TF4 Robot Character Info

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by SilverOptimus, Oct 1, 2013.

  1. Lurkertron

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    You mean... metroplexual.
    Yeah, I went there sweetie.
     
  2. Hot Shot.

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    Nah, Metroplex would be a sassy black apartment complex.

    "Oh no you di'int just spill that coffee on my carpet. Pack yo shit. Pack yo shit! You gone! Don't make me retract the floor, honey! I'll drop yo ass 50 feet in the air!"
     
  3. Scypris

    Scypris Fire in another hole!

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    Wow a lot of hate on Hound now that he's the chubby guy with a beard. I feel that his look will match his personality, just like how Que was, and I just love that.
     
  4. Spin-Out

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    I hope Hound is the breakout Autobot of the film. Everything I've seen about him so far tells me he'll have a lot of personality. Besides, having an Autobot who looks like BRIAN BLESSED is pretty awesome :p 
     
  5. Lurkertron

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    Que was a joke. From the stupid name to the stupid look and the stupid voice. He died as he deserved to: like a bitch. Alas, it was not before he left the drawing board.
    This... "Hound" looks like more terrible thinking and lazy human styling in an alien machine. Also, he looks like a cross between Bluto and Popeye for fucks sake. If there's an Olive Oil lookalike Decepticon, and knowing Bay I wouldn't rule it out, god help it.
     
  6. Spin-Out

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    I love how everyone who hates on the live-action TFs having facial hair forget about G1 and the magnificent beards of Wreck-Gar and Alpha Trion.
     
  7. kaijuguy19

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    Or the fact that guys like Kup used Cygars in series like IDW way before Hound used a pipe in Age of Extinction.
     
  8. Livingdeaddan

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    In fairness, Kup smoking a cigar looked cool. This polehead... whats the opposite to cool?

    Anyway, it might all make sense when we see it moving and conversing. It did for Jetfire... and almost for Que. So ill reserve judgment.
     
  9. Lurkertron

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    There is no comparison. A few stylized triangular pieces of plate metal on a robots face is not the same as, essentially, a metal Einstein, Santa Claus...etc.
    Alpha Trion never looked Human.

    For the record, I had no problem with Jetfires design. His beard was merely suggestive. And I don't care about old man hound smoking a pipe. That's not the issue. The issue is humanizing these alien robots and making them 'silly'. I saw the headshot of Hound and burst out laughing rather than think it was cool. That's not right. But it is Bayformers, which is wiping its ass on Transformers.
     
  10. Afterburner

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    I think Kup with a cigar is just as cliche and stupid as Hound with a pipe.

    I think the point is that we are seeing typical human cliche after human cliche, combined with a stark lack of style. Alpha Trion, Unicron, Scourge - they had robot style my friends.
     
  11. Hound89

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    Are you kidding?




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    Alpha trion not only had facial hair (quite Wavy facial hair at that)

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    But he had Facial Hair that GREW
    What the hell ever :rolleyes: 
     
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    And a human nose.
     
  13. Lurkertron

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    Please God, at least say Stinkin Park isn't back for this one.
     
  14. Lurkertron

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    Re Alpha Trion. I was thinking of the comics more than the cartoon. Which wasn't particularly great either but still way better than Bayformers.
    And so, if Alpha Trion's design in the cartoons was rubbish, Bay should keep coming up with human looking transformers? What?

    Anyway, for Alpha Trion see movie Sentinel and for once they absolutely nailed that design.f
     
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    By negative racial stereotypes you mean teenagers right? Because that's what they sounded like to me.
     
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    This. Most of the pissed off people on these forums have complaints that don't make a ton of sense.
     
  17. neevnav

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    People who complain about Bayformers on the forums pick and choose what parts of G1 they want to remember.
     
  18. Lurkertron

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    People who complain about people complaining about Bayformers mention G1 more than anybody else. Also, the most self important bores imaginable. As long as they are content with substandard mindless dross, everybody else should be too.
     
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    There we go the Elitist Battle cry " every one who likes what i don't like is stupid." Just cause you wan't to nitpick to death doesn't make your argument's valid

    But they Don't Look human, Even when they have beards, The movie Transformers Very Rarley look human out side of some human shapes, JEtfire had a beared but he also looked like a bird.

    my point was is that G1 the transformers all looked incredibly human, to say that the movies are worse on this front is assinine.
     
  20. Sideways77

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    Yeah. I mean, the G1 cartoon had way more WORSE offenses than the movies. I mean, random colored dudes that never existed, characters that just stare into space and don't do anything, and random plots.

    The clones in the movies can be explained. They're jut dudes who share the same model. Characters that don't talk at least DO something. (Jolt saved the world, for cripe's sake), and each movie had a plot to follow. Movie 1 was Megatron needing the AllSpark, ROTF (as poor as it was) had The Fallen wanting to activate the sun harvester, and DOTM was transporting Cybertron.



    Are they suppose to look human? The G1 designs are boring and generic as can be. The movie designs are unique and different. Like, compare G1 Ironhide to DoTM Crankcase.

    Ironhide is a block on another block with a windshield and a head on top. Crankcase has piercings, dreadlocks made of bullets, and pincers on his back. I prefer the unique design.