Top 100 Countdown – TRANSFORMERS CHARACTERS – Part 6 – Wrap Up

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This is Stan Bush, and you're about to transform

and roll out here on the Top 100 Transformers

Characters Countdown. This is Starscream, the

true leader of Cybertron. And consequently, all

things Transformers. Get it? That's the name

of the show. Scientific Gobbledygook Starscream.

Excellent. Yes. And lo, the countdown comes to

an end. Welcome to a very special episode of

the All Things Transformers brand. Here on the

Geekcast Radio Network, whether it's TFG1, Unleashing

the Beast, or Getting Tapped, we are now in the

prime time with the Top 100 Transformers Characters

Countdown Recap Episode. I am one of your Cybertronian

hosts, TFG1 Mike. Joining me, as always, is that

rubber ducky lovin', Steve Megatron. Yes. And

from the planet of junk, because we just can't

send him to the dumpster, we have Mr. Optimus

Solo. No. Was that your depth charge? No. Damn

it. I'm just saying no because Megatron said

yes. Yes, yeah, I got it, I got it. And our special

guest is Weird Al Yankovic, question mark? I

am Rengar! I dare you! All right, folks, this

is the wrap up. As I said, we've gone through

over 800 characters. We've had 33 different individuals

and organizations help us compile the list, which

you heard in parts two through five of this countdown.

And now we're going to go over some stuff that

needs to be going over, apparently. So take it

away, Optimus Solo. Yeah, typically in these

top 100 lists, we like to kind of have an episode

to collect ourselves because when we're going

through the actual countdown, 100 through 1,

we're reacting. They're fairly lengthy records,

and we're just reacting to the reveals of those

actual 100 picks. We don't have time to digest

it. We don't have time to think about it, analyze

it, or give our final thoughts, so to speak.

So we like to come back, and after we've had

time to look at the list fully over, make some

opinions and make some statements because we're

not saying our list is perfect uh we're saying

this is the list that 33 of us collaborated together

and made none of us knew how it was going to

work out so now we that we know we can go back

and uh be like the what do they call it monday

morning quarterbacking or the you know looking

at it after the fact and saying what we did right

and what we did wrong so we have a couple different

uh topics that we're going to be going through

we're going to go through i know we kind of gave

a tease to this at the very beginning but we're

going to go through those that were closest that

just missed. And then we're going to let Steve

and Mike just randomly ask some of the characters

that might have been on their list that they're

curious where they fell since they did not make

the top 100. And then we're going to have some

quick discussions on who we think that made the

top 100 should be booted out. who we think should

go in to replace them, and maybe some picks that

we felt were just too high or too low that we

went through after being able to look at all

of it. So, Mike, where do we want to start this?

Whatever. Let's start at the top. Who didn't

make the countdown? Me Grimlock no like you.

Really saved my friends today. Me Grimlock say

we on our way. All right, so let's go over some

folks that didn't make the countdown first. We're

going to give you, like I said, those ones that

were so close they just missed it. So these were

all characters that were within 50 points of

making it. So if someone would have put these

characters right in the middle of just one of

the 33 lists, they would have... ousted our tie

at the end there. We had Inferno from Beast Wars

and Nautica tying for that 100 spots. So with

50 extra points, all of these characters would

have jumped those two. Starting with the closest

one that we talked about already would have been

Nautica, or not Nautica, excuse me, Thunderwing,

who missed it by one point. Then we had Nightbeat,

only missed it by three points. Bluestreak missed

it by five points. Lugnut. Tell these Autobots

scum nothing! Megatron cannot be stopped. What

a golden opportunity. The Autobot fools will

pay for their insolence. Remove these stasis

cuffs at once. All in good time. First, we need

to discuss compensation. You get freedom, but

what do I get? You see where I'm going here?

The honor of serving Megatron should be reward

enough. Megatron? What? Didn't you say so? The

old warmonger's my number one customer. Scrapper,

Smokescreen, Sludge, Tarn, Airazor, and Hook.

Nobody would listen to an uncharismatic boar

like you. Those are the ones that, with 50 more

points, would have joined the countdown. So,

Mike, any reactions to the names you just heard?

Wow, a couple of Constructicons on there. Yes,

a couple of Constructicons. Beast Wars. Was there

Beast Wars? Yeah, Airazor. Classic Blue Streak

in there. Lugnut would have been another representative

of a different show, not G1, so that would have

been interesting. Steve, any reactions to the

names you just heard? Pretty diverse group there.

Yeah, for sure. Our final Dinobot in there, Sludge,

would have... Yeah, really? Yeah, that and then

like a, you know, a razor that that would have

been nice to see on there. Absolutely. So I thought

it would be also interesting to look at just

some of the ones that you guys didn't hear during

the countdown that you might have been maybe

personal favorites or maybe characters that you

had on your own top 100 that you're curious where

they fell. Mike, do you want to go off a couple

that were on your list and we'll kind of do one

or two at a time here? Sure. For me, Jet Storm

from Beast Machines, Stryka, and Obsidian from

Beast Machines. Let's do those three real quick.

So Jet Storm, Stryka, and Obsidian. So Jet Storm,

well, actually the highest ranking of those three

would have been Stryka, which would have came

in at 143rd. Wow. 200 points away from the countdown.

So that was 143rd. Jet Storm would have been

next at 179th. And then Obsidian would have been

all the way down at 237. Holy crap. In a row?

What? In a row. I mean, 237 in a row what? You

know. Anyway. You got some G1 characters as well?

Yeah, I got a couple. Huffer, Wheelie, we already

talked about Sludge. Two of the Constructicons

made it just barely. Well, didn't make it just

barely. Yeah, just in that other 10 or 15 that

just missed us. Let's do Huffer first. Huffer

would have been at 136. And Wheelie would have

been at 146. So 10 spots away, Huffer and Wheelie.

136, 146. We already talked about Sludge. That

would have been 110. And then going into the

world of the Constructicons, because none of

them made it. Only Devastator made it. So we

didn't have the other ones. So I'll go in the

order that they fell. Scrapper, which we just

listed, would have been 106. Hook would have

been 113. Then we jumped 10 more down. Mixmaster,

123. Bone Crusher, 126. Scavenger, 132. And for

some reason, Long Haul, all the way down at 175.

Wow. Scrapper was the highest with 106, and then

it was 113, 123, 126, 132. Those are all fairly

close. And then Long Haul, for some reason, is

all the way down at 175. So apparently he's the

least liked out of the Constructicons, I guess.

Apparently it was a long haul to get anybody

to enjoy him. I guess. I could have seen one

character maybe outscoring the rest because somebody

wanted just one of them to show up, or I could

have seen them all being grouped together, but

it was weird that they go from 106th down to

175th. If you're looking at G1 and you're looking

at the Constructicons, the two that stand out

to me, voice -wise, are Scrapper and Hook, because

Hook was Neil Ross and Scrapper, I think, was

Michael Bell. And those are the ones that made

it the closest. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So, Steve,

what about some that you thought you were interested

in seeing where they fell? I'm going to start

with some Beast Wars here. Quickstrike, Tigerhawk,

Terrorsaur, and Scorponok. All right. Quickstrike

would have been, obviously, the highest out of

the ones that we were... Actually, I don't guess

it wouldn't be obvious, but Quickstrike was the

highest ranked. Quickstrike would have been at

118. So he was the closest there, and Pterosaur

would have been one spot behind him at 119. So

Quickstrike and Pterosaur, 118 and 119, and we

already had mentioned another Beast Wars character,

obviously an Airazor, which was 112. So all we

needed was 20 more spots, and we would have fit

three more Beast Wars characters in there. And

then you had said Tigerhawk. Tigerhawk fell a

little while, down to 160th. And I'm having trouble

finding Scorponok, who did receive some points,

but I didn't list that one yet. So I'll try to

do some work in the meantime. But other ones

that you were curious about. What about Tankor?

Tankor would have been 171st. 71st. Wow. Yeah,

right next to Long Haul there. Did we have Deathsaurus

on there? Yeah, it actually scored fairly well.

Deathsaurus would have been 135th. Wow. So, yeah,

a little bit better than some of those other

ones we just mentioned. Other ones that keep

coming. Trailbreaker. Trailbreaker would have

been 142nd. Defensor, since he didn't get represented.

Yeah, fairly close. 122nd. So if we did 125 characters,

he would have got in. J -Axis. J -Axis down in

the 200s. 217th. Ooh, yikes. Yeah. Botanica.

Botanica can go even further than Obsidian down.

Botanica was 274th. Time to clear out the Deadwood.

let's just get this over with oh yeah like dating

you was my idea wow not surprising though yeah

and remember out of the 800 plus characters that

we had to choose from it was like 448 447 somewhere

in there that were characters so 275 i mean that's

about the halfway part and then the last one

i have is primus primus would have been 154th

wow granted there's some other like mike said

uh during the records we had some a character

that turned into primus so it's kind of splitting

hairs with a few of these on on which version

or which uh part of their evolution you voted

for kind of like the whole hot rod rodimus prime

thing um in a way i guess you could say megatron

and galvatron too but yeah so those are some

of the ones uh that lasted there i I have some

of my own picks that I want to reveal where they're

at, but I'm going to put those in some of these

other sections. But first, let's look back at

the characters that actually made it, and let's

talk about ones that you guys don't think really

deserve to be on it. Now, it would be impossible.

Obviously, we all made our top 100, and it would

be impossible for all 100 of our picks to be

represented in the top 100. That would be a feat.

So we all probably had anywhere from... probably

20 to 40 characters that we had ranked that didn't

make the top 100 um but in order for those to

make it we got to kick some folks out so i'm

going to start off with some people that i would

boot um and it's not that i don't like these

characters i just have some characters that i

would like to take their spots so um one of the

things i was surprised at two groupings that

i was very surprised at and how much love they

got one would be the cassettes And the other

would be the Dinobots. I was really shocked at

the number of cassettes and the number of Dinobots

that made the top 100. So I would take some of

them out. The only Dinobot I ranked personally

was Grimlock. So I'm going to boot Swoop, Snarl,

and Slag all out to make three spots for some

other characters. And then I'm also going to

take Ratbat out because I feel like with Laserbeak,

Ravage, Frenzy, and Rumble that we have enough

of the cassettes. So I would take Ratbat out.

And then just because I just feel like they're

just a little bit more generic and a little less

complex as characters, and I think there's some

other ones more deserving, I think Trax and Swerve

could be left off. They were in that first episode

in like the 100 to 85 section. So I would take

Trax and Swerve out. I know Trax just got the

new toy and this, that, and the other, but I

think there's some other individuals that could

take those spots. Mike, any that you would eject

from the top 100? The Quintessons, Sentinel Prime,

Superion. Dang. Not Superion. Red Alert. I would

probably boot Sunstreaker. He's too full of himself.

Steve, any that you would boot out of the top

100? Um, as I'm currently destroying them off

my ultimate list here, I would get rid of, like,

I would agree to some degree with the cassettes,

although I would leave Ravage just because he

went to Beast Wars. After the Great War, a few

Decepticons were granted amnesty. Most have retired,

but rumor has it that one was reprogrammed and

rebuilt as a Predacon. Ravage. You will pardon

my shooting the weapons from your hands. I only

wish to avoid any regrettable accidents to my

person. Yeah? Well, next time, try the front

door. Rattrap. Please. Please? Oh, for bootin'

up cold! The only thing worse than a stinkin'

Pred is a stinkin' Decepticon! Shut up. Forgive

us. We've been fighting Megatron a long time.

For which the Predacon Alliance is deeply apologetic,

I assure you. This is why I am here. Covert Agent

Ravage at your service. Wait a cycle. What about

the Maximals? I'm afraid the transwarp wave was

very weak. Only the Predacon sensors detected

it. You understand we would prefer to handle

this situation discreetly. Yeah, and I honestly,

I would probably get rid of, people are going

to be booing me for this, but I have Nautica,

Frenzy, Sentinel Prime. Barricades were the Quintessons.

They don't even transform. Why are they on here?

Ratbat, Skybite, Whirl. The Whirl people are

going to come after you. Yeah, that's right.

I'll survive it. But yeah, I mean, I think those

are the only ones I would personally remove.

Cool. Well, if we remove all of those or some

of those characters, that means there's room

for us to throw some more in. I'll go first again

with some characters that I would put in there,

and starting with the one that I had the highest

rank that didn't make the list. So my highest

ranking, my top 41 all made the list. So I had

to get down to number 42 before I got one that

didn't make the list, and that would be Wheelie.

I know people hate Wheelie. But I just think

he's just a classic, you know, character, iconic

character from that movie and from the, you know,

the later seasons. So I get people who are annoyed

by him. I wasn't. I liked Wheelie. So I would

put him in there. I'm also a big fan of some

of those that didn't get as much time. So I would

put I had my 62 through 65 didn't make it. And

that would have been Sandstorm, Cosmos. And then

Computron and Defensor. I thought that we would

have more combiners, so I was surprised that

Computron, Defensor, Menasor, none of those guys

made it. I have a personal favorite that I didn't

think was going to make the list, but if I could

vote for him, I would, and that would be Topspin.

I just love Topspin as a toy. Basically, Steve,

I'll try to... help you out here, I would put

Airazor in there. I think she is probably the

most deserving out of the Beast Wars characters

that were left off. And then if I'm taking Trax

off, I would substitute that with Smokescreen.

I'm not saying Smokescreen is that great of a

character, but I think he's a better character

than maybe Trax or Swerve, one of them. And Mike,

I'm with you. I had all six of the Constructicons

in my countdown. Granted, I didn't have them

ranked very high. I had them in a row, 89 through

94. But I just think out of all the different

combining Transformers, I thought outside of

a couple that we had, because we got the classics

with Motormaster and... Oh, goodness, what was

the Swindle? Swindle, yeah. So we got a couple

of them in there. I was for sure that we would

have some Constructicon representation outside

of Devastator, so I would at least throw one

or two of those in there. But those are the ones

that I would make the biggest case for. Mike,

any that you want on your list making a spot?

The Constructicons for me were 42 to 47. I would

definitely put Hook and Scrapper in. I really

like Octane and Sandstorm. I thought they were

really cool. Yeah. Let's see who else didn't

get on there. You had Wheelie on there. Yeah,

I had Wheelie at 100, so at least I voted for

him. Didn't vote very high for him, but I voted

for him. I'm trying to think who else. Pipes.

Maybe Pipes. For some odd reason, I don't know

why. Everyone that I know apparently hates Pipes.

Again, he's another character that was there

that had a few lines, but he didn't do much.

I wish that somebody would take some of these

characters that we may remember. Take Wheelie,

for example. Yes, it's traditionally known that

everyone in the Transformers... I think it's

the only time almost anyone in the Transformers

fandom can agree. We all dislike Wheelie for

some reason or another. I wish somebody would

take him and write a damn good story with him.

I think it goes to what we discussed a little

bit in the countdown where we had some of those

characters that were toys that we might have

had or this, that, and the other, but they never

got a lot of screen time. And I always have been

a fan of those. That's why I voted for characters

like Sandstorm, Cosmos, Warpath. Beachcomber,

some of those characters because I always wanted

more. So I've always been a big fan of that kind

of second wave of the mini vehicles and cars.

So I like those. Steve, any on your list that

you'd like to make a case for being in the top

100? I mean, obviously some of the ones that

didn't make the 100 list that I had, like the

Beast Wars characters. Defense Horror and Deathsaurus.

Those I would probably... I would have at least

made sure that Quickstrike, Terrorsaur, and Airazor

made the list because Beast Wars Scorponok, as

much as I kind of like him, he is kind of a bumbling

idiot that's forgettable. And I feel like Quickstrike

was a better bumbling idiot that was not forgettable.

I get that. So, yeah, I mean, those were kind

of cool characters. And, you know, Tigerhawk,

I understand why he's not in it. He was only

in three episodes before he croaked. But, yeah,

I mean, I would make the case for those three

more so than anything. I get that. As far as

some characters that we feel got too highly placed

on the countdown, I have three that I'm going

to mention. So these are ones that maybe made

the top 25 or top 50 that we just... don't see

it with and some of this is going to be a little

bit repeating for me because i would take two

cassettes and say that they're too high i think

ravage at 28 and laser beak at 44 are too high

i had them in my 80s 83rd and 84th um so i'm

not saying they don't 100 deserve to be on there

um rat bat's the only one that i would kick out

but ravage and laser beak i would have way towards

the other end just because for me it's a it's

a dialogue thing it's a speaking thing it's a

um I like to have a little bit more depth to

the characters, and I get that they're important,

but to me, they're almost more like props versus

characters. They're there to progress the story,

but I don't get a lot out of them. Ravage, you

could make a little bit better argument. And

then Thundercracker at 22, I think it's too high.

For me, obviously Starscream deserves to be in

the top 25. I don't think I put Skywarp or Thundercracker

in my top 25. I just don't feel like they give

us enough. So I had Thundercracker on the other

side of the 50s and the 58s. So I would say that

those three for me jumped out as ones that were

in the top 50 that I didn't have in the top 50

for myself. Mike, anything that you thought was

just too high? Too high? I'm not talking about

like... Yeah, I know. Snoopatron. I'm not talking

about him. I think Scorponok at 27 is too high.

Yeah, I could agree with that. I didn't have

him on my countdown. Yeah, like, again, he was

being built in part two of Rebirth, and he only

showed up in part three. But people are playing

on the fact that he was in the Headmasters cartoon,

and then he was in later as Black Zarek. Yeah,

there was four characters that made the top 50

that I did not rank at all. That would have been

Scorponok, Fortress Maximus, Whirl, and Overlord.

I didn't have any of those four in my 100, but

they all made the top 50. Now, I get some of

that's because I'm ignorant to some of their

comic stories, etc. So I can definitely see Scorponok.

That was the highest one ranked that I didn't

have on my list. Plus, he was in the comics,

the Marvel line. He was pretty heavily involved

after issue 50 or something. Makes sense. Mike,

any others that stand out to you? that are too

high. I agree. Thundercracker, I would... I know

they didn't really get much storyline, but they

got some, I feel like, specifically to the cartoon,

even though Thundercracker got a whole storyline

with his pet dog and everything else in IDW,

that's fine. But specifically in the cartoon,

I think Thundercracker and Skywarp should be

switched. So put Thundercracker at 37 and Skywarp

at 22, because I think Skywarp had a better...

outing in the cartoon than thundercracker did

fair enough um steve any that stand out to you

maybe in the top 25 or 50 that you don't feel

like they deserve well as far as the uh the the

top 50 uh i would probably argue uh well at least

the top 25 i don't think thundercracker should

have been in the top 25 i don't think um Honestly,

I don't think Unicron should be there just because

he's annoying. He's kind of that MacGuffin that

they can't outrun and he just shows up all the

time for the world ending thing. I'm so sick

of Unicron. I would say those two specifically.

I would probably swap a few of them from the

top 25 into the other block of 25. I would bring

Rattrap definitely into the top 25. I would probably

bring either Cheetor or... Well, no, maybe Blackarachnia.

I would probably swap her with Arcee. Okay. Just

because she's had a bigger footprint between

Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Kingdom, and Animated.

Even though they're varying versions, it's still

very similar. Right. But I think I would swap

probably, like I said, Rat Trap with Thundercracker

just to kind of bump around. And I would probably

move Beast Wars Megatron and swap them with...

I'd probably swap them with where Cyclonus is

at. Okay. I could see that. I thought for sure

you were going to take an opportunity to tell

Mike that Rodimus should have been bumped from

the top 25. He does serve a purpose in Headmasters.

He does get better with that. And in the Universe

comics, he is one of the only remaining Autobots

left when the great upgrade happened. And so

he ends up helping the maximal cause on Cybertron.

Okay. So I had, speaking of the ones that you

said you would swap up there, I know you mentioned

Rat Trap and Blackarachnia. So I had four that

I would put a lot higher than how they ranked

out. So those four would be Arachnid, who came

in at 95. I would put in the top 25, actually.

I would put it at number 24, but maybe that's

just because I love Blackarachnia and it's kind

of the same. Because Blackarachnia came in at

31 and I had her at 7. So I definitely would

have them higher. Alpha Trion came in at 66.

I would say he's top 50 worthy. So I had him

at 37. And then my last one would be Tarantulas.

Came in at 62. He's definitely top 25. I had

him at 11. So tarantulas, I think, was way too

low. So my biggest ones, if I could only pick

two, it would be tarantulas and black arachnia.

I would have moved up significantly. Mike, any

that you would move up if you had the choice?

Blaster, number one would be Blaster. Oh, stop

it. He's easily top 25. I mean, come on. Blaster

came in at 55, so you want him in the top 20.

Or 53. Do you want him in the top 25, you're

saying? Let's put him in. Let's put him at, we're

rabid. Let's boot out Beast Wars Megatron and

put in Blaster. Let's swap him with Scorponok.

Yeah, there you go. Yeah, 27. Yeah. Or we could

just, you know, boot out Beast Wars Megatron

down to 53. You know, he's already there as Hot

Rod. Not really. All right, children behave.

Mike, any others that you would move up? Maybe

Warpath. Okay. From the comics a little bit?

No, from the cartoon. Oh, from the cartoon? Okay.

It's like the wham, bam. Steve, I know you mentioned

a few of them. Now that you've had a chance to

look a little bit more, any others that you would

jump into a different section of the countdown

possibly? I would definitely move, like you said,

Tarantulas way closer in the top 25. That was

one of the biggest surprises for me was where

Tarantulas fell. I thought more people would

be supportive of him. When I was editing it,

I listened back to Steve's shock. He's like,

62? Well, because he's even in the IDW comics.

He's a sadistic, crazy person there, too. I mean,

even in the G1 stuff, he's in it, and he's creepy.

But he's brilliant. I don't know. He's like that

mad scientist, almost what Wheeljack is, but

on the opposite end of the spectrum. Right. I

don't know. I think I would move quite a few

around in the latter half with some of the ones

in the part four. And then I still think it's

funny that Prime lost to Megatron, to a Megatron.

It still should have been Beast Megatron just

because he wiped out all of Cybertron. Then he

showed up in war for Cybertron and lost some

votes. Exactly. Yeah, it neutered him. It didn't

help him. It didn't help his cause, that's for

sure. So speaking of Megatron beating Optimus

Prime, was there any other things that just stood

out for you guys on the countdown overall? Surprising

things, shocking things, something you didn't

expect, or something that you could have predicted

months ago? So looking at the top 10, all right.

We have Shockwave, Cyclonus, RC, Bumblebee, Jazz,

Grimlock, Soundwave, Starscream, Optimus, and

Megatron. I am surprised that Bumblebee is at

number seven and he's not at number three. I

thought for sure he'd be top five. I did too.

I could have seen him... swapped with Starscream,

Grimlock, or Soundwave, honestly, because I just

thought he had that much of a following with

the fans. He's never been my favorite character,

but he's just always been the iconic character.

It's Optimus Prime and Bumblebee on everything,

as far as marketing goes and things of that nature.

Bumblebee had his own movie. No other character

has. So I was very shocked that he was outside

of the top five. I was equally as shocked since

you just read off the top ten. that RC was in

the top ten, and probably Cyclonus. Those two

kind of surprised me of being in there. Stay

close to me, Daniel! And you better stay close

to me! No, you better stay close to me. In case

I never get another chance to say this, you've

really proved your mettle. I'd like to think

my actions always spoke louder than my words,

RC. But it didn't hurt to watch and learn from

the best. It would be nice if Optimus showed

up about now. I was referring to a powerful little

two -wheeler I know. Land sweeps and beware of

treachery. Not that I have anything against those

characters. They didn't obviously scream top

ten to me. Right. I'm surprised Shockwave didn't

beat them. I'm surprised a Wheeljack or an Ironhide

or a Hot Rod Ultra Magnus, Beast Wars Megatron,

some of those characters didn't sneak in there.

Yeah, absolutely. Anything else surprising or

shocking that you guys want to talk about before

we get into the categories of the different bots

that we were kind of keeping track of throughout

the countdown? Nope. What was that universal

greeting again? Never mind. I remember. Hey guys,

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are one. All right. Let's get into that then.

You might have already predicted some of this

is how it went because we were kind of revealing

it as we go. But how about some overall counts

for bad guys and good guys? Mike, who won? Good

guys or the bad guys? I hope the good guys won,

but I'm pretty sure the bad guys did. No, it

was still the good guys. They were winning through

most of the countdown. Now, if you look at our

top four, it is three Decepticons out of the

top four. But overall, we had 57. uh, good guys

and only 40, uh, Decepticons. Now I know that

means that there's three others, but there's

three characters that were pretty known for switching

sides back and forth. So I didn't throw them

in there. So 57 to 40 good guys over evil. Wingspan

and pounce. What are those spies up to? Time

for me to do a little spying of my own as a Decepticon.

In there. Galvatron told me to check up on you.

Beat it, Counterpunch! We don't need your help!

Fine, you deal with my Autobot counterpart. I've

heard he's nearby. Real nearby. We had Beast

Wars characters. We had 14 of them. That was,

outside of G1, probably the most represented

TV show, cartoon property. I would have to go

in and really dig, but if you're trying to say

someone is... from Prime or someone from Animated

Strictly. We were less than five for each of

those. Probably comics would have been next after

Beast Wars as far as representation there. So

14 Beast Wars characters. We had seven female

Autobots or Decepticons. And then as far as the

types of vehicles, etc., I thought it was interesting

because early on we did not have that many Autobot

cars. But they made up for it in those final

two episodes. So we did get 14 of the Autobot

cars. Only seven of the mini vehicles. Four Seekers.

Five Cassettes. Four Dinobots. Three Triple Changers.

Two Headmasters. One Pretender. Two Insecticons.

Six kind of like base -like units. Three Combiners.

um as far as like parts and then four of the

actual combined uh forms so four of the big guys

three of the little parts um as far as that goes

um any surprises there anything that you were

i i'm surprised myself i guess i didn't think

about it going into and going into like which

seekers would be on there but if you would have

told me going into it that there was going to

be more cassettes or more dinobots than seekers

i would have said that's not going to be the

case um So that kind of shocked me a little bit.

And I'm surprised that there's only seven mini

vehicles. We're talking about Bumblebee and Cliffjumper

and all those guys. I thought that there might

be more than seven that snuck in. I'm really

surprised that the triple changers get a triple.

I was like, we did not plan that, folks. But

three triple changers? Really? Really? Come on.

I was also shocked that we only had four combiners.

I thought combiners was the stuff back in the

day. When I was a kid, that was the best toy

to have was the combiners. I loved almost all

of them, so I'm very surprised that we only had

four. If I'm remembering right, that would have

been Predaking, Devastator, Bruticus, and Superion.

Yep, that's it. I'm kind of shocked. No Menasor.

I know some of the other ones were a little bit...

less known or you know a little bit less airtime

but minasaur is probably the in defense or probably

the two that i'm most shocked about even though

i liked uh computron and and some of the other

ones that were a little less uh known at the

time but i won't be of use to you much longer

no way you built us you're a genius grimlock

we can't survive without you you can and you

will go now The Autobots need your help. The

Terracons turned into a giant. Do not fear, Abominus,

for you have the power to become Computron. Merge!

I am Computron. My computation capacity is nearly

infinite. Yet I lack the intelligence to feed

my capacity. Kneel, Computron. You will now receive

my intelligence, Computron, and I will return

to my former state. But Grimlock, super intelligence

is the only way you can defeat Abominus's brute

force. It's the only way. Oh, me Grimlock say

you smart now. Me no care. Datum received. Mike,

any reactions to those groupings? Were you surprised

that we had four Dinobots out of the five? Yeah,

but what about our problems? We need a ship.

You get ship if I get trip. Who are you? Him

wheelie. Him friend. He'll be mine, too, if he

can find a ship. Gipster, over there. That's

a ship. Who cares? As long as it flies. Yeah.

I mean, for me, like you said, you only voted

for Grimlock. I voted for all of them, but I

put them at different, some higher, some lower,

yada, yada, yada. And for me, as much as I enjoy

Grimlock and I like him as a character and he's

great and I love Greg Berger as his voice, I

just enjoy and love Snarl and Swoop more. Swoop

was always my number one Dinobot. Yeah, if I

would have had like 100 more hours, I could have

come down with a breakdown about which voice

actors were most representative in our list,

but that would have been way too much work. Steve,

any feedback from the different groupings, and

are you happy with 14 Beast Wars characters overall,

or are you a little bitter that they didn't get

more love? Well, I'm a little bitter that it

didn't get more love, but now that Kingdom's

been out, I think that people will have... gone

back to hear the thing that is audio gold and

video gold compared to what we received. I think

too, once Kingdom's been out for a while and

everybody's had a chance to see it, once the

Beast Wars content that's coming down the pipe,

once people are seeing that, if we did this list

after all that, it might change it a little bit.

I think so. So it would be interesting. Obviously,

when you do it in the life of the franchise can

affect it a little bit. Any other things that

surprised you or that you wanted to comment on

with the groupings? No, I just surprised that

some missed it just by that much. I was shocked

that we had a pretender in the list. I don't

think anybody voted for pretenders. Headmasters,

I get it. They had their own cartoon, so we got

two that snuck in there. But pretenders? I was

a little shocked at that. And it was kind of

interesting seeing how they felt, too, because

we went like a whole episode or two without any

of the base characters. And then all of a sudden

they kind of all came together in that one episode.

So that was kind of interesting. A lot of people

what I found is it seems like a lot of people

on this list. like the big bots. They like those

big giant characters. But it worked for bases,

but it didn't work for combiners. So I don't

know. It's an interesting conundrum there as

far as how that goes. But Mike, I know we have

some more business to take care of as far as

some thank yous and some recognition for all

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tonight, folks... This is our seventh GCRN Top

100 countdown, and we want to take a moment to

thank everybody that took part in it. First of

all, Optimus Solo for all that overdosing meth

he did to get the countdown to where it is and

to where it should be. This is possibly one of

the most... Time spent the most work I've ever

done on one of our top 100s, but it's going to

be very much eclipsed by one that we have coming

a while later in maybe two years or so. 2023

or so, yeah. I was taking up a whole lot more

of my time, and I'm getting a head start on it.

Yeah, you work on it now. This has been two years

of my life. For those that have been out there,

you may have heard some stuff being teased as

far as what our next top 100 countdown. That

is not the one I'm referencing. No, it's the

one we're doing. The next one we're doing is

very easy. Yeah, the next one, which we will

tease at the end, is very easy. But the one that

he's talking about coming in a couple of years,

that's going to be extremely hard. Yep. Obviously,

Mr. Steve Megatron, that rubber ducky loving

voice actor that lent his voice and all the characters

he can do to our numbers. Thank you so much,

sir. Obviously, all the art and everything else

you do. And I'm just me. Also on GCR. No, no,

no. Hold on. Hold on. I got to give Mike some

credit on this one. I don't usually do this.

I don't usually thank Mike for anything because

he's a grumpy old man. But no, this guy has spent

countless hours editing this stuff. So this is

probably the most time he's ever spent editing

anything. And it's very appreciative. Okay. So

I can tell you guys right now, as of part six

is recording, I have not edited part five yet.

However, parts one through four were in total,

because I made notes and I sent notes to Karen

and I'm like, okay, I'm starting at this time,

I'm stopping at this time, I'm taking a break,

I'm doing this, I'm doing that, whatever else.

In total, it rounds out to probably about 60

hours of editing. For just the first four parts.

So we've all put a lot of work in, in different

ways to try to make this work. Coming up with

the scripts, coming up, Mike's gathered a lot

of sound clips from different Transformers media.

You know, Steve with his numbers. So it's been

a lot of work all the way around, but it was

fun work, I guess, in a way you could say. And

I think from what I've heard from the finished

products that it shows. So I'm happy with what

we put out there. And I'm very happy for those

that participated. All are one. Oh, we're...

What? Till all are one. Absolutely. Also, the

comic concierge, Mr. Dan Clark. TV's Mr. Neal.

Michael Wilson. My lovely Wrecker Fembots, Amy,

Heather, and Nicole. From Simplistic Reviews,

Mr. DJ Valentine. From This Week in Geek, Alex

Ricci. Other websites that took part in this

countdown are AllSpark .com, TransformersAD,

Jay over there at TransformersAD .com, and I'm

going to get it right this time, Collecticon.

So they also participated. We also had three

podcasts participate, Mikey and Andy over at

Moonbase2, Sixo, Maz, and Liam over at Triple

Takeover, and TFLYP, Lucas from over there, At

that podcast. And then where would the GCRN be

without our super fans? Now, I know these three

people also listen to many other podcasts besides

us, but Scanner 51, here's your nickelback. Tim

Silvers and Bondo Mike. From YouTube, Cole Krishna,

Rodimus Primal, who was gracious enough to be

a guest on Part 3 of the Countdown, Pia, and

Iacon Dispatch, John over at Iacon Dispatch,

thank you all so much. Some content creators,

we've got Transformers Reanimated, Yoshi and

Greg, which is the fan comic, TransformersReanimated

.com, Anthony over at TFU .info, Got to get some

of these people on Origins for ATF at some point.

And then we had two comic creators join us, and

Mr. Tyler Bleszinski. Tyler's not going to be

too happy that the bots beat the cons. At least

the cons got a one spot. Yeah, there you go.

And artist Casey Collar, along with longtime

fan and person who has been... In the Transformers

fandom forever, Mr. Benson Yee. We have some

other Transformers geeks in Robo Apollo from

Iacon Online, Solartron, Sam's Forge, and Joel

Bastion. So thank you to everybody without you

guys and girls and whatever. This countdown would

not have happened as far as getting the, you

know, getting all your lists and Kevin compiling

all the lists and making our master list and

then us revealing it on these, you know, like

I said earlier, parts two through five. I'm going

to say this right now. Everybody that's on the,

all 33 members that are on this list are automatically

entered into helping us do the next top 100.

That's coming up. So again, we will tease that

at the very end of this. Is there anything Kev

or Steve, you guys want to say before I run through

the closing? Yeah, just an extra probably thank

you and appreciation note to those people because

I know it's hard with life. You have a lot of

stuff going on between work and your other hobbies

and family and things of that nature. And I know

we were hounding people and begging and asking

and pleading and putting a lot of almost spamming

the information. Now, this is probably the most

work I've ever done in trying to recruit people

for the countdowns. And I know it's a task. I

know it's a chore. I know it took some of your

guys' time. But I really appreciate the responses.

I really appreciate the work that you guys did

put in to help make this thing better. Because

the more people we get involved, the better the

list becomes. That's just a rule of math here.

Because, you know, if it's only me, Mike, and

Steve, then, you know, Rodimus and Beast Wars

Megatron would be fighting at the top. So nothing

wrong with that. But I'm just saying, personal

bias plays a lot more into it if we have fewer

lists. So it was awesome, the responses that

we got. Especially towards the end, we had responses

flying in left and right. So we thought we were

going to be done at, like, 20. And we thought

we were going to only... get to 25 then 30 and

then we ended up with 33 which is more than we've

ever had so i appreciate you guys putting up

with me and my incessant uh asking on twitter

and whatnot yeah absolutely steve any final thoughts

uh no just big thanks to uh all of our our contributing

partners here and all the work that everybody

put in especially uh to kevin for Again, all

the numbers and all the tabulation and having

to compile these lists. And then Mike at the

monumental job of editing. I wish you guys could

see my spreadsheet because just what fits on

one screen, there's probably like a thousand

numbers listed here. Before I started deleting

stuff that I don't need anymore, Steve and I

did a screen share the other night. And I showed

him what I call my finished podcast episode folder.

And it's like all of these audition file folders

and all of these other MP3s and the exported

AIFF files. He's like, holy crap, what was that?

Yeah. All right. It was a lot of fun. We finally

did the Transformers countdown, guys. Yeah, only

took 12 years. And in 12 years, we'll redo it

to make sure Rodimus is number one. Good Lord.

It's a pity you Autobots die so easily, or I

might have a sense of satisfaction now. So once

again, thank you to everybody who helped us make

this countdown what it is. Here's hoping. All

of the listeners will enjoy it. Here's hoping

we get many comments on the website. Here's hoping

we get or we don't get angry emails or, you know,

oh, my God, you voted for Netflix over Hulu.

I'm going to blah, blah. Here's hoping we get

any of that. I'm hoping to destroy at least one

childhood. You know, it's okay. It's funny you

mentioned that, and I know I'm supposed to be

going through the outro, but it's funny you mentioned

that. So there is an episode, and I forget which

one because I've watched so many of them doing

all of this. There's an episode of G1 where Laserbeak

gets into the Ark and Optimus is on some gurney

and whatever else. And he basically, you know,

hits his laser core and Optimus is going to explode

from the inside out. You'd think that would traumatize

kids more than Megatron shooting him. Because

that was just gory. Hot Rod killing Optimus was

the thing that traumatized me. No, that's Megatron.

Anyway. Thank you for joining us on the Top 100

Transformers Characters Countdown. This has been

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