This:

FTW!!!

 

Before Bludgeon, there WERE no TF samurai. It's pretty much the definition of his character and I think it shouldn't change. Pretty much the same thing as doing Wreck-Gar with full faculties of sanity or a deaf Soundwave.

Nothing about Bludgeon says pirate. Use the BW2 Seacons. They transform into sea creatures, turtles and squids and shit. It worked in the silly anime a decade ago, and it would work just as well in this silly show today.

Moot point, really. It's not as if the series isn't axed anyway. Frigging Insecticons are every bit as likely to make it into the show.

 

Only 'cause your brain didn't register any other words.

Case in point.  

 

You want to know why pirates are better than Ninjas/Samurai?

Because they arrrr~.

 

have him be bipolar and be constantly switching between pirate and samurai and have a rotating head gimmick

 

wow... I'm voting for pirate just cause of that reasoning.

 

This, perfect compromise

 

The whole pirate idea makes me cringe. I never went for the whole samurai TF concept really, but a pirate TF is much worse.

 

I voted samurai.

I just don't wan't him to look like some childish pirate that says "Arrrgh" at the end of every other sentence.

Except if he has a Lightsaber.

 

if you do the Pirate (which i think you should) dont give him the hook hand, then he's too Lockdown. the peg leg could be nifty tho

 

Seriously......why can't he be both.

Or hell. Make him an actor, who likes to play the different roles. One episode, he's a pirate. Next time he shows up he's a Samurai. After that.....He shows up wearing a old army helmet acting like a reject from apocalypse now. Heck he'd be the Mysterio of transformers.

 

LOL....I actually kinda like that.

I would like to see a pirate version but a Samurai Pirate would be more interesting.

 

Okay then, shoe on the other foot.

Why should Bludgeon, whose character previously consisted primarily of being a martial artist, now suddenly be a pirate? Why not another new character, or perhaps an already-established pirate-esque character like Cannonball? I think there's a lot of story potential in making him "another boring" samurai, a sort of Decepticon equivalent of Yoketron and perhaps contributing more to that whole story.

 

Also, Bludgeon isn't Somali.  

 

But wouldn't that just be like saying why they couldn't have made Bludgeon the martial artist instead of Prowl?

 

Well, first, Bludgeon's always been a Decepticon, not an Autobot. Even ignoring that, "Bludgeon" doesn't exactly sound like a good guy's name.

However, as I said earlier in the thread, there's a difference between adding something new to someone's personality-- like the cyber-ninja angle to Jazz and Prowl (though honestly, it doesn't count for me with Prowl, who is obviously a completely new character that's just re-used the name-- I mean, 10 different characters have been named Prowl in TF fiction, practically, unlike Bludgeon)-- and making them the polar opposite of what they were best known for. The equivalent of making a Bludgeon a pirate, as I've said, would be to make Jazz a dumb redneck or Prowl a person who reacts to anything based completely off of his own gut. I don't think such differences would work in anything except Shattered Glass (where Bludgeon totally SHOULD have been a pirate).