Spotlight: Orion Pax & RID 12 Previews Released

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by General Tekno, Dec 10, 2012.

  1. Wadeledge

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    Tell that to Drift.
     
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    Do we know exactly what happened to Pax to "make" them put him in a new body? If I'm putting together everything correctly, his rough chronology is something like this:

    Chaos Theory
    Shadowplay
    Megatron: Origin
    Spotlight: Blurr
    Autocracy
    Modern IDW

    His placement in the new body has to occur after Shadowplay and before Megatron: Origin (we can dismiss the windowless chest he has as artistic interpretation, I guess), but at the end of Shadowplay he was looking in decent shape.
     
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    I have not read anything from this series yet other then a few of these previews, but everything I keep seeing with Bumblebee I kind of hate.

    I just don't buy Autobots opening fire on a near dead Megatron, much less one who basically was surrendering.
    I could see them at the very least telling him to get lost and if he doesn't then we're gonna open fire. But for Bee just to go "Kill him." and everyone's just "durp, ok." Just doesn't fit. I don't care if its Megatron and he's big and scary evil, this just feels like everyone is acting completely out of character.

    Movies did it first. TFP was basically just copying it.
     
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    I thought it was a bit weird myself, but then Bee has been getting a lot of crap piled on him lately that it's a bit possible he could do something like that. Of course, it was still weirder for everyone to vote him leader in the first place. As for the other Autobots, it's a little bit more believable as they have been portraying Sideswipe and some of the others as a bit on the edge, and seeing this is Megatron, who's killed a lot of their fellow Autobots, a command from their "leader" was all they needed.
     
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    It's a megalomaniacal sociopath who committed genocide against millions of citizens.

    I'd say "Kill him" too.
     
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    Still feels out of character for Bee. Just makes him look like a megalomaniacal sociopath.
     
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    needlenose stepping up? wow, considering how most decepticon top leader are dead now (shockwave,soundwave,bombshell & ratbat), i'm definitely intrigue..
     
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    Shockwave and Soundwave aren't dead, they've just been secreted away by Prowl and Arcee.

    Spotlight: Orion Pax is between Megatron Origin and Spotlight: Blurr, since Zeta is the Prime. And the implication of the preview is that the new body wasn't a repair or anything, it's a fancy new refit to prepare him for the mission.

    As for how he looks in MO, I'd say that the design is close enough to the Prime-ier Cybertronian body to be an artistic interpretation of that - it's got similar shoulder-wheels, and things, and the difference is certainly no worse than some of the design inconsistencies we got during the ongoing era. And maybe it's impolite to wear a faceplate at a funeral?

    This does kind of throw up another thing, seeing as Pax and A3 are next to each other at the funeral, but are clearly meeting for the first time in this Spotlight, but I guess there's a difference between standing by someone in a crowd, and actually being introduced to them...
     
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    So what. I'm just happy he speaks. :) 
     
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    well This is great that they are at least address PAX look in Spotlight Blurr, though this fails to address it in Megatron Origins...... Oh well. I'll take what I can get, also....YAY RUNG, it would be great if we could go back and insert him into the Background of all the IDW books from the start. Tee-hee.

    Also I SERIOUSLY am VERY happy with how RID opens, Starscream running to tell everyone, and Megatron NOT coming in guns blazing.....just how I wanted the story to play out.
     
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    No, instead he's a cripple. Which still doesn't make any sense to me.

    At least a broken voice box I can buy being difficult to fix. Broken hip joint, not so much.
     
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    ^ Well, it's been HEAVILY implied that it's an act.

    See, while I think IDW Bumblebee is really lame (heh) and uncompelling right now, I can't agree that it's out of character for him (in a larger meta-G1 sense perhaps, but not here and now).

    In IDW more than the other universes, Megatron is like an insane level of physical and political threat.

    He started the war, has inspired mind-warping levels of loyalty in bots like the DJD, he's powerful enough to take on all of the Decepticons + all of the Sweeps in one combiner and hold his own (maybe even win), his willpower is at such crazy levels that he's impossible to mind control by a mysterious universal force (making "listening to Bumblebee" pretty out of the question), and, oh yeah, his stated goal is that he won't stop cowing the universe through violence until its inhabitants are so unable to conceive of doing harm to him that they cannot comprehend what a "weapon" is.

    At least this gets the question out of the way, when Megatron ruins everything in an issue or two, no one can ask "why didn't we just shoot him"? :D 

    My favorite part is that Starscream is completely on board with blowing him to hell, but (I think) too chicken to take a shot himself.
     
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    No even close, bro. I'd say nice try, but it wasn't.

    At least Optimus had personality in the movies. Maybe not one people liked, but he seemed genuine. His speeches had weight and meaning behind them. When he spoke there was feeling and effort behind his lines and delivery. Prime Optimus sounds like he's falling asleep, and the guy is a chump. Always talking with that same, tired grandious monotone. Movie Prime was unstoppable, Prime Optimus is a pansy who needs a silly magic sword to be effective. He's a robot. And not in a good way.

    I'm gonna have to agree here. It' amazing how tired a concept can get when it's appliead to literally almost everything after the fact. It was unique and interesting in the movies, but then Prime did it and it was stupid, then FOC did it and it was even more stupid.

    It's pretty clear Bumblebee doesn't want his hip fixed. In MTMTE issue #1 Ratchet even says he has the parts and that Bumblebee doesn't need the cane.
     
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    Needlenose is the hero Cybertron deserves!
     
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    LOL! You sir rock.
     
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    Didn't Barber say something about "Purple reign" in one of his interviews about RiD?

    Does this mean that Megatron will organize the Decepticons and take over Cybertron or someting like that?

    I dunno. I was really hoping for a more political power stugles type of story from this title, but now I'll be fine with everything that's nota status quo of Autobots vs Decepticons in an all out war.
     
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    This thread became hilarious all of a sudden, made better by Alpha Tumbler.
     
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    I can already see Kneedlenose hodling Arcee by the throat going all

    "WHERE IS HE?! WHERE'S SHOCKWAVE!?"

    (great now I'll hear Bale's Batman voice whenever I read Kneedlenose)