What Do You Think Will Happen To Old Characters In New Series?

Discussion in 'Transformers Earthspark and Cartoon Discussion' started by Maroyasha, Mar 23, 2014.

  1. IGotTheTouch

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    Arcee is tied upside down by Airachnid's web fluid and her and the Zombie Insecticons have a meal and take turns smacking her around like a pinata. Ratchet dies from something that he "needed" for an experiment. Knockout dies from poisoning from a toxic paint while attempting to perform cosmetic surgery on himself. Ultra Magnus gets his other hand and his legs cut off, becoming Darth Vader like and jumps into a smelting pit after getting depressed. Bulkhead takes a relaxing break from work by taking an oil bath, but a Vehicon accidentally drops a match into his tub, causing Bulkhead to burst into flames and die. Wheeljack tests a new weapon in a site with a huge hidden Energon mine and he gets blown sky-high when he presses the trigger. Although warned, Smokescreen tries an imperfect batch of Synthetic Energon, gets hooked and dies from overdosing. Shockwave tries something "illogical" and suffers the consequences. That's all I can think of.
     
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    What would that accomplish?

    Could we avoid killing characters altogether?
     
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    Right?

    We're looking at a new series with new characters, that doesn't even remotely mean everyone should die. We've already had some pretty cheap character deaths so far, having more would just do the OPPOSITE of what this new series needs.
     
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    I Believe Bulkhead would be hard at work trying to get any existing D-con laborers a job rebuilding
     
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    Some characters will return some won't. Like Armada to Energon.
     
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    That is HILARIOUS!
     
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    "Execute Order 66"

    *Autotroopers gun down original cast*
     
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    Thank you! I don't make actual jokes often (that's the first time I made an actual joke on TFW2005) but I guess if I put my mind to it I can whip something up. Also, however impossible, Skyquake's zombie arm caught up with Soundwave in the Shadow Zone. I'll tell you right now, what happened wasn't pretty.
     
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    You might be on to something...
     
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    After Cybertron is rebulit many autobots feel that there isn't a place for them there anymore as those who were not involved in the war feel that the autobots are just as much to blame for the destruction of their homeworld.

    Not wanting to deal with this anymore, Smokescreen goes in a spiritual journey to find the knights of cybertron and leaves the planet behind along with Ultra Magnus, Ratchet and a ragtag group of surviving autobots to go on space adventures together.

    A man can dream. . .
     
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    A woman can dream too. Just wanted you to know.
     
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    TFTM-style character(/product) wipeout would amuse me greatly.

    And given how much they love referencing TFTM, maybe they WILL do that. :lol 
     
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    Given how willing they've been to actually kill autobots I'd say we'd only loose some new guy we meet in episode 1 and then find out all the other autobots who died make a miraculous recovery three episodes later.
     
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    I would watch this 9000 times.
     
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    That would be glorious.


    UniTron just shows up with a bunch of Skyquake repaints and everything is recreated word-for-word.

    "Megatron! NOoOOOooO!"
    *blast*
     
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    While I liked most of the other characters from the original Prime series, I'd be all up for them just maybe fading to the background after maybe the first couple of episodes to help establish the new cast. Only exception would be Ratchet. Jeffery Combs made Ratchet awesome. :D 
     
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    Either they all die, or they all are old.
     
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    I think the show will move forward, but I'd like to see some old faces return for "events". Like they need something on the moon, and have to deal with the zombie insecticon horde. Or they do something involving the space bridges that allows Soundwave to return and be a threat for a while.
     
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    Exactly what I think. I also think Shockwave should be a prominent character in the news series. As should some Predacons. Speaking of old characters in the new series, what do you people think will happen to Optimus, since we've seen he'll still have a presence in the future? Will he be like a Force Ghost or resurrected?
     
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    I do not hate TFP Optimus, but I would like to see the show progress without him reviving.

    But considering that Hasbro does this for the $$$, I'm going to say that we get a multi-parter where we first see how BB is doing, but he still thinks about OP, then we see his ghost who tells BB of some grave danger, BB puts togather a new team of young Autobots in order to revive OP and save Cybertron from a new threat, somewhere we might see Ratchet or UM giving BB advice.