Transformation 210: Ratbat Attack

20/5/2016

It's time to say goodbye to a dearly loved member of the cast today as Ratbat shuffles off this mortal coil thanks to a cowardly attack from a fiendish foe. We will not forget you Ratbat!

Meanwhile, everyone else dies as well. But who cares?

Plus, is Optimus Prime a coward?

SPOLIER: No.

It's all in my look at Dark Star Part 3!

4 Comments

Tim Roll-Pickering link

20/5/2016 07:53:08 pm

Is it me or has the mutated Starscream grown a second ear?

"Optimus will start merging with HiQ, something that he assumes to be the end result of the Powermaster process but which doesn’t seem to affect any of the others"

Do any of the other partners even appear after this? Furman's especially prone to putting the actual gimmick to one side.

But the big moment has to be Ratbat. I often think people who slag his leadership off are just doing so because of his "Laserbeak the Next Generation" portrayal on the cartoon and not actually looking at how he's done here - showing deviousness, shifting inefficiency out of the Decepticons, making the best of the Autobots' absence, coming closer to victory on Earth than just about any other leader and aiming for the highest. And being totally brought down by his own arrogance and blindness. Truly a fully rounded character who goes out in style.

Otherwise the general problem with a lot of the deaths is how little the comic's actually done with the characters, especially recently. It's hard to get sad when they're frankly a bunch of random names, in some cases looking very little like when they were last fully portrayed way back when the toys were followed more, and the general lack of strategy doesn't help.

snowkatt

23/5/2016 03:45:30 am

The Nebulans get some lipservice later on near the end when Prime surrenders to Scorponok
but thats about it.
the gimmicks are ( thankfully) mostly forgotten except the pretenders ones with the classic pretenders.

And even those are integrated in the story logically for once.

Ralph Burns

20/5/2016 08:59:41 pm

He's not dead so long as we remember him.

RATBAT GHOST JOINS THE...SPECIAL TEAMS!

Snowkatt link

11/4/2017 02:58:47 pm

To be honest, untill I reread this review, it never really connected with me that the light of the Underbase had such a profound impact on prime and scorponok.
But now that I think about it, it is only logical.

Zarak taking over and the pain spasms for Prime always came a bit out of left field for me. But the Underbase exposure seems to explain it perfectly.

Transformation 210: Ratbat Attack

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