimes in these things where you talk about,

Oh, this person just missed at one Oh one or

one Oh seven or whatever kind of thing. And it's

going to be interesting to see who barely made

it and who didn't just missed it by that much.

By that much. And Michael Wilson, you have not

been with us, I don't think, for too many of

these Top 100 records. Are you sure you're ready

for this? Absolutely. Excellent. I was born ready.

To give you guys an idea of where we're starting

out points wise, because we will give some point

totals, even though it might not mean a whole

lot to a lot of people. But that's how we tally

it is points. And our number 100 pick today is

actually would have had to have averaged basically

87th across all 33 lists in order to make this

list. So there's no cheapies as far as getting

in on this list. We're starting around the almost

getting into the 500 point total. So we're going

to go from 480 points. To 612 today. So about

132. Point spread here in this episode. And a

lot of them are separated by very few points.

As far as my way. To tease you guys I guess.

Because I usually at least give you guys. The

last out. Those that just didn't quite make it.

I'll just throw out three that didn't make it.

And we won't go over any other ones. Because

I don't want to spoil anything else. But the

three closest. Within five points of making the

list. That means. All someone would have had

to do was rank them 94th, and they would have

made it onto the list. Those would be, at 475

points, we had Blue Streak. At 477, we had Nightbeat.

And at 479 points, we had, only missing it by

one point, would have been Thunderwing. So those

are the three that just missed it. Any particular

continuity, or just... Just in general, those

characters, I guess we can talk about that real

quick since you brought it up. Unless there's

a massive difference in the character, we tried

to lump most continuities together just because

we didn't want a list that consisted of 50 Optimus

Primes or 50 Megatrons or something like that.

So we'll try to deal with that as we kind of

come through it. But those were just kind of

the general ones. So let's get this going. Take

it over, Megatron. It's 100. That's right. We

are at number 100. And starting off, guys, we're

starting with a tie. Is this the only tie this

episode? No. There will only be one tie after

this episode. But this episode features four

of them. Oh Lord. So, but they've all outside

of this one, this is the only kind of catch because

the other ones were all assigned a ranking. So

whether it be like, you know, 95 and 94, they

each held a spot there. So it's not like we're

going to have 29 characters revealed this time.

It's. But with a 100, there's no way to not let

one of them in. So we're technically going to

have 101 characters. So we'll go with both of

these, I guess, at number 100. But we'll start

with the first one. I guess losing in some type

of weird third -degree tiebreaker because they

both had the same amount of points. They both

were on the same number of lists, which means

their average ranking was the same. So the only

way I can separate this is which one achieved

a higher ranking. And one of them was ranked

at their highest at 13. And one of them was ranked

highest at 7. So the one at 13 we will go over

first. And that is... Inferno from Beast Wars.

As you command, my queen. Oh, I do wish you'd

stop calling me that. No! So Inferno from Beast

Wars is our first entry into the countdown. Highest

ranking was 13. He also had a 19th ranking, 21st,

25th, 27th, and then 40, 86, and 97. Steve, you

are the biggest Beast Wars fan possibly amongst

us, although we all love it. So I'll let you

open up, though. How do you feel about Inferno

making the countdown? Well, one, I'm very happy

that he made the countdown because, let's face

it, Beast Wars has much less characters than

any other. portion of Transformers fandom. And

they kind of tried to keep that ratio even if

they replaced the character with somebody else.

I'm kind of disappointed that he hit this far

down on the list. Yeah, I mean, I know I probably

ranked him, because I can't remember what I had

right now, much higher than this. But the same

token, I would have expected at least somewhere

in the top 75. There are two things I remember

from this character. You will burn, Maximo. And

yes, my queen. Why do we should quit calling

me that? Yeah, so interesting that Inferno Beast

Wars, we have a Beast Wars character that kicks

it off. Mike, what do you think that holds for

the future of the Countdown and Beast Wars character?

Is that a good sign or a bad sign for the number

that we'll see? Again, even though Beast Wars

always saves the franchise somehow. Like Steve

said, it's got the least amount of characters.

G1 seemed to kind of, like, the purists of G1,

not the ones that are more cultured and, you

know, enjoy other series as well. Basically,

what he's trying to say, and he won't say it,

but I will because I'm a crude, rude dude, the

assholes of G1. Well, I was trying to just be,

you know. Mike's just trying to piss our folks

off. Mike's like, goodnight everybody, and we're

like, no, no, please keep listening. Michael

Powers, what's your opinion on the character?

That would be Michael Wilson, not Michael Powers.

I don't know. That's my secret agent name. We

do gravitate towards Michaels here. Good lord.

Can we have a limited number of Michaels on the

network? No, just kidding. Michael, what do you

think of Beast Wars Inferno voiced by Jim Burns?

Do you like him as a character or not? I do.

I kind of consider Inferno as a minor character

because he didn't spend a lot of time on screen.

We never saw a transmetal Inferno. I think it's

fitting that he at least made the cut. Yeah,

I think, pardon the pun, but even though he was

only on screen limited amount. I do think he

maximized his time on screen to make an impact.

Well, he did burn out some of the other, you

know, some of the losers that couldn't make the

list. Right. So you could say he was on fire,

you know, compared to those ones that didn't

make the list. Exactly. And I see kind of why

he made it in by the skin of his teeth because

he's 72 years old. What? Yeah, Jim Burns. Oh,

Jim Burns. He's not 70 years old. I was about

to say, it's a little like the 15th anniversary

or 20th anniversary. I didn't do my Mike humor

stretches yet, so I wasn't prepared for that.

All right, so the tie with Inferno goes to another

character that I am hoping that you guys can

help me out with because I'm not super familiar

with this character. Let's go ahead and get our

first female. character out of the way right

here, tied for that 100 spot. Same amount of

lists, same amount of points. We're going with

a character that's probably best known for the

IDW appearances, and that would be a character

named Nautica. Oh, yes, Nautica. She was... She's

a good character. Yeah, she's a good character.

She actually has been around for a while. She

mainly stars in IDW. But she was also in the

Titans Return material and more. She's actually

currently in the 2019 IDW continuity, too. Yeah,

so both the 2005 and the 2019 continuity for

IDW, big appearance. Mike, both Michaels, you

guys seemed to have reacted close. So, Mike,

what do you think first of her appearing on the

countdown? I'm glad she did. He said Mike, not

Michael. Did he? Yes. Open your ears, old bot.

I like it. You know, when I was reading the IDW

Phase 2 books, I thought she was an interesting

character. I thought she was fun. Comics needs,

you can't just fall back on every repaint of

Optimus Prime, so they need new and interesting

characters, and she was one of those ones that

always added something to the stories that she

was in. Michael, what about you? I like this

character in that she was new. I mean, she didn't

have like a G1 counterpart. They kind of made

her kind of like to be a friend to Error. Windblade.

Yeah. And at first I'm like, oh man, they're

just making stuff up at this point. But as you

get to know the character, she just has so many

layers. She's so well written. We'll put it that

way. And after a while, it's like, wow, I really

like this character. And I can't imagine not

having this character in the continuity. And

this just highlights my blind spot of IDW stuff.

I need to read more of it. I'm telling you right

now, you will love it. If you start at the death

of Optimus Prime, and then you can go one or

both down robots in disguise or more than meets

the eye. Robots in Disguise is a little more

political for Cybertron, because that's what

it is. And then More Than Meets the Eye is the

space adventure, adventure in space. It's a fun

romp. Yes. That would be my two -word description

of More Than Meets the Eye. Yeah, the reason

both Inferno and Nautica make this list, even

though they're only on eight out of the 33 lists,

was because they averaged a ranking of... being

ranked 40th overall. So, you know, anytime you

have that high of an average ranking, it helps

out for sure. Robo Apollo had Nautica at 7th

on their list, and Nicole had Inferno 13th on

her list. So those would be the two highest rankings

for each of those characters. So we start off

with a tie, Inferno from Beast Wars and Nautica,

and now we kind of move into the rest of the

countdown. Let's see what's next. 99! That's

right. If you recognize that voice, we have number

99, none other than the Decepticon cassette,

Frenzy. Frenzy. Wow. At number 99. nine um average

ranking of 59 and a half about on 12 lists so

on four more lists than either inferno or nautica

obviously frenzy started in g1 and has been in

a lot of different things whether it be energon

um the live action films uh shatterglass war

for cybertron animated He has been around. Mike

Blanchard. I'm just going to have to start going

crazy. TFG1 Mike, you reacted the loudest first,

so you get to go first. What do you think about

Frenzy making the list, and what do you think

about our first Decepticon cassette? I like it.

I think he's a little low. I prefer Rumble overall,

because Rumble is purple, Frenzy is black. But

it's one of those things where all I remember

from Frenzy is Let's kick tailgate from the movie.

I've watched a bunch of G1 episodes recently,

and I have not watched a lot since the end of

the TFG1 podcast. But in order to be prepared

and get audio and everything else for the countdown,

I've been watching a lot of G1 episodes, and

I see Rumble, I see Laserbeak, I see Ravage.

Those are the three that are used in the show

the most, at least out of the Season 1 and Season

2 episodes that I've seen. I like Frenzy. I think

he's cool. I think he doesn't really deserve

the swift kick in the cassette that he gets.

Sonic is down. Yeah, he got in here at 99. The

other reason I started with Mike is because he

is the highest ranker of Frenzy at 24th on his

list. So that helped get him the nod. He beats

those other two by five points. Steve, how many

cassettes will we see in this countdown now that

we see the first one in Frenzy at 99? What's

the number? Oh, in this episode? No, just in

total. I think we're going to see all of Soundwave's

major cassettes that have shown up in the series.

I think for sure that. We might see... maybe

one of blasters but i definitely think we're

going to see uh at least five of of sound waves

cassettes and what do you think of frenzy if

we see five if is frenzy should frenzy be the

first uh i don't know i mean i would think rat

bat maybe just because didn't really do much

i can't wait for the rumble frenzy debate uh

michael where do you fall on this what do you

think about frenzy making the countdown Is that

the red one or the blue one? That would be the

red one. I'm just yanking your chain. I know

you are. I'm with Mike on this one. I always

preferred Rumble. I think Rumble had more personality.

The way Frank Welker voiced Rumble was just street

tough, kind of New Yorker. I don't think that

Frenzy had. personality. I don't actually remember

him having much in the way of lines. I don't

know. Man, that reminds me. I should dust up

the Excel sheet I have somewhere that has the

number of lines of each G1 character overall.

I actually compiled that myself by watching the

episodes. That was when I was much younger. Before

we move on, I do want to say one thing. I won't

say, well, you already said that Frenzy was number

24 on my list. I mentioned a minute ago, there

was one thing I couldn't get out of my head when

I was thinking of the cassettes, and I was specifically

thinking of the ones that were featured in the

movie. Rumble, Frenzy, Ravage, Ratbat. So that's

how I ranked them, was through the naming. In

that order, I like it. Yep. All right, so let's

move on and see what's next. 98! All right, 98,

as he said, and we are looking at... An interesting

character that just edges out Frenzy by one point.

He was on one more list than Frenzy, so his average

ranking is not quite as good, but on one more

list, which bumps him by one point. We're talking

about number 98 here. That would be the ginormous

Skylynx. Skylynx at number 98. Skylynx, save

your... I guess we could list this as, at times,

both bad and good, because he has played both

Decepticons and Autobots through the different

things that he has been in. Obviously, G1. A

little bit in Cybertron, Shattered Glass, Animated

Prime. Just recently, obviously, in the War for

Cybertron trilogy. I'll go a little bit here

on this one because Skylynx for me, although

I think he did make my list barely, I was never

a huge fan of him during G1. Now, I think he's

done some other stuff since then that maybe warrants

him getting on the list, but when I was growing

up, I never necessarily needed or wanted the

Sky Lynx toy, and I was never a big Sky Lynx

fan. That being said, I do think he's a cool

character for what he can do, and I liked what

they did with him most recently in War for Cybertron,

which I think helped his stock a little bit.

But I have no problem with him showing up. I

think 98's not a terrible spot for him, so I

have no problem with it. Steve, what do you think

about Sky Lynx? I mean, my main exposure to him

was in G1 when he did the Return of Optimus Prime

and then in War for Cybertron. And I don't have

a problem with him being on the list. I know

I ranked him higher, but that's because there

were other characters that I just didn't care

for that I put past him. But, you know, I think

that he definitely deserves a spot on the list

and that... Despite whether you love him or hate

him, I mean, he likes to talk and hear himself

talk in many franchise versions. Because I think

even in the G1 Marvel comic, he did something

similar. But yeah, I don't have a problem with

him showing up on the list or showing up here.

But I definitely think that he's warranted. I

never had that itch to love the character, but

what he can do is pretty impressive. Yeah, absolutely.

Mike, what do you think of Sky Lynx? Sky Lynx

has a very... He has a very... I don't want to

say toxic role in the fandom, but I know a lot

of people that absolutely hate him. Specifically

the IDW version of him. And I'm still not too

sure why. Like Steve said about the toy, the

original 86 Skylynx toy, a couple of my friends

had it. I never wanted it because it's cool that

he turns into two different animals, but basically

Skylynx is the first Beast Wars character because

he has no damn robot mode. It's a Fusor. That's

true. It's very, very true. So it seems like

so far, three of us respect that he's on the

countdown, none of us necessarily in love with

him. Michael Wilson, agree with us, or do you

differ? No, I agree. I think he had a kind of

odd personality in the G1 continuity. He was

possibly overused. I remember a certain episode

of the TFG1 podcast. I forget the exact title

of it, but there's this pacifist planet where

they're like, oh, we're not going to fight, but

the Decepticons are coming, so they have no choice,

and Skylynx kind of swoops in, and out of his

butt comes this huge pile of guns. And all the

pacifists go, yeah! And they grab guns, and they

start fighting the Decepticons. And I'm like,

That's not how pacifists work. And I don't think

that's how butts work. We have you on this episode

of the countdown, because I was wondering if

this character was ever going to show up on here.

If you were going to reference that, because

all I, all as I remember, I still remember to

this day, that recording session, all as you

kept saying is he keeps shitting ships. He keeps

getting stuff out of his torso points. That's

hilarious. Mike, you had Frenzy the highest at

24th. Transformers AD had Skylynx the highest

at 24th. So a popular number here as far as highest

rankings. So let's move on and see what number

97 brings us. 97! This one's going to pose some

interesting questions for us, I guess, as we

see a new type of character appear here for the

first time. Number 97, the Autobots, for the

most part. And that is Superion. So our first

combiner in combined form, Superion, showed up

on 10 lists with an average ranking of 51 .2.

Highest ranking was 16th by Cole Krishna. I guess

the question here is, Superion as a combined

form showing up, will any of his parts show up

or just him? If this is the first combiner, does

that mean we won't see very many? Or does that

mean we're going to see a lot? Mike, I'm going

to start calling you TFG1. TFG1, Mike, what do

you think of Superion? I like him, but I don't...

I remember the aerial bots more. I remember the

individual aerial bots more than... They were

featured a lot more in the cartoon, for sure,

compared to some of the other combiners. Right,

and Superion was featured, however, he... Like,

there wasn't a specific... Okay, specifically,

I remember this because it is what it is. If

Computron ends up on here, I can tell you a whole

story about Grimlock's new brain. But Superion,

all as I remember, is the awesomeness that is

Wardawn, written by the late, great David Wise,

and how the Aerialbots specifically, I want to

say slingshot, got a history lesson because he

was so damn arrogant in the beginning of that

episode. But the overall combined form, he didn't,

at least in the cartoon, and I know he was in

the IDW comics, but again, Combiners don't always

get the love that they deserve. For me, and I

haven't studied the list so much that I know

the answer to this, so I'm not necessarily cheating

or whatever, but for me, I always feel like if

the combined version appears, that if the parts

have not appeared up to that point, that there's

no chance to see them after. I don't know if

there's a group that would be different than

that. Maybe the... I guess I could see some of

Devastator's parts showing up after Devastator,

but that would be the only one. I just can't

see Fireflight, Air Raids, and maybe Silverbolt,

I guess. I don't know. I wouldn't think we would

see any of them once we see Superion, but maybe

I'm alone in that. Steve, what do you think?

I definitely think we're going to at least see

some of them. I don't know if we'll see all of

his components, but I'm pretty sure we're going

to see some of them just based on the fact that

they were seen. Some of the other... I don't

know if we're going to see. But in their individual

portions, I think we'll see at least the combined

form. But I definitely think there's going to

be a major split when it comes to how much of

them are featured. Yeah, because I'm also thinking

when you're going to make your list, if you put

Superion on there and he's taking up one of those

slots, I don't know. Maybe people think differently.

I couldn't personally justify putting five. all

five parts on there, too, and taking up six spots

with the one team. It would have to be whichever

one part I thought was the most characterized

in the show, maybe. Like this one, if you had

Silverbolt. Right, or something like that. I

don't know. It's going to be interesting. I also

don't know what this means, because I've always

viewed Superion as one of the most famous of

the groups, of the combiners, in combined form,

I guess, however you want to term that. Seeing

him already appear makes me wonder how many we

will actually get out of all the different combining

groups. I do remember where he specifically shined,

which was the G1 episode. Again, I'm only going

by the cartoon because I can't look up the entire

comic continuity. Forever is a Long Time Coming.

This is the one where... There was the Time Warp

and the Time Window and the Quintessons were

doing all kinds of timey -wimey crap and A3 and

Alpha Trion and all that stuff. But Superion

was the one who helped them close the time portal

at the time. Absolutely. Michael Wilson, what

do you think of Superion showing up right here?

Unexpected. I mean, I do think that all of the

combiners are going to show up at some point.

As far as the individual components go, I guess

it depends on how much screen time they got.

I can tell you more about Silverbolt's personality

than I could Superion's personality. Because

he came across as a stronger character in the

comics. He's afraid of heights. He's a reluctant

leader. He doesn't know if his team respects

him. That type of thing. I couldn't tell you

anything about Superion other than he's there

and he fights other combiners. Yeah, it'll definitely

be an interesting thing that we can keep track

of as we kind of move our way through the countdown.

Coming up next, we're going to have another of

a first of a category. So let's see what that

is. 96. All right. Coming in at 96. How about

our first seeker? So if you're taking the Seekers

as a category, we'll see how many we see. We're

going to see one for sure right here at number

96. We'll see which one it is and what that means

for the future of the countdown. We're going

with... I think this is kind of a crazy one to

start with. I didn't know if I would see this

person on the countdown, but we're going with

Thrust. Thrust. is coming in here at number 96.

Only on 9 lists, but was an average ranking of

45 .3. Highest ranking would be on Tyler Bleszinski's

list where he ranked number 7. Another person

had 12 and 23, so 3 people had this character

in the top 25. I'm a little shocked. I thought

when people were ranking that they would put

quite a few Seekers on there, but maybe at some

point they'd feel like they had had enough, so

I thought Thrust might be left off. In favor

of some of the other ones, but here he is, sitting

at number 96. PFG1Mike, Thrust, and the first

of the Seekers. What's your reaction? He has

very little... There may be two episodes that

he gets spotlighted in the series. I don't want

to say the best scene he ever had was getting

mowed down by Optimus Prime in the movie, but...

As soon as he turns around and he gets whacked,

that's, like, the first time you really see him.

It's the first time you really notice him. You

know, he has appeared in Armada and Cybertron,

I guess, in a way. You know, he's a character

in the live -action film series. He's appeared

in Animated, as well as some other, you know,

things within Cyberverse, etc. So, I mean, he

has been around for a lot as main, you know...

Original Seeker type things, I guess you could

call them. But yeah, I would just think that

maybe he would have, just based on screen time

and stuff, been sacrificed for some of the other

ones. But maybe there's a lot more thrust love

out there. Steve, what do you think? I honestly

don't get the love of the Coneheads. I really

don't. Especially because they're basically a

mistransformed version of Starscream, Thundercracker,

and Skywarp. They're not technically mistransformed.

VTOL jets are a thing. I know, but... No, mistransformed

in the sense that instead of having their nose

cone fold back, they point it straight up. That's

what I'm talking about. But regardless, they

don't have that much screen time. And when they

do, they're there for more cannon fodder. They're

not exactly the main three we're used to and

get... And all the plethora of different series.

So I don't get the love for them all. I think

Thrust is possibly like the most known out of

the three. You know, I mean, you get Dirge and

then Ramjet. But I think Thrust just has this

weird fan following that nobody really understands.

Until now. Yeah, I mean, I know that the War

for Cybertron toys, people are losing their mind

over getting Thrust. and just because he's hard

to find and charging an obscene amount. But the

only one I was familiar with more so than this

was the Beast Machines one. Yeah, absolutely.

So, Michael Wilson, do you think, you know, Steve

mentioned Ramjet and Dirge, and obviously there's

a few other ones within the Seeker community.

Do any of them have a chance, or if Thrust is

here, should we only expect maybe to see those

top three from here on out? I would say that...

My first thought was that Thrust was actually

from the Beast Machines continuity, because that

particular version of Thrust had a lot of personality.

He was a strong character. And he was Waspinator.

Exactly, yeah, and he was Waspinator. And he

pops up several times within the comic book continuity.

Yeah, so maybe that's helping him get some votes

there. People might not distinguish which version,

so obviously Thrust has had a huge presence there

as well, so that makes a little more sense. I'm

pretty sure that I voted for the Viacom. Not

G1 Thrust. I specified if there was a double

in name. Yeah, and there's going to be some of

that where we might not be 100 % sure who's voting

for what. I think all the Thrusts might have

got linked together, which maybe put him ahead.

So let's see where we go from here. It's mainly

an IDW presence with Nautica. We've had the Beast

Wars, Inferno. Those were the two tied with 100.

And since then, it's been a lot of G1 with obviously

Thrust having multiple appearances there. Let's

see what happens next with our next reveal. I

got a look at your souvenir case. You mean my

trophies. I collect endangered species. Of course,

they aren't really endangered until they meet

me. Hey, it's time for another tie. But we separated

all these, so this one will technically be number

95 on the countdown. And it's going to be interesting

here because we are going to have another female

character. And that is going to be the Decepticon

Spidercopter from Prime. We're talking about

Arachnid at number 95. Ten lists, average ranking

of 50. So averaged right in the middle there.

Highest, again, that number 24. So highest was

on my list, actually. I had Arachnid at 24th.

Just because I feel like she was one of the most

interesting characters from Prime. I think there

was a lot of layers and levels to her character,

even though I hate spiders. It didn't bother

me as much with this character. I hate spiders,

but I love spider characters in Transformers,

I guess, because I feel like they always have

more complexity to them the way they're written.

I don't know what it is about them, but we'll

definitely probably come across a few more throughout

the rest of the countdown. And they just seem

to be written well. I don't know. There's a lot

to them. So I really liked what they did with

Arachnid. in transformers prime it reminded me

a little bit about beast wars and and you know

some of that kind of writing so i'm a big fan

obviously i had her all the way up at 24 um could

have been ranked a little bit higher maybe 95

a little too low for me but i'm happy that she's

on the countdown also two females so far so steve

what do you think of arachnid coming here at

number 95 well to be truthful i totally forgot

about her um despite seeing her name on the list

uh But when the name came up again, I recalled

what role she played in Transformers Prime. And

I definitely think that she deserves to be on

the list because she was dynamic and different

from some of the other characters that were on

Prime that were majorly forgettable. But, yeah,

I mean, I'm perfectly fine with that. And I like

the fact that usually the Spider characters are

written pretty deviously and more in -depth than

some of the other characters are. TFG1, is this

a sense where we're seeing her at 95 only because

she hasn't been in enough of the different iterations,

basically TF Prime and just a little bit after

that? But this is a rare example of someone who

did not appear in G1 first that came along much

later. So has it just not been around enough

to be ranked higher, you think? Well, first of

all, anyone that watched Prime, that saw the

character, that heard the character, It would

be like, wow, she really sticks out, especially

what they did with her in Transformers Prime

with making her basically Arcee's adversary and

Arcee's arch nemesis and the whole battle that

they had and how it went eons and eons and eons.

It wasn't just an Optimus Megatron eon battle.

It was Arcee and Arachnid. And, I mean, come

on. Gina Torres is the voice actor? That is...

Stellar casting. Anytime you get Gina Torres

to do anything, perfection. Well, that's what

happens when, you know, RC and her fighting over

Rodimus Prime and, you know. And I guess I'd

list her as coming in TF Prime first. I don't

want that to be. I don't want the fans to go

crazy. She did appear in the IDW comics first,

like five years before that, I think. But I didn't

know of her until. TF Prime, so that's kind of

why I list that as kind of when I met the character.

Michael Wilson, what do you think of Arachnid

coming in here at number 95? Oh, that Black Arachnia

knockoff? Hey, watch it! So not a fan? Not a

fan, really. On the one hand, I'm kind of like,

yeah, I kind of remember her being on the show,

you know, and I remember her kind of, it's like,

oh, she's back in this episode again. I wonder

why. But yeah, I really thought that I would

have preferred Cree Summer in there. Okay. Fair

enough. Let's see who she technically tied with,

but we'll take over the next spot in the countdown.

94! So taking in that number 94 spot, tied with

Eragdon for 500 points, but was on one more list,

11 lists, average ranking of 54 .5. How about

a first of a kind here? And that is our first

Headmaster. How many Headmasters will we see?

Were Headmasters popular? I don't know. This

one was popular enough to be ranked number six

by Pia. We're talking about Brainstorm. Oh, yeah!

Headmasters, show them what you've got! Brainstorm,

really? Okay. Yes, Brainstorm. So, 1987, Autobot

Headmaster 1. They list him as also being in

Transcendent Technomorph from TransTech. I don't

know what language that is. I've never heard

of any of that, so I'm just an ignorant fan.

The Headmasters, for me, came so late in the

game in G1 that the only way that they could

have made an impact on me is if I had their toy.

And I didn't have Brainstorm's toy. So that's

not the one I gravitated towards. The one that

I put on, I did make sure to put a Headmaster

on my list because I did enjoy the toy that I

had of this character. But I put Hardhead on

my list because that's the one I had. So some

other people might like Brainstorm or Chromedome

or Highbrow or whichever other one. But for me,

it was Hardhead because that's the only one I

owned. So I just don't have an attachment to

Brainstorm, but enough people did. You know,

11 people put them on the list. Michael Wilson,

I'll let you go first on this one. Are you surprised

to see a headmaster? And if we're going to get

one, maybe we'll get more. But if we're going

to get one, should Brainstorm be it? We're definitely

going to get more, and I'll tell you why. And

it's not because of G1. It's because of the IDW

continuity. Brainstorm and Chromedome. uh play

heavily in the more than meets the eye series

and and they're fantastic characters they're

so well done okay that explains it then yeah

excellent so another thing to look forward to

when i finally get around to reading those i

was wondering if they had a comic presence because

it seemed weird that they just like vaulted into

this so i i like that they kind of featured them

a little bit more in the idw stuff because i

feel like some of those characters had potential

to be great characters that we see towards the

end of g1 it just G one ended. So we didn't have

the time or the space to like explore them. So

it was like, well, we got teased with them, but

then we didn't get any substance out of them.

Well, and that's the sad thing about not getting

the headmasters cartoon dubbed over is that you

didn't get to see all of that. Right. Right.

And brainstorm has one of the biggest, biggest

arcs in IDW. Yeah. I don't want to spoil it for

Kevin because I do want Kevin to read the comics,

but What is in the briefcase? Yeah, exactly.

It's like briefcase or no briefcase. It's definitely

a briefcase. We don't know what's in it, but...

Well, Brainstorm is basically like the wheeljack

of the Headmaster group. He's got all the ideas.

He's got all these thoughts on testing things

and inventions. He's very much like a wheeljack

in that sense. I love that line from Firebolt.

The Decepticons are headmasters and targetmasters

too, and just like a genius that he is, Michael

Bell as Brainstorm comes in. Those creeps, I'll

sue! He did. Oh my. Alright, so Brainstorm, big

IDW presence, our first headmaster appearing

here at number 94. Let's see which Prime is the

first to show up on the countdown next. This

podcast good! 93! Alright, that's right. It's

number 93. I don't know if there's any guesses.

We're going to have a prime. I think we know

it's not one of them. Nemesis? We're going to

go with actually at number 93. Probably most

known at the beginning for his appearance in

Animated. We're talking about Sentin Prime. You

bots will direct your questions directly to me.

Don't ever presume you can speak for me, Optimus.

The last thing we need is some over -glorified

repair bot shooting his audio processor off about

things he doesn't understand. A scrub like you

should just smile and wave and stay out of the

way. Now, let's get this over with. What am I

supposed to do now? At number 93, 503 points

on 12 lists, average ranking of 58, as high as

34. That was the highest he got from Nicole.

mentioned in a lot of the G1 stuff, but not really

featured in the cartoon at all. We get a big

dose of him in Animated. Also has lived on since

then in a lot of different things. So Mike, you

laughed, so you get to go first. Sentinel Prime?

It's essentially the tick as a snowplow. Yeah,

spoon. Yeah. I love Townsend Coleman as the voice

of Sentinel. I love that at some point in, I

want to say, the second or the third season,

they actually gave him more depth than he deserved

to get, because Sentinel throughout the entirety

of Animated was the single most arrogant character.

Sentinel essentially is the Skylynx. too animated

no he's he's the starscream of the autobots he

wants to be leader something terrible and he's

a kiss butt in front of the leader but then he's

like condescending towards everyone else i like

how tf wiki describes him for they just have

like the list of all the different sentinel primes

that have shown up and for the animated one it

just says 2007 sentinel prime a jerk and member

of the elite guard from animated Nice way to

describe him. Kind of the Autobot that would

come in and steal your girlfriend. So do you

think he's deserving of a top 100 spot? I think

so, yeah. He's definitely a good character. A

lot of good characters from animated. The series

was really well written. And my biggest question

was, is it Townsend Coleman or is it Leonard

Nimoy? Because Sentinel Prime, played by Leonard

Nimoy, was in the movies. And that was interesting.

He did die. Optimus took his face. I feel like

the people that we have involved aren't scoring

a lot of extra points for movie characters. But

maybe they are. I don't know. Or maybe that adds

a little bit that at least he appeared. And Leonard

Nimoy, I mean, that's good. But I feel like from

what I'm ranking, if someone appeared in the

live -action movies... had no bearing on where

I ranked them. Leonard Nimoy has a few other

better roles in this, but for me, and this is

funny, and I don't know what you actually went

with, so I'm kind of glad that we're talking

about the movie stuff here. I... did not really

rank any of the movie characters, not even Jazz.

And I liked Jazz from the movie, because Jazz

is essentially Eddie from Family Matters, voiced

by Darius McCrary. But on my own personal list,

I did this as a joke. Number 96, Devastator's

Balls from the Bayverse. If you won't take that,

Brawl from the Bayverse, because Brawl was the

only one I could remember at the time. Lexus

was a good read, everybody. It's interesting,

though, that we bring up Sentinel Prime and his

appearance in the movie because next up on the

countdown, we are going to have a character that

I have to say has to be on here because of the

movie. So we'll see who that is coming up next.

It's 92. All right, it's number 92. As I teased

it, I went through and tried to put which continuity

characters were most known for. And I have one

next that I feel like is most known for the live

-action movies. I don't know. Maybe you guys

will correct me on that. But number 92 is going

to be Barricade. Are you username LadiesMan217?

I don't know what you're talking about. Are you

username LadiesMan217? Yeah. Where is the eBay

item 21153? Where are the glasses? With 521 points

on 13 lists, average rank of 60, highest rank,

two people had him at... guess the number 24

um that would be tv's mr neil and scanner 51

both had him at 24 one person had 25 we had a

99 95 95 80 70 60 today he's all over the place

so 13 people ranked him and i think he's represented

in almost every set of 10 so barricade i mean

yes he appeared in energon i guess he's a micromaster

in g1 i don't think he remembers that um and

then later on obviously was in animated for a

minute and some other stuff and probably in the

comics a lot that i don't know about but This

is our first live -action film character, right?

Like, just strictly? Yeah. So, Mike, you said

that you remembered Brawl. Do you remember Barricade?

Everybody remembers Ladies' Man 2217. Because

that's all he ever said in the beginning of the

damn movie. Well, then he was torched and they

brought him back. Yeah. Like, the best part was,

wasn't he like a Dodge Charger or something?

He was a... Yeah, I think that sounds right.

I'd have to look to verify. I think that's what

my head's telling me. But yeah, I don't really

care for the character because there's no character

there. There's no characters. They didn't have

much characterization. They were like, oh, it's

like watching an old Batman movie or Spider -Man

movie. Oh, we kill the villain at the end and

we kill all the help too. Who's Jess Harnell?

Yes. Interesting. He played Ironhide. Jess played

a lot of characters, yeah. So if we were to pick

a character that is, like, is he the only chance

for someone that is, like, obviously a lot of

the other characters we knew beforehand, you

know, Megatron, Optimus, Starscream, etc., Bumblebee,

like, is Barricade, is there anybody else that's,

like, mainly known for the movie that has a shot

to appear in the top 100? Can anybody think of

one besides Barricade? I think people will put

the little minicon characters, if nothing else.

I get some of those guys, maybe. I wouldn't put

any of them on the list. Tell me somebody put

Blendic on their list. I can't answer. I'm not

scrolling through all 450 characters that received

a vote to see if that's true. I will tell you,

I did not vote for any movie characters, because

they're, like, two -dimensional. Barricade did

not make it on my list, but I get it. Like, he's

probably the most... Famous of the live -action

exclusive, I guess I'll call it. Michael Wilson,

any problem with Barricade being on the list?

I like Barricade, and I like the new toy version

of Barricade, which is essentially a recolored

Prowl. They had to come out for War for Cybertron.

Nice. If you're keeping tally so far, we have

five... good characters and five bad characters

so we're even even on that um i guess skylines

could be both but uh we'll count them good i

guess mainly good i don't know um let's see where

we go next 91 all right number 91 i guess the

fun part about this part of the countdown is

we have the first of a lot of different things

so we've you know had like the first headmaster

and the first you know strictly movie character

and the first uh seeker the first combiner the

first cassette What we haven't had yet is any

of the mini vehicles. The G1 Autobot mini vehicles.

So let's get that out of the way with our first.

Coming in at 91, I'm shocked that this character

made the countdown. Maybe you guys can speak

to his comic presence and maybe that will explain

it. 526 points, only on 9 lists, but averaged

41 ranking. We're talking about Swerve. We're

talking about Swerve. Again, you need to really

read. the comics, because Swerve is amazing.

I'll let Michael talk first on this one, but

Swerve's awesome and he has a bar. The character's

been around since 1986 as a toy in G1, but yeah,

it's primarily... I mean, he's been in animated,

he's been in Prime. Right, but this is one that

would not have... People didn't vote on him necessarily

because of his G1 presence. He was in the movie

and he was in Armada. right but i'm just saying

like a lot of these things will you know it'll

be like oh this is all g1 dominated characters

yes swerve is a g1 character but i feel like

if you were just basing it off of g1 he wouldn't

rank like based on all the other mini vehicles

and stuff like this so this is a character that

yes exists in g1 but then was made better or

more expanded in other venues michael wilson

agree i agree uh swerve made 16 on my list nice

Specifically the IDW version, because he eats

up a lot of screen time in the comic books. He's

such a hilarious character. Just drop -dead funny.

And he owns a bar. He owns a bar. No guns, no

swords, no briefcases. That is a sign at Swerves.

You said where you had him ranked, and actually

Tupi Bill had him ranked even higher than that.

So we had someone that had him ranked 11th and

Nicole was the highest. She had him ranked at

number four. That does not surprise me because

she loves him and she loves, rightfully so. Swerve

is basically, it's as if Victor Carolli's voice

that did the narration in the old G1 cartoon

was put into a bot. As Michael said, Swerve takes

care of a lot of the exposition in the IDW 2005

comics. You'll see. him in a couple of issues

like doing the recaps kind of thing and it's

just the way he recaps things is hilarious because

swerve always wants to be on an adventure yet

he still just wants to be at his bar he won't

stop talking no he won't stop talking there's

a running joke about it we could swerve just

stop talking just for a minute Nice. Five points

ahead of Barricade, so a little bit of distance

there. Next character is only going to be two

points ahead of Swerve, though, and it's going

to be another first, so let's see what that is

next. All right, so that brings us to number

90. Another first as far as a type of character,

and we're going to go to our first Insecticon.

I'm not saying there will be more than one. Who

knows? be a lot there may be only this one but

this is the first and we're going with shrapnel

at number 90 that was a decepticon from the great

wars three centuries ago he's wacko 528 points

11 list average rank of 52 highest rank with

tyler blizinski at number 27 on his list Steve,

Insecticons. Do you feel like there will be more

than one? Is that a big presence? Are they good

characters? Is Shrapnel deserving of being in

the top 100? I could see that. I mean, they played

a pretty big part in the G1 cartoon. I mean,

periodically throughout the three Insecticons

did show up quite frequently, plus in the movie.

So I can definitely see them being on this list.

I was interesting because I had so many G1 toys.

I never owned... the original like the three

featured i never owned shrapnel bombshell and

kickback as a kid i have all of them now i've

gotten them since then but um the only one that

i ever had i want to say was um venom um yeah

venom was the only one that i had but he never

got featured On the show, I don't believe. I

don't think there's any. No, he didn't. This

is the first time I've ever heard of it, and

I'm like, wait, why did you go to Spider -Man's

universe? No, there was Venom, Chop Shop, Ransack,

and Barrage. The deluxe Insecticons. The deluxe

Insecticons, but the deluxe guys never made it

on the show. That's because they were licensed

from Bandai, the same as Jetfire, so they couldn't

actually be there due to copyright reasons. Venom

was a cool -looking character, though, and they

all had different looks. Obviously, Shrapnel,

Bombshell, and Kickback all had the same color

scheme, whereas the Deluxe all were kind of different,

so that's kind of why I liked them. It almost,

Steve, reminds me of where we eventually go to

with Beast Wars and stuff like that, kind of

more up that alley. But I don't know if I have

an opinion on which Insecticon should rank highest,

if we should have more than one or not. I don't

know if you guys have opinions on that, but obviously,

if we think about Shrapnel, Kickback, and Bombshell,

and we have Shrapnel here... TFG1, do you think

Bombshell or Kickback have any shot or Shrapnel

the best of the group? Who are you asking, Steve?

I said TFG1. Oh, I didn't hear that part. For

me, I only had Bombshell as a kid. And Bombshell

freaked me out as a kid. Bombshell gave me enough

nightmares just as Freddy Krueger did as a kid

because him and his Cerebro shells, oh man. Those

bugs like to mind control people. Somebody call

Rico and his roughnecks, please. But it's one

of those things where I... I think they all deserve

to be on here somewhere. I don't think that Shrapnel

should... I think Kickback should have been here,

and then Shrapnel, because Kickback always talks

back. Twice. And then Bombshell for me would

be the overall favorite, I guess. Michael, will

you agree or disagree? I might disagree. I believe

all three of them should be on the list. I've

got them at 59, 60, and 61. I had them all lumped

together there somewhere near the middle because

they were my favorite toys as a young 'un. I

think along with the Jumpstarters, I thought

everybody had the, the, the, uh, insecticons.

Yeah. I don't know why I got screwed out of the

insecticons. I got to go talk to my mom. That

means we're going into the 80. We're going into

89 next. So let's see which character represents

that spot. All right. We're going back to the

world of the Autobots G one mini vehicles, but

I know this character has had a life in other.

Things that have probably elevated him even more.

We're talking about Warpath. They don't call

me Warpath because I'm gentle. Warpath at number

89. 536 points. That's an 8 point jump. 13 lists.

That's the most we've seen out of anybody. That

was Barricade. That was Sky Lynx. And now Warpath

have all been on 13 lists. Was all the way up

at number 4. For Transformers Reanimated. Fourth

on their list. Mike. TFG1. Mike. Warpath. What

do you think? I think Warpath deserves to be

here. I think he's really cool. I don't know

how. Does he presence that much in the comics?

I don't know. He... Or has it just been all the

different toys that have come out? It's mainly

been the toys. He was in Animated for a brief...

And War for Cybertron. And War for Cybertron.

And the thing of it is, is that what Warpath

is remembered for the most is like, blam, zowie,

yow! Like, that's really what he is remembered

for. But that's the fun of him. Plus he's a king

with a gun sticking out of his chest. That was

your best Alan Oppenheimer impersonation ever,

by the way. That was great. Thank you. I'm no

voice actor. I'm just a bad podcaster. So for

me with Warpath, I forgot he was a mini -bot.

You look at the cartoon, Warpath ain't mini.

Warpath is freaking huge. Yeah. As far as G1

goes, yeah. Yeah, I mean... Ranging all over

the map, though, people had him ranked as high

as 4th and as low as 98th. So that is a big gamut.

Michael Wilson, where do you think was the appropriate

place for Warpath in the top 100 if he was deserving?

I think he would probably fit somewhere higher.

Somewhere between 75 and 50. I was looking on

my list. I'm sure he's on my list because I love

that character. It's hard when there's a thousand

characters to choose from. He was prominent in

Season 3. For that era. He was in Season 2 a

lot. You come home and you watch the Transformers

after school and you always see him and the minibots

were traveling. I was always a fan of the second,

maybe even consider maybe a third, but I was

a fan of the second wave of the mini vehicles.

Yes, I liked Cliffjumper and Bumblebee was okay

and stuff like that, but I didn't gravitate a

lot to some of the other original mini vehicles.

But then when we had the wave of Warpath and

Beachcomber and some of those other ones that

came in with that group, I liked all of those

quite a bit. So I was always a big Warpath fan.

I don't know how many people own the G1 toy that

had that gun that came out of his chest broken

at some point. I feel like that had to be like

50 % of the people that owned that toy had that

part broken at some point. That's red plastic

syndrome for you. But yeah, I always liked that

second group. I think Powerglide was in that

group. I know people have mixed opinions about

Powerglide. Powerglide, Seaspray, Warpath. Yeah,

Seaspray was the other one I was trying to think

of. And then you had the second paintings, the

repaints of the original ones. I almost liked

them better than the originals. As far as some

of those go. So I don't know. The mini vehicles

are fun. They're interesting. I like, I like

to see those Steve, uh, any opinions on Warpath?

Uh, I think it's kind of fitting that he hits

this number of, what is it? 89, 89. Yes. Yes.

That's the number I had for him on my list. Oh,

one person did know two, uh, two people had him

at 89. So two people hit it right on the nose.

So that's kind of crazy. Um, but yeah, I, I remember

mostly for his, his, uh, crazy yelling in the

middle of a battlefield. I also remember him

from the War for Cybertron video games. He was

pretty prominent in helping Prime, and he didn't

talk like that in there, and it was sorely missed,

but it was entertaining nonetheless to fight

alongside him in there, and he was the size of

Prime in that. Well, that is kind of the first

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it out beforehand. All right, so next up is number

88, and I guess we can count this as our first

character that is not... Well, I guess we had

Inferno Beast Wars, which would be a Predacon.

But this character also is not an Autobot or

a Decepticon. In fact, it's really a group of

people, or maybe almost an alien race. We're

going with the Quintessons at number 88. Yes,

all of them together. We're cheating. It is a

day so long in coming that I am uncertain how

to celebrate it. Perhaps a quiet chuckle. Very

well, then. Let us chuckle. They win a tiebreaker.

We started at 100 with a tie. We are at another

tie. And Quintessons win or lose the tie. Excuse

me, they lose the tie. The judge rules not in

favor of them because they're only on 12 lists

where our winner of the tiebreaker is on 14 lists.

So the Quintessons average ranking of 53. Highest

ranking was Transformers AD at 19th. But they

go anywhere from 19th ranked to 95th ranked.

Steve, how did you try to come to terms with...

I guess kind of a cheat where it's not just one

character, it's a group of characters? And do

you think that we should be talking about the

Quintessons in this Top 100 Transformer countdown?

Well, I didn't personally list them because they

don't transform, but I know that they have some

different pasts, per se, in the Transformers

franchise, depending on which version you watch.

G1, they're supposedly the creators of the race.

In the Unicron trilogy, he's enslaved by Unicron.

Then you look at War for Cybertron, and they're

still the creators of the race, but then they're

crazy, too. But we kind of got to see a little

bit of that in the movie. I like the fact that

they have the five -face thing where it's kind

of conflicting. What they did in War for Cybertron

was extremely creepy. So I'm not a fan of them

particularly. And I think that they were even

in one of the Transformer movies, which is forgettable.

That would be last night. Yeah, that movie was

total garbage and didn't fit the tone of any

of the rest. But that's what tanked the franchise.

So anyways, I don't think that they really...

I understand that they're memorable, but that

would be like me putting the Vok on my list.

Yeah, it was interesting to see because we obviously

have the two main outside of Megatron and different

things in the Decepticon. You have Unicron and

you have the Quintessons. They're like the big

baddies, I guess, like the overarching bad guys

in this lore. So I can see how people could rank

them. I can see your argument, though, that they

don't transform. I didn't think about that. That

could be a thing. So TFG1 Mike, what do you think

of the Quintessons sneaking their way into this

countdown? There is one that does, I think. I

think there's certain types. Right, but I'm specifically

talking about Generation 1. The Quintesson Executioner.

Yep. The one that throws the switch after guilty

or innocent. Uh, I, and the bailiffs, the bailiffs

transformed too, cause they were the sharks.

Uh, not the shark to cons, but they were the

other, they were the Alacron, Alacrons or whatever

the hell they are. I don't know. I don't, I think

I like the Quintesson judge, um, the most out

of them all because it has the most personality

of them all. But as Steve said, yeah, again,

Very horrific. Too bad Movie Optimus wasn't in

War for Cybertron, because give me your face.

I think it's interesting that they even made

it on the list, though. Well, it's interesting,

because if all 33 people would have ranked the

Quintessons 84th, that would have translated

to how many points they got right here, and they

end up at 88th. So it's real interesting that

they're kind of right here. I think it's, you

know, you can't have a Transformers discussion

without the Quintessons, can you, Michael Wilson?

I don't think so. I mean, I think they're such

an important part of the franchise. And while

they don't transform, you know, they're definitely

memorable. You know, after you've seen a Quintesson,

you're not going to forget it. Right. That's

for sure. Especially if you see them for the

first time in War for Cybertron. Well, you know,

the war for... I like that word. It's weird.

Actually, you know, back in Season 3 of G1, there

were, like, renegade Quintessons who wanted to

help. And that gave us some of the better storylines

of Season 3. Yeah, absolutely. So we've had some

characters that have ranked as high as 7th or

6th or 4th. Next up at number 87, we're going

to see somebody's number one ranking. One shall

stand, one shall fall at 87. Winning the tie

with the Quintessons and placing at number 87,

our first character that appears on 14 of the

33 list and our first character that is one of

the 33 participants number one ranking overall.

We'll see what the reaction is from the group

on this character being ranked number one on

somebody's list. But hey, the love for the mini

vehicles continues here in this section of the

countdown. We've seen Swerve. We've seen Warpath.

I feel like this one's a little bit more polarizing,

though. How about Powerglide? Powerglide at number

87, ranked number one by Transformers Reanimated.

Was all over the place within 14 lists all the

way from number 1 to 96. Then everywhere in between...

Silence across the board. TFG1 Mike, Powerglide,

87. Maybe react number 1 to Powerglide being

right here. Number 2 being ahead of Warpath and

Swerve. And number 3 being number 1 on somebody's

list. Okay, so... Unless I absolutely need a

quote from Powerglide... There's no way in hell

I'm watching The Girl Who Loved Powerglide again.

Ever again. Somebody will have to pay me to watch

that episode of the show. Clearly somebody liked

it a lot. How is... Again, Powerglide to me...

Like, I just watched, what was it? Dinobot Island.

Yeah. Power Glide, to me, is like what Skylynx

would become in Season 3. Very arrogant, very,

oh, I can do this, I can do that. And then at

other times, he's like, well, here you go, little

buddy, let me help you out. So it's kind of like

they couldn't decide in the original cartoon

series what to do with him. And apparently, he's

in love with Moon Racer, but... Yet, in the very

next episode, he cheats on her? I don't know.

That's thanks to the TF wiki. With the squishy?

I don't know. I assume. I mean, you know. I don't

know. His IDW spot online that I'm seeing the

blurb is not nearly as long as other characters

we've had, so it doesn't seem like he's had a

humongous presence in that comic continuity.

No, I don't remember a lot of... People just

love Powerglide that much from G1? Season 2?

Yeah, I don't really see it. Season 2 had 49

episodes. Okay, this is what confuses the hell

out of me about G1, and I know it was syndication,

and I know it was this and that, but Kev, you

and I have talked about syndication for the last

decade or so with Masters of the Universe. The

original He -Man show had 130 episodes, 65 per

season or whatever it is. And, you know, That's

indication. Transformers had 98 total episodes

over four, quote, seasons. You know, three seasons

and then Rebirth. It surprises me every time

I go back and watch G1 that season one only has

16 episodes and then they hit you in the face

with season two with 49 of them and Powerglide,

as we already said with Warpath. was featured

in a lot of those because again the 1985 line

the 1980 you know the minibots and again just

and i know you hate this kev i know you hate

it but to hasbro it's a toy commercial i just

i guess i would have thought like i like power

glide i don't hate power glide as much as some

people do like some people just really hate this

character i found over interacting with the fandom

over the years like i don't quite get the the

extreme hate forum that some people have um i

always liked him amongst like i said that second

wave of mini vehicles i was just always wishing

that some of his screen time would have gone

to some of the other ones like i would have rather

seen a few more episodes that featured beachcomber

you know sea spray and warpath versus power glide

because i feel like he just dominated on there

i don't know if it's because he was a plane and

people just thought the kids like you know the

plane toys better or whatever um he wasn't a

great toy um by the way um i had him and i enjoyed

playing with him but he was as as far as like

the toy was constructed it wasn't nearly as well

done as some of the other characters as far as

trying to keep it together and keep it sturdy

and whatnot um But maybe that's just too much

toy talk. But I don't know. I'm not surprised

that Power Glide shows up. I'm surprised that

someone had them all the way up at number one.

Not that that's wrong. You can love whichever

characters you love. So I'm not trying to like

poo -poo on somebody's number one pick. It just

surprises me, I guess, is all. Michael Wilson,

what do you think? You said poo -poo. Yeah, actually,

I've got a Power Glide right here on my shelf.

And now that I'm looking at it again. Of course

you do. Of course I do. I have one of each. But

now that I'm looking at him, it's like, no, he

wasn't a great toy. I compared to, like, Seaspray,

who, you know, you can actually cover his head.

Yeah. Seaspray. Beachcomber was the best out

of those four toys. Beachcomber and Seaspray

were the two best out of those mini -bots. Right,

yeah. Seaspray would have been fine if he didn't

break all the time. True. But I feel like...

They're all very fragile. Yeah, something with

Powerglide's arms or legs, I can't remember which

it was. They're just not sturdy. So, I don't

know. They're held on there by a screw, so they

come loose really easily. Right, right. To digress,

yeah, Season 2, there was an awful lot of Powerglide,

and he got a lot of screen time. And so, I can

see if you're... Maybe if you were a girl watching

cartoons at that point and you saw a girl character

in love with Powerglide, then you may project

that a little and love Powerglide as well. I

have to say, though, one of the reasons, besides

in general humans and Transformers just being

annoying most of the time, Anastasia or whatever

her name was, she is one of the reasons why I'm

glad we did not include Transformer humans. on

this list because there ain't no way in hell

the girl who loved power glide would make anyone's

number one. I feel like this, this would be the

same list if we included, well, not to, not to

mention that if we included that, then people

would also put the, the kiss play transformers.

Right? Absolutely. Yeah. Marissa Fairborn would

have been one on my list. Um, all right, let's

move on. bikinis. We would have a whole bunch

of Witwickies. Let's see what comes next. Oh,

yes. 86. In our number 86 spot, believe it or

not, guys, we've had a few other types of characters

that have not shown up yet. It seems weird. We're

at 86. We've revealed 14 or 15 of these guys

now already. We have not had a member of what

they call, in the toy catalog at least, the Autobot

Cars. We haven't had one yet. There was a ton

of them in G1, and we haven't seen any of them.

We've seen three of the mini vehicles, but none

of the actual car sizes. So we're going to get

one here, and that will be number 86, and his

name is Trex. 557 points on 12 lists, averaged

right about the middle. 53 .6 was fifth on Transformers

Reanimated's list. There's a trend here going,

guys. Trax shows up, the first Autobot car. I

didn't realize we hadn't had one until I just

looked. He would not be one that I would put

on there because I liked so many of the other

cars. But perhaps some of his other appearances

maybe hit home with some people. TFG1 Mike, what

do you think about Trax? Ooh, it's organic. So

that was from his very, very short -lived appearance

in Transformers Animated. When it comes to G1,

what I remember about Trax is him always hanging

out with Blaster in Season 2, and then there

was the episode with him and Raul starting, I

think it was called Make Trax. It was the episode

where he starred in, and they were trying to

stop the Decepticons from becoming car thieves.

You know you're running thin on ideas when you're

like, oh, let's have a Car Thief episode. Yeah.

There were so many Autobot cars that originated

in G1 that I think I would have put... I'd have

to look at my list, but I would think of about

a dozen before I would get to Trax. I'm not saying

there's anything wrong with him. He was a cool

-looking dude with his shoulder cannons or whatever

you want to call it. I have nothing against the

character. Maybe he just never stood out to me.

I am missing something with Trax. Michael Wilson,

am I missing something? Is there some other to

this character out there? Actually, I think the

best part about Trax is his toy. Yeah, that's

what I'm saying. It's a car with wings and he's

got side missiles. Yeah. And he's in a lot of

versions of his toy, too. His toy has almost

outlived any other part of his character. I would

argue that, yeah. And he's one of the few characters

that has a painted face. That's true. That's

true. So he went from anywhere from being ranked

5th to being ranked 99th amongst the 12 people

that ranked him. Any other thoughts? TFG1Michael,

going back to you, if we see Trax here, and we're

sort of saying that he's maybe not the best of

the best when it comes to Autobot cars, does

that mean we're about to see a whole bunch of

them the rest of the countdown? I mean... Probably,

most likely. I don't think he's necessarily the

worst of the Autobot cars. No, no, no. He is,

and I mean, ranking, what are we at now? 86.

Oh. Too bad he didn't get a shinier part in the

movie. You know, two things really helped Trax

for me. Number one, Michael McConaughey's voice

for him, and number two, Once we got into Season

2 and all of Trax's adventures he would have,

he's technically, as of Season 2, unless they

have a jetpack, the only Autobot that can fly

because he's a flying car. So you would think,

oh, flying cars, they're the future of today.

You know, flying car of the future today. Yeah,

I think he's had some real cool toys. I think

that must be what's helping him on this spot

here, but we'll see. We're going to go to our

next ranking, and Steve's going to perk up because

we're going to actually have another first. This

time it's going to be our first Maximal coming

up next. Oh, that freaks me out. You wanted him

to perk up, and now he's just freaked out. He

didn't want any Beast Wars in this section of

the countdown. He's absolutely vibrating at this

point. Idiot Maximal. 85. All right. Next up,

like they said, this is number 85. We're going

to have our first Maximal. We've had one Predacon.

Now let's get a Maximal in here. Was as highly

ranked as number 11, as low ranked as number

96 out of the 11 people that ranked him. So he

actually averaged 49 .2 in the rankings. So that's

pretty good here. We're going with none other

than, and we'll go to Steve's reaction first.

So take it away as soon as you hear the name

here. We're going with Tigatron at number 85.

Stop kidding me! Are you kidding me? That's one

of the best ones for Beast Wars. Why is he...

Long enough to make my head spin. Why would he

be number 85? He's on the list! I know, but I

could see... I know, and I should be grateful

for that, but every time Tigertron showed up,

he was awesome. He saved the day. He saved the

other Maximals more often than they saved him.

That's true. And he managed to stealthily get

in places that Rat Trap got caught. Yes. Well,

I mean, Rat Trap is more of a... He's a demolitions

expert, but... Yeah, but he's more of a boaster.

Even though he's a rat and he can get into tiny

places. Rat Trap's got, I mean, Optimus says

it himself. He's got a big mouth. Yeah, he's

got a big mouth. You can't shut Rat Trap up.

Yeah, it's like you just can't take him anywhere.

But Tigatron, you know, he can sneak into the

Pred Base and hack in there before anybody notices

what he's doing. Right. Or reprogram Scorponok's

cyber beat. So, I don't know. I probably would

have put, I could have seen putting Airazor further

down because she didn't have as big of an impact

before she disappeared. And I could even possibly

see Silverbolt, in a sense, just because he's

annoying. It's interesting because people were

all over the place. Three people would have had

him appearing in today's episode. Two people

would have had him in the next. Four people would

have had him in the 26th through 49th. And two

people would have had him in the final episode.

Almost an even split amongst there. What cost

Tigatron was just being left off of quite a few

lists. He needed to just appear in a few more

lists probably to bump him up a little bit because

he appeared in 11 lists and most of the characters

that are around him appearing in 12, 13, or 14.

He just needed one or two more people to list

him and he probably would have been bumped up

a little bit. TFGO and Mike, you said you also

disagree? First of all, like Steve said, he saves

them more than they save him. You have his relationship

with Airazor, which goes a little creepy at the

end of the series because they become the same

person in Tigerhawk. But, you know, for me, again,

it's all about the voice. And Blue Mancuma did

an amazing job with voicing the character. I

can't hear anybody else other than Blue doing...

The voice of Tigatron, if they ever bring him

back in anything else, here's hoping Blue can

get a job again as that character specifically.

But there's two things. There's the voice and

there's also he represented a calmness, a oneness,

a stillness with the environment that they were...

Everybody else was frantic. I mean, Optimus wasn't

as frantic as everybody else, but like, Tigatron

was that calming that the Maximals needed. You

look at Call of the Wild, where he has to teach

them to hone their beast modes and all of that.

That episode is a stellar episode for him, because

it's just cool. And then his big cat, little

cat thing with Cheetor, I always thought was

fun. Michael Wilson, do you agree or disagree

with the other two? They're saying that this

is too... Low in the countdown. I might agree.

Yeah, I really like the character. I really like

Blue Man Kuma doing the voice. As Mike said,

the relationships between the characters in Beast

Wars, they didn't have a whole lot of characters.

So the relationships between the characters defined

the show. Yeah, absolutely. They were more rich.

One of the strengths. Yeah, one of the strengths

of the show for sure. So that was the reaction

for our maximal on the countdown. We'll see what

kind of reaction we get out of our next slots

as we get closer to top 80 here. Oh, yes. And

I believe we have another failure. Yes. This

one comes in at 84. Number 84. Well, we just

had our first maximal. How about our second?

So our second maximal in the countdown. Back

-to -back maximals here. So beating him out by

three points because he was on two more lists.

As high -ranked as 14, as low -ranked as 96,

and all the places in between. We're going with

none other. Can't wait for the reaction. Tigatron

at 85. How about Depth Charge at 84? Ooh. Ain't

that a kick in the lug nuts? Depth Charge at

84. Okay, stop. We're going to turn Cybertron

into a giant lughead. The Beast Unleashed podcast.

I'm a little irritated by that because, like,

I mean, I know he wasn't in the show for very

long, but one, you have the awesome voice of

David Soboloff. Two, he just looks cool. He was

one of the coolest looking Beast Wars characters

in the whole series. Oh, I know. He's got shielding,

he can fly, and he can go underwater. Yeah, he's

a badass. Yeah, so he can do pretty much everything.

But I was maybe expecting some of them to be

a lot higher than where they've fallen at this

point. And blow it out your exhaust port, Primal.

I mean, nobody talks to Optimus Primal like that.

Nobody. Exhaust port optimal. Yeah, exactly.

Like, you know, it's the thing. Depth Charge

is, he's one of, if not the, I think he's the

only, so Steve, you can correct me on this. He's

basically the only character that essentially

came from, okay, they all came from Cybertron,

but after everybody was already there, as we've

said, he starts in Season 3, and he's coming

from deep space tracking because he's tracking

Rampage's spark. It's like, holy crap. How do

you have such an awesome character only in the

80s? Yeah, I mean, like I said, Beast Wars has

an uphill battle to climb when it comes to G1

and all of the different G1 spinoffs that have

happened since then. So I think some people were...

turning a blind eye to Beast Wars characters

in general. I don't know if they didn't consider

them Transformers or why they left some of them

off the list, but I think Depth Charge is definitely

deserving of being on the list, and I am happy

that, as far as the rankings so far, that I would

put Depth Charge ahead of Tigatron, me personally,

and I would put him ahead of Inferno. So I'm

happy that he was at least higher than those

guys, because I think he's a badass character.

But, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. How much

love people were giving the Beast Wars characters.

I feel like Beast Wars gets crapped on by the

fandom, which is oddly funny about it because

without Beast Wars, the fandom would have died

25 years ago. Yep. Because people were just sick

and tired of the G1 motif and the action masters

and the pretenders and all the gimmicky stuff

that they're throwing at us again now. and people

are getting sick of and deciding, well, I don't

really need this version. I feel like they've,

at least since the movies have come out, people

have gotten back to that, oh, well, you know,

and I understand different versions of Transformers

are that person's Transformers, but I feel like

they all kind of deserve their own individual

part of the limelight, whereas you look at the

G1ers, Purists, and then you look at the... the

movie -verse purists, and certain other portions

of the franchise. I mean, looking at the Machinima

series, the Combiner Wars, Titans Return, and

Prime Wars, everybody crapped on it. Pretty hardcore,

because it wasn't very good. It was bad. Yeah,

it was very poor. But I'll give them this. The

acting was at least a little bit better, because

they had real actors. And I'm not saying anything

about the War for Cybertron because about 50

% of them are really good and then the other

50%. And I don't know if it's because of voice

direction. And I'm going off on a tangent here.

My soapbox. But I feel like no matter which version

of Transformers you enjoy, I feel like they all

have a place that... should be remembered. Absolutely.

That's why I'm just happy every time we see a

Beast Wars character show up, because I don't

know how many we'll have, so I think it's good.

Michael Wilson, I'll give you the last word on

Depth Charge. I agree with my colleagues. I like

that character. I like David Sobolov's voice.

He's awesome. We actually had an interview with

him where he correctly pronounced the character's

name. Depth Charge. depth charge yeah because

we're saying depth depth charge charge yeah absolutely

all right let's see if we get our third maximal

in a row or not coming up next me crimlock coming

at 83 no all right next up is number 83 it might

not be a maximal but i feel like it's in the

same family in a way in a in a spiritual way

let's go with our first of another kind of character

how about our first Dinobot. And we are going

to go with number 83, Slag. Me, Slag, say you

full of beryllium bologna! Me, Grimlock, say

you full of cesium salami! Beryllium bologna!

So Slag is coming up next with 564 points on

12 people's lists, anywhere from 27th to 81st.

Kulkrishna had it the highest at the 27th mark.

Interesting. I didn't know if we would see more

than one Dinobot, not counting actual Dinobot,

but I didn't know if we would see more than one.

I thought maybe it would just be one, but here

we have Slag coming in at number 83. TFG1, what

do you think about that? That's some cold, hard

Slag. First of all, I'm sorry to all you people

in the... UK, but Slag, Slag, Slag, Slag, Slag.

His name is Slag. It is not Slug. Sorry. Fair

enough. The Neil Ross character Slag. Mike, any

thoughts besides that his name is not Slug? I...

Beryllium baloney. I just can't get used to it.

Okay, I don't know what any of that means. Steve,

any thoughts on Slag? I'm glad that he made the

list because he's still one of the original five

Dinobots. Plus, he was in the movie. Whether

they're intelligent or not doesn't really matter

because they're just insanely strong. Yeah, absolutely.

They kicked Unicron's butt. Yeah, I always wanted

Slag as a toy. I never had the Slag toy. Sludge

and Snarl, but I never had Slag or Grimlock or

Swoop. But Michael Wilson, what do you think

about Slag? I like Triceratops, so he gets my

vote. I like it. That's the best reasoning so

far about any character on the list. Dinosaurs.

Let's get away, I guess, for a second from the

Maximals and the Dinobots and all the animal

-related. Let's go back to just a straight -up

vehicle. Let's see what's next. It's time for

82! We have had a Combiner and Superion. We have

not had a part of a Combiner until now. So let's

go with number 82 as our first one, the Decepticon.

Motor Master. According to Teletraan 1, Motor

Master should be coming down this road right

about now. Well, look who's here! The old king

of the road! When I'm finished with you, you'll

be king of the junkyard! Really? Motor Master.

The Stunticon. So interesting here. This is the

first of a part of a combiner that we have seen.

So will we see more Stunticons? Will we see the

combined... form of Menasor? Or is Motormaster

representing all Stunticons, TFGO and Mike? What

do you think? I don't think he's representing

all of them, but he is a huge part of them. That

would be the torso. Yes, it would be. The thing

with Motormaster is, again, cool voice, done

by Roger C. Carmel, and he's basically the Nemesis

Prime for Optimus and G1 sort of. I mean, it's

kind of like truck versus truck. King of the

road. Yeah, exactly. The highest he was ranked

was 12th by Pia. Steve, what do you think of

Motormaster being the first Stunticon representation?

I mean, I'm fine with it, but I don't think that

the Stunticons really... I mean, I know that

they deserve to be on the list, but I don't know

if they're really all that memorable outside

of Menasor. Yeah, I think the one that I would

make an argument for, and I'm trying to remember,

I'm trying not to get my guys wrong here. Because

what did we have? We had Dead End. Dead End,

Breakdown, Drag Strip. Motor Master and Wild

Rider. Yeah, Motor Master is the only notable

one, right? Yep, because he's the main portion

and he's kind of a could kind of make you think

of a dark Optimus Prime in vehicle mode. Yeah,

so I get it, like, why he's included. Like, when

we were talking about, you know, Superion and

the parts and Silverbolt or whatever, like, this

is, you know, obviously what Silverbolt is to

Superion, Motor Master is to Menasor. So if one's

going to be included, this is the right one,

I think. Mr. Wilson, do you agree or disagree?

I think so. I mean, I remember him most from

the Stunticon job from the Blackcon 2011 box

set. And those were all designed by our friend

Dirk Wyatt. Yes. I'm trying to think, is there

one that we like better than Motormaster from

the Stunikind group? Not from the Stunikinds,

I don't think. I think aside from Breakdown,

because for Breakdown it's more like the G2 variant

toy. Yeah. Where all the Vodkons Exclusives are

variants of that G2 breakdown. It repainted them

like three times. I know I'm beating a dead horse,

but I think it's one of the most interesting

parts about this countdown is how combiners are

handled and what people did with them. We'll

see how that continues or doesn't continue as

we move on. But first, let's get back to the

world of Autobot cars next. Let's have it for

81! Already had Trax at 86. Our second Autobot

car shows up here at number 81, losing a tie

with another character. 573 points on 14 in the

list, almost an average of 60th as far as ranking.

The highest ranking was 6th by Transformers Reanimated.

Come on, Soundwave! Make my day! Medic! Hang

in there, soldier! The damage is too severe.

I'm going to have to amputate. What? Don't worry.

Cybertron service will issue a replacement leg

within six to eight solar cycles. Ow! Couldn't

I get a second opinion? We're going with red

alert here at number 81. So, red alert. both

been depicted as a male and a female in different

parts of the franchise. So Red Alert here at

number 81. Let's start with Michael Wilson here.

So we had tracks. Now we have Red Alert. What

do you think? I think Red Alert is one of the

more memorable of the Autobot cars, mostly because

he had a mental illness. Yeah. He was profoundly...

Paranoid. Paranoid, yeah, that's it. It's not

paranoia if they're actually after you. I don't

think they addressed it as a mental illness with

him, but it was the first time as a child I had

been introduced to paranoia, and I took it really

seriously. It was an interesting thing and a

brave thing for them to include, and I'm glad

they included that portion in G1. I think that's

one of the better. things that they did as far

as some of those things that are just more than

just uh you know laser fights against each other

where they kind of dive into some of the character

there so um obviously portrayed as a female surgeon

in transformers animated um tfg1 what is your

favorite version i like the original but i wish

that the animated version had a little bit more

than one scene to fix hot shot She only appeared

in Transwarp, the three -parter that opens Season

3. She may have appeared in background shots

and crowd shots, but her only speaking role,

to my knowledge, in Animated was when she was

basically replacing Hud. He's like, ow, my leg!

Like, it'll be fine, kid. She's going to get

you a new one. As far as the G1 character goes,

I... Between, and at this point I kind of hope

they don't, but I'm sure Hoist and Grapple will

show up somewhere, maybe, hopefully not, but

maybe. Between Red Alert, Hoist, Grapple, and

Inferno. So Red Alert and Inferno and Hoist and

Grapple. I always felt that they were trying

to do things with those characters that us kids

of the 80s probably shouldn't have known about.

I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I know that

those are kind of more of the emergency, I guess,

type vehicles or whatever. I always put him in

the second tier with Blue Streak and Smokescreen

and some of those cars because I didn't think

they got quite as much time as a few of the other

ones that we'll for sure probably see come up

later. But I think Red Alert's definitely deserving.

Steve, last thoughts on Red Alert before we move

on? While I like his design, I think I prefer

the Armada trilogy. um the unicron trilogy version

better just because he was more fleshed out uh

but in this this instance he does uh he does

kind of fill a void of you know tf wiki kind

of represents it well of saying bot who cried

wolf uh and and just being utterly utterly pessimistic

and uh not really wanting to be in any particular

situation and I think it's funny that he's portrayed

the way he is. I think that it's helpful, even

though it's a bad kind of trait in a sense of

being paranoid. I think that it's also helpful

because he's more aware of things, whereas some

of the other Autobots are just like, let's just

run into the middle of something. Let's not worry

about it. I mean, there's a thing of being prepared

and being overprepared. And I just have to say

this one last thing, what I mentioned earlier,

where Inferno saves him and Inferno's holding

him like a rescued damsel in distress. I love

the TF wiki's caption under that image. Image

is like this, and yet Trax gets all the innuendo.

Yeah, that's funny. All right. Let's see who

won the tiebreaker with the red alert coming

up next. That's right. Winning the tiebreaker

because this character appeared in one more list.

So this is our official number 80 on our rankings.

And we've only done this one other time with

Frenzy. That was TFG1 Mike who had the highest

ranking of Frenzy. Mike, you have the highest

ranking of this character as well. You had this

one ranked at, well, I won't say quite yet, but

it is our second cassette. So another of Soundwave's

minions, we're going with Ratbat at number 80.

This one surprised me. But, Mike, you had it

at the highest rank at 26. It also had some 28s,

34s, 37s, all the way to 96, 97, 99th. So a little

all over the place. Why Ratbat, Mike? Again,

like I said earlier in the episode, Rumble, Frenzy,

Ravage, Ratbat is how I rank them. And I rank

them from... lowest to highest so you know you

said frenzy was my 24th so then obviously rumble

is my 23rd so when i was looking at 23 to 26

or whatever it is that's all i went with because

i remember rat bat i remember two things about

rat bat i remember his appearance in the movie

which didn't go over so well i think one of blaster's

cassettes kind of destroyed him a little And

then I remember Victor Carolli's description

of Ratbat, like what he was supposed to do. Then

the Decepticons decided to increase their spying

abilities with Ratbat. As a bat, Ratbat can hide

in crevices that Laserbeak can't reach. And he's

especially effective in tunnels, caves, or in

the darkness of space. Ratbat reports on the

Autobots' most carefully guarded secrets. Now

for those and most people that are listening

to this at... This podcast will know for those

that are first time listeners back in G1, Victor

Crowley would do various cartoon descriptions,

introductions, character things for various characters.

And Ratbat was one of them. And I always thought

it was cool what his description was, even though

he very rarely ever got good screen time. Yeah,

I mean, I guess I never grouped him with the

main cassettes for some reason. I don't know

if it's just because I didn't have the toy or

because I didn't remember him as much from the

cartoon. I would have put five cassettes ahead

of him, but maybe it's just a blind spot for

me. Steve, do you remember much about Ratbat?

Well, as far as the animated series, I know he

goes all the way through the Headmasters cartoon.

I think he pretty much takes over for Laserbeak

and Buzzsaw. because he gets seen more often

into the Headmaster's continuity. You see him

a lot more with Ravage and being used by Soundwave

and Soundblaster. You still see Rumble and Frenzy.

And Laserbeak and Buzzsaw are there, but they're

kind of more or less destroyed. But yeah, the

other thing that makes him notable is... In the

Marvel Comics universe from the 80s, he was the

chief fuel auditor of the Decepticons and had

an office on Cybertron and Polyhex where he ended

up doubling his leader after Straxus was killed

by Blaster in the smelting pool. So he kind of

became one of the leaders that rotated in that

you kind of got to hear more from. in the comic

universe. And although he wasn't very much frequent

after that, he did show up for a while as kind

of a major thorn in their side. He was also a

really, really sinister senator in the IDW continuity.

Ratbat's pretty badass. You guys know a lot more

about Ratbat than I do. Michael Wilson, last

word on Ratbat. I think Steve mentioned that

Ratbat was... Highly featured in the Marvel comics

back in the 80s. And he became the leader of

the Decepticons. And he had a lot of kind of

harebrained ideas. Like the car wash of doom.

Yeah. All right. That means we're going to be

going into our 70 territory now. So we have four

picks left today. They're all in the 70s. Let's

see where we start off. Well, it's time for 79.

All right. It's been a little bit of time since

we've had our last mini vehicle. We had a rash

there in the 90 to 87 with Swerve, Warpath, and

Powerglide. We're going back there for number

79. As high as ranked as 16th on DJ Valentine's

list. On 14 list overall, we're going with...

brawn here at number 79 so one of the original

mini vehicles also kind of appeared in a number

of different ways and animated and in the live

action movies wrong again you dipstick tape deck

etc etc um and i guess you had x brawn too um

but uh brawn tfg on mike what do you think and

is he deserving of being ahead of powerglide

warpath and swerve Oh, yeah, but the thing with

Braun is he is portrayed in the animated series

as, like, I don't want to say it this way, but

basically built for tough kind of thing. Like,

he can take anything, and yet one shot in the

movie, and I get it. It's a commercial. They

were moving in the 86 line. I understand it,

but... I was hoping that Bronn would have survived

a little bit longer in the movie than what he

actually did. Because in the show, he's essentially

the Autobot's muscle. And it's cool, and it's

awesome, and sometimes being the muscle, you

don't always get a brain, even though the brain

is a muscle. He actually did have some good ideas.

Like, every time that Huffer decided to do something

stupid, Bronn would always have to save him.

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I was never huge on

Brawn, but I get it. He's one of the more classic

of the many vehicles, so I can understand it.

Mr. Wilson, what do you think of Brawn being

here? I like Brawn. I think of Brawn, again,

as Mike mentioned, as the muscle. I always kind

of equated Brawn with Raphael of the Teenage

Mutant Ninja Turtles. Extreme attitude. Extreme

attitude. You want a piece of me? A Jose Canseco

bat. Tell me you didn't pay money for this. That's

awesome. One of the best lines there. Alright,

so Bronn at number 79. Let's see where we go

next. Let's hear it for 78. It's been a while

since we've heard from one of the female characters.

So let's go back there. We had Nanika. We had

Arachnid. We're going back. to a female character

here for number 78, as high as rank 8 for Casey

Collar. On 11 list, we're talking about the one

and only Chromia. So, Chromia here at number

78. I don't know what... You had some interesting

reactions there. TFGO and Michael, go to you

first then. Chromia is a character that... She...

She's a character that was used well by Margaret

Scott in the Windblade comics because she's essentially

Windblade's kind of enforcer. Like Windblade,

for those that don't know, is the city speaker.

And Chromia is kind of her muscle. So think of

Chromia as kind of the brawn kind of thing. And

she was in G1. She was one of the, she was actually,

you know, technically out of the three. Chromia,

Firestar, Moonracer. She was kind of the leader

right under Alita 1. But really, where she shines

for me is in those IDW comics because they give

her so much to do in them. Also, it appeared

in Cybertron, Revenge of the Fallen, Animated

Prime, the Unicron Trilogy, Cyberverse. So she's

popped up a lot of places. Steve, any thoughts

on Chromia? Not really. I mean, I don't have...

I've seen her in all those, but I didn't really...

Hair? Yeah. She's not on my list, but I could

see where some would like her. Michael Wilson,

you had an interesting reaction then. What did

you think when you heard the name Chromia here?

I was actually wondering if the Angry Birds version

was on the list. Stella, yep. That's true. No,

I like Chromia. I really like Chromia. I mispronounced

that. In the IDW comics. Yeah, it seems like

a big presence there. So Mike or Michael, do

you think that Chromia... If we see Chromia,

do we see Firestar and Moonracer, or is Chromia

the better of the three? Firestar and Moonracer,

yeah. I don't know, because Firestar and Moonracer...

Let's see, Chromia's from Caminus in the IDW

comics. Firestar and Moonracer, weren't they

from Velocitron, Michael? I believe so, yeah.

Yeah, see, the way they did it in the IDW universe

is that Chromia was from Caminus, which is where

Windblade is from. So you meet her first. Yeah,

you meet her first. And then much, much later,

when they go to Velocitron, you meet Firestar

and Moonracer. I think Moonracer has a higher

appearance count because she is... Who is she?

I'm not sure if I want to see them now because

Chromia, I dare to say between the three of them,

she probably is the best. Okay. Well, we'll have

to wait and see if either of those two show up,

or any of the other female cars, basically, that

were in the franchise. We'll see. We only got

two spots left, though, guys, so let's see what

one of those spots is. Merge for the kill! It's

77! Alright, coming up next, how about our second

combiner? So we had Superion at 97. 20 spots

later, at 77, we get... Bruticus. They're dying

up on us! Well, let's gang up on them! Combaticons,

transform to Bruticus! Bruticus hates Cybertron!

Bruticus hates you all! 607 points on 12 lists,

average 49th ranking, all the way up at 12th

on Transformers AD's list. So we've seen Superion,

we've seen Motormaster of the Stunticons, and

now we get the Combaticon combiner, Bruticus.

TFG and Mike, you're always the first to react,

so I always go to you first. That's unfair, but

go ahead. It's okay. I love this. I think it's

great. I think Bruticus deserves to be a little

higher, but the Combaticons in general, they

had some really stellar shining moments in the

G1 cartoon. They had some interesting moments

in IDW. It's just... Bruticus... As I already

said, the problem with combiners is that... How

much of the individuals make up the overall personality?

Again, I know we're not to the Constructicons

yet, but I want to mention this here because

I'm talking about the personalities of them.

In Tyler Blazinski's Constructicons Rising for

Transformers Galaxies from IDW, all six Constructicons

have their own personality. And then Devastator

has his own personality that he tries, I don't

want to say infect, but he, like, They listen

to him and they're like, there's a seventh thing

here. There's something, it's a big mystery thing

kind of thing. So I'm not sure like Bruticus

to me is the cartoon Bruticus, the Combaticons

to me. I love what IDW did with them individually.

So I guess having him here, I would maybe have

put him as a combiner. I'd probably switch him

and superior on because superior, even though

the, the combaticons had better appearances in

the cartoon than, than, um, then, then superior.

Yeah. I mean, I mean, the aerial bots had some

good appearances, but like you look at Bruticus

and he's got, well, I don't want to say surprise

party, but Five Faces of Darkness, he's got...

What else has he got? He... You know, they have

the whole thing with the... You know, with Minotaur

and Bruticus and everything like that. Oh, Starscream's

Brigade. That's what it is. Starscream, being

who Starscream is, wants his own combiner. Because,

you know, Megatron's never going to give up Devastator.

And, yeah, I mean... That was cool, but again,

Bruticus... That was a fantastic two -parter.

Yes, yes it was. But, you know, I mean, I don't

know. Again, it just goes to bot, you know, combined

bot versus individual personalities for me. Michael

Wilson, if we could only have one representative

of the Vatican, Bruticus or is it one of those

parts? Onslaught, Brawl, Blastoff, Swindle, Vortex,

who is the most worthy of being on this list?

It's got to be Swindle. Okay. Who would be second?

Wow. I would probably say Blastoff. I agree.

My thought here is that because we have Bruticus

here in this part of the list, we're going to

see Swindle definitely closer to number one,

if not number one, and possibly a Blastoff somewhere

else in the list as well. All right. And I know

animated is not your bag, Kev, because you were

the Cybertronian correspondent for us, but if

I'm putting any Swindle in here, it's most definitely

going to be Fred Willard's Swindle, because Fred

Willard's Swindle is the best Swindle we ever

got. Yeah, there's no arguing that. I might have

to agree there. I mean, yeah, Fred Willard was

awesome as Swindle, but there were two or three

episodes in G1 that were all about Swindle. He

definitely got more attention than most of the

other combiner parts of any combiner. Exactly.

Steve, last thought on Bruticus before we move

on to the last spot today. Well, he stands out

to me not only because of what happened with

Starscream, but also because in the War for Cybertron

game, I think it's Fallout Cybertron, you get

to play as Bruticus. wreaking all kinds of havoc.

They're extremely fun to play as the individuals

as well as the combiner. Also of note is that

he's from G1 all the way through Headmasters

and Zone. There we go. A lot of presence with

Bruticus, for sure. No matter how dumb he might

have been depicted at times, he was definitely

powerful. All right, so one spot remains. Let's

see who it goes for today. Well, it's time for

number 76. All right, that brings us to our last

spot for today, number 76. Well, we haven't had

one of these because there aren't very many of

them. Number 76 is Sixshot. The Decepticon six

shot, one of the few, one of the few six changers.

So we have triple changers and then we had a

six changer or two along the way. And six shot

is one of those AK great shot, I guess, in some

type of continuity, um, or somewhere around there.

He, TF wiki has a ton of stuff listed, a lot

of comic stuff. Um, and then a lot of presence

in the Japanese cartoon continuity, whether it

be headmasters or master force, you know, all

that type. stuff victory so he's a big time heavy

appearance there um was all the way up at 13th

spot for solartron tfg and mike what do you think

of six shot appearing here very cool very cool

i think it's so awesome that he appears here

and yeah you're right it's mainly comics and

in the comics at least for idw they are called

phase sixers and there are three of them overlord

six shot and black shadow And six shot. The one

thing I do remember from him from the cartoon

series is because that was the cool thing. You

know, again, I always, I say this to kind of

chide at Kevin, you know, it's a toy commercial,

even though I don't believe that, but you know,

it technically was, but they had a scene where

he got to show off all six of his modes because

again, Back in the 80s, they were trying to show

our parents, look, you can buy one toy and you

get six. To me, it got cheap at that point. Does

that really count as a different mode? Some of

them were a little bit wonky. With the triple

changers, it's a little bit more obvious. Here's

a completely different thing, completely different

thing. With the six changers, it was like, you

just moved something just slightly to the other

side. You're stretching a little bit there, but

I'll accept it. Michael Wilson, what do you think?

Is he a top 100 worthy? I think some of these

characters that we're visiting here in this phase

of the list are more popular because of the IDW

comics. Like if we look at Swerve or like Nautica.

But this guy, I want to say like 95 % of his

appearances are due to the comic. in the idw

comic so if you're not a fan of the idw comic

then you'd be wondering who the heck this guy

even is yeah like you you knew he existed and

you knew he was a toy and you knew he was present

in the animated series originally but you wouldn't

have yeah you might not even know he's a toy

i mean casual g1 fans are going to be like what

what's a six changer is that a thing right absolutely

steve what do you think about six shot appearing

here I think that he's definitely warranted.

I know that he's got a lot of history in the

comics, but as far as Headmasters is concerned,

and I'm not counting the rebirth in season four

of G1 because that's just a small glimpse of

what he can do. He's kind of on his own a lot

mentally just because he is his own one -man

army. He doesn't really approve of Galvatron

or Scorponok. And there's even a point where

he ends up protecting Daniel from the Decepticons,

not knowing that, you know, and saying more or

less that it was beneath him to make war on small

children and help keep them alive till the Autobots

could rescue him. And then there's eventuality.

He basically says, you know what? I'm done with

this. I'm not a Decepticon anymore. And it just

leaves. Like at the end of Headmasters. I can't

catch up with that. You've got a long, complicated

history. Yeah, I've been wanting to watch that.

Because I have all the Japanese series on DVD.

I just haven't put them in yet. I've never watched

the Japanese stuff. There's a lot of interesting

stuff that I wish they would have dubbed. Yeah,

for sure. Yeah. The Japanese stuff definitely

needed to be dubbed because I just, I can't read

subtitles. And he lives all the way through victory.

Right. Right. I find this absolutely hilarious

with once again, our lovely resource for this

one is the TF wiki and under his G one toy. No,

I don't have a trigger between my legs. Will

you buy me now? And okay. So on, on this, on

this caption, Trigger Between and My Legs are

two different links. Trigger Between goes to

Megatron, My Legs goes to Shockwave. That's hilarious.

Oh my goodness. Transformers actually becomes

a gun. Yep, that's true. Alright, I'm going to

list off the results today, 100 through 76. As

I do, you guys can gather your final thoughts

and we'll give you each just a quick shot to

say what your reaction is to this first set of

25 we had. Inferno from Beast Wars, Nautica,

Frenzy, Skylynx, Superion, Thrust, Arachnid,

Brainstorm, Sentinel Prime, Barricade, Swerve,

Shrapnel, Warpath, The Quintessons, Powerglide,

Trax, Tigatron and Depth Charge, Slag, Motormaster,

Red Alert, Ratbat, Brawn, Chromia, Bruticus,

and Sixshot. TF2 and Mike, what is your reaction

to this first set of 25? It's interesting, and

I'm surprised that if this character shows up

at all, that he's not in this first 25. Okay.

Wheelie. Because I know a lot of people don't

like Wheelie, but Wheelie did have a few good

things happen kind of thing. But this 25, man.

I don't know what I was expecting, but I was

not expecting this, but I love the variety of

it. All right, Michael Wilson, what do you think

of this first group? What is your biggest surprise,

or what's your reaction? I think it's a fitting

list. It's a good grouping. It's a nice variety

of the different continuities. Going into it,

I wasn't sure if this was going to be a list

of... uh everybody's most hated characters like

like mike said is a wheelie going to show up

as number 100 uh or is this going to be uh kind

of the uh the median range of you know characters

that everybody likes but you know because there's

so many that people like this this is kind of

like the the uh not not the bottom of the barrel

right but somewhere like like you said you have

to have at least 84 votes to get in there right

So we had three females. We have three Beast

Wars characters. We have a little bit of representation.

We have action movies with Barricade. We have

TF Animated represented, especially with Sentinel

Prime there. TF Prime represented with Arachnid.

Obviously, the comics represented. The Japanese

continuity, especially with Sixshot there, probably

represented. Steve, what do you think? Good variety?

What's your biggest surprise? I think it's a

good variety. I think my biggest surprise was...

uh, the beast wars characters rankings and more

than likely it's just because they weren't on

lists. Right. Um, than anything else. And so

I'm a little surprised by it, but I'm glad that

it's none of the, the main core of the series

of the season one cast, uh, that kind of make

it through to the end. Uh, top 25. I hope that

some of them make it in the top 25. If nothing

else, it doesn't matter what number his favorite

shows up in. He's going to be pissed unless it's

number one. Well, yeah, because obviously that's

number one on my list. But that doesn't mean

as long as he's in the top 25 or even the top

10, I'll be like, OK, the Starscream is going

to be number one. Yeah, he should be shot and

killed. My apologies go out to Transformers Reanimated

as they lost their number one, Powerglide, their

number four, Warpath, their number five, Trax,

and their number six, Red Alert, all off of their

list. I think that was the one that had the most

of their top ten disappear today. I'd hate to

see their bottom of the list then. Right, absolutely.

So that's the first set of 25. TFG1, Mike, what

else do you want to tell the folks? Well, folks,

that's it for this time. It shouldn't be this

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or two. Who lives in a colony under the sea?

Depth Charge Fish Pants. Who wants to kill my

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