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raisedbymoogles) wrote2015-06-08 11:13 pm
raisedbymoogles) wrote2015-06-08 11:13 pm
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Q&A for Transformers Fans, Day 4
Hate: Who is your least favorite character from any series?
Most of the characters I dislike aren’t so much a matter of ‘I hiss and throw things at the screen when they show up’ as they are a matter of wasted potential. The biggest example of this that comes to mind is Scorponok. The Beast Wars writers were still finding their feet in a lot of ways in Season 1, but Scorpy was a great big ball of forgettable who didn’t even get a decent death scene - it was like he was just there to fill space until Inferno showed up, and then his days were numbered. At least Terrorsaur got to Starscream it up in a couple of episodes before he died. What do you even DO with him if you want to write some S1 Predacons? There’s nothing there to latch onto.
But at least in Scorponok’s case we’re not asked to root for or identify with him. Jack Darby and Sam Witwicky are obstensibly the POV characters in their respective continuities and are, respectively, boring as hell and utterly infuriating. Jack is Bella Swan levels of blank slate, completely bland, like some forty-year-old’s idea of what a teenager is like. But I’d sooner take ten of him over disloyal, misogynistic Sam. If Sam was ‘the only human Optimus Prime trusted,’ then it’s no wonder he became a giant ball of rage.
Also, Wheelie gives me a headache. Sorry.
(On an unrelated note, I've posted a short, pervy Cyclonus/Rodimus thing on AO3.)
Most of the characters I dislike aren’t so much a matter of ‘I hiss and throw things at the screen when they show up’ as they are a matter of wasted potential. The biggest example of this that comes to mind is Scorponok. The Beast Wars writers were still finding their feet in a lot of ways in Season 1, but Scorpy was a great big ball of forgettable who didn’t even get a decent death scene - it was like he was just there to fill space until Inferno showed up, and then his days were numbered. At least Terrorsaur got to Starscream it up in a couple of episodes before he died. What do you even DO with him if you want to write some S1 Predacons? There’s nothing there to latch onto.
But at least in Scorponok’s case we’re not asked to root for or identify with him. Jack Darby and Sam Witwicky are obstensibly the POV characters in their respective continuities and are, respectively, boring as hell and utterly infuriating. Jack is Bella Swan levels of blank slate, completely bland, like some forty-year-old’s idea of what a teenager is like. But I’d sooner take ten of him over disloyal, misogynistic Sam. If Sam was ‘the only human Optimus Prime trusted,’ then it’s no wonder he became a giant ball of rage.
Also, Wheelie gives me a headache. Sorry.
(On an unrelated note, I've posted a short, pervy Cyclonus/Rodimus thing on AO3.)
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Except for Bayverse, which is just a big ball of fail for me. I loathe the idiot twins (Skids and MudFlap?) because they are just a stupid racist joke.
The only other TF character I despised--and that was only for one story arc--was Budiansky's Grimlock, when he was playing Autobot dictator in G1 Marvel. It wasn't so much that Grimlock was badly portrayed as that he seemed to drive all the other Autobots out of character. The first time Grimlock tried to hand down arbitrary orders and death sentences, the rest of the Autobots should have been all "WTF, dude? We're Autobots, we don't do that slag", concluded O.P. was not in his right mind to put Grimlock in charge, and ignored the Dinobot from then on. Instead, they started acting like subordinate Decepticons groveling to Megatron.
Furman's Grimlock was way better. A lot of people consider him a canon Gary Stu, but Furman's Grimlock actually got character development, and got better at being a small unit commander and grew into being a leader Prime could depend on.
I'm not real fond of cartoon G1 S3 Galvatron, either.
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I kind of headcanon that June fell apart for a while after Jack's dad died/left/kumquat, and so Jack kind of had to be twelve-going-on-forty for a while until June recovered, and that makes him relatable. But it's kinda sad that I have to make up a backstory for him for him to be bearable.