Generations Select Abominus

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by analogue, Oct 6, 2020.

  1. Sledgehammer

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    Best attack name ever. :lol 

    Looking forward to seeing what 'That Person' does next!
     
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    I'm thinking "That Person" might be a hidden name for an evil foe disguised. Might be reference to a long-thought dead character or villain. Violen Jiger?
     
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    This is a reference to Transformers: Earth Wars:

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  4. Purple Heart

    Purple Heart Some other time..

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    So thats not Primus then?
     
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    Aw man, the freed slaves decided that demanding their liberty was a bad idea?

    I take back a lot of the goodwill I held out towards this comic.
     
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  7. TheSuperion

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    I hate to say it but... this is what James Roberts gets for not actually giving Rung's alt-mode a canonical name. We could have avoided this, but it's too late now, and Rung will forever be an Energon Enema.
     
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    Completely agree. I don't like literal translations without any flavored words, or whatever you would call it. I read a lot of fan translated manga, and only the Transformers pack-in comics feature the disjointed stilted unnatural literal translation. Even though its translated, it still doesn't add anything to the story for an english reader.

    Also "that person" or "that man" is a common phrase in Japanese storytelling it seems. I've seen it before a few times.
     
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    I can only wonder how James Roberts must feel knowing that a character he created was shoved up a Quintesson's rectum as an attack.
     
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    ngl, I prefer the energon enema to matrix maker.
     
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    Indeed, this is easily his best depiction IMO.
     
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    Could this possibly lead to a re-release of the Powered Masters with micromasters? Or just wishful thinking?
     
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    It's definitely not Primus, I'm guessing a "he who shall not be named" type character.
     
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    Not to throw shade at the people posting in this thread, often with infectious enthusiasm I might add...

    But sometimes I wish we had separate threads for the toy and the comic.
     
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    The whole "that man" "that person" thing is basically just the Japanese way of saying he's the true mastermind. It's one of those things that doesn't translate at all.
     
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    I don't see why we can't, to be honest.
    It just takes for a person to post the translation in the comic forum.

    It's just like the thing where we get a thread announcing an event and then a thread on the date of the event, and then during and after the event both threads (often a third thread will be created) deal with posts about the event while there is no reason why the thread which announced the event couldn't be locked so that everything dealing with what we learned during the event is discussed in the proper thread.
     
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    Sounds a lot like Goku.
    The arm you colored blue is from Cog and I have no idea how you thought Sixgun’s parts were from Airwave.
    Considering Primus said it, I’m gonna assume it’s Primus.
     
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    I do that all the time, mixing up those two names. Sixgun turns into a jet-thing so he must be Airwave, right?!
     
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    Yeah, that is a hard WTF from me. I really hope it's just a misleading translation, but I just don't know.
     
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    So the freed Selector slaves deciding to not kill and destroy their previous owners and instead work with them to build a better future is a bad thing? Okay then…
     
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