Oh that's too funny! I never realized!! ..........and now all I can think of is Overlord secretly being two smaller mechs standing on each other's shoulders
Having never seen Overlord's alt, I can only assume he's an Antonov A-40 Spoiler: pic I kind of don't want to see how TF made tankplane workable :P Entirely unrelated, but I realised earlier today that the way I peel kiwifruits makes them look like Shockwave's head. This is quite possibly an indication I'm bad at peeling kiwis, because they're supposed to be round and not hexagonal, but. Shockwave kiwi. [snickering]
Aww, that just means Shockwave is getting himself new paint jobs again, just like back before the shadowplay :') (and overlord isn't quite so hilarious-looking as that tankplane, but I'm only sure of that because he was able to win against Tarn in a 'mine's bigger than yours' contest, so his tank bits are pretty substantial) (ps young overlord before he could afford fancy upgrades looking exactly like that tankplane)
A) I am not at all surprised that that thing was made by Russians B) I don't know what time era that one Transformers comic where they're all old-time vehicles takes place in, but I'm voting we make this strange contraption Overlord's anachronistic alt mod. It's too funny to pass up
OH!! There is a steampunk transformers comic book! That I bought and never read! Which is set during the industrial revolution and not when the Russians were making wacky planes, but that's close enough for government work and oh my god I need overlord in that setting right this minute
Is that the one where Bee's a steam engine but doesn't have cowcatcher tiddy for some reason? ETA: I thought it might be because MUH CISNORMATIVITY but prowl and jazz and Soundwave all get beautiful bosoms so???? he even has a cowcatcher it's just internal kibble for some reason, I am Salt. Let Bee have tits!!!!
OH, just recalled that Overlord's life might not be completely empty quite yet. Because he also flipped the bird at the Galactic Council after they spent a lot of time and effort fixing him up, and he agreed to do them this favor, and.... didn't. Depending on lots of things we don't know, maybe the GC just knows this planet's gone now and that's good enough. But they could also totally know that Overlord totally bailed on them. They've made plenty of should-be-fatal moves against cybertronians before. I wonder how well they'd do, if they went after him. He's just flying himself right now, he's just one guy, and they know intimately how his current body was put together. But I honestly seriously doubt anyone in this series would want to give him a helping hand. Autobot compassion? ex-LL desperation? Heck, current LL desperation??? slash if megatron has to make nice with someone he abused the writers could maybe send him off to talk to overlord and stop threatening to put him near starscream :( Oh my god, I must have been more sleepy than I thought last night, because this made me laugh SO. HARD. Also more sleepy than I thought, because THIS IS VERY TRUE. That removes all doubt for me that the functionists were doing sketchy things to him. They wouldn't have offered such a massive reward if they didn't have something big in mind. Declaring momus alt mode exempt took him all the way up to the senate, all because his team stumbled across Overlord. The council must have really wanted to do something creepy to the baby :( Oh, just remembered something for a little more pain. Optimus experiences the entire next four million years of brutal war remembering this surprisingly vulnerable conversation he once had with the guy he's currently fighting.
Spoiler: Overlord's Altmode You can see the tank that becomes his legs and the jet that becomes his upper body. I think the tank is supposed to be attached to the jet in the one in the background but it's hard to tell exactly. Also the TF Wiki page on Overlord keeps mentioning his lips, which is great. EDIT: Also, you know who else turned into a jet and tank (at least in G1)? Spoiler Flywheels. But not anymore.
Ahahaha, and Overlord just slaps that whole cockpit + nosecone onto his left arm. Want to mount that somewhere.... out of the way? On your back, like Cyclonus? On your chest, like Starscream? Or just make it your entire chest, like Whirl? 'No, if I put it on my chest, that will hide my beautiful nipples, just glue it onto my arm and I'm good.' Ps, I was cleaning off my desktop and Awwwww, that face :(((( That's a face of a good boy a terrible boy who's trying so hard to be good. But also, it's giving me all kinds of emotions about like... 'I'm awful, and I know I'm awful. Nobody has any reason to trust me, and nobody should trust me. I don't know if I can be salvaged. But I am trying.' Ah, what are words. It's hard to articulate the thing, but I adore characters where their vanity and self-loathing meet in a head-on collision. And before wheeljack did the thing, when is the last time anyone stood up for starscream? Especially after spotlight: megatron, where a lot of people very pointedly didn't stand up for him. And also when is the last time he had friendly physical contact? How touch-starved is this boy? I just need starscream to be okay :(
god i just teared up from how fucking beautiful starscream looks in this???? WHAT THE FUCK????????? WHO ALLOWED THIS BIRD TO BE SO DAMN PRETTY????
Makes me think of Optimus' three part, semi-independent (no pun intended) truck mode that confused the hell out of me at first. (The shipping container thing just teleported into Russia by itself with no explanation and I was like what the hell is that.) But even more wtf because really, where is the coherence in a jet and a tank that are two separate parts of the same person.
There is only one logical explanation Overlord was built in Soviet Russia This actually explains a lot more than it doesn't
So if a hot spot springs into existence without anyone realizing, do all the new baby mechs just wander around being confused until someone from civilization catches on? Because a lot of cybertronians turn into lots of kinds of vehicles, and I want bots who have to go be baby wranglers with a pile of highly mobile, highly curious sparklings
Oh hey, additional thought. If natural hot spots come back into existence, would we see a resurgence of the types of bots who are at extinction/near-extinction levels? Rewind's frame used to be INCREDIBLY common, and now there are hardly any others like him left. Would a fresh hot spot have pre-war population distributions? old man rewind being a mentor and showing them how to make the most of their skillset, but also being sure to teach them that what they do is necessary and important, and that they have real value as people
The ones on Luna-1 seem pretty dormant until Roddy steps on them, so I guess they just have an extensive nap time unless there's some kind of external trigger. Though that would be one heck of a story if one of the babby transformers remembered getting stepped on by Rodimus XD "He stepped on me once! It was awesome!"
