Character discussion : This Week 'Thunderwing'

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:59 pm

Metal Vendetta wrote:He does come from nowhere with little or no backstory though. It would have been nice to have a flashback with Scorponok or Shockwave, maybe, to give him a bit more of a place in the grand scheme of things...

I agree - he just seemed picked out of the toyline without explanation. Did you ever have the toy of him? The inner robot was like a tiny featureless brick.

bobaprime85 · Post by **bobaprime85** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:01 pm

Autobloke wrote:. Did you ever have the toy of him? The inner robot was like a tiny featureless brick.

Therefore fitting in nicely with a lot of the toys of that time, nyuck, nyuck.

Anyway, backstory + Thunderwing = would have been nice.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:03 pm

Well, what SHOULD his backstory have been? I reckon he killed a load of his own troops once. For fun.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:45 pm

it would have been nice to see some stories with him set before his pretender days... he never really clicked with me, he just came out of nowhere as the latest badass on the block...

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:48 pm

thats what I never understand, I mean where the feck did he come from?

We saw the creation I tink of all the other Pretenders, and then here comes Thunderwing? supposedly a badd-ass Pretender, got the tools for the job, a nifty bit of Matrix afinity, hes down with the Con council and next in line to lead the forces of the Con army?

What gives?

Is this just a blatent toy bit of marketing?

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:53 pm

yup, i reckon so... we never saw the creation of any of the second lot of pretenders (or the "junior" headmasters)... they just... appeared... i think that's what turned me off from the characters, no real introduction.

bobaprime85 · Post by **bobaprime85** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:54 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:
Is this just a blatent toy bit of marketing?

Like most of the US comic?

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:56 pm

bobaprime85 wrote:
Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:
Is this just a blatent toy bit of marketing?
Like most of the US comic?

Ouchy!

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:03 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:
bobaprime85 wrote:
Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:
Is this just a blatent toy bit of marketing?
Like most of the US comic?
Ouchy!

but fair

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:59 pm

Legion wrote:yup, i reckon so... we never saw the creation of any of the second lot of pretenders (or the "junior" headmasters)... they just... appeared... i think that's what turned me off from the characters, no real introduction.

A bit like that Walrus (I am the Walrus

) Pretender - can't remember his name - 'Longtooth' or something. He had a Pretender shell on Cybertron centuries before Pretenders had even been created on Earth.
Hmm... wait a minute (nips over to the 'Biggest Mistake' topic).

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:12 am

Aren'tyou all forgetting "The Magnificient Six" Annual Story?

Thunderwing was a liutenant of the mad Con tyrant, Megadeath. Guess he learned from the best...

Btw, we can chalk up Pretenders appearing in shells or bots in earth modes in prehistoric times as art errors. DW seemed tohave this fixed, aswith Bludgeon and Bugly in TWW. Of course, then there was Micromasters...(shudders).

Also, who says Thunderwing died in OTEE? Last we see him, he's thrown away with an arm and leg ripped off... his inner robot is much smaller, fits only in the body. It should be intact, and he's propably drifting in spacenow. Would make and interesting story if he came back, or was his personality even restored? Was he only a vessel for the evil Matrix who revived him? Remember, TWnever talked in OTEE,only the Matrix did...

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:14 am

BB Shockwave wrote:Aren'tyou all forgetting "The Magnificient Six" Annual Story?

Yes i know i am!

BB Shockwave wrote:Thunderwing was a liutenant of the mad Con tyrant, Megadeath. Guess he learned from the best...

i can't remember, did any of the art work depict Thunderwing at all? I'm betting he was in his shell if it did...

BB Shockwave wrote:Also, who says Thunderwing died in OTEE? Last we see him, he's thrown away with an arm and leg ripped off... his inner robot is much smaller, fits only in the body. It should be intact, and he's propably drifting in spacenow. Would make and interesting story if he came back, or was his personality even restored? Was he only a vessel for the evil Matrix who revived him? Remember, TWnever talked in OTEE,only the Matrix did...

I think that the Matrix was just using TW... there might have been a spark (no pun intended) of TW there, but he was dominated by the Matrix. He was being fuelled directly by Matrix juice, when that was severed by Unicron and TW was blown apart he probably bought a one way ticket to the pit, unless (by some stroke of luck) there was enough vestiages of "good matrix juice" left in him to sustain him (much like Prime)... but that don't last very long... (much like Prime)

Post by **Best First** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 12:49 pm

BB Shockwave wrote:Aren'tyou all forgetting "The Magnificient Six" Annual Story?

Thunderwing was a liutenant of the mad Con tyrant, Megadeath. Guess he learned from the best...

I'm certainly trying to... Christ.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:01 pm

BB Shockwave wrote:Aren't you all forgetting "The Magnificient Six" Annual Story?

Did you even read my post? I may have referred to it as the Magnificent Seven, but I clearly said, and I quote,

Emvee wrote:Aside from the Magnificent 7, did we ever find out about Thunderwing's origins, or anything about him before he burst onto the scene and became leader?

Muppet.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:37 pm

It's no fun when it happens in a packed lift.
...

Sorry, I though it said 'ThunderWIND'.

I'll get me coat.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:28 pm

Autobloke wrote:I'll get me coat.

oi! that's (c)Legion!

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:29 pm

Legion wrote:
Autobloke wrote:I'll get me coat.
oi! that's (c)Legion!

OOPS! Sorry. I'll get me coat...

bobaprime85 · Post by **bobaprime85** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:42 pm

Autobloke wrote:
Legion wrote:
Autobloke wrote:I'll get me coat.
oi! that's (c)Legion!
OOPS! Sorry. I'll get me coat...

I wouldn't if I were you.

It smells like rotten fish.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:18 pm

I won't ask why you're sniffin' my coat.

Hmm... Thunderwing... Wunderthing. Aren't spoonerisms great?

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:47 pm

Best First wrote:
BB Shockwave wrote:Aren'tyou all forgetting "The Magnificient Six" Annual Story?

Thunderwing was a liutenant of the mad Con tyrant, Megadeath. Guess he learned from the best...
I'm certainly trying to... Christ.

Yes, I know it was horrid... and out of continuity, and too long, and... etc.

Besides, ... Megadeath... what kind of a name is that?

Makes me wonder why is it that Furman generally sucks at text stories.