The Fifth (and final) Hall Of Fame Nominee - DINOBOT

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by payton34, May 7, 2010.

  1. Mr. Sparklebot

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    Awesome. Though I doubt he'll win over the likes of Soundwave and the others, it's good to see he was up for consideration to represent the Beast Wars generation.
     
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    I recognize that he probably wont win but dang if this does not make me happy. While G1 had great characters, I really do like seeing non g1 characters. Everyone that we have seen and were on the poll have been great suggestions. Seeing him here lets me know that dinobot will have his day.
     
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    CODE OF HERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ftw!
     
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    Because, of course, panthers, condors, dinosaurs, lions, bulls, eagles, tigers, rhinos, monsters, alligators, bats, wolves, apes, scorpions, and two-headed monsters don't count as animals if they're not wearing skin.

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    Glad to see that Dinobot made it onto the poll. Now, to choose between him and Soundwave...
     
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    All of the characters you listed are minor characters compared to Dinobot, who was possibly the most well-written Transformers character in cartoons. Most G1 characters, given there were dozens of them, have relatively one-note personalities and limited story time compared to Dinobot.

    That and Dinobot made his mark and became a fan favourite because of damn good writing, his complexity as a character, Scott McNeill's performance, and the important role he played in humanity's survival and evolution. In my opinion, most of the G1 characters comparatively coast through on nostalgia and because they were the TF characters we grew up with.
     
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    Boo! Should have been Wheeljack.
     
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    Not G1 character? THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!
     
  9. Tiller

    Tiller I don't know nothin'

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    I'm curious to see the reasoning behind many of the naysayers here. What did your character do besides being "geeewuunnn" that outclasses Dinobot in characterization and portrayal?

    If anything, Dinobot deserves it more. But then again, this is a popularity contest, so I expect no less than G1 across the board. Honestly I feel as though many more recent characters seem to fit better in the Hall of Fame than the G1 crew.
     
  10. Optimus Vader

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    The nomination is all this bum of a TF will get.
     
  11. Anguirus

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    Assuming that you take the Beast series into account for your personal "G1" canon, you have no choice but to acknowledge the extreme importance of Optimus Primal, Megatron (Beast), and Dinobot.

    Megatron nearly wiped out the ancestors of humanity, which would have retroactively negated virtually all of G1, and certainly prevented the Autobot victories as depicted in several of the most important cartoon episodes or comic storylines. He was foiled by Dinobot.

    Megatron then not only took over Cybertron, but preserved its entire population in stasis and made the entire planet an extension of his own will. He was foiled by Optimus Primal.

    Assuming that your favorite timeline is G1, and that you are over the "trukk not munky" phase (which many of us, including me, go through), you are forced to consider these characters more significant than the vast majority of G1 characters.

    Seriously, Wheeljack? Trypticon? Hound? How many times did they each save (or destroy) Cybertron? More than twice? This is the Hall of Fame, and whatever else it is or isn't, it's not your personal quirky favorites. I like many characters because they aren't the epic heroes of legend.

    EDIT: This thread is changing my mind again. I'm starting to think that voting for Dinobot, and voting to re-nominate him every year until he gets in, is the only way to help ensure that his starring role in the greatest episode of television that Transformers has ever produced overrides his unforgivable sin of not appearing as a background character in "More than Meets the Eye, Part 1."
     
  12. SPLIT LIP

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    Very well put. If I wasn't voting for Dinobot, I would be now.
     
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    I probably will vote for him only because he is the only non -G1 tf choice and it be nice to mix it up.
     
  14. Anguirus

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    Oh I forgot, it's really three times that Megatron almost won. Somehow I forgot the time when he killed Optimus Prime in the Ark.

    That's not even counting the time when he almost flew the Metal Hunter back to Cybertron, which basically would have started off Beast Machines a little early. :p 
     
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    Gah. Dinobot or Shockwave - that's a toughie....!
    Glad they resisted the temptation to make it all-G1; the TF world (so to speak) kept turning after it ended for a HELL of a lot more of us than it stopped for.
    EASILY the best episode of any TF series. Ever.
     
  16. SPLIT LIP

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    And when he killed Optimus Primal and had the Maximals practically destroyed. (Again, newly Transmetalized Primal showed up to stop him)
     
  17. Anguirus

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    ^ Well...that was when they were still all fighting over energon, rather than to make the struggles of all previous Transformers not matter. But sure, if the Maximals hadn't been around after that to stop him, same end result.
     
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    While I think this 'contest' is just as phony as the "which Masterpiece would you like to see" from a few years back, I'm DELIGHTED to see Dinobot on the list.
     
  19. SPLIT LIP

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    Not really. At that point is was pretty clear that Megatron realised the disks were far more important than his initial suspicions. It was only revealed later what those suspicions were.
     
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    Ok ya make a great case but on the first hof?...that like putting joe mauer in the hall of fame with babe ruth...2nd hof I could see, but you got to respects the elders...I watch the code of honor on youtube..I give him his respect, he went like a champ, but I can't put him pass hot rod though...